Written by Richard Sharf, this new Student Manual provides students with additional resources to solidify key concepts, apply and understand their own career development from a theoretical perspective, and learn useful client exercises whether doing practice or working on-the-job.
This book by the world's leading authority on global social policy examines why and how the Social Protection Floor became ILO, UN and G20 policy and how the World Bank and IMF took steps to lay its foundation.
Supporting Student Diversity in Higher Education' is a practical manual that is designed to help managers, academics and members of the professional service teams within universities, to recruit and support a diverse student body at the same time as delivering a quality student experience in a challenging and pressured environment.
The island of Bali has long been characterized in the West as the last paradise on earth, but there is far more to this small Indonesian province. Bali Tourism presents an enlightening ethnographic study of some of the most important iconsfor tourists and locals alikein Balinese culture and society and explores the growth of this island as an exotic vacation destination. In addition, it offers a firsthand look at many aspects of daily life, a ...
Smell and taste are our most misunderstood senses. Given a choice between losing our sense of smell and taste, or our senses of sight and hearing, most people nominate the former, rather than the latter. Yet our sense of smell and taste has the power to stir up memories, alter our mood and even influence our behaviour. In The Neuropsychology of Smell and Taste, Neil Martin provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the role of the brain in...
This collection is designed to reflect the main trends in scholarship on the Roman historian of the early empire, Tacitus, particularly as they have developed over the last century. Covering the whole of Tacitus' works, it begins with a comprehensive introduction which sets the selected scholarship and Roman author in context.
What follows when quantum theory is applied to the whole universe? This is one of the greatest puzzles of modern science. Philosophers and physicists here debate the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, according to which this universe is one of countlessly many others, constantly branching in time, all of which are real.
The book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the global stock market focusing on the relations of issuers, investors, and intermediaries, and how these are shaped by local context. It shows how the stock market map is currently being re-drawn, and its centrality to understanding the structure and dynamics of the world economy.
A comprehensive and accessible overview of the economic history of Latin America over the two centuries since Independence. It considers its principal problems and the main policy trends and covers external trade, economic growth, and inequality.
In this book leading scholars from a range of disciplines, including strategic management, economic development, economic geography and planning, assess the contribution that Michael Porter, one of the most influential figures in strategic management research, has made to these respective academic fields.
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.
A bishop and theologian, an ascetic and a pastoral father, Athanasius of Alexandria (c.295-373) is one of the greatest and most controversial figures of early Christian history. This book draws together these diverse yet inseparable roles that defined Athanasius' life and the influence that he exerted on subsequent Christian tradition.
Dan Haybron presents an illuminating examination of well-being, drawing on important recent work in the science of happiness. He shows that we are remarkably prone to error in judgements of our own personal welfare, and suggests that we should rethink traditional assumptions about the good life and the good society.
Kant's Elliptical Path explores the main stages and key concepts in the development of Kant's Critical philosophy, from the early 1760s to the 1790s. Karl Ameriks devotes essays to each of the three Critiques, and explores post-Kantian developments in German Romanticism, accounts of tragedy up through Nietzsche, and contemporary philosophy.
