Chris Argyris (b. 1923) was one of the key figures in the Human Relations Movement in the 1960s and 1970s; he is widely regarded as the founding father of the learning organization. His work has made substantial contributions to the understanding of organizational behaviour, organizational learning, and action research, and has deepened significantly our comprehension of experiential learning.
Supplemented with the editors' introduction, which places the gathered work in its historical and intellectual context, this new collection from Routledge brings together in one volume all the...
Chris Argyris (b. 1923) was one of the key figures in the Human Relations Movement in the 1960s and 1970s; he is widely regarded as the founding fa...
Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully recognised and hence ecosystem considerations may not be incorporated adequately into decision-making processes. This is particularly true for regulating services, the benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes, the valuation of which requires an interdisciplinary approach. In essence, valuation is a problem solving strategy and a problem is a problem, it does not respect the...
Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems...
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W.B. Yeats, 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen' This is a book about how poetry, seen through the instance of a single poem, seeks to make sense of a turbulent and dangerous world. Poetry must introduce order and shape where there is none, and also, in certain crucial cases, remain faithful to the disorder and shapelessness of experience. Many poems manage the first of these tasks; very few manage both. W.B. Yeats...
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but ...
Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Great s amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements.
Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Great s amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the treme...
Building on Merton College's unique archives, and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth, Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over 15 centuries.
Building on Merton College's unique archives, and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth, Michael Wood tells the extraordinary stor...
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano...
This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important p...
Franz Kafka's work has profoundly influenced postmodernist thinking. Michael Wood pays close attention to individual works by Kafka and to his original Austro-Hungarian context.
Franz Kafka's work has profoundly influenced postmodernist thinking. Michael Wood pays close attention to individual works by Kafka and to his origina...
As the Christmas season approaches, many will be busy taking part in activities that don't represent the reason for Christmas: the birth of Christ. From Creation to the Gospel, an Advent devotional written by Michael Wood, provides readers with an Advent calendar depicting the creation of Earth: from the temptation and Fall of Adam to the virgin birth and Jesus' ascension. Each day of the devotional covers promises in the Old Testament and promises fulfilled in the New Testament, with the goal of educating readers on who we are as God's creation. Michael encourages readers each day to...
As the Christmas season approaches, many will be busy taking part in activities that don't represent the reason for Christmas: the birth of Christ....
