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The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

Machiavelli drew on 2000 years of history to develop theories on how to make war how to win battles and how to gain power and keep it. Using Machiavelli as a springboard Dennis and Ching Ping Bloodworth boldly and adroitly map out 3000 years of Chinese political-military history-from Confucius to Mao Zedong-using Machiavell's discourse of power politics. They reveal a pageantry of Chinese historical figures from wise strategists heroic generals crafty statesmen and ruthless emperors to brave knights-errant and from stately Confucian philosophers to shrewd cunning Legalist thinkers without the usual Confucian restraint. The Chinese Machiavelli intends to help Western readers who may be puzzled by Chinese diplomatic and military strategy understand the principles that have guided both past and present Chinese leaders. For instance why have modern communist Chinese leaders often befriended right-wing European politicians who are out of office rather than left-wing leaders in power? Why did they entertain President Nixon while the United States was at war with North Vietnam? Within the framework of a chronological history concentrating on power politics and using the social and cultural scene as a backdrop the Bloodworths use China's long history to find answers. Peter Li's preface for this new edition explains the structure of the book and offers a penetrating analysis of the authors' style and method. Although The Chinese Machiavelli is authored for the general public rather than for the specialist the latter will also benefit from reading this history. The authors describe the continuity of Chinese history and reveal how knowledge of China's past sheds light on the political behavior of China's rulers today. | The Chinese Machiavelli 3000 Years of Chinese Statecraft

GBP 125.00
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Public Relations in the Nonprofit Sector Theory and Practice

Public Relations in the Nonprofit Sector Theory and Practice

Nonprofit organizations are managing to carry out sophisticated public relations programming that cultivates relationships with their key audiences. Their public relations challenges however have routinely been understudied. Budgetary and staffing restraints often limit how these organizations carry out their fundraising public awareness and activism efforts and client outreach. This volume explores a range of public relations theories and topics important to the management of nonprofit organizations including crisis management communicating to strengthen engagement online and offline and recruiting and retaining volunteer and donor support. | Public Relations in the Nonprofit Sector Theory and Practice

GBP 44.99
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Employee Relations Audits

Employee Relations Audits

This book first published in 1990 is a practical manual which presents guidance on how to carry out and evaluate an employee relations audit. This title also provides audits for five key areas of employee relations including communication and consultation equality of opportunity and disciplinary matters. This book should be of interest to lecturers post-graduate students and practitioners of management personnel employee relations and industrial relations. | Employee Relations Audits

GBP 21.99
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Further Studies in Industrial Organization

Further Studies in Industrial Organization

This book first published in 1948 examines four industries studied as part of the Nuffield College Reconstruction Survey begun in 1941. These studies despite their apparent diversity have a number of features in common. One is geography and another more pressing is the relation of industry to the Government and the public. The studies serve as part of the historical background of reconstruction and they carry many lessons in economic organization. | Further Studies in Industrial Organization

GBP 31.99
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Postnatal and Neonatal Midwifery Skills

Postnatal and Neonatal Midwifery Skills

This pocket-sized book presented in an easy-to-follow format is designed as a tool for students and professionals to carry in any setting providing a quick reference guide to supporting women and babies during the postnatal/neonatal period. Written in an accessible way this book provides step-by-step processes for students to follow and is ideal for professionals to share with the women and families in their care. | Postnatal and Neonatal Midwifery Skills

GBP 8.99
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Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

A practical introduction to woodworking and purpose-made joinery this book starts with the basics of interpreting drawings and works right the way through to designing and making stairs. Les Goring introduces each chapter with a brief historical overview of the topic then goes on to explain how to carry out each task in a step-by-step manner. Including several hundred images this book covers everything a student or keen hobbyist needs to know in order to carry out their own work. The breadth of coverage and easily accessible approach makes this book an ideal resource for apprentices taking NVQs and those following Construction Awards within Wood Occupations from City and Guilds/Construction Skills. The technical detail and practical focus ensures that this book will be a vital purchase for all students and an essential reference for any experienced carpenter or joiner. In-depth practical and accessible approach � ideal for new apprentices and experienced tradespeople alike. Fully up to date with the current Building Regulations and developments in the trade. Clear layout makes it easy to follow instructions. Also by this author: Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry Third Edition 9781856177689 | Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

GBP 180.00
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Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia

Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia

India and the South-East Asia are typical case studies of interest for students of development economics. These countries have served as role models for most of the emerging economies. Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia attempts to explore and analyse the nature of economic relationship between India and the South-East Asia. It assesses the prospects for this relationship to grow and flourish. Finally it makes suggestions to strengthen and carry forward this relationship. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan)

GBP 130.00
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Two Papers 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'

Two Papers 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'

The Grid an instrument devised to help the analyst record and elaborate observations arising from the analytic encounter demonstrates how mathematics can be applied to locate the development evolution and transformation of psychic elements and events. Caesura takes its title from Freud's observation: There is much more continuity between intra-uterine life than the impressive caesura of the act of birth would have us believe. Here Bion speculates on the relationship between physiological and psychological birth and the possibility that a pre-natal primitive sensitiveness may carry over and inform later psychological life. | Two Papers 'The Grid' and 'Caesura'

GBP 130.00
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Trade Unions and the Law

Trade Unions and the Law

Originally published in 1955 this book describes in a clear and concise way the nature of a Trade Union in England from the legal point of view the particular aspects of the Law which make it possible for Trade Unions to carry on their activities and the restraints which the Law place on them for the protection of their members and the community. It briefly reviews the history of Trade Union Law describes the Acts of Parliament which made the modern Trade Union possible and deals with those aspects of the Law which are important for those who have industrial relations with Trade Unions. | Trade Unions and the Law

GBP 85.00
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The Benchmarking Book

The Benchmarking Book

With growing demands for increased operational efficiency and process improvement in organizations of all sizes more and more companies are turning to benchmarking as a means of setting goals and measuring performance against the products services and practices of other organizations that are recognized as leaders. The Benchmarking Book is an indispensable guide to process improvement through benchmarking providing managers practitioners and consultants with all the information needed to carry out effective benchmarking studies. Covering everything from essential theory to important considerations such as project management and legal issues The Benchmarking Book is the ideal step-by-step guide to assessing and improving your company‘s processes and performance through benchmarking.

GBP 175.00
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The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls

The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls

Although projects always carry risk too many projects run late or exceed their original budgets by eye-watering amounts. This book is a comprehensive guide to the procedures needed to ensure that projects will be delivered on time to specification and within budget. Eight expert contributors have combined their considerable talents to explain all aspects of project control from project conception to completion in an informative text liberally supported where necessary by clear illustrations. This handbook will benefit all project practitioners including project managers and those working in project management offices. It will also provide an invaluable guide for students studying for higher degrees in project management and its associated disciplines. | The Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls

GBP 105.00
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Saving The Planet By Design Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis

Saving The Planet By Design Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis

Can we ‘save the Planet’? For a resilient durable and sustainable future for human society we need to repurpose reinvent redesign remake and recover our human-made world so that our built environment is benignly and seamlessly biointegrated with Nature to function synergistically with it. These are the multiple tasks that humanity must carry out imminently if there is to be a future for human society and all lifeforms and their environments on the Planet. Addressing this is the most compelling question for those whose daily work impacts on Nature such as architects engineers landscape architects town planners environmental policy makers builders and others but it is a question that all of humanity needs to urgently address. Presented here are two key principles as the means to carry out these tasks – ‘ecocentricity’ being guided by the science of ecology and ‘ecomimesis’ as designing and making the built environment including all artefacts based on the emulation and replication of the ‘ecosystem’ concept. Designing with ecology is contended here as the authentic approach to green design from which the next generation of green design will emerge going beyond current use of accreditation systems. For those who subscribe to this principle this is articulated here showing how it can be implemented by design. Adopting these principles is fundamental in our endeavour to save our Planet Earth and changes profoundly and in entirety the way we design make manage and operate our built environment. | Saving The Planet By Design Reinventing Our World Through Ecomimesis

GBP 34.99
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Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research

Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research

Life writing projects have become part of the expanding field of qualitative research methods in recent years and advances in critical approaches are reshaping methodological pathways. Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research gives researchers and students looking for a brief compendium to guide their methodological thinking a concise and working overview of how to approach and carry out different forms of life writing. This practical book re-invigorates the conversation about the possibilities and innovative directions qualitative researchers can take when engaged in various forms of life writing such as biography autobiography autoethnography life history and oral history. It equips the reader with the tools to carry out life writing projects from start to finish including choosing a topic or subject examining lives as living data understanding the role of documents and artifacts learning to tell the story and finally writing/performing/displaying through the voice of the life writer. The authors also address the ways a researcher can begin a project work through the issues they might face along the journey and arrive at a shareable product. With its focus on the plurality of life writing methodologies Critical Approaches to Life Writing Methods in Qualitative Research occupies a distinct place in qualitative research scholarship and offers practical exercises to guide the researcher. Examples include exploring authorial voice practical applications of reflexivity exercises the relationship between the narrator and participants navigating the use of public and private archives understanding the processes of collaborative inquiry and collaborative writing and writing for various audiences.

GBP 27.99
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Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 2

Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 2

Automotive practical worksheets and assessments for students at Level 2 This Level 2 Student Worksheets book contains tasks that help you develop practical skills and prepare you for assessment. The tasks also reinforce the automotive theory that you will learn online and in the classroom. Each worksheet covers individual topics in a step-by-step manner detailing how to carry out all of the most important tasks contained within the syllabus. Alongside each of these worksheets is a job card that can be filled in and used as evidence towards your qualification. Endorsed by the Institute of the Motor Industry for all of their Level 2 automotive courses. Step-by-step guides to the practical tasks required at all Level 2 qualifications. Job sheets for students to complete and feedback sheets for assessors to complete. | Automotive Technician Training: Practical Worksheets Level 2

GBP 175.00
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School Counselors as Practitioners Building on Theory Standards and Experience for Optimal Performance

School Counselors as Practitioners Building on Theory Standards and Experience for Optimal Performance

Designed for school counseling course work and as a reference for school district personnel this text demystifies the roles and responsibilities of the school counselor and teaches students and practitioners how to perform conduct follow through and carry out various roles and responsibilities required on the job. School Counselors as Practitioners conveys strategic step-by-step processes and best practice recommendations with emphasis on ethical and multicultural considerations. The 14 chapters in this textbook maintain and are consistent with the basis of school counselors’ work in the school counseling core curriculum responsive services individual planning and system support and special attention is paid to ASCA and CACREP standards. A companion website provides students with templates and handouts for on-the-job responsibilities as well as quiz questions for every chapter. | School Counselors as Practitioners Building on Theory Standards and Experience for Optimal Performance

GBP 56.99
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Punishment and Retribution

Punishment and Retribution

Discussions of punishment typically assume that punishment is criminal punishment carried out by the State. Punishment is however a richer phenomenon and it occurs in many contexts. This book contains a general account of punishment which overcomes the difficulties of competing accounts. Recognizing punishment's manifoldness is valuable not merely in contributing to conceptual clarity but in that this recognition sheds light on the complicated problem of punishment's justification. Insofar as they narrowly presuppose that punishment is criminal punishment most apparent solutions to the tension between consequentialism and retributivism are rather unenlightening if we attempt to apply them in other contexts. Moreover this presupposition has given rise to an unwieldy variety of accounts of retributivism which are less helpful in contexts other than criminal punishment. Treating punishment comprehensibly helps us to better understand how it differs from similar phenomena and to carry on the discussion of its justification fruitfully. | Punishment and Retribution

GBP 51.99
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Agricultural Valuations A Practical Guide

Agricultural Valuations A Practical Guide

Agricultural Valuations: A Practical Guide has long been the standard text for students and professionals working on agricultural valuations. Taking a practical approach it covers all the relevant techniques and legislation necessary to correctly value farms assess farm rents carry out arbitrations inventories and records of condition including valuation clauses on sales of farms livestock soils management agreements valuation in court proceedings and a glossary of useful information. In this fifth edition Gwyn Williams's original text is taken on by Jeremy Moody and Nick Millard renowned experts in the field bringing the book right up to date to reflect recent changes in the rural economy including development diversification and renewable energy and specialist valuations and reference to all the latest legislation. Clear and accessible to students and professionals alike readers will find Agricultural Valuations an invaluable guide to best practice in agricultural valuations. | Agricultural Valuations A Practical Guide

GBP 44.99
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The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level in university college or in the workplace. Skills are needed in reflection analysis communication and recording information to produce good work to engage effectively in a group to carry out a project or perform well in exams; personal skills are needed to handle time and pressure and to relate to others on a course or in the workplace. This new guide builds on the hugely successful materials the authors have developed over the last 15 years. Along with highly practical guidance on traditional learning skills The Guide to Learning and Study Skills provides direction for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal and professional development planning continuing professional development and work-based learning. | The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

GBP 175.00
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Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication A Guide for Research

Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication A Guide for Research

Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication provides an instructive and practical guide to conducting research using methods in corpus linguistics in studies of various forms of online communication. Offering practical exercises and drawing on original data taken from online interactions this book: introduces the basics of corpus linguistics including what is involved in designing and building a corpus; reviews cutting-edge studies of online communication using corpus linguistics foregrounding different analytical components to facilitate studies in professional discourse online learning public understanding of health issues and dating apps; showcases both freely-available corpora and the innovative tools that students and researchers can access to carry out their own research. Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication supports researchers and students in generating high quality applied research and is essential reading for those studying and researching in this area. | Corpus Linguistics for Online Communication A Guide for Research

GBP 36.99
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The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

This title was first published in 2000: Pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are in use in virtually every country in the world. It is therefore useful and important to those involved with these chemicals to have a collection of data concerning the substances most commonly used for agricultural purposes. This Handbook includes data on over 1 800 substances including a number of mixtures which are important in agriculture. Almost all records describing pure chemicals carry the appropriate CAS Registry Number and the associated EINECS Number. All chemicals in this edition which also appear in the twelfth edition of the Merck Index have the Merck Index Number provided. Wherever possible the following information is also provided for each entry: definitions classifications chemical composition functions applications suppliers melting point boiling point density or specific gravity refractive index optical rotation ultraviolet absorption solubility and acute toxicity. | The Ashgate Handbook of Pesticides and Agricultural Chemicals

GBP 34.99
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