Is the internet changing the relationship between the sexes? While eighty per cent of those interviewed in polls say that affairs are wrong for example the percentage who admit to having had an affair has doubled every ten years to 2010 Looking at the latest data social scientist Catherine Hakim traces new faultlines between men & women & how they are shifting in our increasingly sexualized culture in this landmark study of modern love & marriage ...

The modern playbook to finding the perfect career path landing the right job & waking up excited for work every day from founders of online network The Musecom' In today's digital age finding job listings & endless data about those jobs is easy What's difficult is making sense of it all With The New Rules of Work Muse founders Alexandra Cavoulacos & Kathryn Minshew give us the tools we need to navigate the modern job search & align our careers with our true values & passions' Arianna Huffington Founder & CEO Thrive Global NYT Bestselling author In this definitive guide to the ever-changing modern workplace Kathryn Minshew & Alexandra Cavoulacos the co-founders of popular career website The Musecom show how to find your perfect career Through quick exercises & structured tips the authors guide you as you sort through your countless options; communicate who you are & why you are valuable; & stand out from the crowd The New Rules of Work shows how to choose a perfect career path land the best job & wake up feeling excited to go to work every day-- whether you are starting out in your career looking to move ahead navigating a mid-career shift or anywhere in between ...

After years of rapprochement the relationship between Russia & the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years Putin s motives his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West remain for many a mystery Not for Mikhail Gorbachev In this new work Russia s elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge & experience to reveal the development of Putin s regime & the intentions behind it He argues that Putin has significantly diminished the achievements of perestroika & is part of an over-centralized system that presents a precarious future for Russia Faced with this Gorbachev advocates a radical reform of politics & a new fostering of pluralism & social democracy Gorbachev s insightful analysis moves beyond internal politics to address wider problems in the region including the Ukraine conflict as well as the global challenges of poverty & climate change Above all else he insists that solutions are to be found by returning to the atmosphere of dialogue & cooperation which was so instrumental in ending the Cold War This book represents the summation of Gorbachev s thinking on the course that Russia has taken since 1991 & stands as a testament to one of the greatest & most influential statesmen of the twentieth century ...

Why isn't wood weaker that it is? Why isn't steel stronger? Why does glass sometimes shatter & sometimes bend like spring? Why do ships break in half? What is a liquid & is treacle one? All these are questions about the nature of materials All of them are vital to engineers but also fascinating as scientific problems During the 250 years up to the 1920s & 1930s they had been answered largely by seeing how materials behaved in practice But materials continued to do things that they "ought" not to have done Only in the last 40 years have these questions begun to be answered by a new approach Material scientists have started to look more deeply into the make-up of materials They have found many surprises; above all perhaps that how a material behaves depends on how perfectly
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- its atoms are arranged Using both SI & imperial units Professor Gordon's account of material science is a demonstration of the sometimes curious & entertaining ways in which scientists isolate & solve problems

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Elmore Green started life as an only child as many children do He had a room all to himself & everything in it was his But one day everything changed This brand new picture book from the hugely talented Lauren Child about the arrival of a new sibling is bound to be a hit with parents & children Told with humour & with wonderfully stylish artwork this is Lauren Child at her absolute best ...

In this major work sociologists Luc Boltanski & Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism Via an unprecedented analysis of the latest management texts that have formed the thinking of employers in their reorganization of business the authors trace the contours of a new spirit of capitalism They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure & developed a new networkbased form of organization that was founded on employee initiative & autonomy in the workplace-a "freedom" that came at the cost of material & psychological security The authors connect this new spirit with the children of the libertarian & romantic currents of the late 1960s (as epitomised by dressed-down cool capitalists such as Bill Gates & " Ben & Jerry") arguing that they practice a more successful & subtle-form of exploitation Now a classic work charting the sociological structure of neoliberalism Boltanski & Chiapello show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the left's critique of the alienation of everyday life that simultaneously undermined their "social critique" In this new edition the two author reflect on the reception of the book & the debates it has stimulated ...

Adopted internationally by business schools & MBA programmes The New Strategic Brand Management is simply the reference source for senior strategists positioning professionals & postgraduate students Over the years it has not only established a reputation as one of the leading works on brand strategy but also has become synonymous with the topic itself Using an array of international case studies Jean-Noel Kapferer covers all the leading issues faced by brand strategists today With both gravitas & intelligent insight the book reveals new thinking on topics such as putting culture & content into brands the impact of private labels & the comeback of local brands This updated fifth edition of The New Strategic Brand Management builds on its impressive reputation including new information to enable students & practitioners to stay up to date with targeting adding recent research & market knowledge to the discipline With dedicated sections for specific types of brands (luxury corporate & retail) international examples & case studies from companies such as Audi Nivea Toyota & Absolut Vodka; plus models & frameworks such as the Brand Identity Prism; it remains at the forefront of strategic brand thinking ...

From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh bold & unsettling new translation of the New Testament David Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of "etsi doctrina non daretur" "as if doctrine is not given" Reproducing the texts' often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction he has produced a pitilessly literal translation one that captures the texts' impenetrability & unfinished quality while awakening readers to an uncanniness that often lies hidden beneath doctrinal layers The early Christians' sometimes raw astonished & halting prose challenges the idea that the New Testament affirms the kind of people we are Hart reminds us that they were a company of extremists radical in their rejection of the values & priorities of society not only at its most degenerate but often at its most reasonable & decent " To live as the New Testament language requires" he writes " Christians would have to become strangers & sojourners on the earth to have here no enduring city to belong to a Kingdom truly not of this world & we surely cannot do that can we?" ...

The words phrases & stories of the New Testament permeate the English language Indeed this relatively small group of twenty-seven works written during the height of the Roman Empire not only helped create & sustain a vast world religion but also have been integral to the larger cultural dynamics of the West above & beyond particular religious expressions Looking at the New Testament through the lens of literary study Kyle Keefer offers an engrossing exploration of this revered religious text as a work of literature but also keeps in focus its theological ramifications Unique among books that examine the Bible as literature this brilliantly compact introduction offers an intriguing double-edged look at this universal text-a religiously informed literary analysis The book first explores the major sections of the New Testament-the gospels Paul's letters & Revelation-as individual literary documents Keefer shows how in such familiar stories as the parable of the Good Samaritan a literary analysis can uncover an unexpected complexity to what seems a simple straightforward tale At the conclusion of the book Keefer steps back & asks questions about the New Testament as a whole He reveals that whether read as a single document or as a collection of works the New Testament presents readers with a wide variety of forms & viewpoints & a literary exploration helps bring this richness to light A fascinating investigation of the New Testament as a classic literary work this Very Short Introduction uses a literary framework-plot character narrative arc genre-to illuminate the language structure & the crafting of this venerable text ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

As part of the Christian Bible the New Testament is at once widely influential & (especially among the young & the educated) increasingly unknown Those who want to know the basics can find in this introduction the sort of information that locates these ancient writings in their historical & literary context Those who want to learn why these compositions have had such impact can find here an appreciation for the religious experiences of the first Christians that forced them to reinterpret their Jewish & Greek heritage & reshape their symbolic world In addition to providing the broad conceptual & factual framework for the New Testament -- including the process by which distinct compositions became a sacred book -- this introduction provides as well a more detailed examination of specific compositions that have had particularly strong influence including Paul's letters to the Corinthians & Romans the four Gospels & the Book of Revelation ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...