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English
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International Relations Today, 2e, captures the drastic changes that the discipline of international relations (IR) has undergone since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War in 1991. It delves into the way the US has emerged as the only superpower in the world and its impact in making international politics seemingly unipolar. However, in his analysis, the author also shows that how international politics today also signals...
Author
Series
Jake Keller novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"No one knows what CIA desk jockey Zac Miller is capable of--including himself--when a routine surveillance job becomes a do-or-die mission in the Middle East"--
Author
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (11 pages)
Language
English
Description
The room to maneuver on business and human rights has significantly expanded with the exposure of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal death. Companies must take advantage of this moment to prioritize human rights. Now is the time for business leaders and company boards to get on the right side of history - or risk becoming complicit.
Author
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (14 pages)
Language
English
Description
Consumers and employees increasingly expect companies to engage with social, environmental, and economic issues. But business leaders can find themselves between a rock and a hard place, especially when corporate political activism is framed as "take a stand or be silent." The reality is that companies need a more nuanced set of options.
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
Women's studies is a rapidly expanding field with a tremendous growth in the number of London courses available. As a result of this there has been increasing debate about the nature of feminist research. Can a specifically feminist methodology be identified? Which research methods are most appropriate in feminist work? What is the difference between a feminist approach and other forms of scholarship.; "Researching Women's Lives" explores these issues...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
This systematic evaluation of Iraq's political economy and human development offers a complex and sophisticated analysis of Iraq's recent history. Focusing on the period from 1950 up to the Gulf war in 1990, the book brings an understanding of how development has been shaped or constrained in this much misunderstood country. The author employs the human development paradigm to link human development and human rights to the analysis of political economy....
Author
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (3 pages)
Language
English
Description
Research indicates that the reason women aren't making more rapid inroads on corporate boards is that few have reached the most influential board leadership positions. Although more women are on boards now than 10 years ago, very few have been promoted to a post that would give them influence beyond their seat at the table.
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the functions of language as a marker of identity in ethnic conflict, and the extent to which language may be a causal factor in ethnic conflict.
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
For managers, students and conference professionals this timely new book will provide a firm foundation for understanding and operating in one of the UK's fastest growing business areas. Conferencing forms a large and expanding part of the UK economy and is now attracting serious analysis as the key techniques and principles of good practice become established. This unique book, one of the first written by an expert educator and consultant in the...
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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (280 pages)
Language
English
Description
A "back-to-basics" guide to government contract law Finally! A plain-English presentation of the basic legal concepts of government contract law for professionals at any stage in their careers. Until now, anyone in the procurement field has had to trudge through dense and complex texts written in hard-to-follow "legalese" in their quest to understand procurement law. With Understanding Government Contract Law, they finally have a source of clear and...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee. The book modifies existing historiography in two ways - it shows that the Labour Party of 1945-51 was concerned mainly with industrial modernization, not with creating the Welfare State, and it tackles...
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Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
2nd edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (312 pages)
Language
English
Description
Western Political Thought, 2E is an attempt to include in its reach the political ideas of some of the more recent thinkers. These thinkers certainly draw on the classics of western political thought like the writings of Marx, Rousseau, Locke and Aristotle; however, they also extend our understanding of the political thought in several ways. The latest edition gives a comprehensive account of the thread of political thought that stretches from the...
Author
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (11 p.)
Language
English
Description
In both practice and research, we are doing a better job at bringing attention to the problem of gender bias. But we haven't established enough tangible suggestions for how to challenge it. New research has begun to investigate the efficacy of "scripts" - a set of words or phrases such as "Can you repeat what you just said?" that would signal to a peer that he has crossed a line, whether knowingly or unknowingly.
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Publisher
Center for Creative Leadership
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (27 pages)
Language
Français
Description
La résistance au changement fait partie de la nature humaine. Particulièrement lorsque ce changement s'accompagne d'une épreuve, d'une déception ou d'un rejet. Cependant, en améliorant leur résilience, les dirigeants peuvent non seulement survivre au changement, mais aussi apprendre, grandir, et se développer. Il porte sur neuf composantes du développement qui, ensemble, créent de la résilience, améliorent votre capacité à...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (224 pages)
Language
English
Description
The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict. This volume asks how many of the popular conclusions reached by transitional justice studies fall short, or worse, unwittingly perpetuate the very injustices they aim to suture. Though often...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Dominant approaches to the transformation of Europe ignore contemporary social theory interpretations of the nature and dynamics of social change. Here, Delanty and Rumford argue that we need a theory of society in order to understand Europeanization. This book advances the case that Europeanization should be theorized in terms of: globalization major social transformations that are not exclusively spear-headed by the EU the wider context of the transformation...
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Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries. The majority of displaced populations survive with very little security or legal protection. Responding to the needs of internally displaced people is one of the greatest humanitarian challenges of our time.;Revised and updated from the first edition, this volume includes information on internal displacement in 47 different countries across the...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand...
Author
Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (308 pages)
Language
English
Description
The book comprises contributions from the fields of political theory and philosophy; ancient, medieval and modern history; sociology; anthropology and creative arts. It provides perspectives drawing on the multicultural experiences of the United States, Britain, Trinidad, Pakistan and Malaysia and includes experience of composite culture in the ancient, medieval and modern periods of Indian history. There are essays on the contemporary experience...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
1st edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
The authors consider how the Asia-Pacific economies have developed since the financial crises and highlight two inter-related themes: the effect of global forces on the national Asian economies and the different development paths of these economies as they jointly enter this new phase. Questions raised by the book include: * is globalization a threat to development and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific or did globalization rather facilitate and accelerate...
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