Working in the Community: perspectives for change is for all those working in the community. This may be as an unpaid worker, volunteer, community activist, student or as a community work professional or any other worker who is involved with community groups as part of their job. This may include health workers, adult educators, youth workers, planners, architects, housing officers, environmental workers and a wide range of other activities. This...

This collection of papers draws together a range of research and development initiatives that emphasize the importance of partnership working and of enabling older people and their families to maintain the highest quality of life.

Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow's business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship and active leadership. Strategic - All business school teachings have some orientation toward performance and strategy and are concerned with making choices that lead to high performance. Principles of Management will frame performance using the notion of the triple bottom-line - the idea...

The editors of Writing in Knowledge Societies provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human...