Business schools are facing ever increasing internationalization: students are far less homogenous than before, faculty members come from different countries, and teaching is carried out in second (or even third) languages. As a result business schools and their teachers wrestle with new challenges as these changes accelerate. Teaching and Learning at Business Schools brings together contributions from business school managers and educators involved in the International Teachers Programme; a faculty development programme started by Harvard Business School more than 30 years ago and now run by a consortium of the London Business School, Manchester Business School, Kellogg, Stern School of Business, INSEAD, HEC Paris, IAE Aix-en-Provence, IMD, SDA Bocconi Milan and Stockholm School of Economics. The book tackles themes both within the classroom - teaching across different contexts and cultures - and outside the classroom - leading and developing business schools, designing and running programmes, developing faculty members. The authors provide direction, ideas and techniques for transforming business education that are accessible to everyone.
UNCLE ETHEL is a quirky serio-comic psychological family horror drama about Uncle George, a rigid elderly man so attached to his wife Ethel that, when she dies suddenly, he takes on the characteristics of her personality to continue to feel close to her, until--nearly over the edge--the love he's begun to feel, as her, helps him to finally grow up.
Highlighting key issues in Criminal Justice that students need to consider, the Fifth Edition of this popular text contains a wide and varied selection of materials which help to explain the evolution of the criminal justice process in England and Wales since the early 1990s. Statutes, case law, empirical research and official and unofficial reports, as well as theoretical perspectives and academic comment are woven together and contextualized by the accompanying narrative to provide an authoritative account of the recent development of the criminal justice system. Fully updated, this Fifth Edition explores the issues around: • the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners; • the contracting out of probation services; • the significant reforms to legal aid funding; • the challenges to trial by jury posed by the internet. This book also helpfully directs students to further reading by chapter to provide next steps for research. Written in an accessible style, Text and Materials on the Criminal Justice Process is a valuable resource for students of criminal justice.
A disappointing first kiss, a dog with misdirected sexual energy and a book published in 1691 all feature in this collection of stories and poems. With intimacy and humour, Ian Bild touches on family and working life in, amongst other places, London, Bristol and Worpswede in north Germany where he now lives. His experiences in publishing, bookdealing and the media have provided much material for his writing.
A psychological serio-comedy about a lonely middle-aged woman on the brink, obsessed with shopping (and shoplifting) since the murder of her fiance twenty-five years ago, until she discovers that life hasn't passed her by after all."--From back cover.
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