"Neatly and succinctly takes readers through ways to understand and interpret the label of ‘antisocial’ behaviour in a wider context, showing how it is socially, historically and culturally produced as well as understood in professional health and policing or correctional contexts."- Cathy Coleborne, University of Newcastle, Australia"A timely work given the present global shift in the use of social media and violence. Cate Curtis’ book serves as a ...

No modern philosopher has been more maligned and misunderstood or more cynically exploited than Friedrich Nietzsche. Physically handicapped by weak eyesight, violent headaches and bouts of nausea, this paradoxical thinker fashioned a philosophy, which made short shrift of self-pity and the ostentatious display of compassion. The son of a Lutheran clergyman, whom he adored, he became a fearless agnostic who proclaimed, in Thus Spake Zarathustra that 'God is dead!' Of modest bourgeois origin...

Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations.The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to social science research, drawing from areas such as sociology, social psychology and social anthropology.Explicitly addressing the concerns of emergent researchers it provides both a ′how to′ account...

"An accessible, anecdotally rich" biography of the profoundly influential 19th century philosopher, author of Beyond Good and Evil and The Will to Power ( Kirkus Reviews).Friedrich Nietzsche was the most fearlessly provocative and original thinker in Western history. The protean diversity of his writings make him one of the most influential of modern philosophers, yet his often paradoxical statements can be properly understood only within...

Original, fresh and relevant this is a theoretically-informed practical guide to researching social relations.The text provides a mixed methods approach that challenges historical divisions between quantitative and qualitative research. It adopts a multidisciplinary approach to social science research, drawing from areas such as sociology, social psychology and social anthropology.Explicitly addressing the concerns of emergent researchers it provides both a ′how to′ account...