Anyone who is a manager or professional leader can expect to have to lead projects that contribute to service development and service improvement. This text looks at the subject of change which is a normal part of working life in public services.

Providing information for those planning to undertake social research, this book tackles the specific concerns and issues that often arise. It offers an introduction to areas such as project management, including commissioning research, preparing a tender or grant application, risk and stakeholder analysis, managing the field work and more.

This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings.

This book is about analysing, understanding and managing the way you learn. Whatever stage or type of learning you are undertaking, it will help you assess and build on your strengths, and identify and improve your weaknesses.

This collection of essays models and refines the study of these complicated volumes. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, it offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in the history of the book.

The first fully detailed, complete account in English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws new light on Duras' relation with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis.

'Mark and its Subalterns' offers a fresh appraisal of the identity and involvement of subalterns in Mark's Gospel, arguing that the presence of subalterns in Mark provides a hermeneutical tool for re-reading the Bible in a postcolonial context.

How can marketing communication strategies meet the changing and challenging demands of modern consumers, and maintain a company's competitive edge? This book discusses this vital discipline specifically for the tourism and hospitality industry. It explains and critiques the practice and theory in relation to this industry.