Leadership 2050: Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging Trends (Sowcik Matthew)(Paperback)

Leadership 2050: Critical Challenges, Key Contexts, and Emerging Trends (Sowcik Matthew)(Paperback)

The book begins with a section delving into foresight analysis, strategic foresight, and scenario planning. It then examines the pressing contexts and most wicked problems facing future leaders ranging from population growth and urbanization to climate change and resource competition. How can

Leadership: A Critical Text (Western Simon)(Paperback)

In this original text, Simon Western deconstructs and reconstructs leadership to challenge the popular notion of the individual or hero leader, instead using his own framework to present leadership as a distributed process. New to the third edition: A new chapter on leadership symptoms that

Leadership: Practice and Perspectives (Roe Kevin)(Paperback)

Designed specifically to develop students' understanding of leadership in a variety of contexts, and assuming no prior experience of leadership in the business world, this book is a must-read for students embarking on their study of leadership, while thinking ahead to their own future employment

University Challenge: Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning (Harland Tony)(Paperback)

University Challenge: Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning offers a nuanced and critical reading of university teaching, particularly the pressures under which academics in neoliberal, mass higher education must operate. It provides exciting thinking about slow pedagogies, powerful knowledge,

Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts (Eagleton-Pierce Matthew)(Paperback)

Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts provides a critical guide to a vocabulary that has become globally dominant over the past forty years. The language of neoliberalism both constructs and expresses a particular vision of economics, politics, and everyday life. Some find this vision to be appealing,

UK Oil and Gas Law: Current Practice and Emerging Trends: Volume I: Resource Management and Regulatory Law (Gordon Greg)(Paperback)

ABC of Clinical Leadership (Swanwick Tim)(Paperback)

The ABC of Clinical Leadership explores and develops the key principles of leadership and management. It outlines the scope of clinical leadership, emphasising its importance in the clinical context, especially for improving patient care and health outcomes in rapidly changing health systems and

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership (Bolman Lee G.)(Paperback)

Set aside trends to focus on the fundamentals of great leadership Reframing Organizations provides time-tested guidance for more effective organizational leadership. Rooted in decades of social science research across multiple disciplines, Bolman and Deal's four-frame model has continued to evolve

Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Feltham Colin)(Paperback)

Critical Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy examines the critical debates around key topics in counselling and psychotherapy. In nine sections including Everyday Counselling Practice, Training and Curriculum Issues, and Counselling, Society and Culture, Colin Feltham explores and

Children's and Young Adult Comics (Tarbox Gwen Athene)(Paperback)

A complete critical guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Children's and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: - The history of comics

China's Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, and Long-Term Competition (Scobell Andrew)(Paperback)

To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China's grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and

Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Flisfeder Matthew)(Paperback)

Matthew Flisfeder introduces readers to key concepts in postmodern theory and demonstrates how it can be used for a critical interpretation and analysis of Blade Runner, arguably 'the greatest science fiction film'. By contextualizing the film within the culture of late 20th and early 21st-century

Contemporary Challenges to the Laws of War (Harvey Caroline)(Paperback)

The laws of war are facing new challenges from emerging technologies and changing methods of warfare, as well as the growth of human rights and international criminal law. International mechanisms of accountability have increased and international criminal law has greater relevance in the

Science Fiction (Baker Brian)(Paperback)

This Guide summarises the main critical trends and developments surrounding the popular genre of science fiction. Brian Baker reviews the attempts to formulate a critical history, connects the major developments with the rise of theoretical paradigms such as feminism and postmodernism, and

Social Psychology - Traditional and Critical Perspectives (Dickerson Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Social Psychology: Traditional and Critical Perspectives addresses the key issues in social psychology - such as prejudice, aggression, conformity, persuasion, attraction, relationships and prosocial behaviour - in a bold and innovative way. As well as providing detailed coverage of classic and

Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing (Aldridge Paul)(Paperback)

Your step-by-step guide to key emergency and critical care procedures and hands-on nursing care. Whether you need to know how to prioritise your response to a patient with multiple injuries, or you need a quick practical guide to fluid therapy, this is the go-to resource. Colour photographs of real

Smart Cities (Halegoua Germaine)(Paperback)

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a

Global Human Trafficking: Critical Issues and Contexts (Dragiewicz Molly)(Paperback)

Human trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teaching over the past ten years. Research has sprung from criminology, public policy, women's and gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and law, but has been somewhat hindered by the failure of scholars

Marketing: A Critical Textbook (Ellis Nick)(Paperback)

With a focus on introducing the key concepts of critical and alternative marketing, this text brings the real-world challenges and considerations of marketing to students. Both productive and positive, the approach taken offers other ways of looking at, and solving, marketing ′problems′

Leadership and Management in Healthcare (Gopee Neil)(Paperback)

The Third Edition of this best-selling text supports readers on their journey from emerging registered healthcare professional to competent care manager. Action points, case studies, and strong practice guidelines enable readers to understand how leadership and management theory applies to the care

Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates (Sant Edda)(Paperback)

Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from across the world, the authors draw on ideas, experiences and histories within and beyond 'the West' to contribute to multifaceted perspectives on global

Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (Khalid Masud Muhammad)(Paperback)

An introduction to and overview of the debates and questions emerging regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon, an historical perspective, and access to several manifestations of modernity in Muslim

Health Financing Revisited: A Practitioner's Guide (Gottret Pablo)(Paperback)

This overview of health financing tools, policies and trends--with a particular focus on challenges facing developing countries--provides the basis for effective policy-making. Analyzing the current global environment, the book discusses health financing goals in the context of both the underlying

Malcolm McDonald on Key Account Management (McDonald Malcolm)(Paperback)

Malcolm McDonald on Key Account Management explores the challenges of winning, retaining and developing key accounts. Key accounts are customers who help their suppliers grow, and consequently, they wield significant power. Although they are the key to market share and revenue growth, the costs of