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  • Reflective Leaders and High-Performance Organizations

    How Effective Leaders Balance Task and Relationship to Build High Performing Organizations

    by Nick A. Shepherd, Peter J. Smyth ...
    An organization operating in the twenty-first century is different from one that operated during the Industrial Revolution. Todays focus is on optimizing human potential; people are the enablers of most aspects of intangible value. People develop relationships with suppliers, customers, distributors, and other third parties through which work is executed. In Reflective Leaders and High-Performance ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • For Better or For Better

    The Paradox of Love and Marriage

    by Peter J. O'Neill - Smyth ...
    For all those in a long-term intimate relationship, or want to be, this book is for you!To quote fellow Irish writer Oscar Wild (1892), "There are only two tragedies in life – one is losing the one you love and the other is winning the one you love." It's all so paradoxical!Based on decades of working with couples, the author walks you through the essentials for developing a relationship based on ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biotechnology Regulation and Trade

    by Stuart J. Smyth, William A. Kerr, Peter W. B Phillips ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establishes the context of the conflict, discussing the challenges of global governance, international trade, and the history of regulation of genetically ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Working with High-Risk Youth

    A Relationship-Based Practice Framework

    by Peter Smyth ...
    This fully revised and expanded second edition focusses on high-risk youth - whose struggles include neglect and abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, the risk of being exploited, mental health issues, and the inability to self-regulate and trust - a population of youth that government child welfare services and community agencies struggle to serve adequately.The focus has traditionally been on ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Becoming Educated

    Young People’s Narratives of Disadvantage, Class, Place and Identity

    by John Smyth, Peter McInerney ...
    Series Book 67 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most ‘disadvantaged’ contexts. The book argues that because the focus has been obdurately and willfully on the wrong things – blaming students; measuring, testing and comparing them; and treating families and communities in demeaning ways that convert them into mere ‘consumers’ – that the resulting misdiagnoses ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Living on the Edge

    Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition

    by John Smyth, Terry Wrigley, Peter McInerney ...
    Series Book 70 - Adolescent Cultures, School, and Society
    Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education—the nexus between poverty and underachievement. This topic stubbornly remains a key contemporary battleground in the struggle to raise standards. Living on the Edge maps and compares a number of competing explanations, critiques inadequate and deficit ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • Generalized Linear Models With Examples in R

    by Peter K. Dunn, Gordon K. Smyth ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook presents an introduction to generalized linear models, complete with real-world data sets and practice problems, making it applicable for both beginning and advanced students of applied statistics. Generalized linear models (GLMs) are powerful tools in applied statistics that extend the ideas of multiple linear regression and analysis of variance to include response variables that ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • GM Agriculture and Food Security

    Fears and Facts

    by Stuart Smyth, William Kerr, Peter Phillips ...
    Efforts to improve food security in the developing world have been hampered due to myths surrounding GM agriculture. This book explores the theory, evidence and rhetoric of the impact of food production on the environment, and the impact of the environment on food production. The chapters address: food security and technology; expertise and opportunism; the promise of technology; the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Socially Just School

    Making Space for Youth to Speak Back

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores schools and how they can function as social institutions that advance the interests and life chances of all young people, especially those who are already the most marginalized and at an educational disadvantage. Social justice is a key theme as the book examines the needs of youth, the concept of school culture, school/community relations, socially critical pedagogy, curriculum ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Doing Critical Educational Research

    A Conversation with the Research of John Smyth

    by John Smyth, Barry Down, Peter McInerney, Robert Hattam ...
    Series Book 7 - Teaching Contemporary Scholars
    John Smyth’s remarkable body of writing, research and scholarship has spanned four decades, and the urgency of our times makes it imperative to look in some depth at the breadth of his research and its trajectory, in order to see how we can connect, extend, build and enrich our understandings from it. Possibly the single most unique aspect to Smyth’s version of critical research is his passion for ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Cognition In Action

    by Alan F. Collins, Philip Levy, Peter E. Morris, Mary M. Smyth ...
    This revised textbook is designed for undergraduate courses in cognitive psychology. It approaches cognitive psychology by asking what it says about how people carry out everyday activities: how people organize and use their knowledge in order to behave appropriately in the world in which they live.; Each chapter of the book starts with an example and then uses this to introduce some aspect of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Pathways in Prosthetic Joint Infection

    by Umraz Khan, Graeme Perks, Rhidian Morgan-Jones, Peter James, Colin Esler, Vince Smyth, Vanya Gant ...
    The incidence of developing infection in prosthetic joints remains low after primary arthroplasty, but owing to the growing success of joint replacement surgery as a procedure to alleviate pain and improve mobility, infection numbers are increasing. The impact on the patient is immense, and surgical options are challenging. Prevention and reducing the incidence is the key to addressing this ... Read more

    $30.59 USD