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Claim 20% Off Johnston & Marshall’s Leading Sales Texts Today

2013-05-17T08:52:35Q

We are pleased to offer you a huge 20% discount on the new editions of Contemporary Selling and Sales Force Management by Mark Johnston & Greg Marshall.

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Sir Richard Branson Introduces…

2013-04-10T13:25:54Q

We invite you to take a sneak peak at the foreword by Sir Richard Branson in The Air Logistics Handbook by Michael Sales

Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

2013-04-10T09:02:54Q

Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.

"In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption, "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.

Sourcebook for Political Communication Research

2013-04-09T08:24:56Q

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK, The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research offers scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source for state-of-the-art/field research methods, measures, and analytical techniques in the field of political communication.

Public Relations And Nation Building: Influencing Israel

2013-04-05T13:56:08Q

Why not read this interview with Margalit Toledano and David McKie, authors of Public Relations And Nation Building, and find out the answers to such questions as "Does the definition of PR change when used in the context of nation building?", and "What makes Israel stand out from other countries, in terms of the use of PR to inform/build national identity?"

Promoting Nonprofit Organizations

2013-03-28T13:40:42Q

“A major PR challenge for nonprofit organizations is to think in reputation management terms. Not-for-profit entities cannot take their reputation for granted,” warns Ruth Kinzey in Promoting Nonprofit Organizations.

Read more from Ruth Kinzey in an interview about her book here.

New Generation of HR Professional

2013-03-28T11:46:58Q

How can one call oneself a professional in HR when there are no governing bodies to assess it?

Visit youtube today & watch Paul Kearns, author of ‘Professional HR’, introduce his transformative book, which explores this question.

Harry G. Johnson’s official biographer writes a new introduction on the eminent economist

2013-03-25T10:21:00Q

Here, Don Moggridge provides a new article on the influential economist, Harry G. Johnson, ahead of the publication of the 9 volume Routledge Library Editions collection, Collected Works of Harry G. Johnson, this month. Moggridge offers a brief outline of the life of Johnson and his contributions to international trade and monetary economics.

America and China: Will They Ever Work Together?

2013-03-15T15:30:04Q

Steven Feldman, author of Trouble in the Middle gets to the crux of how American and Chinese executives perceive doing business. The result: a book that will prove helpful to all those looking to expertly navigate Chinese-American business relationships. Why not read an interview with the author?

Trouble in the Middle

2013-03-14T09:45:51Q

Steven P. Feldman, Professor of Business Ethics, Weatherhead School of Management, explains his latest publication Trouble in the Middle: American-Chinese Business Relations, Culture, Conflict, and Ethics.

Did the March 11/11 crisis spark real reform, or has it simply been a return to business as usual?

2013-03-13T08:32:47Q

In Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan, Jeff Kingston looks back to the day when natural disasters resulted in death and destruction and “Japan’s Chernobyl”. You can read a review by the Japan Times here.

The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe

2013-03-06T16:15:21Q

The Transformation of Employment Relations in Europe is publishing in June, 2013. Why not get a feel for what's to come, and in the process learn a little about the subject, by reading co-author Prof. Dr. Valeria Pulignano's summary of the book?

Featured Series: Russian and East European Studies

2013-03-01T08:17:19Q

Edited by Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent, and published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies), the primary aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality, research-level work by both new and established scholars, on all aspects of Russian, Soviet, post-Soviet and East European Studies.

Browse all titles in the series here.

Jeannie Sowers talks about new book ‘Environmental Politics in Egypt’

2013-02-27T12:03:43Q

Jadaliyya, an independent ezine run by the Arab Studies Institute, interviews Jeannie Sowers about her new book: Environmental Politics in Egypt

To see the full interview, visit Jadaliyya here.

Listen to Dennis Deninger

2013-02-20T16:54:33Q

Why not take a listen to Dennis Deninger, author of Sports on Television: The How and Why Behind What You See, on New Books in Sports, the podcast that 'offers sports talk that will make you smarter' !