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For courses in international business. A study of international
business through integrated theory and practice Balancing
authoritative theory and meaningful practice, International
Business: Environments and Operations engages students on the
subject of conducting business in international markets. The
authors' descriptions and ideas of international business are
enhanced with contemporary examples, scenarios, and cases that help
students effectively apply what they've learned. Now in its 17th
Edition, International Business remains one of the best-selling and
most authoritative international business texts available. As
rigorous and practical as ever, this edition remains current
through updated author-written cases and expanded coverage of
relevant political, economic, social, and institutional changes.
Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments
and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty
years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal
focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for
all children by 2015.
The latest addition to The Open and Flexible Learning series,
this book addresses the new challenges created by both the
successes and the failures of the UPE campaign. This book advocates
new approaches for providing access to secondary education for
today's rapidly growing population of children and young adults and
examines:
- the creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine
distance learning and community support and have a proven track
record of increasing access at scale
- how to prepare the ten-million new teachers that are required
to achieve Education for All by 2015 by focusing on classroom-based
in-service training
- strategies for using technology to scale up distance education
cost-effectively
- the creation of a twenty-first century educational ecosystem
that integrates open schooling and teacher education with
communities and their school systems
- successful examples of open schools and teacher education
programmes operating at scale around the world.
Readers will be delighted to find that Sir John Daniel,
bestselling Routledge author of Mega Universities and Knowledge
Media, delivers another insightful and practical book on
educational technology. Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers will
be of interest to all who are concerned by the central educational
challenge of our times: providing secondary education to tens of
millions of young people around the world.
Education for All (EFA) has been a top priority for governments
and intergovernmental development agencies for the last twenty
years. So far the global EFA movement has placed its principal
focus on providing quality universal primary education (UPE) for
all children by 2015.
The latest addition to The Open and Flexible Learning series,
this book addresses the new challenges created by both the
successes and the failures of the UPE campaign. This book advocates
new approaches for providing access to secondary education for
today's rapidly growing population of children and young adults and
examines:
- the creation and expansion of Mega-Schools, which combine
distance learning and community support and have a proven track
record of increasing access at scale
- how to prepare the ten-million new teachers that are required
to achieve Education for All by 2015 by focusing on classroom-based
in-service training
- strategies for using technology to scale up distance education
cost-effectively
- the creation of a twenty-first century educational ecosystem
that integrates open schooling and teacher education with
communities and their school systems
- successful examples of open schools and teacher education
programmes operating at scale around the world.
Readers will be delighted to find that Sir John Daniel,
bestselling Routledge author of Mega Universities and Knowledge
Media, delivers another insightful and practical book on
educational technology. Mega-Schools, Technology and Teachers will
be of interest to all who are concerned by the central educational
challenge of our times: providing secondary education to tens of
millions of young people around the world.
First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the
context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in
Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections
crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much
of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts
were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule
(colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party
states, or presidential rule) to pluralist parliamentary politics.
This volume brings together for the first time, studies of these
events in countries sharing a comparable legacy of British
colonialism, an acquaintance with the Westminster constitutional
tradition and related experiences of decolonization and democratic
struggle. Written from a variety of perspectives by contributors
with first-hand knowledge and long experience of research in
Africa, the papers situate each election in its wider political
context, examining the political forces at work and the events
which gave rise to reform. All indicate that, despite Western
pressure for reform and the influence of the collapse of the Soviet
Bloc in Eastern Europe, internal African demands for democracy
provided the primary driving force for change. Not all the
elections fulfilled the hopes invested in them. In Nigeria, they
were annulled before all the votes had been counted. In Kenya, the
disarray of the opposition ensured the return to power of the old
order. Even where they produced a successful regime transition, the
democratic credentials of the new governments were sometimes
seriously flawed. Yet for all these limitations, these watershed
elections signalled important progress for African democracy. They
brought a formal end to colonial rule in Namibia and to three
centuries of racial discrimination in South Africa. They brought
changes of government through the ballot box in Zambia and Malawi,
among the first instances in Africa of such change being
accomplished without the use of force. Above all, they provided
African electorates with an opportunity to pass judgement on
long-serving authoritarian regimes - with unequivocal results: in
every case, when given the chance to vote, Africans voted for
democracy.
Ideologies and identities are central to the organisation of
political life and political conflict, yet most empirical studies
tend to obscure their significance. This failure to take the
politics of identity seriously arises from an absence of adequate
theory and method. This 1996 study draws on both social theory and
psychological (especially psychoanalytic) theory in an attempt to
overcome these lacunae. First, it develops a novel theory and
method for the analysis of ideology and identity. Second, it
develops a detailed analysis of the politics of identity in
Northern Ireland through focusing upon Unionist ideology and
Unionist identities in crisis. The political conflict within
Unionism is analysed through a consideration of the variety of
unconscious rules drawn upon by political actors and citizens in
the making of Northern Ireland's history of the late 1980s.
The instant New York Times bestseller from Shark Tank star and Fubu
Founder Daymond John on why starting a business on a limited budget
can be an entrepreneur's greatest competitive advantage. Daymond
John has been practicing the power of broke ever since he started
selling his home-sewn t-shirts on the streets of Queens. With a $40
budget, Daymond had to strategize out-of-the-box ways to promote
his products. Luckily, desperation breeds innovation, and so he
hatched an idea for a creative campaign that eventually launched
the FUBU brand into a $6 billion dollar global phenomenon. But it
might not have happened if he hadn't started out broke - with
nothing but hope and a ferocious drive to succeed by any means
possible. Here, the FUBU founder and star of ABC's Shark Tank shows
that, far from being a liability, broke can actually be your
greatest competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. Why? Because
starting a business from broke forces you to think more creatively.
It forces you to use your resources more efficiently. It forces you
to connect with your customers more authentically, and market your
ideas more imaginatively. It forces you to be true to yourself,
stay laser focused on your goals, and come up with those innovative
solutions required to make a meaningful mark. Drawing his own
experiences as an entrepreneur and branding consultant, peeks
behind-the scenes from the set of Shark Tank, and stories of dozens
of other entrepreneurs who have hustled their way to wealth, John
shows how we can all leverage the power of broke to phenomenal
success. You'll meet: - Steve Aoki, the electronic dance music
(EDM) deejay who managed to parlay a series of $100 gigs into
becoming a global superstar who has redefined the music industry -
Gigi Butler, a cleaning lady from Nashville who built cupcake
empire on the back of a family recipe, her maxed out credit cards,
and a heaping dose of faith - 11-year old Shark Tank guest Mo
Bridges who stitched together a winning clothing line with just his
grandma's sewing machine, a stash of loose fabric, and his unique
sartorial flair When your back is up against the wall, your bank
account is empty, and creativity and passion are the only resources
you can afford, success is your only option. Here you'll learn how
to tap into that Power of Broke to scrape, hustle, and dream your
way to the top.
First published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the
context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in
Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections
crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much
of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts
were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule
(colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party
states, or presidential rule) to pluralist parliamentary politics.
This volume brings together for the first time, studies of these
events in countries sharing a comparable legacy of British
colonialism, an acquaintance with the Westminster constitutional
tradition and related experiences of decolonization and democratic
struggle. Written from a variety of perspectives by contributors
with first-hand knowledge and long experience of research in
Africa, the papers situate each election in its wider political
context, examining the political forces at work and the events
which gave rise to reform. All indicate that, despite Western
pressure for reform and the influence of the collapse of the Soviet
Bloc in Eastern Europe, internal African demands for democracy
provided the primary driving force for change. Not all the
elections fulfilled the hopes invested in them. In Nigeria, they
were annulled before all the votes had been counted. In Kenya, the
disarray of the opposition ensured the return to power of the old
order. Even where they produced a successful regime transition, the
democratic credentials of the new governments were sometimes
seriously flawed. Yet for all these limitations, these watershed
elections signalled important progress for African democracy. They
brought a formal end to colonial rule in Namibia and to three
centuries of racial discrimination in South Africa. They brought
changes of government through the ballot box in Zambia and Malawi,
among the first instances in Africa of such change being
accomplished without the use of force. Above all, they provided
African electorates with an opportunity to pass judgement on
long-serving authoritarian regimes - with unequivocal results: in
every case, when given the chance to vote, Africans voted for
democracy.
In the face of the continuing national tragedy of the inequality,
poverty and unemployment which have triggered rising working-class
discontent around the country, the ANC announced a 'second phase'
of the 'national democratic revolution' to deal with the
challenges. Ironically, the ANC post-Mangaung has resolved to
preserve the core tenets of the minerals-energy-financial complex
that defined racial capitalism - while at the same time ratcheting
up the revolutionary rhetoric to keep the working class and
marginalised onside. If the 'first phase' was a tragedy of the
unmet expectations of the majority, is the 'second phase' likely to
be a farce? The chapters in this volume are written by experts in
their fields and address issues of politics, power and social
class; economy, ecology and labour; public policy and social
practice; and South Africa beyond its borders. They examine some of
these challenges, and indicate that they are as much about the
defective content of policies as their poor implementation. The
third volume of the New South African Review continues the series
by providing in-depth analyses of the key issues facing the country
today.
Ideologies and identities are central to the organisation of
political life and political conflict, yet most empirical studies
tend to obscure their significance. This failure to take the
politics of identity seriously arises from an absence of adequate
theory and method. This 1996 study draws on both social theory and
psychological (especially psychoanalytic) theory in an attempt to
overcome these lacunae. First, it develops a novel theory and
method for the analysis of ideology and identity. Second, it
develops a detailed analysis of the politics of identity in
Northern Ireland through focusing upon Unionist ideology and
Unionist identities in crisis. The political conflict within
Unionism is analysed through a consideration of the variety of
unconscious rules drawn upon by political actors and citizens in
the making of Northern Ireland's history of the late 1980s.
"This book provides an introduction to four widely used qualitative
research methods, followed by a detailed discussion of a
pluralistic approach to qualitative research?makes exceellent use
of questions both in order to help the reader gain clarity as well
as to encourage reflexivity" The Psychologist, May 2012
This book is the first extended attempt to explain Plato's ethics
of natural law, to place it accurately in the history of moral
theory, and to defend it against the objections that it is
totalitarian. John Daniel Wild provides a clarification and defense
of Plato's ethical doctrine based not only on his analysis of the
dialogues, but on the belief that Plato must be acknowledged as the
founder of the Western natural law philosophy. The book begins with
a presentation of the major objections raised against Plato by
modern authors -Toynbee, Karl Popper, and others who have condemned
the so-called totalitarianism of Plato's thought. Wild answers
these objections point by point with a wealth of evidence taken
from Plato's own arguments. He then presents a historical study of
the ethics of natural law, defining the theory and showing that
Plato held such a theory. The work concludes with a systematic
study of his realistic ethics and its bearing on contemporary
problems.
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