Product Description: The pressures and demands of professionalism and commercialization have transformed Britain's sports. At the end of the 20th century sports have been packaged and marketed as mass entertainment for a national or even international audience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Tells the story of an experiment in social democracy carried out by a Labour-controlled council which envisaged the bomb-shattered city as a model of urban regeneration and imaginative planning. This work re-examines iconic city of the 20th century illuminating the changes that engulfed industrial England during and after the Second World War.

Product Description: Using theories of public policy making, this work analyzes UK experience of Integrated Pollution Control (IPC). Created in 1990, this policy has since failed to meet initial aspirations, and the book provides an exposition of the factors behind environmental policy making in action...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings. Case studies are used to provide the starting point for reflection, and throughout the chapters you are asked to consider the examples, stand back, interpret and audit your own actions in order to develop your management skills. This book will assist managers and prospective managers by providing them with the tools to facilitate staff training sessions or to conduct personal enquiry into the working of their own organization. Chapters cover: leadership and management teams and team building staff motivation managing change selecting suitable staff and effective interviewing staff assessment projecting and maintaining a positive image for your school or nursery managing conflict and stress.

Product Description: This volume reveals how a fledgling Fabian journal came to play a key role in the growth of the modern Labour Party. The author compares its first journalists with later generations of editors and writers and rediscovers the early, and lasting, importance of the British Left's best-known magazine...read more

Product Description: The essays collected here explore the popular press since 1896--from Harmsworth's Daily Mail to Maxwell's Mirror. The history of the popular press has always been about more than big headlines and big profit margins. Personal ambition, partisan loyalty, institutional rivalry, and public accountability join commercial opportunism as the book's recurrent themes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The current economic transition in Central and Eastern Europe is leading to the emergence of significant fragmentation within regions and between countries. The competitive struggle for scarce resources and global markets during the transition to capitalism in Eastern and Central Europe has caused countries to move away from a process of regional convergence which existed under state socialism to regional divergence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: What is the relationship between sport and national identity? What can sport tell us about changing perceptions of national identity?Bringing together the work of established historians and younger commentators, this illuminating text surveys the last half-century, giving due attention to the place of sport in our social and political history...read more

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Discusses the general 12-color palette, and shows the 132 colors which can be mixed from it, also explores color values, and gives suggestions for specific subjects (view table of contents)

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