This book focuses on the everyday life of ministers and senior public servants in different countries, describing the world through their eyes. It explores how their beliefs, practices and traditions…

Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique ‘bird’s eye’ view of the immense logistical and political challenges…

This book will be of considerable interest to students, practitioners (Doctors, Physiotherapists, and other health care professionals), and researchers who deal with the complex structure of tendons and the need…

This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued. The result is a thorough and accessible volume that offers fresh insights…

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is undertaken…

This volume, subtitled Fish Biology , reviews a broad variety of topics from evolutionary relationships and global biogeography to physiology, recruitment, life histories, genetics, foraging behaviour, reproductive behaviour and community…

A detailed historical account of the emergence of economic history as an academic discipline in England told through a combination of biography, institutional change and the history of scientific thought…

Contains 18 cases collected under four headings - Marketing and Merchandise Management; Buying/Supplier Relationships and Logistics; Operations and Customer Service; and, Human Resource Management. This book features cases that focus…