Author : I. Mitroff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137412054
Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today's complex, messy problems and systems.
Author : L. Lawrence-Wilkes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137399597
How important is it to be a reflective practitioner in education today? This book examines the reflective practitioner role and the scope of reflective activities in professional practice, revealing that critical thinking is rooted in a philosophical debate about notions of truth linked to differing learning approaches.
Author : J. Grix
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137371188
This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future 'emerging' states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).
Author : Divya Wodon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137444754
Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.
Author : E. Webb
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1137409967
This book examines the mass media systems of Egypt and Tunisia under the pre-uprising regimes, with a focus on the last decade of the Mubarak and Ben Ali periods, as well as on how media are adapting to the political transitions underway. Findings are based on extensive interviews with journalists.
Author : D. Jayatilleka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137395478
This radical new perspective from the Global South casts a fresh light on a major aspect of contemporary history and in doing so suggests an alternative interpretation of twentieth century revolutions, Socialism, left thinking and radical politics.
Author : R. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137381248
This text explores the place to locate the cut between those inequalities for which it is fair to hold one responsible, and those for which it is not. The argument traces a thread of intellectual history, identifying a rejection of strong property rights which we inherit from Locke, and find in contemporary defenders of entitlements such as Nozick.
Author : J. Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137430494
This book looks at a sample of female drug addicts seeking recovery in Narcotics Anonymous (NA). Through working the Twelve Steps and by attending women-only groups, these women are able to confront the double standard that makes recovery from addiction especially difficult.
Author : R. Maples
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137437995
The book analyzes the struggle of African Americans to gain access and equity in higher education in the United States. It chronicles some of the history prior to court ordered segregation and traces the mandate to desegregate by following the Adams v. Richardson (1973) case, which ordered the dismantling of dual systems of higher education.
Author : F. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,32 MB
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137433396
The book tracks the development of Justice Thurgood Marshall's rationale and reason regarding Indian law. Drawing from Marshall's career preceding his appointment to the Supreme Court, it is anticipated that Marshall's views In Indian law would be consistent with his previous role as a champion of the disenfranchised in America.
