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From ancient times, the conduct of human beings, and what is deemed
acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, has been an intriguing and
much-debated topic for people from all walks of life. This is even
more so for public officials, both appointed and elected, who by
nature of the public duty they fulfil, are held to a higher moral
standard by the broader society. Unethical conduct not only impacts
negatively on the social contract that government has with the
public but also affects the rights of citizens, who are taxpayers.
Ethics in the public sector is being published at a time when the
South African public sector is grappling with serious issues
relating to ethics, with startling revelations of conduct by
government officials that directly contradicts the provisions of
the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, which
prescribe high standards of ethical behaviour. Ethics in the public
sector is arranged in such a way as to provide a unique
understanding of public sector ethics. It includes discussions of
two other African countries, Botswana and Namibia, to provide
perspective. Main themes include the theory and philosophical
foundation of public sector ethics, the African context of ethics,
the policy framework for ethics, role players in ethics, causes of
unethical behaviour and remedies for unethical behaviour. It also
comes at a time when most universities across South Africa are
reconsidering curricula for alignment and relevance to the
challenges that public officials and politicians deal with daily.
Ethics is an area that has thus far received insufficient attention
both at universities and in practice. Ethics in the public sector
is aimed at students, officials and politicians.
Governments of today are under increasing pressure to deliver more
and better services within the constraints of limited resources.
Employees are central to service delivery and the calibre of those
appointed in a public institution is often evident in the quality
of services rendered and the number of complaints received.
Managing human capital in the public sector encompasses all
activities starting from the recruitment of staff to the final
termination of services. Managing human capital in the public
sector is rooted in theory while using case studies to bring the
learning experience closer to a public sector work environment. It
supports a problem-based learning approach and prepares graduates
to perform duties in a human capital environment with minimal
on-the-job training. Contents include the following: Strategic
human capital management; Acquisition and assimilation of employees
into the workplace; Affirmative action, employment equity and
managing diversity; Public sector compensation; Motivating staff;
Performance management; Training in the public sector; Career
management; Talent and retention management; Employee relations;
Managing employee wellness in the workplace. Managing human capital
in the public sector is aimed at students at both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels, as well as human capital practitioners in the
public sector.
Texas Bodyguard: Chance By Janie Crouch She has secrets she prefers
to keep hidden… When a violent attack puts Maci Ford in the
hospital, security expert Chance Patterson learns that she’s
carrying his baby. Even though she ended their relationship, he’s
determined to do whatever it takes to protect her and their child.
But, as her stalker’s behaviour escalates, Chance can’t shake
the feeling that Maci is still hiding something from him… Chasing
a Colton Killer By Deborah Fletcher Mellow They’re on the hunt
Journalist Stella Maxwell may be guilty of prying into FBI agent
Brennan Colton’s past for a story, but Brennan knows she’s not
guilty of murder—despite what’s being alleged. He’s prepared
for the risks of protecting Stella from the notorious Landmark
Killer. But keeping his guard up to protect his heart might prove
to be a different kind of challenge.
Bringing together the wisdom of East and West, the Indian Jesuit
Anthony de Mello used stories and parables to awaken his listeners
to an awareness of God's presence in their midst. Since his death
in 1987, countless readers have been challenged to encounter the
God who lies behind words, concepts, and religious formulas.
This volume aims to offer a course on the spiritual life. The
author looks at ways in which the words people use can prevent them
from being aware of themselves and others. Sharing his own
inspirations and including anecdotes, he sets out to provide a
practical guide for people trying to live a Christian life.
Make human resources work for you! The third edition of Strategic
Human Resources Management offers a truly innovative, integrative
framework that examines the traditional functional human resource
areas from a strategic perspective. The author undertakes a
comprehensive discussion of current issues, practices, and theories
while maintaining a coherent and consistent emphasis on strategy.
Most human resource textbooks give you the theories without showing
you the connections to real life. This textbook lets you see both
sides of human resources: the theory and the application. Current
examples and references integrated throughout the text and chapter
introductions help put human resources into a real-world context.
Over and Under the Rainforest meets This Is How We Do It
-celebrating global interconnectedness with an environmental lens,
at a time when we need it most. I am dust, the dust of North
Africa. I connect continents. The dust of the Sahel-a ribbon of
land between the Sahara and the savanna-lifts with the harmattan
winds each winter season. But this is not just any dust. The
Sahel's dust will mix with dust from the Sahara and travel
thousands of miles westward, across the African continent and the
Atlantic Ocean, to reunite with its unforgotten home deep in the
Amazon basin. Told in the perspective of dust, A River of Dust
takes readers on a journey through vibrantly illustrated
landscapes, celebrating the power and wonder of Earth's ecosystems,
and showing how these tiny particles are in fact key to the health
of our planet. Meticulously researched and lushly illustrated, this
picture book is a lyrical ode to global interconnectedness and the
vital roles that even the smallest play in taking care of our
planet.
Invitation to Linear Algebra is an informative, clearly written,
flexible textbook for instructors and students. Based on over 30
years of experience as a mathematics professor, the author invites
students to develop a more informed understanding of complex
algebraic concepts using innovative, easy-to-follow methods. The
book is organized into lessons rather than chapters. This limits
the size of the mathematical morsels that students must digest,
making it easier for instructors to budget class time. Each
definition is carefully explained with detailed proofs of key
theorems, including motivation for each step. This makes the book
more flexible, allowing instructors to choose material that
reflects their and their students' interests. A larger than normal
amount of exercises illustrate how linear and nonlinear algebra
apply in the students' areas of study. Features The book's unique
lesson format enables students to better understand algebraic
concepts Students will learn key elements of linear algebra in an
enjoyable fashion Large number of exercises illustrate the
applications of the course material Allows instructors to create a
course around individual lessons Detailed solutions and hints are
provided to selected exercises
This book examines Chinese film in the twenty-first century.
Organised around the themes ‘movements’, ‘genres’, and
‘intermedia’, it reflects on how Chinese cinema has changed,
adapted, and evolved over past decades, and prognosticates as to
its future trajectories. It considers how established film genres
in China have adapted and transformed themselves, and discusses
current shifts in documentary filmmaking, the ethos and practices
of ‘grassroots intellectual’ independent filmmakers, and the
adaption of foreign film genres to serve the ideological and
political needs of the present. It also explores how film is
drawing upon the socio-historical and political contexts of the
past to create new cinematic discourses, and the ways film is
providing a voice to previously marginalised ethnic groups. In
addition, the book analyses the influences of past aesthetic
traditions on the creative and artistic expressions of twenty-first
century films, and cinema’s relation to other media forms,
including folktales, moving image installations, architecture and
painting. Throughout, the book assesses how Chinese films have been
conceptualised, examined, and communicated domestically and abroad,
and emphasises the importance of new directions in Chinese film,
thus highlighting the plurality, vitality, and hybridity of Chinese
cinema in the twenty-first century.
Hunt/Mello/Deitz Marketing emphasizes the universal importance of
marketing, in business, but also in the lives of students, despite
their major! The product, the 1st new Principles of Marketing
product to be introduced in the past 10 years, was designed with an
emphasis on student engagement and relevance, a focus embodied in
these four key benefits: * A career focus, to help students
understand how marketing will support whatever career path they
choose and how to develop their own personal brand. Features like
Career Tips, Executive Perspectives and Today's Professional
Interviews make marketing relevant and engaging for the student and
can found in every chapter. * Integration of key topics that are
part of the daily fabric of marketing- globalization, social media,
ethics, and marketing analytics. These are covered THROUGHOUT the
product and not in a single chapter. * Seamlessly integrated
results-driven technology. Shane Hunt personalized the writes all
of the Connect application exercises and teaches using Connect
every year! The narrative and Connect content were developed
side-by-side, allowing for seamless integration and continuity of
coverage. * The right content for a semester-long course. Chapters
are direct, concise, and approachable in length and written in an
upbeat tone. In this newest edition, we have moved Personal Selling
and Branding to earlier in the narrative.
The first monograph on Richard Smith, a key figure in the
development of British art. Richard Smith (1931-2016) was one of
the most original painters of his generation, and one of the most
underrated. As Barbara Rose said of Smith's major Tate Gallery
retrospective in 1975, he was 'at once in and out of touch with the
currents of the mainstream ... au courant and aloof at the same
time.' That he latterly slipped under the radar to some extent is
partly explained by his detachment from the mainstream as well as
by his frequent switching of studios between England and the USA,
although this helped charge his creative batteries. He is the only
artist of his stature who has not been represented by a monograph,
which the dazzling presentation of images in Richard Smith:
Artworks now fulfils. It has been produced with the generous
collaboration of the Richard Smith Foundation. Richard Smith:
Artworks traces Smith's entire career, from the breakthrough
lyrical abstraction of the early Pop-inflected paintings, through
the radical shaped canvases and three-dimensional works that he
produced in the 1960s, to the 'Kite' works beginning in 1972 and,
eventually, his return to the flat canvas. As a Senior Curator at
Tate, Dr Chris Stephens knew Smith well, and he contributes a
wide-ranging introduction to Smith's art and life. Prof David Alan
Mellor investigates and explains the Anglo-American cultural
contexts that drove Smith's art, while Alex Massouras's two themed
essays, 'Young and British' and 'From Motion Pictures to Flight',
explore Smith's originality from fresh perspectives. The book is
completed with an Afterword by its editor, Martin Harrison.
An unflinching, heartbreaking collection of poetry about life in
the U.S. as a Brazilian immigrant, Aline Mello's debut poetry
collection, More Salt Than Diamond, is a true testament to the
power of finding a home. Born in Brazil, Aline Mello immigrated to
the United States in 1997. Using her experience as an undocumented
woman during a time of incredible flux and tension, Mello's debut
collection of poetry, More Salt than Diamond, speaks to her
struggles while also addressing the larger cultural issues on an
inclusive and global scale. Lyrical, moving, deeply emotional, and
sometimes painful to read, Mello uses exquisitely sharp yet widely
accessible language to crack open a life in multitudes. She shines
a rare light on what it means to be a Brazilian immigrant in
diaspora, stretched thin between borders and fraught family tension
yet belonging nowhere. Aline is poised to not only change the face
of Latinx poetry in years to come but to redefine the power of
undocumented creators and artists.
One of the last secret, underground human cities is facing total
annihilation and its leader-John Constantine-must plan a suicide
mission to assassinate a key lieutenant in the vampire empire! The
survivors of a horrifying vampire attack, led by Deathstroke, take
shelter with Talia al Ghul. With intel from a hero recently saved
from vampirism, John Constantine prepares them for a (suicide)
mission, while Midnighter goes through every scenario in his head
and finds out the dark truth. Meanwhile the mysterious vampire Lord
Cinder has become aware of their plans and prepares a surprise...
You won't want ot miss this thrilling companion collection to DC
vs. Vampires!
The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures
and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the
spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media,
and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global
health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new
methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in
Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers
concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a
diverse range of new and established FPA methods. Embracing
methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open
discussion about methods' assumptions and diverging positions, it
provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as
introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter
follows the same approach, introducing the method and its
development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and
potential pitfalls while illustrating the method's application
using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological
pluralism and problem-oriented research that engages with
real-world questions, the authors examine quantitative and
qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist
perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The
book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students
in global politics, foreign policy, and methods-related classes
across the social sciences. Chapters 4, 25 and 32 of this book are
available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual
product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under
a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0
license.
Women and Puppetry is the first publication dedicated to the study
of women in the field of puppetry arts. It includes critical
articles and personal accounts that interrogate specific historical
moments, cultural contexts, and notions of "woman" on and off
stage. Part I, "Critical Perspective," includes historical and
contemporary analyses of women's roles in society, gender anxiety
revealed through the unmarked puppet body, and sexual expression
within oppressive social contexts. Part II, "Local Contexts:
Challenges and Transformations," investigates work of female
practitioners within specific cultural contexts to illuminate how
women are intervening in traditionally male spaces. Each chapter in
Part II offers brief accounts of specific social histories,
barriers, and gender biases that women have faced, and the
opportunities afforded female creative leaders to appropriate,
revive, and transform performance traditions. And in Part III,
"Women Practitioners Speak," contemporary artists reflect on their
experiences as female practitioners within the art of puppet
theatre. Representing female writers and practitioners from across
the globe, Women and Puppetry offers students and scholars a
comprehensive interrogation of the challenges and opportunities
that women face in this unique art form.
A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully
applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single
causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven
factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory
and the language of necessary and sufficient conditions,
qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) is ideally suited to
capturing this causal complexity. A case-based research method, QCA
regards cases as combinations of conditions and compares the
conditions of each case in a structured way to identify the
necessary and sufficient conditions for an outcome. Qualitative
Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and
Application is a comprehensive guide to QCA. As QCA becomes
increasingly popular across the social sciences, this textbook
teaches students, scholars, and self-learners the fundamentals of
the method, research design, interpretation of results, and how to
communicate findings. Following an ideal typical research cycle,
the book's ten chapters cover the methodological basis and
analytical routine of QCA, as well as matters of research design,
causation and causal complexity, QCA variants, and the method's
reception in the social sciences. A comprehensive glossary helps to
clarify the meaning of frequently used terms. The book is
complemented by an accessible online R manual to help new users to
practice QCA's analytical steps on sample data and then implement
with their own findings. This hands-on textbook is an essential
resource for students and researchers looking for a complete and
up-to-date introduction to QCA.
Key Questions in Environmental Toxicology is designed as a
self-study tool for undergraduate students. Questions review the
origin, characterization and environmental distribution of major
pollutants, followed by their absorption and metabolic disposition
in living organisms. They address implications for the development
of cancer, cardiovascular disease, pulmonary dysfunction and
neurological conditions in relation to gaseous pollutants,
particulates, persistent organic compounds and radioactive
emissions, then cover the impact of pollutants on biodiversity,
food safety, and water contamination. This book: Covers toxicology
from human morbidity, ecological impact and biodiversity
perspectives, and emphasizes the impact of diverse organic
pollutants in worsening these interconnected phenomena, leading to
wider environmental emergencies; Provides a selection of
fill-in-the-gap, multiple choice and short answer question types
for students to vary their learning and enhance motivation;
Includes full answer rationales, allowing students to gain true
insight into the subject. Providing support to programs across
environmental science, ecology and human health, and covering all
the major biological toxins and pollutants as well as unintended
consequences of actions designed to improve outcomes, this book may
be used in conjunction with the companion volume Introduction to
Environmental Toxicology.
This book presents the Statistical Learning Theory in a detailed
and easy to understand way, by using practical examples, algorithms
and source codes. It can be used as a textbook in graduation or
undergraduation courses, for self-learners, or as reference with
respect to the main theoretical concepts of Machine Learning.
Fundamental concepts of Linear Algebra and Optimization applied to
Machine Learning are provided, as well as source codes in R, making
the book as self-contained as possible. It starts with an
introduction to Machine Learning concepts and algorithms such as
the Perceptron, Multilayer Perceptron and the Distance-Weighted
Nearest Neighbors with examples, in order to provide the necessary
foundation so the reader is able to understand the Bias-Variance
Dilemma, which is the central point of the Statistical Learning
Theory. Afterwards, we introduce all assumptions and formalize the
Statistical Learning Theory, allowing the practical study of
different classification algorithms. Then, we proceed with
concentration inequalities until arriving to the Generalization and
the Large-Margin bounds, providing the main motivations for the
Support Vector Machines. From that, we introduce all necessary
optimization concepts related to the implementation of Support
Vector Machines. To provide a next stage of development, the book
finishes with a discussion on SVM kernels as a way and motivation
to study data spaces and improve classification results.
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