Challenging readers to move beyond the formality and idealized settings of conventional methods teaching, this book offers frank, practical advice designed to empower students and researchers working in the real world.

A guide to the field of counselling psychology, exploring a range of theories and philosophical underpinnings, practice approaches and contexts, and professional issues. It reflects various issues and debates and maps onto the training standards. It is a companion for your journey through counselling psychology training and into the workplace.

Making a case for a reflexive approach to leadership that is informed by in-depth studies of managers. The book aims to facilitate reflexivity in terms of challenging one's position - understanding of leadership - and considering alternatives.

With new coverage of digital research tools and social media, as well as that of areas such as autoethnography, visual and feminist ethnography, this important introduction continues to provide readers with the perfect mix of theory and practical advice to ensure their research is carefully thought through, replicable, and ethically sound

An illustrated, full-colour edition of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale.

The author describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. This title is about his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us.

Team Development is illustrated by twelve different aspects such as archetypes, roles, success factors, collaboration and change. Every aspect has nine specific sub-aspects.A universal language has been chosen in which the sun and the moon are simultaneously exposed. The cards help you and your team to gain deeper insights on the subject of cooperation and the development actions, which have to be taken to get an optimum team performance.You can use these 108 cards during the start of a proje...

Stuff Dutch Moms Like investigates why Dutch moms are amongst the happiest in the world-and how they manage to have it all! Filled with hilarious anecdotes, tips and tricks, Stuff Dutch Moms Like takes an inside look at parenting in the Netherlands and the secrets to raising the happiest children in the world!

The Technical Condition is een toegankelijke, Engelstalige introductie in de techniekfilosofie. Het boek behandelt de belangrijkste auteurs, methoden, debatten en concepten die in het denken over techniek een rol spelen. Ieder hoofdstuk is geschreven rondom een zogenaamde 'technologische schok', een technologische ontwikkeling die een revolutionair effect heeft gehad op de samenleving. De bedoeling daarvan is de lezer te laten zien dat filosofische reflectie op techniek noodzakelijk is, ook v...

This is the first study to examine in detail ritual objects known as 'Lamak', a fascinating and unique form of ephemeral material culture which is a prominent feature of Balinese creativity.A lamak is a long narrow ritual hanging that is an essential requirement at almost all rituals in Bali. It is hung from altars and shrines at temple festivals and on festive holy days. Made usually of palm leaves, it is by nature ephemeral and it is made time and again. Even though permanent forms of the l...