Book Search
-
Contractor Safety Management
This book looks specifically at issues for health and safety management that arise in contracting relationships, bringing together a range of perspectives from different disciplines including legal, health and safety management, operational, contract and procurement management. By sharing lessons...
To Be Published November 19th 2013 by CRC Press
-
A New Voyage to Guinea
First published in 1744, this account describes the "customs, manners, soil, climate, habits, buildings, education, manual arts, agriculture, trade, employments, languages, ranks of distinction, habitations, diversions, marriages and whatever else is memorable about the Inhabitants....
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
-
Exchange Rates and Prices
The Case of United States Imports
Series: Financial Sector of the American Economy
First published in 1996...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
-
Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. This book explores the...
Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
-
Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic...
Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
-
The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity
Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
-
Jean Baudrillard
Fatal Theories
Series: International Library of Sociology
Jean Baudrillard was one of the most influential, radical, and visionary thinkers of our age. His ideas have had a profound bearing on countless fields, from art and politics to science and technology. Once hailed as the high priest of postmodernity, Baudrillard’s sophisticated theoretical analyses...
Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
-
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Einstein, Relativity and Absolute Simultaneity is an anthology of original essays by an international team of leading philosophers and physicists who have come together to reassess the contemporary paradigm of the relativistic concept of time. A great deal has changed since 1905 when Einstein...
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
-
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cognitive Therapy with Children and Young People
Series: CBT with Children, Adolescents and Families
Post traumatic stress disorder develops after exposure to one or more terrifying events that have caused, or threatened to cause the sufferer grave physical harm. This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive therapy can be used to help children and adolescents who suffer from post traumatic...
Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
-
The Creative Power
Transforming Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our World
Over the last two decades a major focus of organization theory has been on understanding the dynamic relationships between individuals, organizations and their environments. This interest in dynamics, illustrated by systems, chaos, and complexity theory, is recorded in the works of Ackoff, Senge,...
Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge