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Innovative People
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2001; US$ 109.00The mobility of qualified labour, between and among the public and private sectors, is a vital mechanism for diffusing tacit knowledge within local, national and global innovation systems. Based on new empirical evidence, this publication compares the rates and patterns of mobility of high-skilled labour in a sample of OECD countries. It also documents... more...
The Million Dollar Private Practice
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.95Broaden your professional horizons, expand the scope of your practice, and create new revenue streams You are uniquely gifted in your ability to ease suffering and enhance quality of life. You help solve profound human problems and restore hope. Now, The Million Dollar Private Practice reveals how you can leverage your distinctive talents and... more...
No More Invisible Man
Temple University Press 2012; US$ 25.95The “invisible men” of sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield’s urgent and timely No More Invisible Man are African American professionals who fall between extremely high status, high-profile black men and the urban underclass. Her compelling interview study considers middle-class, professional black men and the challenges, obstacles,... more...
True Professionalism
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableAre some technically competent professionals who work hard and long hours 'true professionals' or are they just cruisers? In this deeply illuminating call to arms, David Maister, the world's premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges individuals to examine closely the meaning of their work and reach beyond their grasp.... more...
True Professionalism
Simon & Schuster UK 2012; Not AvailableAre some technically competent professionals who work hard and long hours 'true professionals' or are they just cruisers? In this deeply illuminating call to arms, David Maister, the world's premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges individuals to examine closely the meaning of their work and reach beyond their grasp.... more...
African Brain Circulation
BRILL 2007; US$ 121.00States that an important dilemma concerns citizens who either depart from their homeland to enhance their life chances in a rich society - but possibly contribute to a brain drain for their homeland - or stay home - but possibly contribute to a brain waste since conditions at home do not allow to contribute commensurately with their capability. more...
The Unfree Professions
Oxford University Press, USA 1990; US$ 144.99How could educated professionals have supported the Nazi movement and collaborated with Hitler's inhuman policies? Jarausch examines this fascinating and largely unexplored subject, tracing the social, ideological, and political development of three representative German professions--law, teaching, and engineering--from the late Empire to the early... more...
Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 27.95In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the “quality” of its people—through education and training opportunities—that created talented labor. In her significant ethnographic study, Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China , Lisa Hoffman explains why the development of “human capital”... more...







