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The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This pioneering three-part work is the definitive history of Irish Republican prisoners detained in England’s maximum security prison ‘dispersal system’ during the entire period of the ‘Troubles’. A resurgence of IRA violence in Britain resulted in a steady stream of prisoners that ensured...
Chrysalis Effect
The Metamorphosis of Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The Chrysalis Effect shows that the chaos and conflict experienced worldwide today are the result of a global cultural metamorphosis, one which has accelerated so rapidly in recent decades as to provoke fierce resistance. Many of the changes that have taken place in the last fifty years – the feminist...
by Len Oakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
The idea that a single person can change the course of nations, peoples, and movements through the force of their own personality is something many may find fascinating and more than a little scary. How does such a thing happen? While much has been written about the lives of charismatic characters,...
The Anger Fallacy
Uncovering the Irrationality of the Angry Mindset
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
A life without anger is attainable — if you understand The Anger Fallacy.
Anger is everywhere — behind everything from road rage to wrap rage, domestic violence to international conflicts. People cling to their anger, as a tool of influence and a driver of revenge. But is anger really...
In Defence of Britain's Middle Eastern Empire
A Life of Sir Gilbert Clayton
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) described his war-time chief as "the perfect leader", a man who "worked by influence rather than by loud direction. … He was like water, or permeating oil, creeping silently and insistently through everything. It was not possible to say where Clayton was...
Distressed or Deliberately Defiant?
Managing challenging student behaviour due to trauma and disorganised attachment
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
It is not unusual for educators today, whether in the early childhood, primary or secondary sectors, to be confronted with severely challenging student behaviour — students who fly into unexplained violent and oppositional outbursts with little warning; who respond poorly to tried-and-true behaviour...
Vulture Cultures
How to stop them ravaging your organisation's performance, people, profit and public image
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Vulture Cultures is a provocative and entertaining book that articulates, in vivid detail, the tell-tale signs and symptoms of destructive workplaces. From the incompetent to the incomprehensible, the disruptive to the dastardly, this book will explain how bad behaviour gains a foothold and what perpetuates...
by Kathryn McEwen
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Our resilience, or capacity to bounce back and even thrive in pressured times, is critical in workplaces today. With higher workloads, declining resources and frequent change, together with the hectic pace of personal lives, resilience is almost a key to survival. While strategies to build resilience...
by Moira Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Employers and managers have a duty of care as part of occupational health and safety laws to prevent hazards that might contribute to workplace injuries. This book shows you how to meet these responsibilities using practical, sensible strategies based on a framework of:
• understanding what...
Societies of Social Innovation
Voices and Arguments
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Social innovation is a concept that is associated with a range of experiences, dimensions, and fields within the language of management and economics and in the social and productive uses of technology, and this study seeks to clarify the meanings and uses of social innovation in contemporary societies....
Spas
The Cultural Economy of Hospitality, Magic and the Senses
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
From 17th-century Sweden to the present time, this remarkable volume provides a historical perspective on the manner in which hospitality has developed from a private right and obligation to a commercialized product. Examining the ways religion, belief, and notions of health and wellness have been...
Shanghai, Past and Present
A Concise Socio-Economic History, 18422012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to become one of the world’s best-known finance and industry hubs. As China’s largest city, Shanghai today plays a central economic role, much as it did in the 1920s. The author provides a concise diachronic survey...
Media Events in Web 2.0 China
Interventions of Online Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This book is among the first to use a “media events” framework to examine China’s Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China’s media events through the parameter of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes of online activism in...
Sword and Shield of Zion
The Israel Air Force in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1948–2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The Israel Air Force (IAF) has accumulated as much battle experience as any air force in the world during the post-Second World War era, and it has recorded many outstanding accomplishments throughout a seemingly endless string of interstate wars, asymmetrical wars, counterinsurgency campaigns, and...