Books by John Stewart

Alvar Aalto remains Finland's greatest architect, retains his place among the Modern Masters of twentieth-century architecture and is now recognized internationally as one of the world's greatest architects of all time. This is the first, frank and fully-comprehensive biography of Alvar Aalto.

Explains how to 'properly communicate' with people culturally different from you. This manual is designed to empower social justice advocates, intercultural communication and race-class-gender students, multicultural competence workshop participants, and racial equity advocates by addressing one of culture's most serious 21st century challenges.

Hattie Lawton was a young Pinkerton detective who with her partner, Timothy Webster, spied for the US Secret Service during the Civil War. Working deep cover in Richmond, the two posed as husband and wife. This book tells their story.

The aim of the book is to promote better work with offenders, based on strategies which understand the links between the home backgrounds of the offenders and criminal activity. It has the endorsement of the Association of Chief Probation Officers.

This pocket guide brings together client and provider perspectives on IT and outlines a set of common measures that both sides can relate to. It seeks to emphasise the importance of meeting the needs of IT users and the role that measurement can play in achieving that goal effectively.

Consistently referenced as a reliable source on the "Nestorian" missionary movement, this historical account of that movement is a necessary volume for anyone interested in the missionary work of the Eastern Church. Stewart's engaging account has remained fresh through the years and remains a standard reference on the topic.

This text analyzes the themes and professional issues surrounding citizenship. It is designed to equip managers with the knowledge and skills required to address areas such as community involvement and local democracy and participation.

Evolution's Arrow argues that evolution is directional and progressive, and that this has major consequences for humanity. Without resort to teleology, the book demonstrates that evolution moves in the direction of producing cooperative organisations of greater scale and evolvability - evolution has organised molecular processes into cells, cells into organisms, and organisms into societies. The book founds this position on a new theory of the evolution of cooperation. It shows that self-interest at the level of the genes does not prevent cooperation from increasing as evolution unfolds. Evolution progresses by discovering ways to build cooperative organisations out of self-interested individuals. The book also shows that evolution itself has evolved. Evolution has progressively improved the ability of evolutionary mechanisms to discover effective adaptations. And it has produced new and better mechanisms. Evolution's Arrow uses this understanding of the direction of evolution to identify the next great steps in the evolution of life on earth - the steps that humanity must take if we are to continue to be successful in evolutionary terms. A key step for humanity is to increase the scale and evolvability of our societies, eventually forming a unified and cooperative society on the scale of the planet. We must also transform ourselves psychologically to become self-evolving organisms - organisms that are able to escape their biological and cultural past by adapting in whatever directions are necessary to achieve future evolutionary success.

Like estranged best friends, two democracies go from sharing their dreams to forgetting what they had in common - and wondering if they can still trust one another.

In the 1980s there was a marked increase in the number of hung local authorities or authorities in which there was no clear majority. This book describes the different patterns of hungness and the response of local authorities to the new situation.

Stewart presents a history of child guidance in Britain from its origins in the years after the First World War until the consolidation of the welfare state. This is the first study of child guidance in this period and makes a significant contribution to the historiography.

Intends to explain the complexity of this subject in terms that the lay person can understand, and help the horse owner to have confidence in discussing foot-related issues with their vet or farrier/trimmer.

A seasoned professional covers baseball skills for Little League-level and other beginning players. With tips on hitting, pitching, first and third-base play, middle infielding, outfielding, and baserunning, this book covers the diamond like no other. Instructional tips, drills, and special sections on base coaching, score-keeping, and winning strategies also makes this perfect handbook for coaches.

Local government organisation and management in Britain is in the throes of a major transformation brought about by changing economic, social and political circumstances and central government legislation.

In this important attempt to reorient the theory and practice of public management, Stewart Ranson and John Stewart argue that public organisations must be analysed in terms of the distinctive values, purposes, tasks and conditions of the public domain.