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Critical Leadership
Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon. The book offers a critical account of the...
Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
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New Directions in Social Theory, Education and Embodiment
This book exemplifies the nurturing spirit of inter-discursive debate with a view to opening up new theoretical and empirical insights, understanding, and engagement, with debates on issues relating to pedagogy, policy, equity and embodiment. From a variety of social science perspectives, an...
Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
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Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse
Fat Fabrications
Eating less, exercising more and losing weight seem the obvious solution for the oncoming 'obesity epidemic'. Rarely, however, is thought given to how these messages are interpreted and whether they are in fact inherently healthy. Education, Disordered Eating and Obesity Discourse investigates how...
Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge
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Soft-Tissue Surgery of the Craniofacial Region
Whether from trauma, congenital deformity, or disease, many patients can present with disfiguring and debilitating facial defects. This reference presents a range of expertise on soft-tissue surgery of the craniofacial region for improved function and enhanced cosmetic appearance. Covering the...
Published June 19th 2007 by CRC Press
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Education Policy and Social Reproduction
Class Inscription & Symbolic Control
This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition...
Published October 2nd 2005 by Routledge
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The Nuclear Envelope
Vol 56
Series: Society for Experimental Biology
The Nuclear Envelope brings together the major current topics in nuclear envelope structure, transport, transcriptional regulation and cell signaling. The volume is divided into four sections:1. Proteins of the nuclear envelope, including nuclear envelope proteomics, structure and function.2....
Published July 21st 2004 by Taylor & Francis
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Body Knowledge and Control
Studies in the Sociology of Physical Education and Health
Today's society is obsessed with the body, its size, shape and healthiness. Governments, business and the popular media, spend and earn fortunes encouraging populations to get healthy, eat properly, exercise daily and get thin. But how are current social trends and attitudes...
Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge
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Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order
Presenting a wide variety of case studies, ranging from the early Palaeolithic to Post-modernity, and from Europe to the Andes, West and East Africa, and the USA, Environmental Archaeology and the Social Order deals with both the theory and method of environmental archaeology. Including significant...
Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
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Politics, Policy and Practice in Physical Education
Using the example and context of Physical Education, a particularly vivid and comprehensive illustration is provided of the processes involved in the development of the National Curriculum for Physical Education in England and Wales between 1988-1995.The authors draw upon the extensive research to...
Published February 3rd 1999 by Routledge
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Potassium Channels And Their Modulators
From Synthesis To Clinical Experience
Potassium ions K+ ions are vital in physiological processes, particularly with regard to the cardiovascular system. Modulators influence the channels through which these ions flow and the research into modulator drugs of these channels is the subject of rapidly-advancing research. This work is...
Published March 31st 1996 by CRC Press