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Teachers and Teaching Post-COVID: Seizing Opportunities for Change (2023)
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Marsh-Davies, K., & Burnett, C. (Eds.). (2023). Teachers and Teaching Post-COVID: Seizing Opportunities for Change. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Featuring a broad swathe of academic research and perspectives from international contributors, this book will capture and share important lessons from the pandemic experience for teaching practice and teacher learning more broadly.

Looking at cor... Read More about Teachers and Teaching Post-COVID: Seizing Opportunities for Change.

Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2022)
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Pearson, R. (in press). Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Thoresby Society

This book offers the first comprehensive account of all aspects of life in the industrial out-townships of Leeds, including their social, economic, political, religious, educational and cultural histories, during their period of transition from eight... Read More about Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002 (2022)
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Pearson, R. (2022). Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94088-1

Rapid structural change resulting from system collapse is less common in insurance than in the history of other financial institutions. One exception was the crisis at the Lloyd’s insurance market in the late twentieth century. Hitherto, explanations... Read More about Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002.

Outsider leadership: Insights and interviews from business leaders (2019)
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O'Riordan, C., Kelliher, F., Flood, P. C., & Higgs, M. (2019). Outsider leadership: Insights and interviews from business leaders. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97463-7

Encompassing interviews with managing directors and CEOs, this book explores the role of business outsiders as leaders. Viewing the term ‘outsider’ in a broad sense, the book considers leader background, perspective, gender, training and family membe... Read More about Outsider leadership: Insights and interviews from business leaders.

Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise (2016)
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Saxena, G. (2016). Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784710880

Gunjan Saxena seeks to encourage a fuller understanding of rural tourism marketing by uncovering the lived experiences and enterprise of different actor groups as they respond to the impact of tourism on their communities and cultural identities. In... Read More about Marketing rural tourism: Experience and enterprise.

Leading with emotional intelligence: Effective change implementation in today’s complex context (2016)
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Higgs, M., & Dulewicz, V. (2016). Leading with emotional intelligence: Effective change implementation in today’s complex context. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32637-5

Drawing on research into leadership and emotional intelligence, this book presents a framework that can lead to effective change implementation. Set against a backdrop of increasing complexity, volatility and uncertainty, the book responds to the nee... Read More about Leading with emotional intelligence: Effective change implementation in today’s complex context.

Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance (2015)
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Pearson, R., & Yoneyama, T. (Eds.). (2015). Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198739005.001.0001

Throughout history humans have commonly organized to prevent or mitigate risks, or to compensate for losses caused by risk events. Given the infinite variety of risks that existed, it is unsurprising that insurance—the primary modern risk mitigation... Read More about Corporate Forms and Organizational Choice in International Insurance.

Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850 (2004)
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Pearson, R. (Ed.). (2004). Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315252193

© Robin Pearson 2004. Fire had always been one of the greatest threats to an early modern British society that relied on the naked flame as the prime source of heating, lighting and cooking. Yet whilst the danger of fire had always been taken serious... Read More about Insuring the industrial revolution: Fire insurance in Great Britain, 1700–1850.