Common Faith: Education, Spirituality and the State
ISBN: 9781138615908 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1998, this book provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the political and educational issues that are raised when spiritual development is regarded as a central educational aim. The author examines the meaning of spirituality in the educational context and provides a suitable educational characterization following a detailed critique of certain ideas put forward by John Dewey, Alistair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. In the second part of the book the author examines various attempts to derive policies concerning the personal education of pupils from cultural and political...
Published in 1998, this book provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the political and educational issues that are raised when spiritual deve...
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514,71 zł |
Combating Social Exclusion in University Adult Education
ISBN: 9781138615878 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1999, this work suggests that widening participation is not just about changing learner expectations; it is also about changing institutional expectations and practices. "Higher" learning, for example, should include a broader, more inclusive range of knowledge and ways of knowing than at present and criteria for learning achievement should include assessment of "citizenship" as well as linear outcomes.
Published in 1999, this work suggests that widening participation is not just about changing learner expectations; it is also about changing instituti...
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488,92 zł |
A New Perspective for European Spatial Development Policies
ISBN: 9781138609402 / Angielski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. A number of future paths of European spatial evolution are developed and discussed in this book. It applies unconventional economic approaches to spatial policy, and in particular to EU-spatial policies. It is concluded that a) the answer to spatial development challenges should not be geo-design but rather strategic guidelines for sectorial policy measures; b) regional policy on the EU's external border has to involve the cities as regional centres in a cross-border network; c) the new perspective on European spatial policy requires a network approach to regional...
First Published in 1998. A number of future paths of European spatial evolution are developed and discussed in this book. It applies unconventional ec...
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488,92 zł |
Coping with Changing Environments: Social Dimensions of Endangered Ecosystems in the Developing World
ISBN: 9781138611115 / Angielski / Twarda / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1999. A collection of empirical research and theoretical reflection on the modelling of environmental change from a social perspective. The focus is on the endangered ecosystems in the developing world and examples are given from Asia, Africa and Latin America. After Regions at Risk (Kaspersons et al, 1995 UNO University Press) it is the second compilation that focuses on regional empirical evidence with regard to Global Environmental Change. On a national and European level, it gives an overview of regional studies coming from the first German Priority Programme on the...
First published in 1999. A collection of empirical research and theoretical reflection on the modelling of environmental change from a social perspect...
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591,92 zł |
A Question of Identity
ISBN: 9781138608795 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1998, this book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of one of the most vital issues in the contemporary world. Never was this topic more relevant than now, on the threshold of the twenty-first century. At a time when the global economy, European citizenship and worldwide religion are the order of the day, nationalism - as in eastern Europe and the Balkans - and regionalism - Wales and Scotland provide perfect examples - ride high on the agenda. It is the problems and paradoxes that emerge immediately the subject is raised that form the core of this book. A Question of Identity...
Published in 1998, this book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of one of the most vital issues in the contemporary world. Never was this topic more ...
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591,92 zł |
Cost Management and Its Interplay with Business Strategy and Context
ISBN: 9781138611269 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1999. This text aims to consider how the financial controller/management accountant decides to design a cost management system given the range of approaches to cost managment advocated in recent years. The book reports on research which tested the relationship between cost management systems adopted and the strategic orientation of the company, through five detailed case studies of well-known and named companies. The case studies trace the developments in each company through time.
First published in 1999. This text aims to consider how the financial controller/management accountant decides to design a cost management system give...
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385,98 zł |
Communities, Networks and Ethnic Politics
ISBN: 9781138624634 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998, this study explores ethnic community political participation in local politics in the North West British town. The analysis is located within the framework of the shift from Fordism to post-Fordism.From 1965 to 1980 ethnic communities increased their access to scarce resources including political influence by engaging in ethnic politics. Using membership of religious organisations as structures of support, elected men deployed ethnic identities to compete with others for ethnic support and influence over local decision-making processes. This gave ethnic minorities a...
First Published in 1998, this study explores ethnic community political participation in local politics in the North West British town. The analysis i...
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540,45 zł |
Criminal Justice in Scotland
ISBN: 9781138612594 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1999. Scottish criminal law and procedure are very different from their counterparts elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This book is the first socio-legal account of the Scottish criminal justice process and its constituent institutions. Its aims are: to explain the operation of the various elements which make up the `system'; to summarise the considerable volume of relevant Scottish research; and to locate this knowledge within contemporary theorising about criminal justice. To this end, the editors commissioned a team of experts to write chapters on the various stages of...
Published in 1999. Scottish criminal law and procedure are very different from their counterparts elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This book is the fi...
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669,12 zł |
Evolution and the Naked Truth: Darwinian Approach to Philosophy
ISBN: 9781138624467 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1998, the main aim of this book is to use a naturalistic, evolutionary approach to solve some of the most important problems in philosophy. The first two problems come from the philosophy of science: the problem of rationality of science and the problem of truth in science. In presenting the first problem, the author argues that the views of Kuhn and Feyerabend do create a very serious challenge to traditional epistemology, however, if the assumption of individual rationality is abandoned in favour of the author's social concept of rationality, a committed naturalism can account...
Published in 1998, the main aim of this book is to use a naturalistic, evolutionary approach to solve some of the most important problems in philosoph...
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540,45 zł |
Mobilitätsbiografien Und Mobilitätssozialisation: Eine Quantitative Analyse Von Sozialisations-, Alters-, Perioden- Und Kohorteneffekten in Alltagsmob
ISBN: 9783658228248 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eine quantitative Analyse von Sozialisations-, Alters-, Perioden- und Kohorteneffekten in Alltagsmobilität
Eine quantitative Analyse von Sozialisations-, Alters-, Perioden- und Kohorteneffekten in Alltagsmobilität
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183,47 zł |
Physical and Social Influences on People with Senile Dementia in Residential Care: Physical and Social Influences on People with Senile Dementia in Re
ISBN: 9781138608405 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1993. The Increasing numbers of very elderly people in the population and the decreased use of long-stay hospitals are leading to pressure for services in the community for people with dementia. Residential care plays an important role in the care of such people, and developing new, innovative services and monitoring the quality of care in existing institutions are important policy issues. The book describes an investigation into the relationship between the residential care environment and the welfare of residents with senile dementia. Unlike many studies of residential...
Published in 1993. The Increasing numbers of very elderly people in the population and the decreased use of long-stay hospitals are leading to pressur...
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488,92 zł |
Changing Planes: A Strategic Management Perspective on an Industry in Transition
ISBN: 9781138615823 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1998. The airline Industry has always been dynamic, innovative and challenging. While the dynamism has in the past tended to arise on the production side, a torrent of change on the commercial side is being unleashed by regularity liberalization. The magnitude and rate of change are also greater than anything previously encountered in the industry. This work is concerned with two distinct yet related transitions. The first is general, potentially affecting the strategic management of all types of company-notably, but not exclusively, in North America, Europe, Latin America,...
Published in 1998. The airline Industry has always been dynamic, innovative and challenging. While the dynamism has in the past tended to arise on the...
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591,92 zł |
Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The Multimedia and Networking Paradigm
ISBN: 9781138616271 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1994, this work supplies an up-to-date view of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and its role in empowering groups to achieve better solutions faster. The enabling technology and group organizational and behavioural aspects of CSCW should be of interest to a wide audience.
Published in 1994, this work supplies an up-to-date view of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and its role in empowering groups to achieve be...
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540,45 zł |
Doctors and the State: The Struggle for Professional Control in Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9781138618398 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1999, the main aim of this text is to examine the nature of professional control, medical practice and the state of health services in a post-colonial state and the medical profession in Zimbabwe since 1980. The text reviews the theories of professions and professional control and medical practice, it concludes by examining the nature of the Zimbabwean state. The chapter on methodology highlights some of the ethical dilemmas of carrying out research in developing countries. The book then goes on to review health services and policies of both the colonial and post-colonial...
Published in 1999, the main aim of this text is to examine the nature of professional control, medical practice and the state of health services in a ...
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360,24 zł |
Let's Talk about Guys, Girls and Sex
ISBN: 9789386867681 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Citizens' Financial Futures: Regulation of Retail Investment Financial Services in Britain
ISBN: 9781138613584 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1999, this is a review of recent changes in the regulation of retail financial investment services and products, notably the creation of the Personal Investment Authority and the continuing roles of the Office of Fair Trading and the Securities and Investments Board. The attempt to establish new regulatory standards in the wake of the personal pensions mis-selling and other scandals is critically appraised in the light of evidence of the needs and capacities of citizens. The book concludes, firstly that the regulators have not succeeded in making more than a limited progress in...
Published in 1999, this is a review of recent changes in the regulation of retail financial investment services and products, notably the creation of ...
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344,80 zł |
Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: A System in Crisis
ISBN: 9781138332539 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-century of legislation are accelerated under conditions of a prolonged and deepening economic crisis and a worldwide offensive against the citizenry and the working class. Written by two of the world's leading left-wing thinkers, Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century takes the form of a number of analytical probes into some of the dynamics of capitalist development and imperialism in contemporary conditions of a system in crisis. ...
We live in a time of dynamic, but generally regressive regime change-a period in which major political transformations and a rollback of a half-centur...
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221,28 zł |
Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice
ISBN: 9781138344839 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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190,39 zł |
New Generation Political Activism in Ukraine: 2000-2014
ISBN: 9781138346918 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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221,28 zł |
Social Mobilization, Global Capitalism and Struggles Over Food: A Comparative Study of Social Movements
ISBN: 9781138358799 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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221,28 zł |