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    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    This collection of essays explores the real-world problem of building safety through the lens of private law.High profile building failures including the fire at Grenfell Tower, London, England and the collapse of Champlain Towers South, Florida, USA have exposed widespread building safety failures globally. In this book, international experts deploy a variety of different private law perspectives ... Read more

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  • Public Law Adjudication in Common Law Systems

    Process and Substance

    This volume arises from the inaugural Public Law Conference hosted in September 2014 by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, which brought together leading public lawyers from a number of common law jurisdictions. While those from such jurisdictions share background understandings, significant differences within the common law world create opportunities for valuable exchanges ... Read more

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  • Managerial Communication for Organizational Development

    Managerial Communication for Organizational Development provides clarity for top, middle, and frontline managers on paramount communication issuesIt helps them anticipate and respond to communication challenges managers face daily. Challenges occur rapidly and with no warning. A business can be destroyed by media manipulations of public perceptions.Knowing what to do, what to say, and what not to ... Read more

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  • Managerial Communication for Professional Development

    Managerial Communication for Professional Development offers a unique functions approach to managerial skills.It explores what the communication managers actually do in business across the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling functions when professional skills are needed the most. The windows into practical reality adds contemporary information pertinent to key concepts in the chapters ... Read more

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  • Cooperation in Chinese Communities

    Morality and Practice

    Series series LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
    When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions concerning human nature and the nature of cooperation.The ... Read more

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  • Leading Schools in Challenging Circumstances

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    The leadership of schools can make a significant difference to enhancing the life chances of students in schools and enabling them to succeed. This book examines leadership within schools, focusing on securing success within a challenging social and political environment. It explores the approaches to leadership adopted by four successful secondary school headteachers in a local authority situated ... Read more

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  • The World Since 1945

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    A masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction to the events of the period between the end of the Second World War and the present day. P. M. H. Bell and Mark Gilbert balance a clear narrative with in-depth analysis to guide the reader through the aftermath of the Second World War, the Cold War, decolonization, Détente and the Arab ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Boyer Lectures 2017

    Fast, smart and connected: What is it to be human, and Australian, in a digital world?

    Unabridged

    1 hour 52 min

    ‘Twenty years in Silicon Valley has left me with the distinct sense that we need to keep reasserting the importance of people, and the diversity of our lived experiences, into our conversations about technology and the future. Many conversations seem to originate in the United States, but I think this is a time and place to have that conversation here in Australia. After all, we are not just ... Read more

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  • Agency, Structure and the NEET Policy Problem

    The Experiences of Young People

    For many years, government policy has associated young people 'being NEET' (Not in Education, Employment or Training) with educational underachievement, worklessness, generational poverty, poor health, antisocial behaviour, and reduced life expectancies. Researchers and policymakers continue to debate whether young people become NEET as a result of their own choices (i.e. their personal agency), ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Disobedience

    Clare of Assisi, A Novel

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    An author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world of medieval Italy, witnessing the daily rituals of convent life. At the center of that life is Saint ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Nation Building in Australia

    Resistance, Resilience, Resurgence

    Series series Indigenous Self-Rule
    This vital and timely book is the first sustained investigation of the creative strategies employed by two Australian Indigenous nations in re-asserting their sovereign capacities for self-determination. Continuing the remarkable history of Indigenous peoples resisting settler-colonialism, these nations echo the resurgence of collective cultural identity and political capacity evident across ... Read more

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  • New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

    This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large ... Read more

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