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Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production Use and Social Significance

Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production Use and Social Significance

The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B. C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions. Yet their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products of craft specialists the result of high-volume production and therefore important in understanding the social systems in early complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars understand cross-regional similarities in development and use. | Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production Use and Social Significance

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Statistics in Plain English

Statistics in Plain English

Statistics in Plain English is a straightforward conversational introduction to statistics that delivers exactly what its title promises. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of a statistic (or set of statistics) that describes what the statistic does and when to use it followed by a detailed step-by-step explanation of how the statistic works and exactly what information it provides. Chapters also include an example of the statistic (or statistics) used in real-world research Worked Examples Writing It Up sections that demonstrate how to write about each statistic Wrapping Up and Looking Forward sections and practice work problems. Thoroughly updated throughout this edition features several key additions and changes. First a new chapter on person-centered analyses including cluster analysis and latent class analysis (LCA) has been added providing an important alternative to the more commonly used variable-centered analyses (e. g. t tests ANOVA regression). Next the chapter on non-parametric statistics has been enhanced with in-depth descriptions of Mann-Whitney U Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank analyses in addition to the detailed discussion of the Chi-square statistic found in the previous edition. These nonparametric statistics are widely used when dealing with nonnormally distributed data. This edition also includes more information about the assumptions of various statistics including a detailed explanation of the assumptions and consequences of violating the assumptions of regression as well as more coverage of the normal distribution in statistics. Finally the book features a multitude of real-world examples throughout to aid student understanding and provides them with a solid understanding of how several statistics techniques commonly used by researchers in the social sciences work. Statistics in Plain English is suitable for a wide range of readers including students taking their first statistics course professionals who want to refresh their statistical memory and undergraduate or graduate students who need a concise companion to a more complicated text used in their class. The text works as a standalone or as a supplement and covers a range of statistical concepts from descriptive statistics to factor analysis and person-centered analyses.

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Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

The origin and development of Western plainchant and of the genres of liturgical book in which it is recorded have occupied Michel Huglo throughout his long career which has taken him to libraries in every corner of Europe and the United States. This volume the first in a set of four to appear in the Variorum series brings together analyses of manuscripts dating from the 9th to the 13th century including Huglo's pathbreaking studies of the antiphoner of Compiègne the first troper-prosers and of alleluia lists as clues to place of origin. The consequences of the Treaty of Verdun (843) for the diffusion of the plainchant repertory research in medieval musicology in the 20th century the utility of codicology for musicological manuscript studies and the critical edition of the Gregorian antiphoner are addressed in other studies included here. Les origines et le développement du plain-chant en Occident et l'étude des genres de livres liturgiques qui le contiennent ont occupé Michel Huglo durant sa longue carrière et l'ont conduit visiter des bibliothèques partout en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Ce volume le premier d'une série de quatre dans la collection Variorum comprend des analyses de manuscrits du neuvième au treizième siècle notamment des études novatrices relan§ant les recherches sur l'antiphonaire de Compiègne les premiers tropaires-prosaires et les listes d'alleluias comme moyen d'identification des manuscrits de chant. Les conséquences du traité de Verdun (843) pour la diffusion du répertoire de plain-chant les recherches en musicologie médiévale au XXe siècle l'application des méthodes de la codicologie l'étude des manuscrits notés et l'édition critique de l'Antiphonaire grégorien forment les sujets d'autres études réunies dans ce volume. | Les sources du plain-chant et de la musique médiévale

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Russian in Plain English A Very Basic Russian Starter for Complete Beginners

Russian in Plain English A Very Basic Russian Starter for Complete Beginners

Russian in Plain English enables complete beginners to acquire the skill of reading words written in Cyrillic independently with no English transcription or imitated pronunciation within a short period of time. This book introduces the Cyrillic alphabet gradually feeding in the letters and their various pronunciation aspects one by one over its ten units thus building a complete picture of the Russian sound and writing systems. It also highlights the interrelationship of the two systems and helps learners to see the logic behind the use of the Cyrillic alphabet. In addition the book teaches learners to produce Russian word stress on a marked syllable contributing to stress acquisition. Furthermore the book explains the basic grammatical features of Russian words and the rules of how to put them into sentences enabling learners to start saying things in Russian from Unit 1. It employs some findings of research in language processing helping learners to start building their speaking and reading skills. This book is an essential guide for all beginners including students and independent learners. | Russian in Plain English A Very Basic Russian Starter for Complete Beginners

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The Art of Plain Speaking How to Write and Speak in a Way that Will Impress the People that Matter

The Art of Plain Speaking How to Write and Speak in a Way that Will Impress the People that Matter

This is a guide for anyone who wants to connect better with people in the workplace by speaking clearly and with purpose. It is a result of five years at Charlie Corbett’s consultancy Bullfinch Media where he helped convince executives that speaking plainly thoughtfully and behaving with humanity is the best way to win business boost morale and advance careers. It provides carefully detailed wisdom on how to write well speak publicly and stand out in your job as well as how to craft compelling communications make the best of social media and handle the press. The Art of Plain Speaking aims to improve the experience faced by many in the modern workplace a world where senior management are entirely absent from the shop floor – replaced by indecipherable emails from HR – and where people speak in esoteric corporate riddles believing that sounding clever is more productive than speaking clearly. | The Art of Plain Speaking How to Write and Speak in a Way that Will Impress the People that Matter

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Indigenous Invisibility in the City Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

Indigenous Invisibility in the City Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities. Seventy-five years ago First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to cities in the United States Canada Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. First Nations peoples engaged in projects of resurgence and community development in the cities of the four settler states. First Nations peoples who were motivated by aspirations for autonomy and empowerment went on to create the foundations of Indigenous social infrastructure. This book explains the ways First Nations people in cities created and took control of their own futures. A fact largely wilfully ignored in policy contexts. Today differences exist over the way governments and First Nations peoples see the role and responsibilities of Indigenous institutions in cities. What remains hidden in plain sight is their societal function as a social and political apparatus through which much of the social processes of Indigenous resurgence and community development in cities occurred. The struggle for self-determination in settler cities plays out through First Nations people’s efforts to sustain their own institutions and resurgence but also rights and recognition in cities. This book will be of interest to Indigenous studies scholars urban sociologists urban political scientists urban studies scholars and development studies scholars interested in urban issues and community building and development. This book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Indigenous Invisibility in the City Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

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Progress Plain and Simple What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Improving Pupil Progress

Progress Plain and Simple What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Improving Pupil Progress

What is progress in learning? How do we see progress being made in a lesson? This book offers a fresh perspective on teaching learning and progress in the classroom. Written by an experienced teacher and school leader Michael Harpham it explores the different ways in which progress can be made in the classroom and how it can be more effectively delivered identified evidenced measured and assessed. The book provides an overview of progress in schools for both teachers and school leaders including what is meant by progress and what it looks like in lessons as well as its implications on assessment leadership and internal and external school evaluation. It offers over thirty situation-driven strategies and activities to help develop and deliver progress in and beyond the classroom focussing on five measures: Skills Knowledge Accuracy Resilience Independent learning Full of tips to help improve progress in schools this is essential reading for all teachers school leaders and parents. | Progress Plain and Simple What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Improving Pupil Progress

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Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

What does a nation owe its military veterans? Gratitude esteem land grants medical care pensions higher education? Or is serving in the armed forces of one’s country an obligation to be undertaken without any expectation of compensation? If veterans are to receive government aid should a distinction be made between those who served in wartime or faced enemy fire and those who saw neither war nor combat? These questions have been answered in varying ways by the American people and their elected representatives since the Revolutionary War. Paid Patriotism? explores the genesis and growth of soldiers’ pensions throughout the nineteenth century the Bonus experiment after the First World War the passage and consequences of the GI Bill of Rights the growth of the nation’s system of veterans’ hospitals the evolution of veterans’ programs during the Cold War and Vietnam the post-9/11 GI Bill and contemporary scandals and reform efforts within the veterans’ bureaucracy from its promotion to a cabinet department to wrongdoing in the Veterans Health Administration. James T. Bennett examines the complex and politically charged history and heated present-day debate of what the late columnist William Safire called the “most sacred cow” in Washington: the veterans’ bureaucracy. In the end the United States and its citizens owe veterans a debt. But how has and how should that debt be honored—and at what cost? | Paid Patriotism? The Debate over Veterans' Benefits

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Get Through Radiology for the MRCS and the FRCS

Get Through Radiology for the MRCS and the FRCS

An essential handbook that covers the radiological findings of all the common surgical conditions. Candidates preparing for the MRCS or FRCS (in General Surgery) exams will find this indispensable guide will prepare them for a wide range of questions including rare and obscure examples that are not found elsewhere. Radiological findings are presented according to systems such as colorectal upper GI and HPB urology emergency surgery and others. Each chapter describes the use of radiological modalities in different clinical scenarios and includes figures illustrating the defining characteristics of common clinical scenarios. The clear and illustrated content provides the knowledge required to answer what would otherwise be some of the most difficult questions in postgraduate surgical examinations. It is also a practical reference book that can be kept at hand to inform ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings. MRCS and FRCS exam candidates are expected to have a knowledge of radiological findings for all surgical conditions and this concise guide will ensure that candidates are well prepared to answer questions accurately and with confidence. | Get Through Radiology for the MRCS and the FRCS

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Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell

Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell

This book provides a brief readable introduction to archaeological theory. Adrian Praetzellis demystifies a pile of tricky contemporary concepts for the theory-phobic undergraduate or beginning graduate student. This new edition adds chapters on Indigenous cognitive and behavioral archaeologies and now covers 15 contemporary theories from neoevolutionism to queer theory. Each chapter begins with a description of the concept its origin and significance. Next up is an example of how an archaeologist has used the idea to understand their site making the connection between the idea and the archaeology plain and unambiguous. Each chapter ends with discussion questions and suggestions for further reading. A glossary of postmodern discourse (including that word) concludes the book. Using plain English to clarify some of the more baffling ideas used in contemporary archaeology this book is a vital resource for students studying archaeological theory and the discipline as a whole. | Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell

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Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

Nutrition before during and after training or a sporting event can improve the comfort energy and performance of athletes of all levels from elite to recreational as well as providing long-term health benefits. Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance offers a clear practical and accessible guide to the fundamentals of sport and exercise nutrition. The expert authors begin by explaining key principles including understanding energy systems exercise physiology and metabolism. They cover the basics of digestion absorption and nutrition; examine the key macronutrients and micronutrients essential for performance; and discuss the process of dietary assessment. Part 2 goes on to explore in detail nutrition for pre- and post-training hydration the use of supplements and body composition and provides guidance on developing plans for both individual athletes and teams. The final component examines specific nutrition issues and special needs including working with elite athletes strength-and-power athletes young older and disabled athletes endurance sports GI disturbances and rehabilitation issues. Cultural issues are also explored including diets for vegan and vegetarian athletes and religious perspectives and requirements. Featuring contributions from a range of sport and exercise nutrition professionals and including practical diet plans diagrams and the latest research and evidence throughout this is a core reference for undergraduates nutritionists and trainers. | Nutrition for Sport Exercise and Performance A practical guide for students sports enthusiasts and professionals

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Psychogastroenterology for Adults A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

Psychogastroenterology for Adults A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

The brain-gut connection has been increasingly implicated in biopsychosocial well-being. While there are numerous factors that directly and indirectly impact on how the gut and the brain interact there is a growing awareness that gastrointestinal conditions need to be viewed and treated as part of a multidisciplinary approach. Psychogastroenterology for Adults: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals is the first book to provide mental health professionals with an evidence-based practical guide for working with patients living with gastrointestinal conditions. Timely and accessibly written this book provides a unique comprehensive introduction to psychogastroenterology offering a step-by-step guide to evidence-based psychological treatment protocols. Broad in scope and expertise the book is divided into four parts. It opens with an overview of the field moving on to outline psychological concerns and conditions in gastroenterological (GI) cohorts. Further it covers various approaches to psychogastroenterology including psychopharmacological and eHealth practices. In closing the book looks to the future providing guidance on supervision in psychogastroenterology and exploring challenges in the field. Written by experts in the field this book will be an indispensable resource for those who wish to enhance their knowledge and practice of psychogastroenterology in the mental health profession including psychologists psychiatrists psychosomatic medicine specialists nurses and social workers. | Psychogastroenterology for Adults A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

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The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions. This book analyses the evolving nature of EU sui generis GIs by focusing on their key element the origin link and concludes that the history of the product in the broad sense has become a major factor to prove the link between a good and a specific place. For the first time this area of Intellectual Property Law is investigated from three different although interrelated perspectives: the history and comparative assessment of the systems of protection of Indications of Geographical Origin adopted in the European jurisdictions from the beginning of the 20th century; the empirical analysis of the trends emerging from the practice of EUGIs; and the policy debates surrounding them and their importance for the fulfilment of the general goals of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The result is an innovative and rounded analysis of the very nature of the EU Law of GIs that starting from its past investigates the present and the likely future of this Intellectual Property Right. This book provides an interesting and innovative contribution to the field and will be of interest to GI scholars and Intellectual Property students as well as anyone willing to gain a better understanding of this compelling area of law. | The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

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The Geology Companion Essentials for Understanding the Earth

The Geology Companion Essentials for Understanding the Earth

This practical guidebook provides a basic grounding in the principles of geology and explains how to apply them. Using this book readers will be able to figure out whether they are standing on an ancient seafloor coal swamp or sand dune. They will be able to determine the geologic hazards in their neighborhood where to look for fossils and minerals or where best to drill a water well. In plain English The Geology Companion sheds light on the processes that shape the earth and how geology affects people in their daily lives. | The Geology Companion Essentials for Understanding the Earth

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Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel Strengthening Your Mental Armor

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel Strengthening Your Mental Armor

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological emotional behavioral and spiritual impact of police work on police officers administrators emergency communicators and their families. Author Stephanie Conn a clinician and researcher as well as a former police officer and dispatcher debunks myths about weakness and offers practical strategies in plain language for police employees and their families struggling with traumatic stress and burnout. Sections of each chapter also offer guidance for frequently overlooked roles such as police administrators and civilian police employees. Using real-world anecdotes and exercises this book provides strengths-based guidance to help navigate the many complex and sometimes difficult effects of police and emergency work. | Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel Strengthening Your Mental Armor

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The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

Fred Feldman Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is widely recognized for his subtle defense of hedonistic consequentialism and for his plain-spoken and exact philosophical style. This book collects new and original articles from an international team of scholars to celebrate his philosophical contributions. The three main topics of the book - moral goodness moral rightness and the ethical and metaphysical puzzles posed by death - are topics that have occupied Professor Feldman throughout his philosophical career. Each contribution advances the state of the art in analytical ethics and metaphysics through critical analysis of previous work and the formulation of new positions. As a collection these essays represent a sustained reflection on the merits and limitations of a whole integrated research program in moral philosophy: hedonistic consequentialism. | The Good the Right Life and Death Essays in Honor of Fred Feldman

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Fundamentals of Economics for Applied Engineering

Fundamentals of Economics for Applied Engineering

An easy-to-follow contemporary engineering economics text that helps making sound economic decisions without advanced mathematics. This one-semester introduction to the fundamentals of engineering economics provides an overview of the basic theory and mathematics underlying operational business decisions that engineering technology engineering and industrial technology students will face in the workplace. A basic knowledge of economics empowers a manager to balance costs with production. This new edition of Fundamentals of Economics for Engineering Technologists and Engineers is written in plain language. Concepts have been simplified and kept straightforward with an emphasis on how to apply economic principles. Practical examples as a tool for managing business data and giving detailed analysis of business operations. throughout the text make good use of Microsoft Excel templates provided on the book’s companion website for students. Chapter-end exercises provide discussion and multiple-choice questions along with numerical problems and a solutions manual and instructor resources is given for adopting instructors. | Fundamentals of Economics for Applied Engineering

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The Discourse of Special Populations Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice

The Discourse of Special Populations Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice

The term special population occupies a particular purpose and has a particular role in the discourse of higher education. This book uses the term as an umbrella term for any student who tends to be underrepresented on college campuses and has a very specific set of unique needs: among others individuals with physical and learning disabilities international students ethnic minorities LGBTQ students single parents and first generation and other non-traditional student groups. Sometimes these special student groups are visible to educators; however quite often they are hidden in plain sight which makes it difficult for educators to work effectively and meaningfully with these student groups. This book uses the framework of critical intercultural communication pedagogy to generate a discussion about pedagogical issues surrounding students who are categorized as special populations focusing on culturally sensitive pedagogical methods to educate all students. | The Discourse of Special Populations Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy and Practice

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Machine Learning for Managers

Machine Learning for Managers

Machine learning can help managers make better predictions automate complex tasks and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However many of the ideas that underpin machine learning are straightforward and accessible to anyone with a bit of curiosity. This book is for managers who want to understand what machine learning is about but who lack a technical background in computer science statistics or math. The book describes in plain language what machine learning is and how it works. In addition it explains how to manage machine learning projects within an organization. This book should appeal to anyone that wants to learn more about using machine learning to drive value in real-world organizations. | Machine Learning for Managers

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How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now

How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now

Since the start of the financial crisis in 2008 the notion that capitalism has become too abstract for all but the most rarefied specialists to understand has been widely presupposed. Yet even in academic circles the question of abstraction itself – of what exactly abstraction is and does under financialisation – seems to have gone largely unexplored – or has it? By putting the question of abstraction centre stage How Abstract Is It? Thinking Capital Now offers an indispensable counterpoint to the ‘economic turn’ in the humanities bringing together leading literary and cultural critics in order to propose that we may know far more about capital’s myriad abstractions than we typically think we do. Through in-depth engagement with classic and cutting-edge theorists agile analyses of recent Hollywood films groundbreaking readings of David Foster Wallace’s sprawling unfinished novel The Pale King and even original poems the contributors here suggest that the machinations and costs of finance – as well as alternatives to it – may already be hiding in plain sight. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

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Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

China has experienced tremendous developmental success since its reform and opening-up policy in 1978. What has contributed to China’s high-speed economic growth? What lessons can be learned from China’s successful case? What might be the challenges that China would face on its path to becoming a high-income country? These are some critical questions this book addresses. Based on the facts and economic logic this book briefly narrates the history of China’s successful development in the past 40 years and explains why China's reform and opening-up has boosted the high-speed growth of its economy. Recognizing the change in the stage of economic development the author reveals the emerging challenges facing China when transitioning from a middle-income country to a high-income country. He proposes that the country should transition from the demographic dividend to reform dividend to sustain the long-term development. With its scholarly analysis and plain language this book would not only attract scholars and students in economics and China studies but also readers interested in the development of the Chinese economy. | Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

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Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Sport and Performance An Applied Practice Guide

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Sport and Performance An Applied Practice Guide

Many sport and performance psychologists worldwide practise cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) as a therapeutic and applied practice approach. But no textbook currently offers a blueprint to understand and use CBT in sport and performance settings. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Sport and Performance: An Applied Practice Guide builds upon a tangible foundation for the practice of CBT and related techniques in sport and performance contexts. This new book presents key points to help students and practitioners bring CBT into the sport and performance context. We focus on the ‘what is’ and the ‘how to’. Drawing upon the latest research and a wealth of applied practice experience this easy-to-use guide takes the reader through each step of the CBT process with case examples plain instructions and worksheets to maximise the quality and depth necessary for effective CBT practice. As an applied guide this book educates undergraduates and postgraduates in sport and performance psychology (and all its variants). This book is an instrumental guidance material for sport and exercise psychology students but also invaluable as a practice guide for performance psychology trainees in applied practice placements and as a refresher primer for established professionals. | Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Sport and Performance An Applied Practice Guide

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GDPR How To Achieve and Maintain Compliance

GDPR How To Achieve and Maintain Compliance

Following the implementation of the new General Data Protect Regulation on 25 May 2018 organizations should now be fully compliant with their national interpretation of this far-reaching data protection standard. The reality is that most are not; whether through their inappropriate use of online cookies or ineffective physical data security businesses continue to struggle with the increasing pressure from regulators to apply the Regulation. Non-compliance is widely due to misinterpretation lack of real-world thinking and challenges in balancing costs against business practicalities. This book provides insight into how to achieve effective compliance in a realistic no-nonsense and efficient way. The authors have over 100 years’ collective international experience in security compliance and business disciplines and know what it takes to keep companies secure and in-line with regulators’ demands. Whether your organization needs to swiftly adopt GDPR standards or apply them in “Business as Usual” this book provides a wide range of recommendations and explicit examples. With the likelihood of high-profile penalties causing major reputational damage this book explains how to reduce risk run a remedial project and take immediate steps towards mitigating gaps. Written in plain English it provides an invaluable international reference for effective GDPR adoption. | GDPR How To Achieve and Maintain Compliance

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The Challenge of Differentiation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations Flexible Regional Cooperation or Fragmentation

The Challenge of Differentiation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations Flexible Regional Cooperation or Fragmentation

The tension between the aim of creating sustainable multilateral region-building dynamics and the need to find more differentiated and flexible forms of cooperation has been ever-present in Euro-Mediterranean relations. The proliferation of different and partially overlapping initiatives in recent years – the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership the European Neighbourhood Policy and the Union for the Mediterranean – is a plain expression of this tension. The 2011 episodes of regime-change in the Arab world have once again placed the debate about differentiation in EU’s relations with Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Countries at the top of the Union’s foreign policy agenda. This book contributes to theoretical and practical debates on whether differentiation processes can aid or hinder policy convergence processes and region-building efforts more widely. The contributions to this collection assess the actual significance and consequences of differentiation in Euro-Mediterranean relations through sector-specific in-depth analyses covering issue areas as varied as environmental policy migration foreign and defence policy trade energy civil protection and democracy promotion. The particular angle and comprehensive analysis of this book will make it of great interest for both scholars and policy makers alike in a moment when Euro-Mediterranean are in need of a thorough rethink. This book was based on a special issue of Mediterranean Politics. | The Challenge of Differentiation in Euro-Mediterranean Relations Flexible Regional Cooperation or Fragmentation

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Critical Perspectives on Leadership The Language of Corporate Power

Critical Perspectives on Leadership The Language of Corporate Power

Within contemporary culture ‘leadership’ is seen in ways that appeal to celebrated societal values and norms. As a result it is becoming difficult to use the language of leadership without at the same time assuming its essentially positive intrinsically affirmative nature. Within organizations routinely referring to bosses as ‘leaders’ has therefore become both a symptom and a cause of a deep largely unexamined new conceptual architecture. This architecture underpins how we think about authority and power at work. Capitalism and its turbo-charged offspring neo-liberalism have effectively captured ‘leader’ and ‘leadership’ to serve their own purposes. In other words organizational leadership today is so often a particular kind of insidious conservativism dressed up in radical adjectives. This book makes visible the work that the language of leadership does in perpetuating fictions that are useful for bosses of work organizations. We do this so that we – and anyone who shares similar discomforts – can make a start in unravelling the fiction. We contend that even if our views are contrary to the vast and powerful leadership industry our basic arguments rest on things that are plain and evident for all to see. Critical Perspectives on Leadership: The Language of Corporate Power will be key reading for students academics and practitioners in the disciplines of Leadership Organizational Studies Critical Management Studies Sociology and the related disciplines. | Critical Perspectives on Leadership The Language of Corporate Power

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