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Bigger is better turned out to be another 20th century myth. Larry Farrell has eloquently described why."-Peter Drucker, The 20th Century's Greatest Management Thinker"If you want to learn about international entrepreneurism, Larry Farrell is your man."-Tom Peters, The World's All-time Best Selling Business AuthorThere's nothing like a severe, unexpected, worldwide recession to get one's entrepreneurial juices flowing. After the initial shock ...

How did Macedonia attain its status as the only Yugoslav republic to achieve a nonviolent transition to independence in the early 1990s? And why did the initial peace fail to endure? Sasho Ripiloski traces Macedonia's peaceful extrication from the Yugoslav morass and then examines the new country's subsequent state-building efforts and offers an explanation for its later collapse into violence.

Both concise and comprehensive, this engaging text addresses the complex, interdisciplinary nature of

A guide to give you a better understanding of your dog. Solve problems without punishment. Teach your dog in a way that he understands, rather than expect him to understand in the way that we do.

This book examines how exotic materials were exchanged and used across the Mediterranean from the Neolithic era to the Iron Age, focusing on the Bronze Age. A variety of materials and interpretative approaches are presented through several case studies. These emphasise how the value of exotic materials depended on the context in which they were consumed. The book firmly departs from assumptions of fixed categories such as prestige items or cor...

In Journeys, noted art historian and curator Yashodhara Dalmia maps the developments in Indian art through her conversations with acclaimed Indian artists from across four generations. With more than 200 paintings, the two volumes include interviews of 30 Indian artists whose works have profoundly influenced the course of modern Indian art.

A profusely illustrated, detailed look at this British icon.

Explores the imagery of woman in Mexican art and visual culture. Examines how woman signified a variety of concepts, from modernity to authenticity and revolutionary social transformation, both before and after the Mexican Revolution.

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An international collaboration of lecturers, practitioners and researchers. Each chapter considers a topic relevant to normalising maternity care. Topics include: routine interventions . epidurals . physiological third and fourth stages . longer labours and approaches to monitoring / intervention . most effective models of care . birth centres . home birth . mental health . doulas . reasons for intervention . links between research and practic...

This book examines the true underlying casue of cardiovascular disease: inflammation and oxidation in the walls of arteries. Information on treatment and prevention focuses on safe alternatives to conventional drugs and surgery. The book shows readers how to stay heart healthy by making simple dietary changes, including reducing sugar intake, taking in adequate levels of B vitamins, as well as vitamins C and E, and supplementing the diet with ...

What is it to feel homeless? How does it feel to be without the orienting geography of home? This book uniquely explores the embodied, emotional experiences of homelessness. In doing so, Robinson reveals much about existing gaps in service responses, in community perceptions, and in the ways in which homelessness most often becomes visible as a problem for policy makers.

Thoroughbred racing was one of the first major sports in early America. Horse racing thrived because it was a high-status sport that attracted the interest of both old and new money. Riess narrates the history of horse racing, detailing how and why New York became the national capital of the sport from the mid-1860s until the early twentieth century. The sport's survival depended upon the racetrack being the nexus between politicians and organ...

Leading intellectual figures in the school reform movement, all of them favoring approaches centered around the value of competition and choice,  outline different visions for the goal of choice-oriented educational reform and the best means for achieving it. This volume takes the reader inside the movement to empower parents with choice, airing the more interesting debates that the reformers have with one another over the direction and strate...

Collections of photographs from the first half of the 20th century, taken from the Tom Phillips archive and offering a fascinating social history.

Navigating the New Pedagogy: Six Principles that Transform is written to give teachers a vision of current, best 21st century classroom practice. Teachers, administrators, and education professors will find ideas that will help transform classrooms into positive, productive learning environments.

Philosopher J. Budziszewski asks how the knowledge of good is related to the knowledge of God, how things that seem to run against the grain of human nature can become "second nature", and whether natural law can be reconciled with Darwinian evolution. Turning to politics, he takes up such topics as who counts as a human person, whether human dignity is compatible with capital punishment, and how an ersatz state religion can be built in the na...

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The Peirene Fountain is distinguished by its long use, service to a great ancient city, and early identification as the site where Pegasus landed and was tamed by Bellerophon. Highlights include the identification of the so-called Cyclopean Fountain as the sacred nymphaeum of Peirene, an analysis of the Romanization of Peirene, a reconsideration of wall paintings and a Scylla sculptural group of the 2nd century A.D., the reassignment of Peiren...

James Rumley was nearly fifty years old when the Civil War reached the remote outer banks community of Beaufort, North Carolina. Comfortably employed as clerk of the Superior Court of Carteret County, he could only watch as a Union fleet commanded by General Ambrose Burnside snaked its way up the Neuse River in March 1862 and took control of the area. In response to laws enacted by occupying forces, Rumley took the Oath of Allegiance, stood as...