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  • Why Choose the Liberal Arts?

    In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted, Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student, faculty member, and administrator, Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of ... Read more

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  • The Reconstruction of Workplace Conflict Resolution

    The Road to the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland

    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    Many attempts have been made in recent decades by liberal market economies to reconstruct public workplace conflict resolution agencies in response to major changes in patterns of workplace conflict. These have often been hampered or stymied by political schisms, stalemate or inertia. The radical reconstruction of conflict resolution in Ireland marks out a major exception to the international ... Read more

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  • Beautiful Ugliness

    Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts

    This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche’s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, ... Read more

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  • Theories of Ugliness

    An Unseemly Aesthetic History

    Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinising ideas of the ugly and unsightly from across the history of Western aesthetic and philosophical writing.Taking in ancient, medieval and early modern concepts, all the way ... Read more

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  • Realizing the Distinctive University

    Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture

    In Realizing the Distinctive University: Vision and Values, Strategy and Culture, Mark William Roche changes the terms of the debate about American higher education. A former dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Notre Dame, Roche argues for the importance of an institutional vision, not simply a brand, and while he extols the value of entrepreneurship, he defines it in ... Read more

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  • Austerity and Recovery in Ireland

    Europe's Poster Child and the Great Recession

    In international commentary and debate on the effects of the Great Recession and austerity, Ireland has been hailed as the poster child for economic recovery and regeneration out of deep economic and fiscal contraction. While the genesis of Ireland's financial, economic, and fiscal crisis has been covered in the literature, no systematic analysis has yet been devoted to the period of austerity, to ... Read more

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  • Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

    Maintaining its status as the gold standard in medicinal chemistry education, Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, 9th Edition, presents a renewed focus on the fundamental concepts that form the backbone of this critical discipline. This latest edition, helmed by new senior editors Marc Harrold and Kim Beck, continues the text's legacy of excellence while streamlining content for today's ... Read more

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  • Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century

    Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the separation of art and morality. (When the distinction between ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Conflict Management in Organizations

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    New ways of managing conflict are increasingly important features of work and employment in organizations. In the book the world's leading scholars in the field examine a range of innovative alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practices, drawing on international research and scholarship and covering both case studies of major exemplars and developments in countries in different parts of the ... Read more

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  • Professional Health Regulation in the Public Interest

    International Perspectives

    Series series Sociology of Health Professions
    There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still ... Read more

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  • Waking Up

    The Work of Charlotte Selver

    Although the practice of Sensory Awareness, the rediscovery of experiencing, is nonverbal, its essence can be distilled from the tape-recorded words of its seminal teacher, Charlotte Selver, in response to her students’ actions and questions during her classes. This book is a lovingly selected and skillfully edited compilation of excerpts of more than two decades of Charlotte Selver’s profound ... Read more

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  • Overcoming Postnatal Depression: A Five Areas Approach

    Overcoming Postnatal Depression uses the proven and trusted five areas model of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). By bringing together specialists in postnatal depression and with the use of self-help resources, this book addresses all the common challenges faced by women during times of low mood after having had a baby.CBT workbooks—easy to use, practical, photocopy them for use in your own ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD