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Wrestling with Difficult Stakeholders

A Handbook for Mastering Your Communication with Difficult People

by Christopher Shen, Simon Moss ...

Series Book 2 - Wrestling with...
Wrestling with Difficult Stakeholders offers practical, validated techniques that all employees, from recent graduates to experienced managers, can apply to their interactions with a range of difficult people in their businesses and lives. The ability to deal with difficult stakeholders is essential when interacting with others in the workplace. It’s important to identify the reasons why we find ... Read more

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Wrestling with Difficult Stakeholders offers practical, validated techniques that all employees, from recent graduates to experienced managers, can apply to their interactions with a range of difficult people in their businesses and lives. The ability to deal with difficult stakeholders is essential when interacting with others in the workplace. It’s important to identify the reasons why we find
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Urban Infrastructure in Transition

Networks, Buildings and Plans

by Timothy Moss, Simon Marvin ...

Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of markets, tighter ... Read more

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Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of markets, tighter
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Wrestling with Resilience

A Handbook for Developing Resilience and Mental Toughness

by Christopher Shen, Simon Moss ...

How can we be resilient and flexible when facing difficult challenges and adversity in our work, and in our life? How can we develop our resilience and mental toughness to perform under stress and pressure? Wrestling with Resilience is a handbook that answers these questions.Written by psychologist Christopher Shen and Associate Professor Simon Moss, Wrestling with Resilience is a straightforward, ... Read more

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How can we be resilient and flexible when facing difficult challenges and adversity in our work, and in our life? How can we develop our resilience and mental toughness to perform under stress and pressure? Wrestling with Resilience is a handbook that answers these questions.Written by psychologist Christopher Shen and Associate Professor Simon Moss, Wrestling with Resilience is a straightforward,
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Predictive Methods in Percutaneous Absorption

by Gary P. Moss, Darren R. Gullick, Simon C. Wilkinson ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
This book sheds new light on the development and use of quantitative models to describe the process of skin permeation. It critically reviews the development of quantitative predictive models of skin absorption and discusses key recommendations for model development. Topics presented include an introduction to skin physiology; the underlying theories of skin absorption; the physical laboratory ... Read more

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This book sheds new light on the development and use of quantitative models to describe the process of skin permeation. It critically reviews the development of quantitative predictive models of skin absorption and discusses key recommendations for model development. Topics presented include an introduction to skin physiology; the underlying theories of skin absorption; the physical laboratory
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Infrastructural Times

Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

by Lauren Marino, Timothy Moss, Olivier Coutard, AbdouMaliq Simone, Peter Ekman, Seth Schindler, Juan Miguel Kanai, Dalia Wahdan, Tamer Elshayal, Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, Jessica DiCarlo, Samantha Biglieri, Roger Keil, Amelia Thorpe ...

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Read more

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Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural
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City Futures

Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

by Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...

Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... Read more

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Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented
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The Age of Sustainability

Just Transitions in a Complex World

by Mark Swilling ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting
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Flourishing

How to achieve a deeper sense of well-being and purpose in a crisis

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'A realistic approach to positive thinking' Sunday TimesDo you want to be better at pursuing goals, grasping opportunities and facing set-backs?Do you want to FLOURISH?Psychologist Maureen Gaffney believes that in an increasingly uncertain world it is not only possible for us to flourish but essential that we take steps to do so.In Flourishing she shows you how to:A... ... Read more

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'A realistic approach to positive thinking' Sunday TimesDo you want to be better at pursuing goals, grasping opportunities and facing set-backs?Do you want to FLOURISH?Psychologist Maureen Gaffney believes that in an increasingly uncertain world it is not only possible for us to flourish but essential that we take steps to do so.In Flourishing she shows you how to:A...
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The Return of Inequality

Social Change and the Weight of the Past

by Mike Savage ...

A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. ... Read more

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A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
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Make Your Brain Smarter

Increase Your Brain's Creativity, Energy, and Focus

by Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D. ...

One of the world’s most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines cutting-edge research with unique exercises to help you improve the most powerful, most staggeringly complex machine ever created: your brain.In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman introduces you to the very latest research in brain science and shows you how to tailor ... Read more

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One of the world’s most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines cutting-edge research with unique exercises to help you improve the most powerful, most staggeringly complex machine ever created: your brain.In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman introduces you to the very latest research in brain science and shows you how to tailor
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Society and Economy

Framework and Principles

by Mark Granovetter ...

Society and Economy—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and ... Read more

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Society and Economy—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and
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If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

by Raj Raghunathan ...

**The first book by the creator of COURSERA®'s most popular online course in 2015, "A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment"Could the same traits that drive your career success also be keeping you from being happier?**Fifteen years after getting his MBA, Raj Raghunathan spent some time with his old classmates. He noticed that though they’d all done well, there didn’t appear to be much correlation ... Read more

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**The first book by the creator of COURSERA®'s most popular online course in 2015, "A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment"Could the same traits that drive your career success also be keeping you from being happier?**Fifteen years after getting his MBA, Raj Raghunathan spent some time with his old classmates. He noticed that though they’d all done well, there didn’t appear to be much correlation
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