In Regency England a profligate son was regarded as every parent's worst nightmare: he symbolized the dangerous temptations of a new consumer society and the failure of parents to instil moral, sexual, and financial self-control in their sons. This book tells the dramatic and moving story of one of those 'profligate sons': William Jackson, a charming teenage boy, whose embattled relationship with his father and frustrated attempts to keep up with his wealthy friends, resulted in personal and family tragedy.

The Profligate Son: Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain

Phillips, Nicola

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press, USA

With the rise in international business comes the need for better management of international teams.  This book remains the definitive handbook for understanding international management styles and getting the most from complex and dispersed teams. Practical and insightful, Managing International Teams will help managers to ;understand international business and organisational culture manage global teamwork improve their communication skills and ability to deal with conflict manage and respond to patterns of influence and power motivate and lead towards goals and values select and create effective teams build focus and deliver results"International teamwork represents the challenge of the future.  Nicola Phillips' book will promote new thinking and understanding for that future."                                        John G. Holloway, Vice President, Exxon  Chemical Europe

Managing International Teams (Financial Times - Pitman)

Business & Money

Trans-Atlantic Pubns

This practical guide shows how counselling can be an active management tool. It advises on how to use counselling to manage change and maintain motivation, so that one can maximize potential and performance of the team. It contains worked examples of real counselling sessions and sample surveys.

Motivating for Change: How to Manage Employee Stress

Arts & Photography

Music

Ft Pr

Globalizing International Political Economy

Despite its claims to global scope and relevance, International Political Economy as a field of study remains entrenched in a narrow set of theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations derived from the experiences of the advanced industrialized democracies. Bringing together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities in each key area of debate, Globalizing International Political Economy provides a systematic examination and critique of contemporary IPE, and puts forward a new agenda for a truly 'global' political economy.

Economics

Red Globe Press

Despite its claims to global scope and relevance, International Political Economy as a field of study remains entrenched in a narrow set of theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations derived from the experiences of the advanced industrialized democracies. Bringing together specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities in each key area of debate, Globalizing International Political Economy provides a systematic examination and critique of contemporary IPE, and puts forward a new agenda for a truly 'global' political economy.

Developing an original blend of perspectives from the fields of international and comparative political economy, this book presents an innovative and in-depth account of the contemporary political economy of the southern cone of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It identifies a new and distinctive model of regional capitalist development emerging in the southern cone and a complex relationship with both the global political economy and the five distinctive national political economies in the region. Ranging across the contours of labour, business, states and regionalist processes, Phillips assesses the significance of the Southern Cone Model for the ways in which we understand contemporary capitalist development at both national and transnational levels.

The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

Routledge

Developing an original blend of perspectives from the fields of international and comparative political economy, this book presents an innovative and in-depth account of the contemporary political economy of the southern cone of Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.It identifies a new and distinctive model of regional capitalist development emerging in the southern cone and a complex relationship with both the global political economy and the five distinctive national political economies in the region. Ranging across the contours of labour, business, states and regionalist processes, Phillips assesses the significance of the Southern Cone Model for the ways in which we understand contemporary capitalist development at both national and transnational levels.

The Southern Cone Model (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

A profligate son was every Georgian parent's worst nightmare. To his father, William Jackson's imprudent spending, incessant partying, and sexual adventures were a sure sign he was on the slippery slope to ruin. But to his friends, William was a damned good fellow,” a charming, impeccably dressed young gentleman with enviable seductive skills who was willing to defend his honor in duels. Mr. Jackson and his son viewed each other across a generational gap that neither could bridge, and their flawed relationship had catastrophic consequences for their family. In The Profligate Son, historian Nicola Phillips hauntingly reconstructs this family tragedy from a recently discovered trove of letters and court documents. After Mr. Jackson's acquisition of a fortune during his service for the East India Company in Madras was undermined by false accusations that ruined his career, he invested all his future ambitions in his only son. William grew up in great comfort and was sent to the best schools in the country. But when the family moved to London, the teenager rebelled against the loneliness and often brutal regimes of public schooling and escaped to explore the pleasures of the town with his wealthy friends. His attempts to impress his peers led him into disastrous levels of debt that resulted in his imprisonment and ever more illegal efforts to satisfy his creditors, which appalled his prudent, sternly moralistic father. Mr. Jackson decided that the only way to combat his son's wayward behavior was to completely cut him off. In doing so, he condemned William to repeated imprisonment and a perilous voyage to an Australian penal colony. In Sydney William sought to rebuild his life with a family of his own, but even there his father's legacy brought further tragedy. A masterpiece of literary nonfiction as dramatic as any Dickens novel, The Profligate Son transports readers from the steamy streets of India and the elegant squares and seedy brothels of London to the sunbaked shores of Australia, tracing the arc of a life long buried in history.

The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain

Historical

Basic Books

The Big Difference tackles one of life's toughest issues-how to make choices and discover the decisions that will have the greatest and most profound impact. Nicola Phillips guides you through the process and shows you how to make the leap from understanding to action.

The Big Difference: Life Works When You Choose It

Business Culture

Development

Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of the various ways in which this important concept has been used in social and political analysis over the past 200 years.

Payne, Anthony

Management & Leadership

Polity

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Books by Phillips, Nicola

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The Profligate Son: Or, a True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain

Managing International Teams (Financial Times - Pitman)

Motivating for Change: How to Manage Employee Stress

Globalizing International Political Economy

Globalizing International Political Economy

The Southern Cone Model: The Political Economy of Regional Capitalist Development in Latin America (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

The Southern Cone Model (RIPE Series in Global Political Economy)

The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain

The Big Difference: Life Works When You Choose It

Development