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  • The Social Future of Academic Libraries

    New Perspectives on Communities, Networks, and Engagement

    by Tim Schlak, Sheila Corrall, Paul Bracke ...
    The current focus in higher education on student engagement, holistic education, social responsibility and community partnerships demands a significant mind-shift for academic libraries to reclaim their place at the heart of academic institutions that are reinventing themselves as social enterprises. The professional response to social trends in the academy and society includes moves such as ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Orange City

    by Doug Anderson, Tim Schlak, Greta Grond, Sarah Kaltenbach ...
    Series series Images of America
    Orange City was founded in 1869�1870 as a colony of Dutch Americans from Pella. Led by Henry Hospers, the colonists made Orange City the center of Dutch agricultural expansion in northwestern Iowa and farther west. By 1874, the town had railroad connections, was the seat of Sioux County, and had a Dutch-language weekly newspaper that was read in the Netherlands as well as around North America. ... Read more

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  • Strategy, HRM, and Performance

    A Contextual Approach

    by Elaine Farndale, Jaap Paauwe ...
    The book expounds the macro-level relationship between strategy, HRM, and performance, addressing important challenges that have constrained research and practice to date. Adopting a critical perspective, the first challenge is a narrow definition of 'performance' that has been largely driven by a managerialist, profit motive, with little regard for the human element. This book proposes adopting a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • E-Research

    Transformation in Scholarly Practice

    Edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Understanding Organizational Change

    by Jean Helms-Mills, Kelly Dye, Albert J Mills ...
    This exciting new text fills the gap in the management literature on organizational change. It presents a balanced view, which raises questions about the imperative of change, who’s interests are being served, how change programmes impact on employees and why organizations continually engage in such programmes. It gives readers a comprehensive history of:change management literaturetypes of change ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Education and Social Media

    Toward a Digital Future

    Edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, Colin Agur ...
    Series series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
    Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Facebook Democracy

    The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life

    by José Marichal ...
    In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little ... Read more

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  • Radical Solutions and Open Science

    An Open Approach to Boost Higher Education

    Edited by Daniel Burgos ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open Accreditation, Open Certification, Open Policy and, of course, Open Educational Resources. It brings all these key topics from major players in the field; experts that present the ... Read more

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  • Organizational Studies

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    An organization is any group of persons with a common objective. Simply put, two or more people may band together to form an organization because they determine that working together is a more effective means for creating value than if each of them continued to work separately. This book provides a brief introduction to the theory and study of organizations, sometimes referred to as organizational ... Read more

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  • Policy-Making as Designing

    The Added Value of Design Thinking for Public Administration and Public Policy

    Edited by Arwin van Buuren, Jenny M. Lewis, B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Perspectives in Policy and Politics
    The articles on which Chapters 4, 5 and 6 are based are available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.Design approaches to policy-making have gained increasing popularity among policy makers in recent years.First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, this book presents original critical reflections on the value of design approaches and how they relate to the classical idea of public ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • School Libraries Supporting Literacy and Wellbeing

    by Margaret K. Merga ...
    Student literacy is a perennial concern in and across nations, with measurement and accountability continually ramped up at both individual student and school levels. Debates about literacy and how it can best be improved are never far from media headlines. However, relatively little consideration is given to the role that school libraries and their staff play in building and maintaining student ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Public Service Logic

    Creating Value for Public Service Users, Citizens, and Society Through Public Service Delivery

    by Stephen Osborne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    This bookis based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his previous conceptual and empirical work in this field, together with new empirical evidence from emerging research.Public Service Logic challenges the product-dominant assumptions of the New Public Management (NPM) about the nature and management of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD