Rennie: 155 books
Dignity at Work
Eliminate Bullying and Create and a Positive Working Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Bullying in the workplace is now a recognised problem, and a cause for major concern. Victims stand to lose their self-esteem, their health and even their careers. Organisations that do not endeavour to put an end to this behaviour lose productivity, profits and their good reputations.
Dignity at...
Hosting the Olympic Games
The Real Costs for Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of the Games, reviewing existing studies to evaluate the costs and benefits, and draws on case study experiences of the Summer and Winter Games from the past...
by John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Old powers are falling. New states are emerging. The gap between East and West is narrowing. What are the problems facing the emerging new world order? Can action at the community level affect global issues?
An Introduction to Political Geography, in its first edition helped shape the study of the...
Cities and Suburbs
New Metropolitan Realities in the US
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and...
by John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
An accessible and groundbreaking text that takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at the geographies we have lost.
Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval...
Free Agent
The Perspectives of A Young African American Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Free Agent is about how we all eventually end up in a time of transition and the journey we go through to find ourselves when we are in that no mans land. I use the analogy of being a free agent because being in your time of transition whether you are coming out of college to the real world, just...
by Simon Rennie
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic The New World lays claim to being the first poetic exploration of Marxist historical materialism, and his caustic...
by Rennie Ashworth
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Taryn Verons is a teen girl who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, the incurable mental disorder. This is the story of how a 17-year old girl goes from her life in a psych ward of a hospital in New York to being a public speaker on self-esteem. This story does deal with various mental disorders....
by Pam Coare, Rennie Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
This topical book examines the connections between theory and practice in citizenship learning. Focusing on the experiences and views of a range of citizens, many on the margins of society, the contributors explore the significance and impact of particular forms of educational policies and provision...
by Aneta Podkalicka, Ellie Rennie
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Using media for social innovation is a critical roadmap for understanding and researching ‘social innovation media’. These media initiatives seek to find new solutions to seemingly intractable social problems by combining creativity, media technologies and engaged collectives in their design and...
by Anne McCullagh Rennie
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Set against the steamy tropical north of Papua New Guinea and Australia's Snowy Mountains, the winter playground of the mega-rich, is the story of Kylie Harris, a woman with a thirst for adventure. When glamour and fun turn to tragedy, Kylie is forced to reassess her life, and she chooses to help...
The Connecticon
Learning for the Connected Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
This book makes the case that the changes brought about by the connectivity of the Internet have so transformed the nature of post secondary learning that we need to view it differently. Both the content and the processes of learning have been profoundly altered because of the accessibility of information...
The Unequal City
Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Cities around the world have seen: an increase in population and capital investments in land and building; a shift in central city populations as the poor are forced out; and a radical restructuring of urban space.
The Unequal City tells the story of urban change and acts as a comprehensive...
The Metabolic Clock
Speed Up Your Metabolism and Lose Weight Easily
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Strategies to create a balanced approach to losing weight, being healthy, and making it last a lifetime
For anyone wanting to live with more balance, this is an educational system that provides a framework to create a healthy lifestyle with the overarching message that simply by changing what...