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This book provides business leaders, managers, and consultants with tools that help strategize the future along with illuminating the past. It is an attempt to show how independent-thinking managers, using basic economic tools, can track the three elements that together drive the world's complex and somewhat unstable economic system-minds, markets, and money. Once they understand these three elements, they can transform global risk into...
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Focusing on risky interactions, the book centres on those interactions that threaten identities and relationships and sometimes careers such as: practising dissent; repairing broken relationships; managing privacy; responding to harassment; offering criticism and communicating emotion. In doing so the text helps students understand types of work situations that are both ethically challenging and personally risky while presenting a theoretical...
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Written by one of the leading international authorities on the sociology of race and sport, this is the first book to address sport's role in 'the making of race', the place of sport within black diasporic struggles for freedom and equality, and the contested location of sport in relation to the politics of recognition within contemporary multicultural societies. Race, Sport and Politics shows how, during the first decades of the twentieth...
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While most coaching books focus on performance problems, The Coaching Manager presents a developmental coaching methodology that managers can use to help skilled and competent employees excel to even higher levels, experience greater engagement with their organizations, and at the same time promote their personal development. It is based on the experience of practising managers, drawing on research, teaching and consulting contacts with over 4000...
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Making Sense of Statistical Methods in Social Research is a critical introduction to the use of statistical methods in social research. It provides a unique approach to statistics that concentrates on helping social researchers think about the conceptual basis for the statistical methods they're using. Whereas other statistical methods books instruct students in how to get through the statistics-based elements of their chosen course with as...
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For students studying psychology for the first time Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction represents a fresh alternative to the range of expensive, US-oriented titles on the market that are full of topics you need but also many you don't need on your course. This UK team-authored textbook is written by psychologists who specialize in each of the subject areas covered in their research and teaching. Spanning 18 chapters, but concentrating...
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Key Concepts in Operations Management introduces a selection of key concepts and techniques in the field. Concise, informative and contemporary, with consideration given to explaining the principles of the topic, as well as the relevant debates and literature, the book contains over 50 concept entries including: Operations Strategy, Managing Innovation, Process Modeling, New Product Development, Forecasting, Planning and Control, Supply Chain...
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Comprising theoretical and empirical perspectives and drawn from international journals with a global focus, this four-volume set presents the key papers in macro-organizational and micro-organizational studies and their implications on public administration. Divided into two sections, the first part of this collection adopts a sector-wide focus, concentrating on the issues of governance, politics, markets and competition, regulation and...
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Providing students with a single source from which they can learn and develop the wide range of skills necessary to achieve good and high grades in psychology, this guide will replace students' stress and fear of essays, reports, statistics and exams with a sense of confidence, enthusiasm and even fun. Sieglinde McGee presents indispensable instruction, advice and tips on note making and note taking, evaluating academic literature, writing...
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Building on the popularity of the first edition, published in 2000, the Second Edition brings together revised and new, original chapters from an outstanding team of contributors providing an authoritative overview of the theoretical foundations and current status of thinking on topics central to the discipline and practice of marketing. A marketing theory text written specifically for students Provides an introduction and overview of the role...
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This is the second volume of high quality papers on the current challenges in the field of cognitive science, linking it to various interfacing disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy. The papers can be categorized into the four important domains of Learning and Memory, Perception and Attention, Time Perception and Language, Cognition and Development. The first section focuses on basic cognitive...
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The first edition of this book was published at a time when only a few banks (mostly foreign) provided Internet banking services in India. Today many banks offer these facilities to their customers and even some medium sized cooperative banks are venturing into adopting core banking solutions with the promise of migration to the internet. The second edition of E-Finance focuses on system improvements, marketing, customer services, security and...
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Unique in its field, the second edition of this respected book continues to underpin teaching in a positive, structured, and proactive manner. Sylvia Lucas revises and expands on the original work of Marjorie Boxall. It includes: - A new chapter on nurture groups and pedagogy, child development theories and brain research. - Updated examples such as the Every Child Matters agenda, an inclusive curriculum and schools' responses, 'and a...
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Great staff make great schools, and by choosing your staff carefully and helping them to develop, you will make a significant impact on the lives of the young people in your care. The school workforce isn't only teachers these days, and good staff development must take into account everybody working in the setting. As a practical guide to developing your staff, this book offers an inspirational and exciting view of the transformative power of...
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How have professional communicators transformed the business of politics? How do political bodies use the media to sell domestic and foreign policies to the public? This fully revised new edition of The Media and Political Process assesses the impact of spin doctoring and media activity in liberal democracies that are just as concerned with impression management and public relations as with policy. Political processes never stand still, and this...
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There is likely to be at least one student in any mainstream class with ADHD, an evolving concept that affects pupils' learning, concentration, behaviour and social relationships. In order to offer effective support and maximize the learning potential of all students in your classroom you will need to understand the different needs of all children, but perhaps especially those with ADHD.
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The increasingly important topic of comparative criminal justice is examined from an original and insightful perspective by David Nelken, one of the top scholars in the field. The author looks at why we should study crime and criminal justice in a comparative and international context, and the difficulties we encounter when we do. Drawing on experience of teaching and research in a variety of countries, the author offers multiple illustrations...
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Providing a complete introduction to qualitative methods in psychology, this textbook is ideal reading for anyone doing a research methods course in psychology that includes qualitative approaches or someone planning a practical project using qualitative methods. Not just another research methods book, Doing Qualitative Research in Psychology is more a 'how to do it' manual, linked with a specifically designed set of digitised video recordings,...
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Do you have EAL students in your class? Would you like guidance on teaching your subject to EAL students? With linguistic diversity on the increase, teachers from all subject areas and levels of school education are working with students for whom English is an additional language, helping them to develop their English for learning purposes. This book provides an invaluable and accessible resource for working with EAL students. It brings together...
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Designed for introductory undergraduate courses in two- and four-year programs, Introduction to Criminology, 7th Edition is a streamlined, focused introduction to the study of criminology with more attention to crime typologies than other texts, plus Crime Files boxes that offer real-world, well-known examples of the crime types discussed. Written by an active researcher, this student-praised text covers the basic criminological theories,...
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 Od 10 lutego 2011 r pod adresem internetowym www.krytyka-architektury.info można pobrać drugi numer cyfrowego magazynu architektonicznego pt. "Krytyka Architektury". Kwartalnik dostępny jest również w wersji wydruku na życzenie na specjalne zamówienie czytelników.
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Wydawnictwo Hachette Polska przedstawia niezwykle poruszającą opowieść o dziewczynce imieniem Dawn. Sprawiała ona wrażenie grzecznej i nieśmiałej, w rzeczywistości była wewnętrznie poraniona.
To malowanki sprawiają, że najmłodsi lepiej się uczą, łatwiej i szybciej przyswajają materiał edukacyjny, wykazują się większą inteligencją, są bardziej kreatywne w rozwiązywaniu zadań i problemów, mają większe zaufanie do swoich możliwości.