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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rise above depression and build a positive future using mindfulnessIf you suffer from depression, you know that it's not something you can simply snap yourself out of. Depression is a potentially debilitating condition that must be treated and managed with care, but not knowing where to turn for help can make an already difficult time feel even more harrowing. Thankfully, Managing Depression with Mindfulness For Dummies offers authoritative and sensitive guidance on using evidence based and NHS approved Mindfulness Based Interventions similar to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help empower you to rise above depression and discover a renewed sense of emotional wellbeing and happiness. The book offers cutting edge self-management mindfulness techniques which will help you make sense of your condition and teach you how to relate differently to negative thought patterns which so often contribute to low mood and depression.The World Health Organization predicts that more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem by the year 2030. While the statistics are staggering, they offer a small glimmer of hope: you aren't alone. As we continue to learn more about how depression works and how it can be treated, the practice of mindfulness proves to be an effective tool for alleviating stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and insomnia. With the tips and guidance offered inside, you'll learn how to apply the practice of mindfulnessto ease your symptoms of depression and get your life back.\* Heal and recover from depression mindfully\* Understand the relationship between thinking, feeling, mood, and depression\* Reduce your depression with effective mindfulness practices\* Implement positive changes and prevent relapseWhether you are struggling with low mood or simply wish to learn mindfulness as a way of enriching your life, Managing Depression with Mindfulness For Dummies serves as a beacon of light and hope on your journey to rediscovering your sense of wellbeing, joy and happiness.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The easy way to become a more mindful leaderWant to become a more mindful leader With Mindful Leadership For Dummies, you'll find accessible and authoritative guidance for cultivating focus, clarity, and creativity from within your colleagues. Packed full of useful tips, this friendly how-to guide will help you incorporate mindfulness in your leadership style to manage and reap the benefits of a more attentive working life--all while nurturing compassion in the service of others. You'll discover how mindfulness can help improve decision-making and communication skills, manage modern workday challenges, and so much more.Mindful leadership is currently a high-trending topic in the self-help/business world, making headlines in such prominent publications as Forbes, Time magazine and The Guardian, and even earning a dedicated blog on Huffington Post. And all for good reason--the benefits of practicing mindfulness in the workplace are far-reaching, and as we begin to uncover more research that supports its effectiveness, it's no wonder business leaders are jumping aboard this positive bandwagon.\* Includes tips on incorporating mindfulness into your leadership style\* Shows you how mindfulness can help develop and deepen your leadership qualities\* Explains how mindfulness enhances productivity and minimizes the effects of stress in the workplace\* Outlines how adding mindfulness to your leadership approach will enable you to make positive choices that support your well-beingIf you're a businessperson looking to add mindfulness to your leadership tool belt, Mindful Leadership For Dummies has everything you need to get started today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Build teams, make better decisions, energize groups, and think out of the boxDo you need a resource that you can pull out of your pocket to liven up meetings, trainings, professional development, and teaching The fifty easily applied techniques in this timely manual spur creativity, stimulate energy, keep groups focused, and increase participation. Whether you're teaching classes, facilitating employee training, leading organizational or community meetings, furthering staff and professional development, guiding town halls, or working with congregations, The Discussion Book is your go-to guide for improving any group process.Each of the concrete techniques and exercises is clearly described with guidance on selection and implementation, as well as advice on which pitfalls to avoid. All of the techniques:\* Offer new ways to engage people and energize groups\* Get employees, students, colleagues, constituents, and community members to participate more fully in deliberative decision-making\* Encourage creativity and openness to new perspectives\* Increase collaboration and build cohesive teams\* Keep groups focused on important topics and hard-to-address issuesDerived from the authors' decades of experience using these exercises with schools, colleges, corporations, the military, social movements, health care organizations, prisons, unions, non-profits, and elsewhere, The Discussion Book will help you guide discussions that matter.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Master the essential skill set of the truly effective leaderThe Leadership Journey charts a course through four critical areas of being a great leader. Written by Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison, this book brings world-renown people and talent development expertise to bear in a discussion about 'good' versus 'great' leadership. Successful leadership at any level is about getting results, but how do the best of the best manage to consistently deliver bigger and better things This book shares the 'secret sauce' of successful leadership, and provides an actionable framework for discovering--and developing--your own leadership skills and potential. Anyone can have the right hands-on skills, but true leadership finesse lies in the much tougher realm of developing self-awareness to lead yourself first ('Look in the Mirror'); navigating by a fixed point of personal and organizational purpose ('Embody Purpose'); journeying with others who want to follow you ('Don't Walk Alone'); and plotting a course that's beyond the line of sight of what everyone sees ('Navigate Beyond the Horizon'). By distilling the broad and complex topic of leadership into highly accessible points and discussions, The Leadership Journey is perfect traveling companion for everyone along the leadership path.Effective leaders help people do more--and become more--than even they ever thought possible. This book gives you a practical framework for becoming the kind leader your team needs to succeed.\* Master the key elements of great leadership\* Understand why hard skills aren't enough\* Learn how to motivate and lead others\* Achieve more by helping others inspire and empower themselvesGrounded in practical and proven real-world experience, this invaluable guide packs a powerful punch. When it comes to great leadership, reaching your destination requires a precise, well-planned journey that covers all critical ground. The Leadership Journey gives you a clear roadmap with expert direction and world-class advice.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your one-stop guide to understanding MicroeconomicsMicroeconomics For Dummies (with content specific to the UK reader) is designed to help you understand the economics of individuals. Using concise explanations and accessible content that tracks directly to an undergraduate course, this book provides a student-focused course supplement with an in-depth examination of each topic. This invaluable companion provides clear information and real-world examples that bring microeconomics to life and introduces you to all the key concepts. From supply and demand to market competition, you'll understand how the economy works on an individual level, and how it affects you every day. Before long, you'll be conversant in consumers, costs, and competition.Microeconomics is all about the behaviour of individual people and individual firms. It sounds pretty straightforward, but it gets complicated early on. You may not be an economist, but if you're a business student at university, the odds are you need to come to grips with microeconomics. That's where Microeconomics For Dummies comes in, walking you through the fundamental concepts and giving you the understanding you need to master the material.\* Understand supply, demand, and equilibrium\* Examine the consumer decision making process\* Delve into elasticity and costs of production\* Learn why competition is healthy and monopolies are notEven the brightest business students can find economics intimidating, but the material is essential to a solid grasp of how the business world works. The good news is that you've come to the right place.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How to Succeed in College and Beyond is an insightful, inspired guide to the undergraduate experience that helps students balance the joy of learning with the necessity of career preparation.\* Features a wealth of advice for getting the most from an undergraduate education, especially inthe areas of arts and humanities, written by an experienced educator and mentor\* Covers the entire undergraduate experience, from high school preparation, applications,financial aid, each undergraduate year from freshman to senior, junior year abroad course selection, and extra-curricular activities, to independent study, honors essays, graduate school, dissertations, and career searches\* Discusses the benefits of pursuing an arts and humanities degree including how to write effectively, speak articulately, and think critically and discusses how to balance the joy and practicality of education in terms of getting vocationally-focused qualifications.\* Packed with information that is as helpful to students as it is to their parents, teachers, and advisors, this guide is a indispensible resource for prospective and present undergraduates.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A blueprint for managing people, not generationsUnfairly Labeled challenges the very concept of 'generational differences' as an unfair generalization, and offers a roadmap to intergenerational understanding. While acknowledging that generational stereotypes exist, author Jessica Kriegel argues that they are wrong--and that it's unreasonable to assume that the millions of people born in the same 20-year time span are motivated by the same things, attracted to the same things, and should be dealt with in the same way. Kriegel's experience as Organizational Developer at Oracle puts her squarely in the talent strategy realm, where she works to optimize leadership development, team effectiveness, and organizational design. Drawing upon her experiences with workers of all ages and types, she shows how behaviors know no generational boundaries and how to work with people based on their talents, strengths, and weaknesses rather than simply slapping on a generational label and fitting them into an arbitrary slot.There are 80 million Millenials in America, yet there are myriad books on 'managing Millenials' and 'working with Millenials' and 'the problem with Millenials.' This book shows that whether you're working with Millenials, Generation X, or Baby Boomers, age is not the issue--it's the interpersonal dynamics that matter most.\* Examine the concept of 'generational issues'\* Explore the disparate reality of each 20-year generational span\* Learn to understand and work effectively with other generations\* Facilitate intergenerational understanding sessionsThe human mind craves categorization, so the tendency to lump people together is natural. It may, however, be holding your organization back. The members of each generation have only one thing in common--their age--and even that varies by two whole decades. Why assume that they should all be managed the same way Unfairly Labeled shows you a better way, and provides a roadmap to a more effective organizational strategy.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Find out what happens when companies stop competing and start collaborating.Off-Centered Leadership considers an innovative approach to business by exploring what happens when companies stop competing and start collaborating -- both externally in the marketplace and internally in building a culture of communication, trust and alignment. Brimming with lessons on entrepreneurship and culture from the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, one of the fastest growing independent brewery in the country,members of his leadership team and external mentors from the worlds of business and art, this game-changing text turns competition on its head by showcasing how competing organizations can work together--and with other local businesses--to reach a common goal. The text dives into how Dogfish Head has blazed a new trail through the development of a revolutionary business model that has called upon musicians, community organizations, and even other breweries to keep product development fresh and create engaging customer experiences.This book documents and addresses the growing pains a company experiences as it evolves from the awkward early start up years into a mid-sized sustainable company with hundreds of co-workers. Calagione is candid in sharing his personal leadership challenges and success and calls on other seasoned vets inside and outside the company who inform and influence the journey of growth and creative expression Dogfish Head is on. This book is rich with practical information entrepreneurs and business people can apply to their own professional journeys.Competition has long been the name of the game in the business world, but what if there was a different way to approach business The collaboration over competition approach to business has been proven to foster positivity, productivity, and, ultimately, success. By partnering with your competition instead of trying to outsell them, you could actually create a memorable customer experience that will have people coming back for more!Internally as well the dogfish approach has evolved and is not traditional org chart driven top down leadership. Calagione shared the challenges of evolving from a founder-driven entrepreneurial company where he was the sole creative and strategic director into a more collaborative collective where he is now one of many creative and strategic voices in the company.\* Discover the methods and approaches dogfish head has used to grow a rich diverse leadership team and evolve from a company basing decisions on the gut and whims of a founder to one with a more robust wholistic strategic approach in a way that allows them to stay creative and maintain their irreverent off-centered culture.\* Discover how ditching your competitive nature and embracing collaboration can allow you to better serve your customers\* Explore innovative solutions to the challenges that today's businesses face\* Consider how your company can grow through the collaboration over competition business model\* Leverage the experiences of other companies to truly understand how collaboration can contribute to your businesss successOff-Centered Leadership is a groundbreaking book that explores the power of collaboration within the business world.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'During a time of tremendous change and uncertainty, Healthcare Disrupted gives executives a framework and language to determine how they will evolve their products, services, and strategies to flourish in a increasingly value-based healthcare system. Using a powerful mix of real world examples and unanswered questions, Elton and O'Riordan lead you to see that 'no action' is not an option--and push you to answer the most important question: 'What is your role in this digitally driven change and how can your firm can gain competitive advantage and lead ''--David Epstein, Division Head, Novartis Pharmaceuticals'Healthcare Disrupted is an inspirational call-to-action for everyone associated with healthcare, especially the innovators who will develop the next generation of therapeutics, diagnostics, and devices.'--Bob Horvitz, Ph.D., David H. Koch Professor of Biology, MIT; Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine'In a time of dizzying change across all fronts: from biology, to delivery, to the use of big data, Health Disrupted captures the impact of these forces and thoughtfully develops new approaches to value creation in the healthcare industry. A must-read for those who strive to capitalize on change and reinvent the industry.'--Deborah Dunsire, M.D., president and CEO, FORUM PharmaceuticalsHealthcare at a Crossroad: Seismic Shifts, New Business Models for SuccessHealthcare Disrupted is an in-depth look at the disruptive forces driving change in the the healthcare industry and provides guide for defining new operating and business models in response to these profound changes.Based on original research conducted by Accenture and years of experience working with the most successful companies in the industry, healthcare experts Jeff Elton and Anne O'Riordan provide an informed, insightful view of the state of the industry, what's to come, and new emerging business models for life sciences companies play a different role from the past in to driving superior outcomes for patients and playing a bigger role in creating greater value for healthcare overall. Their book explains how critical global healthcare trends are challenging legacy strategies and business models, and examines why historical leaders in the industy must evolve, to stay relevant and compete with new entrants.Healthcare Disrupted captures this pivotal point in time to give executives and senior managers across pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device, medical diagnostics, digital technology, and health services companies an opportunity to step back and consider the changing landscape. This book gives companies options for how to adapt and stay relevant and outlines four new business models that can drive sustainable growth and performance. It demonstrates how real-world data (from Electronic Medical Records, health wearables, Internet of Things, digital media, social media, and other sources) is combining with scalable technologies and advanced analytics to fundamentally change how and where healthcare is delivered, bridging to the health of populations, and broadening the resposibility for both. It reveals how this shift in healthcare delivery will significantly improve patient outcomes and the value health systems realize.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fundamental relationships among brands, media, and people are being transformed, and just as we try to adapt, along comes a new disruption. Are you and your organization prepared to deal with today's unprecedented speed and scope of technological change Beyond Advertising provides a business transformation road map for an aspirational future, based on the insights of more than 200 of the world's most forward-thinking executives, innovators, and academics all grappling with today's unique challenges and opportunities.This book offers a concrete set of principles, including The All Touchpoint Value Creation Model, designed to lift us out of reactive thinking and encourage the co-creation of a future better for business, better for people, and better for society. Actionable steps include:\* Holistically orchestrate and allocate resources across all touchpoints\* Redefine expectations of success to align for multi-win outcomes\* Provide every stakeholder at all touchpointsa R.A.V.E.S. standard of content: relevant and respectful, actionable, valuable, exceptional experiences, and a shareworthy story\* Develop all touchpoints to maximize the M.A.D.E.s value of context: the complete person, the features of the delivery platform, the dynamic environment, and synergies with other touchpoints.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Reframe 'wealth management' to achieve sustainable success in financial servicesYou've Been Framed(TM) is a step-by-step guide for achieving ultimate profitability and sustainability for your financial advisory firm. Whether you're a savvy entrepreneur ready to dominate your competitors, or a more experienced advisor moving toward selling your practice, this guide will help you proactively reframe your business. You'll learn how to grow your pipeline of prospects, win the next generation of clients, and deepen your business so it can thrive without you--leaving you free to pursue what matters to you. Build your business on a holistic foundation of wealth management and assemble the team that will take you to the top as you develop a whole new perspective from which to offer your services. Transform your role from 'directive advisor' to 'trusted advocate.' Completely shift the paradigm, and make yourself the de facto solution to your clients' wealth management issues.Whether it's the firm with which you're affiliated or the types of products and services you offer, you've been 'framed.' As a wealth management advisor, your clients have little understanding of what you do or why you do it. Even your team may have the wrong idea. This book helps you clarify and demonstrate the value of your knowledge and skills, so you can frame your work on your own terms.\* Build and showcase your enterprise value\* Renew client relationships and attract new demographics\* Become a leader with proven team-building tools\* Shift your role from advisor to advocateIf you haven't effectively led discussions to co-create what your business stands for--and what differentiates it from competitors--you're losing talent, prospects, and business. You've Been Framed(TM) gives you the perspective you need to thrive in the new financial environment, and achieve sustainable success.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme. By 2015, this programme had fragmented: the patterns of schooling and higher education in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England resembled each other less and less. This new edition of the popular Education in Britain traces and explains this process of divergence, as well as the arguments and conflicts that have accompanied it.With a reach that extends from the primary school to the university, and from culture to politics and economics, Ken Jones explores the achievements and limits of post-war reform and the egalitarian aspirations of the 1960s and 1970s. He registers the impact of the Thatcherite revolution of the 1980s, and of the New Labour governments which were its inheritors. Turning to the twenty-first century, Jones tracks the educational consequences of devolution and austerity. The result is a book which is more attentive than any other to the ever-increasing diversity of education in Britain.This comprehensive and accessible overview will have a wide appeal. It will also be an invaluable resource on courses in educational studies, teacher education and sociology.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \* An informative guide to all key aspects of employability for graduating students, educators, managers, and qualified healthcare professionals.\* Written specifically for health professionals, focusing on their needs and the challenges they face, maximising employability potential, and managing career progression.\* Packed full of potential interview questions, reflection opportunities, and case studies throughout\* Includes chapter on Professionalism, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and Leadership.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Directors: Improve Board PerformanceThe Director's Manual: A Framework for Board Governance offers current and aspiring board members essential up-to-date governance guidance that blends rigorous research-based information with the wisdom found only through practical, direct experience. The book's flexible approach to solving governance issues reflects the authors' belief that no two boards and the cultural dynamics that drive them are the same. As such, the advice offered reflects recognizable leadership dynamics and real world, relevant organizational situations.The book's two authors, Peter C. Browning, an experienced CEO and member of numerous boards and William L. Sparks, a respected organizational researcher, combine their individual experiences and talents to create a book that is both innovative and applicable to directors in any industry sector. Specific best practice guidance is designed to help board members and their directors understand the unique strengths and challenges of their own board while at the same time provide targeted information that drives needed improvements in board performance and efficiency. Specifically, this book will help board members:\* Explore practical advice on key issues, including selection, meeting schedules, and director succession\* Consider board performance from multiple perspectives, including cultural and group dynamics\* Discover how to effectively manage classic problems that arise when making decisions as a group\* Access a comprehensive set of assessment questions to test and reinforce your knowledgeThe Director's Manual: A Framework for Board Governance offers practical advice to guide you as you lead your organization's board.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a concise visual guide to the major techniques of regional anesthesia and analgesia for small animal practitioners, with complete coverage of the relevant physics, physiology, and pharmacology.\* Provides straightforward advice and easy-to-implement strategies for general veterinary practitioners without specialist training who want to incorporate regional anesthesia into their practice\* Features an accessible design with plenty of diagrams and photos and a convenient and robust spiral-bound format that lays flat for use during procedures\* Broken into sections which explain techniques by limb or body part and by species\* Details important anatomy (nerves, bones, and vessels), as well as possible side effects and complications.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Linear Algebra: Ideas and Applications, Fourth Edition contains solutions to the odd numbered problems to further aid in reader comprehension, and an Instructor's Solutions Manual (inclusive of suggested syllabi) is available via written request to the Publisher. Both the Student and Instructor Manuals have been enhanced with further discussions of the applications sections, which is ideal for readers who wish to obtain a deeper knowledge than that provided by pure algorithmic approaches.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A solutions manual to accompany An Introduction to Discrete Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft(R) Office Excel(R).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE NO-FRILLS APPROACH TO BUILDING SUCCESSFUL ALGORITHMIC TRADING SYSTEMS.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Edited by David S. G. Thomas THE DICTIONARY OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FOURTH EDITION.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history.\* A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British art\* Combines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the field\* Touches on the whole of the history of British art, from 800-2000, with increasing attention paid to the periods after 1500\* Provides the first comprehensive introduction to British art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, one of the most lively and innovative areas of art-historical study\* Presents in depth the major preoccupations that have emerged from recent scholarship, including aesthetics, gender, British art's relationship to Modernity, nationhood and nationality, and the institutions of the British art world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Case Studies in Immunology presents major topics of immunology through a selection of clinical cases that reinforce and extend the basic science. Each case history is preceded by essential scientific facts about the immunological mechanisms of that specific disorder. The cases themselves demonstrate how immunological problems are deconstructed in the clinic and each one is followed by a concise summary of the clinical finding with questions that serve as discussion points.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The complete guide to the basics of nonprofit financial managementLet's be honest. Most books about financial management are densely written, heavy on jargon, and light on practicality. Expert financial consultant and author Tom McLaughlin takes a different approach with his fourth edition of Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers. This comprehensive guide provides effective, easy-to-use tips, tools, resources, and analyses.The light, humorous tone in Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers makes it an accessible resource for nonprofit executives, board members, students, and those new to the field. This book forgoes useless, pretentious verbiage in order to outline real-world strategies that work. This edition includes:\* New insights, updates, vignettes, case studies, and examples to deal with the implications of nonprofit financial management\* An examination of nonprofit business models in relation to growing demands from the government and other funders\* How to construct business plans for virtually any nonprofit entity\* Customizable resources--including financial worksheets, forms, and Excel templates to help nonprofit managers complete their day to day assignments\* A guided tour through common aspects of nonprofit management, such as financial analysis, accounting, and operationsPractical and informative, Streetsmart Financial Basics for Nonprofit Managers is the go-to financial management reference for nonprofit managers, boards of directors, and funders.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The third edition Counselling Skills for Dieticians has been fully revised and updated to reflect the recent developments, research and interests in the field. It explores the skills required for dietetic counselling, and includes frequent examples of dialogue from patient consultations, as well as exercises and activities so that the reader can undergo experiential learning relevant to their practice.\* Includes examples from daily practice to illustrate the difficulties encountered by dietitians and demonstrate the application of counselling skills\* Clearly explains theoretical models of accepted counselling practice underpinning the skills described\* Has been updated to include additional information on topics such as assertiveness skills and eating distress\* Addresses practical and psychological issues faced by dietitians and patients\* Includes the latest research evidence for counselling skills in dietetic practice\* Draws upon research evidence, theory and experience from the fields of psychotherapy and counselling\* Now provides access to a range of supportive online material including videos of consultations, case studies and resources for trainers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first book of its kind to provide a practical and student-friendly guide to corpus linguistics that explains the nature of electronic data and how it can be collected and analyzed.\* Designed to equip readers with the technical skills necessary to analyze and interpret language data, both written and (orthographically) transcribed\* Introduces a number of easy-to-use, yet powerful, free analysis resources consisting of standalone programs and web interfaces for use with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux\* Each section includes practical exercises, a list of sources and further reading, and illustrated step-by-step introductions to analysis tools\* Requires only a basic knowledge of computer concepts in order to develop the specific linguistic analysis skills required for understanding/analyzing corpus data.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about.\* Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects\* Challenges the consensus that border controls are necessary or desirable in contemporary society\* Demonstrates how immigration decision makers are immersed in a suffocating web of institutionalized processes that greatly hinder their objectivity and limit their access to alternative perspectives\* Theoretically informed throughout, drawing on the work of a range of social theorists, including Max Weber, Zygmunt Bauman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Simmel.