This book looks at changing managerial styles in business and the predominance of risk aversion behavior over risk taking behavior. The author explores the various reasons (regulation and media scruti
Oxford Reading Tree: Biff, Chip And Kipper Stories : Level 2 (Age 4½ - 5)The Level 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story conte
Oxford Reading Tree: Biff, Chip & Kipper Stories: Decode And Develop: Level 9 (Age 7½ - 8)When a fireball falls from the sky in Fireball in the Sky the children go to have a closer look. What has cras
Biff, Chip and Kipper make tin can feet in Tin Can Tracks. The non-fiction book that accompanies this title is Animal Tracks. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics.Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 1, which are wordless and provide engaging stories and non-fiction through illustration and photographs.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.
Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order?In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick and marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain
Oxford Reading Tree: Biff Chip And Kipper Wordless Stories: Level 1 (Age 3½ - 4½)The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide both wordl
