David Stewart: 76 books
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...
by Robin Starr Minthorn, Heather J. Shotton, Charlotte Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Indigenous students remain one of the least represented populations in higher education. They continue to account for only one percent of the total post-secondary student population, and this lack of representation is felt in multiple ways beyond enrollment. Less research money is spent studying Indigenous...
by David Sayers, Murray Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Bradt's Azores guidebook is the only comprehensive guidebook to the nine-island archipelago, a nature-lovers' wilderness perched at the western extremity of Europe in the mid-Atlantic, and one of the best places in the world for whale watching. This new edition continues to provide the strong geological...
Orange Chinook
Politics in the New Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
In 2015, the New Democratic Party won an unprecedented victory in Alberta. Unseating the Progressive Conservatives-who had won every provincial election since 1971-they formed an NDP government for the first time in the history of the province. Orange Chinook is the first scholarly analysis of this...
Graphic Design School
The Principles and Practice of Graphic Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The essential introduction to graphic design for the digital era
Graphic Design School provides a comprehensive introduction to visual design for modern media. From the fundamentals of design to advanced techniques and problem solving, this book is packed with practical advice and tutorials...
Crimson Snow
Britain's First Disaster in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
"We must see what the morning brings and then think what can be done," said Major General Elphinstone, when told of the rampaging mob outside his residency in Kabul, 1841. Was former Prime Minister Tony Blair wrong in 2001 to allow Britain to be drawn into a fourth conflict in Afghanistan,...
Human Operators Manual
How Feelings Work - A Psychological Primer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The Human Operators Manual: How Feelings Work—A Psychological Primer describes how feelings work and how people function internally. I studied psychology for over 20 years, and it became clear to me that a lack of simple information regarding feelings and how they operate are to blame for a tremendous...
by Paul Whiteley, Harold D. Clarke, David Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Affluence, Austerity and Electoral Change in Britain investigates the political economy of party support for British political parties since Tony Blair led New Labour to power in 1997. Using valence politics models of electoral choice and marshalling an unprecedented wealth of survey data collected...
by Ian Stewart, David Tall
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This new edition of a classic textbook develops complex analysis from the established theory of real analysis by emphasising the differences that arise as a result of the richer geometry of the complex plane. Key features of the authors' approach are to use simple topological ideas to translate visual...
Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy
Issues in American Health Care Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years. It goes beyond mind-numbing quantitative data to probe the underlying causes of the nation's difficulties. Three broad questions are addressed:...
The Marketing Pathfinder
Key Concepts and Cases for Marketing Strategy and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Dozens of lively international case studies that help readers put core marketing principles in a real-world context
From market research to positioning and brand management to customer relations, marketing is the engine that drives innovation and growth in the modern business organization....
by David W. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2019
This book is about linking marketing activities and outcomes to the financial performance of the organization. The theme of the book is that the marketing function must justify its activities and use of resources in terms of its financial contributions to the firm. More specifically, the book focuses...
Security, Development and the Fragile State
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book provides theoretical clarity about the concepts of failed and fragile states, which have emerged strongly since the 9/11 attacks.
Recent contributions often see the fragile state as either a problem of development or of security. This volume argues that that neither perspective on...
by David V. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Failing to find suitors for their fickle daughter, the king and queen hold a great contest, with the victor gaining the right to marry the princess. To the chagrin of the king, a simple farmer mysteriously gains entry into the contest and sets about winning all of the events through unconventional...