Provocative new management principles and practices that create effective organizations for shareholders and society Management experts Lawler and Worley have developed a set of management principles that enable organizations to be both successful and responsible. Existing command & control and hig[...]

Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector's home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies[...]

Management and leadership are increasingly important within the organisation and delivery of social care services and now form part of the post-qualification framework for social workers. This text promotes an appreciation of the development of management and leadership thinking and the different th[...]

In this highly readable new book, Steph Lawler examines a range of important debates about identity. For Lawler, without understanding identity, we cant adequately begin to understand the social world.[...]

New edition of a popular and highly readable examination of debates surrounding identity. Shows how identity is part of the fabric of society, and integral to social relations - critical to how we understand the social world. Covers all the core topics covered by courses in this field, with a new ch[...]

The Middle Ages as they were lived in Eastern Europe are covered in this encyclopedia. An introduction provides an overview of the Byzantine Empire--what life was like, what people wore and ate, how families were formed and cared for, and how the so-called Eastern Empire differed from its Western co[...]

Beginning with the generic means for investigating water to complex processes for the removal of soluble and particulate materials, Water Quality Engineering: Physical/Chemical Treatment Processes provides a comprehensive overview of the physical and chemical processes for treating water and waste[...]

A practical guide to addressing the challenges managers face in implementing and enforcing new anti-bribery regulations The Bribery Act became the law of the land in July 2011. It abolished all existing U.K. anti-bribery laws and replaced them with a suite of new regulations decidedly different and [...]