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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Climate change is expected to influence several productive sectors,
the most significant of which is agriculture. Agriculture comprises
an important sector of the global economy that includes crops,
livestock, and seafood. Agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries are
closely linked to the climate, with changes in climatic conditions
able to drastically affect animal and plant productivity, which in
turn has a direct impact on human well-being. Impacts of Climate
Change on Agriculture and Aquaculture is a critical scholarly
publication that provides an integrated assessment of climate
change impacts on agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries and
explores a set of strategies to secure sustainable food security.
While highlighting the associations between climate change, food
security, and socio-economic development, the book establishes an
inventory of good agricultural practices for the adaptation to
climate change and presents solutions for making agricultural and
food systems more sustainable. Featuring a wide range of topics
such as carbon sequestration, ecosystem management, and
desertification, this book is ideal for agriculturalists,
environmentalists, fisheries, marine biologists, ichthyologists,
government officials, academicians, policy makers, scientists,
professionals, researchers, and students.
Enough of Experts: Expert Authority in Crisis analyses the
challenges and threats to expert authority in neoliberal political
economies and societies. It focuses upon the deep-seated political,
economic, social and cultural transformations which have
fundamentally destabilized and eroded the institutional foundations
of expert authority over more than four decades. The book
critically assesses the orthodox or ‘received’ model of expert
authority as it has come under escalating pressures from a nexus of
ideological, organizational, technological and cultural changes
that have radically weakened the former’s core ‘institutional
logic’ and practical efficacy. It also looks forward to a range
of ‘expert futures’ in which expert groups and organizations
decline in power and status as their prevalence proliferates to a
stage where they become ubiquitous in neoliberal regimes. Finally,
the book presents an alternative reflexive model of expert
authority and governance that is grounded in the ‘dynamics of
contestation and trust’ and stands in direct contrast to the
orthodox, rational model.
James Bond (this time played by George Lazenby) hands in his
licence to kill after being banned from hunting down his
arch-nemesis Blofeld (Telly Savalas). Continuing his investigations
alone, he follows a lead to Portugal, meets and falls in love with
Tracey Draco (Diana Rigg), and is told by her crimelord father that
Blofeld is now in Switzerland. Pretty soon its snow, kilts, girls,
secret bases and ski chases, as Bond chases down his enemy and
attempts to foil a plan to unleash a deadly chemical weapon.
Britain's landscape, the product both of natural geological
processes and some 10,000 years of human habitation, has a uniquely
rich historical diversity. In "The Landscape of Britain," Michael
Reed explains the forces at work in the evolution of the landscape,
pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past.
The landscape of late twentieth-century Britain is the end product
of human effort directed not only towards satisfying basic physical
needs for food and shelter, but also towards expressing profound
spiritual and intellectual aspirations, whether by means of burial
mounds or churches, schools or monasteries. This volume examines
the endless processes of accretion which have created the urban and
rural landscapes as today's inhabitants have inherited them,
showing how each generation makes its own individual contribution
without being able entirely to erase those of its predecessors,
however remote or distant in time.
The use of multimedia strikes at the very heart of traditional
teaching and learning methods, and is changing the way educators
think about the whole process of teaching and learning. Multimedia
and Megachange spurs ideas for the use of interactive technology to
revolutionize teaching and learning. It describes and analyzes
issues and trends that are currently setting a research and
development agenda for educators.Contributors to this volume
explore all fronts on which computer technology are changing the
educational process: concept and theory research application
designMultimedia and Megachange opens up the exciting world of how
technology is dramatically changing how teachers teach and students
learn. It also highlights spin-off changes for classroom
management, greater sources of information, and improved evaluation
and grading techniques.
This book provides a re-evaluation of Weber's work on the current debates about the institutional and organizational dynamics of modernity. It reassembles Weber's sociology of bureaucracy and his general account of the trajectory of modernity with reference to the strategic social structures that dominated the emergence and development of modern society.
This text aims to provide a reassessment of the significance of Max
Weber's work for the current debates about the institutional and
organizational dynamics of modernity. It re-evaluates Weber's
sociology of bureaucracy and his general account of the trajectory
of modernity, with reference to the strategic social structures
that dominated the emergence and development of modern society.
Included here are detailed analyses of contemporary issues, such as
the collapse of Communism, Fordism, corporatism and traditionalism
in both Western and Eastern societies. It also signals the
potential for new organizational and institutional forms to emerge
in the aftermath of these social ruptures and upheavals. All of the
contributors undertake analyses of Weber's texts and his broader
intellectual inheritance to reassert the centrality of Weberian
sociology for our understanding of the moral, political and
organizational dilemmas of late modernity.
BESTSELLER of the XXth Century in Mathematical Physics voted on by
participants of the XIIIth International Congress on Mathematical
Physics
This revision will make this book mroe attractive as a textbook in
functional analysis. Further refinement of coverage of physical
topics will also reinforce its well-established use as a course
book in mathemtical physics.
Scattering theory is the study of an interacting system on a scale
of time and/or distance which is large compared to the scale of the
interaction itself. As such, it is the most effective means,
sometimes the only means, to study microscopic nature. To
understand the importance of scattering theory, consider the
variety of ways in which it arises. First, there are various
phenomena in nature (like the blue of the sky) which are the result
of scattering. In order to understand the phenomenon (and to
identify it as the result of scattering) one must understand the
underlying dynamics and its scattering theory. Second, one often
wants to use the scattering of waves or particles whose dynamics on
knows to determine the structure and position of small or
inaccessible objects. For example, in x-ray crystallography (which
led to the discovery of DNA), tomography, and the detection of
underwater objects by sonar, the underlying dynamics is well
understood. What one would like to construct are correspondences
that link, via the dynamics, the position, shape, and internal
structure of the object to the scattering data. Ideally, the
correspondence should be an explicit formula which allows one to
reconstruct, at least approximately, the object from the scattering
data. The main test of any proposed particle dynamics is whether
one can construct for the dynamics a scattering theory that
predicts the observed experimental data. Scattering theory was not
always so central the physics. Even thought the Coulomb cross
section could have been computed by Newton, had he bothered to ask
the right question, its calculation is generally attributed to
Rutherford more than two hundred years later. Of course,
Rutherford's calculation was in connection with the first
experiment in nuclear physics.
Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments
and representative bodies in public service organizations have
mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop
senior staff as leaders. A critical explanation is developed of the
foundational contribution made by national leadership development
interventions in the 2000s to the emergence, proliferation, and
normalization of leadership development provision. Through carrying
out qualitative research in England, the authors investigate the
national leadership development interventions for school education,
healthcare, and higher education. Whilst also looking at the
contemporary legacy of these interventions within a global scale,
examining the growing international movement and comparing
interventions across the world. The book looks at new ways to
approach leadership development, adopting a novel perspective on
leadership as a metaphorical concept and coining the concept of
'leaderism', and exploring how although senior staff may be widely
acculturated as leaders, they may not necessarily be committed to
acting as government change agents. Leadership development makes a
diffuse contribution towards the ongoing neoliberalization of
public services. Developing Public Service Leaders is a
comprehensive and essential read for a researcher or policymaker
striving for an in-depth understanding of the field and its
ramifications.
The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last
three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their
work in "ivory towers," as increasing government intervention and a
growing "target culture" has changed the way they work.
Increasingly universities have transformed from "communities of
scholars" to "workplaces." The organization and administration of
universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and
strategies drawn from the "New Public Management" ideology in
response, promoting a more "business-focussed" approach in the
management of public services.
This book examines the issues that academics now face as a result
of these changes, both as the "knowledge-workers" managed, and the
"manager-academic." It draws on a detailed study of academics
holding management roles ranging from Head of Department to Vice
Chancellor in sixteen UK universities, exploring their career
histories and trajectories, and providing extensive accounts of
their values, practices, relationships with others, and their
training and development as managers.
Drawing on debates around "New Public Management," knowledge
management, and knowledge workers, the wider implications of these
themes for policy innovation and strategy in HE and the public
sector more generally are considered, developing a critical
response to recent approaches to managing public services, and
practical suggestions for improvements which could be made to the
training and support of senior and middle managers in universities.
The book will be of interest to all teaching, researching, or
managing in Higher Education, Education policy-makers, and
academics and researchers concerned withPublic Management,
Knowledge Management, or Higher Education.
This volume will serve several purposes: to provide an introduction
for graduate students not previously acquainted with the material,
to serve as a reference for mathematical physicists already working
in the field, and to provide an introduction to various advanced
topics which are difficult to understand in the literature. Not all
the techniques and application are treated in the same depth. In
general, we give a very thorough discussion of the mathematical
techniques and applications in quatum mechanics, but provide only
an introduction to the problems arising in quantum field theory,
classical mechanics, and partial differential equations. Finally,
some of the material developed in this volume will not find
applications until Volume III. For all these reasons, this volume
contains a great variety of subject matter. To help the reader
select which material is important for him, we have provided a
"Reader's Guide" at the end of each chapter.
Sociology and social theory has always been a major source of new
perspectives for organization studies. Access to a series of
authoritative accounts of theorists and research themes in
sociology and social theory which have influenced developments in
organization studies is essential for those wishing to deepen and
extend their knowledge of the intersection of sociology and
organization studies. This goal is achieved by drawing on a group
of internationally renowned scholars committed in their own work to
strengthening these links and asking them to provide critical
accounts of particular theorists and research themes which have
straddled this divide. This volume aims to strengthen ties between
organization studies and contemporary sociological work at a time
when there are increasing institutional barriers to such
cooperation, potentially generating a myopia that constricts new
developments. Used in conjunction with its companion volume, The
Oxford Handbook of Sociology and Organization Studies: Classical
foundations, the reader is provided with a comprehensive account of
the productive and critical interaction between sociology and
organization studies over many decades. Highly international in
scope, theorists and themes are drawn from both the USA and Europe
in equal measure. Similarly the authors of the chapters are drawn
from both sides of the Atlantic. The result is a series of chapters
on individuals and key research themes and debates which will
provide faculty and post graduate researchers with appreciative,
authoritative and critical accounts that can be drawn on to design
courses or provided guided reading to the field
In this stimulating and provocative book the editors have drawn
together a diverse and international range of respected authors,
each of whom has taken a critical approach to the contentious
question of how you define and achieve quality early childhood
services. It is a book designed to provoke and promote critical
dialogue and discourse amongst practitioners and students through
critical engagement with the position of the authors within the
text. I believe anyone who reads this book will be inspired and
motivated to challenge and extend their thinking and professional
practice, adopting the critical stance which lies at the heart of
quality services for children and families. Professor Chris Pascal,
Director of Centre for Research in Early Childhood (CREC) Early
childhood is a complex and important area of study where it is
important to develop your critical thinking and reflect upon key
issues. This book will help do both. It explores interrelated
topics such as: Child development Play Safeguarding Professionalism
Curriculum and Policy Each chapter will not only engage with what
you need to know but help you develop your academic skills. The
book also comes with lots of online resources and include: Podcasts
from the authors of each chapter so you can better understand the
key concepts PowerPoints to help you revise the essential
information Journal articles related to each chapter provide
further reading Michael Reed and Rosie Walker are both Senior
Lecturers in Early Childhood at the Institute of Education,
University of Worcester.
The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last
three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their
work in 'ivory towers', as increasing government intervention and a
growing 'target culture' has changed the way they work.
Increasingly universities have transformed from 'communities of
scholars' to 'workplaces'. The organization and administration of
universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and
strategies drawn from the 'New Public Management' ideology in
response, promoting a more 'business-focussed' approach in the
management of public services. This book examines the issues that
these changes have had on academics, both as the
'knowledge-workers' managed, and the 'manager-academic'. It draws
on a detailed study of academics holding management roles ranging
from Head of Department to Vice Chancellor in sixteen UK
universities, exploring their career histories and trajectories,
and providing extensive accounts of their values, practices,
relationships with others, and their training and development as
managers. Drawing on debates around 'New Public Management',
knowledge management, and knowledge workers, the wider implications
of these themes for policy innovation and strategy in HE and the
public sector more generally are considered, developing a critical
response to recent approaches to managing public services, and
practical suggestions for improvements which could be made to the
training and support of senior and middle managers in universities.
The book will be of interest to all teaching, researching, or
managing in Higher Education, Education policy-makers, and
academics and researchers concerned with Public Management,
Knowledge Management, or Higher Education.
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