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This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest the…

Wildlife care and rehabilitation is often on a one-to-one basis and involves a lot of time, care and skill. However, for many years, care of injured w…

It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what…

Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end. Wars are rarely inevitable however and this book is…

Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rig…

The application of biology to the delivery of cancer care is playing an increasingly important role in the management of this group of diseases. Altho…

This book explains the growing field of syndemic theory and research, a framework for the analysis and prevention of disease interactions that address…

'Globalization' is a word that is currently much in use. This book is an attempt to show that there is far more to globalization than its surface mani…

Lymphoedema is managed most successfully when advice and treatment are provided at an early stage of its development. This book provides all the neces…

Written for students and all with a general interest in breeding horses, this book sets out to provide a basic understanding with sufficient practical…

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the major political thinkers of modern Germany. It includes chapters on the works o…

'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s letter…

Stoma Care is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for all nurses and health care professionals with an interest in bowel conditions that may lead …

The Weight of Things explores the hard questions of our daily lives, examining both classic and contemporary accounts of what it means to lead 'the go…

The often complex problems of the trauma patient present many challenges to front line emergency staff. Multiple injuries involving many systems of th…

Improving Health through Nursing Research is a practical guide to research and research utilisation in nursing. The book draws upon international expe…

The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today …

Since his death in 1986, Michel de Certeau's reputation as a thinker has steadily grown both in France and throughout the English-speaking world. His …

Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil. In the past the dicourse about evil in our religious, phil…

The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of…

This book provides a practical guide to, and critical review of, community and individual professional interventions that could ease the lives of chil…

The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movemen…

This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject. Pettit d…

Veterinary Dentistry for the Small Animal Technician is an introductory, step-by-step guide that addresses the delicate mechanics of dentistry, the pa…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has recognized genomics as a priority area in public health education. To help public health students and profes…

Simon Chapman is one of the world’s leading advocates for tobacco control, having won the coveted Luther Terry and WHO medals. His experience straddle…

Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition is a practical, thorough, bench top reference for basic diagnostic veterinary parasitology. Th…

Equipping school and child psychologists, and neuropsychologists with critical information on the role of working memory in learning and achievement, …

The Handbook of Reoperative General Surgery offers a technical overview of one of surgery’s greatest challenges-reoperation. Emphasizing the complicat…

What’s the point of living after your world has been destroyed? This is one of many questions raised by the Sci-Fi Channel’s critically acclaimed seri…

Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony…

Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of aut…

This book provides an accessible account of popular political, social and economic movements in the Third World. Focusing on poor and marginalized gro…

Nurse Prescribing in Mental health is a practical handbook for mental health nurses who are being training, have aspirations to train or who are train…

Written by Mark Umbreit, internationally known for his work in restorative justice, this indispensable resource offers an empirically grounded, state-…

This volume makes available in English for the first time Adorno's lectures on metaphysics. It provides a unique introduction not only to metaphysics …

The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy provides a comprehensive treatment of the principal figures and movements of philosophy from its origins bef…

The Handbook of Personality and Self-Regulation integrates scholarly research on self-regulation in the personality, developmental, and social psychol…

This book, through its well-referenced and critically thoughtful approach, has made an invaluable contribution to the counseling literature. The exten…

Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the Euro…

An innovative guide to the practice of art therapy Since 1978, Judith Aron Rubin's Child Art Therapy has become the classic text for conducting art th…

The European Union seems incapable of undertaking economic reforms and defining its place in the world. Public apathy towards the EU is also increasin…

What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins…

In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics…

This volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series presents a concise summary of the science and practice of psychology in the context …