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"International Perspectives on Voluntary Action" presents a new
perspective on the third sector. Rather than considering
non-governmental organizations separately from voluntary agencies,
it explores the similarities, differences and growing connections
between them in both Northern and Southern contexts.Contributions
by eminent authors in the field consider the differences in scale
and priority that exist between the different types of third sector
organizations in different settings, as well as the common
challenges of accountability, legitimacy, effectiveness and
governance.New models of learning and communication, including
Southern ideas such as micro credit provision, are also examined;
as are continuing barriers.Articulate and up-to-date,
"International Perspectives on Voluntary Action" includes
contributions on: Building NGO Legitimacy, Citizen Organizations as
Policy Entrepreneurs; Voluntary Sector Governance in Britain and
North America; Evaluating NGO Development Interventions; and Social
Learning in North-South Coalitions.
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Collision Earth (DVD)
Kirk Acevedo, Diane Farr, Chad Krowchuk, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Adam Greydon Reid, …
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Action movie in which a pair of unlikely heroes find themselves at
the heart of the struggle to save Earth from a fateful collision
with the planet Mercury. When the Sun briefly magnetises and throws
Mercury out of orbit, experts are horrified to discover the result
of the mishap: Mercury is now on a collision course with Earth.
Scientist James (Kirk Acevedo) believes he may have a way of
deflecting Mercury from its apocalyptic course, but struggles to
get his ideas heard due to previous issues with the weapon system
he thinks has the capacity to save the day. However, with help from
Victoria (Diane Farr), the sole surviving crew member of a space
shuttle in Mercury's orbit, James may yet have the chance to make
himself a hero.
WORLD PREMIERE - October 5th 2011 at the Orange Tree Theatre,
RichmondGenre: Comedy. We all want to be happy. We all know what it
feels like. But what if it keeps slipping through our fingers? Paul
is a former happiness guru. As a young man he wrote self-help books
and appeared on the television as 'Mr Happy'. But now his marriage
has failed and his career as a serious novelist is faltering, while
his ex-wife has remarried a wealthy advertising executive to the
dismay of their troubled teenage daughter. Paul is now concerned
about the state of his health, the size of his mortgage and the
monthly payments on his iPhone. Mr Happy is not happy. But surely
if anyone can unlock the secret of perpetual happiness, he must be
the man?
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Seeds of Destruction (DVD)
Luisa D'Oliveira, Jesse Moss, Adrian Pasdar, Stefanie Von Pfetten, James Morrison, …
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Paul Ziller directs this disaster movie following the havoc wreaked
by a giant root system that grows at an exponential rate and tears
through everything in its path. A pair of environmentalists, Kate
(Luisa D'Oliveira) and Joe (Jesse Moss), are among the first to
encounter the bizarre phenomenon of the root, but so great is the
damage it causes that it is soon a matter of widespread concern.
Government agent Jack Taylor (Adrian Pasdar) is one of those tasked
with finding a way to contain the problem and seeks out plant
expert Jocelyn Snow (Stefanie von Pfetten) for her advice. There
are a range of theories on what may lie behind the dangerous plant
system, but Jocelyn is convinced that the seed engineering of Frame
Marcos (James Morrison) is at the heart of it.
The small-block Chevrolet engine is the most popular engine in the
world among performance enthusiasts and racers. But with its
popularity come certain problems--its more-than-45 years of
production have led to countless permutations, making modification
or repair a confusing proposition. This book makes sense of that
confusion for anyone working on a small-block Chevy engine. The
most complete encyclopedia ever assembled, cataloging all 1968 to
2000 small-block Chevrolet V-8 engines, this manual includes more
than 25,000 part numbers, specs, dates and technical details on
engine blocks, heads, valves, crankshafts, camshafts, pistons,
manifolds, ignition systems, emission systems, computer controls,
motor mounts and more. More than 300 photos, diagrams, charts and
tables reference all available Chevy equipment and its interchange
uses. Filled with advice on which parts work best for special
applications and tips on component selection, this book is the
essential tool for anyone with a small-block Chevy engine.
This Handbook is testament to the value of whistleblowing for
democracy, with new research and existing knowledge probed with
fresh and urgent questions. What is the impact of global technology
on public accountability, journalism and whistleblower protection?
If indifference is what really matters, is focus on retaliation
misplaced? What stops those in authority from heeding
whistleblowers? A vital resource for anyone fighting to protect
whistleblowers anywhere to better articulate whose interests are
really at stake and what needs to be done.- Anna Myers, lawyer and
Expert Coordinator of the Whistleblowing International Network
(WIN)'The International Handbook on Whistleblowing Research offers
a thorough and thoughtful examination of current approaches to
research regarding this important topic. The editors have included
the viewpoints of highly regarded researchers from a number of
different fields, including the social sciences, business, and law.
Unlike some collections of comments by experts in diverse fields,
the editors have created a coherent and useful structure for an
analysis of the status of whistleblowing research, the appropriate
design for such research and its practical applications. The book
casts new light on many topics crucial to the success or failure of
whistleblower laws. Researchers, activists, policy makers and
anyone interested in understanding whistleblowing and improving
laws that encourage and protect it should read this indispensable
work. A 'who's who' of the field and a depository of insights and
ideas.- Robert Vaughn, American University Washington College of
Law, US Whistleblowing the disclosure of wrongdoing by
organizational insiders is vital to modern public accountability
and integrity across all organizations and societies. This
important Handbook offers original, cutting-edge analyzes of the
conceptual and practical challenges that researchers face in order
to better inform the way whistleblowing is understood and
confronted by organizations, regulatory authorities and
governments. Featuring contributions from scholars and policy
practitioners in a number of diverse fields - including sociology,
political science, psychology, information systems, media studies,
business, management, criminology, public policy and several
branches of law - the book provides a comprehensive guide to
existing research and blueprints for how new research should be
conducted in the future. It covers conceptual and definitional
fundamentals of whistleblowing and strategies for researching
whistleblowing in an organizational context, as well as law reform,
regulation, management practicalities and research ethics. It also
charts the lessons of 30 years of empirical research and maps out
new questions and projects for future decades. This Handbook, with
its unique perspective on the complex, multi-faceted and often
controversial nature of whistleblowing research, will be a vital
resource for researchers, policymakers and organizations around the
world. Contributors: B. Bjorkelo, R. Bosua, A.J. Brown, H.H. Bye,
K. Crow, T. Devine, S. Dreyfus, T. Morehead Dworkin, B. Edwards, B.
Fasterling, T. Faunce, P. Harpur, R. Lederman, D. Lewis, J. Leys,
K. Loyens, J. Maesschalck, B. Martin, D.P. Meyer, M.P. Miceli, S.
Milton, R. Moberly, F.M. Morgan Jr, J.P. Near, T. Nikolic, J.
Olsen, M.T. Rehg, P. Roberts, M. Skivenes, R. Smith, J. Spencer, M.
Spencer, S.C. Trygstad, E. Tsahuridu, T. Uys, W. Vandekerckhove, S.
Walden, C. Wheeler, J. Zuckerman
The first edition of this book was published in 2001 by Routledge
and was the first academic text on the important new emerging field
of NGO management. It sets out the field for researchers with a new
and original conceptual framework, contains a comprehensive review
of existing literature from a variety of disciplines (including
management, development studies, and social policy) and provides
wide-ranging examples from the author's own practical and research
experience. New to this edition: twelve new detailed case studies
of NGO management issues and challenges new discussion points,
lessons learned and questions for debate to guide the reader
through each chapter definitions of key terms highlighted key ideas
to illustrate each chapter. Revealing the distinctive
organizational challenges faced by NGOs this second edition
provides a fully updated and revised text that will prove
invaluable to all those studying or working in NGOs, the voluntary
sector or development studies. Visit the Companion website at
www.routledge.com/textbooks/978-0-415-37093-6.
In this collection of folk stories that float to us from afar, the
voices of long-dead 'Bushmen', or San people, of Southern Africa
speak to us about their lives and beliefs. We are given glimpses
into their thought-world. We listen to them recounting their
poignant myths and beliefs. We hear them speak of their tormented
lives as the early colonists expanded into the semi-arid interior.
All these stories have lain hidden since they were first collected
more than a hundred years ago by a remarkable family in Cape Town
who devoted their lives to recording the life-ways of the /Xam San
before their disappearance. Today there is a need for us to listen
to these voices from the past. They fill in one of the tragic
blanks in South Africa's history. Suddenly a people who have spoken
only through others' voices now speak out and come alive.
As China strengthens its links with its neighbours through its Belt
and Road initiative, there is growing interest in the indigenous
peoples of China's western and southwestern borderlands. This book,
based on extensive original research, considers the indigenous
peoples of Yunnan province, which is a major gateway between China
and the countries of south and south-east Asia. Unlike many books
on China's indigenous peoples which are written by foreigners who
have lived for a while in China, this book is comprised of the work
of Chinese scholars, many of them members of ethnic minorities
themselves, and considers the issues from a Chinese perspective.
Reading Contemporary Picturebooks takes a look at one of the most vibrant branches of children's literature - the modern picturebook. This exciting new book takes a sample of contemporary picturebooks and closely examines the features that make them distinctive and then suggests a way of characterising the 'interanimation' of words and pictures that is the essence of the form. The reasons for the picturebook's vitality and flexibility are also explored and the close bond between the picturebook and its readers is analysed. Advances in our understanding of how visual images are organised are examined and the book concludes with an attempt to redescribe the picturebook in such a way that pictures, readers and text may be drawn together. Picturing Text will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers interested in reading, children's literature and media studies.
Exam board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Accounting First teaching:
September 2017 First exams: Summer 2018 (AS); Summer 2019 (A-level)
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Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers of
caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira, visitors are
confronted with symbols, patterns, and depictions of bison, woolly
mammoths, ibexes, and other animals. Since its discovery, cave art
has provoked great curiosity about why it appeared when and where
it did, how it was made, and what it meant to the communities that
created it. David Lewis-Williams proposes that the explanation for
this lies in the evolution of the human mind. Cro-Magnons, unlike
the Neanderthals, possessed a more advanced neurological makeup
that enabled them to experience shamanistic trances and vivid
mental imagery. It became important for people to "fix," or paint,
these images on cave walls, which they perceived as the membrane
between their world and the spirit world from which the visions
came. Over time, new social distinctions developed as individuals
exploited their hallucinations for personal advancement, and the
first truly modern society emerged. Illuminating glimpses into the
ancient mind are skillfully interwoven here with the still-evolving
story of modern-day cave discoveries and research. The Mind in the
Cave is a superb piece of detective work, casting light on the
darkest mysteries of our earliest ancestors while strengthening our
wonder at their aesthetic achievements.
This book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development, combining a
critical overview of the main research literature with a set of
up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience
in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. The revised second edition
highlights the continuing importance of NGOs in development, while
fully engaging with the criticisms that their increased profile now
attracts. It considers issues such as securitization, changing
technologies, and recent concerns about safeguarding as well as
going into more detail around topics such as market-based
development and social enterprise. The diversity of NGOs and their
roles is discussed against the broader historical background of
struggles for social justice in different societies, as well as
within the shifting ideological contexts of neoliberalism and
populism. Using a broad range of short case studies of both
successful and unsuccessful interventions, the authors analyze how
interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical
trends and debates within development studies. The book argues that
NGOs are central to both development theory and practice and are
likely to remain important actors for many years to come. This
critical overview will be useful to students of development studies
at undergraduate and master's levels in fields and disciplines as
diverse as International Development Studies, International
Relations, Geography, Anthropology, Global Studies, Politics and
International Studies, as well as general readers and
practitioners.
This book is an introduction to the wide-ranging topic of
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and development, combining a
critical overview of the main research literature with a set of
up-to-date theoretical and practical insights drawn from experience
in Asia, Europe, Africa and elsewhere. The revised second edition
highlights the continuing importance of NGOs in development, while
fully engaging with the criticisms that their increased profile now
attracts. It considers issues such as securitization, changing
technologies, and recent concerns about safeguarding as well as
going into more detail around topics such as market-based
development and social enterprise. The diversity of NGOs and their
roles is discussed against the broader historical background of
struggles for social justice in different societies, as well as
within the shifting ideological contexts of neoliberalism and
populism. Using a broad range of short case studies of both
successful and unsuccessful interventions, the authors analyze how
interest in NGOs has both reflected and informed wider theoretical
trends and debates within development studies. The book argues that
NGOs are central to both development theory and practice and are
likely to remain important actors for many years to come. This
critical overview will be useful to students of development studies
at undergraduate and master's levels in fields and disciplines as
diverse as International Development Studies, International
Relations, Geography, Anthropology, Global Studies, Politics and
International Studies, as well as general readers and
practitioners.
As China strengthens its links with its neighbours through its Belt
and Road initiative, there is growing interest in the indigenous
peoples of China's western and southwestern borderlands. This book,
based on extensive original research, considers the indigenous
peoples of Yunnan province, which is a major gateway between China
and the countries of south and south-east Asia. Unlike many books
on China's indigenous peoples which are written by foreigners who
have lived for a while in China, this book is comprised of the work
of Chinese scholars, many of them members of ethnic minorities
themselves, and considers the issues from a Chinese perspective.
This book focuses on human Cytochrome P450s and drug metabolism in
Man. It describes the structures of the P450s, and reviews the
methodology available to determine their nature, including
molecular modelling, X-ray crystallography, spectroscopy, and
molecular biology.
This fascinating book describes and analyses the development of
competition law in South Africa, promoting a deeper understanding
of the development of this foundational economic law within its
specific national, social and economic context.Enforcing
Competition Rules in South Africa is a clear and insightful account
of the establishment and first decade of one of the most successful
competition law institutions to have mushroomed over the past 15
years. David Lewis believes that, while there is much to learn from
international scholarship and jurisprudence and from participation
in the various multinational initiatives in this field, competition
law and its institutions have to be understood within their
national economic and social contexts. Drawing strongly on case law
and enforcement experiences, this book will appeal to academics,
researchers and practitioners of competition law and economics.
Contents: Preface 1. Beginnings 2. The New Competition Regime 3.
Mergers 4. Abuse of Dominance 5. Cartels 6. Competition Enforcement
on the World Stage 7. Conclusion and a Postscript Index
Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent
times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow
to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They
are now seen as an important element of 'civil society', a concept
that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers.
This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a
prime resource for those working (or wishing to work) with and for
NGOs. The third edition of Non-Governmental Organizations,
Management and Development is fully updated and thoroughly
reorganized, covering key issues including, but not limited to,
debates on the changing global context of international development
and the changing concepts and practices used by NGOs. The
interdisciplinary approach employed by David Lewis results in an
impressive text that draws upon current research in non-profit
management, development management, public management and
management theory, exploring the activities, relationships and
internal structure of the NGO. This book remains the first and only
comprehensive and academically grounded guide to the issues facing
international development NGOs as they operate in increasingly
complex and challenging conditions around the world. It is the
perfect resource for students undertaking studies of NGOs and the
non-profit sector, in addition to being an excellent resource for
development studies students more generally.
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