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1. The Radical Pedagogies of Socrates and Freire

   Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis

   By Stephen Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Situating contemporary critical praxis at the intersection of the social, the political, and the rhetorical, this book is a provocative inquiry into the teaching philosophies of Plato’s Socrates and Paulo Freire that has profound implications for contemporary education. Brown not only sheds new...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
2. Buddhist Manuscript Cultures

   Knowledge, Ritual, and Art

   Edited by Stephen C. Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, Claudia Brown

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents...

   Published January 19th 2011 by Routledge
3. Consuming Books

   The Marketing and Consumption of Literature

   Edited by Stephen Brown

   Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

   The buying, selling, and writing of books is a colossal industry in which marketing looms large, yet there are very few books which deal with book marketing (how-to texts excepted) and fewer still on book consumption. This innovative text not only rectifies this, but also argues that far from being...

   Published October 15th 2008 by Routledge
4. Imagining Marketing

   Art, Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde

   Edited by Stephen Brown, Anthony Patterson

   Imagination is a word that is widely used by marketing practitioners but rarely examined by marketing academics. This neglect is largely due to the imagination's 'artistic' connotations, which run counter to the 'scientific' mindset that dominates marketing scholarship. Of late, however, an...

   Published March 14th 2007 by Routledge
5. Managing Change and Innovation in Public Service Organizations

   By Kerry Brown, Stephen Osborne

   Series: Routledge Masters in Public Management

   The context and environment of public services is becoming increasingly complex and the management of change and innovation is now a core task for the successful public manager. This text aims to provide its readers with the skills necessary to understand, manage and sustain...

   Published April 13th 2005 by Routledge
6. The Art of Problem Posing

   3rd Edition

   By Stephen I. Brown, Marion I. Walter

   The new edition of this classic book describes and provides a myriad of examples of the relationships between problem posing and problem solving, and explores the educational potential of integrating these two activities in classrooms at all levels. The Art of Problem Posing, Third Edition...

   Published December 6th 2004 by Routledge
7. Storytelling in Organizations

   By Laurence Prusak, Katalina Groh, Stephen Denning, John Seely Brown

   This book is the story of how four busy executives, from different backgrounds and different perspectives, were surprised to find themselves converging on the idea of narrative as an extraordinarily valuable lens for understanding and managing organizations in the twenty-first century. The idea...

   Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge
8. Communication in the Design Process

   By Stephen A. Brown

   The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for employer, consultant and contractor. Real steps forward are slow, and most damning is the continuous repetition of the same mistakes. Communication in the Design Process considers the gap that can...

   Published December 20th 2000 by Taylor & Francis
9. Open and Distance Learning

   Case Studies from Education Industry and Commerce

   By Brown, Stephen (Head of Media and IT, De Montfort University, Leicester)

   This contributed volume reviews the lessons that may be learned from trying to integrate distance learning strategies with face-to-face teaching methods. It contains practical examples from education, commerce and industry....

   Published February 28th 1999 by Routledge
10. Romancing the Market

    Edited by Stephen Brown, Bill Clarke, Anne Marie Doherty

    Series: Routledge Interpretive Marketing Research

    Romancing the Market is a radical rethinking of marketing understanding. Marketing and consumer research are dominated by the neo-classical ideals of the Enlightenment such as rigour, dispassion and the search for scientific 'truth'. In a series of provocative essays, the contributors challenge...

    Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge