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The Pinstriped Prison
Pan Macmillan Australia 2008; US$ 18.98Why is that so many of the smartest people in Australia get to their 30s and realise that doing everything "right" has made for an existence they never really wanted? How is that so many of our best and brightest get sucked into being corporate lawyers and management consultants and living lives of quiet desperation? The Pinstriped Prison is... more...
Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco
PM Press 2011; US$ 12.00In this empathetic tale of hope, understanding, and the importance of family, children face the difficult issue of poverty and the many hardships of being homeless through an inspiring young heroine named Ivy. Ivy is a young girl who finds herself homeless on the streets of San Francisco when she and her father, Poppy, are evicted from his artist... more...
Älter werden - aktiv bleiben
Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2010; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Deutschland befindet sich in einem tiefgreifenden demographischen Wandel. Immer weniger und älter werdende Erwerbspersonen müssen die Anforderungen der zukünftigen Arbeitswelt bewältigen. Es ist an der Zeit, einen Paradigmenwechsel zu forcieren: hin zu längeren und differenzierteren Tätigkeitsbiografien mit einem positiven Leitbild... more...
Die Einschränkung des Urheberpersönlichkeitsrechts im Arbeitsverhältnis
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 25.77Hauptbeschreibung Die weit überwiegende Zahl von urheberrechtlichen Werkschöpfungen wird heute von abhängig beschäftigten Urhebern in Arbeitsverhältnissen erbracht. Für dieses Phänomen einer eigenschöpferischen und zugleich abhängigen Tätigkeit erklärt § 43 UrhG lediglich die allgemeinen Regeln der vertraglichen Einräumung von Nutzungsrechten für... more...
Getting Ahead at Work
Saddleback Publishing 2011; US$ 24.95Topics include: Off to a Good Start, Learning the Job, Succeeding on the Job, Workplace Problems and Solutions. 32 Compact two-page lessons are each tightly focused on a particular subtopic to guarantee comprehension and build a foundation for further practice and skill development. Back-of-the-book list of key words in each. Preview & Review exercises... more...
The New Workplace
Wiley 2003; US$ 264.00"Just-in-time", "total quality management", "lean manufacturing", "call centres", "team work", "empowerment" - most people in business have heard these buzz words, often offered as a panacea to all profit ills. So why don't they always work? Can you combine them anyhow? If not, why not? The New Workplace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to the... more...
Sociology, Work and Industry
Routledge 1995; US$ 51.95Thoroughly revised and presented in a new and accessible format this third edition will prove an indispensable guide to a massive and complex field. more...
Identity in the Age of the New Economy
Edward Elgar Publishing 2004; US$ 40.00Identity in the Age of the New Economy is a multi-faceted view of contemporary employment and identity that questions a number of the myths related to the so-called new economy, knowledge society or network society. It argues that one of the most striking things about much contemporary theorizing on work and identity is the epochalist terms in which... more...
The Essentials of the New Workplace
Wiley 2005; US$ 72.00The original hardback edition of The New Workplace examined modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. It explored what these terms really mean and what effect they have in practice - especially their impact on productivity and performance and their social and psychological... more...









