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Critically Ill Children and the Law Medical Decision-Making and the Best Interests Principle

Critically Ill Children and the Law Medical Decision-Making and the Best Interests Principle

A series of recent high-profile court cases has demonstrated the inadequacy of current laws in addressing issues relating to medical treatment decisions involving seriously ill children. The challenges of determining that life-sustaining medical treatment is not in a young child’s best interests have resulted in criticism of the best interests principle. This book explores the theoretical foundations of the best interests principle and alternatives offered in the academic literature to allow readers to understand why the principle remains contentious despite its prevalence. It provides theoretical background exploration of what occurs in practice and proposes a novel approach to address these challenges. Frameworks for decision-making identified in the academic literature are used to examine the application of the best interests principle in practice in England and Wales Australia and New Zealand through a review of the case law and qualitative research with paediatric doctors. The exploration of current practice allows readers to understand the challenges of applying the best interests principle but also the need to retain a focus on the child. Readers are introduced to a human-rights based approach which ensures that the focus remains on upholding the child’s best interests but also provides a more comprehensive explanation of the situation. Progressing the debate around end-of-life decision-making and children the book will be a valuable resource for academics researchers and policy-makers. It will also provide practical guidance to both legal and medical practitioners in managing disputes about the provision of life-sustaining treatment. | Critically Ill Children and the Law Medical Decision-Making and the Best Interests Principle

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Presidential Power Theories and Dilemmas

Understanding Digital Cameras Getting the Best Image from Capture to Output

Understanding Digital Cameras Getting the Best Image from Capture to Output

Understanding Digital Cameras will help you to:* Choose the right camera lens and output option to capture the perfect image * Develop great technique whatever your style or subject matter * Be inspired! Showcasing a wide range of images plus the work and insights of guest photographers This key resource for all photographers will help you get the very best from today's sophisticated digital cameras. Discover which type of camera lens lighting and printer is right for you with clear explanations and close-ups of camera settings and menus. A key tool to improve your photography is to see comparison images side by side. Tarrant shoots the same scene with different equipment or a different approach to show exactly what a camera and technique can or can't do. He also shows you images that haven't worked - and explains precisely why. In this book you will learn essential photographic techniques before moving on to specific genres: people nature action shots and working in the studio. Detailed captions throughout explain which camera and lens was used for each shot and highlight key factors in getting the right exposure lighting and composition. There is an essential troubleshooting guide to printing errors such as smudges lines and colour casts. Discover how to produce fine art prints and optimize images for the Web. Plus key technical information on digital and optical quality and colour management. Packed with tips clear explanations with all photography terms defined box outs with key information and showcasing a wide range of image styles and subjects this book (and a camera!) is all you need to start creating great images! Jon Tarrant has spent many years as an award-winning professional photographer and much-published photographic writer. He is former editor of the British Journal of Photography to which he still contributes and of Professional Photographer and HotShoe International magazines. | Understanding Digital Cameras Getting the Best Image from Capture to Output

GBP 130.00
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Executive Talent Developing and Keeping the Best People

Executive Talent Developing and Keeping the Best People

This brilliant up-to-date compendium argues that the most successful factor in company life is good people: individuals who are capable competent and savvy. Can corporate life attract such people? Ginzberg argues that despite demographic dislocations and the challenges to the work ethic the answer to this question is a loud yes. In Executive Talent Ginzberg and his colleagues show how to attract train and promote a superior work force and how to take advantage of the different values in today's employees. Over 25 percent of the population currently graduates from a senior college and the number going for advanced degrees is climbing. Blacks and Hispanics together will soon account for one in every four new native-born job applicants. Women are now nearly as prevalent in the work force as men. Today's employees place more emphasis on family and leisure and less on company loyalty. In the face of these critical changes companies can no longer continue with the same human resource policies. Ginzberg offers new approaches to attract and retain superior talent. In Executive Talent Ginzberg brings together top academics and high level executives to explore the new world of work. They discuss coming trends and changes that will reshape the talent pool how these shifts will impact the individual company and ways to develop and implement a human resource strategy to meet the challenging work force of the future. | Executive Talent Developing and Keeping the Best People

GBP 130.00
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China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

Russia and Latvia A Case of Sharp Power

Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

How can we change things in an age in which governments are fixated on the bottom line and conventional protest rallies have lost their punch?Coalitions can be important tools for social change and union revitalisation. What makes them successful? What causes them to fail? Community organiser Amanda Tattersall examines successful coalitions between unions and community organisations in three countries: the public education coalition in Sydney Toronto's Ontario Health Coalition fighting to save universal health care and Chicago's living wage campaign run by the Grassroots Collaborative. She explores when and how coalitions can be a powerful strategy for social change organisational development and union renewal. Power in Coalition is essential reading for unionists community activists and anyone passionate about social change. 'A fascinating insight into the potential for coalitions to restore the balance of power between governments and the communities they are supposed to serve. ' - Julian Burnside AO QC'Amanda Tattersall shows that coalitions though hard work at times are the best means we have to rebalance power beat poverty and injustice and build a future that includes all of us especially the weakest. ' - Tim Costello AO CEO World Vision Australia'If unions are to maximise their influence in the 21st century they must build alliances with other organisations around economic social and ecological concerns affecting humanity. This book shows it is possible to build the necessary coalitions to achieve this end. ' - Jack Mundey AO instigator of the 1970s Green Bans movement in Sydney | Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

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Wealth and Power Philosophical Perspectives

Nuclear Power in Asia Post Fukushima

Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

This book examines the management of ‘state fragility’ and the practices and impacts of quantification over relations of power in international politics. With the further movement towards quantification and as technical and technological changes advance this book argues that certain important quantifying practices can be understood in terms of symbolic power which is more nuanced and subtle. The aim is that such an understanding can also open space for considering other instances of power that are blurred and nuanced in current international politics. By looking at how the merging of conflict and development issues in the fragile states agenda has been fed by and has fed the authority of ever-perfectible numbers the book offers an approach to address the difficulty in dealing with profound inequality without presuming domination. Instead the example of the g7+ group of self-labelled ‘fragile states’ and its tools indicate that quantification has reached a point of no return but it has done so through indirect practices of management and with the complicity so to say of those deemed least favoured by it. This shows that there is little chance that policy-makers and academics can escape dealing with numbers and there is much to be gained by understanding how complex and knowingly imperfect statistics become authoritative and widespread. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies International Political Sociology development studies and IR in general. | Managing State Fragility Conflict Quantification and Power

GBP 130.00
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Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. NATO’s northern flank is a large maritime and littoral theatre where NATO directly borders Russia’s Northern Fleet Military Administrative Territory which is the location of some of Russia’s most potent air sea and land power capabilities. While military tensions on the northern flank had been relatively low for years the Ukraine war and increased great-power rivalry have altered that dynamic with heightened geopolitical tensions. This has increased the focus on military-strategic competition in this northernmost region of the alliance. This book presents new assessments of several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions. With an analysis of the security and political climate in the High North and of developments in Western military strategies capabilities doctrines and operational concepts the volume seeks to bring together an holistic understanding of the strategic challenges and opportunities facing the North Atlantic states and NATO in this dynamic area of responsibility for the alliance. In doing this the book provides key insights into the role of branch-specific and joint approaches to power projection and operations in the High North which also include selected country case studies. This book will be of much interest to students of NATO military studies security studies and International Relations. | Defending NATO’s Northern Flank Power Projection and Military Operations

GBP 130.00
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China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social political cultural architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames the book offers insights into power relations and connections between tourism and cityscapes in various socio-spatial settings around the world. Contributors to the volume show how urban space has become a battleground between local residents and visitors with changing perceptions of tourists as co-users of public and private urban spaces and as influencers of the local economies. This includes different roles of digital platforms as resources for access to the city and touristic opportunities as well as ways to organise and express protest or shifting representations of urban space. With contemporary cases from a wide disciplinary spectrum the contributors investigate the power of New Urban Tourism in Africa Asia the Americas Europe and Oceania. This focus allows a cross-cultural evaluation of New Urban Tourism and its dynamic and changing conception transforming and subverting cities and tourism alike. The Power of New Urban Tourism will be of great interest to academics researchers and students in the fields of cultural studies sociology the political sciences economics history human geography urban design and planning architecture ethnology and anthropology. | The Power of New Urban Tourism Spaces Representations and Contestations

GBP 130.00
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Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the application of air and space power in the past and present while exploring potential future challenges that global air forces may face. Bringing together leading and emerging academics professionals and military personnel from Australia within the field of air and space power this edited collection traces the evolution of technological innovations as well as the ethical and cultural frameworks which have informed the development of air and space power in the 20th and 21st centuries and contemplates the future. It covers topics such as the insurgents' use of drones the ethics of air strikes the privatisation of air power the historical trajectory of air power strategy and the sociological implications of an ‘air force’ identity. While many of the chapters use Australian-based case studies for their analysis they have broader applicability to a global readership and several chapters examine other nations’ experiences including those of the United States and the United Kingdom. This accessible illuminating book is an important addition to contemporary air and space power literature and will be of great interest to students and scholars of air and space power air warfare military and international history defence studies and contemporary strategic studies as well as military professionals. | Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power Past Present Future

GBP 120.00
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Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928) Silver Magic (1929) and Red Magic (1930) – offers a combination of classic fairy tales alongside lesser known global and diverse tales. Red Magic contains such classics as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” from the Arabian Nights “A Child’s Dream on a Star” by Dickens and “The Chimera” by Hawthorne. It also contains previously unpublished tales such as “Princess Silver Silk” and “The Enchanted Deer. ” It was Romer Wilson’s intention to combine the familiar with the unknown and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences. Through his Preface and commentary Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will therefore be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales folklore and children’s literature as well as global or comparative literature and social justice. | Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

GBP 120.00
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Landscape And Power In Ancient Mesoamerica

The Power of Silence Silent Communication in Daily Life

Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia

America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

Less than a year after the United States entered the Second World War Nicholas Spykman wrote a book that placed the war effort in the broader context of the 1940s global balance of power. In America's Strategy in World Politics Spykman examined world politics from a realist geopolitical perspective. The United States he explained was fighting for its very survival as an independent country because the conquests of Germany and Japan raised the specter of our geopolitical encirclement by hostile forces controlling the power centers of Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman warned that the United States could not safely retreat to a defensive position in the Western Hemisphere. Spykman looked beyond the immediate strategic requirements of the Second World War envisioning a postwar world in which the United States would help shape the global balance of power to meet its security needs. Even though Soviet Russia was our wartime ally Spykman recognized that a geopolitically unbalanced Soviet Union could threaten to upset the postwar balance of power and thereby endanger U. S. security. Spykman also foresaw the rise of China in postwar Asia and the likely need for the United States to ally itself with Japan to balance China's power. He also recognized that the Middle East would play a pivotal role in the postwar world. Spykman influenced American postwar statesmen and strategists. During the Cold War the U. S. sought to deny the Soviet Union political control of Western Europe the Middle East and East Asia. Spykman's geopolitical vision of U. S. security supported by a balanced Eurasian land mass coupled with his focus on power as the governing force in international relations makes America's Strategy in World Politics relevant to the twenty-first century. | America's Strategy in World Politics The United States and the Balance of Power

GBP 140.00
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Literature and Power A Critical Investigation of Literary Legitimacy

Affect Emotions and Power in Development Studies Theory and Practice

Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

This book engages with current debates on ‘planetary urbanization’ and the nature of urban political theory but notably considers the implications of illiberalism on space territory and power. Such a focus is timely as illiberalism (across various settings and terrains) is producing and embedded in increasingly complex hybrid multi-scalar non-linear and globally networked flows. Through ordinary explorations drawn from diverse empirical case studies (China the United States India South Korea and Singapore) and via mixed methodologies the chapters in this volume seek to advance theory that moves beyond assumptions and certainties of what illiberalism is how and where it operates what it looks like and how it is experienced and embodied in different contexts offline and online. Chapters critically reflect upon themes like authoritarianism and the spatialization of illiberal power from the grassroots up to national governments and stress the need to move beyond normative understandings and portrayals of these terms and concepts. Presciently this volume looks back on recent history pre-dating the Covid-19 pandemic and some of the shocking political transformations now underway: as such the chapters offer a valuable lens to critically consider issues like public health policies surveillance and policing borders and bordering and activism and resistance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Territory Politics Governance. | Questioning Planetary Illiberal Geographies Territory Space and Power

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