Product Description: Wendy Lockinge, Vice Chancellor of a university set in the North of England, and formerly a celebrity detective, is battling against a drug crisis on campus. She also has to manage her problem relationship with daughter Jessica, who accuses her of abandoning the search for her missing father...read more

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Product Description: Tennis Matters is an account of the author’s obsession with tennis from his schooldays through his working career as a scientist and a Business School Professor. It documents his fruitless search for a respectable tennis forehand shot...read more

Product Description: Leadership, the practice of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students. Readers are invited to make a series of metaphorical journeys of discovery, thematically organized around fundamental dilemmas within the field of leadership studies...read more

Product Description: Creativity can be as difficult to define as it is to achieve. This is a complex and compelling area of study and this volume is perfectly poised to explore how creativity can be better understood, and used, in a range of contexts...read more

Product Description: This ground-breaking book provides an overview of key business topics for advanced students following a business studies course. In addition, it describes how readers can build a 'platform of understanding' of conventional wisdom, and how to study that platform in order to discover new and potentially valuable ideas that depart from the supplied orthodox views...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Creativity is not a rare talent. On the contrary, argues Tudor Rickards in this book, most people have the capacity to be creative but their potential is often untapped. Creativity at the workplace can be seen as a process of escaping from constraints, some of them self-imposed and some produced by an organizational climate unsympathetic to new thinking...read more