Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British Industrial Relations, the forerunner of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, as taught in most Business Schools today. He defined ‘industrial democracy’ as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundations for the pluralist approach to Industrial Relations, was a key figure in the post-war social sciences and a major public policy player. More widely, he was an important figure in the Cold War social democratic...

Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial meningitis. Despite Egan's frantic efforts, the baby worsens and ends up brain dead in the ped...

Globalisierung und Migrationsbewegungen tragen zu einer verstärkten Beachtung religiöser und spiritueller Fragen in unserer Gesellschaft bei. Das bringt auch für die Psychotherapie und die psychiatrische Behandlung verschärfte Herausforderungen mit sich. In diesem Werk werden das Hintergrundwissen zu diesem Veränderungsprozess wie auch Krankheits- und Gesundungsmodelle der verschiedenen religiösen und spirituellen Traditionen vorgestellt und Beispiele angewandter religionssensibler Psychot...

The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive look at the values associated with parks and other kinds of protected areas. Much has been written about the importance of parks to the tourism industry, yet the reasons why people care deeply about them usually have little or nothing to do with money. Instead, people value parks as sacred sanctuaries and places of spiritual self-discovery, as settings of breathtaking beauty, as venues of scientific inquiry, as destinations for much-needed...

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvreover a dozen novels and novellashas inspired a generation of writers and artists.Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work, including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best introduction to Acker, and Avital ...

Irgendwo im ländlichen Abseits öffnet sich eine etwas seltsam geartete Welt. Bevölkert wird sie zwar von scheinbar alltäglichen Gestalten, doch werden diese in Peter Kiefers Episodenroman laufend mit Situationen konfrontiert, die sie dann auf übermütige Weise scheitern lassen. Die davon erzählten Geschichten gleiten manchmal ins Lächerliche, Befremdliche, sind nicht selten erotisch aufgeladen oder kippen gar in apokalyptische Tiefen. Selbst das unvermutete Erscheinen eines Nilpferds ist da...

This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate ‘labour movement’ class cohesion. Instead of a ‘forward march’ to secular state-socialism, the research presented here is devoted to a rich diversity of social movements and ideas. In this collection of essays, the editors establish the liberal-pluralist tradition, wit...