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From: Louise at SAGE <announcements@news.sagepub.co.uk>
Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:04 PM
Subject: New Books For You
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Safelist us SAGE Recommends... Email Alerts We have new recommendations for you based on the subjects you told us you are interested in. Click on the links below to learn more about each one. Child Development Kevin Crowley A clear and student friendly introduction to the key aspects of child development, from a psychological approach. Learn more   Narrative Networks Brian Alleyne "We are invited to think about the now ubiquitous everyday practices of interpreting and producing narratives across a range of modalities. The result is a text that inspires readers to think in new ways about narratives, invites them to analyse narrative texts available on the Web and, for those who wish, suggests how best to employ specialist software." - Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, University of London Learn more   Media and Society Nicholas Carah & Eric Louw A cutting-edge, student focused introduction to the broad field of media, culture and society. Louw and Carah critically explore the emergence of interactive, social and mobile media, alongside established questions of production, content and participation. Learn more

Participatory Research with Children and Young People Susan Groundwater-Smith, Sue Dockett & Dorothy Bottrell Through case studies and a review of contemporary literature, this book sets out a clear framework for conducting participatory research with children and young people. Learn more

International Society, Global Polity Chris Brown Moving from conventional accounts of the society of states to non-state-centric understandings of global politics, this book presents readers with a state-of-the-art overview of international political theory. Learn more

A Practical Guide to Using Panel Data Simonetta Longhi & Alita Nandi 'This is an excellent practical guide to carrying out analysis of individual level panel surveys. Providing the reader with everything they need to know and written with exemplary clarity, it works through issues and approaches in a logical way yet without oversimplifying' - Lucinda Platt, Professor in the Department of Social Policy, LSE Learn more

Geocomputation Edited by Chris Brunsdon & Alex D. Singleton An applied primer for Geocomputation in the social sciences. This student focused book provides a selection of practical examples of geocomputational techniques and 'hot topics' written by world leading practitioners. It integrates supporting materials in each chapter, such as code and data, enabling readers to work through the examples themselves. Each chapter includes an introduction, case studies, conclusions and guidance for further reading. Learn more

An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping Chris Brunsdon & Lex Comber This is a definitive 'how to' that takes students - of any discipline - from coding to actual applications and uses of R. Brunsdon and Comber take readers from 'zero to hero' in spatial analysis and mapping through functions they have developed and compiled into R libraries. This enables practical R application in GIS, spatial analyses, spatial statistics, mapping, and web-scraping. Learn more

Cities and Economic Change Edited by Ronan Paddison & Tom Hutton "A timely, critical and compelling overview of some of the major economic concerns of the early twenty first century. An essential read for anyone interested in the role of cities in the changing global space economy." - James Faulconbridge, Lancaster University Learn more

Global Communication Cees Hamelink Based on his experience teaching generations of students to critically examine the world of communication around them, Cees Hamelink helps readers understand the thinkers, concepts and questions in this changing landscape. Accompanied by a series of video lectures and with international case studies throughout, this is a critical, comprehensive, student-focused textbook from a major name in the field. Learn more

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