America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on international affairs. Tony Smith documents the extraordinary history of how American foreign policy has been used to try to promote democracy worldwide, an effort that enjoyed its greatest triumphs in the occupations of Japan and Germany but suffered huge setbacks in Latin America, Vietnam, and elsewhere. With new chapters and a new introduction and epilogue, this expanded edition also traces U.S. attempts to spread democracy more recently, under...
America's Mission argues that the global strength and prestige of democracy today are due in large part to America's impact on internat...
A concise textbook examining the complex issues surrounding the legal obligations involved in the running of a company. Theoretical concepts are explored through case studies and discussion questions and exercises reflect the principles discussed.
A concise textbook examining the complex issues surrounding the legal obligations involved in the running of a company. Theoretical concepts are explo...
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy. Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building...
Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new editi...
During the past decade, leaders have increasingly relied on self-managing work groups, multifunctional teams, and cross-national executive groups to create the organization of the future. Yet groups are not a panacea for organizational problems; conflicts between individuals or factions within a group often create seemingly contradictory situations?paradoxes?that can prevent the group from reaching its goals.
In this groundbreaking classic, Kenwyn Smith and David Berg offer a revolutionary approach to understanding groups and overcoming the problems that often paralyze group...
During the past decade, leaders have increasingly relied on self-managing work groups, multifunctional teams, and cross-national executive groups to c...
In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not broad categories and terms such as modernity, postmodernity, globalization, and decolonization are still relevant or useful. Including twenty essays...
In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art...
Neuropsychology is a vast field, overlapping with psychiatry, medicine and neuroscience. It essentially addresses the relationship between mind and brain through the study of dysfunction, with a range of research paradigms drawing from cognitive, clinical, neurological and neuroscientific perspectives. Neuropsychology has a long history, but newer methods for analyzing the brain (neuroimaging) have taken the field on an exciting new trajectory in the past 10 years.
This six-volume collection provides a set of original sources that have proved to be popular, influential and...
Neuropsychology is a vast field, overlapping with psychiatry, medicine and neuroscience. It essentially addresses the relationship between mind and br...
This four-volume set focuses on understanding marketing ethics from a management perspective, with an introduction that provides an overview of the literature included in the set as well as identifying directions for future research.
This four-volume set focuses on understanding marketing ethics from a management perspective, with an introduction that provides an overview of the li...
Research in Clinical Practice is a neat, pocket-sized reference guide examining how to get the most from actively participating in research. Including how to begin, avoiding pitfalls, whom to
approach and what questions to ask - all significant practicalities for conducting research in the reader's area of interest. Each reader will learn how to make the best use of such a valuable time.
Written by two experienced surgeons, both of whom achieved post graduate research degrees, Research in Clinical Practice, is an essential tool for clinicians embarking on...
Research in Clinical Practice is a neat, pocket-sized reference guide examining how to get the most from actively participating in research....
Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space colonization seems like a natural step by demonstrating that if will continue the human species' 4 million-year-old legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments. The authors present many examples from the history of human expansion into new environments, including two amazing tales of human colonization - the prehistoric settlement...
Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to...
First published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most authoritative and trusted source of information on contemporary world cinema. Comprehensive international coverage is offered via a 'World Survey' section encompassing the output of over 90 countries each year; the International Film Guide 2012 offers an overview of trends and changes in global cinema across the last twelve months. Of interest to the industry (particularly film programmers), students and enthusiasts, and the casual cinemagoer, the guide provides summaries of all the...
First published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most authoritative and trusted source of informati...
