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Effective Directors The Right Questions to Ask (QTA)

Effective Directors The Right Questions to Ask (QTA)

The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Being a good board member is not about knowing everything; it is about asking the right questions and challenging appropriately. Effective Directors: The Right Questions To Ask (QTA) is a reference book for board members and executives globally to support them in their work. With chapters written by senior company board members and respected figures in corporate governance the questions have been drawn together to offer food for thought and useful prompts that take boards beyond operational discussions. The book clearly presents key areas to be considered by the board (there are over 50 in total) and range from board composition to data security diversity and inclusion and succession planning. The questions are ones that boards in any organisation should be asking themselves their fellow board members service providers executives and other stakeholders to ensure that the right issues are raised transparency and effective oversight are achieved and the board is fulfilling its role in governing the organisation. In addition to being invaluable for board members the book is also a very useful tool for executives in understanding the kind of questions their board members are likely to ask and the kind of questions that should be asked and discussed in the boardroom. | Effective Directors The Right Questions to Ask (QTA)

GBP 31.99
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Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices Give It Ask for It Use It

Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices Give It Ask for It Use It

Feedback is an incredibly valuable source of information – it enables us to be more self-aware and understand what we are doing well and it tells us what we could be doing differently more of or less of to improve our performance and achieve our goals. Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices: Give It Ask for It Use It provides an essential overview of feedback fundamentals what gets in the way of effective feedback exchanges and the impact of technology on feedback interactions. The value of feedback is often unrealized because people dread giving it dread receiving it and may not know what to do with it once they get it. Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices balances research testimonials and practical tools to provide readers with a thorough understanding of feedback exchanges. Critical findings from decades of research in psychology business and other disciplines are distilled into tools and strategies that readers can easily adopt in their own lives regardless of who they are or what they do. Throughout the book are a wealth of examples from a variety of people and situations both within and outside traditional work contexts. Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices: Give It Ask for It Use It is a crucial resource for professionals leaders and anyone of any industry or stage in life looking to give better feedback proactively ask for feedback gracefully receive feedback and put that feedback to use. | Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices Give It Ask for It Use It

GBP 24.99
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Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Throughout the work the idea that Marc Bloch was not only a historian but a great teacher is exemplified as is his ability to ask interesting and original questions through his writing. Topics covered include medieval Germany technical problems in the medieval economy and society and the medieval class structure. | Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

GBP 89.99
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AI for Finance

AI for Finance

Finance students and practitioners may ask: can machines learn everything? Could AI help me? Computing students or practitioners may ask: which of my skills could contribute to finance? Where in finance should I pay attention? This book aims to answer these questions. No prior knowledge is expected in AI or finance. Including original research the book explains the impact of ignoring computation in classical economics; examines the relationship between computing and finance and points out potential misunderstandings between economists and computer scientists; and introduces Directional Change and explains how this can be used. To finance students and practitioners this book will explain the promise of AI as well as its limitations. It will cover knowledge representation modelling simulation and machine learning explaining the principles of how they work. To computing students and practitioners this book will introduce the financial applications in which AI has made an impact. This includes algorithmic trading forecasting risk analysis portfolio optimization and other less well-known areas in finance. Trading depth for readability AI for Finance will help readers decide whether to invest more time into the subject.

GBP 22.99
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Mathematical Modeling with Excel

Mathematical Modeling with Excel

This text presents a wide variety of common types of models found in other mathematical modeling texts as well as some new types. However the models are presented in a very unique format. A typical section begins with a general description of the scenario being modeled. The model is then built using the appropriate mathematical tools. Then it is implemented and analyzed in Excel via step-by-step instructions. In the exercises we ask students to modify or refine the existing model analyze it further or adapt it to similar scenarios. | Mathematical Modeling with Excel

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Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism

Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism

Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism explores the often incommensurable and irreconcilable beliefs and understandings of sexuality and gender in the Orthodox Jewish community from psychoanalytic rabbinic feminist and queer perspectives. The book explores how seemingly irreconcilable differences might be resolved. The book is divided into two separate but related sections. The first highlights the divide between the psychoanalytic academic and traditional Orthodox Jewish perspectives on sexual identity and orientation and the acute psychic and social challenges faced by gay and lesbian members of the Orthodox Jewish world. The contributors ask us to engage with them in a dialogue that allows for authentic conversation. The second section focuses on gender identity especially as experienced by the Orthodox transgender members of the community. It also highlights the divide between theories that see gender as fluid and traditional Judaism that sees gender as strictly binary. The contributors write about their views and experiences from both sides of the divide. They ask us to engage in true authentic dialogue about these complex and crucial emotional and religious challenges. Homosexuality Transsexuality Psychoanalysis and Traditional Judaism will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as members and leaders of Jewish communities working with LGBTQ issues.

GBP 34.99
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The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what and what not to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the reader with practical answers to the issues they will come across everyday and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and U. K. perspectives. | The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

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Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk

Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk

This second edition is fully updated and addresses ways in which we can apply stories and storytelling with children who are troubled. Stories can empower children to take action and ask for help including help with changes and life-plans. Stories provide a secure structure with endings and closure. The book develops the following topics: Stories for assessment Stories for understanding emotions Stories for exploring the senses Stories for managing loss Stories for ritual and drama There are new and revised stories in particular addressing trauma and abuse. This book is written for all those people with the welfare of children as their priority. | Creative Storytelling with Children at Risk

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Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Filled with detailed clinical examples this book expertly breaks down the process of behavioral chain analysis/m-/the critical foundation for assessment and problem solving in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Experienced DBT clinician and trainer Shireen L. Rizvi provides knowledge and skills for conducting chains effectively and overcoming obstacles. She presents guiding principles questions to ask strategies for engaging clients and addressing difficult-to-assess problems and ways to avoid common mistakes. The book describes how to incorporate other essential DBT strategies (such as validation) into chain analysis as well as how to conduct chains in the context of individual therapy group skills training phone coaching and the consultation team. | Chain Analysis in Dialectical Behavior Therapy

GBP 26.99
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Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

Social Change and Social Work discusses and examines how social work is challenged by social political and economic tendencies going on in current societies. The authors ask how social work as a discipline and practice is encountering global and local transformations. Divided into three parts topics covered include the changing social work mandate throughout history; social work paradigms and theoretical considerations; phenomenological social work; practice research; and gender and generational research. Taken together the chapters in this anthology provide an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current discussions within the European social work research community. | Social Change and Social Work The Changing Societal Conditions of Social Work in Time and Place

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Mastering the Clinical Conversation Language as Intervention

Mastering the Clinical Conversation Language as Intervention

This compelling book provides psychotherapists with evidence-based strategies for harnessing the power of language to free clients from life-constricting patterns and promote psychological flourishing. Grounded in relational frame theory (RFT) the volume shares innovative ways to enhance assessment and intervention using specific kinds of clinical conversations. Techniques are demonstrated for activating and shaping behavior change building a flexible sense of self fostering meaning and motivation creating powerful experiential metaphors and strengthening the therapeutic relationship. User-friendly features include more than 80 clinical vignettes with commentary by the authors plus a "Quick Guide to Using RFT in Psychotherapy" filled with sample phrases and questions to ask. | Mastering the Clinical Conversation Language as Intervention

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Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response Selected Essays

Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response Selected Essays

Why does music move us? Lawrence Kramer suggests we should ask this old question in a different way: what is responsible for our response to music and to what is our response responsible? The essays in this outstanding collection explore this question amongst many others and by finding cultural meaning in music they exemplify the critical turn in musicology. Sixteen essays have been selected most of them previously published from the late 1980s to the present day. These are prefaced by an excellent introduction which traces the intellectual development of critical musicology and discusses the part these essays have had to play in that movement. | Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response Selected Essays

GBP 42.99
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Disability Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights? A Case for Welfare Rights?

Disability Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights? A Case for Welfare Rights?

This title was first published in 2002: A critical look at the experiences of disabled people in accessing and receiving community care in the UK. The author uses a framework of citizenship encompassing civil and social rights to ask difficult questions about the role the welfare state plays in preventing and promoting people's independence. The book discusses the relationship between rationing policy professional practice and the needs of disabled people and their families from a citizenship perspective and provides critical insight into possible solutions to promoting disabled people's citizenship and independence within the limits of today's welfare state. | Disability Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights? A Case for Welfare Rights?

GBP 115.00
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Eyes Across the Channel French Revolutions Party History and British Writing 1830–1882

Eyes Across the Channel French Revolutions Party History and British Writing 1830–1882

This book first published in 2000 uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain how events became enshrined with the authority of history and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British literature. By examining reactions to French revolution in a broad selection of texts this book explores how the Victorians responded to developments in France in historical terms repeatedly comparing new events to the touchstone of the first French Revolution yet always with the goal of finding ways to understand Britain’s own past present and future. | Eyes Across the Channel French Revolutions Party History and British Writing 1830–1882

GBP 27.99
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Brain Laterality Up Right Forward

Brain Laterality Up Right Forward

Brain Laterality answers one of the major questions we ask ourselves every day: where? The book provides a thematic comprehensive overview of the brain mechanisms that influence whether we go to the left or right on which side we stand and which hand we use. Covering a broad range of topics including handedness apraxia and motor control alongside theories of emotion creativity and genetics the book condenses a vast amount of research from multiple fields into a concise and entertaining read. Featuring anecdotes from the author's own illustrious research and clinical career this book is a must-read for psychology students neuropsychologists neurologists and anyone interested in the brain's role in handedness directional movement intention action and posturing. | Brain Laterality Up Right Forward

GBP 35.99
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Personality in the Social Process

Personality in the Social Process

First published in 1985. This book presents a new way to ask an old question. Many fields have considered the nature of the influence that members of a group exert on the course of social events. Social science provides another way to examine this issue. Moreover social science has a particular strength: It helps us to phrase questions more precisely than before it encourages us to follow a line of rea­soning systematically and it requires us to evaluate our ideas in light of a par­ticular kind of evidence. The authors want to use these strengths to explore systematically the ways that factors in the person and in the environment to­gether may shape the emergence of social behavior. | Personality in the Social Process

GBP 175.00
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Global Law

Global Law

For over half a millennium global law has been central to the practice and analysis of international relations. How has the use of global law shaped international relations of the past and present and how will it shape the future? This work assembles the key articles that have defined the scholarly field of global law to explore customs treaties and international institutions the roles they have played in international relations and the effect they have had and will continue to have in the international system. With a wide range of articles covering the classic debates of the role of global law as well as introducing case studies of the applications of global law it allows one to ask what the future of global law will be.

GBP 28.99
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Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders Attachment Trauma Theory and Practice

Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders Attachment Trauma Theory and Practice

This book provides a comprehensive overview of research into dissociation in children and adolescents and challenges conventional ideas about complex behaviours. Offering a new perspective to those who are unfamiliar with dissociation in children and challenging prevalent assumptions for those who are experienced in the field the editors encourage the professional to ask questions about the child’s internal experiences beyond a diagnosis of the external symptoms. Chapters bring together a range of international experts working in the field and interweave theories practice and challenging and complex case material as well as identifying mistakes that therapists can avoid while working with children who dissociate. Filled with practical tools and examples this book is a vital resource for professionals to enrich their practice with children who dissociate. | Treating Children with Dissociative Disorders Attachment Trauma Theory and Practice

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The Transition From Command To Market Economies In Eastcentral Europe The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Iv

The Transition From Command To Market Economies In Eastcentral Europe The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Iv

Now that the euphoria over political change has died down the formerly socialist countries of Eastern and Central Europe are facing an economic crisis. The contributors to this well-established annual publication consider the key factors affecting the economic transition process analyzing possible strategies for successful reform including the use of shock theory to accelerate the process. As well as examining various country-specific problems the authors explore the status of the Central European countries seeking integration with the European Economic Community and ask whether all the former socialist countries might do well to adopt some of the economic development strategies used so successfully by the nations of Southeast Asia. | The Transition From Command To Market Economies In Eastcentral Europe The Vienna Institute For Comparative Economic Studies Yearbook Iv

GBP 36.99
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Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space. This suggests democracy is a spatial practice rather than an abstract professional field organized by institutions politicians and movements. Public Space Unbound brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars to examine spaces conditions and circumstances in which emancipatory practices impact the everyday life of citizens. We ask: How do emancipatory practices relate with public space under ‘post-political conditions’? In a time when democracy solidarity and utopias are in crisis we argue that productive emancipatory claims already exist in the lived space of everyday life rather than in the expectation of urban revolution and future progress. | Public Space Unbound Urban Emancipation and the Post-Political Condition

GBP 38.99
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Don't be Fooled A Philosophy of Common Sense

Don't be Fooled A Philosophy of Common Sense

In the debate leading up to the EU referendum in the United Kingdom the British politician Michael Gove declared that people in this country have had enough of experts. In the 2016 Presidential campaign in the United States Donald Trump waged a war against the very idea of expertise. Yet if you are worried about your child's behaviour don't know which laptop to buy or just want to get fit the answer is easy: ask an expert. Where do we draw the line? Why do we appear to know more and more collectively yet less and less individually? Has expertise painted itself into a corner? Can we defend both science and common sense? In this engaging and much-needed book Jan Bransen explores these important questions and more. He argues that the rise of behavioural sciences has caused a sea change in the relationship between science and common sense. He shows how - as recently as the 1960s - common sense and science were allies in the battle against ignorance but that since then populism and chauvinism have claimed common sense as their own. Bransen argues that common sense is a collection of interrelated skills that draw on both an automatic pilot and an investigative attitude where we ask ourselves the right questions. It is the very attitude of open-minded inquiry and questioning that Bransen believes we are at risk of losing in the face of an army of experts. Drawing on fascinating examples such as language and communication money the imaginary world of Endoxa domestic violence and quality of life Don't be Fooled: A Philosophy of Common Sense is a brilliant and wry defence of a skill that is a vital part of being human. | Don't be Fooled A Philosophy of Common Sense

GBP 21.99
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Programming for Hybrid Multi/Manycore MPP Systems

Programming for Hybrid Multi/Manycore MPP Systems

Ask not what your compiler can do for you ask what you can do for your compiler. John Levesque Director of Cray’s Supercomputing Centers of ExcellenceThe next decade of computationally intense computing lies with more powerful multi/manycore nodes where processors share a large memory space. These nodes will be the building block for systems that range from a single node workstation up to systems approaching the exaflop regime. The node itself will consist of 10’s to 100’s of MIMD (multiple instruction multiple data) processing units with SIMD (single instruction multiple data) parallel instructions. Since a standard affordable memory architecture will not be able to supply the bandwidth required by these cores new memory organizations will be introduced. These new node architectures will represent a significant challenge to application developers. Programming for Hybrid Multi/Manycore MPP Systems attempts to briefly describe the current state-of-the-art in programming these systems and proposes an approach for developing a performance-portable application that can effectively utilize all of these systems from a single application. The book starts with a strategy for optimizing an application for multi/manycore architectures. It then looks at the three typical architectures covering their advantages and disadvantages. The next section of the book explores the other important component of the target—the compiler. The compiler will ultimately convert the input language to executable code on the target and the book explores how to make the compiler do what we want. The book then talks about gathering runtime statistics from running the application on the important problem sets previously discussed. How best to utilize available memory bandwidth and virtualization is covered next along with hybridization of a program. The last part of the book includes several major applications and examines future hardware advancements and how the application developer may prepare for those advancements.

GBP 44.99
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The Empty Chair Tales from Gestalt Therapy

The Empty Chair Tales from Gestalt Therapy

Through eight compelling stories we get to know the Gestalt therapist Vikram Kolmannskog and some of his clients. These include the businessman Carl who is suffering from chronic burnout the overwhelmed Marianne who believes she may have been the victim of sexual assualt the trans woman Annette who breaks with dominant gender norms the prisoner Jonny who is now encircled by his own self-made wall of isolation and the beautiful Ask who falls in love and others fall in love with - including the therapist Vikram. Through these tales of psychotherapy we see how both suffering and healing can occur. With increased awareness and through dialogue we can experience more of ourselves the other and our world. We become more whole - and that is a good definition of health. | The Empty Chair Tales from Gestalt Therapy

GBP 35.99
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Tender Violence in US Schools Benevolent Whiteness and the Dangers of Heroic White Womanhood

Tender Violence in US Schools Benevolent Whiteness and the Dangers of Heroic White Womanhood

Within educational research the over-disciplining of Black and Indigenous students is most often presented as a problem located within pathologized or misunderstood communities. That is theories and proposed solutions tend toward those that ask how we can make students of color from particular backgrounds more suited to US educational standards rather than questioning the racist roots of those standards. Tender Violence in US Schools takes as a provocation this discipline gap in exploring a thus far unconsidered stance and asking how white women (the majority of US teachers) have historically understood their roles in the disciplining of Black and Indigenous students and how and why their role has been constructed over time and space in service to institutions of the white settler colonial state. | Tender Violence in US Schools Benevolent Whiteness and the Dangers of Heroic White Womanhood

GBP 36.99
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Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order

Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order

First published in 1998 this volume emerged in the light of the resurgence of militant nationalism and racism since liberalism’s alleged triumph in 1989. We have to ask whether liberalism represents a bulwark against these deformations or whether it is in fact their harbinger. Central themes explored in this interdisciplinary collection are: ¢ the position of the Romani especially in central and eastern Europe ¢ the nature and scope of multiculturalism and its relation to conceptions of recognition ¢ the relations of liberalism to nationalism and racism ¢ the philosophical relation of ’the individual’ to national and other identities ¢ the debate between liberal and communitarian conceptions of personhood The book will thus be of particular interest to social and political scientists philosophers and educationalists as well as to anyone more generally concerned with contemporary issues of nationalism and racism. | Nationalism and Racism in the Liberal Order

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