Subject(s): Age and employment | Older people -- Employment | Older people -- Social conditions Summary: Key international contributors come together to create a definitive map of the subject. Framed by an authoritative introductory chapter, 'The SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society' offers a critical overview of the most significan

Subject(s): Banks and banking -- State supervision | Financial crises Summary: "As the financial crisis engulfs the world economy, there is an ambitous agenda for regulatory reform. This book provides a comprehensive review of the analysis of finance, economics and the law and economics, illuminating past and current banking and financial r

Subject(s): Comparative education -- Case studies | Education and state -- Case studies Summary: "This book unites a dynamic group of scholars who examine linkages among local, national, and international levels of educational policy and practice. Utilizing multi-sited, ethnographic approaches, the essays explore vertical interactions acros

Subject(s): Teachers -- Training of | Educational technology Summary: This book explores major factors impacting on teacher education in recent times. It uses examples from a broad range of international contributors who compare larger countries such as the USA, England and Australia with their smaller partners: Canada, Scotland and New Zealand

Subject(s): School management and organization -- United States | Organizational behavior Review: "Well-established as a standard textbook in the preparation of effective and thoughtful school administrators, the tenth edition of Organizational Behavior in Education continues its tradition of offering students of educational administration

Subject(s): Oracle (Computer file) | Business -- Data processing | Management information systems | Business intelligence -- Computer programs Summary: "Provide actionable business intelligence across the enterprise to enable informed decision making and streamlined business processes. Oracle BI Applications: Deliver Value through Rapid Imp

Subject(s): Historic fiction, Malay | Malay fiction | Malacca (Kingdom) -- Fiction -- History Summary: The story written in Malay gives readers an insight in the lives of people living in cosmopolitan Malacca city during the early 16th Century. This included important figures such as the ruler, Sultan Mahmud Shah, his able Prime Minister, Tun M

Subject(s): Architecture and history | Architecture, Modern Summary: "Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginnings of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history, tradition and memory,

Subject(s): Sex differences (Psychology) | Social psychology Summary: With contributions from academics around the world, and using diverse methodologies to understand gender and its implications for behavior, the "Sage handbook of gender and psychology" is a wide-ranging, comprehensive benchmark that will benefit advanced students and

Subject(s): Educational sociology | Education, Higher -- Social aspects Summary: This title provides an exciting and conceptually rich approach to the sociology of higher education. It offers innovative perspectives on the future of universities within the new and emerging research subfield of the sociology of global higher education. The Socio