Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: michael hopkins

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  • ALTERNATIVES TO UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNDEREMPLOYMENT
    MICHAEL HOPKINS
    The creation of jobs is critical in Third World countries where growing populations face unemployment or inadequate employment. Many have put forth theories and suggestions that address this problem, but there has been insufficient empirical analysis of the effects of specific policies on employment growth. The author examines macroeconomic theories of labour market behavior an...

    $1,099.00

  • CSR AND SUSTAINABILITY
    MICHAEL HOPKINS
    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector. It has grown from being a concept embraced by a small number of companies such as The Body Shop in the early 1990s to a widespread global movement. At its weakest level, it is represented by a few philanthropic gesture...

    $1,399.00

  • THE RULE OF LAW IN CRISIS AND CONFLICT GREY ZONES
    MICHAEL JOHN-HOPKINS
    This book responds to ongoing calls for clarification and consensus regarding the meaning, scope and interplay of humanitarian law and human rights law in the ‘grey zones’ of unconventional operational environments such as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations. It contributes to the debate in this area by developing objective criteria for determining where the shift...

    $1,179.00

  • CREATING THE CONDITIONS FOR CLASSROOM IMPROVEMENT
    DAVID HOPKINS / MICHAEL FIELDING / JOHN BERESFORD / MEL AINSCOW / MEL WEST
    First published in 1998. The research, practice and staff development activities in this book have come out of the Improving the Quality of Education for All project (IQEA), which emphases the importance of enhancing internal conditions in schools by building upon existing good practice. Materials developed to promote school-level conditions have already been described in a co...

    $1,399.00

  • INTELLIGENCE, DEFENCE AND DIPLOMACY
    RICHARD J. ALDRICH / MICHAEL F. HOPKINS
    What was Britain's reaction to the death of Stalin? How has Britain reconciled a modern nuclear strategy with its traditional imperial defence commitments around the world? How has secret intelligence affected the Special Relationship' since 1945? Certain clear questions and perennial themes run through British overseas policy since 1945. This book examines them, drawing on new...

    $1,399.00

  • OLIVER FRANKS AND THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION
    MICHAEL F. HOPKINS
    Sir Oliver Franks served as British Ambassador to the US between 1948 and 1952. This analysis reveals a great deal about the condition of relations between Britain and America, the mechanics of co-operation and the impact of a singular individual on international relations. ...

    $1,139.00

  • CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    MICHAEL HOPKINS
    The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the soluti...

    $1,139.00

  • THE PLANETARY BARGAIN
    MICHAEL HOPKINS
    Corporate scandals and lack of confidence in our largest institutions mean that corporate social responsibility (CSR) now matters more than ever. Encroaching on CSR are concepts such as corporate sustainability and corporate citizenship, and older concerns with business ethics, business in society and the ethical corporation. This significantly revised and updated version of Th...

    $1,299.00