Professional life is filled with opportunities to learn. One such opportunity is to learn from colleagues. Believe! The Winning Mindset for Project Managers is an opportunity to learn from dedicated project managers.

People who are dedicated and believe in their profession achieve amazing results because they enjoy what they do, feel positive about all activities they do, and are confident and happy with the people around them. The book shows how this is true for project professionals. It is a collection of testimonials from project practitioners who believe in project management. These practitioners are believers who defend with passion, persistence, and patience the project management profession. Their own experiences- both good and bad- provide fodder for growth and insights to illuminate ways to view the power of belief in one's profession. The book features:

* Reasons why identifying beliefs are critical to personal and professional development

* Mindset elements that constitute beliefs

* Examples of manifesting healthy beliefs and behaviors

* Tips, techniques, tools, and lessons learned to apply every day on the job

This book is not about theory. It is about practice and is filled with real case studies, exercises, templates, and lessons learned from the trenches. It explains how belief in oneself as a project manager can accelerate personal growth and career advancement. Through harnessing the power of belief, project managers can boost their energy to accomplish more than they previously thought possible. It is also possible to be more successful in achieving project, as well as personal, goals. Belief in others can lead to greater understanding and empathy with all project stakeholders

This book is an entertaining and productive journey into project management that can lead to not only incremental improvements but also quantum shifts in lifestyle and professional achievements.

Uses real-life stories, business insights and practical exercises to harness the power of inclusive teams that balance creativity and structure using the concept of 'Club Mix'

Chess Club or Drama Club: which would you rather join? Do you focus on the detail or prefer to imagine the bigger picture?

Sally Bridgeland introduces the 'Club Mix' as a playful recipe for everyday inclusion, designed to enhance team dynamics and drive business success by blending imagination and analysis.

Ideal for leaders and managers, this book uses real-life stories, business insights, and practical exercises to help you harness the power of inclusive teams that balance creativity and structure. Written for all stages and sizes of business, it will support you in broadening your team's capabilities and fostering a resilient and creative culture.

An innovative solution to the antidemocratic overreach of the Supreme Court, drawing on lessons from constitutional democracies around the world.

For the foreseeable future, America is stuck with a Supreme Court compromised by a crisis of legitimacy. Beyond expanding presidential power, dismantling voting rights, and protecting other forms of antidemocratic government, the Court continues to usurp lawmaking power that should belong to the people and their elected representatives in a constitutional democracy.

Julie C. Suk offers a novel solution to the problems plaguing the Supreme Court: a Shadow Court. All over the world, shadow governments act as watchdogs for representative democracies, and constitutional courts prevent slides into authoritarianism. Suk shows how Congress can build on these modern models and break the Supreme Court's monopoly on constitutional interpretation by creating a Shadow Court that would decide contested constitutional questions in the abstract before the Supreme Court could rule on them in a concrete case. Ambitious but pragmatic, The Shadow Court offers a hopeful and enduring solution for rescuing democracy in the United States.

How do legal institutions shape the legitimacy of gender-affirming care for young people?

Through an analysis of 98 Australian Family Court cases over 20 years, this book provides a comprehensive scholarly investigation into this fiercely contested issue. The book reveals how courts deploy ontological, epistemological and teleological arguments to control gender affirmation practices. It demonstrates that legal regulations are not primarily concerned with individual welfare, but with controlling what gender itself can become.

Offering timely insights for scholars, policy makers and practitioners navigating the contemporary debates around transgender rights, the book exposes the gender-normative assumptions underlying legal interventions while advocating for a more expansive approach to legitimising gender-affirming care.

In a time of climate breakdown, everyday security is shaped as much by ecological degradation as by familiar forms of disorder. Drawing on two research encounters with a northern English town, set 25 years apart, this book reveals how local concerns about chronic environmental damage blur the boundaries between criminal and noncriminal harms. It proposes an ecological rethinking of security-one that recognises how worries about sustainability, place and quality of life increasingly intertwine.

Bringing environmental and green criminology into closer dialogue, the book shows how austerity and climate anxieties converge, and how communities' hopes for habitable futures demand new ways of understanding-and acting upon-everyday disorder.

This book offers a reintroduction of Hegelian philosophy to International Relations (IR) theory. Moving beyond conventional realist and constructivist interpretations, Gkoutzioulis draws on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Encyclopedia, Philosophy of Right and analysis of ancient Greek tragedy to develop fresh epistemological insights.

This innovative approach challenges unidimensional methods while illuminating contemporary issues from human rights to (international) law. By exploring how epistemological dualisms create incomplete understandings of the universal and particular public and private spheres, the book demonstrates how Hegelian dialectic can enrich critical theorising in IR. It is essential for scholars of International Relations theory, political philosophy and critical theory seeking sophisticated analytical frameworks for understanding our polarized world through immanent critique and self-reflection.

Despite sustained global attention, policy development, and research investment, the prevalence of intimate partner abuse (IPA) worldwide has not diminished. Ending Intimate Partner Abuse advances the field of IPA prevention by presenting a theoretically grounded and empirically derived model of the earliest warning signs.

Integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, this book offers an innovative framework for conceptualising the onset and hidden nature of abuse in intimate partner relationships while providing readers with clarity on the interconnected components critical to understanding and preventing abuse. Emphasising the voices of those with lived expertise, this book illuminates the masks that hide the earliest warning signs and equips practitioners with the knowledge required to minimise the impact of, and exposure to, abuse for the women they work with.

Ending Intimate Partner Abuse: Blending Psychological and Sociological Solutions is valuable to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of psychology, sociology, and criminology, particularly those working in gender-based violence.

Investigating the material imprint of water on thought itself

Water Logics examines the epistemological adjustments that take place when we make water the source and medium for thinking about the world. Eschewing metaphorical readings of rivers, seas, and oceans, it brings together leading voices from across the social sciences and the humanities to argue rather for a distinct focus on materiality, engaging posthumanism, biotheory, and other cutting-edge theoretical approaches.

From the Caribbean Sea to the Indian Ocean, this rich collection is inhabited by migrants, port cities, and coral reefs. It explores the fruitful potential of water for literary, anthropological, and ethical studies, bringing both cohesive transdisciplinarity and fresh comparative perspectives to hydro-criticism. Taken together, the wide range of critical interpretative practices constitutes a signal contribution to the blue humanities.

Across the nineteenth century, what counted as a beneficial medical intervention narrowed considerably. Diagnostic acts like listening to a patient's heartbeat or performing a physical examination became the norm for medical doctors, while physical acts of care-such as feeding a patient or listening to her stories-were gradually relegated to realms outside of effective medical treatment. Yet Victorian thinkers worried that something was lost when hospitals and
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medical practitioners forsook these kinds of pragmatic and holistic practices of care. Thus many argued that such care had a vital-even life-saving-role after the acute phase of illness had passed. Convalescent care thus supplemented scientific medicine by supplying the kind of tailored, interpersonal caregiving that scientific medicine gradually abandoned. Convalescent, or post-acute care, began when a physician stopped seeing a patient daily, and it was generally supplied by experienced women, including professional nurses, philanthropic volunteers, familial caregivers, and servants. This volume thus introduces convalescence and its caregiving practices as a way to contextualize scientific medicine and its limitations in addressing the systemic ill-health of industrialization, urbanization, and imperial expansion.
Convalescent care was not merely about physical recovery. Time and again, contemporary thinkers link the benefits of convalescence to the mental rest provided by a period of post-acute relaxation. In fact, many experts saw convalescent leisure as a key antidote to the stressors of modern life itself. Contemporary medical patients, they reasoned, needed to recover not only from their specific disease or condition but also from the systemic stressors of overwork, urban pollution, social isolation, and mental exhaustion that characterized the industrial age. Indeed, this reasoning spawned a host of philanthropic convalescent homes that extended this seeming luxurious care to work-class patients. By exploring such a nexus of issues, this volume explores precisely how common life experiences like work, stress, mental strain, leisure, and social relationships were historically stripped out of the medical purview in ways that still have repercussions for today's healthcare.

Argues that space exploration offers numerous benefits to scientific understanding including climate change and that expansion beyond Earth may have other, long-term advantages for civilisation

In an era of unprecedented climate challenges, should we still be trying to explore space or should all our scientific attention be focused here on Earth? If space is becoming a playground for billionaires, will that enflame tensions between superpowers with potentially disastrous results?

What is Space Exploration For? argues that it offers indispensable benefits to scientific understanding, not least in addressing climate change. And, while space exploration's immediate benefits are likely to be scientific and economic, the authors emphasise that expansion beyond Earth may have other, long-term advantages for civilisation in broadening our understanding of who we are.

Europa's comprehensive survey of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

General Survey

Leading authorities on the region analyze topics of regional importance.

Country Surveys

Chapters on each country, containing:

- essays on its recent history and economy, and a chronology of events

- an extensive statistical survey of economic indicators

- a comprehensive directory of the most significant political, commercial and cultural institutions

- a bibliography of books concerned with the country's history, politics and economy

- detailed coverage of the self-proclaimed secessionist territories of the region, including chronologies of events.

Who's Who in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia

- biographical information on more than 150 leading political figures in the region

Regional Information

- a directory of major international organizations and research institutes concerned with the region

- select bibliographies of books and periodicals.

Das Privatversicherungsrecht schafft den rechtlichen Rahmen, um Risiken kalkulierbar zu machen und Planungssicherheit fuer den Einzelnen durch vertragliche Gestaltung zu gewaehrleisten. In seinem grossen Lehrbuch verbindet Christian Armbruester wissenschaftliche Tiefe mit praxisnaher Klarheit und erschliesst die zentralen Strukturen, Prinzipien und aktuellen Entwicklungen dieses dynamischen Rechtsgebiets. Ob Pandemie, Cyberattacken oder die steigende Bedeutung von Nachhaltigkeitsfragen - gesellschaftliche Ereignisse praegen Gesetzgebung, Rechtsprechung und Versicherungsprodukte. Die Neuauflage greift diese Impulse ebenso auf wie die Rechtsentwicklung zu den klassischen Themen des Privatversicherungsrechts und bietet damit eine umfassende, hochaktuelle Orientierung fuer Wissenschaft und Praxis.


"[...] eine klare, gut verstaendliche und praegnante sprachliche Darstellung, der es gelingt, dass sich die Systematik des Privatversicherungsrechts gewissermassen von selbst erschliesst. [...] ein genussvolles Lernerlebnis. Wer nach Grundlagen und Vertiefung, wer nach Fundamenten, die die Praxis tragen, sucht, findet hier alles, was wichtig und notwendig ist."
Roland Rixecker NJW 10/2020, 666