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Today's most prominent thought leaders weigh in on the learning paradigm, calling for institutional change and responsibility for learning positive outcomes. This book helps leaders develop structures and processes that allow for more flexibility and creativity. Explore all facets of the learning paradigm from developing a change-receptive environment and engaging constituencies to strategic planning, governance, and more.

Schirch argues that examples of peacebuilding often center on the serious, rational negotiations and formal problem-solving efforts in conflict situations, but that what truly bonds adversaries and helps achieve peace are the symbolic, non-verbal ritual. Yet these are often overlooked as deliberate components of peace negotiations.

The book first traces the genesis and evolution of Sufism in order to explain the circumstances that permitted the emergence of Sufi brotherhoods. Next, brotherhoods that are currently active in Senegal, are described, and the role they play in the country's cultural, economic, social and political life.

The perennial favourite for Foundation and KS1 book boxes

Michael Sheehan provides a survey of the varied positions that scholars have adopted in interpreting "security", revealing his own interpretation of security, he makes the case for a postpositivist conception that links human emancipation, justice, and peace.

This collection of essays, published under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, brings together the most current writings of one of the founders of modern open-economy macroeconomics. As former Director of Research and a member of the Executive Board at the IMF, Jacques J. Polak has advised theoreticians and policymakers worldwide, his work has affected nations and their citizens. The selected essays are divided among three central...

Designed for students and practitioners in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource training and development, this book examines improving organizational communication. Terrence Gargiulo shows how the use of storytelling is the key to effective communication and learning.

Organizations today have access to vast stores of data that come in a wide variety of forms and may be stored in places ranging from file cabinets to database, and from library shelves to the Internet. The enormous growth in the "quantity of data, however, has brought with it growing problems with the "quality of information, further complicated by the struggles many organizations manage information properly, or inaccurate data, costs business...

Everyone who aspires to more effective public service should read this book. It provides a compelling antidote to the managerial focus of theory and practice in public administration. Written with the aim of inspiring and rekindling a mission for public service, Transformational Public Service weaves together theory and stories from actual practice to show that public service can (and does) advance the goals of democracy, inclusiveness, and so...

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Realist assumptions of security studies increasingly have been challenged by an approach that places the human being, rather than the state, at the center of security concerns.. This book is structured around three concepts - security, community, and emancipation - that arguably are central to the future shape of world politics.

Re-issued in the fresh new series style comes this edgy, fast-paced thriller with superb characterisation - if you haven't discovered Meg Gardiner yet, now is the time

Major Helmut Wick failed to return from a mission over the English Channel on 28 November 1940 and is listed as missing to this day. This fate ended a picture book military and flying career. In just three months Helmut Wick had risen from Oberleutnant and Staffelkapitän to Kommodore of the tradition-rich Jagd-geschwader Richthofen Nr. 2 and with fifty-six victories had become the leading German fighter pilot. At the time he was the youngest M...

An expansive survey of wedding cake toppers dating from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s. Traditional, military, and "cutie" bride and groom figurines are each identified by type of material used, circa date, size, and current value. Includes a history of wedding cakes, bride and groom attire through the decades, and tips for determining the age and value of vintage cake toppers.

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Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) was colorful and controversial Italian painter, a talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa's tremendous influence on French writers, ch...

The author penned Rise and Be Healed during a period of time while he was recuperating from a broken back. While lying in bed reading and meditating he received the quiet stillness and peace which comes only from the Holy Spirit. While in this state of grace he began to write the thoughts, which flowed from his heart. What came from the following months of writing was a message with a purpose or if you will, a purpose with a message. This book...

The author penned Rise and Be Healed during a period of time while he was recuperating from a broken back. While lying in bed reading and meditating he received the quiet stillness and peace which comes only from the Holy Spirit. While in this state of grace he began to write the thoughts, which flowed from his heart. What came from the following months of writing was a message with a purpose or if you will, a purpose with a message. This book...