New Releases by Kate Williams

Now fully revised and in its third edition, this comprehensive best-selling text, Introducing Management: A Development Guide, explains the principles and practice of management and is ideal for both new and existing managers to assist them in their role. The text incorporates the latest innovations in management thinking and reflects the changes within the management standards. This is an essential resource for those undertaking qualifications at S/NVQ at Level 3. The learning development is clearly structured in each chapter to include:- Objectives, Insights, Case Studies, Examples, Review Your Learning, Back to Work, allowing the user to check their understanding and apply the concepts and principles to their own work situation.

This report presents national, state, and territory data about alcohol and other drug treatment services and their clients, including information about the type of drug problems for which treatment is sought and the types of treatment provided.

Godliness and humour have tussled in Christian history. There is more humour in the Bible than flat readings in contemporary churches might suggest. It has didactic and social functions within the larger comic framework of salvation history. We visit the shape of creation-fall-redemption to see the perversions of humour and its redeemed uses in social critique, effective communication and in strengthening community within the family of God.

The new edition of the Chartered Management Institute''s Open Learning Programme has been updated to include the latest management concepts and methodologies. It includes current management concepts, the changing legal framework in which managers operate and the impact of technology in the work environment. The scope of the workbooks has been broadened to enable more generic and stand-alone use of the materials Each workbook has a new introduction that places the subject area within the context of the managerial role and the end of each section now has a learning summary. The final summaries from the first editions have been replaced with a section entitled Toolkits for Busy Managers that includes links to other workbooks in the series, links to relevant BH / CMI textbooks, further reading, website addresses, and trade journals User & mentor guides are now a downloadable resource from BH website.

Written in everyday language for users at every level and packed with screen grabs from the actual software package, this text is a complete guide to designing graphics, creating animation, and making movies on Websites.

Covers all aspects of child care and presents key elements of the October 1991 Children Act. The book contains six detailed case studies which offer a problem-solving approach to the needs of individual children and their families. In addition there are 25 assignments.

This practical handbook is the result of a research project designed to evaluate clinical nursing developments in continence care. It examines the causes of incontinence and the various methods of assessment, as well as exploring methods of promoting continence, including the use of drugs and re-education programmes.

Using structured activities and self-checks to encourage students to try different methods and strategies, this book attempts to help students to make the best use of study time. It lays particular emphasis on research methods, and offers a case-study approach to the interpretation of statistics.