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Rivals of the Ripper

Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Rivals of the Ripper

Unsolved Murders of Women in Late Victorian London

By: Jan Bondeson

When discussing unsolved murders of women in late Victorian London, most people think of the depredations of Jack the Ripper, the Whitechapel Murderer. But he was just one of a string of phantom murderers whose unsolved slayings outraged late Victorian Britain. The mysterious Great Coram Street, Burton Crescent and Euston Square murders were talked about with bated breath, and the northern part of Bloomsbury got the unflattering nickname of the ‘murder neighbourhood’ thanks to its profusion of unsolved mysteries. Marvel at the convoluted Kingswood Mystery, littered with fake names and mistaken identities; be puzzled by the blackmail and secret marriage in the Cannon Street Murder; and shudder at the vicious yet silent killing in St Giles that took place in a crowded house in the dead of night. Rivals of the Ripper is the first to resurrect these unsolved Victorian murder mysteries, and to highlight the ghoulish handiwork of the Rivals of the Ripper: the spectral killers of gas-lit London.

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The History Press

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0750968575

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The Lune Valley and Howgills

40 scenic fell, river and woodland walks

By: Dennis Kelsall,Jan Kelsall

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The Lune Valley and Howgills

40 scenic fell, river and woodland walks

By: Dennis Kelsall,Jan Kelsall

This guidebook offers a wide range of walks from the source of the river Lune in the Howgill Fells to Glasson Dock, just below Lancaster. The 40 day walks range between 3 and 11 miles in length and are all illustrated with extracts of 1:50,000 OS mapping. The walks start in the north of the region and follow the River Lune southwards to the sea, with bases including Orton, Sedbergh, Kirkby Lonsdale and Lancaster. They explore the infinitely varied landscape as the river Lune flows between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales national parks and the Forest of Bowland and Arnside and Silverdale Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Also included is an outline of a 60-mile, 6-day route walking the River Lune from end to end, with lots of background information about the area's history, geology and also all the local facilities to help you plan your trip. There are magnificent views from the empty hilltops, delightful natural woodlands full of wildlife, stunning secluded side valleys and open moorland vistas to be explored in Yorkshire, Cumbria and Lancashire.

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Cicerone Press Limited

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1783625627

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9781783625628

A Literary History of Reconciliation

Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness

By: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen

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A Literary History of Reconciliation

Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness

By: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen

From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, this book examines representations of interpersonal reconciliation in works of literature, focusing on how these representations draw on the language of divine forgiveness. Christian theology sees divine forgiveness as conditional upon a sinner's remorse and self-abasement before God, but also as a form of grace – unconditional and rooted only in divine love. Van Dijkhuizen explores what happens when this paradoxical forgiveness paradigm comes to serve as a template for interpersonal reconciliation. As A Literary History of Reconciliation shows, literary writers imagine interpersonal reconciliation as being centrally about power and hierarchy, and present forgiveness without power as longed for but ever elusive. Drawing on major works of literature from the early modern era to the present day, this book explores works by John Milton, Virginia Woolf, J.M. Coetzee, Ian McEwan and others to craft a literary history that will appeal to readers interested in literature, religion and philosophy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350027243

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The Art of Engaging Unionised Employees

By: Jan Hendrick Nel,Bennie Linde

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The Art of Engaging Unionised Employees

By: Jan Hendrick Nel,Bennie Linde

This book introduces a framework to assist human resource practitioners and organisations embrace strategies that will drive high engagement levels within organisations with a union presence. The authors address established definitions of engagement and how they have been conceptualised in academic and practitioners’ literature, before exploring and unpacking circumstances that influence levels of engagement amongst employees in a unionised environment. In doing so, the framework introduced elaborates on approaches and interventions with the greatest potential to create, improve, and embed high levels of engagement within the unionised work environment.

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Springer

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9811321973

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Murder Houses of Edinburgh

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of Edinburgh

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of Edinburgh’s most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed by Burke and Hare, by the Stockbridge Baby-Farmer, by the Demon Frenchman of George Street, by the Triple Killer of Falcon Avenue, or perhaps by one of the Capital’s many faceless, spectral slayers

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800467818

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Secret Operations Over Occupied Europe

One RAF Crews Story of Clandestine Missions, Being Shot Down, Escape and Capture

By: Nigel S Atkins,Jan Christensen

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Secret Operations Over Occupied Europe

One RAF Crews Story of Clandestine Missions, Being Shot Down, Escape and Capture

By: Nigel S Atkins,Jan Christensen

For several months in 1943, seven young airmen, all volunteers, were moulded into an RAF crew tasked with undertaking perilous operations over Occupied Europe. Drawn together from England, Argentina, and Canada, the crew, led by their captain, Flight Lieutenant Peter Bartter, were assigned to 138 (Special Duties) Squadron, based at RAF Tempsford. It was there that they flew low, over dangerous territory to deliver agents and equipment to aid the Resistance in Occupied Europe. When the Allies opened new fronts in North Africa and Italy, Bartters crew was seconded for some weeks to 624 Squadron flying from Blida in Algeria and Protville in Tunisia. On their return to the UK, they had the additional task of bringing back Winston Churchills son, Randolph. The crews last operation would be to fly Flemming Muus, as head of SOE in Denmark, to Roskilde in Denmark. However, tragedy struck when their Halifax Mk.II, BB378, was shot down approaching its destination on the night of 10/11 December 1943. Exemplary piloting skills from Peter Bartter brought the aircraft down in a frozen field with no injuries. Muus thankfully escaped. The crew, meanwhile, split into two groups the officers, and the NCOs. The officers managed to evade capture and reach Sweden. One of the officers, Ernesto Howell, went on to re-join 138 Squadron, but was sadly killed flying over the North Sea in November 1944. The NCOs luck gave out, and they were all captured, spending the rest of the war in the notorious Stalag IV-B. From there, one of the NCOs managed to escape just before the camp liberated by the Russians. In this book, the crew are traced from their recruitment, to training, deployment and, for the survivors, their post-war lives. The next generation, René, son of agent Ernest Gimpel, and Nigel Atkins, son of Brian Atkins, the co-pilot, have become firm friends. Nigel Atkins traveled across Europe on a journey of discovery as he has met and interviewed many people while visiting multiple locations the crew only visited from above. From daring flights over occupied Europe to meetings over seventy years later, the excavation of the crash site and new friendships formed, this book has it all.

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Air World

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1399079816

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Strategy Formation and Policy Making in Government

By: Jan-Erik Johanson

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Strategy Formation and Policy Making in Government

By: Jan-Erik Johanson

This book explores goal-oriented action and describes the variety of options offered by strategic management in guiding public organisations. The book is based on the idea that planning is only one option in orienting the functioning of public organisations and applies resource-based and network studies to the public sector. Whilst most of the existing literature on strategic management relates to local government, this book examines developments within central governments and public agencies external to government hierarchies. The book also addresses the strategic distinction between politics and administration often neglected by existing research, and illustrates the connection between goal setting and actual performance of government organisations.

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Springer

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3030034399

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Organizing for Sustainability

A Guide to Developing New Business Models

By: Jan Jonker

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Organizing for Sustainability

A Guide to Developing New Business Models

By: Jan Jonker

This upper-level Open Access textbook aims to educate students and professionals on how to develop business models that have a positive impact on people, society, and the social and ecological environment. It explores a different view of how to organize value creation, from a focus on an almost exclusively monetary value creation to one that creates positive impact through multiple values. The book offers students and entrepreneurs a structured approach based through the Business Model Template (BMT). It consists of three stages and ten building blocks to facilitate the development of a business model. Users, be they students or practitioners, need to choose from one of the three offered business model archetypes, namely the platform, community, or circular business models. Each archetype offers a dedicated logic for vale creation. The book can be used to develop a business model from scratch (turning an idea into a working prototype) or to transform an existing business model into one of the three archetypes. Throughout the book extra sources, links to relevant online video clips, assignments and literature are offered to facilitate the development process. This book will be of interest to students studying the development of business models, sustainable management, innovation, and value creation. It will also be of interest executives, and professionals such as consultants or social entrepreneurs seeking further education.-- Provided by publisher.

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Springer Nature

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3030781577

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Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter

By: Jan C. A. Boeyens,Demetrius C. Levendis

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Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter

By: Jan C. A. Boeyens,Demetrius C. Levendis

This book presents a fully scientific account of the use of the golden ratio. It explores the observation that stable nucleides obey a number theory based general law. The discovery described in this book could be of seminal significance, also in other fields where the golden ratio is known to be of fundamental importance.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1402066600

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Understanding Interactive Network Branding in SME Firms

By: Jan-Åke Törnroos

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Understanding Interactive Network Branding in SME Firms

By: Jan-Åke Törnroos

Introducing the innovative concept of Interactive Network Branding (INB), this book offers academics and professionals a theoretical framework, alongside practical examples, to develop INB in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1789739772

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Understanding Psychology for Nursing Students

By: Jan De Vries,Fiona Timmins

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Understanding Psychology for Nursing Students

By: Jan De Vries,Fiona Timmins

Do your students find psychology difficult to engage with or want a textbook that is easy to read? Would they benefit from a textbook that demonstrates how psychology applies to nursing? Right from the start of their programme it is crucial for nursing students to understand the significance of psychology in nursing. This book helps students recognise why they need to know about psychology, how it can affect and influence their individual nursing practice as well as the role it plays in health and illness. Written in clear, easy to follow language and with each chapter linking to relevant NMC Standards and Essentials Skills Clusters it simplifies the key theory and puts the discipline of psychology into context for nursing students, with clear examples and case studies used throughout. Transforming Nursing Practice is a series tailor made for pre-registration student nurses. Each book in the series is: · Affordable · Mapped to the NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters · Focused on applying theory to practice · Full of active learning features ‘The set of books is an excellent resource for students. The series is small, easily portable and valuable. I use the whole set on a regular basis.’ - Fiona Davies, Senior Nurse Lecturer, University of Derby

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Learning Matters

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1473986834

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9781473986831

Murder Houses of South London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of South London

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of South London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own. South London has a long and blood-spattered history of capital crime, and many of its murder houses still stand.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1784629758

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9781784629755

Accounting for the Environment

Second Edition

By: Rob Gray,Jan Bebbington

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Accounting for the Environment

Second Edition

By: Rob Gray,Jan Bebbington

`This book is a good comprehensive text and comes highly recommended to anyone currently involved in, looking to get involved in, or just interested in environmental management, environmental accounting and reporting′ - Pacific Accounting Review This is the long-awaited 2nd edition of the benchmark publication that helped shape the developing agenda of environmental accounting. This excellent new edition provides an overview of the subject ranging from environmental management to sustainability, and integrates the major advancements that have occurred since the first edition - in both research and practice. It introduces and explains environmental issues as they relate to accountants today. This new work also places an increased emphasis on the emerging research literature in the field and reveals a consciousness of the difficulties of developing an environmental agenda in business. It makes an excellent stand-alone text for lower level students, a firm base from which the advanced student or researcher can explore research and more complex issues, and a useful guide for practitioners seeking to understand and implement environmental practice.

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SAGE

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0857022725

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9780857022721

Governing Hybrid Organisations

Exploring Diversity of Institutional Life

By: Jan-Erik Johanson,Jarmo Vakkuri

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Governing Hybrid Organisations

Exploring Diversity of Institutional Life

By: Jan-Erik Johanson,Jarmo Vakkuri

Intuitively, organisations can easily be categorised as ‘public’ or ‘private’. However, this book questions such a black and white dichotomy between public and private, and seeks a deeper understanding of hybrid organisations. These organisations can be found at micro, meso and macro levels of societal activity, consisting of networks between companies, public agencies and other entities. The line between these two realms is increasingly blurred — giving rise to hybrid organisations. Governing Hybrid Organisations presents an engaging discussion around hybrid organisations, highlighting them as important and fascinating examples of modern institutional diversity. Chapters examine the changing landscape of service delivery and the nature and governance of hybrid organisations, using international examples and cases from different service contexts. The authors put forward a clear analytical framework for understanding hybrid governance, looking at strategy and performance management. This text will be valuable for students of public management, public administration, business management and organisational studies, and will also be illuminating for practising managers.

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Routledge

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1317222571

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Power System Dynamics

Stability and Control

By: Jan Machowski,Janusz W. Bialek,Dr Jim Bumby

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Power System Dynamics

Stability and Control

By: Jan Machowski,Janusz W. Bialek,Dr Jim Bumby

This book is the fully revised and updated second edition of Power System Dynamics and Stability published in 1997. The modified title Power System Dynamics: Stability and Control reflects a slight shift in focus from solely describing power system dynamics to the means of dealing with them. The book has been expanded by about a third to include: a new chapter on wind power generation; a new section on wide-area measurement systems (WAMS) and their application for real-time control; an overview of lessons learned from wide-spread blackouts affecting North America and Europe in 2003, 2004 and 2006; enhanced treatment of voltage stability and control, and frequency stability and control; application of Lyapunov direct method to analyse and enhance stability of multi-machine power systems ; expanded coverage of steady-state stability using eigenvalue analysis, including modal analysis of dynamic equivalents. The book continues the successful approach of the first edition by progressing from simplicity to complexity. It places the emphasis first on understanding the underlying physical principles before proceeding to more complex models and algorithms. The reader will appreciate the authors’ accessible approach as the book is illustrated by over 400 diagrams and a large number of examples. Power System Dynamics: Stability and Control, Second Edition is an essential resource for graduates of electrical engineering. It is also a clear and comprehensive reference text for undergraduate students, and for practising engineers and researchers who are working in electricity companies or in the development of power system technologies.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119965055

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9781119965053

The Ripper of Waterloo Road

The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838

By: Jan Bondeson

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The Ripper of Waterloo Road

The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838

By: Jan Bondeson

When Jack the Ripper first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his crimes were as ghastly as those committed by Eliza Grimwood's murderer fifty years earlier. Hers is arguably the most infamous and brutal of all nineteenth-century London killings. Eliza was a high-class prostitute, and on 26 May 1838, following an evening at the theatre, she brought a 'client' back to her home in Waterloo Road. The morning after, she was found with her throat cut and her abdomen viciously 'ripped'. The client was nowhere to be seen. The ensuing murder investigation was convoluted, with suspects ranging from an alcoholic bricklayer to a royal duke. Londoners from all walks of life followed the story with a horror and fascination – among them Charles Dickens, who took inspiration from Eliza's death when he wrote the murder of Nancy in Oliver Twist. Despite this feverish interest, the case was left unsolved, becoming the subject of 'penny dreadfuls' and urban legend. Unusually for a crime of this early period, the diary of the police officer leading the investigation has been preserved for posterity, and Jan Bondeson takes full advantage of this unique access to a Victorian murder inquiry. Skilfully dissecting what evidence remains, he links this murder with a series of other opportunist early Victorian slayings, and, in putting forward a credible new suspect, concludes that the Ripper of Waterloo Road was, in fact, a serial killer claiming as many as four victims.

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The History Press

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0750981865

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9780750981866

Murder Houses of Greater London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of Greater London

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of Greater London’s most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Graham Frederick Young, the Poisoner of the North Circular Road, by the murderous Donald Hume, or by that monster Dennis Nilsen? Armed with this book and a good London map, you will be able to do some murder house detection work of your own.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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178462974X

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Victorian Murders

By: Jan Bondeson

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Victorian Murders

By: Jan Bondeson

This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the files of the Illustrated Police News.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445666316

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9781445666310

Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics

By: Jan G. Linn

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Evangelicalism and The Decline of American Politics

By: Jan G. Linn

Beginning in the 1970s evangelical Christians decided to become involved in our nation's political life by becoming Republican partisans. Today they are widely considered the Republican Party's most reliable constituency. In the process American politics has become more bitter, chaotic, divisive, and now dysfunctional. There is a significant bipartisan consensus that the Republican Party bears the most responsibility for the state of our nation's politics. This is not an endorsement of Democratic policies, only an assessment of why our government no longer gets anything done. What is often ignored, though, is the role evangelicals are playing in what is happening. This book connects the dots between evangelical theology and evangelical politics. The key factor in both is their "no compromise" attitude that sees negotiations as a betrayal of moral principles, confident as they are that they are doing God's work here on earth. The result, as this book shows, is bad politics and bad religion, both of which are out of step with the views of most Americans. It concludes with suggestions for what the nation and evangelicals themselves can do to open the door to our government being able to function again, and to the nation healing some of its divisions.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532605048

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9781532605048

The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)

Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

By: Jan W. Rivkin,Nicolaj Siggelkow

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The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)

Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

By: Jan W. Rivkin,Nicolaj Siggelkow

Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and strategizing. Motivated by real examples that run contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors examine how firms organize themselves to strategize well. In particular, they examine “premature lock-in”--how a firm’s strategizing efforts can become stuck in a web of conflicting constraints prematurely, before managers have explored a wide enough range of possibilities. A key role of organizing is to free strategizing efforts and encourage broad search. At the same time, organizing must ensure that strategizing efforts stabilize after the firm discovers an effective set of choices. Balancing search and stability, the authors argue, is a central challenge of organizing. They explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation that shows (1) how a change in organizational structure[md]for example, a shift from decentralization to integration[md]may reflect not a reversal of early mistakes but an effective sequence of organizing; and (2) why firms may benefit from unnecessary overlap between departments. They conclude that a period of decentralization and unnecessary overlap can be seen as organizational mechanisms to ensure the broad, early search that a firm needs in order to cope with interactions among strategic decisions.

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Pearson Education

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0137015054

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Constitutional Origin and Norm Creation in Colombia

Discursive Institutionalism and the Empowerment of the Constitutional Court

By: Jan Boesten

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Constitutional Origin and Norm Creation in Colombia

Discursive Institutionalism and the Empowerment of the Constitutional Court

By: Jan Boesten

This book explains the growing empowerment of the Colombian Constitutional Court in the early years of the 21st century and develops the concept of the deliberative judge. Taking the case of the Colombian Constitutional Court and drawing on neoinstitutional theory to explain the relationship between political crisis and institutional reforms, the book challenges the notion of rational choice institutionalism that agents act strategically. It indicates the limits of path dependence and argues instead that discursive institutionalism is the most appropriate method for analyzing processes of institutional learning. Combining theoretical and empirical research, it builds the argument that judicial independence promotes the case for deliberative democracy over rational choice or strategic action approaches. Finally, the book suggests that by introducing communicative and cognitive variables in our understanding of key actors and processes, we are more capable of bridging institutional origin and legacy. The work will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers in Constitutional Law, Constitutional Politics, and Constitutional History.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000577791

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9781000577792

Lorene

A Deep South Turn of the Century Woman

By: Lorene Hart Furney,Lorene Hart Furney and Jan Furney Acompora

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A Deep South Turn of the Century Woman

By: Lorene Hart Furney,Lorene Hart Furney and Jan Furney Acompora

Memoirs of "Lorene", a true Southern Lady who was raised on a farm in Southeast Georgia. Lorene was born in November 1914, and died in December of 2009, at the age of ninety-five. Her adventures will take you through the deep depression, World War II, and carry her into the twenty-first Century. Her father taught her how important it is to own property. She fell in love and married Webb, who was the son of a share cropper. She raised her eight children on someone else's farm until 1957. They learned this was a battle they could not win. They made the biggest decision of their life and moved their family to West Palm Beach, Florida. This was a life changing event. When Jan Furney Acompora, decided to compile her mother's autobiography, she looked into the yellowed hand written pages and found a book. Full of excitement and history of the 20th Century American Woman, she couldn't wait to share with the world.

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Xlibris Corporation

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147714501X

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9781477145012

Regional Economic Change in Europe

A Neo-Schumpeterian Vision

By: Gert-Jan Hospers

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Regional Economic Change in Europe

A Neo-Schumpeterian Vision

By: Gert-Jan Hospers

In this era of ongoing globalization a coherent vision on Europe's changing geo-economy is more important than ever before. Drawing on the work of Schumpeter, Fourasti'e and Perroux, the book at hand offers a new and policy-oriented perspective on regional economic change in Europe. Conceptually, it develops a middle-range theory by extending Schumpeter's vision with a sectoral and spatial dimension. This neo-Schumpeterian framework is concretized by exploring fifty years of structural change in Sardinia, the Ruhrgebiet and the Öresund.

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3825881776

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The Planet in a Pebble

A Journey Into Earth's Deep History

By: Jan Zalasiewicz

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The Planet in a Pebble

A Journey Into Earth's Deep History

By: Jan Zalasiewicz

Every pebble has many stories to tell. Its particular atoms, its crystals, its minerals, its grains, its textures, its strata, its tiny fossils bear evidence to a history that stretches back billions of years."--Book flap.

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Oxford University Press

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0199645698

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9780199645695

The Beginning Psychotherapist's Companion 3E

By: Jan Willer,Independent Practitioner Jan Willer

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The Beginning Psychotherapist's Companion 3E

By: Jan Willer,Independent Practitioner Jan Willer

The Beginning Psychotherapist's Companion provides guidance regarding topics essential to effective and ethical mental health practice, such as readers' emotions, well-being, and relationships. The reader is assisted in managing boundaries with regards to the psychotherapy session, communications between sessions, and the psychotherapist's online presence. Because psychotherapists are often the first to hear about the client's difficulties, the reader is educated about additional treatments that the client may need and is encouraged to assist the client with appropriate referrals. Behavioral health emergencies are also introduced.

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Oxford University Press

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0197670911

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9780197670910

The Earth After Us

What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

By: Jan Zalasiewicz,Kim Freedman

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The Earth After Us

What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

By: Jan Zalasiewicz,Kim Freedman

If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and thought-provoking account looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact.

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0199214980

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Strategic Foresight

An Introductory Guide to Practice

By: Jan Oliver Schwarz

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Strategic Foresight

An Introductory Guide to Practice

By: Jan Oliver Schwarz

Organisations today are being challenged to make sense of changes in environments that, now more than ever, are described as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous). They are also being driven to understand how the future will evolve and what impact it will have not only on the organisations themselves but also on industries and societies. In recent decades a field has emerged to support organisations in addressing these challenges: strategic foresight. This book is a comprehensive introduction to strategic foresight. It presents a history of the field and explains the main principles in thinking about the future. The book describes how organisations can apply strategic foresight and explains how it relates to other fields such as strategy, innovation, and leadership, highlighting the relevance of strategic foresight not only for organisations but also for individuals, particularly managers and leaders. Grounded in the theoretical foundations of strategic foresight, the book reflects the latest academic research and explores practical applications in different contexts. It draws on more than two decades of experience that the author has in the field as a researcher and as a consultant in the corporate context. This is essential reading for managers and leaders of public and private organisations who want to establish strategic foresight practices, as well as students of foresight and managers in the fields of innovation, research & development, and marketing.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000895580

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The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

The Flowering of Early Animal Life

By: Hou Xianguag,Richard J. Aldridge,Jan Bergstrom,David J. Siveter,Derek J. Siveter,Xiang-Hong Feng

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The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

The Flowering of Early Animal Life

By: Hou Xianguag,Richard J. Aldridge,Jan Bergstrom,David J. Siveter,Derek J. Siveter,Xiang-Hong Feng

The Chengjiang biota is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries ever made. The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang is the first book in English to provide fossil enthusiasts with an overview of the fauna. 100 superb full color plates. First English language illustrated guide to this important fauna. A must-have for all palaeontologists worldwide. To see a collection of images from the book, click on the following link: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/chengjiang

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470999942

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The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000

By: Jan Morris

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The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000

By: Jan Morris

The travel book of the season."—Craig Seligman, New York Times Book Review The first book to distill Jan Morris's entire body of work into one volume, The World is a magnum opus by the most-celebrated travel writer in the world. To read it is to take an epic armchair journey through the last half of twentieth-century history. A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and cultures from Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles fifty years of Morris's finest travel writing. With eyewitness accounts of such seminal moments as the first successful ascent of Everest, the Eichmann trial, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the handover of Hong Kong, The World promises to create an entirely new generation of Jan Morris readers. A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2003.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393247309

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Leadership and Management Development

By: Jan L. Carmichael,Chris Collins,Peter Emsell,Jon Haydon

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Leadership and Management Development

By: Jan L. Carmichael,Chris Collins,Peter Emsell,Jon Haydon

Leadership and Management Development provides the perfect blend of critical and practice-based approaches, encouraging learning through examples to support academic, practical and personal development. The organizationally-based cases and questions will allow students to use relevant skills and learn through reflection on their own experience.

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Oxford University Press

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0199580871

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Winning the Uncertainty Game

Turning Strategic Intent into Results with Wargaming

By: Daniel F. Oriesek,Jan Oliver Schwarz

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Winning the Uncertainty Game

Turning Strategic Intent into Results with Wargaming

By: Daniel F. Oriesek,Jan Oliver Schwarz

This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world. While useful at their time, several management tools, including classic strategic planning processes, will no longer suffice to address these challenges in a timely and comprehensive fashion. While individual management tools are still valid to solve specific problems, they need to be employed based on a clear understanding of what the greater challenge is and how they need to be combined and prioritized with other approaches. In order to do so, companies can apply the clarity of thinking from the military with regard to which leadership level is responsible for what and how these levels need to interact in order to produce a single aligned response to an outside opportunity or threat. Finally, the tool of business wargaming, while known for some time, proves to be an ideal approach to quickly and effectively bring all leadership levels together, align them around a common objective and lay the groundwork for effective implementation of targeted responses that will keep the organization competitive and in the game for the long run. The book offers a comprehensive introduction to business wargaming, including a historical account, a classification of different types of games and a number of specific real-world examples. This book is targeted at practicing managers dealing with the aforementioned challenges, as well as for students of business and strategy at every level.

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Routledge

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1000289877

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Quantum Geometry

A Statistical Field Theory Approach

By: Jan Ambjørn,Bergfinnur Durhuus,Þórður Jónsson

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Quantum Geometry

A Statistical Field Theory Approach

By: Jan Ambjørn,Bergfinnur Durhuus,Þórður Jónsson

Describes random geometry and applications to strings, quantum gravity, topological field theory and membrane physics.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521461677

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9780521461672

Doctor Poison

The Extraordinary Career of Dr George Henry Lamson, Victorian Poisoner Par Excellence

By: Jan Bondeson

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Doctor Poison

The Extraordinary Career of Dr George Henry Lamson, Victorian Poisoner Par Excellence

By: Jan Bondeson

One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood trial in 1882 for poisoning his crippled brother-in-law Percy Malcolm John; he was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800466579

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Murder Houses of London

By: Jan Bondeson

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Murder Houses of London

By: Jan Bondeson

Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack the Ripper, the Kray twins, the Blackout Ripper or ‘Acid Bath’ Haigh?

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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144561491X

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Europe's Passive Virtues

Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law

By: Jan Zglinski

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Europe's Passive Virtues

Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law

By: Jan Zglinski

This book investigates the Court of Justice's practice of deferring to Member State authorities in free movement law, examining the decision-making latitude accorded to national institutions by means of two deference doctrines, the margin of appreciation and decentralised judicial review.

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0198844794

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