Product Description: Effective negotiation skills just got easierThere was a time, not that long ago, when negotiation was seen, in the main, as the province of industrial relations folk and car-sales advisers. But, no longer! Repeated financial crises have squeezed profit margins and, in some markets, discouraged buyers from making marginal purchases or continuing habitual expenditure...read more

Product Description: For anyone who wants to think more deeply about how they negotiate, to get better results, this book will help you to have new skills and knowledge, and be fully ready to use it in a specific negotiationWith a combination of practical tried-and-tested advice, and unique interactive exercises done in your own time, at your own pace, this book will help you achieve your goals...read more

Product Description: This book is not an exercise in either theology or historiography. It s more an exploration of simple affection and/or repulsion. The book seeks to find out, by looking at one account of Jesus the Gospel of Matthew whether we can like him...read more

Product Description: Learn to negotiate more successfully and advance your career Written by Peter Fleming, a leading expert on negotiations, this book quickly teaches you the insider secrets you need to get a better deal. The seven straightforward chapters feature the key points of the subject, as well as questions to ensure you have taken it all in...read more

Product Description: With so much now expected of middle leaders in schools, this book aims to help those in middle leadership positions to become more confident and effective in their roles. It systematically considers every aspect of the role including team building, raising standards, holding others to account and managing change...read more

Product Description: News from Tartary describes a phenomenally successful attempt that legendary adventurer Peter Fleming made to travel overland from Peking to Kashmir. The journey took seven months and covered about 3,500 miles. and Motivated largely by curiosity, he set out with his companion Ella Maillart across a China torn by civil war to journey through Xinjiang to British India...read more

Aimed at supporting those undertaking initial teacher training and the statutory Induction period that follows, Becoming a Secondary School Teacher explores the skills, roles and knowledge needed to become a successful teacher in today’s secondary schools. Providing detailed guidance on key areas of professional practice, the book helps the reader to link key theories and principles to the reality they will find in the classroom. This edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest legislation and Teachers’ Standards as well as changes in practice and expectations regarding learning, assessment and inclusion. Highly accessible and full of practical advice it includes: • guidance on key skills for classroom success including lesson planning, classroom management and assessment; • practical tips on handling areas of real concern such as discipline, workload, job interviews and relationships with colleagues; • advice on teaching beyond your specialist subject and teaching in challenging circumstances; • reference throughout to the Core Standards that have to be met during training, what these mean in practice and how they might be evidenced. With a strong reflective focus through case studies, action points and reflection points, this book is core reading for all students wanting to get the most out of their initial teacher training programme.

Written to address the professional studies issues elements of achieving QTS, this text explores the skills, roles and knowledge needed to ensure a productive teaching career. Viewing the transition from initial teacher training to the induction year as a process of continual development it bridges the academic world and classroom.

Product Description: Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (Csr) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress Csr advocacy, from a political and critical perspective...read more

Product Description: The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Planned by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game, the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations...read more

Product Description: This title presents new Foreword by Giles Foden. In the summer of 1925 Colonel Fawcett - soldier, spy and legendary explorer - embarked on a journey into the dark and uncharted heart of Brazil in search of the lost 'City of Z'. He was never seen again...read more

Product Description: On July sixteenth, 1940, Hitler issued Directive No. 16, setting in motion Operation Sea Lion—his plan to invade England. The success of Operation Sea Lion hinged entirely on the destruction of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy...read more

Product Description: In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist control...read more

Product Description: When in 1934 at the age of twenty-seven, Peter Fleming set out for the Far East, his ultimate goal was to return from China to India overland - a journey he later described in the classic News from Tartary. On his outward journey Fleming travelled through regions which remain some of the most remote and least-visited in Asia and which, soon after his journey, became closed entirely to westerners...read more

Product Description: Our all-too-human hero, Ishmael Starbuck, has no idea who he is. So, when a man with a gun disturbs his silent reverie in the Botanical Gardens in Sydney, he decides to make an adventure out of it. He meets Kim Hawthorne and her friend Hymoliga Eight - a Martian plant with the power of travelling through time and space - and he sets off on an adventure around the cosmos...read more

Product Description: The 'personal' was once something to be put to one side in the work place: a 'professional manner' entailed the suppression of private life and feelings. Now many large corporations can be found exhorting their employees to simply be themselves...read more

Product Description: In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption has increasingly featured on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the actual causes of corruption. This highly topical volume demonstrates how agency (the decisions and choices of individuals) and structure (the contextual pressures in the business environment) can interact to result in the rapid escalation of corporate crime and corruption...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.