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Book SynopsisCoaching Tools, Volumes 1 and 2 offer a rich source of applied tools and techniques that have hitherto not existed and could never have been achieved without the valuable contributions and support of the 90+ coaches who helped create these books. Contained within these 2 volumes are over 200 tried-and-tested 'favourite' coaching tools. The tools are varied, reflecting the range of contributors, and drawing disparately from Behavioural, Cognitive Behavioural, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Solution-focused, Mindfulness and Neuroscience frameworks amongst others. The contributors include Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Boyatzis, Tammy Turner, Peter Hawkins, Suzy Green, Christian van Nieuwerburgh, Jonathan Passmore and many more. Fully illustrated in colour, each tool is presented in a simple to use step-by-step guide, making this an essential contribution to every coach's and leader's personal library.

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Book SynopsisCoaching Tools, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 offer a treasure trove of applied tools and techniques - a resource that has hitherto not existed and could never have been achieved without the valuable contributions and support of over 100 coaches who helped create these books. Contained within these three volumes are over 320 tried-and-tested 'favourite' coaching tools with expert insight into their use, described in user friendly terms. The tools are varied, reflecting the range of contributors, and drawing disparately from Behavioural, Cognitive Behavioural, Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion, Positive Psychology, Psychodynamic, Gestalt, Solution-focused, Mindfulness and Neuroscience frameworks amongst others. The contributors include Marshall Goldsmith, Haesun Moon, Dr Woody Woodward, Michael Bungay Stanier, Suzy Green, Ilona Boniwell, Kaveh Mir, Naeema Pasha, Johan Frederik Banzhaf, David Love, Karen Foy, Julie Flower, Claudia Day, Jelena Jovanovic Moon, Maggie Grieve, Sam Isaacson, Jonathan Passmore and many more. Fully illustrated in colour, each tool is presented in a simple to use step-by-step guide, making this an essential contribution to every coach's and leader's personal library.

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Book SynopsisOver the past 30 years, coaching has grown into a professional service, delivered by billion-dollar businesses for people at every level. But support for those tasked with the responsibility of buying coaching is still hard to come by. This book is designed to help individual coachees, line managers of coachees, and organisational buyers of coaching to get the most out of coaching. Through compiling the 50 most popular questions and drawing together a diverse panel of experts, The Coaching Buyers' Handbook presents crisp and clear answers to each. By helping create smarter, more informed buyers, this book will contribute to driving up standards throughout the coaching industry.

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Book SynopsisBecoming an ICF Credentialed Coach aims to help professional coaches on their journey tomastery.

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Book SynopsisThe Power of Authenticity: Three Principles of Leadership Success is a fascinating and candid account of the obstacles and triumphs that Dr Raja Al Gurg faced on her path to becoming one of the most influential businesswomen in the Arab world. Dr Al Gurg is the Chairperson and Managing Director at the Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, an eminent family business in the UAE. In The Power of Authenticity she gives invaluable insight into the lessons she learned first as a secondary school principal before climbing the ladder of a diversified conglomerate that represents businesses ranging from retail to real estate. As a respected business leader in the region, Dr Al Gurg has defied conventional understandings about women in the Middle East, acknowledging that it was her handling of these all-too-pervasive challenges that ultimately shaped her leadership style and fostered her drive for success. Turning setbacks into strategies, she shares with readers the tactics and tools that she has gleaned from her illustrious career that will inspire the next generation of business leaders. Perfect for fans of Sheryl Sandberg, Indra Nooyi and Kashmir Maryam, Dr Al Gurg's lessons, and how they relate to her background and broader business philosophy, are a unique and essential contribution to literature on an increasingly competitive and diverse corporate world. By harnessing the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual energy that resides within each person, Dr Al Gurg explains how a leadership style based on personal authenticity can lead to business success. Along the way she considers What does it take to steer a company? How can a failure be turned into an advantage? How can women business leaders break down barriers and make a difference in the corporate world? Confident and encouraging, The Power of Authenticity answers these questions, and many more.

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Book SynopsisCriminally good advice from the sharpest minds in business. The Little Book of Badass Business features more than 170 quotes from a variety of moguls, millionaires and titans of industry – both legitimate and less so... From advice on building your empire from self-made men like Breaking Bad's Walter White, to tips on the art of negotiation from seasoned dealmakers like The Godfather's Don Vito Corleone, this collection of bite-sized quips is essential reading for anyone looking to make their mark in the corporate, cut-throat world of business. 'Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.' Gordon Gekko outlines the virtues of avarice when it comes to cold, hard cash. Wall Street (1987) 20th Century Fox. 'You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Til one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like.' Eddie Temple explains the path to success for up-and-coming entrepreneurs. Layer Cake (2004) Sony Pictures. 'Come at the king, you best not miss.' Omar Little offers some words of warning in the face of a hostile takeover. The Wire, Season 1 Episode 8: 'Lessons'.Table of ContentsEntrepreneurship • Recruitment & Human Resources • A guide to Finance • Marketing & Public Relations • Negotiation • Taking on the Competition.

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Book SynopsisA brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. When Les Hinton first fulfils his schoolboy dream of working on Fleet Street, it is still a place awash in warm beer, black ink, fag ash, and hot metal. Fifty-two years after being sent out to buy a sandwich for his first boss, one Rupert Murdoch, when Les finally leaves Murdoch’s employment in 2011, the business of news has been turned upside down, in a tumble of social and technological change. Les Hinton has been present at and noiselessly directed several key scenes in that tale of revolutionary transformation, as employee and later head of Murdoch companies in newspapers, magazines, and television, on three continents over five decades, in Wapping and Wall Street, Australia and California. Born amid the rubble of the blitzed docklands of Bootle, and schooled by an itinerant Army childhood, he came to the centre from the periphery, just as Murdoch did. There, with a gang of like-minded outsiders, he set about redrawing the map of the media. Hinton depicts the upheavals that swept his trade with the same widescreen perspective and sharp colours he deploys to show us how politicians from Clinton to Blair, from Brown to Cameron, alternately canoodled and raged inside their arranged media marriages. We see the death of Diana, the IRA bombings, the charisma of Bill Clinton, and the phone-hacking scandal from a revelatory new angle. And we get the most undeluded and undiluted portrait yet of the man who is perhaps the last of the great press barons. Above all, emerging out of Hinton's scintillating stories of half a century of Murdoch and news revolutions, comes the voice of a wandering Liverpudlian who is still in love with the life of a newspaperman, and now the author of one of the defining media memoirs of our age.Trade Review‘An epic story … and a penetrating insight into the mind of Murdoch.’ * Daily Mail *‘Les Hinton lifts the lid on his 52 years working with the media mogul Rupert Murdoch … This ‘untidy life in news’ yields a rich crop of anecdotes.’ * The Times *‘[A] great romp of a journalistic memoir.’ -- Stephen Robinson * The Sunday Times *‘It vividly captures the rise and fall of the press over 60 years … [no] acolyte’s paean.’ -- Ian Burrell * i *‘[Gives] an unprecedented insight into the media mogul [Murdoch’s] ways.’ * i *‘Les Hinton's story is about the glory and the tragedy of the newspaper business. He knows all the secrets of this tale and few are more clear-eyed than him when they tell it.’ -- Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury‘A terrific memoir by one of the all-time great newspapermen. Highly recommend if you want to know what it takes to be a journalist.’ -- Piers Morgan‘[A] must-read for anyone with even a fleeting interest in the media.’ -- Noreen Barr * Press Association *‘A rollicking good tale of his extraordinary life ... an utterly charming autobiography.’ * William Shawcross *"Does not shy away from criticism of Murdoch’s mistakes .... honest, revealing — and a beautifully written page turner.” -- William Shawcross‘Hinton is likeable and self-deprecating as he conjures up the lost worlds of boyhood and early newspaper days. A must-read for anyone with even a fleeting interest in the media.’ * Surrey Advertiser *‘A fascinating read.’ * The Sunday Post Dundee *‘Hinton evokes delicious memories of the analog age of newspapers, describing the smells and sounds of chutes, linotypes, molten lead stereo casting machines and presses roaring amid mists of paper fluff.’ * Weekend Australian *‘Brilliant ... a remarkable book.’ * Weekend Australian *‘Les Hinton’s The Bootle Boy: An Untidy Life in News, is an ode to journalism and the amazing, eyeopening, exciting and gratifying life it offers.’ * The Australian *‘Les Hinton tells the story of his remarkable life in a remarkable book.’ * Weekend Australian *‘An honest, cleanly told autobiography … The journalist within Les Hinton has observed the right professional care by setting his life in context, conveying it with an abundance of charm and refreshingly robust honesty.’ * Australian Book Review *‘An amiable autobiography ... pacey, engrossing and a lot better written than most hacks' memoirs.’ -- Michael Leapman * British Journalism Review *‘His narrative of growing up in Bootle, in Liverpool, and many other places around the world then moving into journalism is inspirational for any wanting to follow that path.’ -- Steve Howard * Manly Daily *‘The yarns are delivered with a classic journalist’s eye for the telling physical detail, an ear for the revealing quote and a knack for sequencing facts.’ -- David Cohen * Sunday Star Times *‘The stories are all told from the front row.’ -- Roy Christopher * Well-Red Bear *

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Book SynopsisThis unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about innovation from great minds worldwide. With quirky graphics and memorable quotes, Great TED Talks: Innovation will challenge your thinking, open your mind to new perspectives, and ignite your passion for innovation. Learn how to unlock that elusive idea from masters like Bill Gates or Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Be open to new ways of thinking and discover how Sir Richard Branson has been wowing his customers with innovative experiences since before it became a trend. Find inspiration in unusual places, and explore new ways to collaborate with your team. Authenticity is key to your business; find out how Sheryl Sandberg stepped out of her comfort zone to find her voice, and how you can do the same. There are thousands of TED talks to navigate—this book curates the most inspiring and provides a commentary on the top 100 ways to boost your inventiveness, find new avenues to explore, and overcome your fears to unleash your full potential.

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Book SynopsisImpact assessment can be highly technical and complex, requiring a broad knowledge base and diverse skills, but like evaluation, it is a process fraught with philosophical, technical and political perils. Why is it done, by whom, and how, must be carefully planned. Impacts cannot always be ’proven’, so the nature of evidence becomes critical. Accordingly, a strong theoretical base is needed by all IA practitioners. Whilst economic impacts have received a great deal of attention, with sufficient material available to guide all applications, for social, cultural and environmental IA the theory and practice has lagged. In the context of Triple Bottom Line, social responsibility and sustainability approaches most of the available literature is on normative goals (such as going green, meeting sustainability standards), the nature of positive and negative impacts (a descriptive approach or based on public input), or theory about how impacts occur; very little theory development or praxis has been directed at impact assessment for these applied fields. In response to this lack of information, Event Impact Assessment is the first text to: • Develop professionalism for IA and evaluation in these applied management fields. • Position impact assessment within sustainability and responsibility paradigms. • Recommend goals, methods and measures for planning, evaluation and impact assessment pertaining to events and tourism. • Encourage the adoption of standard methods and key performance indicators in evaluation and impact assessment in order to facilitate valid comparisons, benchmarking, reliable forecasts, transparency and accountability. • Provide concepts and models that can be adapted to diverse situations. • Connect readers to the research literature through use of Research Notes and provision of additional readings. This text also works well as a companion text to Event Evaluation: Theory and methods for event management and tourism. The Events Management Theory and Methods Series examines the extent to which mainstream theory is being employed to develop event-specific theory, and to influence the very core practices of event management and event tourism. Each compact volume contains overviews of mainstream management theories and methods, examples from the events literature, case studies, and guidance on all aspects of planned-event management. They introduce the theory, show how it is being used in the events sector through a literature review, incorporate examples and case studies written by researchers and/or practitioners, and contain methods that can be used effectively in the real world. Series editor: Donald Getz. With online resource material, this mix-and-match collection is ideal for lecturers who need theoretical foundations and case studies for their classes, by students in need of reference works, by professionals wanting increased understanding alongside practical methods, and by agencies or associations that want their members and stakeholders to have access to a library of valuable resources.Table of ContentsPART ONE Chapter 1: Concepts and Definitions Chapter 2: Foundation Theory Chapter 3: Measurement and Methods for IA (parts 1 and 2) PART TWO Chapter 4: Impacts on Individuals and Families Chapter 5: Social Impacts Chapter 6: Cultural Impacts Chapter 7: The Built Environment Chapter 8: Impacts on Nature and Ecological Processes Chapter 9: Economic Impacts Chapter 10: Impacts on Destinations References Index

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Book Synopsis• An accessible and concise resource that introduces non-specialist students to the key concepts and principles of business law, providing a non-technical alternative to the currently available heavyweight texts • To increase engagement and understanding, the examples used throughout the book are drawn from scenarios that are familiar to students in their everyday life • The author has extensive experience of teaching large cohorts of non-specialist students, many of whom are from overseas. Intended as an accessible, concise and inexpensive alternative to currently available textbooks, Getting Started in Business Law by Paul Bates covers the core topics taught at first year undergraduate level to non-specialists taking a business law module as part of their undergraduate studies. While still providing the student with a rigorous and academic treatment of the topic, this book will weave a path through key concepts of business law exposing the main principles step by step, while keeping the use of case law to a minimum as single cases will be used to explain a number of key points. The examples used throughout the text will be familiar to the student in their everyday lives, helping to keep the student engaged and aid their understanding of the principles and concepts being presented. Particular attention will be paid to using language which is accessible, and presenting concepts in a style which is undaunting, while still rigorous, and at times light-hearted. The author has extensive experience of teaching large cohorts of business, accountancy and finance undergraduate students, many of whom are from overseas. This experience is brought to bear to deliver an engaging and accessible resource, offering an alternative to the heavyweight texts which are currently available.Table of ContentsCh 1 What you need to know before you start; Fundamental rules; Terminology (Jargon); Ch 2 Sources of law: Where does law come from?; Acts of Parliament – Legislation – Statute Law; Delegated legislation; Case law (judge made law); Some useful terminology; The Law Reports; Objective and subjective tests; Common Law; The Law of Equity; Ch 3 The law of contract: Contractual ‘ingredients’; Background; Offer; Carlill v The Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1893); Ch 4 The law of contract: Contracts in practice; Terms; The contents of contracts; Duress and undue influence; Privity of contract; How contracts come to an end; Electronic commerce and the law of contract; Ch 5 The law of tort; How the law of tort affects you and your business; The basic principles; The tort of negligence; Economic loss and ‘pure’ economic loss; An occupier’s liability for premises; Ch 6 Types of business; Self-employment/sole traders; Incorporation; Partnerships; Ch 7 Outline of the English and Welsh system of courts; Civil and criminal courts and the tribunal system; The Supreme Court; The Court of Appeal; The High Court of Justice; The Magistrates’ Courts; Overview of the tribunal system; Ch 8 Employment law; Section 1: Contracts of employment; Vicarious liability in workplace situations; Section 2: The main rights of an employee; Ch 9 Corporate governance; Failures of corporate governance; Ch 10 Cases and Acts; List of cases used; List of Acts of Parliament and Regulations; Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how temporality manifests in and impacts tourism in different parts of the world looking at climate, culture and/or structural conditions of the tourism operation. It looks at the reasons and causes for temporality within tourism and how this effects both the industry, the consumer and the environment. Divided into four parts, Tourism: A temporal analysis looks at: * The dimensions and relationships between time and tourism: the causal reasons for seasonality in tourism, links between seasonal variations and visitation and why people travel when they do. * The operational dimensions of temporality: the challenges of 'peak season' and 'low season', pricing, planning, managing the labour demands and yield systems. * Strategic responses to temporal variation: the role of temporality/seasonal variation as a policy issue, the role of festivals and events in combatting temporality and the effect of social media. * The End of Temporality?: the rise of 'year-round ' tourism, its enablers and its’ resulting effects both positive nad negative in the industry, the environments and the economy. With contributions from international experts from academia and industry, this text uses case students and vignettes throughout to contextualise the theory and enabling students to have a better understanding in order to critique and question the issues discussed.Table of ContentsSection 1: Overview of the dimensions and relationships between time and tourism; Ch 1 Time and Tourism: from 'seasonality' to 'temporality' Ch 2 Causal Factors in Seasonality; Ch 3 Tourism and the Seasons; Ch 4 Nature and Time; Ch 5 Behavioural and Cultural Dimensions of Temporality in Tourism; Ch 6 Mobility and The Pace of Tourism: slow vs fast tourism; Ch 7 Night vs Day; Section 2: Operational Dimensions of Temporality; Ch 8 The Language and Meaning of Temporality; Ch 9 Temporal Pricing; Ch 10 Measuring Temporal Performance Ch 11 Planning for 'Seasons'; Ch 12 Seasonal Labour; Ch 13 Temporality and the 'Lifestyle Operator'; Section 3: Strategic Responses to Temporal Variation; Ch 14 Temporality and the Destination Management Perspective; Ch 15 Festivals and Events in Temporal Strategies; Ch 16 Marketing the Seasons Ch 17 The Community Perspective; Section 4: The End of Temporality?; Ch 18 The Growth of 'De-temporalisation'; Ch 19 Over-tourism and Temporality; Ch 20 Temporal Pasts and Futures; Index

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Book SynopsisThe events industry is undergoing fundamental change. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, this has meant the cancellation and postponement of events and a move towards online and hybrid strategies. Looking to the future, the ‘new normal’ for the events industry will be characterised by a quite different, transformed, events landscape which will require a thorough reimagining and reshaping of existing methods, techniques and practices. 'Reimagining and Reshaping Events: Theoretical and practical perspectives' is a unique and user-friendly text which advances managerial views on how the event industry is transforming. Packed with international real-life case studies and examples, it contextualises theory and illustrates how the industry has had to adapt whilst still considering key technological and sustainability issues. The text examines key priorities such as: * The inclusion of technological advances and the development of online and hybrid strategies; * The design of meaningful experiences considering the environment and sustainability; * Ethical catering choices, environmental and social responsibility; * Adapting to complex event situations and incorporating covid strategies; * Knowledge advancement with current technologies and sustainability practices; * The maintenance of practitioner well-being. Written in a user friendly and engaging style, it provides a blend of theory and practice that adopts a practitioner perspective but draws on theory from a broad range of discipline areas.Trade Review“What a relevant, practical and refreshing read it is for anyone working, or wanting to learn in the event management industry. As a fellow Event Management lecturer in higher education, coupled with having my own event management business, FINALLY we have some practical, relevant literature practical to events and event management on the road to recovery from the covid pandemic” Simon McCuskey, Event practitioner and lecturer, Torrens University, Australia "The chapter on Experience and Event Design provides a contemporary perspective, featuring highly topical issues such as the impact of COVID, virtual and hybrid events, and transformative event experiences. The reader is provided with concise explanations of key theories which are matched with examples, case studies and thinking points, making this a great resource for students and academics." Dr Eliza Kitchen, Lecturer, Tourism & Events, Flinders University, Australia “Great book for undergraduate studies in event management with first rate examples on how events have changed and adapted in light of COVID. The addition of industry profiles at the end of each chapter will certainly appeal to students wanting to learn about their future careers. The chapter on Event Budgeting and Financial Health includes plenty of examples and the tables assists students learning about the application of accounting basics into the management of an event.” Dr. Sandra Cherro Osorio, Head of Program Bachelor of Hospitality Management/Lecturer, Melbourne Polytechnic, AustraliaTable of ContentsPreface About the authors Ch 1 An industry transformed and reimagined: Events after COVID-19 The scope of planned events Careers in the events industry Industry transformation Impacts and changes Industry profile: Sharon Calleja, event sales manager Ch 2 Business development in events Entrepreneurship in the events industry Developing an events business model Event feasibility Business viability and success The bidding process Industry profile: Joe McGrath, Victoria Racing Club Ch 3 Event and experience design The event experience Frameworks to guide the design of event experiences Theming and event design Designing virtual experiences Event design and sustainability Industry profile: Kate Stewart, EBC Advisory Ch 4 Project management and logistics The benefits of project management Key project management principles The five phases of project management Event logistics Successful online events Industry profile: Garth Lategan, The Event Network Australia (TENA) Ch 5 Event budgeting and financial health The nature and importance of an event budget The budgeting process Income strategies Financial statements Financial analysis and decision making Financial health Industry profile: Nicholas Kalogeropoulos Ch 6 Event marketing and brand strategy The scope and nature of event marketing The marketing process Event branding and brand strategy Marketing and communications planning Event sponsorship Industry profile: Georgie Stayches, Fetching Events and Communications Industry profile: Jenny Mitten, brand strategy and leadership expert Ch 7 Legal compliance, risk and crisis management Legal compliance The concept of risk The risk management process Risks and hazards Crowd behaviour and event security Industry profile: Leo Gester, risk management and safety expert, grant writer Ch 8 Hospitality and catering concepts The event catering process How can food safety be ensured? Event menu guidelines Food wastage Industry profile: Conan Gomes, event catering expert Ch 9 Stakeholder engagement and leadership Leadership and power Stakeholder analysis Working with sponsors Networking and social capital Industry profile: Grant Gray, Stakeholder relationship management expert Ch 10 Finding and motivating talent Acquiring talent The motivation of employees and volunteers Industry profile: Annmaree Angelico, expert in HR management and safety Ch 11 Sustainability, evaluation and industry trends The importance of sustainability The business case for sustainability The three pillars of sustainability ISO 20121 Event evaluation frameworks Adapting to event industry trends Industry profile: Meegan Jones, event sustainability expert A final word and reflection by Peter Jones, international event expert Index

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Book SynopsisTourism Dynamics: New perspectives and changing directions provides theoretical and practical insights with a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach to the study of tourism and emerging topics that will change the future of the industry, either positively or negatively. It offers a platform for critical discussion and examines emergent controversies within the tourism industry including the growth of alternative business models (e.g. sharing economy business models), travel in light of climate change and human resource ethics given the increasing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), data and algorithms. With contributions from an international body of academic experts, each chapter highlights and critiques emerging insights and is underpinned with a thorough theoretical and practical knowledge. Issues discussed include risk management awareness; well-being in tourism; the online purchasing process; volunteer tourism; destination resilience and competitiveness and much more. Tourism Dynamics: New perspectives and changing directions is a must have volume for all tourism and hospitality students and educators, enabling students to enhance their critical thinking skills and educators to reflect on the influences of new directions on the industry.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Complexity in the Tourism & Hospitality Online Purchasing Process (Nikolaos Pappas & Andreas Papatheodorou); Volunteering whilst Backpacking (Elena Gelaca, Iride Azara & Eleni Michopoulou); Creating a better future for the hospitality & tourism education (Christina K. Dimitriou); Risk Management awareness: The operation of the Greek hotel industry under the risk assessment in tourism sector (Maria Zoi Spanaki); Transforming Tourism Governance: A Focus on Destination Community Well-Being (Elena Konovalov, Laurie Murphy & Gianna Moscardo); Well-being experiences in nature. An emerging tourist form (Marta Gemma, Nel-lo Andreu & Alba Font Barnet); The journey to & from overtourism – perspective of inhabitants of cities & resorts (Michał Żemła, Adam Szromek, Sylwia Orzeł & Jakub Para); New clues to tourism planning & management from consumer neuroscience (Carla Fraga & Airton Rodrigues); Shedding Light Upon the Shadows: Exploring the link between country destination image & dark tourism (Stella Kladou, Maria Psimouli & Nilgün Handan Eskitark); Air Connectivity for leisure tourism; the way forward (Pavlos Arvanitis); Destination resilience & competitiveness: understanding the linkages between government initiatives, resilience & competitiveness (Erisher Woyo); Tacit Hierarchising within Online Communities of Hillwalkers (David M Brown & Sharon Wilson); Extended Reality Technologies as a tool for managing crises & shaping tourism safety perceptions (Christina Karadimitriou & Eleni Michopoulou); Index

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Book SynopsisEmotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to manage your own emotions and those of others. It is one of the most underrated skills in business and work that anyone can develop and use effectively. In this book, a leading EQ practitioner with more than 25 years commercial experience shows you how to develop your self-awareness, social skills, self-management and ambition in order to cope with and succeed in your work and career. The great news is that your EQ – unlike your IQ – is not fixed, it can be developed over time with a bit of guidance and practice. The Emotional Intelligence Book provides practical and authoritative advice on making a difference through EQ. Part of the Concise Advice series. Each book in this smart and stylish series contains simple ideas, tips and visual guides to help readers make sense of hot topics. The series addresses the various challenges that one faces in daily working life. Topics include storytelling, strategic thinking, successful networking and presenting. Concise Advice expert-authors dissect, simplify and explain topics to help readers make more of an impact in business, future-proof their work, become more mindful or just get through more tasks each day. Each book is short, snappy and easy-to-read, yet bursting with instantly actionable takeaways. The topics have been carefully selected to form a collection of thought-provoking, yet practical guides that will make a vital addition to any savvy business person’s briefcase, handbag, bookcase or board room. The series is stylish and elegant in design, based on the famous Moleskin notebook format. It makes a great gift as a single item or an entire series.

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Book Synopsis'A penetrating portrait of one of the most significant companies in the world' Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill'With the skill of an award-winning journalist, Horwitz details the inner workings of the tech giant and their outcomes...A must-read.' Scott Galloway, bestselling author of The Four Facebook had a problem. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world, extolling its products for connecting people. But as a succession of scandals rocked Facebook from 2016, some began to question whether the company could control, or even understood, its own platforms.As Facebook employees searched for answers, what they uncovered was worse than they could've imagined. The problems ran far deeper than politics. Facebook was peddling and amplifying anger, looking the other way at human trafficking, enabling drug cartels and authoritarians and allowing VIP users to break the platform's supposedly inviolable rules.It turned out to be eminently possible to isolate many of Facebook's worst problems, but whenever employees offered solutions their work was consistently delayed, watered down or stifled by a company that valued user engagement above all else. The only option left was to blow the whistle.In Broken Code, award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz tells the riveting inside story of these employees and their explosive discoveries, uncovering the shocking cost of Facebook's blind ambition in the process.Trade ReviewIn trying to connect the world, Facebook tore at the fabric of society. With the skill of an award-winning journalist, through fascinating personal angles, Horwitz details the inner workings of the tech giant and their outcomes — misinformation, teen depression, and political division. A must-read. -- Scott Galloway, bestselling author of The FourA dogged and meticulous reporter, Jeff Horwitz is at the height of his powers in Broken Code, a penetrating portrait of one of the most significant companies in the world and of one of the great new challenges of this technological era. -- Ronan Farrow, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling authorA well-researched, disturbing study of a tech behemoth characterized by arrogance, hypocrisy, and greed * Kirkus *Jeff Horwitz has written a blockbuster expose of Facebook, the notoriously secretive social media giant whose benign mission—connecting people—masked a growing propensity towards some of humanity’s worst impulses. Populated by concerned, brave employees who defied their employer and leaked thousands of pages of internal documents to Horwitz, with the imperious, remote Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants at the center, Broken Code is brilliant reporting and a page-turning narrative of immense importance -- James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author

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Book SynopsisWonder Boy is a riveting investigation into the turbulent life of Zappos visionary Tony Hsieh, whose radical business strategies revolutionized both the tech world and corporate culture, based on rigorous research and reporting by two seasoned journalists. Tony Hsieh's first successful venture was in middle school, selling personalized buttons. At Harvard, he made a profit compiling and selling study guides. In 1998, Hsieh sold his first company to Microsoft for $265 million. About a decade later, he sold online shoe empire Zappos to Amazon for $1.2 billion. The secret to his success? Making his employees happy. At its peak, Zappos's employee-friendly culture was so famous across the tech industry that it became one of the hardest companies to get hired at, and CEOs from other companies regularly toured the headquarters. But Hsieh's vision for change didn't stop with corporate culture: Hsieh went on to move Zappos headquarters to Las Vegas and personally funded a nine-figure campaign to revitalize the city's historic downtown area. There, he could be found living in an Airstream and chatting up the locals. But Hsieh's forays into community-revival projects spun out of control as his issues with mental health and addiction ramped up, creating the opportunity for more enablers than friends to stand in his mercurial good graces. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with a wide range of people whose lives Hsieh touched, journalists Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans craft a rich portrait of a man who was plagued by the pressure to succeed but who never lost his generous spirit.Trade ReviewA story of the extraordinary business success of Tony Hsieh. In this cautionary tale, reporters Au-Yeung and Jeans unsparingly shed light on what went wrong. -- Financial Times * Best Summer Books of 2023 *A heartbreaking and extraordinary account of a heartbreaking and extraordinary man. Hsieh was an innovative business leader, but he was also frenetic, generous, difficult, and tormented. His rise and fall is a quintessential American tragedy. -- Max Chafkin * author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power *A captivating story about the combustible mixture of genius, ambition, ego, empathy, wealth, and intoxicants in the turbocharged environment of the technology elite. Revelatory and entertaining. -- Alec Ross * author of The Raging 2020s *Wonder Boy is so much more than a biography... it's full of lessons for anyone interested in psychology, business, or social dynamics. Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans approach their subject as investigative reporters, yet they remain full of empathy and compassion. -- Dan Alexander * author of White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency into a Business *

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Book Synopsis'Reason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place' Hannah FryWhy do our friends have more friends than we do? How do you book the best available seats on a plane? And if jogging for ten minutes adds eight minutes to our life expectancy, should we still go jogging?The ability to reason is one of our most undervalued skills. In everyday life, the key is to put yourself in the shoes of a clever competitor and think about how they might respond. Whether you are dealing with events on the scale of the Cuban missile crisis or letting go of anger, leading economist Professor Kaushik Basu shows how game theory - the logic of social situations - can help us achieve better outcomes and lasting happiness.Full of fascinating thought experiments and puzzles, Reason to Be Happy is a paean to the power of rationality. If you want to have a good life and even make the world a better place, you can start by thinking clearly.Trade ReviewReason to Be Happy is a wise and witty book that shows how thinking clearly can help us find happiness in our daily lives, get more of what we want, and even make the world a better place. -- Professor Hannah Fry, author of Hello WorldCompelling... Eminently readable... The economist makes brilliant points and readers will learn a lot. -- Chris Stokel-Walker * New Scientist *

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Book SynopsisSince the invention of the iPhone and App Store, Apple has built a near unassailable market power, controlling not only commerce, but also culture, and - increasingly - the flow of ideas. In response, a loose rebel alliance of tech entrepreneurs has formed to lay siege to Apple, bringing together X's Elon Musk, WeChat's Pony Ma, Spotify's Daniel Ek and Epic Games' Tim Sweeney. In the trenches of popular opinion and now in the courtrooms of Europe and the United States, this rebellion aims to tear down Apple's walls and dismantle its monopoly. The Siege of Apple weaves together the story of Apple's rise and reign with the political and international forces arrayed against it in the fight over control of the global digital economy. The stakes couldn't be higher.

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Book SynopsisThe continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict—sometimes referred to as the ‘first genocide of the twenty-first century’—for those living through it: those who stayed put, those who fled from rural areas to towns, those who moved to refugee camps, and those who fought. Telling the story of everyday survival on the Chad–Sudan border, an area central to state politics in the larger region, her account sheds light on how people create belonging, exchange knowledge, develop new practices and build futures in the face of extreme uncertainty. Departing from the focus on large-scale humanitarian and military interventions associated with ‘states of emergency’, Behrends highlights the forms of cooperation and mutual knowledge production that emerge on the ground in these lifeworlds in crisis. She combines meticulous ethnographic description with theoretically grounded arguments to offer a pioneering study of how individuals have anticipated, survived and adapted to recurring crises and war in one of the world’s most economically marginalised regions.Trade Review'This scholarly book discusses the Chadian crisis, exploring topics such as war, security, displacement and mineral resources. With intelligence and empathy, Andrea Behrends offers us a vision of what it is to live in a world in crisis.' -- Fatou Sow, Professor of Sociology, Cheikh Anta Diop University'"Lifeworlds in Crisis" reveals the lives of people in refugee camps in Sudan and Chad through the objective, informed eye of an anthropologist. A masterly book that deconstructs the myths of humanitarian interventions in Africa.' -- Babacar Fall, Professor of History, Cheikh Anta Diop University'While most refugee scholars study those who left, Behrends listens to those who stay. This book offers a unique window into a world that is constantly threatened by war—a magnificent analysis of lifeworlds at the lower end of global capitalist hierarchies.' -- Joël Glasman, Professor in African History, University of Bayreuth'As the regions that Behrends scrutinises in this book are once again in turmoil, the fate of thousands of people driven from their homes at stake, from a Chadian perspective, this is poignantly topical.' -- Remadji Hoinathy, anthropologist and researcher, Institute for Security Studies

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Book SynopsisThe North Coast Journey In Your Pocket is the essential guide to driving the 500 miles around the Scottish Coast. The front has a full route overview map with main tourist attractions. Ten detailed routes are shown on the reverse clearly showing petrol stations, EV charging points and tourist attractions. Both sides highlight alternative routes for large vehicles and mileage pins between various points ensuring that you don''t get stranded! Don''t leave home without it!Featuring:Full 500 mile driving route overview map at 6.2 miles to the inchTen detailed individual route maps at 3.6 miles to the inchPetrol stations, EV charging points and tourist attractions shownAlternative route for large vehicles clearly marked

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Book SynopsisThe Outer Hebrides In Your Pocket is our new essential map for visiting these beautiful islands. Exceptionally clear road mapping of the Outer Hebrides shows main tourist attractions, EV charge points and a full index to places & tourist attractions. Lewis & Harris are on the front and North & South Uist down to Berneray are on the reverse. A useful travel information section is also included allowing visitors to plan their perfect trip. Don''t leave home without it!Featuring:Exceptionally clear, fully indexed road mappingEV charging points and tourist attractions shownTravel information section

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Book SynopsisThese days, regardless of whether a book is self-published or traditionally published, there will be an expectation on the author to take an active role in marketing their book. Based on a series of interviews with successful authors from both sides of the publishing divide and both sides of the pond, Lynn lays out in detail the marketing strategies that have worked for them, alongside an explanation of how book marketing works based on her own long-standing career as a senior marketing exec. From developing social media tactics and arranging promotional events to handling press and trying to start viral campaigns, Lynn offers practical advice designed to help an author find a book marketing strategy that best works for them, based on their personal strengths and budget.Trade Review'So, you've written and published... now what? You read this manual! It's a fantastic resource for anyone looking to get their writing in front of more people. Morrison turns the overwhelming task of marketing into bite-size tips and tutorials that anyone can implement' —Stephanie Jankowski, author of 'Schooled'

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Book SynopsisTheoretically there has never been a better time to become a published writer. But for anyone looking to venture into today's publishing landscape, it can be a daunting prospect - self-publish? Look for an agent? Go direct to an indie publisher? And what exactly is digital-first publishing? 'How to Be Published' is the first book to offer an unbiased guide to the pros and cons of self-publishing versus traditional publishing, along with all the myriad options in between - helping an author navigate the complex world of publishing and find the best path for them, their book and their writing aspirations.Trade Review'So, you've written and published... now what? You read this manual! It's a fantastic resource for anyone looking to get their writing in front of more people. Morrison turns the overwhelming task of marketing into bite-size tips and tutorials that anyone can implement' —Stephanie Jankowski, author of Schooled (Page Street Publishing, January 2020); 'Navigating the murky waters of first-time publishing can be intimidating. I wish I'd had a guide like this when I was first deciding between self and traditional publishing' —Mary Widdicks, author of the 'Mermaid Asylum' series

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Book SynopsisRobin Murray: Selected Writings demonstrates the breadth of Murray's intellectual curiosity and his political commitment to finding new ways of organising the economy and society. A thinker at the heart of left-wing thought and contributor to the seminal 1968 May Day Manifesto, Robin Murray's pioneering work encompasses diverse areas including fair trade, waste management, and, crucially, the regeneration of London via the London Industrial Strategy of radical local authority the GLC in the 1980s. Much of Murray's work has striking contemporary relevance, for example his passion for ecological sustainability, co-operatives and fair trade, and his analysis of the developing 'attention economy' and its impact on a new era of digital platforms. This collection has been curated to showcase the many contexts within which Robin Murray's boundless energy, enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity saw him collaborating. Murray's work exemplifies how cooperation can bring about real social change; this book will appeal to students, policymakers and anyone interested in radical social transformation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Michael Rustin Post Fordism Benetton Britain The state after Henry New directions in municipal socialism Multinational Capitalism Multinationals and social control Fair Trade Raising the bar or directing the flood? Waste and Recycling Creating wealth from waste Cooperatives Taking stock, looking forward Social Economy Danger and opportunity: crisis and the new social economy Platform Economy Interview with Jeremy Gilbert and Andrew Goffey

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Book SynopsisThere is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain. Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the victories, one major player has been written out of this history: the unions. This book fills the gap. From the first strike action organised by trade union members to save the job of a victimised gay colleague in the 1970s, through the mutual solidarity of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, to the Trades Union Congress taking the initiative to save London Pride in 2012, and much more, trade unions have contributed immensely to the successes achieved, all the while protecting jobs and securing equality for thousands of LGBT working people. Peter Purton was the TUC’s first LGBT officer. His book, of interest to everyone interested in equality and trade union history, reveals how LGBT trade union members organised to win recognition, then support, and how trade unions supported the struggles of LGBT communities in Britain and across the world. This is an inspiring tale, and in the dangerous world of the twenty-first century, it is a warning call to the LGBT community and those supporting it, to wake up to new threats, to remember how past victories were achieved. The labour movement has much potential as an active participant in the unfinished fight for equality, but this book shows the need for mutual engagement to make change possible.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements and bibliographical references A note on language Foreword, Frances O’Grady Foreword, Maria Exall Introduction: Champions of Equality 1. Early interactions with the labour movement 2. Coming together in the 1970s 3. Breakthrough: the early 1980s 4. Old and new issues, continued progress and laying firm foundations 5. Trade union champions of equality 6. Global outreach 7. LGBT+, trade unions, and new challenges Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisWho were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, their work and their trade unions. Striking Women is centred on two industrial disputes, the famous Grunwick strike (1976-78) and the Gate Gourmet dispute that erupted in 2005. Focusing on these two events, the book explores the nature of South Asian women’s contribution to the struggles for workers’ rights in the UK labour market. The authors examine histories of migration and settlement of two different groups of women of South Asian origin, and how this history, their gendered, classed and racialised inclusion in the labour market, the context of industrial relations in the UK in the two periods and the nature of the trade union movement shaped the trajectories and the outcomes of the two disputes. This is the first account based on the voices of the women involved. Drawing on life/work history interviews with thirty-two women who participated in the two disputes, as well as interviews with trade union officials, archival material and employment tribunal proceedings, the authors explore the motivations, experiences and implications of these events for their political and social identities.Table of Contents1. Striking women from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet 2. Beyond the stereotypes: South Asian women workers 3. Histories of migration and settlement in the UK 4. Everyday accounts of resilience, struggle and resistance in a gendered and racialised labour market 5. `We are the lions, Mr Manager’: The Grunwick dispute 6. `You have to fight for your right … no one gives it to you on a plate’: The Gate Gourmet dispute 7. Minority women and unionisation in a changing economy – where are we now? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTony Christie has topped the charts in countries all around the world with `Is This The Way To Amarillo', `I Did What I Did For Maria', `Avenues & Alleyways' and has achieved critical acclaim for his more recent works with Richard Hawley and Jarvis Cocker. Tony's albums have achieved several Gold and Platinum discs and he was the only singer in 2005 to have a single release and album simultaneously at Number 1. Now for the first time Tony tells of his illustrious, colourful career that started in the small South Yorkshire town of Conisbrough and today sees him as a singing legend with fans throughout the globe. It is a story packed with emotional and financial highs and lows, fantastic characters and Tony's deep-rooted love of family. If you thought you knew Tony Christie you will now as he opens up about his loves, his sorrows and his amazing life! TONY CHRISTIE The Song Interpreter is the official autobiography of an icon in popular music whose voice sounds as good today as when he first hit the charts in 1971.

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Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion that development is best summed up as the expansion of freedom, Sen examines traditional definitions and understandings of the term. He says people tend to think of freedoms as economic (the freedom to enter into market exchanges) or political (the freedom to vote and be an active citizen), and tries to understand why the definition has been so narrow hitherto. He concludes that an evaluation of true freedom must necessarily include the freedom to access social services such as healthcare, sanitation and nutrition, just as much as it must acknowledge economic and political freedoms. Evaluating the relevance of the current thinking behind development, Sen concludes that the term ‘freedom’ cannot simply be about income. In many ways, measuring income does not account for various “unfreedoms” (manmade or natural bars to wellbeing) that hinder development. Sen’s evaluation is all the more powerful for its clarity: "The freedom-centered perspective has a generic similarity to the common concern with "quality of life."

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Book SynopsisAdam Smith’s 1776 Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – more often known simply as The Wealth of Nations – is one of the most important books in modern intellectual history.Considered one of the fundamental works of classical economics, it is also a prime example of the enduring power of good reasoning, and the ability of reasoning to drive critical thinking forward. Adam Smith was attempting to answer two complex questions: where does a nation’s wealth come from, and what can governments do to increase it most efficiently? At the time, perhaps the most widely accepted theory, mercantilism, argued that a nation’s wealth was literally the amount of gold and silver it held in reserve. Smith, meanwhile, weighed the evidence and came to a different conclusion: a nation’s wealth, he argued, lay in its ability to encourage economic activity, largely without government interference. Underlying this radical redefinition was the revolutionary concept that powered Smith’s reasoning and which continues to exert a vast influence on economic thought: the idea that markets are self-regulating. Pitting his arguments against those of his predecessors, Smith carefully and persuasively reasoned out a strong case for free markets that reshaped government economic policies in the 19th-century and continues to shape global prosperity today.Table of ContentsWays in to the Text Who was John Collins? What does The Wealth of Nations Say? Why does The Wealth of Nations Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

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