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  • COMPARATIVE DYNAMICS IN THE COMICS INDUSTRY
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    COMPARATIVE DYNAMICS IN THE COMICS INDUSTRY
    RUDI DE VRIES
    Due to the enormous cultural and economic impact of the Marvel movies, manga, and anime, research on the comics industry is growing, but has focused primarily on the US and Japan. This book focusses on the European comics industry to explore the complex impact of organizational and cultural differences in audience behaviours, both in the comics industry specifically and in the ...

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  • NARCISSISTIC LEADERSHIP
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    NARCISSISTIC LEADERSHIP
    MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES
    Narcissism has become a contemporary pandemic that seems to have been normalized, accepted, and even celebrated, both in society at large and by some of our political and business leaders. In this book, world-renowned psychology and leadership thinker Manfred Kets de Vries explains this modern phenomenon and imagines how you would help the narcissist on the notional "coach’s co...

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  • STORYTELLING FOR LEADERS
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    STORYTELLING FOR LEADERS
    MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES
    Stories matter. Written by renowned psychoanalyst, leadership scholar, and executive coach, Manfred Kets de Vries, this book uncovers, explains, and captures the power and art of storytelling at work and in life, and how it can be applied in organizations to powerful effect. Our talent in telling stories makes us more effective. When we talk about events, characters, actions, t...

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  • THE DARKER SIDE OF LEADERSHIP
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    THE DARKER SIDE OF LEADERSHIP
    MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES
    Manfred Kets de Vries is one of the most authoritative voices on organizational dynamics, leadership, executive coaching, and psychotherapy today. In all his roles, he has noticed that questions are now, increasingly, coming back to one thing – the wider state of the world. Using an engaging and highly readable style throughout the book, Manfred helps us to make sense of the co...

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  • GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE FOR SMART LAND MANAGEMENT
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    GEOSPATIAL SCIENCE FOR SMART LAND MANAGEMENT
    WALTER TIMO DE VRIES
    Responsible land distribution in Asia, with ever-increasing limitations in space, requires the use of smart technologies, sophisticated models, intelligent algorithms, and big data repositories. This book presents new land management perspectives and fit-for-purpose, flexible, dynamic, and effective solutions for land management and land administration problems. Written by glob...

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  • A LIFE WELL LIVED
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    A LIFE WELL LIVED
    MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES
    Manfred Kets de Vries wears many “hats”—psychoanalyst, executive coach, consultant, management educator, researcher, writer—but he has noticed that whichever hat he is wearing, every question he is asked boils down to one thing: “How can I live a well-lived life?” Over many years of practice in all these disciplines, Professor Kets de Vries has realized the unsurpassed value of...

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  • NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AS SITUATIONAL LOGIC
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    NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AS SITUATIONAL LOGIC
    PIET DE VRIES
    Drawing on phenomenological and realist approaches, this book surveys the theoretical evolution of new institutional economics. For all its popularity and explanatory power, new institutional economics is not a homogenous field but encompasses a range of different theoretical approaches starting from Coase and the introduction of transaction costs. In particular, the concept of...

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  • FOOD SAFETY AND TOXICITY
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    FOOD SAFETY AND TOXICITY
    JOHN DE VRIES, PH.D.
    Food Safety and Toxicity examines the many problems and changes in food safety and toxicity. From a natural science viewpoint, this informative book takes on challenging and important topics impacting food researchers, regulators, producers, healthcare providers, educators, and consumers. It is organized into three main sections. Section 1 explores the relationship between the ...

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  • INNOVATION RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
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    INNOVATION RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
    MARC J. DE VRIES
    Philosophy may not seem to be an obvious source to discover methods for successful product innovation management. However, this book shows that systematic reflection on the nature of product innovation management, supported by insights from the philosophy of technology, can illuminate the innovation process in technology and engineering. Presenting methodological guidelines and...

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  • RESPONSIBLE AND SMART LAND MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS
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    RESPONSIBLE AND SMART LAND MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS
    WALTER TIMO DE VRIES / JOHN TIAH BUGRI / FATIMA MANDHU
    This book showcases new empirical findings on the conceptualization, design, and evaluation of land management interventions and addresses two crucial aspects: how and under which conditions such interventions are responsible, and how such interventions can be supported by smart technologies. Responsible and Smart Land Management Interventions is for all types of actors in land...

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  • KINSHIP BEREAVEMENT IN LATER LIFE
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    KINSHIP BEREAVEMENT IN LATER LIFE
    BRIAN DE VRIES
    This collection of articles is an outgrowth of the Death, Dying, Bereavement and Widowhood Interest Group of the Gerontological Society of America and comprises empirical accounts of several distinct family losses: the death of a spouse, sibling, parent, child, and grandchild. These articles represent normative and non-normative losses; the juxtaposition of short-term and long-...

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  • ARE LEADERS BORN OR ARE THEY MADE?
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    ARE LEADERS BORN OR ARE THEY MADE?
    ELISABET ENGELLAU / MANFRED F. R. KETS DE VRIES
    This book discusses the psychodynamics of leadership-in and relies on concepts of developmental psychology, family systems theory, cognitive theory, dynamic psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis to understand Alexander's behaviour and actions. ...

    $740.00

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  • DOCK WORKERS
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    DOCK WORKERS
    SAM DAVIES / COLIN J. DAVIS / DAVID DE VRIES / LEX HEERMA VAN VOSS / LIDEWIJ HESSELINK / KLAUS WEINHAUER
    Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective...

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  • UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSING STUDENTS
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    UNDERSTANDING PSYCHOLOGY FOR NURSING STUDENTS
    JAN DE VRIES / FIONA TIMMINS
    Do your students find psychology difficult to engage with or want a textbook that is easy to read? Would they benefit from a textbook that demonstrates how psychology applies to nursing? Right from the start of their programme it is crucial for nursing students to understand the significance of psychology in nursing. This book helps students recognise why they need to know abou...

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  • CATERINA SFORZA AND THE ART OF APPEARANCES
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    CATERINA SFORZA AND THE ART OF APPEARANCES
    JOYCE DE VRIES
    In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy. Sforza commissioned elaborate artistic and architectural works, participated in splendid civic an...

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  • CIVIL SOCIETY, ASSOCIATIONS AND URBAN PLACES
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    CIVIL SOCIETY, ASSOCIATIONS AND URBAN PLACES
    BOUDIEN DE VRIES
    In recent years the concept of 'civil society' has become central to the historian's understanding of class, cultural and political power in the nineteenth-century town and city. Increasingly clubs and voluntary societies have been regarded as an important step in the formation of formal political parties, particularly for the working and middle classes. The result of this is t...

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  • EYE OF THE FIRESTORM
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    EYE OF THE FIRESTORM
    ROLAND DE VRIES
    For his exploits and astuteness, Roland de Vries has rightfully been called the ‘Rommel of the SADF’. In this forthright, warts-and-all but compassionate autobiography he recounts the fascinating story of the transformation of a small, colonial army into, pound-for-pound, the best fighting force on the planet. "Eye of the Firestorm" could be used to enhance the teaching within ...

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  • THE GREAT WAR THROUGH PICTURE POSTCARDS
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    THE GREAT WAR THROUGH PICTURE POSTCARDS
    GUUS DE VRIES
    During World War I, the picture postcard was the most important means of communication for the soldiers in the field and their loved ones at home, with an estimated 30 billion of them sent between 1914 and 1918. A Postcard from home offered the soldier in the trenches a short escape from their daily hell, while receiving a postcard from the man on the front-line was literally a...

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  • PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
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    PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
    MAARTEN VERKERK / JAN HOOGLAND / JAN VAN DER STOEP / MARC DE VRIES
    Philosophy of Technology: An introduction for technology and business students is an accessible guide to technology’s changes , their ubiquitousness, and the many questions these raise. Designed for those with no philosophical background in mind, it is ideal for technology and engineering students or specialists who want to learn to think critically about how their work influen...

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  • THE CAT'S PAJAMAS AND WITCH'S MILK
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    THE CAT'S PAJAMAS AND WITCH'S MILK
    PETER DE VRIES
    Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America's preeminent comic novelist" by the New York Times When college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked doo...

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  • COMFORT ME WITH APPLES
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    COMFORT ME WITH APPLES
    PETER DE VRIES
    A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called "a Balzac of the station wagon set" Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their evenings crafting perverse aphorisms in an ice-cream parlor. "There is only one thi...

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  • THE TENTS OF WICKEDNESS
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    THE TENTS OF WICKEDNESS
    PETER DE VRIES
    A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspire After the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column in the local newspaper. His hard-won contentment is about to disappear like warm...

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  • LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
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    LET ME COUNT THE WAYS
    PETER DE VRIES
    The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it all Stanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses "illusion" with "allusion" and thinks a certain style of egg is "bedeviled," that does n...

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  • THE MACKEREL PLAZA
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    THE MACKEREL PLAZA
    PETER DE VRIES
    An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as "the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic" Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People's Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is the first split-level church in America, a bastion of modern thought and sophisticated virtue...

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  • THE VALE OF LAUGHTER
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    THE VALE OF LAUGHTER
    PETER DE VRIES
    A brilliant, fiercely funny novel that ponders the eternal question: is it better to laugh or cry? Joe Sandwich is a clown. Not literally, but what else do you call an eleven-year-old who goes to church to confess his good deeds: "I did my homework without being told"? A stockbroker who gets seasick watching the market tape and claims the gross national product is "deodorants"?...

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  • FIGHTING SPIRIT
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    FIGHTING SPIRIT
    FERNANDO RICKSEN / VINCENT DE VRIES / BARRY FERGUSON
    Fernando Ricksen was a fighter. As a footballer, Ricksen carved out a fearsome reputation for Rangers, Zenit St Petersburg and Holland. Throughout his time at Ibrox, his aggressive approach won him hero status among the Rangers fans, and off the field he was just as dynamic a force, finding himself on the front page as often as in the sports section. After leaving the club in 2...

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  • FINITE AUTOMATA
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    FINITE AUTOMATA
    A. DE VRIES
    This dictionary supplies associations which have been evoked by certain words, signs, etc. in Western civilization in the past, and which may float to the surface again tomorrow; for however 'daringly new' a modern use of imagery may look, it generally appears to have roots in what has been said and done in the past. No fine distinctions have been made between symbols (in the l...

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  • ORGANIZATIONAL PARADOXES
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    ORGANIZATIONAL PARADOXES
    KETS DE VRIES, MANFRED F. R.
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 vol...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
    DE VRIES, PIET / YEHOUE, ETIENNE B.
    A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships provides a cutting-edge survey of the field. PPPs remain a highly controversial...

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  • THE FRUITS OF GRACE
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    THE FRUITS OF GRACE
    MINKE DE VRIES
    Before Taize, there was Grandchamp. The lesser-known Protestant women's community, initiated in 1936, grew out of generations of women's groups in French-speaking Switzerland. It was heavily influenced by Wilfred Monod, the Student Christian movement, Swiss Reformed efforts at liturgical renewal, and Bonhoeffer's Life Together. It was deeply affected by the angst generated by W...

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