Bayesian Essentials with R

Presents debates on educational research, both a familiarity with the practices and arguments of the educational research community, and the ways in which philosophical sources and analysis can inform them. This book makes an argument on the continuing contribution of philosophical thinking to the development and critique of educational research.

Handbook of Career Development

High Altitude

This book consists of a number of case studies about interventions in schools to promote the inclusion of pupils referred to a local authority Educational Psychology Service (EPS) in the north of England. It features stories of success as well as failure.

With over 200 figures and some 30 tables, this book provides an overview of lectin research followed by a survey of the occurrence of lectins in nature and a detailed description of their properties, with emphasis on specificity, structure and interaction with ligands at the atomic level.

This book is the first study of the science, the politics and the polemics surrounding response to the 1972 book "The Limits to Growth," in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years.

Sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the real work of the discipline. This book contains essays that reassert the importance of mental health research in sociology. It offers answers to critical questions regarding the social origins of - and social responses to - mental illness.