Product Description: Before attaining a cult fan following as a result of his appearance in the documentary film Beyond the Mat, Dennis Stamp was a wrestling star who competed across the globe. In his career, he faced the very best athletes in his profession, and worked in various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance, the American Wrestling Association and across Japan...read more

Product Description: At a time in history when global challenges are becoming more intractable and threatening, it makes sense to draw on the specialist expertise of our universities. Much of government interest in doing so has typically focused on the major research institutions with their records of new discovery and invention...read more

Product Description: The fundamental issue posed by this book is what kind of partnerships between government, academic researchers and community groups can best work to achieve a range of social and economic objectives. What kinds of objectives, whom they are determined by, and how they are measured, are themes which run throughout the text...read more

Product Description: This book examines the challenges facing those who make and implement social policy at a time when free-trade economics reign supreme. It draws on linked ideas of social capital and the management of place, and presents international perspectives from a diverse range of countries, to question the domination of the economic and call for a new balance in making policy and measuring what is achieved...read more

Product Description: This book debunks prevailing modern management theories and fashions as applied to higher education. At the same time it provides practical guidance for a clear and easily understood set of principles as to how universities and colleges can be re-energized and their staff mobilized to be effective in meeting the growing and changing needs of the global knowledge society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In many universities there are now more adults as students than young people straight from school. Yet many universities continue to act as if no such change had taken place. This text asks: what are university access policies and how do they connect with practice?; how do adults experience universities, and how do universities assist them?; what can universities realistically do to improve the access to and experience of university for adults...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Duke assesses to what extent institutions of higher education are examining their role and modifying it to reflect changes in society and educational theory. In particular he asks to what extent the concept of lifelong learning is represented in institutional planning, both in terms of addressing the needs of students and promoting staff development...read more

Product Description: This book presents the proceedings of the first ever international symposium on Adult Education to be held in China by the international council for Adult Education (ICAE) and the Adult Education Association of China.