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Keren Joseph, Jonathan Joseph

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The Absurd Tales of Mr Griffs

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...

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Phillip Scott Mandel, Roger Johns, Mark Jonathan Harris, Joseph Bodie, Seth Bohn, Viggy Parr Hampton, DL Shirey

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After Dinner Conversation Magazine

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - June 2022The Money Box: A mysterious black box gives its users "unearned" money, but at what price?The Memory Thief: Alice is kidnapped, her mind is downloaded to the cloud, and, due to space limitations, her boyfriend must decide what memories make it into her new body.Tikkun Olam: A retired lawyer tries to help an at-risk youth, but feels s...

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Keren Joseph, Jonathan Joseph

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The Absurd Tales of Mr Griffs

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...

This fully-updated third edition provides a practical and concise guide to all aspects of the perioperative care of cardiac surgical patients. Produced by recognised leaders from world-renowned cardiac centres, this is the authoritative text for residents and fellows in anaesthesia and cardiac surgery, clinical perfusionists, and critical care nurses. Updated chapters include regional anesthesia, paediatric cardiac anaesthesia, and anaesthesia for specific procedures such as aortic valve s...

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Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale, Atia Sattar, Beth A. McCoy, Robin Blyn, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Charles M. Tung, Aaron Jaffe, Grant Farred, Seth Morton, David L. Martin

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The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory

"By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a ...

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Jonathan Joseph, J. Allister McGregor

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

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...

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Jonathan Joseph

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Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

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...

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Jonathan Joseph

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...

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...

This book presents a comprehensive examination of employee share ownership, profit sharing, and gain sharing practices in contemporary business environments. Drawing from rigorous academic research presented at the prestigious Oxford University-Rutgers University Conference on Shares, it offers valuable insights into how these ownership structures function across different organizational contexts. The collection analyzes both the contextual factors that influence share plans and their meas...

This book explores a quiet revolution reshaping global capitalism: the rise of employee ownership, worker cooperatives, and profit-sharing enterprises. With 17% of US adult workers now holding equity in their companies, a new Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) being established daily in the UK, a mature sector thriving in France, extensive tax incentives in Canada, the continued development of several mature worker cooperative sectors worldwide such as Mondragon, and interest in many other nat...

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Jonathan Joseph

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Cambridge Studies in International Relations

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...