Offers a sociological framework for analyzing health policy and healthcare. This volume includes chapters on consumerism, technology, evidence-based practice, public health, managerialism and social care among others, and incorporates references to various developments, such as regulation and incentivization.

Originally published under the title: The television handbook (2000).

Covers four texts from the 1890s that helped to crystallize the idea of the 'New Woman' during a period where the role of women was increasingly debated and challenged, not least due to the growth of the suffrage movement.

Daniel Bell, Nathan Glazer, Sidney Hook, Susan Sontag, Dwight MacDonald, and Seymour Lipset penned some important books of social science in the mid-twentieth century. They were committed to addressing various political, social and cultural questions. This title presents a collection of their writings.

This handbook offers newly qualified teachers in secondary and middle schools a programme of professional development and guidance for their induction year. Features of the book include: a guide to the DfEE's induction requirements and support materials on key professional issues.

A guide that covers the various aspects of your first crucial teaching months and years, and sets your teaching career off on the right track. It draws on the Induction Regulations for NQTs for September 2008 onwards. It gives the information you need to know, from induction to inspection, from getting your first job to continuing development.

Chart your next steps in teaching from finishing your teacher training programme, your probationary year, and then into the settled routine of the second and third years of teaching. Suitable for newly trained teachers and those in their first year.

Introduces a new theory and a guide to its application. Nexus analysis allows participants in social action to explore its key elements and trace their historical trajectories towards actions, to anticipate the actions' outcomes.