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Book SynopsisBased on extensive research, this comparative study examines the past, present and future of management in the transitional economies of East and Central Europe, Russia, the People''s Republic of China, and Vietnam. It discusses the nature of the transition process, identifying different transition paths, highlighting common features and outlining useful theoretical approaches. Each chapter covers a wide range of aspects of management in the countries covered, including details of the historical and cultural background, the transition process, and both external and internal factors, and the macro and micro situation. Its multidisciplinary approach, makes this book suitable for both a practitioner and an academic readershipTable of ContentsPart 1: System Change 1. Introduction: From Plan to Market Part 2: Country and Regional Studies 2. Central Europe 1: Successful Transformation 3. Central Europe 2: 'Valleys of Tears' 4. Russia: The Hard Road from Perestroika 5. China: Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones 6. Vietnam: A Pragmatic Hybrid Model Part 3: Synthesis and Conclusions 7. Conclusions: Process and Outcomes

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Book SynopsisGoverning boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non-profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap by bringing together analyses based upon some of the best recent empirical studies.Using a new theoretical framework that highlights the paradoxical nature of governance, the book throws light on the questions at the heart of recent debates about non-profit boards: are boards publicly accountable or is there a democratic deficit? are boards able to exercise real power, or does management run the show? are boards effective stewards of an organization''s resources? what effects are regulatory and other changes designed to improve board effectiveness having? This book will be essential reading for academics and students with an interest in the governance and management of pubTrade Review'Anyone interested in understanding more about the problems facing boards should read this book' - Andrew Brown, deputy chair of Charity Trustee Networks.'...it is likely to make the reader re-examine some funadamental assumptions about corporate governance...' - Corporate Governance, Paddy FitzGerald'In summary, this book is a gem that goes behind the scenes of board governance. As a result, it is a definite must for those serving on boards, and seeking insight into boards and how to improve them. It adds substantially to the literature on the governance of public and nonprofit organizations; both academics and practitioners would gain much by reading this well-edited text.' - Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Vol. 14, No. 3, September 2003 - Dean F. Eitel, DePaul University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction - The Changing Context of Governance: Emerging Issues and Paradoxes2. Who Governs North East England? A Regional Perspective on Governance3. Are Quasi-Governmental Organizations Effective and Accountable?4. Service Users and Charity Governance5. What Influences the Strategic Contribution of Boards?6. The Financial Role of Charity Boards7. The Role of Boards in Small Voluntary Organizations8. Not So Very Different: A Comparison of the Roles of Chairs of Governing Bodies and Managers in Different Sectors9. What are the Chief Executives' Expectations and Experiences of their Board?10. Governing Independent Museums: How Trustees and Directors Exercise their Powers11. The Changing Face of Charity Governance: The Impact of Organizational Size12. The Impact of New Governance Structures in the NHS13. The Changing Face of Governance in Women's Organizations14. Summary and Conclusions - Contextualizing and Managing the Paradoxes of Governance

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Book SynopsisAcross the western world, there is a growing awareness of the importance of workplace learning, seen at the level of national and international policy, as well as in the developing practices of employers, training providers and Trades Unions. Authoritative, accessible, and appealing, it presents key findings on work-based learning, bringing together conclusions and investigating a variety of workplace contexts to show how such learning can be improved. An extensive practical treatment, brought to life with illustrations from both the public and private sectors, this book has a unique combination of breadth of coverage and depth of understanding.Grounded in rich and detailed empirical studies, this volume challenges conventional thinking. An important new addition to the Improving Learning series, it focuses on guidelines for improving learning by marrying the very best theory and practice to provide an accessible and authoritative guide to workplace learninTrade Review'The book's main theme is to encourage and develop workplace learning and frameworks that can be applied to continuing professional development. It is therefore invaluable for all nursing professionals, as well as those working in human resources, providers of work-based learning and health policy makers.' - Hazel Courtney, learning and development manager, Manchester Primary Care Trust for Nursing Standards'This book has the great strength of being based on an extremely rich and detailed foundation of research data. Because of this, it is able to firmly locate workplace learning within the wider settings of the employment relationship and widely differing organisational strategies. It should be required reading for all involved in public policy on skills.' - Professor Ewart Keep, Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance, University of Cardiff, UK'Improving Workplace Learning represents one of the most inclusive approaches yet to understanding these complex processes. The book combines attention to macro-social and situational organizational conditions with sensitivity to individual workers’ often conflicting experiences and dispositions. It deserves the attention of all interested in practical job redesign to enhance both workplace learning and fulfilling work.'- David W. Livingstone, Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work as well as Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada 'Karen Evans et al gives me a confidence, as an industrialist, that ‘high performance work organisations’ can be developed from within to raise the quality and profile of integrated learning that will make a difference to business and public organisations. There are opportunities and benefits in the research covered in this book for all employees, employers, colleges, universities and private providers.' - Alan Hearsum, Chief Executive of the Glass Training Board, Pilkington; Autoglass 'Improving Workplace Learning certainly improves the level of debate around work based learning at a time when the debate is about to take centre stage. It contributes extensively to this under-researched area, it provides a very useful framework within which such design can be informed.'-Keith Pond, Loughborough University, UK and International Journal of Management EducationTable of Contents Part 1: 1. Workplace Learning: Perspectives and Challenges Part 2: 2. Expansive and Restrictive Learning Environments 3. Applying the Expansive Restrictive Framework 4. Learner Biographies, Workplace Practices and Learning 5. How Individuals Influence Workplace Practices, and Work can Change Worker Dispositions and Identities 6. Workplace Learning: The Direct and Indirect Impact of Policy Interventions 7. The Direct and Indirect Impact of Policy Interventions - Case Studies from the Research Part 3: 8. Improving Workplace Learning: An Integrated Approach. Appendix on Research Methodology.

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Book SynopsisStrategy execution is one of the most important and exciting topics in management. Implementing strategy in today's complex organizations is an enormous challenge but one that all leaders must tackle. This lively book is an essential guide to strategy execution for practicing managers and those in advanced management education. It combines the rigour of advanced research with the accessibility of practical experience and application to lead readers through the subject.Drawing together existing knowledge and reporting findings from his own research, Andrew MacLennan brings this often neglected topic sharply into focus. After introducing and defining strategy execution, the book presents a series of systematic frameworks to help managers and leaders: identify common strategy execution barriers and diagnose performance problems in particular situations translate conceptual strategies into concrete activities align emergent activities and projects wiTrade Review'This is a masterful book about an important subject. Strategy execution is the missing link, without which even the best of plans is rendered impotent. Yet it is so often inadequately addressed or overlooked completely. This is why Dr MacLennan’s book is so welcome. It is both eminently practical and intellectually rigorous, with a wealth of sensible and rational advice, and extremely useable models. It will hold the attention of anyone who is interested in how strategy can really be made to work in practice.' Nigel Slack, Professor of Operations Management & Strategy, University of Warwick, UK 'This is an excellent book highlighting the common disconnect between what organisations think they should do and what they are actually doing. All too often, organisations find making the right things happens very difficult. This book explains why this is and what you can do to change it - it is relevant for all companies trying to make change happen.' Neil Roden, Group Director, Human Resources, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc 'Andrew MacLennan manages to blend his extensive experience and deep knowledge of underlying theory into a marvellously readable, accessible and practical manual on strategy execution that that belongs within easy reach of every strategist – whether manager or student, practicing or aspiring.' Neil Kay, Emeritus Professor of Business Economics, University of Strathclyde, UK 'The art of the possible made a reality. This book is a must read for budding strategists, full of great frameworks and techniques, all of which can be applied in real situations. It provides the reader with a practical perspective and confidence to make things happen. A rare read in the area of strategy, indeed.' Tony Brown, Managing Director – People & Change, Friends Provident plc 'Deeply thoughtful and well researched. Provides clear, practical ways to ensure that strategic plans really do achieve their intended business results.' Tracey Ashworth-Davies, HR Director, Molson Coors Brewing Company Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. What is Strategy Execution? 3. The Strategy Execution Challenge 4. Diagnosing Strategy Execution Problems 5. A Framework for Strategy Execution 6. Translating Strategy into Action 7. Aligning Action with Strategy 8. Aligning Organizational Designs and Systems 9. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirty years of original empirical research on key aspects of the formation and development of small firms from selected articles authored or co-authored by Peter Johnson. Complete with a comprehensive introduction from the author placing the work in relation to the contemporary debates on the subject and providing a cohesive overview, these essays provide an excellent historical context for current research in this area. Many of the studies in this book emphasise the interrelatedness of economic activity and decisions, an emphasis that serves as an important reminder of the complex business environments in which small firms operate. The book is divided into five sections. The first part focuses on the process of business formation. In part two, the role of new firms in regional development is considered. The third section deals with employment issues, whilst part four looks at various aspects of growth and development. Finally, the book concludes wiTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Business Formation 2. The Founders of New Manufacturing Firms: A Note on the Size of their ‘Incubator’ Plants with D.G. Cathcart 3. Firm Formation in Manufacturing Industry with J. Creedy 4. How Good are the UK VAT Registration Data at Measuring Firm Births? C. Conway Part 2: Regional Issues 5. New Manufacturing Firms and Regional Development: Some Evidence from the Northern Region with D.G. Cathcart 6. Spatial Variations in the Determinants and Effects of Firm Births and Deaths with S. Parker 7. Differences in Regional Firm Formation Rates: A Decomposition Analysis Part 3: Employment 8. Unemployment and Self-Employment: A Survey 9. New Firms and Employment Creation with R.B.Thomas 10. Employment Change in the Small Establishment Sector in UK Manufacturing Part 4: Growth and Development 11. How Good are Small Firms at Predicting Employment? with J. Ashworth and C. Conway 12 Small Business Growth in the Short Run with C. Conway and P. Kattuman 13. The Size-Age-Growth Relationship in Not-for-Profit Tourist Attractions: Evidence from UK Museums Part 5: Policy 14. Government Policies towards Business Formation: An Economic Appraisal of a Training Scheme with R.B. Thomas 15. Targeting Firm Births and Economic Regeneration in a Lagging Region 16. Some Reflections

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Book SynopsisIt is vital that coaches have the ability to recognise mental health problems in their clients, enabling them to make an informed decision about whether coaching is appropriate. A Guide to Coaching and Mental Health provides an indispensable introduction to the assessment of psychological issues in the context of coaching.  Divided into three sections, the book covers all the legal, ethical and practical considerations. Part I, Working on the Boundary, starts by exploring the distinction between normal and abnormal behaviour. In Part II, What's Being Said?, the authors introduce fictional case studies, which cover a range of possible mental health issues from mild depression and anxiety, through to psychoses and potentially life-threatening problems. Part III, Categories of Mental Illness, guides the reader through the definition and management of the more common mental health problems.This accessible anTrade Review"Andrew and Carole Buckley have written a thoughtful, highly readable and extremely useful book that will help coaches, and others, recognise and learn how to manage possible mental health issues. It is essential reading for those who have to deal with people who may have psychological problems....a must read to de-mystify the stigma of mental illness." - Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University, UK and Honorary Vice President of the Association for Coaching"Here is a practical guide to working with issues of psychological history without reverting to psychological jargon, and with very useful fictional case histories. It is an important addition to the coaching literature, especially for those who have no psychotherapeutic experience." - Sir John Whitmore, named the UK's leading business coach by the Independent Newspaper Business magazine"This book provides essential reading for practicing coaches and students of coaching and fills a gap in current coaching literature..." - Elaine Cox, International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and MentoringTable of ContentsNowers, Foreword. Introduction. Working on the Boundary. Developing a Picture. Gathering Information. Considerations. What Next? What’s Being Said? Andrea’s Story. Brian’s Life Unravels. Carl and his Relationships. Duncan’s Life in the Fast Lane. Elizabeth’s Stressful Life. France has No Place to Hide. A Stable Life for Ghulam? Who is Hilary? Categories of Mental Illness, their Definition, Epidemiology and Management. Depressive Illness. Anxiety, Phobia and Stress. Addiction and Dependence. Disabilities. Psychosis and Personality Disorders. Eating Disorders. Psychosexual Problems. Treatment Choices.

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Book SynopsisWorking after the war, Hayek''s writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the eras of Thatcherism and Reaganomics - he was championed as a prophet of neo-liberalism by those who were seeking to revolutionize the post-war social consensus. The Constitution of Liberty is crucial reading for all those seeking to understand ideas that have become the orthodoxy in the age of the globalized economy.Trade Review'Professor von Hayek has boldly taken for his province the whole science of man and has deployed his powerful and lucid mind over the entire range of its concerns.' - The SpectatorTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1: The Value of Freedom 1. Liberty and Liberties 2. The Creative Powers of a Free Civilisation 3. The Common Sense of Progress 4. Freedom, Reason and Tradition 5. Responsibility and Freedom 6. Equality, Value and Merit 7. Majority Rule 8. Employment and Independence Part 2: Freedom and the Law 9. Coercion and the State 10. Law, Commands and Order 11. The Origins of the Rule of Law 12. The American Contribution: Constitutionalism 13. Liberalism and Administration: The Rechtsstaat 14. The Safeguards of Individual Liberty 15. Economic Policy and the Rule of Law 16. The Decline of the Law Part 3: Freedom in the Welfare State 17. The Decline of Socialism and the Rise of the Welfare State 18. Labor Unions and Employment 19. Social Security 20. Taxation and Redistribution 21. The Monetary Framework 22. Housing and Town Planning 23. Agriculture and Natural Resources 24. Education and Research: Postscript - Why I Am Not a Conservative

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Book SynopsisThe work of a manager in a service organisation is not the same as the work of a manager in an organisation that manufactures goods. Managing Public Services, Implementing Changes A Thoughtful Approach 2e, is for students and managers who intend to work in a service organisation whether it is owned publicly of privately. This book concentrates on how managers can change things for the better and explains why' as well as how'.The second edition has been fully updated to address challenges facing public services with new material on managing cuts, managing risk, managing innovation, producing funding applications, Lean Management and process review. A new chapter on managing social enterprise and generating social capital has also been added. This text is both solidly practical and theoretically challenging and is supported by strong pedagogical features including: case studies and illustrative vignettes from public service managers working in Europe, Asia, AuTrade Review"Doherty, Horne and Wootton have thoughtfully developed this second edition upon the solid foundations of the well-established first edition. Notable additions are a chapter on managing social enterprises and sections on innovation, process improvement and emotional intelligence. The text continues to provide a broad overview of both change management and the context of public services. The practical hints and tips throughout the text will continue to resonate with practitioners whilst the activities and case studies at the end of each chapter provide excellent resources for providers of education and training."Dr Ian Elliott, Lecturer and Programme Leader PgCert Public Services Governance, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh‘A welcome addition to the teaching and learning resources which reflects the needs of practicing as well as aspiring managers of public services. Clearly written and up to date Doherty et al capture key contemporary debates on public services and provide a wealth of conceptual and practical tools that explain the causes of management challenges and then show how they can be addressed.’Dr Hans Schlappa, Programme Leader, MSc Leadership and Management in Public Services (LMPS), Business School, Hertfordshire UniversityTable of ContentsFirst Thoughts 1. Managing in the Changing Context of Public Services Role 1: Managing Change 2. Managing Resistance to Change in Public Services 3. Managing Strategy and Change in Public Services Role 2: Managing Operations and Activities 4. Managing the Market for Public Services 5. Generating Social Capital and Managing Social Enterprise 6. Managing the Quality of Public Services Role 3: Managing People 7. Managing Groups and Leading Teams in Public Services 8. Managing Leadership and Motivation in Public Services 9. Managing Individuals in Public Services Role 4: Managing Finance and Resources 10. Managing Budgets in Public Services 11. Managing Resources in Public Services 12. Managing Audit, Accountability and Performance in Public Services Role 5: Managing Information 13. Managing Information and Communication in Public Services Role 6: Managing Learning and Personal Development 14. Managing Learning in Public Services 15. Managing Personal Development in Public Services Final Thoughts 16. Management Values - Management as Religion

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Book SynopsisThis major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business â from just before the industrial revolution right up to the present day.Business History is global in scope and looks at the major players â Europe, the US and Japan â as well as emerging economies, such as China and India. Focusing mainly on âbig businessâ, Amatori and Colli critically analyze âthe firmâ and its interaction with the evolution of economic, technological and political systems at the micro and macro levels. This up-to-date textbook is an exceptional resource for students on economic and business history courses, as well as for practitioners interested in broadening their understanding of business.Trade Review'An ambitious analysis, adding significantly to the business history literature. Business History should feature on every undergraduate and postgraduate reading list for modules covering this subject, as well as many business and management modules.' - John Wilson (University of Liverpool, UK) in Business History‘One of the outstanding features of the book is its ambitious comparative perspective. It can be used as textbook, although it is much more than that. I enthusiastically recommend the book both to scholars and to advanced students, interested in business history, economic development and strategic decision-making.’ - Jordi Catalan, in Revista de Historia Industrial Vol. 49 (2012)Table of ContentsPart 1: Relevant Issues 1. Introduction 2. Business History and Theories of the Firm 3. Entrepreneurship Part 2: The Company Between the Pre-Industrial Era and the First Industrial Revolution 4. Pre-Industrial Manufacturing 5. Enterprises and Entrepreneurs of the First Industrial Revolution 6. Technology, Society and the Factory System Part 3: The Birth and Consolidation of Big Business 7. Infrastructures 8. Technology and Organization 9. National Patterns Part 4: State and Market in the Period between the Two World Wars 10. The Multi-Divisional Corporation and Managerial Capitalism 11. Europe between the Two Wars: Convergence and Divergence with the U.S. 12. At the Origins of the Japanese Miracle: Entrepreneurship, the State and Business Groups Part 5: From the Post-War Years to the Fall of the Wall: The Age of 'Shrinking' Space 13. From World War II to the Third Industrial Revolution 14. American Hegemony and its Aftermath 15. The Soviet Union: The Antagonist 16. Japan: The Challenger 17. Hybrid Europe 18. Different Strategies for 'Catching Up': South Korea and Argentina 19. Multinationals: Quid Novi? Part 6: The Globalization of Today 20. New Forms of Enterprise 21. The 'Roaring Nineties': America is Back 22. Slowing Down: Japan and Europe 23. New Protagonists: China and India 24. A Last Look

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Book SynopsisCovering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations, the definition of cultural identities, and the growth of the world economy. The labelling of these substances as 'legal' or 'illegal' has diverted attention away from understanding their important cultural and historical role. This collection explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives. Trade Review'This is a fascinating book because it highlights the way history contributes to the shaping of moral attitudes.' – History Teaching ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Peculiar Substances 1. Alcohol and its Alternatives: Symbol and Substance in Pre-Industrial Cultures 2. Coca, Beer, Cigars and Yag'e: Meals and Anti-Meals in an Amerindinian Community 3. Nicotian Dreams: The Prehistory and Early History of Tobacco in Eastern North America 4. Betelnut ‘Bisnis’ and Cosmology: A View from Papua New Guinea 5. Kola Nuts: The 'Coffee' of the Central Sudan 6. Excitantia: Or, How Enlightenment Europe took to Soft Drugs 7. From Coffeehouse to Parlour: The Consumption of Coffee, Tea and Sugar in Northwestern Europe in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 8. Tobacco Use and Tobacco Taxation: A Battle of Interests in Early Modern Europe 9. Globalising Ganja: The British Empire and International Cannabis Traffic c. 1834 to c. 1939 10. Japan and the World Narcotics Traffic 11. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Cocaine in the United States 12. Building castles of Spit – The Role of Khat in Work, Ritual and Leisure 13. Afterword

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Book SynopsisPraise for Construction Project Management by Peter Fewings: The complexity of the subject matter has at least been reinforced in an informative document with a large helping of common sense ... written in a comprehensive and well structured manner. Building Engineer MagazineEthics are not an optional extra for the professional in the built environment sector. Whether you''re a civil engineer, an architect or a construction project manager, an understanding of the ethical context of your work is an institutional requirement and a commercial demand, not to mention a matter of personal pride.Sometimes, as a construction professional you will be faced with complicated dilemmas, as commercial responsibilities clash with health and safety, environmental or competition concerns. Peter Fewings brings together practical construction project management experience with ethical theory to establish how best to deal with difficult issues.Table of ContentsPart One: Principles and Issues Introduction 1. Development of an Ethical Framework 2. Dilemmas and Decision Making 3. Corporate Social Responsibility 4. Professional Codes 5. Human Resource Ethics 6. Health and Safety 7. Planning 8. Sustainability 9. Trust and Relationships 10. Bribery and Corruption 11. Good Faith Part Two: Industry Survey Case Studies 12. Corporate Social Responsibility 13. Partnering 14. Collusion 15. Project Agreements vs. False Employment 16. Health and Safety 17. Planning 18. Training 19. Quality 20. Sustainable Contracting 21. Trust and Relationships 22. Making it Work

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Book SynopsisTrade and capital are important in the Asia region. Trade in the APEC region has been increasing, but the large rise in Chinaâs exports has also been disturbing as it exhibits export substitution. The first two papers conclude that every economy has gained in trade, though some are more successful than others. And that rise in export has a lot to do with a rise in foreign direct investments. Macroeconomic stability is the pre-condition to growth. Empirical studies show that the lack of stability has encouraged capital to flee an economy. Similarly, a market-oriented, price-driven and matured financial market provides an alternative source of funding. The lesson in economic development is that success in economic growth requires both an externally friendly market environment as well as consistent and favourable internal policies.Table of ContentsINTRO - Changing Patterns of Trade, Capital and Management across Asian Economies Chris Rowley1. Was Capital Fleeing Southeast Asia? Estimates from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand Edsel L. Beja, Jr.2. How do the Asian Economies Compete with Japan in the US Market? Is China Exceptional? A Triangular Trade Approach Yushi Yoshida and Hiro Ito3. Missing Links: Regional Reform for Asian Debt Capital Markets Paul Lejot, Douglas Arner and Liu Qiao4. Stimulating Private Sector Development in China: The Emergence of Enterprise Development Centres in Liaoning and Sichuan Provinces Andrew Atherton and Alaric Fairbanks5. Business Crisis and Management Fashion: Korean Companies, Restructuring and Consulting Advice Christopher Wright and Seung-Ho Kwon6. Labour-intensive Industrialization in Hong Kong, 1950-70: A Note on Sources and Methods David Clayton

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization: the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners Via Campesina peasant farmers Our World Is Not For Sale and the anarchistic Peoplesâ Global Action. Written by a scholar-activist, the book highlights that despite their diversity, these collective actors follow a similar globalizing path and that networks in which solidarity is based on a shared identity perceived as threatened by neoliberal change are gaining strength. Social forums are depicted as a fertile ground to strengthen networks and a common ground for cooperative action among them, but also a battleTable of Contents1. The Globalization of Neoliberalism and of Activism: An Introduction 2. Global Activism: Methodology and Scholarly Review 3. Toward Jubilee 2000 and Beyond 4. Our World Is Not for Sale 5. Via Campesina 6. Zapatista-Inspired Peoples’ Global Action 7. Concluding Reflections on Present and Future Scholarship and Activism

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Book SynopsisLaunched in 1991, the Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective, under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). It is the first publication of its kind edited by a team of leading international law scholars from across Asia. The Yearbook provides a forum for the publication of articles in the field of international law, and other Asian international law topics, written by experts from the region and elsewhere.Its aim is twofold: to promote international law in Asia, and to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on contemporary international legal issues. Each volume of the Yearbook normally contains articles and shorter notes; a section on State practice; an overview of Asian states participation in multilateral treaties; succinct analysiTable of ContentsIntroduction Articles The Unfinished Business of Human Rights Protection and the Increasing Threat of International Terrorism Ben Chigara. Special Feature: Selected Papers, International Symposium of the Asian Society of International Law, 7-8 April 2007. International law in Asia: The Limits to the Western Constitutionalist and Liberal Doctrines Jean d'Aspremont. Regional Integration and the Promotion and Protection of Democracy in Asia: Lessons from ASEAN Richard Burchill Export of War: Issues of Individual Criminal and State Responsibility H. Harry L. Roque, Jr "As if" Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter?: Rigidity of the Threshold Between Chapter VII and non-Chapter VII Sakai Hironobu. The Role of IMO Resolutions in Ocean Law and Policy in the Asia-Pacific Mary George Legal Materials State Practice of Asian Countries in the Field of International Law Developments The 2007 ASEAN Charter and Human Rights Thio Li-ann. Note on State Immunity, Singapore Case. Note on CEDAW and Malaysian Practice Literature: Book Reviews "The Failure to Prevent Genocide in Rwanda: The Role of Bystanders, Transnational Publishers", Nao Seoka, Fred Grunfeld and Anke Huijboom - reviewed by Nao Seoka. "Minority Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Analysis", Joshua Castellino & Elvira Doninguez Redondon - reviewed by Thio Li-ann. "The Struggle against Enforced Disappearance and the 2007 United Nations Convention", Tullio Scovazzi & Gabriella Citroni - reviewed by K.I. Vibhute. "Towards New Global Strategies: Public Goods and Human Rights", Eds. Erik André Andersen and Birgit Lindsnaes - reviewed by Tan Liang Ying. "European Yearbook of Minority Issues, vol.5, 2005/2006". Ed. by European Centre for Minority Issues & The European Academy - reviewed by Surendra Bhandari Literature: Survey of Literature

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Book SynopsisContemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organisations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such as the International Olympic Committee. This book presents the principles and practices necessary for effective management of voluntary sport organisations around the world.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introducing the Voluntary Sport Sector 1. The Voluntary Sport Sector 2. The Operating Environment of Voluntary Sport Organizations 3. The Governance of Voluntary Sport Organizations Part 2: The Management of Voluntary Sport Organisations 4. Strategy Development and Planning 5. Managing Human Resources 6. Managing Finances 7. Managing Performance 8. Managing Change 9. Managing Marketing Part 3: Issues in the Management of Voluntary Sport Organisations 10. Event Management 11. Voluntary Sport Organisations and the Law 12. Risk Management and Protection 13. Information Technology and Voluntary Sport Organizations 14. The Future of Management

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Book SynopsisFor decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organiziTrade Review"A common criticism of edited volumes is that they can sometimes be little more than a loosely connected series of chapters. However, Can Neighbourhoods Save the City does not fall into this trap. Not only are the empirical chapters, which form the body of the book, connected through a commonly considered analytical framework, but a solid narrative draws the reader through from conception to conclusion. Ultimately, it is clear that sub-city initiatives provide hugely generative sites of social cohesion that co-exist alongside official state-driven forms of city governance. Many of these initiatives are not new, although the invocation of innovation and enterprise within their analysis may not have been so emphasised in previous eras."–Professor Anna Davies, Trinity College DublinTable of Contents1. Social Innovation and Community Development: Concepts and Theories 2. Historical Roots of Social Change: Philosophies and Movements 3. ALMOLIN: How to Analyse Social Innovation at the Local Level 4. Kommunales Forum Wedding – Innovation in Local Governance in Berlin 5. Arts Factory, Rhondda Cynon Taff, South Wales 6. Social Exclusion/Inclusion and Innovation in the Neighbourhood of Epeule (Roubaix). The Case of the Association Alentour 7. The End of Social Innovation in Urban Development Strategies? Neighbourhood Development Corporations in Antwerp 8. How do you Build a Shared Interest? Olinda - a Case of Social Innovation Between Strategy and Organizational Learning in Milano 9. Centro Sociale Leoncavallo - Milan - Italy. A building-block for an Enlarged Citizenship in Milan 10. Associazione Quartieri Spagnoli (AQS) - Naples 11. New Deal for Communities in Newcastle 12. The Ouseburn Valley. A Struggle to Innovate in the Context of a Weak Local State 13. The Contradictions of Controlled Modernisation: Local Area Management in Vienna 14. Self-determined Urban Interventions as Tools for Social Innovation: The Case of City Mine(d) in Brussels 15. Creative Designing the Urban Future: Building on Experiences - A Transversal Analysis of Socially Innovative Case-Studies 16. Socially Innovative Projects, Governance Dynamics and Urban Change: A Policy Framework

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Book SynopsisRecent developments in the global economy, such as the Greek budget crisis, have led to new focus on the role of Europe, and in particular on the countries in Europeâs south-eastern region. This new volume from a global set of contributors explores south-east Europeâs present and future direction, placing it in the context of the history of the region since the end of the Second World War.Through an exploration of Europeâs cultural and political economy, this volume argues that the south-east part of Europe is currently the most crucial component of Europeâs future development. The book charts the post-World War Two âevolutionâ of the continent, taking in such key turning points as the 1971 breakdown of the fixed exchange rate system, the breakdown of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, and the 2008 global financial collapse. In doing so, the book seeks to explain why and how the current events in south-east Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean can be seen as the weakest points inTable of ContentsIntroduction Economics 1. Structural Evolution of Agents 2. Commodities and Services 3. Education and Labor Markets Politics 4. Environment and Ecology 5. Military and Democracy 6. Embedded in Global Politics Culture 7. Religion 8. Gender and Generation Relations 9. Organizational Forms Perspectives

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Book SynopsisIn the new knowledge-intensive economies' Intellectual assets increasingly play a key part on balance sheets. There is an increasing global awareness that in order to promote innovation and the growth of the economy, businesses must fully recognise and exploit their intellectual assets. A company's ability to innovate rapidly and successfully is now regarded as essential and most breakthroughs are made by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), usually with no in-house legal professionals to help them. It is essential that those working with or creating intellectual property rights (IPR) are aware of the basics of Intellectual Property Law. Intellectual Property Asset Management provides business and management students at all levels with an accessible-straight-forward explanation of what the main Intellectual Property rights are and how these rights are protected.  Locating the subject squarely in a business context and using case studies and examples throughout drawTable of Contents1. Introduction and Nature of IP. 2. Copyright. 3. Confidentiality. 4. Patents. 5. Registered and Unregistered Design. 6. Business goodwill and reputation. 7. Exploitation of IP. 8. Intellectual property Audit [Housekeeping]. 9. IP and employees. 10. What if IP rights are infringed? 11. Competition law and Intellectual property

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Book SynopsisThe healthcare environment is in flux. On the one hand, doctors are being driven into ever larger group practices by increasing regulatory and administrative burdens and the need for greater negotiating power. At the same time, growing infrastructure costs and the threat of payment reform is pushing them into closer alignment with hospital systems. This rapidly changing environment requires a more sophisticated set of leadership skills.This book introduces a unique and practical coaching style as a way of interacting with colleagues, managing direct-reports, helping others solve problems, responding to change, making effective choices and developing professionally. It draws from four evidence-based models for interacting with others and facilitating change - solution-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and transactional analysis â and reframes them so that they are congruent with managerial and leadership terminology and provide a practicTrade Review"After several years as an executive coach specializing in working with healthcare providers, especially physicians in leadership roles, Dr. Hicks has developed a practical and meaningful approach to teaching these leaders how to have effective helping conversations with subordinates and co-workers. Like many professionals, physicians don’t go to school and are not trained for the leadership roles they may suddenly find themselves in. They are taught to quickly diagnose problems and give direct answers and advice. As leaders, they must learn and demonstrate a very different set of skills, including listening, questioning, guiding, and helping others learn to solve their own problems. The "Four Square Coaching Model" developed by Dr. Hicks is a proven method for learning those skills. I highly recommend this book for any healthcare professional who wants to hone their ability to lead and develop others."- William M. Behrendt, PhD, UT Southwestern Medical Center"This book provides real-world application on how to adapt your leadership style to be a more effective coach. The concepts presented on coaching styles provide a sophisticated set of tools to support leading an ever evolving and complex workforce. The chapters provide scenarios to demonstrate how to apply the concepts with the content being relevant beyond the healthcare industry. This book is a "must have" for those wanting to develop or hone their existing coaching skills."- Denise Grodé, Vice President, Global Talent Management & Corporate HR, Lennox International "Leadership Coaching in Healthcare not only provides practical tools for the healthcare executive but elevates your understanding of the overall importance of coaching as a management imperative. It is particularly insightful for the leader looking to strategically align coaching with increased individual performance. Additionally, the concept of "Elite Professionals" is provocative and will become a part of the recommended readings for my graduate level course offerings."- Dr. Jim Dunn, Executive Learning Officer, Office of Learning and Performance Development, Cleveland ClinicTable of Contents@Contents:1. The Mystique of Leadership 2. The Nature of Helping Conversations 3. The Structure of Coaching 4. Support-for-Thought: Adult-to-Adult Communication 5. Support-for-Thought: Intelligent Listening 6. Becoming a Solution-focused Leader 7. Challenge-for-Thought: Designing the Future 8. Challenge-for-Action: A Path to Doing 9. Challenge-for-Action: Go Slow to Go Fast 10. Support-for-Action: Readiness for Change 11. Support-for-Action: Importance and Confidence 12. A Coaching Roadmap: Putting it All Together

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Book SynopsisSport brands are a central element of modern sport business and a ubiquitous component of contemporary global culture. This groundbreaking book offers a complete analysis of the topic of sport brands from both a marketing management approach (strategy and implementation) and a psycho-sociological approach (consumption and wider society). In doing so it explores both supply and demand sides, offering a complete introduction to the nature, purpose and value of sport brands not found in any other sports marketing text.The book covers the whole heterogeneity of sport brands, going much further than the sport team and league brands covered in most other books. As well as teams and leagues, the book considers the brands of sports celebrities, events, media, computer games and governing bodies, as well as the ethical, professional and technological âlabel brandsâ associated with sport. Richly illustrated with cases, examples and data, the book explores the tangible and intangible inTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The great variety of sport brands Chapter 2. The tangible influence of sport brands Chapter 3. The intangible influence of sport brands Chapter 4. Subcultures, communities and sport brands Chapter 5. The economic and social value of sport brands Chapter 6. Sport brands’ growth strategies Chapter 7. Sport brands’ threats Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear, comprehensive and insightful introduction to the political economic analysis of contemporary media. Jonathan Hardy undertakes a critical survey of political economy scholarship encompassing worldwide literature, issues and debates, and relationships with other academic approaches. He assesses different ways of making sense of media convergence and digitalisation, media power and influence, and transformations across communication markets. Many of the problems of the media that prompted critical political economy research remain salient, he argues, but the approach must continue to adapt to new conditions and challenges. Hardy advances the case for a revitalised critical media studies for the 21st century. Topics covered include: media ownership and financing news and entertainment Trade Review"Jonathan Hardy’s book deals in a highly astute manner with the question: How are the media shaped by and shaping capitalism and power structures? It is an excellent resource for scholars, students, activists and citizens who are interested in the critique of the political economy of the media and who want to understand what informational capitalism is doing to us and how we can politically resist it." Christian Fuchs, Professor of Social Media, University of Westminster "Questions about the arrogance of media owners, the pervasiveness of advertising and public relations, the failure of regulation, and the pressures on public cultural institutions, are once again rising to the top of the agenda for debate. Jonathan Hardy’s timely intervention provides an admirably clear and accessible introduction to a tradition of inquiry, critical political economy, that has always placed these issues centre-stage. Anyone seriously interested in unpicking the ways media are shaped by the shifting play of power between corporations, governments and civil society will find this book an indispensable guide." Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy, Loughborough University "The critical study of the political economy of the media has never been more important. Jonathan Hardy provides an excellent overview of this vital perspective in a book that should become a key text in media and communication studies." Janet Wasko, Professor & Knight Chair in Communication Research, University of Oregon Table of ContentsForeword James Curran Part I: Mapping approaches and themes 1. What (is) political economy of the media? 2. Paradigms of media power: liberal and radical perspectives on media processes 3. Media cultures, media economics and media problems Part II: Critical investigations in political economy 4. Concentration, conglomeration, commercialisation 5. Political economy of the Internet and digital media 6. Marketing communications and media 7. Globalisation, media transnationalisation and culture 8. Media convergence and communications regulation Part III: Interventions and Change 9. Media power, challenges and alternatives Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon a wide range of sources of empirical evidence, historical analysis and theoretical argument, this book shows beyond any doubt that the private, profit-making, corporation is a habitual and routine offender. The book dissects the myth that the corporation can be a rational, responsible, ''citizen''. It shows how in its present form, the corporation is permitted, licensed and encouraged to systematically kill, maim and steal for profit. Corporations are constructed through law and politics in ways that impel them to cause harm to people and the environment. In other words, criminality is part of the DNA of the modern corporation. Therefore, the authors argue, the corporation cannot be easily reformed. The only feasible solution to this ''crime'' problem is to abolish the legal and political privileges that enable the corporation to act with impunity. Trade ReviewFew academic books demand the kind of critical attention that The Corporate Criminal demands.This is surely the most powerful and compelling critique of the corporation ever written. Tombs and Whyte pull no punches in this arrestingly accessible but scholarly book. Their argument is simple – its legal and historical construction is such that the resulting corporation is endemically criminogenic and thus beyond reform. Their conclusion is utterly persuasive, ‘the goal of corporate opposition must be the abolition of the corporation’ - Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation and Director of the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, UKTombs and Whyte provide a brilliant, unflinching and original account of corporate power in neoliberal capitalism. Their careful analysis – rich in both empirical and theoretical insights - convincingly reveals that corporations cannot balance economic progress with social welfare, but also that the only effective corrective is to disassemble the corporate form. This superb book is a must read for anyone wishing to understand how and why corporations have come to define and destroy our daily lives, and what do about it. – Susanne Soederberg, Queen’s University, Canada It is clear that today, everyone is aware of the devastating effects of corporate capitalism on the environment, global inequality, and various other aspects of our societies and daily lives. What is utterly refreshing about Tombs and Whyte’s book, is the realisation that none of these effects can be mitigated by legal reform or neoliberal regimes such as ‘corporate social responsibility’. What is needed is a revolution in our thinking about, and action towards, corporate capitalism, and Tombs and Whyte’s call to ‘bring down the corporation’ deserves to be carried far and wide. - Grietje Baars, The City Law School, City University London.This book offers readers a provocative brief for the case that corporations are in fact not a sustainable enterprise, and that their inherently criminal and criminogenic nature must be fully recognized.— David O. Friedrichs, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers University)Table of Contents1. Introducing The Corporate Criminal 2. Crime, Harm And The Corporation 3. Constructing The Corporation 4. The Corporation As Structured Irresponsibility 5. Controlling The Corporation? 6. Conclusion. What is to be done about the corporate criminal?

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Book SynopsisA work of social theory. It contributes to the way for a balanced consideration of some of the most important social movements.Trade Review'... a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted.'New English WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Marxian Doctrine. ; Prologue. ; I. Marx the Prophet. ; II. Marx the Sociologist. ; III. Marx the Economist. ; IV Marx the Teacher. ; Part II: Can Capitalism Survive? ; Prologue. ; V. The Rate of Increase of Total Output. ; VI. Plausible Capitalism. ; VII. The Process of Creative Destruction. ; VIII. Monopolistics Practices. ; IX. Closed Season. ; X. The Vanishing of Investment Opportunity. ; XI. The Civilization of Capitalism. ; XII. Crumbling Walls. ; XIII. Growing Hostility. ; XIV. Decomposition. ; Part III: Can Socialism Work? ; XV. Clearing Decks. ; XVI. The Socialist Blueprint. ; XVII. Comparison of Blueprints. ; XVIII. The Human Element. ; XIX. Transition. ; Part IV: Socialism and Democracy. ; XX. The Setting of the Problem. ; XXI. The Classical Doctrine of Democracy. ; XXII. Another Theory of Democracy. ; XXIII. The Inference. ; Part V: A Historical Sketch of Socialist Parties. ; Prologue. ; XXIV. The Nonage. ; XXV. The Situation that Marx Faced. ; XXVI. From 1875 to 1914. ; XXVII. From the First to the Second World War. ; XXVIII. The Consequences of the Second World War. ; Preface to the First Edition, 1942. ; Preface to the Second Edition, 1946. ; Preface to the Third Edition, 1949. ; The March Into Socialism. ; Index.

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Book SynopsisAdventure Education is a form of experiential learning typically associated with activities involving risk, from cooperative games such as raft building to high adventure activities such as rock climbing. Adventure Education: An Introduction provides a comprehensive introduction to the planning, delivery and evaluation of Adventure Education, with a strong emphasis on professional practice and delivery. Written by a team of leading Adventure Educators who can draw upon an extensive experience base, the book explores the most important strategies for teaching, learning and implementation in Adventure Education. The book is fully illustrated throughout with real-world case studies and research surveying the key contemporary issues facing Adventure Education Practitioners. This includes essentials for the adventure educator such as risk management and tailoring activities to meet specific learning needs, as well as providing an insight into contemporaryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Models and Milestones in Adventure Education 2. Planning Adventure Education 3. Risk Management: Philosophy and Practice 4. Learning and Teaching in Adventure Education 5. Coaching in Adventure Education 6. Evaluating Adventure Experiences – The Outside View 7. Evaluating Adventure Experiences – The Inside view 8. Adventure Education – Physical Exercise and Health 9. Adventure Education and Disaffected Youth 10. Overseas Youth Expeditions 11. Values in Adventure Education 12. Inclusive Adventure Education: Better Opportunities for People who Have Disabilities 13. Professional Development. Conclusion and Future Directions

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Book SynopsisJournalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboyâs extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its future directions are addressed, through chapters covering: the history and development of Journalism Studies how journalists are created through training and education changing research methods and processes in journalism the impact of the âend productâ in wider society global perspectives on journalism technology and the future of the discipline. Situated within a fast growing and dynamic field of study, this engaging introduction will be valuable reading for students of journalism, media and communication, along with those seeking to develop a broader understanding of contemporary journalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Studies of journalism: the beginnings 2. Education and Training: Between a Hack and a Hard Place 3. Journalism Studies and Research Approaches 4. Debates on the processes of journalism 5. Products 6. Journalism Across Borders: Imperial, International, Global 7. Journalism Studies: Engagements with Technology and Industrial Change Index

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Book SynopsisKnown as the economist''s economist for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thought. His contributions to marginal productivity theory, income distribution and, most notably, his theory of interest would come to have a profound impact upon twentieth century economic theory, not least in the work of John Maynard Keynes.First published in English in 1934 and 1935, this Routledge Revival set is a reissue of Wicksell''s two volume work on political economy, first published in Sweden in 1901 and 1906. This work is aimed at both the professional economist and the advanced student alike, as well as all those interested in the theoretical development of political economy. Volume I concerns itself predominantly with issues of theory: specifically the theory of value, the theory of production and distrib

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Book SynopsisWith a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, human personality, the position of women, and individual freedom. Simmel also offers us prophetic insights into the consequences of the modern money economy and the division of labour, in particular the processes of alienation and reification in work and urban life. An immense and profound piece of work it demands to be read today and for years to come as a stunning account of the meaning, use and culture of money.Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was born in Berlin, the youngest of seven children. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin and was one of the first generation of great German sociologists that included Max Weber. Trade Review `We should all be grateful for this translation. It must have been extremely hard work, but it shows no trace of it. Indeed, it positively sparkles.' - Alan Ryan, The Guardian 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction to the Translation Analytical Part 1. Value and Money 2. The Value of Money as Substance 3. Money in the Sequence of Purposes Synthetic Part 4. Individual Freedom 5. The Money Equivalent of Personal Values 6. the Style of Life Appendix: The Constitution of the Text

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Book SynopsisThe literature of marketplace behaviour, long dominated by economic and psychological discourse, has matured in the last decade to reveal the vast expanse of consumption activity not adequately addressed â in either theoretical or empirical perspective - by the discipline's favoured approaches. The lived experience of consumption in cultural and historical context, rendered in a fashion that is both intellectually insightful and authentically evocative, and that recognizes the dynamics of accommodation and resistance that characterize the individual's relationship with the market, is the central interpretive thrust of an emerging interdisciplinary field inquiry broadly labelled consumer culture theory.In this volume, some of the leading scholars of this field explore in great empirical detail and theoretical depth the relationships that the consumer has developed both with goods and services and with the stakeholders that animate markets. Beginning with an examination of the Trade ReviewThe role of culture in consumption has been long acknowledged, but related research has been fragmented and under-appreciated. This volume, with its impressive line-up of topics and authors, will play a vital role in the development of Consumer Culture Theory as the well-spring from which new and deep understandings of the consumer world are emerging. David Glen Mick, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia (Former Editor JCR, Past President, ACR)Consumer Culture Theory is not a theory. It is much more. It is the future of research about consumers, markets, and business. The settings for the research and reflections presented here are fascinating in and of themselves: DNA testing, home away from home, Wal Mart, Christmas trees, personal trainers, gambling casinos, advertising, dolls, and poetry. But even more stimulating are insights into basic human issues addressed in these chapters. They include: Who am I? Where do I come from? What can I become? What is home? What is family? What is ritual in contemporary consumer society? How does gambling emancipate us from the market? What is Consumer Culture Theory? And how has advertising shaped culture and brought order to the world? This is a book that will fascinate, stimulate, and provoke new ways of seeing the world of the consumer. It is about a very vibrant and fresh perspective on consumption that has emerged in the past three decades and clearly has come of age. Russell Belk Kraft Foods Canada Chair in Marketing, Schulich School of Business, York University (Past President & Fellow, ACR)CCT is AOK. This book brings together some of the most effervescent thinking in Consumer Culture Theory. It is the Sprite of scholarship - refreshing, invigorating and deliciously subversive. Covering everything from Christmas trees to DNA tests, Sherry and Fischer's volume sparkles with smarts and spirit and sugar-rush subversion. Image may be nothing but imagination is everything. Exploring Consumer Culture Theory is intoxicatingly imaginative. Enjoy. Stephen Brown, Prof of Marketing, Ulster University This book is an exploration of new ideas, new topics, new ways of thinking and writing. It will bring bright light and some heat to the debate. Exploring Consumer Culture Theory is an important step forward. Grant McCracken (Industry consultant, author, leading consumer behavior theorist, and anthropologist)This second installment (of what one hopes will be many) of Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) conference papers delivers on CCT's promise of pluralism – in directions, inclusions, articulations, applications, theoretics and poetics. It is a must-read for marketers or social scientists with an eye on consumption. This volume invites and incites. Rita Denny, Founding Partner, Practica Group, LLC Eileen Fischer and John Sherry have put together a fine collection of writings from talented contributors whose insights and deft analyses demonstrate, in a variety of ways, how consumption informs and is informed by meaning-making practice. A delightful read, this work promises to invigorate the already lively field of Consumer Culture Theory by situating culture squarely in the crux of consumer research. Daniel Thomas Cook, Rutgers University, author of The Commodification of Childhood Table of ContentsIntroduction, Explorations in Consumer Culture Theory: What Are We Exploring Now?, Eileen Fischer, and John F. Sherry, Jr., Section One: Forming and Framing, From CCT to CCC: Building Consumer Culture Community, Johanna Moisander, Lisa Penaloza and Anu Valtonen, Theoretical Realism: Culture and Politics in Commercial Imagery, Linda M. Scott, Section Two: Time and Space, Banking on History: Reflections in the Archive Mirror, Barbara Olsen, Dwelling in Mobility: Homemaking Among Mobile Professionals, Fleura Bardhi and Søren Askegaard, Section Three: Setting and Self, Are We There Yet? Coproducing Success and Failure in Personal Training, Eileen Fischer, Cele C. Otnes, Brynn Winegard, Eric Li and Sarah Scarbrough-Wilner, Designer Genes: DNA Testing Services and Consumer Identity, Elizabeth C. Hirschman and Donald Panther-Yates, Section Four: Brands and Images, Allomother as Image and Essence: Animating the American Girl Brand, John F. Sherry, Jr., Stefania Borghini, Mary Ann McGrath, Albert Muñiz, Nina Diamond and Robert V. Kozinets, Engineering a Mainstream Market for Sustainable Practices, Diane M. Martin and John W. Schouten, Section Five: Rites and Games, Tinsel, Trimmings and Tensions: Negotiating a Focal Artifact, Cele C. Otnes, Elizabeth Crosby, Robert Kreuzbauer and Jennifer Ho, Stacking the Deck; Gambling in Film and the Diffusion of Casino Gambling, Ashlee Humphreys, Section Six: Poetry, Living Things, Small Things, John W. Schouten, Heading Home, Consumption Kaddish in Four Koans, John F. Sherry, Jr., Haiku for EATNIKS, Eugene Halton, Imagined (Musical) Experiences: Across Four Centuries, George Zinkhan, Conclusion, Reflections and Revanche, John F. Sherry, Jr. and Eileen Fischer.

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Book SynopsisThis book redefines climate protection measures and readjusts climate protection targets in line with what is scientifically necessary and economically feasible. The reader is provided with an overview of recent developments and failings in, and successful instruments for, fighting climate change and global warming.Effective climate protection measures rest on two pillars: stopping all greenhouse gas emissions and cleaning the atmosphere of spare carbon. Both are possible, if the use of fossil fuels in the energy, transport, construction and chemistry sectors is terminated and the decision is made to consistently switch to a world economy with zero emissions instead. Global Feed-in-Tariffs can provide incentives for renewable energies as the German Feed-in-Tariff has proven â a measure which has been copied by almost 70 nations around the world. At the same time agricultural practices are necessary to support an increase in biodiversity, e.g. re-greening the desert, afforestaTable of ContentsAbout the book series Editorial board Foreword by Caio Koch-Weser Foreword by Mark Z. Jacobson About the author Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 1.1 The purpose of this book 1.2 Renewable energy as a jobs miracle 1.3 Renewable energy is not an economic burden 1.4 Renewable energy does not increase prices for energy customers 1.5 Renewable energy as the most effective climate protection measure 1.6 Renewable energy can grow much faster than generally assumed 1.7 Success of biological agriculture in Germany 1.8 The Success of green chemistry in Germany 1.9 Poverty reduction with renewable energy and biological agriculture2. The crisis of the fossil-atomic age is accelerating dramatically 2.1 The disasters are increasing as a result of global warming 2.2 Fossil fuel raw materials cause more than just climate problems 2.3 Fukushima has once again revealed the uncontrollability of nuclear energy 2.4 Global warming speeds up dramatically: Tipping points and political failure3. Low carbon: pseudo-solutions for climate protection 3.1 Carbon capture and storage (CCS) 3.2 Nuclear energy 3.3 Industrial, intensive agriculture 3.4 Transport systems with more efficient use of fossil fuels 3.5 Geoengineering4. Cooling of the Earth is possible: in some decades 330 ppm CO2 can be achieved 4.1 First pillar: zero emission 4.2 Second pillar: carbon removal from the atmosphere5. Policy measures for cooling the Earth 5.1 The necessity and effect of state regulations to redirect global financial flows 5.2 Demand-oriented innovation policies break the vicious circle of obstacles to innovation 5.3 The EEG as an example of an effective State regulation to divert private cash flows into climate protection 5.4 The permission problems 5.5 State regulations required for effective climate protection 5.6 Policy measures with little or nil effectiveness for climate protection6. The key role of the financial sector as political climate protection motor References Subject index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to review central concepts in the study of environmental politics and to open up new questions, problems, and research agendas in the field. The volume does so by drawing on a wide range of approaches from critical theory to poststructuralism, and spanning disciplines including international relations, geography, sociology, history, philosophy, anthropology, and political science. The 28 chapters cover a range of global and local studies, illustrations and cases. These range from the Cochabamba conference in Bolivia to climate camps in the UK; UN summits in Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg to climate migrants from Pacific islands; forests in Indonesia to Dutch energy governance reform; indigenous communities in Namibia to oil extraction in the Niger Delta; survivalist militias in the USA to Maasai tribesmen in Kenya. Rather than following a regional or issue-based (e.g. water, forests, pollution, etc) structure, the volume is organised in terms oTrade Review'Critical Environmental Politics asks the deeply disturbing questions and heads directly into the difficult possible answers. None of its contributors argue that a little more fine-tuning will avert socio-ecological catastrophe. Both new and established critical theorists join forces in a truly necessary "wake up" call. Read it.' Richard B. Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, USA."All eras are defined by keywords that both reflect dominant norms and serve to reproduce them. Yet these keywords are polysemic and have the potential to be redefined, so altering habits of thought and action in the world at large. This excellent book offers a rich set of genealogies of those concepts that have come to describe human-environment relationships in the early 21st century. It’s an essential guide for anyone trying to make sense of those relationships and how they might be made less destructive for people and non-humans. Read it to find out whose tactics and strategies have succeeded since the first Earth Day, and what potential for insurgency currently exists." Professor Noel Castree, University of Manchester, UK."Who should read this book? Anybody who is increasingly growing weary of the hype that surrounds sustainability and the green economy. How refreshing the essays in the book are! What a penetrating analysis of the key-concepts of the environmental politics! The critical school of social thought at its best, debunking but constructive, and full of imagination. Last not least, the book is well-written and neatly structured, a superb primer of environmental citizenship." Professor Wolfgang Sachs, editor of The Development Dictionary, Wuppertal Institut, Germany."An impressive set of contributors take us on a critical tour through the vast territory of environmental politics. Visiting along the way numerous essential ideas, thinkers, issues, and cases, this collection firmly and thoroughly establishes the proper place of critique in all its varieties at the heart of environmental affairs." Professor John Dryzek, Australian National University, Australia.Table of Contents1. Introduction – Carl Death 2.Biodiversity – Bram Büscher 3. Biopolitics – Kevin Grove 4. Citizenship – Emma Hinton 5. Climate change – Chukwumerije Okereke and Mark Charlesworth 6. Commodification – Matthew Paterson 7. Conservation – James Igoe 8. Consumption – Andrew Brooks and Raymond Bryant 9. Eco-centrism – Katie McShane10. Feminism – Erika Cudworth 11. Governance – Susan Baker 12. Governmentality – Eva Lövbrand and Johannes Stripple 13. Hybridity – Alan Rudy and Damian White 14. Justice – Patrick Bond 15. Limits – Gabriela Kütting 16. Localism – Karen Litfin 17. Movements –Stephan Price, Clare Saunders and Cristiana Olcese18. Posthumanism – Steve Hobden 19. Resource violence – Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso 20. Risk – Luigi Pellizzoni 21. Sacrifice – Paul Wapner 22. Science – Tim Forsyth 23. Security – Simon Dalby24. States – Thom Kuehls 25. Summits – Carl Death 26. Sustainability – Mark Whitehead 27. Technology – Timothy W. Luke 28.Vulnerability – Chris Methmann and Angela Oels

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Book SynopsisEfforts to combine the outstanding economic performance in the decades following the Second World War with social security appear to be endangered half way through the first decade of the 21st century. This book draws together an international team of contributors, including Douglass North, Harold Demsetz and Michael Piore to assess the current world order.Table of ContentsPart 1: Social Institutions and Economic Change Social Institutions and Economic Performance Business Governance and the Institutions of Capitalism Understanding the Process of Economic Change Part 2: Varieties of Contemporary Capitalism The Flexibilities and Constraints of Contemporary Capitalism The Neo-Liberal Ideal and the Reality of Workplace Practice: Shifting Axes of Political Mobilization and New Regimes of Workplace Governance in the United States Adam Smith in Beijing: States, Markets, and Capitalism East and West The European Model of "Social" Capitalism: Can it Survive European Integration? Part Three: Capitalism and Social Critique in the Era of Globalization Globalization and Loyalty: Who are we? Boom, Bubble, Bust: The US Economy Today The Role of Criticism in the Dynamics of Capitalism: Social Critique vs. Artistic Critique Globalization and Violence

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Book SynopsisIn recent years there has been a weight of evidence suggesting that engagement has a significantly positive impact on productivity, performance and organisational advocacy, as well as individual wellbeing, and a significantly negative impact on intent to quit and absenteeism from the work place.This comprehensive new book is unique as it brings together, for the first time, psychological and critical HRM perspectives on engagement as well as their practical application. Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice will familiarise readers with the concepts and core themes that have been explored in research and their application in a business context via a set of carefully chosen and highly relevant original and case studies, some of which are co-authored by invited practitioners.Written in an accessible manner, this book will be essential reading for scholars in the field, students studying at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as practitioners iTrade Review'This engagement textbook should be required reading not just for HR students but for all practitioners and people involved in engagement. The editors have compiled an eclectic and informative mix of articles on engagement. The strong academic underpinnings of the book offer the reader research based conclusions and many important questions to consider.' - Employee Engagement Awards for 2013 - Winner of Best Engagement Book 2013Table of ContentsIntroduction Catherine Truss, Kerstin Alfes, Rick Delbridge, Amanda Shantz and Emma Soane Part I: The Psychology of Engagement 1. What is Engagement? Wilmar Schaufeli 2. Engagement in the Context of Positive Psychology Carolyn M. Youssef-Morgan and Kristi M. Bockorny 3. The Antecedents and Drivers of Employee Engagement Eean R. Crawford, Bruce L. Rich, Brooke R. Buckman and Jenny Bergeron 4. Relational Contexts of Personal Engagement at Work William A. Kahn and Emily D. Heaphy Part II: Employee Engagement: The HRM Implications 5. Strategic HRM and Employee Engagement Paul Sparrow 6. HRD and Employee Engagement Brad Shuck and Tonette Rocco 7. Job Design and Employee Engagement Maria Tims and Arnold B Bakker 8. Leadership and Employee Engagement Emma Soane 9. Employee Engagement in a Cultural Context Sebastiaan Rothmann 10. Employee Engagement in Multinational Organizations Clare Kelliher, Veronica Hope-Hailey and Elaine Farndale Part III: Employee Engagement: Critical Perspectives 11. Engagement: A murmuration of objects Tom Keenoy 12. Employee Engagement: Fashionable fad or long-term fixture? David E Guest 13. Employee Voice and Engagement John Purcell Part IV: Employee Engagement in Practice 14. Relevance of Employee Engagement across Cultures from the Perspective of HR Professional Associations Amanda Shantz, Jordan Schoenberg and Christopher Chan 15. Measuring and Understanding Engagement Luke Fletcher and Dilys Robinson 16. Case Studies in Employee Engagement Kerstin Alfes and Selma Suna Yeltekin Leloglu

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Book SynopsisEffective leadership and management in health and social care are built on good practice, strong relationships and a critical understanding of the wider context in which care takes place. Leading, Managing, Caring illustrates how leadership and management work in everyday settings, providing invaluable support to those practising or studying in the area. The book introduces the four core building blocks of the caring manager or leader: personal awareness, team awareness, goal awareness and contextual awareness. Together these form a firm foundation for understanding and practice. Drawing on up-to-date case studies, the authors explore how critical theoretical understanding can support practical attempts to work through complex situations with a diverse range of people. Also included is a toolkit containing carefully selected and practical tools for leading and managing change. This comprehensive textbook is suitable for existing and aspiring managers and leaders in a range of health and social care professions, or anyone interested in understanding more about the complex landscape in which care services are managed and delivered in the UK.Trade Review'This book is quite ground-breaking in management literature, particularly as it is applied in management of care. It brings many values and approaches from a wide range of professional fields, but keeps a perspective on the responsibilities of a manager to their employers as well as to service users. It has a fresh and confident voice that will be very encouraging and inspiring for new and experienced managers. Few texts make these ideas as accessible as this book does.' – Vivien Martin, University of Brighton, UKTable of Contents1. Preparing to Lead Sara MacKian, Chris Russell and Leona McCalla Part 1: Leading, Managing, Caring in Practice Sara MacKian and Joan Simons 2. The Proactive Manager Wayne Taylor 3. Leadership and Vision Joan Simons and Helen Lomax 4. Managing Change in Health and Social Care Liz Tilley and Rebecca L. Jones 5. Managing Stress, Loss and Transition with a Caring Face Wayne Taylor 6. Managing Identities Helen Lomax 7. Managing the Team Julie Charlesworth 8. Managing Partnerships Julie Charlesworth 9. Managing Continuing Professional Development Chris Kubiak 10. Developing a Coaching Style of Management Joan Simons Part 2: Leading, Managing, Caring in Context Joan Simons and Sara MacKian 11. Exploring the Caring Environment Helen Lomax 12. Making Sense of Organisational Culture Richard Hester, Anita Rogers and Martin Robb 13. Involving Service Users and Carers Liz Tilley and Rebecca L. Jones 14. Understanding Changing Approaches to Management Michelle Gander 15. Managing Safeguarding Across Health and Social Care Jeanette Copperman and Hilary Brown 16. Morals and Ethics in Leadership and Management Richard Hester and Anita Rogers 17. Managing Challenges Joan Simons 18. Quality in Health and Social Care Liz Tilley, Jan Walmsley and Rebecca L. Jones 19. Law, Leadership and Management Rod Earle with Ann McDonald and Jeanette Henderson 20. Leading, Managing, Caring for the Future Sara MacKian Toolkit for Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all students of methodology, in particular those students of economic methodology seeking a refreshing alternative to yet more mathematical game playing.In an age dominated and perhaps to an extent perplexed by an ultimately non-committal postmodernism the book provides a root and branch critique of the epistemological relativism which must lie at the root of the whole post-modernist approach; and in reasserting the fundamental importance not only for the methods of science but also for European civilisation of the pursuit of truth it takes a stance which is very much against the tide of the times. A heterodox perspective is also provided and defended in detail regarding the real nature of economic methodology whereby it is shown that Economics epitomises a teleological mode of explanation which is significantly different from the efficient causal modes of explanation of the natural sciences. In fact Economics is the ultimate subjectivist/interpretative discipline in the methodological sense of Max Weber and Alfred Schutz, a fact which has only been recognised (and welcomed) in the Austrian school of Economics.Trade Review'O'Sullivan's thought-provoking work is a significant addition to the rapidly expanding literature on economic methodology.'- R.S. Hewett, Drake University, CHOICETable of ContentsPart 1: Philosophical Prolegomena 1. A Critical Philosophical Methodology of Science 2. The Challenge of the Anti-Philosophies 3. Science and the Quest for Truth 4. The Methodological Alternatives Part 2: Economic Science: A Methodological Case Study 5. The Economic Theory of Deliberate Choice 6. Teleological Explanation in Microeconomics and Macroeconomics 7. Rationality Postulates in Economic Theory 8. Methodological Precepts and Practice in Economics 9. What Economists Have Said and What They Have Done 10. The Austrian Exception 11. The Twofold Methodological Gap Part 3: The Philosophical Deduction 12. The Existentialist Deduction of a Subjectivist Methodology 13. The Existentialist Refutation of an Objectivist Methodology 14. The Central Principles of a Subjectivist Methodology: Alfred Schutz 15. A Resolution of Some Notorious Sticking Points 16. A Conclusion and Some Open Questions

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Book SynopsisBrief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there. The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the problem, so that the client's problem is not central to the session, but instead the coach and the client work towards the client's preferred future.This book employs case examples and transcripts of sessions to offer guidance on: looking for resources rather than deficits exploring possible and preferred futures examining what is already contributing to that future treating clients as experts in all aspects of their lives. This practical guide includes summaries and activities for the coach to do with the client and will therefore be a useful tool for both new and experienced coaches, as well as therapists branching into coaching who want to add to their existingTrade Review"This book offers the expertise of leading solution focused therapists for an audience that is interested in how to take a solution focused approach to their coaching work. When resources are tight, a BRIEF approach offers a well researched way of making the most from coaching interventions." - Carole Pemberton, author of Coaching to Solutions"This book offers the expertise of leading solution focused therapists for an audience that is interested in how to take a solution focused approach to their coaching work. When resources are tight, a BRIEF approach offers a well researched way of making the most from coaching interventions." - Carole Pemberton, Executive Coach and author of Coaching to Solutions"What this book offers are some potentially fruitful ideas about conducting therapy, indeed the process of therapy itself. I also liked the emphasis on “client strengths, resources, competencies, capabilities and successes.” - James K. Luiselli, New England Psychologist Table of ContentsIntroduction. Basic Principles. Establishing the Contract. Preferred Futures. What is Already Working. Scales. Closing a Session. Second and Subsequent Sessions. Back to Work. The Manager Coach. Last Words. Appendix: Solution Focused Questions.

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Book SynopsisEdited by three leading scholars whose expertise spans finance, economics, and law, Finance in Asia is a new collection from Routledgeâs Critical Concepts in Finance series. The foundational and cutting-edge scholarship assembled in this easy-to-use, one-stop resource enables users easily to access and make sense of an explosion of scholarly output on Asiaâs distinctive financial institutions, markets, and systems. The collection will be especially welcomed by scholars and students seeking a full understanding of contemporary Asian finance, particularly those in search of a forward-looking view of the second generation of Asian finance. The collection will also appeal to researchers eager to engage with vital questions about law, institutions, and regulation, and their impact on transaction formation and performance, and on the behaviour of the financial sector in Asia. Indeed, in the current economic climate, with international financial systems still buffeted by extreme turbulence, such questions have never been more pertinent.Finance in Asia is fully indexed. It also includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the material in its intellectual and historical context.

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Book SynopsisThis cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) based self-help guide will equip the user with the necessary tools and techniques to manage work related stress more effectively.Trade Review"This book is not just another book identifying the problems of workplace stress but an outstanding self-help guide that is based on cognitive behavioural therapy. It is focused on the individual, and what you can do to help yourself cope with the stress-related issues in your job... a must read for the many out there who are finding they just can't cope!" - Professor Cary L. Cooper, Lancaster University, UK"This book declares itself to be a self-help guide for people experiencing occupational stress. It is authoritative, thorough, and practical. I have recommended it to clients and have received mainly positive feedback." - Private Practice, Winter 2011"This book is not just another book identifying the problems of workplace stress but an outstanding self-help guide that is based on cognitive behavioural therapy. It is focused on the individual, and what you can do to help yourself cope with the stress-related issues in your job... a must read for the many out there who are finding they just can't cope!" - Professor Cary L. Cooper, Lancaster University, UK"This book declares itself to be a self-help guide for people experiencing occupational stress. It is authoritative, thorough, and practical. I have recommended it to clients and have received mainly positive feedback." - Private Practice, Winter 2011Table of ContentsPart I: Understanding Occupational Stress. Occupational Stress and its Consequences. Identifying the Causes of Your Occupational Stress. Part II: Interventions for Occupational Stress. Primary Level Interventions Aimed at Improving Your Work Environment. Living a Healthy Lifestyle. Developing Effective Time Management Skills. Developing Assertiveness Skills. Developing Effective Interpersonal Skills. Developing Relaxation Skills. Changing the Way You Relate to Your Work. Overcoming Stress Syndromes. Part III: Pulling it all Together. Developing a Self-help Plan. Summary and Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a categorized and visualized overview and presents microscopic observations, systematic mineralogy, chemistry, geology, stability, paragenesis, occurrence and use in petrology of 137 minerals. Structural formula calculations are included in the appendix. Consists of a set of book and downloadable resources for students and practically-oriented researchers and professionals in geology, geological, mining, and mineral resources engineering who need a reference of mineralogy, applied to petrology.The downloadable resources contain 384 color plates with mineral microscopic visuals under various circumstances.Table of ContentsUse of the CD –ROM1. Rocks and minerals2. Observations with the Petrographic Microscope3. Systematic mineralogy3-1. Major tectosilicates: quartz – feldspars – feldspathoids3-2. Major ferro-magnesians minerals : micas, chlorites, amphiboles, pyroxenes, olivines3-3. Aluminous minerals3-4. Calcic, magnesian and calc-magnesian minerals3-5. Accessory minerals3-6. Minerals of sedimentary rocks and alteritesAppendix - Calculation of the structural formula of a mineralA selection of booksReferences bibliographiquesSites webIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1985, Thomas Sowellâs book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marxâs own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowellâs research and thought on the philosophical and economic doctrines of Karl Marx.Its central theme is that Marxian philosophy must be understood before Marxian economics can be defined. The book discusses Marxâs ideas, including his philosophy of history, concept of capitalist exploitation, morality and business cycle theory. The authorâs treatment is balanced, though often critical and displays a mastery of Marxâs own writings which are liberally extracted throughout the text. Trade Review‘Among the best short accounts of Marxism ever, whatever the reader’s own politics are. I found it a real pleasure to read, clear and tight, full of both common sense and intellectual rigour.’ – Bernard Crick‘Very readable … The non-Marxist Mr Sowell is distinctly successful in opening up the scope and brilliance of Marx’s very interesting mind.’ – Brigitte Berger, New York Times Book ReviewTable of Contents1. Economics and Philosophy 2. The Dialectic Approach 3. Philosophic Materialism 4. The Marxian Theory of History 5. The Capitalist Economy 6. Marxian Economic Crises 7. Marxian Value 8. Political Systems and Revolution 9. Marx the Man 10. The Legacy of Marx

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Book SynopsisRapid growth of the global economy has accelerated the degradation of the Earth's most important asset: the environment. Increasing poverty and challenges arising from climate change further threaten the planet's natural systems. With a rising global population, the demand on natural resources to cover even basic human needs is intensifying supporting businesses that promote the sustainable use of natural resources and help ensure their long-term viability is imperative. As part of a pioneering movement to harness business towards effecting environmental change, The Nature Conservancy launched EcoEnterprises Fund in 2000 to provide investment capital to grow small eco-businesses in Latin America. There is a compelling need for financing this niche. Companies of this size truly drive change creating the engine for economic activity and generating livelihoods for bottom of the pyramid rural peoples which brings about positive social and conservation impacts. EcoEnterprises FuTable of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Building an Investment Niche Section 2: Building a Portfolio Section 3: Structuring the Deals Section 4: Working the Deals Section 5: Managing the Fund Section 6: Final Thoughts

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