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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) An Encyclopedia

Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) An Encyclopedia

First published in 1993 Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages including rulers and saints overviews of the countries religion education politics and law culture and material life history literature and art. Written by a team of expert contributors the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps useful supplementary photos cross-references and a comprehensive index this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas the Viking age and Old English history and literature and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia. | Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) An Encyclopedia

GBP 54.99
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Russian For All Occasions A Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions

Russian For All Occasions A Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions

Russian For All Occasions: A Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions presents 10 000 formal and informal modern Russian expressions that users are likely to encounter either in speech or writing. The entries take the form of collocations phrases or short sentences and each entry is accompanied by a translation which provides the English communicative fragment corresponding most closely to the Russian original. Longer explanations are provided for phrases that learners might otherwise find difficult to interpret correctly. Entries are arranged thematically with an alphabetical index of key Russian and English words to help users navigate the dictionary. Russian For All Occasions is a unique resource for intermediate to advanced students of Russian. The range of ready-made and contextualised expressions presented here will help learners improve their active command of Russian. | Russian For All Occasions A Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions

GBP 44.99
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The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1914-1918

The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1914-1918

This volume originally published in 1987 fills a gap in a neglected area. Looking at the entire war in the Mediterrean the volume examines the war from the viewpoint of all the important participants making full use of archives and manuscript collections in Britain France Italy Germany Austria and the United States. A fascinating mosaic of campaigns emerges in the Adriatic Straits of Otranto and the Eastern Aegean. The German assistance to the tribes of Libya the threat that Germany would get her hands on the Russian Black Sea Fleet and use it in the Mediterreanean and the appearance and influence of the Americans in 1918 all took place against a background of rivalry between the Allies which frustrated the appointment of Jellicoe in 1918 as supreme command at sea in a role similar to that of Foch on land. | The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1914-1918

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Regulating from the Inside Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals

Regulating from the Inside Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals

Environmental Management Systems (EMSs) offer an approach to regulatory policy that lies somewhere between free-market and traditional command-and-control methods. Worldwide hundreds of thousands of private firms have adopted or are considering adopting these internally managed systems for improving environmental performance. In the United States the Environmental Protection Agency has established a special recognition for firms that adopt EMSs. Already numerous state agencies have proposed or adopted 'green-tier systems' that allow firms with EMSs to be exempted from otherwise applicable requirements. Yet while private- and public-sector interest in EMSs is booming limited empirical evidence is available about the efficacy of EMSs. To close the gap between advocacy and analysis Regulating from the Inside brings together cutting-edge work of leading scholars providing the most comprehensive analysis to date of environmental management systems. Intended to frame the future policy and the research agenda about EMSs the discussions are organized around two critical questions: How have EMSs worked in firms that have already adopted them? What potential and limitations do they have as policy tools in the future? Addressing the arguments of both advocates and skeptics the chapters examine why firms adopt EMSs; how firms implement EMSs; how EMSs answer concerns about fairness corporate social responsibility and sustainability; and what kind of impact EMSs may have on the global economy. | Regulating from the Inside Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals

GBP 84.99
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Human Hierarchies A General Theory

Human Hierarchies A General Theory

Human beings are hierarchical animals. Always and everywhere people have developed social ranking systems. These differ dramatically in how they are organized but the underlying causal mechanisms that create and sustain them are the same. Whether they are on the top or bottom of the heap people attempt to be superior to some other persons or group. This is the root of Melvyn L. Fein's thesis presented in Human Hierarchies: A General Theory. Fein traces the development of changes from hunter-gatherer times to our own techno-commercial society. In moving from small to large communities humans went from face-to-face contests for superiority to more anonymous and symbolic ones. Societies evolved from hunting bands where the parties knew each other through big-men societies chieftainships agrarian empires patronage chains caste societies estate systems and market-oriented democracies. Where once small groupings were organized primarily by strong forces such as personal relationships the now standard large groupings are more dependent on weaker forces such as those provided by social roles. Bureaucracies and professional roles have become prominent. Bureaucracies allow large-scale organizations to maintain control of people by limiting the potential destructiveness of unregulated tests of strength and by clarifying chains of command. Their rigidity and unresponsiveness requires that they be supplemented by professional roles. At the same time a proliferation of self-motivated experts delegate authority downward thereby introducing a more flexible decentralization. This analysis is a unique and significant advance in both the sociology and anthropology of stratification among humans. | Human Hierarchies A General Theory

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Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

There have been two critical leadership approaches. First Generation Leadership (command and control) was the dominant model until the 1940s. Second Generation Leadership (compliance coupled with rewards and punishments) is still dominant today. This approach is being rejected by 'Generation Y ' threatening the longevity of traditional organisations. In Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Douglas Long acknowledges the need for a leadership approach that elicits engagement commitment and enhanced personal group and organisational accountability. This is Third Generation Leadership. At its core lies the issue of where we centre our brain's locus of control and how this impacts on our understanding of and approach to leadership. With examples from everyday situations underpinned by research this book is about understanding and applying aspects of neuroscience critical for tomorrow's world. It provides a framework for addressing problems through insights into how the way we use our brains affects values worldviews and behaviours. The author introduces the concept of 'red zone - blue zone' to explain the differences between a brain controlled by its stem-limbic areas (red zone) and the limbic-cortical cortex areas (blue zone). This becomes a short hand for describing and applying knowledge from neuroscience to encourage practitioners in leadership and management roles to achieve desired outcomes through becoming acquainted with different areas of their brain. Anyone grappling with what is required to deal with Generation Y people in a networked and mobile age will welcome this introduction to the world of third generation leadership. | Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control Knowledge Change and Neuroscience

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Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia helps rectify the fallacy long-held and deeply entrenched that Asian polities have been interested only in the control of populations not in expanding their command of territory. In countering this misapprehension this book suggests that Asian polities have indeed been concerned with territorial control and expansion over time whether for political or strategic advantage trade purposes defence needs agricultural expansion or increased income through taxation. The book explores the historical experiences of a set of polity expansions within Asia specifically in East and Southeast Asia and by examining the motivations mechanisms processes validations and limitations of these Asian territorial expansions reveals the diverse avenues by which Asian polities have grown. The chapters draw on these historical examples to highlight the connections between Asian polity expansion and centralised political structures and this aids in a broader and more comprehensive understanding of Asian political practice both past and present. Through these chapter studies and the integrative introduction the book interrogates key concepts such as imperialism and colonialism and the applicability and relevance of such terminology in Asian contexts both historical and contemporary. Comparisons and contrasts with European historical expansions are also suggested. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Asian history as well as by those with an interest in Asian interactions international relations polity expansion Asia-Europe historical comparisons and globalisation. | Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

GBP 46.99
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Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people’s basic subsistence needs are met? Some advanced market economies e. g. the United States have exhibited a decline in well-being both subjectively and objectively measured over several decades despite seeing economic growth during the same period. This book provides an original and comprehensive explanation: economic growth as driven by market forces induces people through both the demand- and supply-side channels to pursue command over more material resources and this weakens the self-generation of capabilities putting well-being at risk of deterioration. The book argues with the support of a variety of evidence that the challenge can be overcome if governments’ policies and people’s choices pursue as their ultimate goal ‘fundamental human development’ on an evolutionary basis: the development of the capability of a typical person to conceive and share with others new purposes to pursue them individually or collectively and thus to contribute to building human culture. If such human development is prioritised it makes people satisfied with their lives and resistant to adverse shocks and it can even shape the pattern of economic growth. By contrast if economic growth is prioritised it tends to weaken and impoverish fundamental human development and consequently people’s well-being and social cohesion. With this volume readers will find an answer to a problem that is both urgent and long-term both individual and societal. The work makes a substantial contribution to the literature on wellbeing the economics of happiness human capital and growth and the capability approach. | Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

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The Foreign Policy of Russia Changing Systems Enduring Interests

The Foreign Policy of Russia Changing Systems Enduring Interests

This text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from a historical perspective. Now fully updated the sixth edition incorporates new coverage of issues including relations with the major powers and with other post-communist states with an emphasis on tensions with the U. S. and engagement with Ukraine Crimea and Syria. International security issues including arms control sanctions and intervention continue to grow in importance. Domestic and regional issues related to natural resource politics human rights Islamism and terrorism also persist. Chronologically organized chapters highlight the continuities of Russia’s behavior in the world since tsarist times as well as the major sources of change and variability over the revolutionary period wartime alliances and Cold War détente the Soviet collapse and the first post-communist decades. The basic framework used in the book is a modified realism that stresses the balance of power and the importance of national interest and identifies several factors (both internal and external) that condition Russian policy. The interpretations are original and based on a mix of primary and secondary sources. New to the Sixth Edition Thoroughly updated coverage of Russia’s bilateral relations with the United States and countries in Europe Asia Africa and Latin America. Discussion of how Moscow employs Russia’s soft power assets. Russian-American relations especially with respect to interference in the 2016 U. S. presidential elections and to U. S. foreign policy concerns in North Korea Iran and Syria. Russia’s interference in recent and upcoming elections in European states which (along with the Brexit vote) threaten to jeopardize the future of the European Union. The full unfolding of the Ukraine crisis. Vladimir Putin’s continuing campaign to command greater Western respect for Russia’s interests and capabilities. Significant new developments in the Middle East including the nuclear deal with Iran the involvement in the Syrian civil war and the first-ever production-control deal with OPEC. A new concluding chapter: Russia and the United States: A New Cold War? An Epilogue on the July 2018 Trump-Putin Summit and surrounding events. | The Foreign Policy of Russia Changing Systems Enduring Interests

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