The image of the shinkansen – or ‘bullet train’ – passing Mount Fuji is one of the most renowned images of modern Japan. Yet, despite its international ...
Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japane...
The blame game, with its finger-pointing and mutual buck-passing, is a familiar feature of politics and organizational life, and blame avoidance pervades govern...
The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects...
byChristopher GoGwilt,Melanie Holm
Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in literature: the way birds mimic humans, the...
by Christopher G.A. Bryant,Edmund Mokrzycki
This timely and assured book provides an essential guide to one of the biggest social, political and economic developments of our time....
byDavid Jary, Christopher G.A. Bryant
Anthony Giddens is one of the most respected and influential social theorists at work today. This wide-ranging and stimulating volume, first published in 1991, ...
byChristopher Hood,David Jones
An examination of different theoretical, methodological and practical approaches towards the management of risk. Seven dimensions of the debate are identified, ...
byChristopher Hood,Colin Scott,Clare Hall
Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunicat...
byChristopher Hood,B. Peters,Grace Lee
The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book ...
byShikhar Ghosh,Christopher Payton
In November 2013, with less than 10 months of cash on hand, Tom Leung, the founder and CEO of Yabbly, must decide where to focus his resources. His startup, a q...
byShikhar Ghosh,Christopher Payton
In July 2014, after 18 months and eight unsuccessful product launches, the CEO of Yabbly has agreed to sell his company to a larger, well-funded startup, provid...
byShikhar Ghosh,Christopher Stanton
Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competit...