"This is an excellent collection at the cutting edge of thinking about qualitative research.... The breadth of coverage and the sophistication of the discussion make this an important addition to the increasing literature on qualitative work."

- Jonathan Potter, Loughborough University

"This book is likely to have a broad appeal to a rising generation of qualitative researchers seeking to relate theoretical debates to methodological practice."

- Clive Seale, Goldsmiths College

This exciting new book brings together contributions from...

Reflects recent changes in the training of probation and social workers. This text addresses issues of knowledge, skills and practice as well as contemporary social issues. It also appraises policies and professional requirements critically.

The leading experts in the field set the agenda with this book, covering the history of reflexive thought alongside a genuinely original way forward in research practice.

Is YOUR Family Struggling Because of an Alcoholic? Do you want to laugh again? Do you want to hang out with normal, healthy, fun-loving people again? Do you want to stop making excuses and lies for your alcoholic spouse? Do you want to feel beautiful, happier, healthier and confident again? Do you want your children to feel like they are a part of a family again? Do you want to stop the vicious cycle of destruction caused by alcoholism? Then you will want to start by giving YOURSELF a little hope. This book provides a daily quote, a hope creation thought, an illustration and then an...

This book provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. Through the lenses of promise, politics and possibility, it examines how different cities have sought to realize knowledge-based urban development and what this reveals about the relationship between politics, capitalism and knowledge production in cities.

The book argues that the 21^st century city has been predicated on a particular form of technocratic and economic knowledge that...

This book provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. Through the lenses of promise, politics and possibility, it examines how different cities have sought to realize knowledge-based urban development and what this reveals about the relationship between politics, capitalism and knowledge production in cities.

The book argues that the 21^st century city has been predicated on a particular form of technocratic and economic knowledge that...