Change and development are going on all around us. On both an international platform, as well as at the local governmental and community level, governments, decision and policy makers constantly strive to improve the world in which we live, seeking to make it better and to improve quality of life.This book focuses on such development in the context of localism in the UK. It strips the principle of local sustainability down to its constituent parts and considers the extent to which ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is a how-to book designed for the marketing practitioner. It provides detailed information on how to prepare and implement a marketing plan based in a total quality environment.For the last twenty years, the authors, as marketing practitioners and educators, have been deeply involved in the planning processes of many corporations. This book, Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment, is the product of what they've learned over the y...

*INSTANT BESTSELLER*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 d...

This book is an indispensable guide for executives, programme leaders, and business owners on maximising value from automation and digital transformation. It provides a real-world journey map of automation, from RPA through to intelligent automation, with a focus on practical strategy and management principles intended to help seize the trillions of dollars that are still being left on the table by companies that have not yet made this leap.Though grounded on the research and advis...