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Contemporary Issues in Sustainability Accounting, Assurance and Reporting
This title addresses a broad range of innovative and contemporary topics in CSR/ sustainability reporting and will be of particular interest to government and private sector regulators, special interest groups, lenders, investors, analysts, auditors, financial commentators, academics and postgraduate students.
Publication Date: 20 July 2012
An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing, Edition 4
This book deals with the way that the auditory system processes acoustic signals. As well as dealing with the basic anatomy and physiology of all stages of the auditory system, the book relates basic physiological processes to the performance of the auditory system as a whole, in the perception of acoustic signals including speech.
Publication Date: 10 August 2012
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Writing in the Disciplines, Building Supportive Cultures for Student Writing in UK Higher Education
This book develops academic writing in higher education. Viewing writing as a complex sociocultural act, it analyses key issues in writing environments and their impact on student writing. Drawing on research, practice and the existing body of knowledge, it also offers practical writing activities that can be used with students in the disciplines.
Publication Date: 16 May 2012
Strategic Marketing in Tourism Services
Focuses on marketing strategies implemented in tourism services firms and includes a collection of papers related to specific marketing strategies. This title presents the application of specific marketing strategies such as experiential marketing, branding, target marketing, relationship marketing and e-marketing in tourism.
Publication Date: 08 May 2012
Transformational Government Through eGov Practice: Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Technological Issues
The future of government as we know it is being shaped by the quickly-advancing progression of information and communication technology (ICT) eGovernment systems. eGov presents major challenges and advantages for policy makers and the public alike. This important book investigates the issues surrounding transformational government and answers many common questions on its best practice. International in scope it includes detailed case studies of eGov implementation in countries across the globe.
Publication Date: 30 March 2012
Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior, 3rd Revised edition
Explores human information seeking and use. This title provides examples of methods, models and theories used in information behavior research, and reviews more than four decades of research on the topic. It provides coverage of models and theories of information behavior. It includes many examples of occupations and roles.
Publication Date: 30 March 2012
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Action Research for Sustainable Development in a Turbulent World
This book has been conceived by eight long-time action researchers/elders and written by them and four of their mentees after celebrating 20 years of action learning and action research (ALAR) at the Eighth World Congress on ALAR in Melbourne in September 2010.
Publication Date: 07 March 2012
Going Global: The Landscape for Policy Makers and Practitioners in Tertiary Education
Going Global: the landscape for policy makers and practitioners in tertiary education provides an analysis of the current international higher education landscape, touching on the important trends in international higher education and how it can meet the 'challenges' arising from today's economic and political climate
Publication Date: 23 February 2012
Accountability Theory Meets Accountability Practice
Providing a holistic view of accountability, this book clarifies the purposes of accountability; identifies what triggers accountability exchanges; generates a set of responsibility and accountability constructs; and, links these constructs to the accountability process and to the influences that impact on this process.
Publication Date: 01 February 2012
Maritime Logistics: Contemporary Issues
This book adopts the innovative approach of dealing with the overlap between shipping, ports and logistics and covers current issues having a significant impact on the industry. It brings together leading authorities to consider for the first time maritime logistics, and defines the area, registers its boundaries and contributes to its development.
Publication Date: 26 January 2012
Strategic Planning: A Practical Guide for Competitive Success, 2nd edition
This book is exceptional treatise on strategic planning for single-business companies that is at once academically rigorous and uncommonly practical.
Publication Date: 23 January 2012
An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, 6th Edition
Now available in a sixth edition, An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is theleading textbook in the field of auditory perception, also known as psychoacoustics. The textbook
Publication Date: 02 January 2012
Effective Knowledge Work: Answers to the Management Challenges of the 21st Century
This book presents tried and tested methods, and concrete suggestions to analyse and design effective knowledge work. Each topic is accompanied by a self diagnosis allowing the reader to assess their own situation. The authors include case studies to provide inspiration as to the
Publication Date: 24 October 2011
New Perspectives and Methods in Transport and Social Exclusion Research
Presents findings of a successful, international research project exploring links between social exclusion (SE), transport disadvantage (TD) and psychological well being (WB). This title examines fresh perspectives in relation to social capital and WB and developing various economic methods to estimate the marginal value of additional travel.
Publication Date: 20 October 2011
Management Education for Integrity: Ethically Educating Tomorrow's Business Leaders
Explains how curricula should be streamlined and rejuvenated to ensure a high level of integrity in management education, providing numerous examples of new tools, teaching methods, integrity sensitization and development exercises and ethical management education assessment approaches.
Publication Date: 02 September 2011
The Student Voice Handbook: Bridging the Academic/Practitioner Divide
This topical text locates Student Voice within wider current debates around empowered citizenry and the 'big society'. The contributions draw upon the relationships between Student Voice and action research, citizenship, democratic education and students-as-researchers as well as locating these debates within international perspectives. It is through the combination of these perspectives that, as the title of the book suggests, the Student Voice movement can hope to
Publication Date: 18 August 2011
Managing Urban Mobility Systems
Urban mobility is a major problem all over the world. This book addresses the problem of managing urban mobility systems in a novel way by considering the complexity and diversity of the conurbation and agents involved in a UMS, putting forward the evidence that urban mobility must be managed at system level.
Publication Date: 01 July 2011
The Write Approach, 2nd edition
Looks at how the speed of technology can cause business writers to shortcut the thinking, planning, and editing needed for good writing. This edition's expanded commentary and exercises underscore the author's basic premise: writers must determine their purpose for writing, consider their readers' expectations, and polish the final product.
Publication Date: 08 June 2011
Cultural Differences in a Globalizing World
Explains the relationship between national culture and national differences in crucially important phenomena, such as speed of economic growth, murder rates, and educational achievement. This book also explains differences in suicide rates, road death tolls, female inequality, happiness, and a number of other phenomena in an unprecedented way.
Publication Date: 27 May 2011
Entrepreneurial and Business Elites of China: The Chinese Returnees Who Have Shaped Modern China
This important reference title provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of elite entrepreneurs of new China and contains over 100 substantial profiles of top overseas returnees who have made noteworthy contributions to Chinese society in general and economic development in particular since the reform era began in 1978.
Publication Date: 06 May 2011
Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries
This book acknowledges and discusses the belief that the context in which women exercise leadership is critically important in shaping their leadership style. Each chapter opens with a vignette of an extraordinary women leader representing the context, in
Publication Date: 27 April 2011
Auto Motives: Understanding Car Use Behaviours
Transport and mobility is a fundamental aspect of most people's daily lives, while a lack of basic mobility can hinder full economic and social participation. While the individual benefits of car-based travel continues to be recognized, the wider environmental and social cost of automobiles is also significant. Auto Motives critically evaluates the evidence for better understanding 'what drives us to drive'. Uniquely, it draws together and explains the diverse theories behind people
Publication Date: 15 February 2011
Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis
This book brings together some of the very top scholars in the world in economic and organizational sociology to address the recent global financial crisis and concomitant debates and struggles around how to organize economies and societies around the world. The book consists of original contributions in theory and empirical settings and results in a very special and high impact volume that will be widely read and consulted throughout the fields of management and sociology
Publication Date: 10 January 2011
Signals and Systems for Speech and Hearing, 2nd edition
Provides the reader with an introduction to the concepts of signals and systems analysis that play a role in the speech and hearing sciences. This book can be used at many levels, from the student who hasn't heard of a spectrum before, to the experienced worker who has only a fuzzy understanding of the notion of an impulse response.
Publication Date: 02 December 2010
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