Product Description: Holy wars, crusades, discrimination, hate these by-products of religion are all many contemporary commentators can see. But is religion dangerous? Is it a force for evil, something to oppose as a corrupt system that leads to terrorism and violence? Is it something to disdain as irrational and out of step with modern society? Keith Ward here addresses these concerns intelligently and insightfully...read more

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Product Description: Traditional textbooks on the subject of management accounting are often heavy-going and intimidating to students meeting the subject for the first time.This title presents a readable, enjoyable alternative which strikes a good balance between the purpose and principles of management accounting and the techniques involved...read more

Product Description: Building on the author's previous book, Financial Aspects of Marketing, Marketing Finance stresses the pivotal relationship between finance and strategy in the marketing process, and clearly demonstrates the techniques and calculations that are necessary to formulate a comprehensive plan...read more

A perspective on the relationship between religion and science in history and the modern world argues that rapidly expanding boundaries of scientific discovery are providing persuasive evidence of God's existence, citing how four major historical discoveries affected humanity's conceptions of God while explaining the author's view of God's role in a scientifically based universe. Original.

Argues against belief systems that support literal interpretations of the Bible, explaining how Christianity has undergone major and necessary changes throughout history, in a detailed study that illustrates the human role played in theology while explaining how believers must be open to change in order to be receptive to God. Original.

Product Description: This book explores the relationship between religion and society, and discusses the ways in which the major world religions need to adapt to the modern world. Keith Ward looks at different forms of religious community, then proposes a radical vision of the church as a person-affirming, world-transforming society within the emerging global community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The work of a sports therapist is highly technical and requires a confident, responsible and professional approach. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Therapy, Injury Assessment and Rehabilitation is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for those studying or working in this field and is the first book to comprehensively cover all of the following areas: Sports Injury Aetiology Soft Tissue Injury Healing Clinical Assessment in Sports Therapy Clinical Interventions in Sports Therapy Spinal and Peripheral Anatomy, Injury Assessment and Management Pitch-side Trauma Care Professionalism and Ethics in Sports Therapy The Handbook presents principles which form the foundation of the profession and incorporates a set of spinal and peripheral regional chapters which detail functional anatomy, the injuries common to those regions, and evidence-based assessment and management approaches...read more

Product Description: This multi-contributed work makes the case for closer links between strategic management and the strategic elements of financial management and puts forward a new framework to show how finance can be managed for strategic advantage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contains articles or extracts from numerous publications including: "Harvard Business Review"; "The Journal of Business Strategy"; "International Economic Review"; "Journal of Economic Theory"; "Financial Management"; "American Economic Review"; "Journal of Political Economy".