When Sergei Tretyakov’s ground-breaking play, I Want a Baby, was banned by Stalin’s censor in 1927, it was a signal that the radical and innovative theatre of the early Soviet years was to be brought to an end. A glittering, unblinking exploration of the realities of post-revolutionary Soviet life, I Want a Baby marks a high point in modernist experimental drama.

Tretyakov’s plays are notable for their formal originality and their revolutionary content. The World Upside Down, which was ...

The past ten years are characterized by a strong growth in entrepreneurship and the accelerated creation of new businesses offering innovative products and services.

The focus of this book is on startups and scaleups intending to scale their business through collaboration with corporates, primarily in the capacity of client or venture partner. No startup or scaleup can go-it-alone entirely and is required to collaborate with other partners to ensure growth.

It is crucial for startups and sca...

Adopted for courses in many of the top universities for forensic science and used by respected medical examiner's offices and crime laboratories worldwide, Principles of Forensic Toxicology prepares the next generation of forensic toxicologists and continues to be an important reference in professional practice.

"This book is of the kind you always wanted but didn't think would or could ever exist: the universal field theory of problem solving." Tom Sommerlatte Typically today's tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work - all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookbook-style access to the most important tools, in...

A career retrospective from award-winning celebrity photographer Greg Gorman, featuring previously unpublished works.

- Comprehensive method, including a workbook and an answer book;

- well suited for self-study due to the structural framework of the book and the additional online study materials;

- written from an international perspective.

For over 25 years now, The Basics of Financial Management has been an authoritative book on the fundamentals of financial management. With the first few chapters form an introduction to the key economic concepts. The remaining chapters delve deeper into the fields of fin...

This book is cramped with familiar school and classroom situations, but despite the title it doesn't offer the teacher or therapist ready-made solutions. And neither does the teacher or therapist in his solution-focused work at school. They let the pupils discover their own solutions. Solution-focused interventions invite you to look at problems differently and can elicit solution-focused reactions.

The Korzybski-institute in Bruges has developed the procedure of solution-focused work describe...

Written from a comparative perspective, with an eye for international instruments and guidelines, this book deals with the particulars of international commercial arbitration. In an easily accessible manner it considers among others:

the characteristics of international commercial arbitration * the advantages and perceived disadvantages of international commercial arbitration * the pros and cons of ad hoc and institutional arbitration * the laws applicable in international commercial arbitrati...

This is the definitive and comprehensive guide for what you can do about climate change and to contribute to a better world. It contains lists of go-to shops, beautiful brands, inspiring insights, surprising facts and useful solutions. Through in-depth interviews with leading pioneers, such as Livia Firth, Green Kitchen Stories and Andrew Morgan, you will find exactly what you need to live a more sustainable life. After all, doing good and feeling good at the same time: does it not get any be...