This innovative text applies a systems theory perspective to strategic human resource management, drawing particularly on the Viable Systems Model and soft systems methodology. This text will be suitable for upper-level undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA stdents of strategic HRM, HRM and strategic management.

Educational Neuroscience: The Basics explains how the brain works and its priorities for learning, and shows how educational neuroscience, when combined with existing knowledge of human and social psychology, and with teacher expertise, can improve outcomes for students.

Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded. A superb, concise starting point for anyone seeking a concise and accessible introduction to this rich and fascinating subject.

Assessing and Treating Suicidal Thinking and Behaviors in Children and Adolescents is a guide to working with children and young people who present with either obvious or hidden suicidal thoughts, preoccupations, or plans.

This book addresses the challenge of focusing on, holding on to and acting on what we notice ‘in the middle of it all’. Maintaining a simultaneous focus on task and process – what we do and what we notice – is what I define as ‘double awareness’.

This book, authored by leading experts, demystifies machine translation, explaining its origins, its training data, how neural machine translation and LLMs work, how to measure their quality, how translators interact with contemporary systems for automating translation, and how readers can build their own machine translation or LLM.

Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies and ecocriticism.

Goldratt's Rules of Flow is the book that the great Eli Goldratt, author of The Goal, wanted to write about his later developments in the field of project management. As he passed away before accomplishing it, his daughter, Efrat Goldratt, a brilliant author in her own right had picked up the mantle.

This engaging book presents useful frameworks, key ideas and practical techniques – all grounded in scientific research – to help you lead better on a day-to-day basis.