Product Description: Many people are ill-equipped to deal with modern-day stressors, causing them to react as though they are being attacked. In Coaching for Resilience, Adrienne Green and John Humphrey use the principles of positive psychology to show coaches, trainers and managers how to motivate and inspire people to build greater resilience to pressure...read more

Product Description: Book by HUMPHREY JOHN

Product Description: Comanche Epitaph chronicles the epic flight of a band of Quohada after their defeat in the Palo Duro Canyon of Texas. The account puts human faces on the demoralized Indians, and brings to life the personalities of the survivors as they flee across the high plains...read more

Product Description: A Texas Odyssey is an engaging mixture of western saga and interwoven bits of factual history. The story contains romance, intrigue, and suffering as well as sorrow that will move the reader, but it also includes humor that often highlights the story line...read more

Product Description: A true guide to the necessary characteristics for reaching the top of a profession and achieving long term success. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The CBS sports analyst and commentator brings together commentaries, anecdotes, and profiles to highlight the meaning of 'character.' Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The emerging markets have shifted rapidly from being the key growth points of the global auto industry in the mid 1990s, to being in crisis and recession at the end of the decade. This volume addresses three questions about the emerging markets and their role within the global auto industry: · What are the production and sales prospects for emerging markets, and how might firms and governments respond to current problems? · What spatial configurations are likely to emerge within these markets and within the global auto industry more generally? · What division of activities is likely to develop between the emerging markets and the established vehicle producing regions? The papers in this collection are based on extensive fieldwork in a broad range of emerging markets by researchers from developed and developing countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As developing markets are opened up to global competition, firms in developing countries are being confronted with a host of new problems. In order to explore a broad systemic response to the challenge of globalization, the authors of this unique book critically examine the case of Crompton Greaves Limited, a leading Indian firm in the electrical industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Humphrey, John, Arthur, J. Richard, Subasinghe, Rohana P., Phillips, Michael J. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As countries in the Third World become more industrialized, what type of sexual division of labour will be established? Taking Brazil as an example, John Humphrey examines the issues around this question.

Product Description: On August 1, 1975, thirty-five nations solemnly signed a pledge--the Helsinki Accords--to maintain one code of human rights law. This book surveys the performance of these countries in upholding the rights important to scientists--the rights to education, work, communication, expression, travel, assembly, association, reputation and intellectual achievement...read more

Product Description: The Description for this book, Capitalist Control and Workers' Struggle in the Brazilian Auto Industry, will be forthcoming.