The A-Z of International School Leadership is a stimulating collection of sharp insights and creative perspectives drawing on the author's global experiences, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet."Leaders of international schools are free to choose from the best educational initiatives around the world, yet many find themselves blinkered by slavishly following historical traditions and patriotic ruts."The hindrance to development and innovation tha...

HANDBOOK OF WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENTUseful reference text underpinning the theory behind wind resource assessment along with its practical applicationHandbook of Wind Resource Assessment provides a comprehensive description of the background theory, methods, models, applications, and analysis of the discipline of wind resource assessment, covering topics such as climate variability, measurement, wind distributions, numerical modeli...

The book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with the subject and remember how to apply it in the work environment. It will be useful for managers, trainers, professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupational health and safety.The text comprehensively explains the effect of the brain on learning and then develops the training processes from tr...

Simon Watson Taylor's hitherto unpublished introduction to his translations of Boris Vian's pataphysical plays The Knacker’s ABC, The General’s Tea Party and The Empire Builders

This new edition builds on the success of the first edition. It has been enhanced to embrace new topics including Due Dilgence, EHS Auditing, Process Safety, Auditing, and a chapter summarizing auditing with the relevant ISO standards. The rest of the book has been updated to fit with the guidance and requirements set out with the changes in the ISO standards. The goal of this book remains the same, to provide a "down to earth" guidance for managers and specialists in organizations who are...

This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.

Personal reminiscences of the anarchist secretary of the British Surrealist Group; editor of 'Free Union', the surrealist review '; Provéditeur-Délégataire, Régent de Brittanicité Faustrolliene et de Travaux Pratiques de Alcoölisme of the Collège de Pataphysique (the science of imaginary solutions"; translator of Alfred Jarry (The Ubu Plays) and Boris Vian's The Empire Builde...

A fresh approach to managing organizational change by looking at it as complex, dynamic and messy as opposed to a series of neat, linear stages and processes leading to success.Key to the approach is the idea that change, creativity and innovation all overlap and interconnect rather than being three separate areas of study and that managing the three together is central to organizations having the competitive edge in developing new technologies and techniques, products and services...

This book provides a holistic, interdisciplinary overview of offshore wind energy, and is a must-read for advanced researchers. Topics, from the design and analysis of future turbines, to the decommissioning of wind farms, are covered. The scope of the work ranges from analytical, numerical and experimental advancements in structural and fluid mechanics, to novel developments in risk, safety & reliability engineering for offshore wind.The core objective of the current work is to ma...

Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal regions with islands, channels, tidal flats and inlets, estuaries, fjords and lagoons. Most of this richly illustrated book is devoted to the physical aspects of waves. After introducing observation techniques for waves, both at sea and from space, the book defines the parameters that characterise waves. Using basic statistical and ...

'Your Ultimate Marketing Guide to Blogging and Content Creation' endeavours to point out and explain six crucial elements of the successful marketing strategy for bloggers and small businesses. It covers a range of marketing activities you could try as a blogger or a small business owner to get greater online exposure and boost your conversion. Those activities include, amongst others, producing high quality content (chapter 2). You will have a chance to learn how to set up your brand new ...

While we'd all like a quiet life, there are some situations that can't be ignored - a survey by Staffordshire University Business School estimated that 53% of us will be bullied at work at some point during our working life. In offices, workplace bullying is on the rise and discrimination is commonplace. Key customers are ever more demanding, won't take no for an answer and aren't afraid to tell you so.This fully revised and updated Steps to Success title ...