Davies: 1593 books
The Power Of Positivity
Reaching your potential by changing your outlook
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Do you think you can make a difference to your own life just by changing the way you think? Your answer to this might just tell you something about your own view of the world and your receptiveness to positive thinking. But it is a topic worth keeping an open mind on and it does warrant further investigation...
The Book of R
A First Course in Programming and Statistics
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2016
The Book of R is a comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to R, the world’s most popular programming language for statistical analysis. Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you’ll find everything you need to begin using R effectively...
Geographies of Ageing
Social Processes and the Spatial Unevenness of Population Ageing
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. The current rate of population ageing is unprecedented in human history with population projections indicating that this will be an enduring trend. Moreover, population ageing is spatially pervasive, affecting...
Labour, Finance and Inequality
The Insecurity Cycle in British Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncertainty produced a momentary return to "Keynesian" policies. But as soon as emergency stimuli – and bank bail-outs – appeared...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
Property
Meanings, Histories, Theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2007
This critique of property examines its classical conception: addressing its ontology and history, as well as considering its symbolic aspects and connection to social relations of power.
It is organized around three themes:
the ways in which concepts of property are symbolically and...
by Ms Liz Davies, Nora Duckett
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Protecting children from abuse and neglect is a serious and complex area of social work practice and understanding the critical skills of communicating with and listening to children's voices, and those of their advocates and survivors, is essential. In this new edition of a highly-regarded book,...
by Jeanine Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Not all saleable crops are dependent on access to greenhouses or sun-drenched, arable land. Shade-loving medicinal herbs can be successfully cultivated in a forest garden for personal use or as small-scale cash crops. Growing and Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal and other Woodland Medicinals is a complete...
The Globalisation of Corporate Governance
The Challenge of Clashing Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The structure of corporate governance has made significant progress in OECD countries but it remains imperfectly linked to the activities of many businesses. Its advance on the global stage will be hesitant and slow until its practice in OECD countries is more consistent and convincing. Weaknesses...
New Directions in Slavery Studies
Commodification, Community, and Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
In this landmark essay collection, twelve contributors chart the contours of current scholarship in the field of slavery studies, highlighting three of the discipline’s major themes—commodification, community, and comparison—and indicating paths for future inquiry.
New Directions in Slavery...
by John Pyecha, Shane Yount, Seth Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
IF YOU CAN READ A GPS DEVICE, YOU CAN NAVIGATE--AND SUSTAIN--YOUR COMPANY’S PATH TOWARD DRAMATIC GROWTH AND PROFIT
SIMPLE IS BETTER! Businesses today are overwhelmed by complex, expensive, and time-consuming initiatives. These ideas sound great in the boardroom but fail when deployed in the real...
Information in the Labour Market
Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint.
After...
Effective Self-Care and Resilience in Clinical Practice
Dealing with Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Hope and resilience are essential throughout therapeutic practice as clinicians encounter a number of challenges that can lead to compassion fatigue and burnout. Through a collection of reflective practitioner accounts, this book explores how practitioners can achieve their best work through a framework...
by Victoria Mabin,John Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
This chapter provides an overview of the Thinking Processes, their nature and use; addressing the TP's conceptual, philosophical and methodological foundations; cataloguing their use and practice as reported in the published literature; discussing the need, the design and purpose of the TP's; and reviewing...