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Book SynopsisThis book provides a robust theoretical and empirical exploration of the interrelationship between economic neoliberalism and international development. Putting the experiences of developing and transitional economies centre stage, the book investigates how their economic policies compare with the nature of economic liberalism during and after the significant economic reforms which took place from the mid-1980s. Beginning with two chapters which provide an introduction to the concept of economic neoliberalism, the second section focuses on its application to practice', and the book moves on to country/regional case studies, taken from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America, China, and Eastern Europe. The book closes with some concluding remarks summarising some of the principal findings.Bringing together a wealth of expertise, this book clarifies controversial economic and political issues which have been significantly misunderstood in public discourse, and as sTrade Review"A clear and pragmatic primer on the ideological underpinning of a major – and often dominant – strand of economic thought. Both the conceptual analysis and the country-level applications will help students and policy-makers plot their way through the many challenges which lie in wait." -- Simon Maxwell CBE, Former President, Development Studies Association of the UK and Ireland"Much has been written about the experience of neoliberal economic policies in developing countries, including previous work by contributors to this volume, but this is a valuable addition. This book provides a ‘one stop shop’ overview and reflection covering the concepts, application and experiences that will be useful to researchers and students of development studies." -- Oliver Morrissey, Professor of Development Economics, University of Nottingham, UK"This book brings together an impressive group of experts to make a clear and focussed point, that the market-oriented approach to development policy is dysfunctional and ineffective. It should appeal to the informed citizen as well as serve as a basic reference work." -- John Weeks, John Weeks, formerly Professor Emeritus, SOAS University of London and Progressive Economy Forum (John Weeks passed away in late-July 2020)Table of ContentsPart 1: Introductory 1. Introduction 2. How Did Economic Neoliberalism Become Mainstream? Part 2: Neoliberalism and Economic Policy 3. Privatisation in Developing Countries 4. Neoliberalism, Macro-Economic Policy and Development5. Neoliberalism and Trade Policy 6. Neoliberalism and Manufacturing Sector Development Part 3: Country Experience 7. Economic Neoliberalism and African Development 8. Liberalised Trade Policy with State Commitment to Growth 9. Economic Neoliberalism in Latin America 10. Neoliberalism and Economic Policymaking in Contemporary China 11. The Polish Transition to Capitalism Part 4: Conclusion 12. Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisThis concise textbook provides a comprehensive, practical guide for veterinary nurses and technicians who wish to develop their knowledge, confidence and skills when nursing the cardiac patient. Presentation of dogs or cats with heart disease is common, and it is vital that nurses understand how to look after these patients appropriately and support owners through what can often be challenging times. The book: Begins with basic anatomy and physiology, foundations required to understand the disease processes explained in later chapters Covers diseases seen in small animal practice, including congenital disease, heart failure and treatment options Gives the nurse a sound understanding of electrocardiography, thoracic radiography and cardiac ultrasound: how to perform these, and what they are seeing Covers the hands-on requirements of the veterinary nurse, such as heart auscultation and feeling patient pulses Trade Review I am so excited to see a book like this be released. Charlotte Pace has brought together a fantastic pocket-sized resource for veterinary nurses and technicians interested in learning about Cardiology. Her expert insight and knowledge has ensured this book is jam packed with all the information and quick reference guides that nurses and technicians would require for the day to day nursing of cardiac patients. I really wish this was about at the start of my cardiology journey - I would have had to get two, as the one in my pouch would have been completely battered with use! -- Sara-Ann Dickson BSc, RVN, VTS (IM - Cardiology), AFHEA, Cardiology Nurse, UK I am so excited to see a book like this be released. Charlotte Pace has brought together a fantastic pocket-sized resource for veterinary nurses and technicians interested in learning about Cardiology. Her expert insight and knowledge has ensured this book is jam packed with all the information and quick reference guides that nurses and technicians would require for the day to day nursing of cardiac patients. I really wish this was about at the start of my cardiology journey - I would have had to get two, as the one in my pouch would have been completely battered with use! -- Sara-Ann Dickson BSc, RVN, VTS (IM - Cardiology), AFHEA, Cardiology Nurse, UK Table of ContentsList of figures, tables and boxes. Acknowledgements. About the author. Introduction. Structure and function of the heart. Acquired heart disease in dogs. Acquired heart disease in cats. Congenital heart disease. Electrocardiography. The nurse’s role in diagnostic tests. Drugs. Cardiac emergencies – First aid. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book critically explores how meanings of independence' are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Blessed Ngwenya questions the institutional, political economy and world systems paradigms born out of coloniality which continue to influence broadcasting and media in the global south, and instead presents a radical local understanding of freedom in the present day. The author draws on detailed empirical interviews with members of staff from across the SABC, including board members, senior management, and journalists, offering an intimate insight into how the participants themselves perceive, understand, and deal with the issues and problems they face in relation to independence. Framed by a rich analysis of the historical context, this book provides readers with the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to place the everyday experiences and needs of tTable of Contents1. Introduction: Thought, Word and Deed 2. Foundations of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) in South Africa 3. The Early Transition of the SABC From State Broadcaster to Post-Apartheid Broadcaster 4. Citizen and Consumer 5. The ANC and the Hazards of Neo-Liberal Midwifery 6. Controversies and Challenges to Contemporary Broadcasting 7. SABC ‘Independence’ Conceptions and Dilemmas of Universality

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Book SynopsisThe book sets out to inform a broad range of professionals working in medicine and healthcare about how creative thinking and design concepts can be used to innovate in providing an enhanced patient experience. It outlines these concepts as a primary means to identify, clarify and resolve some of the process improvement and enhancement challenges in healthcare delivery. It demonstrates by example how such challenges can be addressed, drawing on case examples from healthcare and other industries, and from the authors' own experiences as innovators and educators. It emphasizes the value of learning in action. For the reader who already has a leaning towards novel approaches to addressing healthcare delivery challenges, it provides guidance on harnessing team inputs and engaging with a network of contributors. It is an ideal resource for all working in medicine and healthcare, from managers, nurses, doctors, administrators, executives, and allied health professionals to medical engineeTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Opportunity and Challenge. Chapter 2: Understanding Creative Thinking, Design and Innovation. Chapter 3: Developing the Potential of Healthcare Professionals. Chapter 4: Understanding Multifaceted Problems and Challenges in Healthcare and Setting About Solving Them. Chapter 5: Understanding Creative Confidence, Design and Innovation. Chapter 6: Where do Mindset and Climate Fit? Chapter 7: Creating an Environment for Creative Thinking, Design and Innovation. Chapter 8: Putting it All together – How might you move your healthcare setting towards an innovation culture and mindset?

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Book SynopsisThis textbook examines fashion luxury brand management, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of its origins, unique components, current practices, global trade and, most importantly, the application of sustainable models to the industry. It also highlights what makes brands fail and how they can become more resilient. The key content covers the heritage of luxury brands, the importance of craftsmanship and creative direction, the role of luxury conglomerates, cultural awareness and internationalisation, risks of failure and opportunities for revitalisation as well as the application of sustainable measures for a resilient and ethical brand future. Each chapter includes a combination of industry insights, case studies or expert interviews. Coupled with theoretical frameworks and business models, these examples and case studies show how sustainable models can be applied to existing luxury brands and how practices can be embedded into the brand concept. STrade ReviewEndorsements"Professor Mitterfellner has written a fascinating and thought-provoking academic text that demystifies luxury brand management and gives students a new insight into luxury fashion. Thanks to many interviews with experts, new ground-breaking theories, and an original and lively prose style, she builds up a picture of what luxury and sustainability mean in today’s fashion world. Although designed for academic research it should also have a broader public appeal – recommended."Dr John Altman, composer/ Emmy winner/ author."Olga Mitterfellner is a great voice in today’s world of brand management and luxury fashion and keeps a finger on the pulse of the fashion industry. Luxury Brand Management and Sustainability, splendidly adds to the discourse of luxury brand concepts and theories, whilst engaging readers in untold fashion history, new concepts, and a highlight of diverse and inclusive selection of fashion professionals in case studies. Definitely a must read for any academic, student or researcher seeking new insight into a historical and prominent segment of fashion." Sharon N. Hughes, Sr. Lecturer of Fashion Marketing, University of East London and Global Fashion Business Consultant"A guide on the fundamentals of strategic brand identity systems, etiquette and expression; this illuminating text reminds us of the core principles of communication and purposeful prosperity, to evolve and encourage our own perspective. Time to hit the 'reset' button - this book (in true Mitterfellner style) is rich in both historical and contemporary context that will bring us back to basics by way of looking forward." Teresa Havvas, Founder of The Advisory &. Academic Counsel for the Creative Industries Table of Contents Chapter 1: From History to Heritage of Luxury Fashion. Chapter 2: From the Creative Director to the Fashion Show. Chapter 3: Luxury Brand Qualities, Brand Construct and Brand Touchpoints. Chapter 4: Good and bad Parenting of Luxury Fashion. Chapter 5: Internationalisation and Emerging Economies for Luxury Fashion. Chapter 6: Decline and Resuscitation of Luxury Fashion Brands. Chapter 7: Luxury Fashion and the Sustainable Approach. Chapter 8: The future of Luxury Fashion Brands

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This second edition, enhanced with more than 30 new figures, provides an up-to-date overview of physical geography suitable for all those with a personal or professional interest in environmental processes, climate change and understanding of the Earth's landforms and dynamics. The text provides explanations of processes, enabling the reader to understand the interconnected nature of the Earth's system, and has been updated to include new developments and case studies with insights from satellite observations and data analysis using artificial intelligence.The book begins by outlining the nature of the Earth system, concepts around environmental thresholds and feedbacks, planetary boundaries for human survival, and humans as a dominant driver of environmental change. The second chapter examines features associated with plate tectonics, the role of weathering and erosion in shaping landscapes, and soil functions and management. Chapter 3 deals with the climate system, describi

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Book SynopsisIndonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world. Taking into account also its endowment and potential economic resources, the Islamic banking industry in Indonesia was expected to take on an important role in facilitating more financial resources and to contribute to the internationalization of the Islamic mode of financing particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. However, the reality is far from the expectation. This book aims to clarify the causes and fundamental constraints leading to the extraordinarily low level of Indonesia's Islamic financial deepening.The authors draw on the traditions of Institutional Economics which are concerned with the rules or mechanisms of creating the ''incentive'' and ''threat'' for economic players because the rules (institutions) would matter as the determinant for economic development and economic efficiency. This book offers a fairly new analytical lens by hypothesizing that Islamic banks must earn additional profit the authorsTrade Review"This important book assesses the factors affecting the growth of Indonesia’s Islamic banking sector from 2004 to 2018. Even though there is much research published in academic journals addressing this issue, the book incorporates various aspects, such as eco- nomics, finance, society, politics, government, and Sharia (religion). In addition, it compares the development and growth of Indonesia’s Islamic banking sector with that of Malaysia, Indonesia’s closest neighbor and the most developed in the field. It also investigates Asian banks more widely to gain a broader perspective.Finally, this book is highly recommended for regulators, market players, customers, suppliers, depositors, and all stakeholders because it delivers very important assessments and results on factors affecting the slower growth of Islamic banking in Indonesia. Despite some limitations in its scope and analysis, the book is quite comprehensive in answering the two puzzles noted earlier, from both economic and noneconomic perspec- tives, and both locally and internationally. International Islamic finance stakeholders can also benefit from the book, especially from its assessment of Malaysian, Bangladeshi, and other Asian banks." The Developing Economies, Volum 59, Issue 2, June 2020Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Indonesia’s Islamic banking: Shari’ah implementation, genesis, and socio-political context 3 Recent development of Indonesia’s Islamic banking: The economic realities 4 Theoretical background and review of related literature 5 Comparative study of Islamic banking regulation frameworks in Indonesia and Malaysia 6 Analyses of financial performance and stability of Asian Islamic banks 7 Analyses of the dynamic concentration and competition level of the Islamic banking sector in Indonesia 8 Comparative analysis of the operational efficiency of conventional and Islamic banks 9 Structural dilemma of Indonesia’s Islamic banking 10 A hypothesis of explaining the low penetration of Indonesia’s Islamic banks; Shari’ah-compliant benchmark and Shari’ah-based 'raf' al-haraj' benchmark on prohibition of riba 11 Epilogue – A Quarter-century journey of Islamic banking development in Indonesia: A revisited

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Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 pandemic, with its resulting lockdowns and significant changes to ways of working, has provided the opportunity to redefine the potential role that health and wellbeing can play within organisations.Empowering employees to work in ways that optimise their performance, acknowledging both personal and work demands, has created a new work paradigm that had previously not been considered. All savvy organisations will take this as a point in time to rethink business and HR practice, for the benefits of employees and employers. Written by the Head of Associate Health and Wellbeing (Europe) at Mars Incorporated, Monika Misra, and world-renowned expert on wellbeing in organisations, Cary Cooper, the book provides clear evidence of what worked well during, and now immediately subsequent to, the Covid-19 pandemic to enable individuals and organisations to thrive. Basing recommendations on a robust evidence base and through real life practices within organisations, they pro

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Book SynopsisThis book examines returns on experience and managerial practices to generate deeper collaboration, intensify co-creation, support start-ups and established companies to explore, develop, and accelerate their projects thanks to open labs (living labs, fab labs, coworking spaces, third spaces, etc.). Open labs are the beatbox to create a rhythm in ecosystems and make all stakeholders move forward, faster, together. This book proposes a framework to understand how open labs, innovation hubs, and collaborative spaces contribute to ecosystems.The book looks beyond the short-term effects of open labs and identifies four main dimensions: communities, physical spaces, events, and portfolios of services offered to private businesses, entrepreneurs, and start-ups, established companies, or public institutions. Drawing on extensive field research lasting over five years, with more than 40 cases and more than 200 interviews plus direct observation within different environments, this edi

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Book SynopsisThis book equips readers with the knowledge, insights and key capabilities to understand and practice business activities from ethical and sustainable vantage points.In our interconnected global business environment, the impacts of business activities are under increased ethical scrutiny from a wide range of stakeholders. Written from an international perspective, this book introduces the theory and practice of ethical and sustainable business, focusing in particular on eco-environmental sustainability, intergenerational responsibilities, current disruptive technologies, and intercultural values of the business community and consumers. Written by an expert author who also brings to the fore non-Western concepts and themes, this book: features positive case studies, as well as transferrable and applicable key insights from such cases; highlights the importance of taking cultural differences into account; takes a tTrade Review"In business as in life there is no ethics-free zone, and students will look for guidance in steering their course through the many challenges awaiting them. This book prepares them well by laying a solid foundation in ethical theory with only a minimum of technical terminology, but with numerous cases and thought experiments for ethical decision-making that stimulate students’ moral imagination to develop their own pathways towards solutions they can ethically justify." Gerhold K. Becker, Founding Director, Centre for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University "Gandhi once pointed out that commerce without morality is a social sin. In this excellent book, Roman Meinhold has provided practical ethical guidelines not just only for business students but also entrepreneurs and professionals. It is an invaluable asset for our future commercial society." Warayuth Sriwarakuel, Vice President for Research, Assumption University of Thailand Business Ethics and Sustainability is an incredibly valuable asset for any businessperson, young or experienced, to challenge old norms about business ethics and profitability working against each other and hopefully it will allow more people to understand that these two concepts can in fact work harmoniously hand-in-hand." Quincy Yu, Senior Vice President, Tycoon Music Co. Ltd. "The book is a highly recommended useful tool for current students and future global leaders." Khothatso Tšooana, Principal Secretary Ministry of Health, Lesotho; former Commissioner of Police, Lesotho Mounted Police Service, Lesotho Table of Contents1. Business and Ethics: Contradiction and Success Story 2. Ethics and Business: Down the Philosophical Rabbit Hole 3. Normative Ethical Foundations of Business Ethics: The Big Five 4. Sustainability and Organizations’ Environmental Responsibility: Trash and Treasures 5. Ethical Stakeholder Analysis and Ethical SWOT Analysis 6. Disruptive Technologies and Business Ethics 7. Business Ethics in Media, Marketing, Advertising, and Fashion 8. Intercultural Business Ethics and Sustainability 9. Systemic Issues 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows within planetary constraints. As such, the editors intend to map possibilities for food for degrowth to become established as a field of study.International contributors offer a range of examples and possibilities to develop more sustainable, localised, resilient and healthy food systems using degrowth principles of sufficiency, frugal abundance, security, autonomy and conviviality. Chapters are clustered in parts that critically examine food for degrowth in spheres of the household, collectives, networks, and narratives of broader activism and discourses. Themes include broadening and deepening concepts of care in food provisioning and social contexts; critically applying appropriate technologies;Trade Review"Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices, edited by A. Nelson and F. Edwards, is an effort to understand the social and territorial expressions of the degrowth principles as applied to different areas of the food system (production, distribution, consumption). Building on fourteen diverse empirical cases, it takes the reader on a journey to discover how degrowth principles can shape alternative food practices and what are the practical limitations of implementing degrowth in our food systems toward more sustainability and justice … . Both accessible and thought-provoking, this book will be of interest to urban geographers interested in degrowth, how degrowth can shape cities and urban-rural relations, and the governance of urban transformations more broadly." – Louise Guibrunet, Geography Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico"Food for Degrowth is one more rich contribution to the Degrowth debates. As a multi-layered and multi-dimensional movement, Degrowth offers inspiring and complementary solutions from a large diversity of perspectives. After Housing for Degrowth, Food for Degrowth brings one more strong pillar showing that degrowth is not only necessary, not only possible, but mostly desirable and already happening here and around." - Vincent Liegey, Degrowth researcher and practitioner, co-author of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide (2020) and coordinator of Cargonomia — a centre for research and experimentation on degrowth, a social cooperative for sustainable logistical solutions and local food distribution using cargo-bikes in Budapest"The book’s strength lies in the diversity of its contributors, with a good mix of academics, activists and grassroots workers… The book sets a tone for more works on degrowth in the future. It can be useful for students working on food sustainability cutting across Sociology, Social Anthropology, Food Studies and Environmental Studies."-- Rituparna Patgiri, excerpt from a review in Doing Sociology.orgTable of Contents1. Food for degrowth, Anitra Nelson and Ferne Edwards Part 1 Frugal abundance 2. Replacing growth with belonging economies: A neopeasant response, Patrick Jones and Meg Ulman 3. Quietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central Europe, Petr Daněk and Petr Jehlička 4. Learning degrowth from women’s food knowledge and care in Kenya, Meike Brückner 5. Caring dachas: Food self-provisioning in Eastern Europe through the lens of care, Lilian Pungas Part 2 Degrowth collectives 6. Germinating degrowth? On-farm adaptation and survival in Hungarian alternative food networks, Logan Strenchock 7. Nourishing self-planned socio-ecological transformations: Glocal community supported agriculture in Veneto, Italy, Silvio Cristiano, Marco Auriemma, Paolo Cacciari, Manola Cervesato, Domenico Maffeo, Paola Malgaretto and Francesco Nordio 8. Sustaining caring livelihoods: Agroecological cooperativism in Catalonia, Patricia Homs, Gemma Flores-Pons and Adrià Martín Part 3 Degrowth networks 9. Co-creation for transformation: Food for degrowth in Budapest Food City Lab initiatives, Diana Szakál and Bálint Balázs 10. Technology for degrowth: Implementing digital platforms for community supported agriculture, Ferne Edwards and Ricard Espelt 11. Institutionalising degrowth: Exploring multi-level food governance, Ferne Edwards, Sérgio Pedro and Sara Rocha Part 4 Narratives: Degrowth contexts and futures 12. Recycling old ideals? A utopian reading of ‘circular’ food imaginaries, Deborah Lambert 13. Degrowth, decolonisation and food sovereignty in the Cree Nation of Chisasibi, Ioana Radu, Émilie Parent, Gabriel Snowboy, Bertie Wapachee and Geneviève Beaulieu 14. Food waste or surplus? Reading between the lines of discourse and action, Constanza Hepp 15. A degrowth scenario: Can permaculture feed Melbourne?, Terry Leahy 16. Future research directions: Food for degrowth, Ferne Edwards and Anitra Nelson

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Book SynopsisSakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went from Empire to Europe and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing declined irreparably, that Britain lost its industrial hegemony. But this is too simplistic. In fact, in the decades after 1945, Britain staked out a new role for itself as a key participant in a US-led process of globalisation. Far from becoming merely a European player, the UK actually managed to preserve a key share in a global market, and the British defence industry was, to a large extent, successfully rehabilitated. Sakade returns to the original scholarly parameters of the decline controversy, and especially questions around post-war decline in the fields of high technology and the national defence industrial base. Using the case of the strategically critical military and civilTable of ContentsIntroduction: Britain’s ‘new role’ between Europe and the US after 1945 Part I. The Post-War British Aircraft Industry, 1943-1964 1. The origins of Anglo-American production collaboration in the first jet-age (1943-56) 2. Sandy’s Defence White Paper and the Rationalisation of the British Aircraft Industry, 1957–60 3. BOAC’s Financial Crisis and the End of the "Fly British" Policy, 1963–66 Part II. The British Dilemma. 1964-1969 4. The Cancellation of Britain’s Top Projects, 1963–65 5. The Politics Behind the Plowden Doctrine: European and American Alternatives for the British Aircraft Industry 6. The "European Technological Community" and the Anglo-German MRCA project, 1966–69 Part III. European cooperative airliner projects and Anglo–American Industrial Collaboration, 1968-1982 7. The second jet age and the bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce, 1967–71 8. Trapped in a Loveless Marriage: The Anglo-French Concorde crisis of 1974 9. Playing a Double Game: The British aircraft industry in the third jet age Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe premise of this book is that research into gossip, organization, and work is an important idea whose time has come. A key feature of the book is the inclusion of practice points' showing how and where theory and/or research intersect with practice and vice versa. They are intended as signposts to future thinking and theorizing, tempting readers to venture outside of their home' disciplines and territories, conceptual comfort zones, and methodological mindsets. The overall aim of the book is to: (i) provide enough information for readers to decide where they might want to go next; (ii) offer some theoretical directions and ethical principles; and (iii) make suggestions regarding what academic-practitioner tools and techniques will help them along the way, including arts-based and mixed-methods research that focuses on real-world lived experience(s) of gossip.It will be relevant to researchers at all stages of their career: from students at the start of their acade

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Book SynopsisData analytics underpin our modern data-driven economy. This textbook explains the relevance of data analytics at the firm and industry levels, tracing the evolution and key components of the field, and showing how data analytics insights can be leveraged for business results. The first section of the text covers key topics such as data analytics tools, data mining, business intelligence, customer relationship management, and cybersecurity. The chapters then take an industry focus, exploring how data analytics can be used in particular settings to strengthen business decision-making. A range of sectors are examined, including financial services, accounting, marketing, sport, health care, retail, transport, and education. With industry case studies, clear definitions of terminology, and no background knowledge required, this text supports students in gaining a solid understanding of data analytics and its practical applications. PowerPoint slides, a test bank of quesTable of Contents1 History and Evolution of Data Analytics 2 Data Mining and Analytics 3 Data Analytics Tools 4 Business Analytics and Intelligence 5 Customer Relationship Analytics, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, and Cognitive Computing 6 Cybersecurity and Data Analytics 7 Data Analytics and the Retail Industry 8 Data Analytics in the Financial Services Industry 9 Data Analytics in the Sports Industry 10 Data Analytics in the Accounting Industry 11 Data Analytics in the Medical Industry 12 Data Analytics in the Manufacturing Industry 13 Data Analytics in the Marketing Industry 14 Data Analytics in the Transportation Industry 15 Data Analytics in Education

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Book SynopsisThis book takes an in-depth look at the economics and finance of professional team sports, with a strong focus on applied analysis and performance measurement, to enable students, researchers, and practitioners to develop their professional knowledge of contemporary sport business. It examines the key themes that define professional team sports today, including the unique features of the team sport market place, the operation of leagues, competitive balance, salary caps, draft systems, income from broadcasting rights, the role of agents, and governance and financial regulation. It analyses the functional aspects of sport finance including where the money flows in and out, how to measure performance holistically, and how to interpret the financial performance of professional sport teams. It also covers emerging and disruptive forces that may shape the market in the future. It includes real- world cases and data in every chapter, including sports from football to Formula 1 and Table of ContentsPart I: Sport Economics, Theories and Concepts, 1. The Market Structure for Professional Team Sport, 2. League Structure, Uncertainty of Outcome and Competitive Balance, 3. Models of Professional Team Sport, 4. Profit and Utility Maximisation in Professional Team Sports, Part II: Functions of Economics and Finance in Professional Team Sports, 5. Revenue Generation and Cost Structure in Professional Team Sports, 6. Cost Structures in Professional Team Sports, 7. Holistic Performance Measurement in Professional Team Sport, 8. Financial Statements and Annual Reports in Professional Team Sports, 9. Interpreting Annual Reports in Professional Team Sports, 10. Ownership Structure, Governance, and Regulation in Professional Team Sport, 11. Managers and Agents in Professional Team Sports, Part III: Emerging Trends and Disruptive Forces, 12. Breakaway Leagues in Professional Team Sports, 13. Over the Top (OTT) Broadcasting Platforms and Commercial Shifts in Professional Team Sports, 14. Financing and the Rise in Private Equity in Professional Team Sports, 15. Governance, Ownership, and Regulation Reform in Professional Team Sports, 16. Esports in Professional Team Sport, 17. Cryptocurrency, Socios, NFTs and the Metaverse in Professional Team Sports

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in Critical Marketing Studies in one authoritative and convenient volume. The worldâs leading scholars and rising stars collaborate here to provide a survey of this lively subdiscipline. In doing so they demonstrate how a critical approach yields an enriched understanding of marketing theory and practice, its role in society, and its relationship with consumers themselves.It is the first attempt to capture the state of Critical Marketing research in many years. As such, this seminal work is unmissable for scholars and students of marketing and consumer research as well as those exploring sociology, media studies, anthropology and consumption scholarship more generally.Trade ReviewThis edited volume on Critical Marketing Studies is essential reading for all constituencies, including academics, marketing practitioners, consumers, and advocacy groups, that wish to fully understand the good, bad, and ugly of how exchange relationships manifest in most economies. Well-written, timely, and documented to the finest detail, the various authors put forth an excellent analysis and critique of a system that impacts all of humanity and its quality of life. Read it or face the consequences of continued ignorance!Ronald Paul Hill (Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland) is a Visiting Professor of Marketing and holds a Dean’s Excellence Faculty Fellowship at the Kogod School of Business, American University, USAThis book offers a foundational resource for critical work in marketing that goes beyond criticism to generate compelling new ideas, productive insights, and transformational paradigms. Close attention will cause readers to rethink their fundamental understanding of marketing.Jonathan Schroeder, William A. Kern Professor in Communications, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USAThere is a great need for more Critical Marketing Studies and this book brings together a thorough review of what has been done thus far. Inspiration abounds in these chapters and they will open the imagination and conscience to new problems that cry out for critical attention.Russell Belk, Distinguished Research Professor and Kraft Foods Canada Chair of Marketing, York University, CanadaDrawing on their vast collective knowledge, Tadajewski, Higgins, Denegri-Knott, and Varman skilfully help students and scholars understand the importance, trajectory, and scope of Critical Marketing Studies. This is the kind of companion I wish I’d had when I began my career. I can’t recommend it highly enough. Anthony Patterson, Professor of Marketing, University of Liverpool, UKTable of ContentsChapter One: Introducing and Advancing Critical Marketing Studies (Mark Tadajewski, Matthew Higgins, Janice Denegri-Knott, and Rohit Varman). PART I: Exploring the Terrain of Critical Marketing Studies. Chapter Two: Postmodernism and Critical Marketing (Nikhilesh Dholakia and A. Fuat Fırat). Chapter Three: Postcolonialism, Subalternity, and Critical Marketing (Rohit Varman). Chapter Four: Feminist Perspectives in Marketing: Past, Present, and Future (Pauline Maclaran and Olga Kravets). Chapter Five: Critical Social Marketing: Reflections, Introspections, and Future (Ross Gordon). Chapter Six: Critical Macromarketing, Sustainable Marketing, and Globalization (William E. Kilbourne). Chapter Seven: Critical Perspectives on Place Marketing (Massimo Giovanardi, Mihalis Kavaratzis, and Maria Lichrou). Chapter Eight: Critical Arts Marketing (Gretchen Larsen and Finola Kerrigan). Part II: Critical Marketing: Marketing Practices in Focus. Chapter Nine: Critical Studies of Marketing Work (Peter Svensson). Chapter Ten: The Cultural Turn in Lifestyle Research: Overview and Reflections (Gokcen Coskuner-Balli). Chapter Eleven: Advertising Practice and Critical Marketing (Chris Hackley). Chapter Twelve: Critical Reflections on the Marketing Concept and Consumer Sovereignty (Mark Tadajewski). Chapter Thirteen: Service-Dominant Logic: The Evolution of a Universal Marketing Rhetoric (Chris Miles). Chapter Fourteen: Metaphor and Relationship Marketing Discourse (Lisa O’Malley). Chapter Fifteen: Critical Perspectives on Ethical Consumption (Michal Carrington and Andreas Chatzidakis). Chapter Sixteen: Religious Critiques of the Market (Aliakbar Jafari). Part III: Rethinking Consumers and Markets: Critiques of Markets. Chapter Seventeen: Re-mapping Power for Critical Marketing and Consumer Research (Janice Denegri-Knott). Chapter Eighteen: Ideology and Critical Marketing Studies (Giana M. Eckhardt, Rohit Varman, and Nikhilesh Dholakia). Chapter Nineteen: Non-Western Cultures and Critical Marketing (Özlem Sandıkcı Türkdoğan). Chapter Twenty: Choice and Choicelessness in Consumer Practice (Ruby Roy Dholakia, A. Fuat Fırat, and Nikhilesh Dholakia). Chapter Twenty-One: Managing Racial Stigma in Consumer Culture (David Crockett). Chapter Twenty-Two: Consumer Vulnerability: Critical Insights from Stories, Action Research and Visual Culture (Susan Dunnett, Kathy Hamilton, and Maria Piacentini). Chapter Twenty-Three: The Embodied Consumer (Maurice Patterson). Part IV: Critical Marketing: Marketing Practices in Focus. Chapter Twenty-Four: Critical Perspectives on Brand Management (Adam Arvidsson and Alex Giordano). Chapter Twenty-Five: Gender, Marketing, and Emotions: A Critical, Feminist Exploration of the Ideological Helix that Defines Our Working Worlds (Lorna Stevens). Chapter Twenty-Six: Biopolitical Marketing and the Commodification of Social Contexts (Detlev Zwick and Alan Bradshaw). Chapter Twenty-Seven: Exploitation and Emancipation (Bernard Cova and Bernard Paranque). Chapter Twenty-Eight: Political Economy Approaches to Transnational Commodity Markets: An Application to the Case of the Global Palm Oil Market (Martin Fougère). Chapter Twenty-Nine: Social Media, Big Data, and Critical Marketing (Christian Fuchs). Chapter Thirty: Marketing and the Production of Consumers’ Objective Violence (Eduardo André Teixeira Ayrosa and Renata Couto de Azevedo de Oliveira).

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses business architecture as a basis for aligning efforts with outcomes. It views BA as complementary to enterprise architecture, where the focus of technological initiatives and inventories is to understand and improve business organization, business direction, and business decision-making. This book provides a practical, long-term view on BA. Based on the authors'' consulting experience and industrial research, the material in this book is a valuable addition to the thought processes around BA and EA. The lead author has direct and practical experience with large clients in applying APQC capability framework for undertaking multiple enterprise-wide capability assessments.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsForewordPrefaceAuthorsSection A CONCEPTS AND ODBA FRAMEWORK1 Business Strategies and Outcome-Driven Business Architecture2 Developing Business Architecture I—Capabilities and Challenges3 Developing Business Architecture—II4 Building and Assessing Business Capabilities—I5 Implementing Business Capabilities—II6 Metrics and Measurements with Outcome-Driven Business Architecture7 Governance, Risk, and Compliance and QualitySection B PRACTICE AND TOOLS8 Establishing and Managing the Business Architecture Practice9 ODBA, Big Data, and a Functioning Agile OrganizationSection C CASE STUDIES10 Business Architecture and Capability Case Study 1—Manufacturing Industry11 ODBA and Capability-Building Case Study 2—Energy Market12 Business Architecture and Capability Case Study 3—Government ServicesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHigh-Performance Computing (HPC) delivers higher computational performance to solve problems in science, engineering and finance. There are various HPC resources available for different needs, ranging from cloud computingâ that can be used without much expertise and expense â to more tailored hardware, such as Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) or D-Waveâs quantum computer systems. High-Performance Computing in Finance is the first book that provides a state-of-the-art introduction to HPC for finance, capturing both academically and practically relevant problems. Table of ContentsPart I: Computationally Expensive Problems in the Financial Industry 1. Computationally Expensive Problems in Investment Banking 2. Using Market Sentiment to Enhance Second-Order Stochastic Dominance Trading Models 3. The Alpha Engine: Designing an Automated Trading Algorithm 4. Portfolio Liquidation and Ambiguity Aversion 5. Challenges in Scenario Generation: Modeling Market and Non-Market Risks in Insurance Part II: Numerical Methods in Financial High-Performance Computing (HPC) 6. Finite Difference Methods for Medium- and High-Dimensional Derivative Pricing PDEs 7. Multilevel Monte Carlo Methods for Applications in Finance 8. Fourier and Wavelet Option Pricing Methods 9. A Practical Robust Long-Term Yield Curve Model 10. Algorithmic Differentiation 11. Case Studies of Real-Time Risk Management via Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD) 12. Tackling Reinsurance Contract Optimization by Means of Evolutionary Algorithms and HPC 13. Evaluating Blockchain Implementation of Clearing and Settlement at the IATA Clearing House Part III: HPC Systems: Hardware, Software, and Data with Financial Applications 14. Supercomputers 15. Multiscale Dataflow Computing in Finance 16. Manycore Parallel Computation 17. Practitioner’s Guide on the Use of Cloud Computing in Finance 18. Blockchains and Distributed Ledgers in Retrospective and Perspective 19. Optimal Feature Selection Using a Quantum Annealer

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Book SynopsisThere are many webinars and training courses on Data Analytics for Internal Auditors, but no handbook written from the practitionerâs viewpoint covering not only the need and the theory, but a practical hands-on approach to conducting Data Analytics. The spread of IT systems makes it necessary that auditors as well as management have the ability to examine high volumes of data and transactions to determine patterns and trends. The increasing need to continuously monitor and audit IT systems has created an imperative for the effective use of appropriate data mining tools. This book takes an auditor from a zero base to an ability to professionally analyze corporate data seeking anomalies.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Data Analysis. Understanding Sampling. Judgmental vs Statistical Sampling. Probability theory in Data Analysis. Types of Evidence. Population Analysis. Correlations and Regressions. Conducting the Audit. Obtaining Information from IT Systems for Analysis. Use of Computer Assisted Audit Techniques. Analysis of Big Data. Results Analysis and Validation. Root Cause Analysis. Data Analysis and Continuous Monitoring. Continuous Auditing. Financial Analysis. Excel and Data Analysis. ACL and Data Analysis. IDEA and Data Analysis. Analysis Reporting.

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Book SynopsisThis definitive guide covers the design and application of absorbers and diffusers in acoustics. Surface diffusion is a relatively young subject area, and diffuser design, application and characterisation are often not well understood. Although there is greater knowledge of absorption, it is also informed by new research. As two of the main design tools for altering the acoustic conditions of rooms, the correct use of absorbers and diffusers is important to the creation of quality acoustics. This text details the evolution and the current state of the art in diffuser and absorber research and application. It covers a range of practical and theoretical aspects, with extensive examples of installations and case studies to cater to practitioners working in the measurement, modelling and design of rooms, semi-enclosed spaces as well as in noise control. It is also invaluable for students and researchers wanting a grounding in acoustic treatment, as well as understanding the latest develTrade Review"This revised edition consolidates the research and theory of acoustic materials known to date and will be a valuable resource for acoustic researchers, consultants and acoustic product manufacturers. I would also expect acoustic standards committee members to find useful information … If you have an earlier edition, as I do, there is sufficient new material in this edition to recommend purchasing this reference volume."—Noise Control Engr. J."This book is a vibrant update of previous editions which incorporates the latest 21st century thinking on absorbers and diffusers and as such it should be in every acousticians possession."—Raf Orlowski, Ramboll Environ"A valuable treatise in filling a great need to provide the essential basis for anyone who is or may be involved in architectural acoustics research, study, education and design practice."—Ning Xiang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute"The current edition is a must-have in any acoustician’s library. Even if you own an earlier edition, the updates and cosmetic reworking of the third edition breathes new life into this now-classic text."-- Brandon Cudequest, Journal Audio Engineering"Cox and D’Antonio can still claim authorship to the most comprehensive text on sound-absorptive and diffusive materials."-- Brandon Cudequest, Journal Audio EngineeringTable of ContentsIntroduction. Applications and Basic Principles of Absorbers. Applications and Basic Principles of Diffusers. Measurement of Absorber Properties. Measurement of Diffusion. Porous Absorption. Resonant Absorbers. Some other Absorbers and Diffusers. Prediction of Scattering. Schroeder Diffusers. Geometric Reflectors and Diffusers. Hybrid Surfaces. Absorbers and Diffusers in Rooms and Geometric Models. Active Absorption and Diffusion

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Book SynopsisThe marginalization of women in economics has a history as long as the discipline itself. Throughout the history of economics, women contributed substantial novel ideas, methods of inquiry, and analytical insights, with much of this discounted, ignored, or shifted into alternative disciplines and writing outlets.This handbook presents new and much-needed analytical research of womenâs contributions in the history of economic thought, focusing primarily on the period from the 1770s into the beginning of the 21st century. Chapters address the institutional, sociological and historical factors that have influenced women economistsâ thinking, and explore womenâs contributions to economic analysis, method, policies and debates. Coverage is international, moving beyond Europe and the US into the Arab world, China, India, Japan, Latin America, Russia and the Soviet Union, and sub-Saharan Africa. This new global perspective adds depth as well as scope to our understanding of wTrade Review"Every library needs a copy of this Handbook, and it should also find its way into the collections of historians of economics. This book will extend the boundaries of what is sometimes a very narrow field, both by including people who have been excluded, and by asking us to think again about some of the ways we define the field of economics and organize our knowledge of its past. We owe to Kirsten Madden and Bob Dimand, co-editors, as well as all the authors in this collection, a large vote of gratitude." Evelyn L. Forget, EH.Net "Each contributor organizes her own reasoning on the relation between women, history, and economic thought differently, according to different criteria, and it is extremely fascinating, constructive, and promising to see the many ways in which a topic that has still to be fully codified can be approached and categorized."Manuela Mosca, History of Political EconomyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I Beginning Prior to 1850 Chapter 1 Indian Women’s Agency through Indian Women’s Literature Sheetal Bharat Chapter 2 English Women’s Economic Thought in the 1790s: Domestic Economy, Married Women’s Economic Dependence, and Access to Professions Joanna Rostek Chapter 3 British Women on the British Empire Janet Seiz Chapter 4 Harriet Taylor Mill, Mary Paley Marshall and Beatrice Potter Webb: Women Economists and Economists’ Wives Virginie Gouverneur Chapter 5 Japanese Women’s Economics, 1818-2005 Aiko Ikeo Part II Beginning in the Late 19th Century Chapter 6 Contextualizing women’s economic thought in late Imperial Russia and in the early years of Revolution: 1870-1920 Anna Klimina Chapter 7 Is Equal Pay Worth It? Beatrice Potter Webb's, Millicent Garrett Fawcett's and Eleanor Rathbone’s changing arguments Cléo Chassonnery- Zaïgouche Chapter 8 The Economic Thought of the Women’s Co-Operative Guild Kirsten Madden and Joe Persky Chapter 9 Anecdotes of Discrimination: Barriers to Women’s Participation in Economic Thought During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Kirsten Madden Chapter 10 The Point is to Change It: Three Lives of Applied Marxism Zoe Sherman Part III Beginning in the early 20th Century Chapter 11 Women Economists in the Academy: Struggles and Strategies, 1900-1940 Mary Ann Dzuback Chapter 12 Daughters of Commons: Wisconsin Women and Institutionalism Marianne Johnson Chapter 13 Women Economists of Promise? Six Hart, Schaffner and Marx Prize Winners in the Early Twentieth Century Kirsten Madden Chapter 14 Early Women Economists at Columbia University: Contributions in the Struggle for Labor Protection in the Lochner Era Clara Elisabetta Mattei Chapter 15 Chinese Economic Development and Chinese Women Economists: A Study of Overseas Doctoral Dissertations Yue Xiao Part IV Spanning the Mid-20th Century Chapter 16 Austrian School Women Economists Giandomenica Becchio Chapter 17 Placing women’s economics within Soviet economic discourse: 1920s - 1991 Anna Klimina Chapter 18 Ursula Hicks' and Vera Lutz’s contributions to development finance Lucy Brillant Chapter 19 The Two Faces of Economic Forecasting in Italy: Vera Cao Pinna and Almerina Ipsevich Marcella Corsi and Giulia Zacchia Part V Beginning mid-20th, Extending into the 21st Century Chapter 20 The First 100 Years of Female Economists in Sub-Saharan Africa Lola Fowler and Robert W. Dimand Chapter 21 Women Economists of the Arab Homeland Talia Yousef and Robert W. Dimand Chapter 22 The Invisible Ones: Women at CEPAL (1948-2017) Rebeca Gómez Betancourt and Camila Orozco Espinel Chapter 23 Women’s employment in the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Contributions of Lourdes Beneria and Martha (Marty) Chen Farida Chowdhury Khan Chapter 24 Women’s neoclassical models of marriage, 1972-2015 Shoshana Grossbard

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Book SynopsisThis book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to control their actions. These skills give rise to genuine uncertainty in society and hence in the economy. Here, the author sets out that uncertainty must take centre stage in all analyses of human decision making and therefore in economics. Uncertainty and Economics carefully defines a taxonomy of uncertainty and argues that it is only uncertainty in its most radical form which matters to economics. It shows that uncertainty is a powerful concept that not only helps to resolve long-standing economic puzzles but also unveils serious contradictions within current, popular economic approaches. It argues that neoclassical, real business cycle, or new-Keynesian economics must be understood as only one way to circumvent the analytical challenges posed by uncertainty. Instead, embracing uncertainty offers a new analytical paradigm which, inTrade Review"Essential reading for everyone who is willing to take "uncertainty" in economics seriously!", Prof. Dr. Joachim Güntzel, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Ravensburg, GermanyTable of ContentsPreface.Acknowledgements.Introduction.1. What's uncertainty, after all?2. Uncertainty in economics.3. Uncertainty in the economy.4. The empirics of uncertainty.5. Conclusion.Bibliography.Index.

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Book SynopsisDesign impacts every part of our lives. The design of products and services influences the way we go about our daily activities and it is hard to imagine any activity in our daily lives that is not dependent on design in some capacity. Clothing, mobile phones, computers, cars, tools and kitchenware all enable and hold in place everyday practices. Despite designâs omnipresence, the understanding of how design may facilitate desirable behaviours is still fragmented, with limited frameworks and examples of how design can effect change in professional and public contexts. This text presents an overview of current approaches dedicated to understanding how design may be used intentionally to make changes to improve a range of problematic social and environmental issues. It offers a cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral overview of different academic theories adopted and applied to design for behaviour change. The aim of the volume is twofold: firstly, to provide an overview of existing design models that integrate theories of change from differing scientific backgrounds; secondly, to offer an overview of application of key design for behaviour change approaches as used across case studies in different sectors, such as design for health and wellbeing, sustainability, safety, design against crime and social design. Design for Behaviour Change will appeal to designers, design students and practitioners of behavioural change.Table of ContentsPart I Design for Behaviour Change: its Background and Significance, Chapter 1 Introduction: Designing for Behavioural Change, Chapter 2 Design’s Intrinsic Relationship with Change and its Challenges for the 21st Century, Part II Models, Methods and Tools for Design for Behaviour Change, Chapter 3 Introducing Models, Methods and Tools for Design for Behaviour Change, Chapter 4 The Product Impact Tool: The Case of the Dutch Public Transport Chip Card, Chapter 5 Design Interventions for Sustainable Behaviour, Chapter 6 Design, Behaviour change, and the Design with Intent Toolkit, Chapter 7 Tweaking Interaction through Understanding the User, Chapter 8 Design for Healthy Behaviour, Chapter 9 Facilitating Behaviour Change through Mindful Design, Chapter 10 Practices-Oriented Design, Chapter 11 Futuring and Ontological Designing, Chapter 12 The Hidden Influence of Design, Chapter 13 Summary of Design for Behavioural Change Approaches, Part III Applying Design for Behaviour Change, Chapter 14 Design for Behaviour Change: Introducing Five Areas of Application and Related Case Studies, Chapter 15 Design for Behaviour Change and Sustainability, Chapter 16 Design for Behaviour Change for Health and Wellbeing, Chapter 17 Design for Behavioural Safety, Chapter 18 Is ‘Nudge’ as Good as ‘We Think’ in Designing against Crime?Contrasting Paternalistic and Fraternalistic Approaches to Design for Behaviour Change, Chapter 19 Design for Social Behaviour Change, Chapter 20 Reflecting on Current Applications of Design for Behaviour Change, Part IV The Current State and Future of Design for Behaviour Change, Chapter 21 Conclusion, Chapter 22 Future Prospects

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Book SynopsisWithin the developed world, airlines have responded to the advice of advocates for corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) to use the intertwined dimensions of economics, society and environment to guide their business activities. However, disingenuously, the advocates and regulators frequently pay insufficient attention to the economics which are critical to airlinesâ sustainability and profits. This omission pushes airlines into the unprofitable domain of CSERplus.The author identifies alleged market inefficiencies and failures, examines CSERplus impacts on international competition and assesses the unintended consequences of the regulations. She also provides innovative ideas for future-proofing airlines. Clipped Wings is a treatise for business professionals featuring academic research as well as industry anecdotes. It is written for airlines (including their owners, employees, passengers and suppliers), airports, trade associations, policy Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to economic airline sustainability Chapter 2. Society, Social Responsibility and Airline Economics Chapter 3. Inside Economically-Sustainable Airlines Chapter 4. Passenger Challenges Chapter 5. Travelling Timebomb Chapter 6. Environment, Science and Politics Chapter 7. Getting it Right Chapter 8. Challenges for Sustainability Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWhile international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been less than satisfactory, there is a presumption that a significant level of multi-lateral commitment will be realized at some point. International air and marine travel have been left to one side in past talks because the pursuit of agreement proceeds on the basis of commitment by sovereign nations and the effects of these specific commercial activities are, by their nature, difficult to corral and assign to specific national jurisdictions. However, air travel is increasing and, unless something is done, emissions from this segment of our world economy will form a progressively larger percentage of the total, especially as emissions fall in other activities. This book focuses on fuel. The aim is to provide background in technical and policy terms, from the broadest reliable sources of information available, for the necessary discourse on society's reaction to the evolving aviation emissions profile. It cTrade Review'While dealing professionally with the current technologies for generating biofuel, the book also points towards broader, philosophical questions about ecological justice and what we might owe to the future. It is a well-researched and well-written book and it contributes to the important dialogue about how we can fly without changing our planet irrevocably.'Dr Ben Daley, Policy School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Aerospace Table of ContentsWill Sustainability Fly?

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Book SynopsisDesign for Policy is the first publication to chart the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. Drawing on contributions from a range of the worldâs leading academics, design practitioners and public managers, it provides a rich, detailed analysis of design as a tool for addressing public problems and capturing opportunities for achieving better and more efficient societal outcomes. In his introduction, Christian Bason suggests that design may offer a fundamental reinvention of the art and craft of policy making for the twenty-first century. From challenging current problem spaces to driving the creative quest for new solutions and shaping the physical and virtual artefacts of policy implementation, design holds a significant yet largely unexplored potential. The book is structured in three main sections, covering the global context of the rise of design for policy, in-depth case studies of the application of design to policy making, and a guide to concrete design tools for policy intent, insight, ideation and implementation. The summary chapter lays out a future agenda for design in government, suggesting how to position design more firmly on the public policy stage. Design for Policy is intended as a resource for leaders and scholars in government departments, public service organizations and institutions, schools of design and public management, think tanks and consultancies that wish to understand and use design as a tool for public sector reform and innovation.Trade Review'This book masterfully combines cutting-edge research, findings from practice, and real-world examples of how design approaches are being used to improve societal outcomes across the globe. It introduces new avenues for pursuing design-based policies and is an essential resource for anyone exploring social innovation and design processes as a tool for meaningful public sector reform. Christian Bason has successfully delivered a volume that captures the essence of design and social innovation in policy development and offers useful lessons for those faced with the challenge of serving in the twenty-first century.' Jocelyne Bourgon, President, Public Governance International 'Design for Policy is a valuable and fresh insight into policymaking. It underscores the urgent need to bring design to the very heart of modern public policy. Through highly pertinent and illuminating examples from a variety of fields, this book shows that it is possible to transform the policy making process and make it much more innovative. I hope that policymakers across Europe will read it, so that they can become policy designers - and we can shape together the future we aspire to.’ Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner, Research, Innovation & Science ’Can design improve the ways we address such 'super-wicked' challenges as climate change, energy precarity, or public health? It's a big ask, but this highly intelligent book makes a convincing case. Its succinct case studies show the ways that design has become a powerful tool for public administrations around the world. Design for Policy does not over-promise. Its clear and well-balanced texts illustrate the potential but also the limits of design when societal issues are massive, integrated and highly complex - all at the same time. Design, it emerges, is helping to drive transformation in the ways we govern. This important book marks a shift in models of public policymaking: from problem-solving, to envisioning; from service dTable of ContentsDesign for Policy

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Book SynopsisThis book is a first-of-its-kind critical interdisciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI).Tanner Mirrlees presents a comprehensive guide to understanding the key contexts, theories, methods, debates, and struggles surrounding work in the DMEI. Packed with current examples and accessible research findings, the book highlights the changing conditions and experiences of work in the DMEI. It surveys the DMEI's key sectors and occupations and considers the complex intersections between labor and social power relations of class, gender, and race, as well as tensions between creativity and commerce, freedom and control, meritocracy and hierarchy, and precarity and equity, diversity, and inclusivity. Chapters also explore how work in the DMEI is being reshaped by capitalism and corporations, government and policies, management, globalization, platforms,

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Book SynopsisThe Right Place explains why firms succeed in one country and fail in another, irrespective of their inner drivers, and suggests potential initiatives that governments can take to help the private sector create jobs and, consequently, make their countries more prosperous. The competitiveness race is not unlike a cycling race. If you want to ride fast, you need three things: a good bike, to be in good shape, and a smooth and fast road. In a collaborative model, you might say the business is the bicycle, the business leader is the cyclist, and the road is the government and the external environment. The responsibility of a government is to design and build the best possible road. It turns out that when the road is good, good cyclists suddenly appear and want to race on it. In this book, competition and macroeconomics expert, Arturo Bris, provides the analysis of country competitive performance based on 30 years advising countries on this topic. The typical mistakes that countries make are revealed and the pillars necessary in building a competitive economy: economic performance as a necessary condition for prosperity; government efficiency, so the public sector can create the conditions for a productive economy; business efficiency, so companies can create jobs; and infrastructure, both tangible and intangible, so businesses and individuals can operate efficiently. With contemporary case studies throughout, the book provides an illuminating read for politicians, business leaders and students of macroeconomics.Trade Review"Enormously ambitious, wide-ranging and filled with insights. A marvellous and impressive book that makes you re-think how and why businesses thrive (and fail)."Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, author of The Silk Roads"There is no silver bullet for competitiveness. Many books promise quick fixes, but the wisdom in this new book by Arturo Bris is taking an ecosystem approach. This is the holistic roadmap emerging markets need to catch the next waves of productivity and globalization."Dr. Parag Khanna, managing partner of FutureMap and author of Connectography"This book by Arturo Bris, brings together the insights of the IMD World Competitiveness Centre over thirty years, as well as his personal travel and research in the last six years in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America, to understand why corporations achieve success and perform the way they do. Bris covers a broad terrain, highlighting not just corporate strategies but largersocietal inputs such as education and government strategies which are crucial to competitiveness. A useful comparative blueprint for corporations and countries who wish to achieve the same success as the best in the world."Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador-at Large and Chair of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design."Arturo Bris is the superstar of country competitiveness. Over the years we have enjoyed his annual reports and rankings on the competetiveness of nations around the globe. In this seminal book he shows us why it matters for business. A warm recommendation to anyone interested in decion-making beyond the state and survival strategies of companies."Alexander Stubb, Professor and Director at the European University Institute, Former Prime Minister of Finland"Enormously ambitious, wide-ranging and filled with insights. A marvellous and impressive book that makes you re-think how and why businesses thrive (and fail)."Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, author of The Silk Roads"There is no silver bullet for competitiveness. Many books promise quick fixes, but the wisdom in this new book by Arturo Bris is taking an ecosystem approach. This is the holistic roadmap emerging markets need to catch the next waves of productivity and globalization."Dr. Parag Khanna, managing partner of FutureMap and author of Connectography"This book by Arturo Bris, brings together the insights of the IMD World Competitiveness Centre over thirty years, as well as his personal travel and research in the last six years in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America, to understand why corporations achieve success and perform the way they do. Bris covers a broad terrain, highlighting not just corporate strategies but largersocietal inputs such as education and government strategies which are crucial to competitiveness. A useful comparative blueprint for corporations and countries who wish to achieve the same success as the best in the world."Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador-at Large and Chair of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities, Singapore University of Technology and Design."Arturo Bris is the superstar of country competitiveness. Over the years we have enjoyed his annual reports and rankings on the competitiveness of nations around the globe. In this seminal book he shows us why it matters for business. A warm recommendation to anyone interested in decision-making beyond the state and survival strategies of companies."Alexander Stubb, Professor and Director at the European University Institute, Former Prime Minister of FinlandTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION 1. THE TAYBEH BREWING COMPANY 2. FULL MOON BREWWORKS 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 4. THE EIGHT CHARACTERISTICS OF SUCCESS 5. THE VALUE OF COLLABORATION 6. THE IMPORTANCE OF GLOBAL FACTORS7. DEFINING A NEW MEASURE OF SUCCESS 8. WHAT IT TAKES TO BE COMPETITIVE9. BUSINESS CONSULTANTS 10. EDUCATION 11. INFRASTRUCTURE 12. THE PRIVATE SECTOR CREATES JOBS 13. THE RULE OF LAW 14. GOVERNMENT-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS 15. NATIONAL CHAMPIONS, BUT ALSO SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES 16. BRANDING A NATION 17. TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, EDUCATION, GENDER POLICIES, AND SUSTAINABILITY 18. THIS BOOK IS FOR BOTH BUSINESS AND POLITICAL STAKEHOLDERS PART 1. THE DRIVERS OF BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS 19. INTRODUCTION 20. FOOTBALL: COACHES AND THE PERFORMANCE OF TEAMS 21. THE DRIVERS OF PERFORMANCE 22. THE IMPACT OF LEADERS ON PERFORMANCE 23. WHAT DRIVES PERFORMANCE BEYOND LEADERS? 24. GLOBAL EFFECTS 25. NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AND BUSINESS SUCCESS 26. HOW THE NATIONAL CONTEXT MATTERS: TAIWAN AND GIANT BICYCLES 27. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT: THE CASE OF RUSSIA PART 2. UNDERSTANDING COMPETITIVENESS 28. INTRODUCTION29. WHAT IS COMPETITIVENESS 30. LOOKING BACK TO HISTORY 31. SETTING THE COMPETITIVENESS PATH 32. HAPPINESS: AND THE SEARCH OF THE MODERN-DAY SHANGRI-LA 33. CONCLUSION: WE MANAGE WHAT WE CAN MEASURE PART 3. WHAT IT TAKES TO HAVE A NATIONAL STRATEGY 34. INTRODUCTION 35. A GOOD STRATEGY36. THE IMPORTANCE OF NATIONAL CONSENSUS 37. POLITICAL LEADERSHIP 38. A LONG-TERM VIEW 39. THE IMPORTANCE OF EXECUTION: DELIVERY UNITS 40. AVOID CONSULTANTS!!! PART 4. THE PATH TO COMPETITIVENESS 41. INTRODUCTION 42. EDUCATION 43. OPENNESS/TALENT ATTRACTION 44. INFRASTRUCTURE 45. RULE OF LAW 46. CORRUPTION 47. FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND STOCK MARKETS 48. IT IS THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAT CREATES JOBS 49. PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 50. NATIONAL CHAMPIONS, BUT ALSO SMES 51. BRANDING THE COUNTRY 52. CONCLUSION PART 5. BEING COMPETITIVE IN THE 21ST CENTURY 53. INTRODUCTION 54. THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN INNOVATION ECOSYSTEMS 55. COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY 56. GENDER BALANCE AND GROWTH 57. SUSTAINABILITY: PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST 58. PUBLIC POLICY TO RESOLVE MARKET FAILURES 59. EDUCATION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 60. COMPETITIVENESS AND INCOME INEQUALITY 61. HOW CAN DEMOCRACIES EXCEL CONCLUSION

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Book SynopsisAs esports has grown, the need for professional legal representation has grown with it. Justin's Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming provides a great baseline and will help prevent the legal horror stories of esports in the past. Mitch Reames, AdWeek and Esports InsiderJustinâs exploration of the business and law side of the esports sector fills a gap of knowledge that is an absolute necessity in truly understanding the esports space.Kevin Hitt, The Esports ObserverThe Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming covers everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of esports and professional video gaming. The book is written by one of the foremost attorneys and business practitioners in todayâs esports and professional gaming scene, Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. This guide is meant to provide you with an in-depth look at the business aTable of Contents1 Introduction to Esports & Professional Video Gaming Law 12 Intellectual Property Law and Its Impact on The Esports Business Ecosytem 553 Business and Tax Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosytem 734 Immigration and Employment Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosystem 895 Contract Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosytem 1036 Some Other Ancillary Esports Legal and Business Topics 171

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Book SynopsisThis book covers execution of mega industrial projects especially in oil and gas industries covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and performance testing. It enumerates various tasks and deliverables under each discipline and sub-disciplines to define the detailed scope of work, supplies and services, as per level III of Prima Vera Schedule developed from the contract-based schedule. It gives an overall idea of how a project rolls out from commencement date to initial acceptance and executed practically with total contractorâs scope of work broken down into tasks/activities at level III platform, while highlighting that support for fool proof project execution.Table of ContentsSECTION I PLANNING AND EXECUTION IN LEVEL 3. 1. Management, Control and Administration. 2. HSE, Social and Security. 3. Services and Facilities to Owner. 4. Engineering. 5. Procurement and Supply. 6. Transport, Logistic and Storage. 7. Construction. 8. Pre-Commissioning. 9. Commissioning, Start-up and Performance Test. 10. Temporary Facilities. SECTION II COMMERCIAL ASPECTS. 11. Commencement Date and Effective Dates. 12. Extension of Time. 13. Professionally Handling Large Claims. 14. Prolongation and Disruption Costs. 15. Penalty/Interest for Payment Delays. 16. Force Majeure. 17. Concurrent Delays. 18. Hedging against Currency Fluctuations. 19. Indemnity. 20. Consequential, Indirect Damages. 21. Laws and Regulations. 22. Escalation. 23. Liens. 24. Total Liability. 25. Payment Terms. 26. Planning. 27. Progress Measurement. 28. EOT claim. 29. Interpretation Rules. 30. Change/Variations/Trend Notices. 31. Contract Price below Floor Price and Consequences. 32. Owner’s Delay on Document Approval. 33. Insurances. SECTION III TECHNICAL ASPECTS. 34. Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA). 35. Consequences of Delayed Rigless Test on Wells (Owner Delays). 36. Strategy for using Non-Spec Feedstock for Commissioning. 37. Gas In and Authority Check points. 38. Value Engineering. 39. Design Defect, Construction Defect and Damages. 40. NDT (Non-Destructive Testing). 41. Destructive Testing. 42. Hydrostatic Leak Test. 43. Heavy Lift Load Sharing for Cranes. SECTION IV GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS, NAMES AND MEANING. APPENDIX. 1. Project Organization. 2. Contract Price Weight Factor. 3. Monthly Status Report Contents. 4. Material Requisition Cycle(MR). 5. FEED Deliverable List. 6. Process Block Flow Diagram. 7. Document Categories. 8. Claims and Liens Release Letter. 9. Prolongation and Disruption Cost: Hudson formula. 10. A typical list of Procedures and Plans. 11. Total Plant Break down into Areas.

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Book SynopsisInformation and Knowledge Organisation explores the role of knowledge organisation in the digital humanities. By focusing on how information is described, represented and organised in both research and practice, this work furthers the transdisciplinary nature of digital humanities.Including contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and the Middle East, the volume explores the potential uses of, and challenges involved in, applying the organisation of information and knowledge in the various areas of Digital Humanities. With a particular focus on the digital worlds of cultural heritage collections, the book also includes chapters that focus on machine learning, knowledge graphs, text analysis, text annotations and network analysis. Other topics covered include: semantic technologies, conceptual schemas and data augmentation, digital scholarly editing, metadata creation, browsing, visualisation and relevance ranking. Most importantly, perhaps, thTrade Review“This book represents a high-level work aimed at researchers and academics in the areas of digital humanities, cultural heritage informatics and information science, as well as professionals in libraries, archives and museums (LAMs), with a focus on the fundamental theories, models and best practices in knowledge organisation. It contains research articles and experiments by authors who have been recognized as experts in the field and are at the forefront of national and international collaborations. Each of the chapters constitutes a unique and innovative contribution. Put together, this monograph represents one of the most important areas of research in this field in the 2020s.” -- Marcia Lei Zeng, Kent State University, USA."Over the last two decades, the Digital Humanities has passed its emerging and evolving stages and now rapidly approaches a more advanced and sophisticated realm of its development as a mature and multidisciplinary area of research and practice. At the same time, scholars and practitioners in this new territory need a range of well-established theories, tools and techniques to collect, organise, share, and generate information and knowledge related to their activities and achievements. This book is a timely response to this urgent need at various levels. It provides an informative and insightful vision towards the applicability and transferability of information and knowledge organisation scholarship for the progress of Digital Humanities. Information professionals, students, and scholars across the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) will find the book informative and enlightening. Furthermore, it shows how they can collaborate with scholars and practitioners in the Digital Humanities projects and contribute to the further advancement of this area." -- Yazdan Mansourian, School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia. "This is the first book that addresses the role of information and knowledge organization (IKO) in digital humanities (DH). The book chapters provide snapshots of how information can be organized in various contexts in digital humanities. Organizing cultural heritage collections in digital environments is addressed in topics such as the creation and adoption of conceptual models and metadata standards, the incorporation of linked open data, approaches to enriching metadata, and the aggregation and interoperability of metadata across cultural heritage collections. Several chapters were devoted to managing digital humanities resources for preservation and reuse, and examples of semi-automated and automated approaches to supporting knowledge organization for improved access, discovery and navigation of digital humanities materials. These diverse topics are discussed from the international perspectives. The book may inspire the researchers of the two fields (IKO and DH) to study knowledge organization methods for processing digital humanities materials and humanities-driven knowledge organization approaches, and may also encourage the collaboration of the researchers in the two fields. The book may also be useful to information professionals in managing digital humanities resources." ~ Yejun Wu, Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Louisiana State University, USA.”This volume comes as an extremely timely contribution to bridge the gap between knowledge organisation and digital humanities fields. Their points of convergence are very apparent but still - especially considering that information studies, the home discipline of knowledge organisation, has been increasingly active in digital humanities community - there has been little comprehensive work to bring the two together in dialogue. Golub and Liu's volume takes an important step to this direction by lining up a highly international and diverse collection of chapters shedding light to major contexts where knowledge organisation plays a crucial role in and for digital humanities research and vice versa.” ~ Professor Isto Huvila, Department of ALM, Uppsala University, Sweden.Table of ContentsForeword; Preface; Chapter 1: Knowledge Organisation for Digital Humanities: An Introduction; PART I. MODELLING AND METADATA; Chapter 2: Modelling Cultural Entities in Diverse Domains for Digital Archives ; Chapter 3: Collection-Level and Item-Level Description in the Digital Environment: Alignment of Conceptual Models IFLA LRM and RiC-CM ; Chapter 4: Linked Open Data and Aggregation Infrastructure in the Cultural Heritage Sector: A Case Study of SOCH, a Linked Data Aggregator for Swedish Open Cultural Heritage; Chapter 5: A Semantic Enrichment Approach to Linking and Enhancing Dunhuang Cultural Heritage Data; Chapter 6: Semantic Metadata Enrichment and Data Augmentation of Small Museum Collections Following the FAIR Principles; Chapter 7: Digital Research, the Legacy of Form and Structure and the ResearchSpace System; PART II. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; Chapter 8: Research Access to In-copyright Texts in the Humanities; Chapter 9: SKOS as a Key Element for Linking Lexicography to Digital Humanities; Chapter 10: Linked Data Strategies for Conserving Digital Research Outputs: The Shelf Life of Digital Humanities; PART III: PLATFORMS AND TECHNIQUES; Chapter 11: Heritage Metadata: A Digital Periegesis; Chapter 12: Machine Learning Techniques for the Management of Digitised Collections; Chapter 13: Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage through Browsing; Index.

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Book SynopsisAbolitionist Leadership in Schoolsoffers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring, and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and communities in crisis. Though often associated with sudden, large-scale disruptions, crises are ongoing mattersparticularly among systemically-oppressed peoplethat underscore the planning voids, resource inequities, marginalizing policies, and strategic lapses of any teaching and learning community while perpetuating students' social-emotional, psychological, and pedagogical traumas. This expansive book guides school leaders to providepre-emptive, premeditated, and progressive leadership while countering the impacts of racism that endure in our schools. Working from an abolitionist lineage, author Robert S. Harvey's radically humane vision explores lessons from our collective national past, provides strategic planning with creativities and contingencies, and fostersliberatorydecision-Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Ongoing Pursuit 1. Take Refuge in How: An Abolitionist Approach to Communal Consciousness in Teaching, Learning, and Care 2. A Tree with Roots: Probing American History to Situate an Abolitionist Approach to Crisis 3. Survival Is Not an Academic Skill: Radically Humanizing Trauma as a Means of Power in Navigating Crisis 4. Knowing People and Place: Strategic Planning for Communal Consciousness 5. The Danger of Acting: Making Decisions as Acts of Resistance at the Risk of Resentment 6. Just Say the Thing: Communicating Clearly, Directly, and Humanely 7. Asking a Lot of All: Reimagining Accountability for the Sake of the Community Conclusion: A New Way, a New World, a New Song

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Book SynopsisThis important book chronicles, responds to, and advances the leading theories in the public relations discipline. Taking up the work begun by the books Public Relations Theory and Public Relations Theory II, this volume offers completely original material reflecting public relations as practiced today. It features contributions by leading public relations researchers from around the world who write about new developments in the field. Important subjects include: a turn to more humanistic, social, dialogic, and cocreational perspectives on public relations; changes in the capacity and use of new information technologies; a greater emphasis on non-Western international and intercultural public relations that considers an increasingly politically polarized culture; and issues of ethics that look beyond how clients and the traditional mass media are treated and into much broader questions of voice, agency, race, identity, and the economic and political status of puTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: In the Age of Publics Chapter 2. In the Age of Publics: Evolving Understandings of Theory and Publics Chapter 3. A "Public" by Any Other Name: Reclaiming Publics Theory, and Liberating Publics From "OPR" Chapter 4. Theorizing Digital Engagement in Public Relations Chapter 5. Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS): A Foundational Theory of Publics and its Behavioral Nature in Problem Solving Chapter 6. Applying the Network Perspective to Public Relations Theory and Practice Chapter 7. Development of Intercultural Public Relations Theory Chapter 8. Agenda Building Through Community Building: Theorizing Place and Digital Space in Grassroots Activist Public Relations Chapter 9. Dialog Theory in Public Relations Chapter 10. Capturing the Complexity and Dynamism of Decision Making in PR: The Contingency Theory of Strategic Conflict Management Chapter 11. Crisis Communication Theory: Emergence of a Vibrant Sub-Field of Public Relations Theory Chapter 12. Digital Crisis Communication Theory: Current Landscapes and Future Trajectories Chapter 13. Social theory in Public Relations: Insights and Directions Chapter 14. The IDEA Model Theoretical Framework: An Explication of Risk Communication as Engaged Public Relations 15. Public Relations in a Postdisciplinary World: On the Possibility of Establishing a Constitutive Theory Within the Tribal Struggles of Communication Disciplines Chapter 16. Introduction and Advances in Feminist Theory in Public Relations Chapter 17. Critical Race Theory, Identity and Public Relations Chapter 18. Public Relations Theory Development In China: In the Areas of Dialogic Communication, Crisis Communication, and CSR Communication Chapter 19. Culture and Dialog Theory in Public Relations: The Middle Eastern Context Chapter 20. European School of Public Relations: Origins,Main Traits, and Theoretical Contributions Chapter 21. Public Relations Theory in Latin American Culture And Context: A Post-Colonialist Perspective Chapter 22. Inviting an Ubuntu-Based Approach to Public Relations Theory Building in Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter 23. Health Communication Theory in Public Relations Chapter 24. Relationship Management Theory: Its Past, Present, and Future Chapter 25. Media Relations: Research, Theory, and the Digital Age Chapter 26. The Implications of Character Assassination and Cancel Culture for Public Relations Theory Chapter 27. Strategic Issues Management: A Rhetorical Theoretical Perspective on Contestable Questions of Place Chapter 28. Theoretical Models for Corporate Social Media Use Chapter 29. A Theoretic Perspective on the Evolution of Ethics Chapter 30. Reflections on the Evolving Theories of Public Relations

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Book SynopsisBusiness transfer' refers to the transfer of ownership and leadership from one or more outgoing owner-manager(s) to one or more incoming owner-manager(s). Apart from all the company''s material assets, it presupposes that information, relationships, know-how and social capital are also transmitted from one to the other.  While much of the research on entrepreneurship has focused on new business ventures, few studies have considered business transfers as an alternative way of embarking on entrepreneurial activities. Business Transfers, Family Firms and Entrepreneurship provides the international community with a more comprehensive state-of-the-art of business transfer studies, which will enrich readers' understanding. The business transfer is examined through different prisms: family businesses, internal business transfers to employees, external business transfers, and woman in business transfers.  This book deals with business transfer as a whole, foTable of ContentsPart 1. Definitions. 1. Business transfer: Historical perspectives, definitions and the transfer process Bérangère Deschamps. 2. Revisiting the entrepreneurial exit decision process: A decision-making model Marie-Josée Drapeau, Maripier Tremblay. Part 2. Family business transfers. 3. Emotions in family business succession Soumaya SFEIR. 4. Family business transfer: A stressful event for successors Florence Guiliani, Luis Cisneros. 5. The making of family entrepreneurs: How heirs become entrepreneurs and take over a family business Paulette Robic, Dominique Barbelivien, Nicolas Antheaume. 6. Succession and family business in between emotional and financial issues: The role of governance with a two-tier system Céline Barrédy. 7. Succession and strategic renewal in family firms: Insights from a French family firm Didier Chabaud, Mariem Hannachi, Hedi Yezza. Part 3. Internal business transfers to employees. 8. Towards a better understanding of SME employee buyouts Catherine Thévenard-Puthod, Cédric Favre. 9. Is a workers cooperative an effective means for transferring SMEs? Marie-Christine Barbot-Grizzo. Part 4. External business transfer. 10. A research framework for external business transfers of SMEs Bérangère Deschamps, Susanne Durst. 11. The legitimacy of the external successor: Issues and means of acquisition Lyès Mazari, Sandrine Berger-Douce, Bérangère Deschamps. 12. From outsider to insider: Organisational socialisation in takeover situations Sonia Boussaguet. 13. How to effectively support external buyers in a post-business transfer situation? Catherine Thévenard-Puthod. Part 5. Women in business transfers. 14. Family as an institution to investigate the role of women in the transfer of family businesses Paulette Robic. 15. Gender and succession in the family business Christina Constantinidis. 16. Daughters: Invisible heroes of family businesses? Audrey Missonier, Annabelle Jaouen, Béatrice Albert. 17. Female external successors: Difficulties during the business transfer process and types of support required Bérangère Deschamps, Catherine Thévenard-Puthod.

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Book SynopsisInvertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach is a comprehensive and authoritative textbook adopting an explicitly phylogenetic organization. Most of the classical anatomical and morphological work has not been changed â it established the foundation of Invertebrate Zoology. With the explosion of Next-Generation Sequencing approaches, there has been a sea-change in the recognized phylogenetic relationships among and between invertebrate lineages. In addition, the merger of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo) has dramatically contributed to changes in the understanding of invertebrate biology. Synthesizing these three approaches (classical morphology, sequencing data, and evo-devo studies) offers students an entirely unique perspective of invertebrate diversity.Key Features One of the first textbooks to combine classical morphological approaches and newer evo-devo and Next-Generation Sequencing approaches to address InvertebrTable of ContentsPrologue. Introduction to Invertebrate Zoology. How to Study Invertebrates. Invertebrate Phylogenomics. Modern Invertebrate Systematics: The Phylogenetics of Early Metazoa. Organizing Invertebrates. Introduction to the Invertebrate Tree of Life. Choanoflagellata and others. Placozoa. Porifera. Ctenophora. Cnidaria. Scyphozoa. Anthozoa. Hydrozoa. Myxozoa. Bilataria. Platyhelminthes. Chaetognatha. Gastrotricha. Rotifera. Gnathostomulida, Micrognathozoa and Cycliophora. Lophotrochozoa. Mollusca. Annelida. Ectoprocta and Phoronida. Nemertea. Acanthocephala. Entoprocta. Ecdysozoa. Crustacea. Hexapoda. Chelicerata. Myriapoda. Onychophora. Nematoda. Tardigrada. Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha. Deuterostomea. Echinodermata. Xenoturbellida. Chordata - Topic Invertebrate Chordates. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisShipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at this major industry under private enterprise, then under state control, and finally back in private hands.The chapters trace the evolution of public policy regarding shipbuilding, ship repair, and large marine engine building through the tenures of radically different Labour and Conservative governments, and through the response of the board of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, trade unions, and local management also. The book benefits from comprehensive archival research and interviews from the 1990s with leading players in the industry, as well as politicians, shipbuilders, trade union leaders, and senior civil servants.This authoritative monograph is a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers across the fields of business history, economic history, industrial history, labour history, maritime Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. British shipbuilding under the Labour government, 1966–70 2. British shipbuilding under the Conservative government, 1970–74 3. The long road to nationalisation of shipbuilding under two Labour governments, 1974–77 4. British Shipbuilders: the first two years under a Labour government 5. British Shipbuilders under the Conservative government, 1979–83 6. Privatisation of British Shipbuilders under two Conservative governments, 1983–90 Conclusions Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book endeavours to highlight the untapped potential of Smart Agriculture for the innovation and expansion of the agriculture sector. The sector shall make incremental progress as it learns from associations between data over time through Artificial Intelligence, deep learning and Internet of Things applications. The farming industry and Smart agriculture develop from the stringent limits imposed by a farm's location, which in turn has a series of related effects with respect to supply chain management, food availability, biodiversity, farmers' decision-making and insurance, and environmental concerns among others. All of the above-mentioned aspects will derive substantial benefits from the implementation of a data-driven approach under the condition that the systems, tools and techniques to be used have been designed to handle the volume and variety of the data to be gathered. Contributions to this book have been solicited with the goal of uncovering the possibilities of engaging Table of ContentsMachine learning and deep learning in agriculture, Descriptive and predictive analytics of agricultural data using machine learning algorithms, Discrimination between weed and crop via image analysis using machine learning algorithm, Bio-inspired optimization algorithms for machine learning in agriculture applications, Agricultural modernization with forecasting stages and machine learning, Classification of segmented image using increased global contrast for Paddy plant disease, IOT in agriculture: Survey on technology, challenges and future scope, Role of IoT in sustainable farming, Smart farming: Crop models and decision support systems using IOT, Smart irrigation in farming using internet of things, Automation systems in agriculture via IOT, A complete automated solution for farm field and garden nurture using internet of things, Machine intelligence techniques for agricultural production: Case study with tomato leaf disease detection, Clock signal and its attribute for agriculture.

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Book SynopsisThe K-12 Educator's Data Guidebook is a comprehensive field guide for school professionals learning to use data. Non-data people, rejoice! Requiring no prior proficiency in data tools and programming, this book validates the implicit challenges of learning to use data to empower educators and features original real-world examples from in-service educators to illustrate common problem-solving. Each chapter uses stories, humor, and a human approach to set the tone for a safe and fun learning experience. Through this highly practical foundation, everyday educators can better engage school initiatives, professional development, and instructional challenges that require competent data use for improving school systems.Trade Review"When it comes to data in education, The K-12 Educators Data Guidebook addresses the elephant in the room: experts other than classroom teachers use data to make important decisions about what teachers and students do. Ryan Estrellado’s key argument is that data use can be accessible and meaningful teachers. Highly readable and invitingly humorous, this book will become a foundational resource for educators looking power up their use of data. It will also provide researchers, data analysts, and policymakers with a lens to consider what a more humane data literacy in K-12 educational contexts could look like."—Joshua Rosenberg, Assistant Professor of STEM Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA"My parents, career educators, believed that only central office administrators used data. They never imagined that they could use data to improve their teaching, to address disparities, and to empower their students. I wish this book had existed when they were in the classroom. It provides an approachable guide for all educators to understand and harness the power of data for good."—Miriam Greenberg, Director of the Strategic Data Project at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, USA"The K-12 Educator's Data Guidebook provides concrete examples, reflections, and activities to help educators accurately and effectively interpret, describe, and use data. Well-organized and accessible even to new users of data, this excellent resource is filled with valuable insights on how to use data to answer specific questions in schools."—Cara Jackson, Senior Associate in the Social and Economic Policy Division at Abt Associates"Grounded in Ryan Estrellado’s practical experience, this book provides accessible tools for using data to inform decision making in schools."—Amanda Datnow, Professor of Education Studies at University of California San Diego, USA"Some people might pick up this book because they think it is 'good for them' to understand how to use data for advancing the goals of K-12 schools. When they read it, they'll get a deeper, more personal, and, dare I say, more fun experience than they bargained for. Ryan Estrellado helps us recognize that data can transform how we see the world. I am excited for teachers and administrators to read this book because they will be able to unlock their data-driven superpowers to understand our students and systems better. They, too, can become data storytellers, improving the K-12 experience for students, teachers, and communities based on insights from data."—Ji Son, Professor of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, USATable of ContentsPart 1: You and Data: A Relationship 1. Discovering Your Data Gifts 2. Why Tests Aren’t Enough 3. Rewriting Your Data Story 4. Time is the Problem Part 2: Your Data Field Guide 5. Charts 6. Tables 7. Student-Level Data 8. Accountability Data Part 3: Process Made Practical 9. Using Data Questions 10. Practical Is Personal 11. Reflect and Revise Part 4: A New Direction 12. When Intuition and Data Meet 13. Go Deep, Go Wide, Go Out

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Book SynopsisReal Estate Investment: A Strategic Approach introduces professional and technical approaches to building and managing large real estate portfolios. The new edition has been fully rewritten and reorganised and includes five new chapters, 25 new international case studies and a renewed focus on topics such PropTech (property technology), innovation and ESG.Andrew Baum outlines the market and the players who dominate it; the investment process; the vehicles available for investment; and an approach to global portfolio construction, pricing and performance measurement. The book contains many useful features for students, including numerous boxed examples drawing on international cases, a glossary, and chapter summaries. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students on all real estate and property courses and related business studies and finance courses, Real Estate Investment is designed to provide a foundation for the next generation of investment manTable of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE MARKET 1. Introduction: real estate – the asset class 2. The market – and who makes it 3. Market fundamentals and rent PART 2: THE INVESTMENT PROCESS 4. Pricing real estate and the investment process 5. Portfolio theory and risk 6. Development 7. Asset management 8. Capital structure: equity and debt PART 3: INVESTMENT VEHICLES 9. Real estate funds 10. Structured real estate investment and options PART 4: BUILDING PORTFOLIOS 11. International real estate investment 12. Real estate strategy - theory into practice PART 5: MEASURING PERFORMANCE 13. Performance measurement and attribution PART 6: THE FUTURE 14. The future of real estate investment

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Book SynopsisThis book examines leadership and management in natural resources, drawing on literature, principles, and the author's own experiences as a leader and activist. Developing a general framework summarizing the leadership and management cycle in natural resources for practitioners, the book provides a synthesis of leadership theory and practice stemming from the personal and spiritual values of work, and the key principle of aligning organizational resources and actions with stated intentions. It discusses the somewhat unique context of natural resources, comprised of private and public goods and services and complex societal values. Key strategies that enable natural resource professionals to be leaders at all stages and positions in their career, including vision and sustainability, proficient human resources management, fairness and merit, and transparency and openness are analyzed. Case studies of famous natural resource leaders and activists, including Ding Darling, David ATrade Review"This book offers a comprehensive review of the leadership and management literature. In addition, it tells the story of leaders, including the author, who have given their lives to caring for and protecting the natural resources that we all hold in common. We owe them all a debt of gratitude."Peter Block, Organization Development Consultant, Author, The Empowered Manager"Fred Cubbage is as frank, as he is knowledgeable. Bucking the closed door, top only, leadership style, he instead trusts the entire team with an open door and open plan to align vision and achieve success. Cubbage brings decades of natural resource experience with him as he shares within Natural Resource Leadership and Management for Practitioners, a thoughtful compendium on best practices in natural resource leadership."Mary Ellen Aronow, Director, Forest Economics, Hancock Natural Resource Group"Because we like nature we are taking up natural resource leadership. Fred Cubbage draws this conclusion out of his life experience that is full of active engagement in forestry. Being a brilliant researcher Fred shows well applicable, science-based tactics for leaders and illustrates those by lively examples. A great book to become better prepared for jumping into leadership challenges wherever you are in your career!" Max Krott, Professor for Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany"In this book, Dr. Cubbage has provides a valuable collection of principles and perspectives on leadership in natural resources that have not existed before. First, it is the confluence of two scholarly rivers, one being key principles from iconic management gurus and the other being key philosophies of iconic conservation leaders. Second, it details his personal applications of these principles and philosophies through his life as an honored practitioner, manager and leader in natural resources and in several contexts. In this way, his book is also a rare glimpse into the real-world trials and travails of an everyday leader who chose to step into the arena in the finest tradition of Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot." Tom Davidson, Forester, MBA, MS Organizational Development, Leadership Nature"In times like today, times of great change, natural resource practitioners must cultivate — intentionally grow — their personal abilities to lead people and manage resources well. Highly effective skills to lead and manage well are needed now more than ever in natural resource-related professions. I highly recommend this book for that personal cultivation and growth, but I recommend the book specifically for facilitated, small group or class discussions. The insights provided are best internalized by facilitated discussions followed by personal reflection, which is high octane fuel for personal growth in this essential field."Steve Bullard, former forestry professor, department chair, and dean, and recently retired as provost, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFred Cubbage provides a thoughtful examination of organizational management as well as his own examples of leadership applications in forestry and natural resources. Fred has succinctly highlighted honest cases of challenges that other conscientious natural resource professionals are likely to encounter during their career, as well as pitfalls and rewards associated with their leadership. An excellent read for any professional looking to improve their leadership skills while fulfilling their broader mission in the environmental field.Christa Rogers, Natural Resource Manager, Mecklenburg County Parks System"Armed with about four decades of professional involvement, Dr. Cubbage communicates about many natural resource management phenomena. Based on case studies, he perceptively analyzes practitioners’ pragmatic management and leadership roles. For multidimensional natural resources’ attributes, the distinguished economist developed a simplified leadership and management model and examined key scenarios: Identify missions, develop objectives and strategies, develop infrastructure, employ and lead personnel, measure performance, and evaluate success."Chris Zinkhan, Chairman, The Forestland Group"The book, Natural Resource Policy, written by Fred Cubbage and others has become the standard for teaching policy to undergraduate resource management students for many years. This new book takes the lessons gained from the first book and provides students with the tools to engage in the development and implementation of resource policy. The main examples in the book are gleaned from the author’s personal experience and provide a fascinating array of problems that resource managers and administrators are likely to face in their careers. A great introduction to the ideas of leadership that many will benefit from."David H. Newman, Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)"Professor Cubbage delivers a masterpiece on natural resources leadership. The book fills a critical void in the literature, adding academic gravitas to a topic usually left to conservation activists, and folding natural resources into a subject usually left to the business school crowd. Topics like "Shady Approaches" and "Wicked Problems" offer the reader a sobering look at common leadership pitfalls, and highlights the need for the leadership models, principles, and tools that Cubbage shares.The work is robust and thoughtful, drawing on Professor Cubbage’s deep understanding of natural resources policy and informed by his many years of professional and academic leadership. The book is surprisingly accessible while delivering depth of understanding (and great stories) that will delight leadership beginners and experts alike.Students of policy, management, and leadership will find Cubbage engaging while imparting decades of practical wisdom with relative ease and without pretention. The combination of powerful stories to inform and reinforce key concepts and accessible writing will make this a standard guide for a new generation of leaders trying to make sense of a complex and complicated system. Aspiring leaders would be wise to add Cubbage to their reading list."Damian C. Adams, Ph.D., J.D., Professor, Natural Resource Policy & Economics, Associate Dean for Research, University of Florida"Conventional wisdom has it that forestry professionals are people who grow and harvest trees. Yet the profession is so much more and has evolved to a point where foresters must manage for a plethora of environmental, social and economic objectives regardless of their employer. This is tough stuff and Dr. Cubbage does a fantastic job in speaking to what it takes to make good management decisions. Forestry professionals and those who care about forestry will greatly benefit from this comprehensive, refreshing and no holds barred look at being a leader." Tom Tuchmann, US Forest Capital"This book offers a comprehensive review of the leadership and management literature. In addition, it tells the story of leaders, including the author, who have given their lives to caring for and protecting the natural resources that we all hold in common. We owe them all a debt of gratitude."Peter Block, Organization Development Consultant, Author, The Empowered Manager"Fred Cubbage is as frank, as he is knowledgeable. Bucking the closed door, top only, leadership style, he instead trusts the entire team with an open door and open plan to align vision and achieve success. Cubbage brings decades of natural resource experience with him as he shares within Natural Resource Leadership and Management for Practitioners, a thoughtful compendium on best practices in natural resource leadership."Mary Ellen Aronow, Director, Forest Economics, Hancock Natural Resource Group"Because we like nature we are taking up natural resource leadership. Fred Cubbage draws this conclusion out of his life experience that is full of active engagement in forestry. Being a brilliant researcher Fred shows well applicable, science-based tactics for leaders and illustrates those by lively examples. A great book to become better prepared for jumping into leadership challenges wherever you are in your career!" Max Krott, Professor for Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany"In this book, Dr. Cubbage has provides a valuable collection of principles and perspectives on leadership in natural resources that have not existed before. First, it is the confluence of two scholarly rivers, one being key principles from iconic management gurus and the other being key philosophies of iconic conservation leaders. Second, it details his personal applications of these principles and philosophies through his life as an honored practitioner, manager and leader in natural resources and in several contexts. In this way, his book is also a rare glimpse into the real-world trials and travails of an everyday leader who chose to step into the arena in the finest tradition of Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot." Tom Davidson, Forester, MBA, MS Organizational Development, Leadership Nature"In times like today, times of great change, natural resource practitioners must cultivate — intentionally grow — their personal abilities to lead people and manage resources well. Highly effective skills to lead and manage well are needed now more than ever in natural resource-related professions. I highly recommend this book for that personal cultivation and growth, but I recommend the book specifically for facilitated, small group or class discussions. The insights provided are best internalized by facilitated discussions followed by personal reflection, which is high octane fuel for personal growth in this essential field."Steve Bullard, former forestry professor, department chair, and dean, and recently retired as provost, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFred Cubbage provides a thoughtful examination of organizational management as well as his own examples of leadership applications in forestry and natural resources. Fred has succinctly highlighted honest cases of challenges that other conscientious natural resource professionals are likely to encounter during their career, as well as pitfalls and rewards associated with their leadership. An excellent read for any professional looking to improve their leadership skills while fulfilling their broader mission in the environmental field.Christa Rogers, Natural Resource Manager, Mecklenburg County Parks System"Armed with about four decades of professional involvement, Dr. Cubbage communicates about many natural resource management phenomena. Based on case studies, he perceptively analyzes practitioners’ pragmatic management and leadership roles. For multidimensional natural resources’ attributes, the distinguished economist developed a simplified leadership and management model and examined key scenarios: Identify missions, develop objectives and strategies, develop infrastructure, employ and lead personnel, measure performance, and evaluate success."Chris Zinkhan, Chairman, The Forestland Group"The book, Natural Resource Policy, written by Fred Cubbage and others has become the standard for teaching policy to undergraduate resource management students for many years. This new book takes the lessons gained from the first book and provides students with the tools to engage in the development and implementation of resource policy. The main examples in the book are gleaned from the author’s personal experience and provide a fascinating array of problems that resource managers and administrators are likely to face in their careers. A great introduction to the ideas of leadership that many will benefit from."David H. Newman, Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)"Professor Cubbage delivers a masterpiece on natural resources leadership. The book fills a critical void in the literature, adding academic gravitas to a topic usually left to conservation activists, and folding natural resources into a subject usually left to the business school crowd. Topics like "Shady Approaches" and "Wicked Problems" offer the reader a sobering look at common leadership pitfalls, and highlights the need for the leadership models, principles, and tools that Cubbage shares.The work is robust and thoughtful, drawing on Professor Cubbage’s deep understanding of natural resources policy and informed by his many years of professional and academic leadership. The book is surprisingly accessible while delivering depth of understanding (and great stories) that will delight leadership beginners and experts alike.Students of policy, management, and leadership will find Cubbage engaging while imparting decades of practical wisdom with relative ease and without pretention. The combination of powerful stories to inform and reinforce key concepts and accessible writing will make this a standard guide for a new generation of leaders trying to make sense of a complex and complicated system. Aspiring leaders would be wise to add Cubbage to their reading list."Damian C. Adams, Ph.D., J.D., Professor, Natural Resource Policy & Economics, Associate Dean for Research, University of Florida "Conventional wisdom has it that forestry professionals are people who grow and harvest trees. Yet the profession is so much more and has evolved to a point where foresters must manage for a plethora of environmental, social and economic objectives regardless of their employer. This is tough stuff and Dr. Cubbage does a fantastic job in speaking to what it takes to make good management decisions. Forestry professionals and those who care about forestry will greatly benefit from this comprehensive, refreshing and no holds barred look at being a leader." Tom Tuchmann, US Forest CapitalTable of Contents1. The Leadership and Management Cycle in Natural Resources 2. Natural Resource Leadership Principles 3. Conservation Leaders from Ding Darling to Greta Thunberg 4. Natural Resource Context: Goods and Services, Professionals, and Careers 5. Key Leadership Tools and Approaches in the Management Cycle 6. Two Leadership Cases from Government and Nongovernment Organizations 7. Environmental Activism to Stop the Hofmann Forest Sale 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the barriers to women's economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women's economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre's (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women's care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child mTrade Review"With research syntheses on topics including labour markets, care, macroeconomic issues, and social norms, along with diverse case studies from many countries, Women’s Economic Empowerment: Insights from Africa and South Asia represents a vital new contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender inequality and the dynamics of economies in low-resource settings." -- Ruth Levine, CEO, IDinsight, USA"This edited volume presents cutting-edge research on women’s economic empowerment from diverse settings in the Global South. Through an examination of the gendered continuities, disruptions, and contradictions in the social and economic status of women in developing countries, it demonstrates why structural gender inequalities may persist despite individualised advancement of some women and what can be done about it." -- Bipasha Baruah, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Women’s Issues, Western University, Canada"Does economic growth promote gender equality? Based on rigorous primary research in 50 countries in the developing world, the answers from this ambitious research program reflect the context-specificity of gender relations and the complex relationships among labour markets, social norms, and care work to identify options for programmes and policy." -- Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women Programme Part I: Conceptualizing the Relationship Between Economic Growth and Gender Equality 1. Gender Equality, Inclusive Growth, and Labour Markets Part II: Syntheses of Grow-Supported Research on Women’s Economic Empowerment 2. Stalled Progress 3. Macroeconomics and Gender 4. Developing Care 5. Gender, Social Norms, and Women’s Economic Empowerment Part III: Evidence from Grow-Supported Case Studies in Developing Country Contexts 6. A Mine of One’s Own? 7. Picturing Change Through Photovoice 8. Paid Work and Unpaid Care Work in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda 9. Women’s Labour Force Participation in Sri Lanka’s North 10. The School-To-Work Transition for Young Females in Sub-Saharan Africa Conclusion: Programming and Policy Lessons and Future Research Priorities for Women’s Economic Empowerment

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Book SynopsisCapitalist agriculture relies heavily on the pollination work of bees, but this system harms bees in innumerable ways. Indeed, human agriculture is one of the main culprits for the declining populations of wild bees and the declining health of honeybees. This book presents a political ecology of pollination that critically examines how managed honey bees and wild bees are harmed by capitalist agriculture.The book focuses on the three most urgent problems: the standardization and simplification of landscapes through monocultures; the use of pesticides including neonicotinoids, other insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides; and the embeddedness of commercial, migratory beekeeping in the capitalist agriculture system which, among other things, has the potential to spread pests and pathogens across continents. At the heart of this crisis is the power and influence that a small group of agrochemical corporations have over national and international agricultural policy. The book a

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Book SynopsisWhat does sustainable business and net zero carbon emission mean for businesses globally? How should companies globally transform into sustainable businesses with net zero carbon emissions? This book unpacks the institutional, organisational and management challenges in pursuing sustainable business and carbon neutrality for businesses.In this book, Henry K. H. Wang, an internationally recognised Climate and Business expert, provides real-life cases across different countries and business sectors. He outlines potential policy implications and strategy options for companies to consider in their transitions to sustainable business practices. He also explores important new global developments in smart cities, green transport and carbon solutions, and how the adoption of sustainable finance and green investments can accelerate businesses transformation.This book will appeal to anyone interested to learn more about the successful planning and execution of sustainable busineTrade Review"This latest book from global expert Henry Wang is another example of his absolutely detailed and inspiring knowledge of the critical issues in relation to this topic. Henry makes it clear what the challenges and opportunities are. He has expounded these in a body of work that leaves the reader so much better informed."Simon Haigh, BA (Hons Law Dunelm), MBA, GAICD, FAIM; Managing Director & International Lawyer, Leading International Executive Coach and Global Growth Strategist"Another pearl released to the world; Author Henry Wang puts forth the critical place we are in the world with climate issues. Henry is a world renowned and respected voice for the issues in this great book and his perspective is on-point and relevant."H.E. Ambassador Terry Earthwind Nichols, Chairman, Evolutionary Healer, LLC, Leading International Executive Coach and Keynote SpeakerTable of Contents1. Impacts of Climate Change on Sustainable Business 2. Sustainable Business Transformation Developments 3. International Policy Developments on Climate Change 4. Sustainable Net Zero Strategies of Key Countries 5. Corporate Strategy Developments by Sector 6. Developments in Clean Energy Transition 7. Developments in Sustainable Transport 8. Developments in Sustainable Smart Cities 9. Developments in Sustainable Finance and Green Investment 10. Carbon Reductions and Net Zero Carbon Solutions

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Book SynopsisThe Nature of the Nonprofit Sector is a collection of insightful and influential classic and recent readings on the existence, forms, and functions of the nonprofit sectorâthe sector that sits between the market and government. The readings encompass a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines and cover everything from Andrew Carnegieâs turn-of-the-century philosophy of philanthropy to the most recent writings of current scholars and practitioners. Each of the textâs ten parts opens with a framing essay by the editors that provides an overview of the central themes and issues, as well as sometimes competing points of view. The fourth edition of this comprehensive volume includes both new and classic readings, as well as two new sections on the international NGO sector and theories about intersectoral relations. The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector, Fourth Edition is therefore an impressively up-to-date reader designed to provide students of nonprofit and public management with a thorough overview of this growing field.Trade ReviewPraise for the Fourth Edition:"Ott and Dicke have done a great service to our field by editing The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector and its companion volume on micro approaches Understanding Nonprofit Organizations. By providing content on macro and micro understandings of leading and managing in the sector, students of nonprofit organizations have a concise understanding of the field at their fingertips." – Roseanne M. Mirabella, The Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector QuarterlyPraise for previous editions:"Ott and Dicke should be applauded for their outstanding efforts, which bridge the macro and micro levels of the nonprofit sector for the first time and consequentially enrich the intellectual understanding of the field."—Public Administration Review, Vol. 73, Issue 1, January/February, 2013"The editors have done the work for you―if you want to understand the theories behind the nonprofit sector, this is the book to read."—Joanne Carman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte"[A] wonderful collection of readings, eminently suitable for introductory courses as well as great starting point for more advanced students and scholars. Theory and practice, national and international, and current and historical perspectives are all embraced in this valuable book."—Dennis R. Young, Georgia State UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1. Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector. 1.1 Roles and Responsibilities of Nonprofit Organizations in a Democracy. 1. 2. Democratic Governance and Institutional Logic within the Third Sector (or How Habermas Discovered the Coffee House). 1. 3. The Idea of A Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector. Part 2. The U.S. Nonprofit Sector's Historical Evolution, Distinctive Values, and Contributions to Society. 2.1 History and Theories of Nonprofit Organizations . 2.2 The Impact of the Voluntary Sector on Society. 2.3 The Gospel of Wealth. 2.4 Critical Perspectives on the History and Development of the Nonprofit Sector in the United States. Part 3. The NGO Sector Internationally - Nonprofit Organizations across Nations. 3. 1 International Trends in Government- Nonprofit Relations. 3.2 The Internationalization of the Nonprofit Sector. 3.3 International Assistance. Part 4. Tax-Exemption and Tax-Deduction. 4.1 Tax-Exempt Organization. 4.2 A Political Theory of Philanthropy. 4.3 Why Are Nonprofits Exempt from the Corporate Income Tax? Part 5. Economic Theories of the Nonprofit Sector. 5.1 Ownership and Organizational Forms Henry. 5.2 Market Failure. 5.3 Contract Failure Theory. 5.4 Government Failure. 5.5 Economic Theories of the Social Sector. Part 6. Political Theories of the Nonprofit Sector. 6.1 The Constitution of Citizens. 6.2 The Influence of Nonprofit Organizations on the Political Environment. 6.3 Insider Status and Outsider Tactics. Part 7. Community and Civil Society Theories of the Nonprofit Sector. 7.1 Bowling Alone: Thinking about Social Change in America. 7.2 Civil Society as a Public Sphere. 7.3 Civil Society as Associational Life To Empower People. Part 8. Theories of Relations within and between Sectors. 8.1 The Point of Partnering. 8.2 Government-Nonprofit Cooperation. 8.3 Public-Private Partnership in Turbulent Times. 8.4 Comparing New Hybrid Governance Arrangements. Part 9. The Nongovernmental (NGO) Sector in Countries around the World and Why They Differ. 9.1 A Cross-National Philanthropic Puzzle. 9.2 Global Perspectives on the Legal Framework for Civil Society and Relational Governance. 9.3 Organizations That Straddle the State-Society Divide. 9.4 Nonprofit Legislation in China.

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