This work contributes to the now widely debated issue of managing diversity. It blends theory and practice in order to provide substance to the debate on diversity management in the social and systems sciences. It focuses on triple loop learning.[...]
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
The great Biblical flood so desc[...]
The Bhagavad Gita, the "Song of the Lord," is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne. This new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines th[...]
Strategy according to Percy Barnevik, Chairman of ABB is 10 per cent vision and 90 per cent execution. Yet standard textbooks of strategic management are decidedly light in terms of their treatment of the organisational issues which frequently derail change initiatives. This text on the implementati[...]
Disobedient Objects is about out-designing authority. It explores the material culture of radical change and protest - from objects familiar to many, such as banners or posters, to the more militant, cunning or technologically cutting-edge, including lock-ons, book-blocs and activist robots. Where[...]
When Gordon Cloade dies and leaves his wife a widow for the second time, she inherits the family fortune. Cloade's sister believes the lady's first "dead" husband is actually alive and claims the "spirits" as her source of information. Poirot, unconvinced, is mystified by her true motives.[...]
Shortly after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is killed by a bomb blast in the blitz. The former Mrs Underhay is now in sole possession of the family fortune. Poirot is approched by Gordon's sister in law claiming that Mrs Underhay's first husband is still alive.[...]
A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room...
James Gleick, the author of the best sellers "Chaos" and "Genius, " now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality--the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The sto[...]
In 2014 the Somerset Levels suffered from the worst flooding in over twenty years. Inevitably the residents asked for more drainage, more dredging and more money. Flooding in the area has been an issue since it was a marshland, but is more drainage and more dredging the answer?[...]
A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room...
`Exquisitely written' Sunday TimesBeautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future g[...]
Non-stop action, terrifying dinosaurs and a race to save the world...'I'm sorry,' I said, sure I hadn't heard her right. 'Do you mean you are still bringing dinosaurs back to life?' Were people really still resurrecting the creatures responsible for nearly wiping out the human race? Sky Mundy's life[...]
They were both prewar failures--Grant, forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman, holding four different jobs, including a much-loved position at a southern military academy--in the years before the firing on Fort Sumter. They began their unique collaboration ten mo[...]
Leafstar is struggling to keep SkyClan united in the wake of the flood that destroyed their camp, but her Clanmates are scared of what might happen next. Meanwhile, Sol continues to demand that Leafstar make him a warrior, but Leafstar isn't sure that Sol will ever be ready to embrace the warrior co[...]
A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast inthe London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhayfinds herself in sole possession of the Cloadefamily fortune.Shortly afterward, Hercule Poirot receives a visitfrom the dead man's sister-in-law w[...]
Ben's on a trip to London to meet his mum. But an accident at the Thames Barrier, combined with a tidal surge and a thunderstorm - and suddenly his trip turns into something totally different as the Barrier is breached and London is flooded. As Ben tries to get across London, little does he know tha[...]
"Is there anyone on earth who is so narrow-minded or uninquisitive that he could fail to want to know how and thanks to what kind of political system almost the entire known world was conquered and brought under a single empire in less than fifty-three years?" --Polybius, Histories
The 53-year p[...]
Written to offer consolidation for children who need plenty of reading practice before moving up. The stories introduce different characters, families and settings. They are coded according to the Book Bands system. The Teaching Notes booklet is the same size as the pupil books for classroom managem[...]
The Stage 8 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories provide humorous storylines to engage and motivate children. The popular characters and familiar settings are brought to life by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. The stories are unchanged from the previous edition but the cover notes have been updated to supp[...]
The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and determined conquest of the land to whose art, p[...]
From Ancient Greek times, music has been seen as a mathematical art, and the relationship between mathematics and music has fascinated generations. This collection of illustrated papers presents the link between these two subjects in a manner that is suitable for students of both subjects, as well a[...]