The fourth edition is essentially still about putting the principles of early childhood education into practice.

Study Skills for Nursing and Midwifery Students has been carefully structured to be used throughout a nursing career. It is key reading for all fields and levels of nursing, as well as qualified staff who aim to enhance their professional development.

This book provides practical guidance on processes of researching a range of relevant literature on a subject, planning and writing a literature review.

Offers an overview for health students and health professionals embarking on an applied research project using a qualitative approach. This book provides insights into the ideas and arguments underpinning different qualitative methods, and highlights the links between theory and practice.

Supervision in Action aims to help professional and trainee supervisors, consultants and coaches to `take care of themselves’ - in other words, the art of learning from their own experience in their practice.

Offers practical guidance for parents, teachers and other early years workers who want to give children a good start in mathematical development. Showing how competent children are as mathematicians from an early age, this book offers an overview of young children's mathematical behaviour at home and in early years settings.