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John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership
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Subject(s): Leadership Summary: "It is with great pleasure that I offer you my 100 Greatest Ideas on Effective Leadership. Please pluck as many fathers as you like from this collection and make them your own. I hope that they will enrich your personal effectiveness as a leader. This book takes a logical look at those issues which you have t

Food Practices in Transition : Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity
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Subject(s): Food industry and trade | Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects | Food consumption | Agricultural ecology Summary: "This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of "sustainability"-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes

The Transformation of Political Communication in China : from Propaganda to Hegemony
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Subject(s): Mass media policy -- China | Communication policy -- China | Communication -- Political aspects -- China | Communication in politics -- China Summary: "This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China's media industry--one of th

Make Difficult People Disappear : How to Deal with Stressful Behavior and Eliminate Conflict
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Subject(s): Problem employees | Supervision of employees | Stress management Summary: "Save your organization by building the skills to deal with difficult people We all have to work with people we can't stand to be around. Our challenge is to find creative ways to handle these difficult people. In the fable Make Difficult People Disapp

Ethical Naturalism : Current Debates
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Subject(s): Ethics, Evolutionary | Naturalism Summary: "Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early on, intuitively forceful objections by eliminativists and non-naturalists, ethical natur

Aristotle on Time : a Study of the Physics
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Subject(s): Aristotle | Time Summary: "Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular

Asia : a Concise History
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Subject(s): Asia -- History Summary: "A comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny. Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur Cotterell offers a compelling, lively, and readable account of one of the most culturally

Higher Education in Southeast Asia : Blurring Borders, Changing Balance
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Subject(s): Private universities and colleges -- Southeast Asia | Education, Higher -- Southeast Asia | Education and state -- Southeast Asia Summary: "Throughout SouthEast Asia, the balance between public and private higher education is changing. Caught between conflicting imperatives, of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balan

Managing Networks of Creativity
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Subject(s): Creative ability in business | Creative ability -- Economic aspects | Business networks | Strategic alliances (Business) | Entrepreneurship Summary: "The aim of the <EM>Managing Networks of Creativity</EM> is to improve our understanding of creativity and the management of creativity, as discussed in the fields o

Sport Psychology : Concepts and Applications
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Subject(s): Sports -- Psychological aspects | Coaching (Athletics) -- Psychological aspects | Athletes -- Psychology Summary: "Sport Psychology: Concepts and Applications shows how concepts supported by current scientific research can be used to address issues and situations encountered everyday by physical activity specialists, coaches, at

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