Product Description: Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years  cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions reductions and managing the consequences of climate change...read more

Product Description: This lively and imaginative book illustrates and suggests solutions for common management problems using the age-old device of story-telling. In the great tradition of the Greek slave Aesop who lived and told his animal fables around 600BC, seventeen animals have been chosen for this unique set of cautionary tales for managers...read more

Product Description: Laurie Taylor's column in the THES is read by everyone in Higher Education. Over the past fifteen years, he has lampooned university life through the much loved figures of Professor Lapping, his long suffering secretary Maureen, Dr Quintock and the ever absent Dr Piercemuller...read more