John Hendry: 9 books

In his mind-body-spirit autobiography John Hendry trawls his seventy years and comes up with significant experiences that trigger insights and reflections. Alongside these are wondrous illustrations illuminating his travels in Libya under Gaddafi and India, epigrams that are occasionally Wildean –...

John Hendry, a leading management scholar, looks at the nature and practice of Management in this Very Short Introduction. Tracing the development of management over the last century, he looks not only at what managers do, but also provides an insight to modern management theory. He considers the...

In this book by John Hendry the author explains in a straightforward way how reason works together with our other faculties. He explores what it can do for us in different fields of enquiry, how and where it runs out on us, what the practical and political implications are, and how we might reasonably respond.

Ethics and Finance: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance. Drawing carefully on ethical theory and with frequent use of case studies, it includes an analysis of the global financial system and its regulation and control,...

Held Back by Nothing is possibly one of the greatest inspirational books ever written to help parents of children with a disability. The story and the message is timeless. It is based on the life of his youngest son born with cerebral palsy. The book offers tips and real life situations to help give...

This focused, practical guide to key management principles will help managers at all levels to function successfully. Based on the idea that managing is more about common sense and the ability to treat employees with humanity rather than the need to have specialist knowledge and expertise, this book...

The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year. Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British...

Safeguarding Children and Schools explains how schools are able to contribute to keeping children safe from harm and promoting their welfare, in line with Government Every Child Matters guidelines. The contributors, who are all experts in the field of child protection, put the potentially daunting...

Philosophy of Chemistry investigates the foundational concepts and methods of chemistry, the science of the nature of substances and their transformations. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of chemistry ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists...