*WINNER OF THE WORK & LIFE BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023*'If you're serious about getting things right with your money – and avoiding costly mistakes – then set time aside to work through this excellent book. You will end up better off. No question.'Paul Lewis, Freelance Presenter, Money Box BBC Radio 4The second, updated edition of the award-winning and accessible guide to personal finance that busts myths, clar...

Bloomsbury presents How to Fund the Life You Want: What everyone needs to know about savings, pensions and investments (Second Edition) by Robin Powell and Jonathan Hollow, read by Robin Powell, Jonathan Hollow and Zara Ramm*WINNER OF THE WORK & LIFE BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023*"This is such a valuable guide to DIY investing, I recommend you make this book your first investment."Claer Barrett, Consumer Editor,

Whatever financial freedom means to you – living the life you want, not working to someone else's timetable, not worrying about money ever again, or some other dream – the way to get there is through investing.In this concise and accessible book, Ben Carlson and Robin Powell show you how to put yourself on the path to financial freedom through sensible saving and straightforward investing.This is not about getting rich quick. But it is about getting rich reliably. Building ...

This book examines identity theory’s centrality within social psychology and its foundations within structural symbolic interaction, highlighting its links not only to other prominent sociological subfields, but also to other theoretical perspectives within and beyond sociology. The book provides a synthetic overview outlining the intellectual lineage of identity theory within structural symbolic interactionism, and how the “Indiana School” of identity theory and research, associated espec...

The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital Society is the first interdisciplinary scholarly investigation extending beyond traditional topics of cybercrime, policing and the law to consider the implications of digital society for public engagement with crime and justice movements. This book seeks to connect the disparate fields of criminology, ...

From Susan Rebecca White, award-winning author of A Soft Place to Land and Bound South, comes a breathtaking story of three richly nuanced outcasts whose paths converge in a chic Manhattan café as they realize they must give up everything they thought they knew to find a home at last.Alice Stone is famous for the homemade southern cuisine she serves at Café Andres and her groundbreaking cookbook, but her past is a mystery to all who know her. Upon...

In 1991 the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) published "Postgraduate Taining Guidelines". Throughout the document emphasis is placed on the need for universities to make postgraduate research students aware of the methodological issues that affect their work.; This text explores the relationship between knowledge, methodology and research practice across the broad spectrum of the social sciences in langage that is accessible to researchers at all levels of their research careers...

This book provides practical guidance on processes of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, planning and writing a literature review.

Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the design of an interpretive research project. Such an approach to design starts with the recogniti...

The book guides the student through the research process relevant to the completion of a social work dissertation.

In Management Research the authors provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on it...

This classic guide continues to be the leading Research Methods text that specifically deals with Educational Leadership and Management. The collection boasts an array of high-profile international expert contributors, covering a wide range of specialisms, emphasising the importance of the critically engaged practitioner.Accessible and user-friendly, this edition has been fully revised and updated to take full account of online research. It features new authors, more case studies a...