The perfect accompaniment to existing textbooks for courses on human resource management.

The antidote to heavy-going, complex and lengthy textbooks on studying strategy.

Selling is the core activity of every business. However, in many cases sales results can be improved. Not, as is usually believed, by training individual sales professionals in new skills, but by improving the sales process itself. The quickly effective result is: More sales, with the same people!

This book explains how to increase the effectiveness of your sales process in

four straightforward steps. The tools described can be put into practice immediately.

Useful checklists, perceptive case st...

Sustainable development has become a central objective in national and international policy of development and the environment. Increasingly it also marks international and national law. In this book scholars in environmental law treat legal theories on sustainable development and how it may be operationalized, and topics related to its development in international law, European law, international trade and investment law, and within the climate regime.

The book marks the 20th anniversary of ...

This book reunites science and spirituality after her roads separated 300 years ago. More and more scientists are discovering that both disciplines are only two sides of the same coin. We’re on the verge of a major paradigm change in science where the immaterial subjective world of the mind can no longer be separated from the objective material world.

This leap in human consciousness was already foreseen by the ancients and American indigenous people like the Maya, Hopi and Aztecs who proph...

Beneath the surface of Aardenburg, a small town in the south-western part of the Netherlands, lie the remains of a Roman settlement that is presumed to have been named Rodanum. Extensive archaeological excavations from the late 1950's to the late 1980's revealed that the Roman settlement was similar in size or even larger than the modern community at this location. Its centre was formed by a large castellum-type fortification wall that enclosed several large stone buildings. The settlement wa...

This is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death) in one volume. A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to the plays, and detailed notes explain the language and allusions. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen.

There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music - but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce them. Drawing on examples from a wide range of landscapes from around the world and throughout history, Susan Herrington considers the ways landscapes can affect our emotions, our imaginations, an...

Cambridge English for Engineering develops the communication skills and specialist English language knowledge of engineering professionals, enabling them to communicate more confidently and effectively with colleagues and customers. The ten standalone units cover topics common to all kinds of engineering (including civil, electrical and mechanical) such as procedures and precautions; monitoring and control; and engineering design. Authentic activities, from describing technical problems and s...