Team working is vital to organisational success. This up to the minute consideration of the roles played by teams and leaders is designed for students and professionals who require practical examples to bring the concepts of team leadership to life.[...]

A motorcycle messenger goes into a small park in London to paint the words 'White Lightning' on the tank of his bike. This is the beginning of an extraordinary novel. It is told over the space of a few months, and in these few months one man's whole life - his failures, his successes, his longing fo[...]

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions reductions and [...]

Over the last few decades behavioral economics has revolutionized the discipline. It has done so by putting the human back into economics, by recognizing that people sometimes make mistakes, care about others, and are generally not as cold and calculating as economists have traditionally assumed. Th[...]

With 20 short plays followed by 20 short sketches, "Forty Short Plays" responds to a need for more playscripts for Key Stage 3. Each play can be read in just one lesson, making it suitable for group reading in a Literacy Hour.[...]

It is often supposed that the spectacular successes of our modern mathematical sciences support a lofty vision of a world completely ordered by one single elegant theory. In this book Nancy Cartwright argues to the contrary. When we draw our image of the world from the way modern science works - as [...]

Roger Penrose's original and provocative ideas about the large-scale physics of the Universe, the small-scale world of quantum physics and the physics of the mind have been the subject of controversy and discussion. These ideas were proposed in his best-selling books The Emperor's New Mind and Shado[...]

A pirate-themed, toilet-training 8x8 that is fit for the littleswashbuckler in your life
Every pirate needs his captain's chair and this 8x8 with a perfed captain's hat and reward stickers is perfect for the little pirate learning to use the potty for the first time
With a helpful, step-by[...]

Suitable for health care professionals who work with athletes and patients of diverse cultural backgrounds, this text stresses the importance of recognising different cultural attitudes, beliefs and expectations so that behaviour can be modified accordingly to reflect sensitivity to their patients' [...]

This volume contains 17 stories, both new and traditional, written in simple text, that are suitable for reading aloud. The stories include: "The Little Red Hen", "Button Nose", "Nail Soup", "Dragon Train", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Squire's Bride" and "The Nightingale".[...]

Oxford is many things. But it has a symbolic meaning well beyond its buildings, gardens, rituals and teaching. It stands for something deep in the Anglo-Saxon mind - excellence, a kind of privilege, a charmed life, deep-veined liberalism, a respect for tradition. Cartwright has spoken to many leadin[...]