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  • Amor Tempus Topos

    Drawings and paintings by Mark Sterling

    This small book is entitled Amor Tempus Topos - three words in Latin that represent concepts that I believe are embodied in my work and life in drawing.Amor, because the prime motivation for rendering the subjects that are included herein is love.I have always made drawings, of situations, things and people that I care for in some way, whether it was: adolescent renderings of racing cars and ... Read more

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  • Preserving the Problem

    Why Institutions Sabotage the Solutions They Were Built For

    by Mark Sterling ...
    Why do massive bureaucracies often seem utterly incapable of fixing the exact issues they were founded to resolve? The answer lies in the Shirky Principle: Institutions will inherently try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution. This critical business text dissects the hidden structural incentives that force organizations to prioritize self-preservation over actual success. When a ... Read more

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  • Re-envisioning Academic Citizenship

    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    Academic citizenship underpins the day-to-day functioning and long-term sustainability of universities, as well as supporting organizational learning, ensuring universities can continue to make a relevant contribution to changing needs in society. It helps strengthen connections between universities and the world beyond academia.The pandemic and new developments in the digital space have had a ... Read more

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  • Redeveloping Academic Career Frameworks for Twenty-First Century Higher Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book spotlights new pathways for academic career progression beyond the traditional teaching-and-research model. It sets out key parameters for constructive conversations about alignment to these new pathways, which are examined from the point of view of individuals at different stages in their careers, as well as at an institutional level. The authors offer guidance on how to implement new ... Read more

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  • Train Aerodynamics

    Fundamentals and Applications

    Train Aerodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications is the first reference to provide a comprehensive overview of train aerodynamics with full scale data results. With the most up-to-date information on recent advances and the possibilities of improvement in railway facilities, this book will benefit railway engineers, train operators, train manufacturers, infrastructure managers and researchers of ... Read more

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    Creating Value for Public Service Users, Citizens, and Society Through Public Service Delivery

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    This bookis based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his previous conceptual and empirical work in this field, together with new empirical evidence from emerging research.Public Service Logic challenges the product-dominant assumptions of the New Public Management (NPM) about the nature and management of ... Read more

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  • Nurturing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

    Support for Research Careers in Health and Biomedicine

    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Today’s academic and research institutions recognise the importance of diverse research teams in health and biomedical science, in terms of the business case, social justice and the common good.This ‘go-to’ book familiarises readers with the key equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) issues in relation to research careers and ... Read more

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  • Interdisciplinary Research Journeys

    Practical Strategies for Capturing Creativity

    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Interdisciplinarity' has become a rallying cry among funders and leaders of research. Yet, while the creative potential of interdisciplinary research is great, it poses many challenges. If you don't have disciplinary boundaries, how do you decide what to include or ... Read more

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  • Influencing Organizational Effectiveness

    A Critical Take on the HR Contribution

    In this book Linda Holbeche offers an historical narrative on the changing landscape of work since the 1980s and considers how definitions of organizational effectiveness have changed over time. She considers the characteristics and effects of the neo-liberal work culture of new capitalism, and how HRM practices have contributed to shaping this work culture.Influencing Organizational Effectiveness ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Graduate Employability

    This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate employability. Chapters offer critical and reflective positions, providing examples of a range of student and graduate destinations, and cover a wide ... Read more

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  • Organizational Leadership

    Edited by John Bratton ...
    Understand the reality of contemporary organizational leadership with the second edition of this thought-provoking textbook.Through an analysis of key theories and topical issues such as innovation, gender, power, ethics and environmental sustainability, the authors deftly illustrate how leadership cannot be extricated from the wider organizational context and why leadership is increasingly seen ... Read more

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  • Managing Academics

    A Question of Perspective

    Managing Academics offers contrasting perspectives of managing others in order to provoke alternative interpretations of academic work, identity, working relationships and scholarship outcomes in higher education institutions (HEIs). The author leverages a novel analytical-empirical approach to challenge the notion that managing others is a unitary, values-free process. This approach raises ... Read more

    $35.99 USD