This edited volume, including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field, addresses the challenges, obstacles and opportunities for increased women's political representation in Thailand. Will Thai politics be different with an increase in the number of women politicians? What are the possibilities for Thai women to take proactive initiatives that aim to transform Thai politic…
Cost, value, price : three pillars of profit -- Hidden costs -- Tradeoffs : pain versus gain -- Do you know where your costs are? -- People, knowledge, and/or machines -- From volume to variety -- Racing down the learning curve -- Markets and demand : how to listen to your customer -- Calculated risks -- Competing by cooperating.
Offers advice about things from parent interviews, seeking promotion, to taking assembly and surviving Ofsted. This book covers the various practicalities - from choosing the right course and getting into your first-choice college, through to finding the right teaching post for you and juggling a life with your new career.
Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by ideali…
A first volume of a series detailing the life and work of the influential political advocate draws on private papers and other untapped sources to cover his birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, discussing his London education and decades as a lawyer in South Africa.
Purchased this in Ubud, Bali (Indonesia), at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2008, October. This is the First Edition in English. It was originally published in 1978, but has never been been published in English translation before that Festival. Sounds quite intriguing. And it's quite something else for me to read, but one can always benefit from trying a new thing once in a while;-)