Helga Nowotny

Peter Scott

Michael Gibbons

Simon Schwartzman

Camille Limoges

Martin Trow

The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies

The New Production of Knowledge

Peter Scott Observations of Wildlife

Alastair Smith

Judy Tatchell

Examines the types, physical characteristics, and eating habits of such sea creatures as dolphins, sharks, seahorses, and corals.

Under the Sea

Knowledge and Nation

Observations of Wildlife

Jonathan Marshall

Jane Hunter

Hunter

This explosive book lays bare the personalities and institutional relations behind the headlines. It goes beyond the recent events to discern the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity within the past two decades. The Iran-Contra Connection delves in to the details of CIA and extra-CIA operations, including drug-trafficking, gun-running, government-toppling, and assassination. The Iran-Contra scandal is not merely a plan gone awry, the authors argue, but a consistent outgrowth of a long tradition of U.S. covert activity- from the Bay of Pigs invasion teams to the NSC organizational team; from the CIA and the World Anti-Communist League to the Israeli connection and the State Department.

Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era

Iran Contra-Connection

The Swans

Ed Wright

Addresses the creation of bug-free Perl code while explaining how to trace code, test programs, operate the debugger, locate and correct syntax errors, and deal with run-time exceptions and semantical errors.

Perl Debugged

Nikolas Kaltsoyannis

The authors discuss the chemistry of the lanthanides and actinides, collectively known as the f elements, emphasise the aspects that are unique to them and examine their most important applications in a wide range of modern technologies.

The F Elements

With no filler or unnecessary information, this BEx guide cuts right to the chase, giving readers exactly what they need to master BW reporting. Learn the fundamentals of BEx, how to design queries, create high-impact workbooks and web applications, plus all there is to know about reportto-report interfacing - and more. This exceptional reference guide helps BW professionals optimize their use of BEx Browser, BEx Query Designer, Web Applications and BEx Analyzer. Plus, it also covers OLAP functionality and more.

SAP Business Explorer (BEx) Tools

This detailed guidebook teaches users exactly what they need to know to perform effective BEx reporting, with no frills or unnecessary information, and with key sample scenarios and practical examples included throughout the book. This new edition features completely updated terminology and technology, and explains how to update everything using the new interfaces. A newly added chapter covers advanced topics on the new tools, and includes an FAQ section that answers common questions and best practices.

SAP BEx Tools

William T. Cavanaugh

Written by a team of international experts, drawn from various traditions of political theology, this outstanding resource brings together 35 newly-commissioned essays in the field. Demonstrates that Christian theology is inherently political and shows how theology impacts on present-day political issues. Considers the interface of theology with political ideologies, including the contribution of theology to feminist, ecological, black and pacifist movements. Assesses the contribution of the major political theologians and theological movements. Explores the political aspects of Christian sources such as scripture and liturgy.

The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology

Peter Stokes

Caroline Rowland

Neil Moore

Simon M Smith

Organizational Management is ideal for readers who need to understand modern organizations. This book enables students to understand the key issues of organizational behaviour and how to take a critical approach when planning, leading and engaging a workforce and its resources. The book provides fresh perspectives on known models and critical theories on leadership, teams, performance management, employee engagement and change. The authors also offer the reader innovative approaches to leading-edge issues such as trust, internet use, generational trends, the use of the arts in organizations and leadership from a systemic perspective. Organizational Management draws on examples from the authors' international work across a range of business and industrial sectors, both public and private, and is supplemented by activities, revision questions, recommend reading and online resources to deepen learning. Rapid technological advances, constantly changing global environments and new kinds of workforce cultures mean that organizations are constantly being challenged. This book equips the reader with the ability to navigate this turbulent environment through both established and novel forms of organizational management. Online supporting resources for this book include summaries, diagrams and case study scenarios to help readers easily understand theories and contextualize experiences in the workplace

Approaches and Solutions

Organizational Management

This combined textbook and fully integrated online workbook is packed full of innovative features designed to support students as they revise key concepts, reinforce their understanding, and put into practice what they have learnt.

Accounting for Business

Peter (De Montfort University Scott, De Montfort University Former Principal Lecturer in Accounting and Finance)

Practical and crystal clear, the second edition of Peter Scott's Introduction to Accounting and its accompanying online resources provide a supportive introduction to the subject, guiding students towards self-led practice.Reflecting current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS), and with coverage on both financial and cost and management accounting, the author walks the student carefully through the essential material to ensure they develop a solid foundationfor more advanced modules. Scott's lively writing style sets the numerical content within an easy-to-follow narrative, and the relevance of each tool or technique is explained at every turn. A multitude of worked and real-life examples help students to connect with the concepts, while each chapterends with questions that are tiered according to difficulty to help students verify that they have mastered the essentials before progressing. Readers are directed towards additional support and exercises throughout to further encourage active participation and to prompt them to assess andconsolidate their knowledge.Digital formats and resources:The second edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooksOnline student resources supporting the book include:- Interactive multiple-choice-questions for revising key topics;- Numerical exercises for practicing the calculation of accounting information from given sets of data;- 'Go back over this again' feature containing a mix of further examples, written exercises, true or false questions, and annotated accounting information to help consolidate learning and revise or revisit concepts;- 'Show me how to do it' videos that provide practical demonstrations of dealing with more complex accounting tasks; and- Web links for primary source material and articles through which readers can learn more about the companies and organizations discussed in the book.Online lecturer resources supporting the book include:- Quizzes. A test bank of over 500 ready-to-use questions, written specifically to match the book's content, giving lecturers the flexibility they need to manage, set and develop quizzes tailored to their course, and automatically graded to save time marking;- Gradebook. Automatically grades student responses to quizzes, while its visual heat maps provide at-a-glance information about student achievement and engagement; and- Course content. Additional material to support teaching, including a large double-entry case study, PowerPoint slides, and more examples and solutions.

Introduction to Accounting

Maria Lodovica Gullino

Richard Strange

Lise Korsten

Of the global population of more than 7 billion people, some 800 million do not have enough to eat today. By 2050, the population is expected to exceed 9 billion. It has been estimated that some 15% of food production is lost to plant diseases; in developing countries losses may be much higher. Historically, plant diseases have had catastrophic impact on food production. For example: potato blight caused the Irish famine in 1845; brown spot of rice caused the Great Bengal Famine of 1943; southern corn leaf blight caused a devastating epidemic on the US corn crop in 1970. Food security is threatened by an ongoing sequence of plant diseases, some persistent for decades or centuries, others more opportunistic. Wheat blast and banana xanthomonas wilt are two contrasting examples of many that currently threaten food production. Other emerging diseases will follow. The proposed title aims to provide a synthesis of expert knowledge to address this central challenge to food security for the 21st century. Chapters [5] and [11] are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Plant Diseases and Food Security in the 21st Century

Adrian Curaj

Lazăr Vlasceanu

Lesley Wilson

Romania hosts the 2012 Bologna / European Higher Education Area Ministerial Conference and the Third Bologna Policy Forum. In preparation for these meetings, The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) organised the Future of Higher Education - Bologna Process Researchers’ Conference (FOHE-BPRC) in Bucharest on 17-19 October 2011, with the support of the European University Association (EUA) and the Romanian National Committee for UNESCO. The conference brought the voices of researchers into international-level policy making in higher education. The results of the conference are presented in this book. Until now, empirical evidence supporting policies and reforms in higher education has often been a matter of local or regional focus. The development of a pan-European process in higher education policy drives a need to explore wider research topics on which to base policies. This book offers an unprecedented opportunity for higher education researchers to interact and contribute to the political process shaping the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), and to national policy agendas in more than 100 participant countries for the 2012 ministerial events. The book collects more than 50 articles focusing on vital issues in European higher education. These are arranged in sections addressing the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Principles; Teaching and Learning; Quality Assurance; Mobility; Higher Education Governance in the EHEA; Funding of Higher Education; Diversification of Higher Education Missions; Higher Education Futures and Foresight.

Between the Bologna Process and National Reforms

European Higher Education at the Crossroads

Stephen Wright

Alex Frith

For millions of years, dinosaurs roamed the Earth. To see how they lived, peer through the bushes, peek under rocks and watch as hungry dinosaurs spring into action.

See Inside the World of Dinosaurs

Jamil Salmi

Liviu Matei

Remus Pricopie

Bridging the gap between higher education research and policy making was always a challenge, but the recent calls for more evidence-based policies have opened a window of unprecedented opportunity for researchers to bring more contributions to shaping the future of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Encouraged by the success of the 2011 first edition, Romania and Armenia have organised a 2nd edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers’ Conference (FOHE-BPRC) in November 2014, with the support of the Italian Presidency of the European Union and as part of the official EHEA agenda. Reuniting over 170 researchers from more than 30 countries, the event was a forum to debate the trends and challenges faced by higher education today and look at the future of European cooperation in higher education. The research volumes offer unique insights regarding the state of affairs of European higher education and research, as well as forward-looking policy proposals. More than 50 articles focus on essential themes in higher education: Internationalization of higher education; Financing and governance; Excellence and the diversification of missions; Teaching, learning and student engagement; Equity and the social dimension of higher education; Education, research and innovation; Quality assurance, The impacts of the Bologna Process on the EHEA and beyond and Evidence-based policies in higher education. "The Bologna process was launched at a time of great optimism about the future of the European project – to which, of course, the reform of higher education across the continent has made a major contribution. Today, for the present, that optimism has faded as economic troubles have accumulated in the Euro-zone, political tensions have been increased on issues such as immigration and armed conflict has broken out in Ukraine. There is clearly a risk that, against this troubled background, the Bologna process itself may falter. There are already signs that it has been downgraded in some countries with evidence of political withdrawal. All the more reason for the voice of higher education researchers to be heard. Since the first conference they have established themselves as powerful stakeholders in the development of the EHEA, who are helping to maintain the momentum of the Bologna process. Their pivotal role has been strengthened by the second Bucharest conference." Peter Scott, Institute of Education, London (General Rapporteur of the FOHE-BPRC first edition)

Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies

The European Higher Education Area

This is the fifth book in my Sierra Wild Nature Series. The first, Waterfalls of Yosemite focused on the waterfalls of Yosemite Valley, an area that sees over 4 million visitors a year. Photos from the Edge of the World: Volumes 1-3 featured photos from a small mountain in a subdivision in the Sierra foothills. In Volume 5, we will go farther afield and off the beaten path into the Wilderness. Legally designated wilderness, that is. Wilderness that is limited to human powered recreation. No mechanization is allowed. In the following pages, you will find over 40 photographs that I've taken over the past few decades. I've included some historical maps and some trivia to keep it interesting.

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