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1. Public Management and Complexity Theory

   Richer Decision-Making in Public Services

   By Mary Lee Rhodes, Joanne Murphy, Jenny Muir, John A. Murray

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   That public services exhibit unpredictability, novelty and, on occasion, chaos, is an observation with which even a casual observer would agree. Existing theoretical frameworks in public management fail to address these features, relying more heavily on attempts to eliminate unpredictability...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
2. Life and Letters in the Ancient Greek World

   By John Muir

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   From the first ‘deadly signs’ scratched on a wooden tablet instructing the recipient to kill the one who delivered it, to the letters of St Paul to the early Church, this book examines the range of letter writing in the Ancient Greek world. Containing extensive translated examples from both life...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
3. Improving What is Learned at University

   An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education

   By John Brennan, Robert Edmunds, Muir Houston, David Jary, Yann Lebeau, Michael Osborne, John T.E. Richardson

   Series: Improving Learning

   Received the ‘highly commended’ award by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2010. What is learned in universities today? Is it what students expect to learn? Is it what universities say they learn? How far do the answers to questions such as these differ according to what,...

   Published December 2nd 2009 by Routledge
4. Attachment Theory

   Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives

   Edited by Susan Goldberg, Roy Muir, John Kerr

   At a historic conference in Toronto in October 1993, developmental researchers and clinicians came together for the first time to explore the implications of current knowledge of attachment. This volume is the outcome of their labors. It offers innovative approaches to the understanding of such...

   Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge