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Architecture, Crisis and Resuscitation; The Reproduction of Post-Fordism in Late-Twentieth-Century Architecture
By Tahl Kaminer (Delft School of Design, TU Delft)

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society. Consequently, it offers an understanding of contemporary conditions and phenomena, ranging from the ubiquity of landmark buildings to the celebrity status of architects. It concerns the period spanning from 1966 to the first years of the current century – a period which saw radical change in economy, politics, and culture and a period in which architecture radically transformed, substituting the alleged dreariness of modernism with spectacle.

Routledge, January 2011 / 202 pages / Pb: 9780415578240 £29.99

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Language and Cognition in Bilinguals and Multilinguals An Introduction
By Annette M.B. de Groot (University of Amsterdam)

Psycholinguistics – the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language – had a strong monolingual orientation during the first four decades following its emergence around 1950. The awareness that a large part of mankind speaks more than one language -- that this may impact both on the way each individual language is used and on the thought processes of bilinguals and multilinguals, and that, consequently, our theories on human linguistic ability and its role in non-linguistic cognition are incomplete and, perhaps, false -- has led to a steep growth of studies on bilingualism and multilingualism since around 1995.

This textbook introduces the reader to the field of study that examines language acquisition, comprehension and production from the perspective of the bilingual and multilingual speaker. It furthermore provides an introduction to studies that investigate the implications of being bilingual on various aspects of non-linguistic cognition. The major topics covered are the development of language in children growing up in a bilingual environment either from birth or relatively soon after, late foreign language learning, and word recognition, sentence comprehension, speech production, and translation processes in bilinguals. Furthermore, the ability of bilinguals and multilinguals to generally produce language in the "intended" language is discussed, as is the cognitive machinery that enables this. Finally, the consequences of bilingualism and multilingualism for non-linguistic cognition and findings and views regarding the biological basis of bilingualism and multilingualism are presented.

The textbook’s primary readership are students and researchers in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics, but teachers of language and translators and interpreters who wish to become better informed on the cognitive and biological basis of bilingualism and multilingualism will also benefit from it.

Psychology Press , November 2010 / 528 pages / Hb: 9781848729018 £35.00

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Surfing the long summer
How market leaders grow faster than their markets
by Carol Velthuis

Success in sport often lasts only one season or one competition. But sometimes, one team or individual can dominate a sport for years or decades. Famous examples are Steve Redgrave (rowing), Roger Federer (tennis), Tiger Woods (golf) and Lance Armstrong (cycling).

Something similar is true for industries. Seasons in business come and go but some companies manage to stay in the summer for a long time, dominating a market globally and getting even stronger by outgrowing that market. To identify these 'Summer Champions' Velthuis has analysed forty global industries and determined the growth rates and market shares of 500 companies over a period of six years. Fifteen companies emerge as having been global market leaders and also having outgrown the market over the entire period. Amazon, Apple, ArcelorMittal, ASML, Canon, Caterpillar, Cicsco, Disney, eBay, Google, Hewlett Packard, Hon Hai, IKEA, McDonald's and Starbucks are enjoying a 'long summer'. Summer champions defy some of the wisdom and conventional strategic theories. They focus on cost and quality with equal measure, they enter unattractive markets when they have strong passion and knowledge (and then make them attractive), and they don't look for uncontested market spaces.

Infinite Ideas, October 2010 / 192 pages / Pb: 9781906821630 £16.99

Managing Professionals
By Hans de Bruijn (Professor of Public Administration at Delft University, the Netherlands)

Managing Professionals deals with the tensions between managers and professionals within organizations, such as hospitals, universities, banks and judicial organizations. Often managers rely heavily on the skills and expertise of the professionals in their organizations, yet these professionals consider management a source of bureaucracy and paperwork.

This tension is explored head on in order to answer the question of how to manage an organization effectively. With numerous real-world examples, the book analyzes the problems and complexities of management in professional organizations and makes recommendations on how to manage professionals. The book focuses on a number of key issues, including:

•Management as a problem
•Management as a solution
•Knowledge and innovation
•Strategy
•Cooperation
•Performance

Managing Professionals presents an empirical analysis of the problems and offers solutions to the tension between management and professionals and will be of interest to managers and to students of management, organizational behaviour and business administration.

Routledge, July 2010 / 208 pages / Pb: 9780415565097 £29.99

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Clinical Endocrinology of Dogs and Cats
An Illustrated Text - 2nd edition
Ad Rijnberk Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Hans S. Kooistra Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

This highly illustrated textbook is aimed at the veterinarian in practice or training interested in all types of endocrine diseases of dogs and cats. The book is organised by body system and is case oriented.

Chapters deal with separate endocrine glands, beginning with a brief review of the morphology and physiology of the gland, complete with drawings depicting the functional principles. This is followed by descriptions of the disorders of the gland with up-to-date information on diagnosis and treatment.

Numerous clinical cases illustrate the presenting symptoms and the results following treatment. The final chapters contain diagnostic and therapeutic protocols, as well as algorithms for problems such as alopecia, polyuria, and weight loss.

Key features
•For use in clinical practice
•Fully illustrated throughout
•Principles explained by use of drawings and diagrams
•Contains detailed protocols and algorithms for diagnosis and treatment

Manson Publishing (Schluetersche), 2010 / 338 pages / Hb: 9783899930580 £109.00

 

Performance Management in the Public Sector
By Wouter van Dooren (Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium) , Geert Bouckaert (Director and Professor of Public Management at the Public Management Institute at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), and John Halligan (Research Professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Canberra, Australia)
Series: Routledge Masters in Public Management

Tackling the key topics of reform and modernization, this important new book systematically examines performance in public management systems. The authors present this seminal subject in an informative and accessible manner, tackling some of the most important themes.

Performance Management in the Public Sector takes as its point of departure a broad definition of performance to redefine major and basic mechanisms in public administration, both theoretically and in practice. The book:

•situates performance in some of the current public management debates;
•discusses the many definitions of ‘performance’ and how it has become one of the contested agendas of public management;
•examines measurement, incorporation and use of performance information; and
•explores the challenges and future directions of performance management.

A must-read for any student or practitioner of public management, this core text will prove invaluable to anyone wanting to improve their understanding of performance management in the public sector.

Routledge, June 2010 / 198 pages / Pb: 9780415371056 £25.99

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Mastering e-Business
By Paul Grefen (Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)

e-Business – business collaborations enabled through information and communication technologies – is an essential activity for any business organization and constitutes a significant and growing sector. This textbook presents an innovative teaching framework to help students gain a thorough understanding of the principles of this vital aspect of business and management.

Casting aside the over-complicated and narrow introductions of other textbooks, Grefen presents, analyzes and explains the principles of e-Business with refreshing clarity. The book covers both the business and technology aspects of this topic, using a unique framework integrating:

•Business – focuses on why a specific e-Business scenario exists and how an organization can profit from it
•Organization – analyzes how organizations and their processes are structured to achieve strategic goals
•Architecture – explains the high level design of advanced information systems to describe how e-Business functions
•Technology – examines the technological implementation of e-Business scenarios using a wide variety of ingredients from IT

Mastering e-Business offers a well-structured overview of all aspects of e-Business and is an essential read for all students and professionals interested in this central aspect of modern, global business.

Routledge, June 2010 / 208 pages / Pb: 9780415557870 £31.99

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Workplace Learning; Concepts, Measurement and Application
Edited by Marianne van Woerkom, Rob Poell (both Tilburg University)

This edited volume aims to evaluate the promises of workplace learning by addressing the following related questions: What are current developments in theory that informs workplace learning research? How can learning in the workplace be measured? What is the impact of various organizational settings (e.g., team-based work and call centres) on workplace learning? Which are the promising new avenues for research? And which research-based recommendations can be made to boost learning opportunities in various work contexts? The topic is conceptualized as an interaction between the individual and the work context, as a combination of individual and collective processes, as a link between cognition and action, and as a political process.

With a wide array of contributions from academics such as Stephen Billet, Tara Fenwick and Victoria Marsick, this volume will be an important research and reference tool with all those academics and practitioners who are interested in the field of human resource development.

Targeted at researchers, (post) graduate students, and reflective practitioners and managers interested in the area, "Workplace Learning" provides must-read material for anyone wanting to advance the theory, research, and/or practice of learning in the workplace.

Routledge, May 2010 / 260 pages / Hb: 9780415482622 £75.00

Multilevel Analysis Techniques and Applications,
Second Edition, 2nd Edition
By Joop Hox (Professor and Chair of Social Science Methodology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands)

This practical introduction helps readers apply multilevel techniques to their research. Noted as an accessible introduction, the book also includes advanced extensions, making it useful as both an introduction and as a reference to students, researchers, and methodologists. Basic models and examples are discussed in non-technical terms with an emphasis on understanding the methodological and statistical issues involved in using these models. The estimation and interpretation of multilevel models is demonstrated using realistic examples from various disciplines. For example, readers will find data sets on stress in hospitals, GPA scores, survey responses, street safety, epilepsy, divorce, and sociometric scores, to name a few. The data sets are available on the website in SPSS, HLM, MLwiN, LISREL and/or Mplus files. Readers are introduced to both the multilevel regression model and multilevel structural models.

Highlights of the second edition include:

•Two new chapters—one on multilevel models for ordinal and count data (Ch. 7) and another on multilevel survival analysis (Ch. 8).
•Thoroughly updated chapters on multilevel structural equation modeling that reflect the enormous technical progress of the last few years.
•The addition of some simpler examples to help the novice, whilst the more complex examples that combine more than one problem have been retained.
•A new section on multivariate meta-analysis (Ch. 11).
•Expanded discussions of covariance structures across time and analyzing longitudinal data where no trend is expected.
•Expanded chapter on the logistic model for dichotomous data and proportions with new estimation methods.
•An updated website at http://www.joophox.net/ with data sets for all the text examples and up-to-date screen shots and PowerPoint slides for instructors.

Ideal for introductory courses on multilevel modeling and/or ones that introduce this topic in some detail taught in a variety of disciplines including: psychology, education, sociology, the health sciences, and business. The advanced extensions also make this a favorite resource for researchers and methodologists in these disciplines. A basic understanding of ANOVA and multiple regression is assumed. The section on multilevel structural equation models assumes a basic understanding of SEM.

Routledge, April 2010 / 392 pages / Pb: 9781848728462 £20.95

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The Psychology of Advertising
By Bob M Fennis, Professor at the Dept. of Social and Organizational Psychology at Utrecht University and Wolfgang Stroebe, Professor of Social Psychology at Utrecht University.

Advertising is a ubiquitous and powerful force, seducing us into buying wanted and sometimes unwanted products and services, donating to charity (even to causes we have not heard of before), voting for political candidates (even of questionable reputation), and changing our health-related lifestyles for better or worse. The impact of advertising is often subtle and implicit, but sometimes blatant and impossible to overlook.

This book discusses key topics from the fields of social and consumer psychology. Important questions are addressed in the volume such as:

•What impact does advertising have on consumer behaviour? What causes this impact?
•What are the psychological processes responsible for the effectiveness of advertising?
•How do consumers make sense of advertising messages?
•What messages "get across" and when and why?

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the psychological findings on the impact of advertising, and to discuss this research in the context of recent developments in the fields of social and consumer psychology. It presents and discusses results of both classic and contemporary studies in an engaging style that avoids highly technical language.

The authors have included a glossary of frequently used concepts which assists student comprehension, making it a unique and invaluable volume for advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and lecturers in social psychology, marketing, and communications. It is also a useful resource for professionals working in advertising, public health, public services and political communication.

Routledge, April 2010 / 328 pages / Hb: 9780415442732 £34.95

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European Business Environment, Doing Business in Europe
By Frans Somers (Hanze University Groningen, The Netherlands)

Doing business in Europe is increasingly becoming an everyday reality for many companies, not only large corporations, but also small and medium-sized enterprises. European Business Environment offers students a practical introduction to how to create, manage and develop business opportunities in the European Union.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to doing business in the EU, this textbook focuses on the European dimensions of economics, marketing and law. With case studies presented throughout the book, the relationship between business and the political institutions, policies and regulations of the European Union are explored.

This is an essential introductory textbook for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels in a wide range of degree and professional programmes, including Economics, MBA, Law and Marketing. It is of particular relevance to students interested in the European context of these disciplines and can be used as a core textbook for courses in European Integration or Business and International Environment in Europe and other parts of the world.

Routledge (Noordhoff), March 2010 / 411 pages / Pb: 9789001768911 £39.99

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Cognition & Emotion
Reviews of Current Research and Theories
Edited by Jan De Houwer (Professor of Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium), and Dirk Hermans (Professor of Psychology at University of Leuven, Belgium)

Emotions are complex and multifaceted phenomena. Although they have been examined from a variety of perspectives, the study of the interaction between cognition and emotion has always occupied a unique position within emotion research. Many philosophers and psychologists have been fascinated by the relationship between thinking and feeling.

During the past 30 years, research on the relationship between cognition and emotion has boomed and so many studies on this topic have been published that it is difficult to keep track of the evidence. This book fulfils the need for a review of the existing evidence on particular aspects of the interplay between cognition and emotion.

The book assembles a collection of state-of-the-art reviews of the most important topics in cognition and emotion research: emotion theories, feeling and thinking, the perception of emotion, the expression of emotion, emotion regulation, emotion and memory, and emotion and attention. By bringing these reviews together, this book presents a unique overview of the knowledge that has been generated in the past decades about the many and complex ways in which cognition and emotion interact. As such, it provides a useful tool for both students and researchers alike, in the fields of social, clinical and cognitive psychology.

Psychology Press, March 2010 / 360 pages / Hb:9781841698717 £39.99

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Social Power in International Politics
By Peter van Ham (Director of Global Governance Research at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael, The Hague, and Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium)
Series: New International Relations

Social power, defined as "the ability to set standards, create norms and values that are deemed legitimate and desirable, without resorting to coercion or payment", is a central part of contemporary international politics.

This text introduces and defines the concept of social power and considers how it works in international politics. It demonstrates how social power is a complex phenomenon that manifests itself in a wide variety of ways and circumstances, particularly in culture, institutions, law, and the media. Providing a global perspective on the role of social power from the EU, the US, the Middle East, and China, this book:

•Focuses on the key aspects of social power: centrality, complexity, and comprehensiveness.
•Examines the complex relationship between soft and hard power, the role of the media, and new communications technologies.
•Explores the interplay between state and non-state actors in framing the public discourse, setting the agenda, molding identities, and ultimately determining the outcome of policy processes.
•Features a broad range of international case studies and addresses issues including: culture and pop culture, media, public diplomacy, and branding.

With particular focus on the social power of non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations, the media, and consumers, Social Power in International Politics offers a thought-provoking new perspective on how power is exercised in the complex reality of the contemporary world. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of international relations, political science, and media and communications studies.

Routledge, March 2010 / 258 pages / Pb: 9780415564229 £24.99

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The Connected Customer; The Changing Nature of Consumer and Business Markets
Edited by Stefan H.K. Wuyts, Marnik G. Dekimpe, Els Gijsbrechts, F.G.M.(Rik) Pieters (all Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

In today’s connected consumer environment, customers are better informed and harder to please, but they also leave a more visible evidence trail in the form of improved databases and customer information. Consumers are increasingly interconnected through various sorts of social networks, a trend that is facilitated by recent advances in electronic media and telecommunication (i.e., MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Cyworld). Consumers are also increasingly connected with brands and seek to play a more participative role in their relationship with companies, stimulating companies to reconsider how to connect with consumers. This book consists of a collection of chapters by thought-leaders in the field of marketing and beyond that deals with the rich facets of connectivity. This edited volume is a great source of research ideas and fresh theory building for academics and students in marketing and related fields who wish to understand this exciting field. It will be a source of inspiration for practitioners who are eager to take up the challenge and adapt their marketing strategies to the changing nature of consumer and business markets.

Routledge, January 2010 / 376 pages / Hb: 9781848728370 £50.00

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