Judy Backhouse ⁽⁸⁾

Meditation is widely recognised as a tool for calming the mind and reducing stress, improving performance, personal growth, spiritual insight and even for healing the body. But the wide range of different meditation practices can be confusing and it can be difficult to know where…

Institutional theory tries to describe how institutions emerge, are sustained and change over time. Institutions in this context are distinguished from organisations. This may be best illustrated by an example: higher education in an institution, but a particular university is an organisation. The institutions is…

According to language researcher David Graddol “Monolingual speakers of any variety of English — American or British — will experience increasing difficulty in employment and political life, and are likely to become bewildered by many aspects of society and culture around them.” I know that…

I have been teaching myself to paint and draw and one of the most useful learning tools I have is the book Collins complete artist's manual (published 2011, by HarperCollins). Collins complete artist's manual is a hardcover, 400 page book that guides you through the…