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British Think-Tanks And The Climate Of Opinion

Think Tanks in the US and EU The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels

Think Tanks in the US and EU The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels

Why do US and EU think tanks diverge in their roles priorities and main constituencies? Providing the first substantive analytical comparison of think tanks in Washington and Brussels this book explores the differences that exist and why they developed. Two principal variables are identified – institutional credibility and political culture – as a measure of comparison between the two think tank models. Supranational think tanks have an inherent credibility with the institutions of the EU which allows them to direct their resources and efforts to activities and outputs where they hold a comparative advantage. US think tanks lack such institutional recognition and so need to prove their credibility to their main constituencies. The result is that an adversarial and individualistic political culture has informed the norms and activities of Washington think tanks while the consensus-driven and collectivist political culture of Europe has influenced supranational think tanks. Think tanks are far from newcomers to the public policy scene but our broader understanding of their role structure and how they assess their own achievements is not yet fully developed. By providing a framework within which to analyse this this book will be of interest to academics students and policy experts working within public policy comparative politics and political science more generally. | Think Tanks in the US and EU The Role of Policy Institutes in Washington and Brussels

GBP 38.99
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How Designers Think

Great Negotiators How the Most Successful Business Negotiators Think and Behave

India's Pakistan Policy How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations

Think Like An Architect How to develop critical creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

Think Like a UX Researcher How to Observe Users Influence Design and Shape Business Strategy

Think Like a UX Researcher How to Observe Users Influence Design and Shape Business Strategy

Think Like a UX Researcher will challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. You’ll discover how to plan and conduct UX research analyze data persuade teams to take action on the results and build a career in UX. The book will help you take a more strategic view of product design so you can focus on optimizing the user’s experience. UX Researchers Designers Project Managers Scrum Masters Business Analysts and Marketing Managers will find tools inspiration and ideas to rejuvenate their thinking inspire their team and improve their craft. In this newly revised Second Edition the authors have added six new essays that look at how UX research methods have changed in the last few years why remote methods should not be the only tools you use what to do about difficult test participants how to improve your survey questions how to identify user goals when you can’t directly observe users and how understanding your own epistemological bias will help you become a more persuasive UX researcher. Key Features Provides a dive-in-anywhere book that offers practical advice and topical examples. Includes thought triggers exercises and scenarios to test your knowledge of UX research. Features workshop ideas to build a development team’s UX maturity. Discusses war stories from seasoned researchers to show you how UX research methods can be tailored to your own organization. | Think Like a UX Researcher How to Observe Users Influence Design and Shape Business Strategy

GBP 48.99
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Socratic Questioning for Therapists and Counselors Learn How to Think and Intervene Like a Cognitive Behavior Therapist

I Think and Write Therefore You Are Confused Technical Writing and The Language Interface

Run Grow Transform Integrating Business and Lean IT

Run Grow Transform Integrating Business and Lean IT

Your customers want innovation and value and they want it now. How can you apply Lean principles and practices throughout your enterprise to drive operational excellence reduce costs while improving quality enable efficient growth and accelerate idea-to-value innovation? Shingo Prize-winning author Steve Bell and other thought leaders show you how guiding you to more effectively align people and purpose promote enterprise agility and leverage transformative IT capabilities to create market-differentiating value for your customers. Combining research and insight with practical examples and in-depth case studies that can be put to immediate use Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT is a must read for leaders and senior managers from all disciplines showing you how to: Drive enterprise outcomes and strategy through adaptive Business/IT learning Maximize collaboration leverage the knowledge and skills of your teams Overcome enterprise-wise obstacles commonly encountered by Agile development teams Improve infrastructure reliability and cost learn how to get the best results from operations frameworks including ITIL COBIT and ISO 20000 Apply Lean principles to Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Management disciplines Make informed value-based choices about outsourcing Tap into big data and social media to listen to and interact with the virtual voice of your customers Streamline management collaboration and communication systems Identify and measure the right things that lead to customer value What readers are saying: This book focuses on the most critical and challenging issue for any aspect of the development or use of IT: creating a collaborative learning culture. Jeffrey K. Liker Shingo Prize-winning Author of The | Run Grow Transform Integrating Business and Lean IT

GBP 175.00
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Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive Using Theory to Strengthen Practice

Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive Using Theory to Strengthen Practice

Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive provides a unique approach to preparing prospective education leaders by combining theory research and practice. Grounded in organizational and leadership theory this book helps leaders understand their schools and districts from multiple perspectives and develop their own leadership aspirations approaches and missions. Well-known authors Brazer Bauer and Johnson present authentic practical problems illuminate them with appropriate theory and research and give readers opportunities to solve common puzzles as a means to grow wisdom about how to lead especially when confronted with complex challenges. This book is an invaluable resource for aspiring leaders one that readers will reference as they proceed through their leadership coursework and keep close at hand throughout their leadership career. Special Features: eResources—complementary resources for instructors and students including a set of authentic role-playing scenarios accessible from https://www. routledge. com/9781138039100 Vignettes—introduce the reader to real-life dilemmas that impact teaching and learning and provide a central reference point for discussions of theory research and practice. Theory and Research—frameworks and examples inform common leadership challenges helping readers expand their knowledge and experience base to explore situations similar to their own contexts. Puzzles—real-world situations test knowledge and provide opportunities to practice ideas for effective leadership. Thought Partner Discussions (TPCs) and Extended Web Activities (EWAs)—additional thought activities opportunities for reflection and suggestions for discussion provoke puzzle solving. | Leading Schools to Learn Grow and Thrive Using Theory to Strengthen Practice

GBP 42.99
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Freewriting With Purpose Simple classroom techniques to help students make connections think critically and construct meaning

The Shortcut Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us

The Shortcut Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us

An influential scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) explains its fundamental concepts and how it is changing culture and society. A particular form of AI is now embedded in our tech our infrastructure and our lives. How did it get there? Where and why should we be concerned? And what should we do now? The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us provides an accessible yet probing exposure of AI in its prevalent form today proposing a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that have happened in the recent tumultuous past and enabling us to think soberly about the road ahead. This book is divided into ten carefully crafted and easily digestible chapters. Each chapter grapples with an important question for AI. Ranging from the scientific concepts that underpin the technology to wider implications for society it develops a unified description using tools from different disciplines and avoiding unnecessary abstractions or words that end with -ism. The book uses real examples wherever possible introducing the reader to the people who have created some of these technologies and to ideas shaping modern society that originate from the technical side of AI. It contains important practical advice about how we should approach AI in the future without promoting exaggerated hypes or fears. Entertaining and disturbing but always thoughtful The Shortcut confronts the hidden logic of AI while preserving a space for human dignity. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in AI the history of technology and the history of ideas. General readers will come away much more informed about how AI really works today and what we should do next. | The Shortcut Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us

GBP 22.99
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The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action

Exercises in Architecture Learning to Think as an Architect

Exercises in Architecture Learning to Think as an Architect

This revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect is full of new content building on the success of the previous edition. All the original exercises have been revised and new ones added with the format changing to allow the inclusion of more supplementary material. The aim remains the same to help pre- or early-course architecture students begin and develop their ability to think as architects. Learning to do architecture is tricky. It involves awakening abilities that remain dormant in most people. It is like learning language for the first time; a task made more mystifying by the fact that architecture deals not in words but in places: places to stand to walk to sit to hide to sleep to cook to eat to work to play to worship… This book was written for those who want to be architects. It suggests a basis for early experiences in a school of architecture; but it could also be used in secondary schools and colleges or as self-directed preparation for students in the months before entering professional education. Exercises in Architecture builds on and supplements the methodology for architectural analysis presented in the author’s previous book Analysing Architecture: the Universal Language of Place-Making (fifth edition 2021) and demonstrated in his Twenty-Five Buildings Every Architect Should Understand (Routledge 2015). Together the three books deal with the three aspects of learning any creative discipline: 1. Analysing Architecture provides a methodology for analysis that develops an understanding of the way architecture works; 2. Twenty-Five Buildings explores and extends that methodology through analysis of examples as case studies; and 3. Exercises in Architecture offers a way of expanding understanding and developing fluency by following a range of rudimentary and more sophisticated exercises. Those who wish to become professional architects (wherever in the world they might be) must make a conscious effort to learn the universal language of architecture as place-making to explore its powers and how they might be used. The exercises in this book are designed to help. | Exercises in Architecture Learning to Think as an Architect

GBP 28.99
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Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow Support and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers

Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow Support and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers

Support celebrate and grow your best teachers so that they stay in your school and continue to have maximum impact. Burnout and teacher turnover are on the rise yet we often spend more of our energy on the underperformers. In this powerful book from bestselling authors Todd Whitaker Connie Hamilton Joseph Jones and T. J. Vari you'll learn why it’s crucial to recognize your best teachers going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation and investing in them in deeper ways. The authors show school leaders how to identify their best teachers and then reveal strategies for supporting them including recognizing the value-cost of teachers’ time; prioritizing appreciation; controlling the narrative; tailoring professional learning; helping teachers grow through peer observations as well as beyond the school; applying data informed feedback; and nurturing self- and collective-efficacy. Each chapter begins with a powerful story an overview of our blind spots strategies on what we should invest in and how to ensure that the whole school profits from your efforts. There’s also an Initial Deposits feature that provides a quick tangible way to get started with each idea. With the helpful models tips and tricks in this book you won’t just be inspired to make a change but will be well equipped to take action. As your best teachers get better-and-better your students and the entire school culture will benefit! | Invest in Your Best 9 Strategies to Grow Support and Celebrate Your Most Valuable Teachers

GBP 22.99
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Motivational Interviewing Fourth Edition Helping People Change and Grow

Motivational Interviewing Fourth Edition Helping People Change and Grow

Now in a fully rewritten fourth edition this is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI) the powerful approach to facilitating change. It has been updated and streamlined to be even more user-friendly as a practitioner guide and course text. MI originators William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick elucidate the four tasks of MI-engaging focusing evoking and planning-and vividly demonstrate what they look like in action. A wealth of vignettes and interview examples illustrate the dos and don'ts of successful implementation in diverse contexts. The book reviews the evidence base for the approach and covers ways to assess the quality of MI. The companion website provides reflection questions annotated case material and additional helpful resources. New to This Edition *Most of the book is entirely new. *Addresses the breadth of MI applications not only in counseling and psychotherapy but also in health care education coaching management and other contexts. *Discusses delivering MI remotely simple versus complex affirmations strategic use of directional questions ethical considerations and other new or expanded topics. *Increased emphasis on using MI throughout a client's process of change and growth not just in the preparatory stage. Pedagogical Features *New or updated online materials including reflection questions and annotated cases. *Key points at the end of each chapter. *"Personal Perspective" and "For Therapists" boxes in every chapter. *Extensive glossary. *New self-assessment tool that targets the component skills of MI. This book is in the Applications of Motivational Interviewing series edited by Stephen Rollnick William R. Miller and Theresa B. Moyers. | Motivational Interviewing Fourth Edition Helping People Change and Grow

GBP 54.99
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Sustainable Buildings in Practice What the Users Think

Sustainable Buildings in Practice What the Users Think

Current assessment methods of sustainable buildings do not adequately account for the users' needs. Given that over the life of a building total salary costs far outweigh both operating costs and combined capital and rental costs the occupants' needs are not something which should be sensibly ignored. This book presents an unbiased evaluation of thirty of the most cutting-edge sustainable buildings in the world in terms of the users' perceived comfort health and productivity. The author has visited the buildings interviewed the design teams and examined the findings of a sixty-question standardized user questionnaire. The book provides:• thirty case studies covering mixed-mode passive and environmentally sustainable commercial and institutional buildings • detailed insights into the principles underlying the design of sustainable buildings worldwide over several climatic zones and eleven countries together with clear explanations and illustrations of innovative design practice• a discussion of common issues and the lessons that may be learnt from a study of the performance of sustainable buildings in practice from the point of view of the people who use them. This important book will be of great benefit to architects and engineers facility managers of commercial and institutional buildings as well as developers and researchers academics and students in these fields. | Sustainable Buildings in Practice What the Users Think

GBP 175.00
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Boron-Based Fuel-Rich Propellant Properties Combustion and Technology Aspects

From EdTech to PedTech Changing the Way We Think about Digital Technology

From EdTech to PedTech Changing the Way We Think about Digital Technology

Aimed at teachers and leaders looking to create greater impact on teaching and learning through the use of digital technology in schools From EdTech to PedTech translates research on the effective integration of digital technology in education into relevant accessible and practical guidance for teachers and school leaders. This much-needed handbook bridges the gap between knowing ‘what works’ and knowing how to make it work for you and your learners. Bringing much-needed precision fresh insights and clarity to the thinking planning and integration of digital technology in teaching and learning this practical handbook: guides practitioners through ‘must know’ research findings and what they mean for everyday practice unpacks different ideas about pedagogy and how these inform digital technology use introduces the Funnels of Influence model to help you understand why you think and do the things that you do provides practical self-audit tools that can be used individually and across teams to clearly identify pedagogical priorities provides structured audit and review tools to ensure that strategies are based on sound research and result in practical impactful actions provides teachers with practical guidance to ensure that precision planning and a clear focus on impact lead to lasting and meaningful teaching and learning experiences for all learners This engaging research-informed guide is an essential resource for any school leader or classroom teacher looking to maximise the value and the learning impact of digital technology in their school. | From EdTech to PedTech Changing the Way We Think about Digital Technology

GBP 19.99
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How to Think Like a Behavior Analyst Understanding the Science That Can Change Your Life

The Self-Regulated Learning Guide Teaching Students to Think in the Language of Strategies

The DJ Sales and Marketing Handbook How to Achieve Success Grow Your Business and Get Paid to Party

Therapeutically Applied Role-Playing Games The Game to Grow Method