This work talks about personal development, life coaching hugely popular. It will appeal to mid level managers, business coaches, trainers, and HR professionals. It features reviews on business pages of national newspapers e.g. "FT". It also features reviews in business magazines e.g. "CEO" magazine. David Rock has a global business like Michael ...
In 1972 David Bowie released the iconic LP The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which established him as a major force in modern pop music. It was also his platform to present a visually fascinating and sexually ambivalent stage persona called Ziggy Stardust. Simultaneously, Bowie befriended the famed rock-and-roll ...
This is a study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical right-wing movement has left its mark on almost every part of Argentinian society.
Meet Emily and Paul: The parents of two young children, Emily is the newly promoted VP of Marketing at a large corporation while Paul works from home or from clients' offices as an independent IT consultant. Their lives, like all of ours, are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just ...
From the first Acid Tests in 1965 to the mid-1980s, Rock Scully was the Grateful Dead's manager, confidant, and coconspirator. Now, in the first memoir ever published by a member of the Dead family, he gives us the full story of rock's longest-running road show. From the legendary mayhem of the Haight-Ashbury scene to the creation of signature ...
In this comprehensive history, updated to include the climactic events of the five years since the Falklands War, Professor Rock documents the early colonial history of Argentina, pointing to the colonial forms established during the Spanish conquest as the source for Argentina's continued reliance on foreign commercial and investment partnerships ...
Whether starting a new business, finding that special someone, or learning a new language, David Rock's unique life-coaching program helps readers to achieve their personal best. This is a proven, results-oriented method perfect for anyone who wants to define goals, stimulate progress, and get the life they want.
This is the new edition of the popular textbook, Understanding Deviance, which guides the new student through the major sociological theories of crime, deviance and control. Examining the significant frameworks of the sub-discipline, it opens with a discussion of the earliest schematic criminology in the work of the University of Chicago in the ...
The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to a unique contribution, immensely varied yet with ...
This revised work aims to investigate the fundamentals of teaching secondary mathematics, including: learning theory; curriculum; assessment; planning; skills in teaching mathematics; technology; problem-solving; algebra; geometry; trigonometry; and calculus.
This study is concerned with the forty-year period before 1930, when Argentina experienced rapid economic and social growth broken only by the First World War. The Radical Civic Union appeared in the 1912 elections and in 1916 its leader, Hipolito Yrigoyen, became President. Dr Rock discusses the origins and course of this experiment in ...
'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia - China, Korea, and Taiwan in Northeast Asia and Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia - pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based ...
A seminal collection of images of the glam rock era taken by legendary photographer Mick Rock. 'Glam was about make-up, mirros and andogyny. It was narcissistic, obsessive, decadent and subversive. It was bohemian, but also strangely futuristic. It was Oscar Wilde meets a Clockwork Orange. It was a time we thought would never end. A time so long ...
Every professional sportsperson today has a coach, whose job is to guide, encourage, inspire and challenge the performer to achieve their personal best performance every time they go out on the field. Imagine what it would be like if you had a coach like that for your own life. Someone running along the sidelines with you, helping you set and ...
Addresses the significant impact of World War II and the onset of the Cold War on the political development of Latin America. The study interprets the brief resurgence of democracy in the 1940s, examining whether this was the result of war or the culmination of internal movements.
In "The Rats," an ex-theatre director accuses his daughter's fiance a student and would-be actor, of undermining the fabric of society and the Prussian state with unconventional views, like a plague of rats. Also includes "The Weavers," which is based on an account of the weaver's revolt of 1844, as told to Hauptmann by his father.
The end of the Second World War led to one of the most significant forced population transfers in history: the expulsion of over 12 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1950 and the subsequent emigration of another four million in the second half of the twentieth century. Although unprecedented in its magnitude, ...
This is a non-partisan review of the major sociological theories of crime and deviance. It begins with the work of the "Chicago School" of the 1920s and proceeds chronologically through the main theoretical positions to reach contemporary work on "Left Realism" and feminist criminology. The principal aim is to introduce students to ideas in a ...
Jurek Becker is one of the most important post-war German authors. His first novel, Jacob the Liar, already has the status of a classic of post-1945 European literature about the Holocaust and has been widely translated. This timely book traces the main events in Becker's unusual personal history: his childhood experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and ...
An examination of the formation of Argentina's formidable nation-state in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It studies three political movements: "Mitrismo", led by Bartolome Mitre; "Roquismo", under General Julio A. Roca; and "Radicalismo", led by Leandro N. Alem and Hipolito Irogoyen.
"Teaching Secondary Mathematics, Third Edition" is practical, student-friendly, and solidly grounded in up-to-date research and theory. This popular text for secondary mathematics methods courses provides useful models of how concepts typically found in a secondary mathematics curriculum can be delivered so that all students develop a positive ...
This is a detailed study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and dictatorship that came to a head in the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right-wing movement has had a profound impact on almost all aspects of Argentinian life - art and literature, journalism, education, the church, and, ...
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