This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Public Sector Labor Relations: Policy, Practice, and Challenges delves into the intricate realm of labor relations within the public sector. This comprehensive volume provides a thorough analysis of the policies, practices, and complexities that shape the relationship between public employers and their unions. It explores the unique challenges and nuances of public sector labor relations, including the impact of government laws, regulat...

After a century-long hiatus, honor is back. Academics, pundits, and everyday citizens alike are rediscovering the importance of this ancient and powerful human motive. This volume brings together some of the foremost researchers of honor to debate honor’s meaning and its compatibility with liberalism, democracy, and modernity. Contributors—representing philosophy, sociology, political science, history, psychology, leadership studies, and military science—examine honor past to present, from...

Ryan White was a typical 13-year-old living in a small town in the Midwest. Then, it was discovered that Ryan had contracted AIDS through tainted blood products he had been given for his hemophilia. Denied the right to return to school, he went to court. Newspaper headlines followed the many legal battles, and although Ryan won the court case, his own fight had just begun. With great courage, he spoke out against the many misconceptions about the disease and called for AIDS sufferers to be...

Austerity was presented as the antidote to sluggish economies, but it has had far-reaching effects on jobs and employment conditions.With an international team of editors and authors from Europe, North America and Australia, this illuminating collection goes beyond a sole focus on public sector work and uniquely covers the impact of austerity on work across the private, public and voluntary spheres.Drawing on a range of perspectives, the book engages with the major debates ...

Two students arrive in Edinburgh full of hopes and dreams...and secrets. Their relationship sends them down a path they never imagined.What if your dreams really could come true?Dao and Sunny both grow up in Bangkok, but that's where the similarities between the two end. Dao's family are well-off and worldly, full of ambition for their daughter. Sunny's father, meanwhile, wants only for his son to take over the small grocery shop he runs and stop causing trouble. When both ...

In the footsteps of Charles Bukowski comes Hosho McCreesh's magnum opus of drunk poetry. Mammoth in size and scope, DrunkSkull books is pleased to release the audiobook version of A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, a drunken, epic collection about death and love that is unlike any of McCreesh's previous work."Because writing and drinking go hand in hand, it may seem an impossible challenge for a poet to offer new perspective of this well-worn, symbiotic relationship. But Hosho Mc...