Education

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487599218Author Former Professor of English Douglas GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto...

Learning Environments by Design deeply explores today’s workplace learning. This book empowers you to customize learning to match your workforce and unearths the answers to the questions you’ve been asking: How does learning happen? What is the future of...

The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim. Archibald and Feldman, leading analysts, provide an incisive overview of the challenges facing and possibilities for America's universities and colleges in their...

The book is an exploration of the relevance of Indian classical wisdom in reorienting modern management. It highlights the urgent need for facilitating an internally directed spiritual dimension to business management, including management education as...

Today, 54% of college graduates regret choosing to invest in a degree, over 70% of Americans detest their jobs (part of why they change jobs every 20 months on average), and 2 out of 3 of Americans will never be able to stop working and retire. But...

Organisation Development, as a field, is messy, imperfect and hard to get hold of - it is like nailing jelly to the wall. A Field Guide for Organisation Development offers a variety of perspectives and unparalleled experiences from practitioners and...

Entrepreneurship education as a potential antecedent of entrepreneurial spirit has too often been limited to Western theories. Entrepreneurship Education in Africa contributes to the body of knowledge of entrepreneurship education and youth...

The past thirty years have seen dozens of otherwise successful investors try to improve education through the application of market principles. They have funneled billions of dollars into alternative schools, online education, and textbook publishing,...

Russell Ackoff's long and distinguished career as the doyen of Design and Systems Thinking was built around a collection of deceptively simple - but often overlooked - principles and observations. In "Differences That Make a Difference" - the last of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987924124Author David QuintieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint David QuintieriPublisher David QuintieriWeight(grams) 159g

Carrying out a project as planned is not a guarantee for success. Projects may fail because project management does not take the requirements, wishes and concerns of stakeholders sufficiently into account. Projects can only be successful through...

This critical volume combines theoretical and empirical work across disciplines to explore what threatens scalability-and what enables it-in the early childhood field. Authors and editors provide specific recommendations to help professionals refine and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997458503Author Adam BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Brooks BooksPublisher Brooks BooksWeight(grams) 54gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 2mm

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities-especially the study of literature-offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their...

Strategic alliances offer organisations an alternative to organic growth or acquisition when faced with the need to develop the business to a new level, innovate in terms of products or services or significantly reduce costs. The Strategic Alliance...

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Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as one of the world's most elite business schools, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure faculty...

This book gathers together details of seventeen case studies of learning in practice, after having set the issue of reflective learning in a theoretical context. The cases are drawn from a wide range of situations and discuss both apparent successes and...

With the financial crisis continuing after five years, people are questioning why economics failed either to send an adequate early warning ahead of the crisis or to resolve it quickly. The gap between important real-world problems and the workhorse...

Cyber Security Management: A Governance, Risk and Compliance Framework by Peter Trim and Yang-Im Lee has been written for a wide audience. Derived from research, it places security management in a holistic context and outlines how the strategic marketing...

*Shortlisted in the Management and Leadership Textbook Category at CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2017* This book is not available as a print inspection copy. To download an e-version click here or for more information contact your local...

Sustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren't an expert? From the authors of the award-winning handbook The Business Guide to Sustainability comes this highly...

Why do fewer teenagers in England from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university than young people from better-off families? Once at university, how well do poorer students fare compared with other students - who drops out from university and who gets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640040038Author Michelle N HalseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Silver City Publications & Training L.L.C.Publisher Silver City Publications &...

FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION examines and analyzes the key educational issues and policies affecting American education. The book prepares you for your future professional career as an educator through an array of applied features that tie the book's themes...

Capitalism on Campus examines the university's journey into market hands and the sexual sell-off of students, which has come with it. It raises critical questions about the forces which conjoin higher education to both sex work and declining academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262633185Author Nick MontfortFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

A colorful history of US research universities, and a market-based theory of their global success.American education has its share of problems, but it excels in at least one area: university-based research. That's why American universities have produced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999123208Author Olen GunnlaugsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Trifoss Business PressPublisher Trifoss Business PressWeight(grams)...

Businesses around the world are increasingly turning to an exciting new branch of management known as corporate sustainability management (CSM) to help them better understand and manage their non-financial performance. Indeed, what we are witnessing is...

To remain relevant, management education must reflect the realities that influence its subject matter, management, while at the same time addressing societal needs and expectations. Faced by powerful drivers of change, many of which are amplified by the...

Management education growth and the rise in accompanying business schools over the last few decades are fuelled by global economic development, coupled with the promise of success in business careers. Recently, questions have been raised about the value...

A leading resource for K 8 literacy programs, this extremely popular reading methods text has a simple goal: to provide aspiring teachers (including you) with the tools to help every student learn to read and write. LITERACY: HELPING STUDENTS CONSTRUCT...

The Innovative Business School formulates a blueprint for the innovative business school of the next decade, with proposed areas of innovation which will train executives to transform the coming technological disruptions into an avenue for world economic...

Practitioners of marketing in higher education and all academics across all disciplines who work in higher education are aware of the importance of marketing to their careers, their department, and their institution. Chancellors, University Presidents,...

Achievement tests play an important role in modern societies. They are used to evaluate schools, to assign students to tracks within schools, and to identify weaknesses in student knowledge. The GED is an achievement test used to grant the status of high...

Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation--and the world--has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy as an...

Businesses constantly look for ways to achieve better performance, and business schools play an important role through their curricula by teaching such methods and helping budding and experienced managers find innovative paths. The author of this book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648079002Author Sarah CordinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Maintraining Pty LtdPublisher Maintraining Pty LtdWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and as the world's most elite institution for business education, Harvard Business School trains many of the future leaders of Fortune 500 companies. But how does HBS formally and informally...