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  • OPENING THE DOOR
    KATHLEEN JONES / JOHN BROWN / W. J. CUNNINGHAM / JULIAN ROBERTS / PETER WILLIAMS
    First published in 1975, Opening the Door is a survey of policies and problems in services for the mentally handicapped. It describes the improvements which have taken place since 1969, when the inquiry into conditions of patients at Ely hospital in South Wales stimulated public concern into the quality of life of many mentally handicapped people in hospital. The authors discus...

    $840.00

  • ISSUES IN SOCIAL POLICY
    KATHLEEN JONES / JOHN BROWN / JONATHAN BRADSHAW
    First published in 1978, Issues in Social Policy is designed as a basic textbook for social administration students in universities, polytechnics and similar institutions, and for students in allied fields such as medicine, nursing and public administration. What is meant when we talk of ‘equality’ and ‘equity’ as social goals? Do the two conflict? What are the social needs and...

    $840.00

  • DRAMA AND THE THEATRE WITH RADIO, FILM AND TELEVISION
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre as a subject for study and the ways of studying it. All its contributors have practical experience of staging plays for professional or student companies, or for both. Necessarily, attention is chiefly focused on the main elements of plays in performance in the...

    $840.00

  • DEEPENING DEMOCRACY IN POST-NEOLIBERAL BOLIVIA AND VENEZUELA
    JOHN BROWN
    This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela. A twin crisis of democratic representation and socio-economic precarity created space for anti-system outsiders to emerge on the left flank of traditional party-systems in Bolivia and Venezuela, paving the way for a "post-neolibe...

    $1,160.00

  • PAYING FOR PERFORMANCE: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
    MICHELLE BROWN / JOHN S. HEYWOOD
    Although performance pay is used in many industrialized nations, the structure and success of this pay system vary widely depending on the institutions, regulatory framework, and legal settings of each country. This book makes the details and effects of these local variations clear for the first time. World-renowned experts on the programs in their respective countries provide ...

    $1,420.00

  • CROSS-CULTURAL PRACTICE WITH COUPLES AND FAMILIES
    JOHN S SHALETT / PHILIP M BROWN
    Cross-Cultural Practice with Couples and Families prepares you for the ways that cultural realities can affect your social work practice with both couples and families. You will gain in-depth exposure to a variety of cultural values and perspectives and learn to identify similarities and differences between and among different ethnic families. This will lead you to a deeper, mo...

    $1,200.00

  • RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
    VALERIE BROWN / DAVID INGLE SMITH / ROB WISEMAN / JOHN HANDMER
    First published in 1995. Managing today’s rapidly changing environment inevitably involves managing conflicts between the demands of development and conservation; the needs of the present and of the future; and between different community interests, professional positions and political priorities. Risks and Opportunities provides both a guide to managing environmental change, a...

    $1,060.00

  • REGIONALISATION AND INTEGRATION IN CHINA
    COLIN BROWN / JOHN LONGWORTH / SCOTT WALDRON
    This title was first published in 2002: Changing economic, institutional and market environments have turned the spatial inter-relationships thought to exist in China upside-down. Through an investigation of the beef industry, this text builds a picture of where regionalization and integration are heading in China. It examines the impacts of market forces, industry characterist...

    $1,600.00

  • STRATEGIC OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
    STEVE BROWN / JOHN BESSANT / FU JIA
    Strategic Operations Management, 4th Edition, shows how vital it is to have world-class operations management in any organisation. In the past, where organisations tended to be more hierarchical than today, the words, "strategy" and "operations" were almost mutually exclusive. In today's highly competitive environment, though, strategic operations capabilities must be in place ...

    $1,800.00

  • THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY IN LATER PREHISTORY
    JOHN BOARDMAN, M. A. BROWN AND T. G. E. POWELL
    The essays collected together in this volume were written in honour of Professor Christopher Hawkes, in recognition of his stature as an international scholar and his generosity in encouraging the work of others. The collection consists of a closely-knit group of studies, and includes contributions from continental scholars. The topics covered range from links between the Mycen...

    $1,460.00

  • N.H., THE LADIES DICTIONARY (1694)
    JOHN CONSIDINE / SYLVIA BROWN
    The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment for the fair-sex was published on 19 March 1694 by John Dunton. No compiler was named on the title page, but the dedication by 'the author' addressed 'to the Ladies, Gentlewomen, and Others, of the Fair-Sex' was signed 'N. H.' The book offers around 1950 lexical and encyclopaedic entries, the great majority excerpted eith...

    $960.00

  • SUPPORTING PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AT HOME
    DAVID CHALLIS / CAROLINE SUTCLIFFE / JANE HUGHES / RICHARD VON ABENDORFF / PAMELA BROWN / JOHN CHESTERMAN
    Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They...

    $1,420.00

  • TIME, SPACE, AND THE MARKET
    STEPHEN BROWN / JOHN F. SHERRY JR
    A study of retroscapes, commercial environments that evoke past times and places, a ubiquitous manifestation of modern marketing. It covers an array of retailing milieux, in a number of different countries, at a variety of spatial scales, and from various evaluative perspectives, both pro and con. ...

    $860.00

  • PEOPLE OF THE FLINT HILLS
    JOHN E. BROWN
    The Flint Hills stretch across eighty-two thousand square miles of American history in a long, rocked-up, grassed-up finger pointing from the Oklahoma border all the way to Nebraska. This history winds though the mythos of the cowboy, climbing among families built on fierce independence, respect for the land and the water, and stubborn refusal to sacrifice a way of life to enfo...

    $179.00

  • SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH
    VALERIE A. BROWN / JOHN GROOTJANS / JAN RITCHIE / MARDIE TOWNSEND / GLENDA VERRINDER
    Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting on the health of populations across the world. Diseases are crossing the species barrier, and spreading rapidly through globalised transport systems. From new patterns of cancer to the threat of global pandemics, it is imperative that public health practitioners acknowledge th...

    $1,540.00

  • THE HUMAN CAPACITY FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
    VALERIE A. BROWN / JOHN A. HARRIS
    Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframin...

    $1,560.00

  • SHAKESPEARE AND HIS COMEDIES
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The originality, vitality and variety of Shakespeare's comedies do not suggest a writer at ease with a formula which works to his own satisfaction and the pleasure of his audience; against first impressions they suggest an artist seeking to express an idea which is always eluding a completely developed p...

    $1,460.00

  • FOCUS ON MACBETH
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    First published in 1982. Macbeth exercises a strange influence over readers and theatre audiences: the words of the text offer no easy clue to meaning or significance and in dramatic structure the play is very different from other Shakespearean tragedies. Many kinds of study are needed in order to understand the tragedy of Macbeth and this book provides a wide range of studies ...

    $1,320.00

  • PR AND COMMUNICATION IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES
    JOHN BROWN / PAT GAUDIN / WENDY MORAN
    In the UK's current climate of budget cuts and policy changes, local government officials need to be aware of best practice in both broadcasting their services and responding to crises in their communities. Meanwhile, changes in the media - from the rise of social media, to web access for older consumers - present new challenges for local councils about how to best convey their...

    $1,049.00

  • THE DARVISHES
    JOHN P. BROWN
    The Darvishes is an invaluable contribution to the study of the Belief and spiritual principles of the Darvish Orders and is one of the most accurate reference works on the subject. Drawn exclusively from the original Oriental works, and from Turkish, Arabic and Persian manuscripts the originality and authenticity of the work is beyond doubt. As well as discussing Darvish doctr...

    $5,300.00

  • NEW SITES FOR SHAKESPEARE
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    In the course of exploring the theatrical cultures of South and East Asia, eminent Shakespeareanist John Russell Brown developed some remarkable theories about the nature of performance, the state of Western 'Theatre' today, and the future potential of Shakespeare's plays. In New Sites for Shakespeare he outlines his passionate belief in the power of theatre to reach mass audie...

    $1,120.00

  • WHAT IS THEATRE?
    JOHN BROWN
    This major introductory textbook is from one of the leading educators working in theatre today. What Is Theatre? will make its reader a better playgoer, responding more fully to performance, with a keener appreciation of all the resources of theatre-acting, design, direction, organization, theatre buildings, and audiences. By focusing on the best professional practice and the m...

    $1,660.00

  • STORYTELLING IN ORGANIZATIONS
    LAURENCE PRUSAK / KATALINA GROH / STEPHEN DENNING / JOHN SEELY BROWN
    This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea that narrative and storytelling could be so powerful a tool in the world of organiza...

    $1,360.00

  • TACKLING WICKED PROBLEMS
    VALERIE A. BROWN / JOHN A. HARRIS / JACQUELINE RUSSELL
    From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressi...

    $1,760.00

  • A HANDBOOK FOR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TEACHING
    ROBERT J. MARZANO / JOHN L. BROWN
    In A Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching, Robert J. Marzano and John L. Brown help you explore and refine your instructional strategies, always with the goal of enhancing student achievement. As a companion volume to Marzano's The Art and Science of Teaching, the handbook is intended to be a guide for individual teachers, study groups, and professional developers worki...

    $692.00

  • A HANDBOOK FOR THE ART AND SCIENCE OF TEACHING
    ROBERT J. MARZANO / JOHN L. BROWN
    In A Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching, Robert J. Marzano and John L. Brown help you explore and refine your instructional strategies, always with the goal of enhancing student achievement. As a companion volume to Marzano's The Art and Science of Teaching, the handbook is intended to be a guide for individual teachers, study groups, and professional developers worki...

    $692.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO DIRECTORS' SHAKESPEARE
    JOHN RUSSELL BROWN
    The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre’s most talented directors have brought Shakespeare’s texts to the stage. Each chapter has a revealing story to tell as it explores a new and revitalising approach to the most familiar works ...

    $1,600.00

  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF INDUSTRY
    RICHARD BROWN / JOHN CHILD / DR S R PARKER
    This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the social actions of individuals and groups within an organisational structure. It is...

    $1,260.00

  • MAKING THE MOST OF UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN
    JOHN L. BROWN
    Thousands of educators worldwide are already using Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe's Understanding by Design (UbD) as a framework for designing curriculum units, performance assessments, and instruction that lead students to deep understanding of content.This book, based on data gathered from surveys, interviews, and focus group discussions, reflects what educators have learned a...

    $603.00

  • THE HERO'S JOURNEY
    JOHN L. BROWN / CERYLLE A. MOFFETT
    This is a book about hope. It affirms the power of personal and collective responsibility to enact heroic changes in our schools. Through a shared vision, purpose, and inquiry--and using the collective wisdom of myth, legend, and metaphor from around the world--we can find the inspiration and courage to face the challenges inherent in transforming schools into authentic learnin...

    $514.00


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