Reviews: Dimensions of Adult Learning: Adult Education and Training in a Global Era,Expanding Learning in the Workplace: Making More of Individual and Organisational Potential,Lifelong Learning in a Changing Continent – Continuing Education in the Universities of Europe,Adult Learning,Citizenship and Community Voices,Talking it Through: A Practitioners' Guide to Consulting Learners in Adult and Community Learning,Leading and Managing Continuing Professional Development: Developing People,Developing Schools,the Three Dimensions of Learning: Contemporary Learning Theory in the Tension Field between the Cognitive,the Emotional,and the Social,a Handbook of Reflective and Experiential Learning Theory and Practice,the Benefits of Learning: The Impact of Education on Health,Family Life and Social Capital

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