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Leadership Processes and Follower Self-identity
Series: Series in Organization and Management
Presenting a follower-centered perspective on leadership, this book focuses on followers as the direct determinant of leadership effects because it is generally through follower reactions and behaviors that leadership attempts succeed or fail. Therefore, leadership theory needs to be articulated...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Adequate Food for All
Culture, Science, and Technology of Food in the 21st Century
Food is the sustenance of life. But while we understand that a secure supply of food has been affected by many factors over the course of history, we do not often allow ourselves to entertain the idea that a lack of adequate food worldwide is a very real and dangerous possibility. While soil...
Published February 11th 2009 by CRC Press
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The Death of Christian Britain
Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000, 2nd Edition
Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World
The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and...
Published February 10th 2009 by Routledge
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Structural Analysis
A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach
This comprehensive textbook, now in its sixth edition, combines classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis and develops them concurrently. New solved examples and problems have been added, giving over 140 worked examples and more than 400 problems with answers. The...
Published February 10th 2009 by CRC Press
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Handbook of Optoelectronics (Two-Volume Set)
Series: Handbook of Optoelectronics
A field as diverse as optoelectronics needs a reference that is equally versatile. From basic physics and light sources to devices and state-of-the-art applications, the Handbook of Optoelectronics provides comprehensive, self-contained coverage of fundamental concepts and practical applications...
Published May 16th 2006 by Taylor & Francis
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Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe
Digital technology for the production, transmission, and reception of television is expected to replace analogue transmission throughout the world. The timetable for this transition is uncertain and different projections have been made for virtually every country in the world. This book gives the...
Published August 15th 2004 by Routledge
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Structural Analysis
A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach
The fifth edition of this comprehensive textbook combines and develops concurrently, both classical and matrix-based methods of structural analysis. A new introductory chapter on structural analysis modelling has been added. The suitability of modelling structures as beams, plane or space frames...
Published August 6th 2003 by CRC Press
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The Death of Christian Britain
Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World
The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh...
Published December 21st 2000 by Routledge