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Business Ethics
A Critical Approach: Integrating Ethics Across the Business World
Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Côte d’Ivoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, academics and business schools were reflecting on their own...
To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
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The Invasion of Afghanistan and UK-Soviet Relations, 1979-1982
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume VIII
Series: Whitehall Histories
This volume examines British policy towards the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The documents in this volume, many released into the public realm for the first time, describe the development of British policy towards the Soviet Union during the...
Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
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Regulating Technology
International Harmonization and Local Realities
Series: Pathways to Sustainability Series
Examining the regulation of technologies, this book explores how the drive to harmonize regulatory policies across the world is at odds with the increasingly diverse local settings in which they are implemented. The authors use a 'framings' approach that starts with the concerns and experiences of...
Published April 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Mapping Applied Linguistics
A Guide for Students and Practitioners
Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. Incorporating both socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives, the book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories,...
Published February 16th 2011 by Routledge
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The Trouble with Higher Education
A Critical Examination of our Universities
The Trouble with Higher Education is a powerful and topical critique of the Higher Education system in the UK, with relevance to countries with similar systems. Based on the authors’ experiences that span over 30+ years of fieldwork, the issues discussed focus on the problems facing the...
Published October 29th 2009 by Routledge
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Cognitive Therapy with Children and Young People
Series: CBT with Children, Adolescents and Families
Post traumatic stress disorder develops after exposure to one or more terrifying events that have caused, or threatened to cause the sufferer grave physical harm. This book discusses how trauma-focused cognitive therapy can be used to help children and adolescents who suffer from post traumatic...
Published September 7th 2009 by Routledge
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The Ethical Travel Guide
Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays, 2nd Edition
Do you want a holiday that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a holiday that is enriching for you - and for the locals at your destination? If you do, and believe that your trip should give local communities a fair deal (so often denied them) as...
Published May 27th 2009 by Routledge
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The Development Process in Small Island States
Published April 14th 1993 by Routledge