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Basedon decades of consulting and coaching experience, the authors of this book takea close look at how to lead and navigate in today's complex and unpredictablebusiness environment. The ten top managers from different cultures, who give in-depthinterviews in this book, describe their personal and professional struggleswith complexity.

This book explores housing design with a focus onaffordability. It gives the perspectives of award-winning and internationallyrenowned practitioners and academics who research and teach on housing;professionals who design and build, and students who are learning. The bookforegrounds innovative approaches of the designers of today and tomorrow.

This book examines howuniversities are currently dealing with globalisation. Chapters are written byfaculty members and administrators at universities, who all share the knowledgeand practice of having developed international, transnational, or globalofferings in form of educational programmes and courses.

This book embraces the recent thinking that entrepreneurs are made, notborn, by exploring entrepreneurship activities at different universities aroundthe world from three primary perspectives: policy, practice, and mindset. It willinspire anyone with an interest in teaching and learning entrepreneurship inhigher education.

This book brings togetherexamples of teaching and learning innovations, within the domain of highereducation. It is diverse in nature and showcases examples of innovativeteaching and learning practices in higher education from around the world. Thecontributions come from all scientific disciplines and in all teaching andlearning contexts.

Buildings are for People: Human Ecological Design offers a new approach to the process of conceiving architectural design, one that considers the interactions of the built environment with people and the natural environment. The book exposes our visceral and experiential connections to buildings, and how buildings intervene directly with our ecosystem, natural environment and sense of place. It brings to light our ability to utilize a building's surfaces, shape and materiality to synergize with the energy and forces of nature for a more green and sustainable architecture. It points out many of the roadblocks to successful design including issues in education, the profession, regulation and the industry's institutions, providing an awareness that heretofore is rarely discussed. Most importantly, Buildings are for People: Human Ecological Design highlights the obvious, that buildings are built for people, a fact that seems to have been overlooked in the last half-century.

Intendedas a 'one stop shop' of a veritable who's who of leading urban agricultureauthors and scholars, this book brings together multiple contributions on thedesign, development, science, and society of the rapidly expanding,multi-disciplinary field. The book is accessible, free of jargon, and full ofpictures, graphics and charts.

Passport toResultsis a handy, pocket-sized workbook which should be used alongside Influencing for Results in Organisations,to guide you through that process: developing your abilities, clarifying yourideas, choosing your strategies, connecting with the people you are influencing,and getting what you want.

Thisbook is aimed internationally at medical, dental and allied healthcareprofessionals working in primary care. It provides a simple, step-by-stepalgorithm approach to differential diagnosis and early management of sevenimportant oral and maxillofacial presentations and is backed up with practicalexplanation and clinical photographs.

A ground-breaking exploration of executive coaching,based on a wide range of real-life studies of coaching in action. Writtenby skilled and experienced practitioners, and showing what happens inside coachingrelationships, this book shows executive coaches how they can dramaticallyincrease the value they bring to organisations and individuals.

This book highlights the practice of residential design at a time whenaffordable housing provision is seen as a critical issue by designers, plannersand policy makers alike. It brings together world-leading architects withacademics from seven countries and teams of international students offeringthree perspectives on the problems of housing.

The authors (international consultants in their seventies)generously and intimately share their learnings on ageing. If you aregetting older-or know someone who is-this is a provocative, funny, andinsightful guide to living a lively and meaningful life as the years go by. Itoffers seven ways to lighten your life before you kick the bucket.

Thinking of buying a franchise, creating your own franchise, or franchising a product more effectively? Packed with real-life case studies and key insights from the owners and operators of successful franchise systems, this book is the essential contemporary guide for aspiring franchisees or ambitious franchisors.

Aimed at junior trainees working in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The book is written as a 'survival guide', covering common presentations in the emergency, ward and clinic setting, with detailed descriptions of simple surgical procedures.

It covers the social and political contexts of architecture and design in several countries. It shows how teachers and students from each of these countries are dealing with design as an integrated part of larger socio-political factors.

Closeness at a Distance is a groundbreaking approach to the challenges so many teams, and team leaders, face today. Virtual working is now a reality for most professionals, and the winners of tomorrow will be companies that proactively drive the performance of their virtual cooperations. Virtual leadership, project management at a distance, and networking are today's and tomorrow's critical success factors. So any leader needs to ask him or herself "Is your virtual collaboration as successful as it should be?" How to answer this question, and how to improve performance in this key area, is the focus of this book. It introduces readers to Virtual Performance Improvement (VPI(c)) as the gateway to solutions to all key challenges faced by international virtual teams, groups, and networks. The book supports leaders so they perform successfully and effectively in virtual global environments. It guides team leaders, project and network managers, members, and even whole organizations, to areas of potential improvement in virtual performance and will help them turn vital challenges into competitive advantages. The book gives new insights into how to assist global groups, teams, and networks to perform better, and links project management, organizational, and cultural issues with the world of communication technology. 'Enriched with numerous case studies and a storyline woven into the chapters, this book will be of immediate, practical help to anyone working with virtual teams and groups, or consulting, coaching, or training in such a context

Looking at zoological gardens, private menageries, circuses, and natural history museums, this fascinating account explores the surprising extent of the exotic-animal trade in 19th-century England and its colonies. Filled with entertaining anecdotes-from the tiger that prowled down St. George's Street in London with a boy in its mouth and the polar bear that killed a dog in Liverpool to the kangaroos hopping around the lawns of stately homes and the boa constrictor who got loose in Tunbridge Wells-this book also shares how the animals played a key role in the project to ensure that leisure was educational. As it demonstrates how the trade was intimately connected with the tides of Empire, it will be of interest to academics and general readers alike.

For at least two decades, people have been working together virtually, their interactions enabled and mediated by communication technology; based on years of research, this book summarizes what it takes to lead effectively in the virtual space. Arguing that becoming an effective virtual leader requires a deeper level of reflection--including questioning one's sense of identity, relationships, trust, and power--this account offers valuable advice to those who want to improve their effectiveness as supervisors. This guide will interest HR professionals, consultants, managers, and virtual team members who want to become faster at developing and implementing strategies and cultivating learning and change globally.

One of the most significant recent trends in Higher Education has been the move from a focus on teaching to one on learning. But, as anyone who has ever run programmes or courses will recognise, both the physical geography and the ethos of the location have major impacts on the quality of the resulting learning experience. Hence the current interest in learning spaces - considered here as 'sites of interaction.' The fourteen chapters of this anthology, produced by the international Association Learning in Higher Education's well-tested and rigorous methodology, discuss the concept of learning spaces, the pedagogy of learning spaces, and the way learning spaces are changing. Learning Space Design indicates that the evolution of learning spaces is, and ought to be, a contested area which cannot be resolved just through a formal building commissioning process. It is important to make explicit the nexus between educational philosophy and architectural design of physical and/or virtual learning spaces, especially if the aim is to increase student agency, interaction, and collaboration. Learning Space Design puts the spotlight on an important, but often overlooked, dimension of teaching and learning processes in higher education. It is a rallying call for a mission to explore further the nature and purposes of learning spaces, and it should be essential reading for all those designing, delivering or evaluating teaching and learning in higher education. About the editors Lennie Scott-Webber is Director Education Environments of Steelcase Education Solutions at Steelcase Inc. in Grand Rapids, U.S.A. John Branch is Academic Director of the part-time MBA programmes and Lecturer of Marketing at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, and Faculty Associate at the Center for Russian, East European, & European Studies, both of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, U.S.A. Paul Bartholomew is Director of Learning Innovation and Professional Practice at Aston University in Birmingham, England. Claus Nygaard is executive director of LiHE and executive director of cph: learning institute.

Rather than focus on the actions of the coach, this handbook places relationships - to one's self and to others - at the heart of the coaching activity. Beginning with an explanation of relational coaching, including its principles and practices, this account goes on to describe the evolution of the relational turn in executive coaching.

Written from various perspectives-international actors, directors, playwrights, academics, dancers, and artists-this book examines and celebrates 14 theater events from a dozen countries. As it makes a case for what makes certain theater productions great, this record also offers examples of writing about theater that imbues the analysis with emotion and documentation. From Peter Brook's King Lear of 1962 through 2010's Oberammergau Passionsspiele, the performances described are seminal works indeed.

What have Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan and, more recently, Chris Morris got in common? They are all Tory anarchists - which sounds like a contradiction in terms - but Peter Wilkin explains why it is not. This book explores an awkward strain of good-old-fashioned Englishness that refuses to conform.

As a major contribution to the field of postgraduate activity in drama, theatre, and performance, this resource identifies the essential characteristics of practice-based research across a range of countries, contexts, forms, and applications.

Case-based learning has become a commoninstructional method across higher education and is encountered in alldisciplines. It is explored in this book within the three interrelated themesof concepts, theories and outcomes. Its value is demonstrated by detaileddescriptions of its use in a variety of different contexts internationally.

Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century, this account discusses contributions decade by decade--from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Lewis's Narnia books in the 1950s to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It also discusses and explains fantasy's continuing and growing popularity.