Cancer for Jokers is an irreverent account of dealing with a recent diagnosis of incurable metastatic prostate cancer. Philosophical musings on life, death, and even politics, are peppered throughout the book. Cites to some medical studies are also included within providing some educational value for the reader. It is a one of a kind work that will appeal to anyone coping with an incurable disease, or readers who find dark humor to be good medicine for whatever ails them.

Western Australia, 1946: When teacher Noel White arrives at government-run Carrolup Native Settlement, he cannot communicate with the traumatised Aboriginal children, as they are so fearful. The children, forcibly removed from their families as part of government policy, live in squalor.Noel connects with the children through his empathy and unique education programme, and inspires them to create beautiful landscape drawings that gain widespread public recognition. The children als...

This book surveys the landscape of supermarket retailing in Africa, showing how this expanding part of the retail sector is changing consumerism on the continent.Drawing on research covering retail formats, consumer behaviour, strategies, operation research, ICT, relationship marketing, and market linkage, the book investigates the many factors impacting the growth of supermarkets in Africa. The contributors employ theories, concepts, and methods in order to help us to understand c...

Mrketing reversed prior business logic 50 years ago and said«the customer is king», and the companies began to recognizethat it was not just the product that was the most important aspect oftheir business. Companies recognized that consumers had a myriadof choices of product offerings and marketing was responsibleto ensure that the companys products had the benefits andattributes that customers wanted and were willing to pay for. Today,considering the technology development, which influen...

Go inside the high-stakes world of sports ownership as New York Times bestselling author and owner of the Baltimore Orioles David M. Rubenstein reveals the financial strategies, leadership secrets, and billion-dollar deal-making behind championship franchises through conversations with America's most powerful owners—Robert Kraft, Jeff Lurie, Tom Ricketts, and more.What does it really take to own a championship fran...

'... undoubtedly a first-rate companion for any undergraduate or post-graduate law course.'**John Taggart, Criminal Law ReviewThis outstanding account of modern English criminal law combines detailed exposition and analysis of the law with a careful exploration of its theoretical underpinnings. Primarily, it is written for undergraduate students of criminal law, covering all subjects taught at undergraduate level.The book's...

While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over. People of color have been excluded from wealth-building opportunities via homeownership continuously throughout United States history, from the outright denial of credit and res...

Together with the development of transformative technologies that epitomize globalization, the ongoing movements of people across borders and other socio-economic pressures are creating a fast-changing business environment that is difficult for business to understand, let alone control. Dominant social expectations that immigrants should seek to adopt an assimilationist socialization path towards the host country’s mainstream are contradicted by minority ethnic group resilience. There is n...

Local government affects us all. Wherever we live, in towns, cities, villages, or the smallest of communities, there are locally elected councils tasked with representing people’s interests in the running of the local area. This involves, inter alia, providing public services, maintaining local spaces, and acting as a level of democratic governance within the broader constitutional and executive structure of the state. To fulfil these responsibilities, though, local government mus...

A globalization process epitomised by historically large cross-border population movements with rapidly improving networking and communication technologies, has resulted in the growth of ethnic diversity across newly industrialised economies. Instead of adapting to a dominant, host country culture, many ethnic minorities seek to preserve their identities, both as diasporic communities and within their adopted countries. For marketers it has been recognised as crucial to understand the uniq...

Novel Treatments of Strong Correlations, Volume 90 in the Advances in Quantum Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Topics covered include Coupled Cluster, Stochastic CC, NOFT, Breaking the Symmetry Dilemma : Capturing Strong-Correlations by Restoration of Broken Symmetry Solutions, Flexible wavefunctions, Electronic Coupling to Optical Cavity Modes, Multireference Perturbat...

Interwoven memories of wallpaper, sugar sandwiches, violence and unwritten rules of community offer an insider history of the Pack, a now demolished London council estate.