This new book explores the intricate world of strategic management, offering a detailed look at the essential concepts and practical applications across various business domains. The book covers strategic planning and strategy formulation, laying the groundwork for effective strategic decision-making, and goes on to offer insights into the cognitive processes behind impactful choices in a strategic context. It covers strategic global and international management practices, strategic allian...

Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking. This book is unique in bringing the three concepts together as representing a new trinity of governance. Here we introduce some of the commonalities between the ideas, particularly their concern with distinctive human capacities that shape who we are and that imply a particular relationship to our wider social...

Hegemony: A Realist Analysis is a new and original approach to this important concept. It presents a theoretical history of the use of hegemony in a range of work starting with a discussion of Gramsci and Russian Marxism and going on to look at more recent applications. It examines the current debates and discusses the new direction to Marx made by Jacques Derrida, before outlining a critical realist/Marxist alternative.This book employs critical realist philosophy in an ex...

FIT First Responders is a 25 week gameplan to provide our nations first responders, our police, firefighters, medics and national guard with the best opportunity to be their best on the job, but most importantly in life.It is not a secret that we live in such a time that these heroes are seeing more and are exposed to more than ever before...crime is at an all time high, homeland terror is an everyday threat...Our nations HEROES are less appreciated and valued and the respe...

Resilience refers to the ability of individuals, groups and societies to withstand and recover from external shocks. This pioneering book-length comparative study examines resilience as it is experienced across different countries, such as the UK, US, France, Germany and EU. Furthermore it considers cases from policy sectors including national security, counterterrorism, civil protection, disaster risk reduction, critical infrastructure protection and overseas interventions. In doing so, J...

How do influential social ideas contribute to global governance? This book takes an original approach to international relations by looking at the way social ideas help to portray the world in a particular way. Jonathan Joseph begins by analysing the role of important concepts such as globalisation, global civil society, social capital, networks and risk; then examines the role these concepts play in the discourse of international organisations. Using the concept of governmentality, he arg...

Theories of discourse bring to realism new ideas about how knowledge develops and how representations of reality are influenced. We gain an understanding of the conceptual aspect of social life and the processes by which meaning is produced. This collection reflects the growing interest realist critics have shown towards forms of discourse theory and deconstruction. The diverse range of contributions address such issues as the work of Derrida and deconstruction, discourse theory, Eurocentr...

In Never Assume, the first story in The Absurd Tales of Mr Griffs series, Mr Griffs and his difficult neighbour, Steve Moran, go head to head. Mr Griffs loves everything his neighbour hates. While Mr Griffs enjoys wearing baggy clothes, Steve only dresses in designer suits. Mr Griffs relishes his privacy and Steve regularly snoops on people. Mr Griffs appreciates wildlife whereas Steve sees wild animals as pests. Their long-standing rivalry escalates when Steve accuses Mr Griffs of digging...

Never Assume: Uncut delves into some of the back stories and behind-the-scenes moments of Never Assume - the first story in The Absurd Tales of Mr Griffs series.This special addition also contains exclusive bonus material, character interviews and a preview of Cool as a Cucumber, the next story in the series.

When there's a cockroach outbreak in the town of Cornville, only one man is as cool as a cucumber.Mr Griffs isn't at all fazed by the cockroaches – not when he has a garden full of cucumbers. When news of his alternative remedy gets out, Mr Griffs is faced with an angry mob. Led by Steve Moran, Mr Griffs' arch nemesis, the cucumber thieves will stop at nothing to get what they want. Mr Griffs is forced to put aside his scientific research on wild bush turkeys and must do whatever i...

When Steve Moran, Mr Griffs' troublesome neighbour, throws a lavish party, everyone in the neighbourhood is invited. Everyone, that is, except for Mr Griffs.Although he has no intention of attending Steve's pretentious party, Mr Griffs' curiosity gets the better of him. After coming to the aid of a party-bound and cake-bearing old lady, Mr Griffs gallantly offers to escort her (and her cake) inside. Within no time at all, Mr Griffs finds himself sipping champagne and sampling Steve...

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE 2014‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’There are books you...