'Clear and incisive, this valuable text needs to be on every qualitative researcher's bookshelf. What could be handier? I recommend it to anyone in the trade for its seasoned good sense and advice' - Jay Gubrium, University of Missouri 'David Silverman has drawn on his enormous experience in writi[...]

Packed full of lively debate and funny anecdotes, this book covers topics that students will recognize from their marketing course, such as key thinkers and concepts, and some that they won't. It looks at areas that textbooks ignore, such as the development of marketing as a discipline and as an aca[...]

Explains the alternative ways of thinking about management and managing people. This book covers topics that are central to management, organizational behaviour or leadership courses: what managers do, motivation, communication, and ethics.[...]

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Conceived by Chris Grey and written to get you thinking, the "Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap" series offers an informal, conversational, accessible yet sophisticated and critical overview of what you find in conventional textbooks. Engaging and entertaining in equal measure, thi[...]

Bell and Thorpe provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies and relate them to the day to day practice of the research, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.[...]

Relevant across a range of management courses, the Third Edition of A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Studying Organizations offers students a lively, focused and challenging discussion of classical and current ideas about organizations and their management. This new e[...]

David Silverman's second edition provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. An antidote to the standard textbook, this new edition shows how research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using mater[...]

Written to inform, challenge and entertain, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Management explains alternative ways of thinking about management and managing people in a way that is easy to understand and enjoyable. New to the Second Edition: Updated content includes cu[...]

Conceived by Chris Grey and written to get you thinking, the "Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap" series offers an informal and accessible yet sophisticated and critical overview of what you find in conventional textbooks. In Employment Relations the authors translate years of exper[...]

'Indispensable and subversive' - Simon Caulkin, The Observer'A highly entertaining polemic.... This slim volume more than lives up to its title' - Stefan Stern, Financial TimesConceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the `Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reaso[...]

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 its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informa[...]

In Studying Criminology, the author explores the interplay between philosophical and criminological theories to provide a stimulating and insightful overview of the subject. It offers students a fresh way of thinking about crime, giving them an opportunity to develop their understanding and to hone [...]