One Second Ahead is about applying mindfulness techniques (mindfulness techniques enable people to manage their attention, improve their awareness, and sharpen their focus and clarity) to work life.
This book is the first full-length history of the BBC World Service: from its interwar launch as short-wave radio broadcasts for the British Empire, to its twenty-first-century incarnation as the multi-media global platform of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Leadership can be learned: new evidence from neuroscience clearly points to ways that leaders can significantly improve how they engage... Læs mere
Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. Along the way, the author addresses the nature of numbers,... Læs mere
In this heart-wrenching book, Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and... Læs mere
The definitive biography of the last Shah of Iran, tracing his dramatic rise and fall and his role in the creation of the contemporary Islamic Republic. A social reformer, a deeply paranoid... Læs mere
This collection includes original studies from scholars from thirteen nations, who explore the epistemic features figured in John Dewey's writings in his discourses on public schooling.
Andy Green develops on his earlier historical work on Education and State Formation in a study of education and the nation state in an era of globalization.
From the response to the 1917 Revolution, through military intervention in the Civil War, alliance in World War II and forty years of nuclear confrontation to the... Læs mere
Never before have we so needed a new literacy that will enable us to meaningfully participate in the rapidly evolving technologically... Læs mere
Investigating the current interest in obesity and fatness, this book explores the problems and ambiguities that form the lived experience of 'fat' women in contemporary Western society.
Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport... Læs mere