Despite decades of research, gender and sexuality are still hugely problematic issues in education. Approaches to Gender and Spoken Classroom Discourse uses detailed linguistic analyses of classroom interaction to examine why this is the case and to offer some strategies for change. Using interactio[...]

Through popular culture, we can define, explore and experiment with our identities. This vibrant text provides an understanding of popular culture in a globalized world through the intersection of sociology and cultural studies, combining cultural theory with a wide range of examples from everyday l[...]

We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives. To [...]

A succinct, lively and robust introduction to the subject of OB that offers clear, focussed coverage of the most important topics in an accessible way. Brooks et al aims to encourage critical examination of the theory of organisational behaviour whilst also enabling students to interpret and deal w[...]

The success of any concrete structure depends on the designer’s sound knowledge of concrete and its behaviour under load, under temperature and humidity changes, and under exposure to the relevant environment and industrial conditions.This book gives students a thorough understanding of all asp[...]

This package includes a physical copy of Financial Management: International Edition, 2/e by Raymond Brooks, as well as access to the eText and MyFinanceLab.
 For students taking an undergraduate corporate finance or financial management course.

You've got the know-how. We've got the how-[...]

This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama.[...]

A profusion of black-and-white timber-framed houses testifies to the prosperity of earlier centuries, as do the many and varied parish churches. In this title, the city of Hereford is freshly presented in detail, from its splendid medieval cathedral to the architectural adventures of the Georgians a[...]

The incredible battle waged against Nazi troops by half a million Allied men in the mountains of Italy after VE Day. . The British had a song for it: "Oh, we are the D-Day Dodgers," based on a comment from a female member of Parliament that dismissed all those not on the beaches at Normandy as draft[...]

An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. By the author of The Zombie Survival Guid[...]

Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
From the Stone Age to the information age, the undead have threatened to engulf the human race. They' re coming. They're hungry.
Don't wait for them to come to you
This is the graphic novel the fans demanded: major zombie at[...]