The FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract: A Handbook
Explores the FAC-1 Framework Alliance Contract as a multi-party umbrella that connects the team members engaged on any project or programme of works, services or supplies.
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline
This book describes the economic and political history of the past half a century, examining the challenges confronted by successive governments and their Chancellors, the policies employed for good or ill, and the desperate search for a panacea that could arrest the nation’s relative decline and return the country to its supposed former glories.
The Service Organization: How to Deliver and Lead Successful Services, Sustainably
£17.99Every organization is a service organization but most weren’t built to deliver services successfully end-to-end. This book aims to solve this problem. With examples from large organizations and services it delivers practical tools and ideas to change how organizations pursue their purpose.
Europe’s Social Integration: Welfare Models and Economic Transformations
£17.99This book examines the four factors that challenge the fate of the European social model: globalization, monetary union, Eastern enlargement and digitalization. It then highlights where common EU policy can be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, which was too often the case in the past.
Extra-Contractual Recoveries for Construction & Engineering Work
£195.00A unique construction law text, describing all the routes to recovery of payment for work that are not to be found in the express words of the contract. It contains both legal scholarship and practical guidance, and will be a particularly valuable tool for those seeking payment in the face of oppressive contract conditions.
Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
£14.99This book maps out how to design better transport. Engineers measure success by speed and efficiency – but these are not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We choose how to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at all.
Construction Disputes: Seeking Sensible Solutions
£30.00This book reflects the author’s fifty years’ experience in international construction projects and the management and resolution of disputes. His primary goal is to help parties avoid unnecessary conflict – a theme that is clearly evident throughout this book.
How to Get Ahead in HR
The book introduces and promotes HR as a profession. It explains the options for gaining professional qualifications, and readers will acquire the tools to prepare job applications and perform effectively at interviews. They will also understand how to stay updated in order to take advantage of future job opportunities.
Digital Transformation at Scale: Why the Strategy Is Delivery
£14.99This revised, expanded second edition of Digital Transformation at Scale is a guide to building a digital institution. It explains how a growing band of reformers in businesses and governments around the world have helped their organizations pivot to this new way of working, and what lessons others can learn from their experience.
Why You Dread Work: What’s Going Wrong in Your Workplace and How to Fix It
£12.99In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, Helen Holmes tackles precisely what’s going wrong in your workplace – and how you can improve your working week.
Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters
£18.99In an attempt to understand why we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book considers two questions. — Why don’t we learn? — What would it take to enable real systemic change? It concludes by offering an accessible model for systemic change as a framework to evoke reflection and enquiry.
Why Study Languages?
£12.99Considering studying languages at university? Wondering whether a language degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study a language at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.
Economics: A Complete Guide for Business
£19.99First published as ‘Markets for Managers’, this book has proved to be a popular way for non-economists to understand and apply the key tools of economics in a business setting. Written in an engaging and informal way, whether you are a busy executive or simply an interested amateur this is your essential go-to guide.
Why Study Mathematics?
£12.99This book, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of mathematics at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. It will enthuse the reader about thes subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere? (revised edition)
£9.99Christian Wolmar argues that autonomous cars are the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Even if the many technical difficulties that stand in the way of achieving a driverless future can be surmounted, autonomous cars are not the best way to address the problems of congestion and pollution caused by our long obsession with the private car.
Why Study Geography?
£12.99This book, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of Geography at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. It will both enthuse the reader about this vital subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.