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Book SynopsisAs we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution and usher in Globalization 4.0, it is more urgent than ever to commit to social and environmental goals such as those outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The theory, research, and practice of concepts such as shared purpose, shared value, and corporate social responsibility have evolved rapidly in order to respond to change and transformation in society, but only in a scattershot, poorly understood way, with no single study offering an integrated view of these dramatic transitions. Emphasizing a global perspective, CSR for Purpose, Shared Value and Deep Transformation takes long-overdue stock of how such transformations are integrated within the trajectory of CSR's core concepts. Taking a deep dive into social entre- and intrapreneurship, innovation, shared value, social impact, stakeholder engagement, and the development of the UN SDGs beyond 2030 Virginia Munro provides a framework for understanding the evolving role of the corporate dollar in the pursuit of a global ecosystem that is more inclusive of all stakeholders. For its theoretical rigor as well as its easily digestible case studies, this book is a must-read for both researchers and students of innovative 'preneurship' and CSR-related concepts, and for those struggling to understand the 'new normal' in a setting for 'new responsibility'. The foreword for this book is written by acknowledged CSR guru and Emeritus Professor Archie Carroll. Additional endorsements supporting this book are supplied by various practitioners and academics including ex-Deputy-Director General of UNESCO and Emeritus Professor Colin Power.Table of ContentsChapter 1. CSR Historical and Emerging Themes of CSR and Related Terms Chapter 2. The Emergence of CSR Social Initiatives in a Research Setting Chapter 3. The Universal Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Purpose and Change Chapter 4. Creating Shared Value (CSV) for Social Initiatives and Shared Purpose Chapter 5. Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Solving Wicked Challenges Through CSR Chapter 6. The Future of CSR and the New Ecosystem for CSR 4.0 Chapter 7. Overall Summary and Conclusion

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Book SynopsisResearch in Personnel and Human Resources Management serves as the premier annual series dedicated to the exploration of cutting-edge topics in the field of human resources management. This volume publishes theoretical and conceptual advancements in the field of human resources management related to leadership, the power of dyadic relationships in leadership development, ethical decision-making, prosocial advocacy for healthcare organizations, discrete incivility, mindfulness, and technological adaptations in employee selection.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Is leadership more than “I like my boss”?; Francis J. Yammarino, Minyoung Cheong, Jayoung Kim, Chou-Yu Tsai Chapter 2. Mindfulness and Relationships: An Organizational Perspective; Lillian T. Eby, Melissa M. Robertson, and David B. Facteau Chapter 3. Dyads of politics and the politics of dyads: implications for leader development; Wayne a. Hochwarter, Ilias Kapoutsis, Samantha L. Jordan, Abdul Karim Khan, and Mayowa Babalola Chapter 4. The future of unions in the United States; Gayle Hamilton and Marick F. Masters Chapter 5. Prosocial Advocacy Voice in Healthcare: Implications for Human Resource Management; Soo-Hoon Lee, Thomas W. Lee, and Phillip P. Phan Chapter 6. Discrete Incivility Events and Team Performance: A Cognitive Perspective on a Pervasive Human Resource (HR) Issue; Arieh Riskin, Peter Bamberger, Amir Erez and Aya Zeiger Chapter 7. HR Research and Practice from a Deonance Perspective; Robert Folger and Steven W. Whiting Chapter 8. Using Computer-Assisted Text Analysis (CATA) to Inform Employment Decisions: Approaches, Software, and Findings; Emily D. Campion and Michael A. Campion

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Book SynopsisDecades of stagnating demand for beer and the emergence of global brewing conglomerates had seen many of Britain’s longstanding breweries disappear and a decline in the diversity of beer styles on offer. However, following similar developments in the USA and Australia, the emergence of new craft breweries in the UK, producing small batch beers in an ever-increasing range of styles has re-vitalised the industry. Supporting employment both within brewing and hospitality while contributing to the cultural and economic fabric of society, the emergence of this craft beer revolution deserves greater scholarly attention than it has received to date. Researching Craft Beer enhances theoretical and practical understandings of craft beer both within the UK and beyond. This edited collection is interdisciplinary in nature and will appeal to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts of craft beer. Chapters authored from a range of business, sociology and law perspectives examine the production, sale, values, serving and cultural significance of craft beer. The volume offers insights for aspiring and present owners of breweries, those looking to open a craft beer bar as well as other beer researchers the volume offers a prescient assessment of historic, present, and likely future developments within the sector.Table of ContentsForeword; Thomas Thurnell-Read Chapter 1. Introduction: Researching Craft Beer; Holly Patrick-Thomson, Daniel Clarke, Vaughan Ellis, and David Weir Part 1. Making and Selling Craft Beer Chapter 2. Behind the Beer: An Examination of ‘Entrepreneurial’ Motives for Starting a Craft Brewery; Vaughan Ellis and James Richards Chapter 3. Strategies for Success? Market Entry Strategies of New Craft Beer Producers; Des Quinn, Vaughan Ellis, and James Richards Chapter 4. Illuminating Craft Brewers’ Experiences of Dealing with Covid-19 and Making Fresh Sense of what Covid-19 can do To/For Craft Beer: An Intègraphic Approach; Daniel Clarke, James Bowden, and Keith Dinnie Chapter 5. The Artful Science of Crafting Ale: Discussing the Finer Nuances of Making and Selling Beer; Victoria Ellis-Vowles Part 2. Values of Craft Beer Production Chapter 6. Collaborative Resistance: How a Craft Beer Scene was built through Sharing and Nurturing Relationships; James Cunningham and Simon S. Fraser Chapter 7. The Promise and Perils of taking Craft Beer International; Pavlina Jasovska Chapter 8. Talking Equity, Taking Action: A Conversation with Jess Griego of Bosque Brewing; Eli R. Wilson Part 3. Serving Craft Beer Chapter 9. Assessing Quality in Craft Beer: Style Guides and Taste Descriptions in Beer Judging Practice; Steven Wright Chapter 10. From ‘Wet Led’ to ‘Dry Led’: Food and the Contested Framing of Alcohol Establishments; Jed Meers Chapter 11. From Connoisseur to Community: The Evolution of the Brewery Tap Room; Phil Mellows Part 4. Craft Beer Communities Chapter 12. Come One, Come All? The Impact of Craft Breweries on Revitalisation and Community-Building; Perttu Salovaara Chapter 13. Motivations Behind Craft Beer Online Buying Habits among Italian Millennials; Sergio Rivaroli, Martin Hingley, and Roberta Spadoni Chapter 14. Instagram Vs Reality: Chatting Craft Beer Communities with Roy Herd of The Blunt Chisel Brewery; Holly Patrick-Thomson

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Book SynopsisRisk assessment and risk management are essential across the public sector to improve processes and outcomes. However, there is little clarity over what this actually means. This lack of understanding leads to a wide variation in risk assessment and management practice and to miscommunications of risk across professions, creating further barriers to interprofessional practice and co-creation of value across the public sector. Despite these challenges, there is a concurrent expectation that risk assessment and risk management be carried out across the sector to the highest standard, which inevitably becomes problematic. Conceptualising Risk Assessment and Management across the Public Sector explores concepts and applications of risk across the public sector to aid risk professionals in establishing a clearer understanding of what risk assessment and management is, how they might be unified across the sector, and how and where deviations across professions are needed. This book addresses these issues through providing a theory-informed discussion on the conceptualisations of risk, risk assessment, and risk management across the public sector, and through identifying where shared values and where differences exist across professions. Guidance on interprofessional risk practice and risk communication to overcome barriers is offered using a combination of theoretically underpinned approaches and exemplars from practice, presented to have broad applicability across the public sector rather than being siloed within a specific professional grouping or theoretical paradigm.Table of ContentsChapter 1. What is Risk? Chapter 2. Risk Assessment: The Three Eras of Risk Assessment Chapter 3. Risk Management Chapter 4. Risk Communication Chapter 5. Impacting on Decision Making and Outcomes Chapter 6. Inter-Professional Risk Practice and Co-Creation of Value in the Public Sector Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisWhen Leadership Fails is a critical examination of the worst workplace experiences for the purpose of individual, group and organizational learning. Professionals from various industries unpack personal encounters associated with a range of toxic leadership behaviors, using theory, these examples are turned into critical lessons.

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Book SynopsisNGO managers in the developing world play a crucial role in reaching diverse high-risk groups. Yet to date there has been no empirical study of what makes these managers effective. Here Farhad Analoui and Shehnaz Kazi present the first qualitative, empirical insights into this key question. Focusing specifically on managers of HIV/AIDS NGOs in India - one of the world’s largest developing nations - this book considers how such managers are perceived by outsiders, how their work is or could be influenced by government-level intervention or international-policy-level drivers such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and how such managers perceive issues that influence their ability to manage their organisations effectively. Through individual, collective, and focus-group interviews with managers and staff at four NGOs, the authors build a startlingly rich picture of aid workers’ and managers’ fears and hopes. From this data, the authors confirm eight parameters of effectiveness, three interrelated contextual factors, and discover a culturally adjusted new framework for analysis of the NGO managers behaviour at work. For its wealth of qualitative empirical data with broad-ranging implications for all developing countries, Managing NGOs in the Developing World is a must-read for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in the intersections between human resource management, international development, and sustainable development.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Managerial Effectiveness Chapter 2. Managing HIV/AIDS in India Chapter 3. Methodology of a Taboo topic Chapter 4. Identified Parameters and Contextual Influences of Effectiveness for NGO Managers Chapter 5. Conclusions: Findings and their Implications

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Book SynopsisThe ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of actors to accomplish the first 16 goals. Only through such partnerships can the distributed knowledge, resources and capacity of government agencies, private enterprises, political activists, local communities, and international NGOs be effectively combined to produce the major breakthroughs in sustainability that the SDGs envision. Co-Creation for Sustainability sets out a strategy of partnership, with an emphasis on how global goals can be translated into local action. Co-creation brings multiple parties together—including citizens—to collaboratively engage in innovative problem-solving. The book explains this strategy and describes how to foster the conditions necessary for its success. It details how leaders can spur co-creation and manage and overcome its practical challenges. Written to inspire public and private changemakers to find fundamental solutions to the pressing challenges that confront our social and natural environment, Co-creation for Sustainability: The UN SDGs and the Power of Partnerships provides intellectual resources and practical advice relevant for those who aspire to harness the talents, energy and perspectives of different sectors to build the momentum we need to realize a sustainable future.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Co-creating the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Chapter 2. The Key Role of Local Governance in Achieving the SDGs Chapter 3. Co-creation is the Answer Chapter 4. Translating Global Goals to Local Contexts Chapter 5. Building Co-creation Platforms Chapter 6. Convening, Empowering and Integrating Relevant and Affected Actors Chapter 7. Initiating, Designing and Diffusing Co-created Innovation Chapter 8. Co-creating SDGs through Experimentation and Prototyping Chapter 9. Funding and Financing Local Co-creation Projects Chapter 10. Implementing Solutions Based on Collaborative Adaptation Chapter 11. Evaluating Processes, Outputs and Outcomes to Learn and Improve Chapter 12. Ensuring Accountable Co-creation of the SDGs Chapter 13. Leading Local Co-creation of SDG Solutions Chapter 14. Challenges to the Co-creation of the SDGs and the Way Forward

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Book SynopsisMaking Money in Forwarding provides a road map for how to be a successful forwarder, and make a great career in forwarding and logistics. It covers all aspects of what a freight planner must know, and do, in order to be successful. Readers will learn how to avoid common industry pitfalls and how to focus on profit, cost control, negotiation skills and building customer rapport. The book also shows just how profitable a company in this somewhat unglamorous industry can be, if it is led the right way, thus creating potential for enormous amounts of wealth for investors and employees alike. Written by two industry insiders; having a unique mix of hands-on daily practical experience, and the perspective from the Chief Executive Office, they share all of their insights in a way that concepts and actions can easily be applied and taken advantage of.

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Book SynopsisThroughout history, selling and entertainment have gone hand in hand - from the medieval pedlar and the medicine show, to generations of TV commercials featuring song and dance, comedy, and cartoon animals, right up to today’s celebrities who launch their own multi-million dollar brands. There are good reasons for this; we now understand better than ever before the psychological and sociological reasons why apparent frivolity creates serious business benefits. And yet the advertising business today seems reluctant to embrace its powerful links with popular culture. Misled on one side by managerial myths of rationality and logic, and on the other by a cultish misunderstanding of ‘creativity’, it risks forgetting how to appeal to the public, and how to build successful brands. As a result, evidence suggests, today’s advertising is less liked and less effective than ever before. But it is not too late to reverse this trend. Advertisers and agencies who read this book will rediscover why the pedlar sings, and despite what we’ve all been told, why people do buy from clowns. They will be inspired to make their advertising more popular, more famous, more fun again – and much more effective. ‘This is a fabulous book. ...It is possibly the book I would most highly recommend to anyone in marketing.’ Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy

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Book SynopsisPutting a modern spin on some childhood stories, Safety Fables for Today introduces Zac and the Beanstalk, cautioning against dropped objects and falls from height; a Perilous Porridge Pot, overflowing with oats and useful insights on preventing loss of containment; a Super-Sized Swede presenting big manual handling challenges, and updated versions of many other familiar tales too. In embarking upon this journey, Laura J Cahill draws on the power of storytelling, helped by a liberal sprinkling of fairy dust and the company of some fictional folk along the way, providing fresh thought for those seeking to properly manage their activities, and a gentle bedtime read for anyone else with a passing interest in the field of health and safety. Needless to say, there’s more to these tales and their characters than first meets the eye – not least because of the insights they offer to organisations seeking to control real-world risks, reinvigorate health and safety agendas, and secure happy endings of their own. Through understanding the messages conveyed by these fictional players and addressing these within their own workplace settings, readers can play their part in ensuring that beyond simply living happily, workers remain injury-free, enjoy good health, and live safely ever after too.

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Book SynopsisJohn Howard utilises his forty-year career in property to provide an enlightening read about the challenges of buying property. Whether it is your first home or fifth, this book is a product of the purchase of around 4000 properties, and all the experience that comes along with it.Covering the entire process, from how to get prepared before you arrange to view properties, to completing on a purchase and beyond. Whilst also offering detailed and practical guidance on the particular challenges that afflict different styles of home.This book includes information on. Getting your team together Mortgages explained Viewing all different types of property including apartments and listed buildings The questions you should be asking Negotiating successfully How to get from agreeing to purchase to completion Avoiding numerous pitfalls What to look out for on different types of properties Things to consider when buying in the city, town and countryside Building and maintenance issues ...and much more!

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Book SynopsisMastering climate change has been recognised as a major challenge for the current decade. Besides the physical risks of climate change, the accompanying economic risks are substantial. Carbon Finance: A Risk Management View provides an in-depth analysis of how climate change will affect all aspects of financial markets and how mathematical and statistical methods can be used to analyse, model and manage the ensuing financial risks. There is a focus on the transition risk (termed carbon risk), but also a discussion of the impact of physical risks (as these risks are closely entangled) on the way to low carbon economies. This is a valuable overview for readers seeking an analysis of carbon risks from the perspective of financial risk management, utilising quantitative risk management tools.

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Book SynopsisWhile humanity continues to grapple with COVID-19 and its ramifications, Beyond COVID-19: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Outcomes on Diverse Fields provides a unique opportunity to foresee the repercussions of the pandemic across a range of fields through the lens of chaos and complexity theory. This book takes COVID-19 as a holistic event, providing an interesting analysis of this chaotic phenomenon with the contributions of multidisciplinary scholars. The expert views within this book come from a wide range of fields, from international relations to education and from sociology to law.Unique in terms of its content and contributions, the chapters within explore the various consequences of COVID-19 with the aim of attracting the attention of researchers, postgraduate students, practitioners, and policymakers.

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Book SynopsisStock Markets and Corporate Finance: A Primer examines the nature of the stock market and its implications for corporate management. In the historical context of financial institutions and business finance, students are stimulated to learn that traditional totems of corporate finance can no longer be presented as dogma, but rather as exceedingly frail models of reality. At the core of this text is the philosophy that financial institutions and corporate/business finance are more satisfactorily understood in relation to one another.This revised text from the 2017 Stock Markets and Corporate Finance has allowed for a reshaping of the material with the deletion of a number of chapters considered 'interesting' but overly academic. This additional space has allowed for an update on the chapter 'Financial Institutions and a History of Stock Markets' as well as accounting for the circumstances of a post-COVID-19 era. The chapter 'Financial Planning and Working Capital' has been reworked to demonstrate how a firm's financial management team might interrogate its financial accounts to assess the viability of the firm and the management of its working capital.From reading this book, the reader will achieve insight into the behaviour and importance of financial institutions and firms as they are presented in the media, and how they impact on their own lives. Exercises and solutions are designed to re-enforce chapter material, while animated PowerPoint presentations are available as supplementary material to the book.

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Book SynopsisModern Finance and Risk Management is dedicated to our colleague, academic mentor, and adviser Professor Hermann Locarek-Junge. During his academic career, Hermann Locarek-Junge published several important contributions to the field of risk management and portfolio management and served as the chairman and board member of the German Finance Association (DGF) and the Data Science Society (Gesellschaft für Klassifikation).A short foreword by the mentors of Hermann Locarek-Junge and an introduction by the editors mark the beginning of the Festschrift. The first section on Modern Finance includes chapters on asset management, entrepreneurship, and behavioural finance. The second section on Modern Risk Management contains seven contributions covering considerations of risk measurement, risk management, and regulation. Finally, the third section includes topics on commodities and energy finance.This Festschrift comprises 20 original contributions of notable scholars in finance who have worked with Hermann Locarek-Junge over the last four decades. Due to numerous connections to practice and applications, Modern Finance and Risk Management is relevant and attractive not only to academics and researchers but also to practitioners in industry and banking.

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Book SynopsisA product's design is based on what customers want and how much they are willing to pay for it determines its quality. The production process is supposed to achieve the required quality. Due to the natural process variation the quality of a product or service varies. Thus, quality can be defined as fitness for intended use or, in other words, how well the product performs its intended function. It is a written or unwritten commitment to a known or unknown consumer in the market. Quality management ensures that a product or service is fit for its purpose. It has three main components: quality planning, quality control and quality improvement. Quality management is focused not only on product and service quality, but also on the means to maintain it. Quality management, therefore, uses quality control tools to achieve more consistent quality.This book aims to provide the readers with the essential practical knowledge and understanding of quality-related issues to make correct decisions faster. Hence, they can effectively contribute to a modern dynamic production environment.The book covers the essential tools used in quality control and quality management. There are a lot of practical questions and answers on quality.

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Book SynopsisWelcome to the secretive club of modern hedge funds, where important players in the world of investing and capital markets have invested close to $4 trillion globally.If you're intrigued by the inner workings of hedge funds, investment techniques and technologies they use to source investment alpha, this book is for you. Focusing on the author's three decades of trading experience at leading banks and hedge funds, it covers both discretionary and computer-driven strategies and perspectives on AI-based and quantamental investing using new alternative data, which includes numerous examples and insights of real trades and investment strategies. No mathematical knowledge is required, with the relevant algorithms detailed in the appendices.Discretionary investing details equity and credit investing across the corporate capital structure. Through trading equities, bonds and loans, event-driven trades can target profitable special situations and relative value opportunities. Systematic trading involves computer-driven strategies derived from a scientific and statistical analysis of liquid markets. The investment strategies of both commodity trading advisors (CTAs) and long/short equity funds are detailed, from trend-following to factor-based approaches. AI investing is fashionable but does the reality for hedge funds correspond to the AI hype present in other non-financial domains? AI using neural nets and other machine learning techniques are outlined along with their practical application in regards to investing.Quantitative Hedge Funds also discusses environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, which has rapidly evolved as the public and institutions demand solutions to global problems such as climate change, pollution and unethical labour practices. ESG investment strategies are migrating out of the long-only space and into hedge funds.Finally, the advent of big data has led to multiple alternative datasets available for hedge fund managers. The integration of alternative data into the investment process is discussed, together with the rise of so-called quantamental investing, a hybrid of the best of human skill and computer-based technologies.Related Link(s)

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Book SynopsisIn contrast to non-financial firms, banks have undergone significant turbulence in the past decade, enduring severe financial crises and unprecedented regulatory reforms. New regulations, including heightened capital and liquidity requirements, measures to address regulatory migration, resolution authority, stress testing, and capital planning, have spurred the development of new tools to manage institutional failure. The primary goal has been to reduce the likelihood of poor performance and improve stock market valuations to restore public confidence in the industry. The banking industry plays a vital role in global economic and financial stability and is subject to intense regulatory and market scrutiny. Financial instability can be very costly for banks due to its spillover effects on other parts of the economy. Therefore, a sound, stable, and healthy financial system is essential for efficient resource allocation and risk distribution across the economy.This is the first book that comprehensively addresses a range of contemporary issues in the global banking industry, providing a thorough understanding of the challenges and opportunities faced by the sector. The book examines how banking business models, effective policies, and regulations can address these issues, covering corporate governance, asset-liability management, risk management, financial performance, and regulatory frameworks. The potential benefits of alternative banking models, including Islamic banking, and their contribution to global financial stability and resilience are also explored.Contributions from international scholars using both quantitative and qualitative methods provide new insights, recent findings, and perspectives on future bank stability and resilience in a global context. The book also presents updated evidence and debates on the impact of recent regulations and governance structures on the industry, which has undergone significant changes in response to financial turmoil and new laws and regulations aimed at enhancing bank resiliency, protecting against systematic risks, and promoting fair and ethical banking practices.

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Book SynopsisSolar Power Finance Without the Jargon introduces financial concepts through a lively history of the solar industry, and cuts through the main areas of mystique and misinformation about solar technology and projects. With extensive experience in answering questions from clients in the solar, finance and energy industries, Chase focuses on the practical and financial aspects of solar power, making this book suitable for those wanting to work in clean energy or who have a strong interest in the subject, particularly those without a business background.Since the first edition was published in 2019, solar capacity has only grown bigger and cheaper, opening up new markets. Most significantly, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, igniting an energy crisis across the world which made countries glad of any renewable energy capacity they had built, as well as amplifying calls for a diversified and resilient global supply chain for renewable energy components. This second edition of Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon is considerably more detailed and optimistic about batteries and hydrogen. It extensively updates readers on the rapidly-changing price and energy landscape, the latest industry thinking on the effects of large volumes of renewable energy on the grid and the path to deep decarbonisation of human civilisation.

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Book SynopsisConstantly bandied about, 'crisis' has tended to be a much-overused word. Understanding the economy and its future challenges requires a detailed and precise analysis of what an economic crisis is. This book sets out to do just that. It first provides a deep historical context of what economic theory says about crises and their perpetual return in the form of a cycle. It then looks at what lessons might be learned from such cycles. Since 1945, the world economy has been dominated by the United States, so an analysis of recent crises must necessarily consider public policy response in this country. Decoding Economic Crises attempts to answer the question of whether American leadership has emerged unscathed from the damage inflicted by the 1975, 1992, 2009 and 2020 recessions and their legacies of debt.Looking forward to the future, there is a particular focus on environmental change. The book interrogates whether devastating crises might ensue, reminiscent of the 'nutritional trap' theorised by Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton. Finally, Decoding Economic Crises asks if there will be a return to times of extreme scarcity as seen prior to the mid-18th century.

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Book SynopsisAs more of our lives are spent interacting digitally sending and receiving payments, interacting on social media, using certified delivery, playing games online, and generally participating in the digital world the fair exchange of our digital belongings becomes increasingly essential.This book delves into the theory of fair exchange, from the historic to the cutting-edge, and presents a unified framework for understanding fair exchange protocols. Every exchange starts with a handshake, which is followed by four additional operations: deposit; verification; synchronization; and release or restoration. The environments in which these operations take place determine the properties of the resulting protocol, and the characteristics of the items that can be exchanged.Existing protocols are examined through this framework, including escrow-based protocols, optimistic protocols, and gradual release protocols. A new family of fair exchange protocols is developed which make use of attestables, a novel interface for exfiltration-resistant computing. An attestable-based protocol called FEWD is also introduced and several variations are described which are suitable for the exchange of different classes of items.Finally, a number of special topics for fair exchange are introduced, including legal issues that can emerge in practical applications of fair exchange, a legal analysis of the basic operations of fair exchange, commercial applications of FEWD, and an analysis of additional risks including participant expectations and implementations of attestable-based protocols. We conclude with a collection of topics for future research in making fair exchange more ubiquitous in our lives for a fairer digital world.

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Book SynopsisUpdated and revised, this fifth edition incorporates recent developments in the environment in which agriculture operates. Issues that have gained prominence since the previous edition (2014) include climate change and agriculture's mitigating role, concern with animal welfare, the social contributions that agriculture makes, risks associated with globalization, and rising concern over sustainability. Important for UK and EU readers are the adjustments needed now that the UK is no longer a member of the European Union and the nature of the national policies developed to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Containing all the major economic principles with agriculture-specific examples, An Introduction to Economics, 5th Edition provides a rounded and up-to-date introduction to the subject. The inclusion of updated chapter-focused exercises, essay questions and suggestions for further reading make this textbook an invaluable learning tool. This book: Is updated to include new developments, such as Brexit, importance of climate change and animal welfare. Includes exercises and essay questions. Suggests further reading to supplement the text. This book is recommended for students of agriculture, economics and related sectors.Table of Contents1 : What is Economics? 2 : Explaining the Behaviour of Individuals: Theory of Consumer Choice 3 : Demand and Supply: the Price Mechanism in a Market Economy 4 : Markets and Competition 5 : Production Economics: Theory of the Firm 6 : Factors of Production and their Rewards: Theory of Distribution 7 : Market Failure: Some Problems of Using the Market to Allocate Resources 8 : Macroeconomics: the Workings of the Whole Economy 9 : International Trade 10: Government Policy for Agriculture and Rural Areas

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Book SynopsisKiwifruit is one of the few fruit crops that has been successfully introduced to the marketplace and for which commercial production in several countries has expanded rapidly over the last 50 years. Kiwifruit science and production has advanced significantly during this time, with multiple new green-, yellow- and red-fleshed cultivars being commercialized while moving into the era of genomics, sustainability, digital technology and automation. This book reviews the scientific and technical information published on kiwifruit, their biology and management. It provides a comprehensive reference on kiwifruit, including their history, genetic material, culture, physiology, pest and disease control, and fruit consumption. Particular attention is given to recent threats and opportunities, including environmental issues, the disease Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae, new genetics, new growing areas and technology advances. Contributions from a wide range of international specialists ensure coverage of key aspects of kiwifruit and their culture in different environments.Of particular interest to academic researchers in horticulture, the book is also suitable for a wider audience including extension personnel, growers, consultants, and professional and technical staff associated with the kiwifruit industry.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between technology and social transformation in tourism, hospitality and gastronomy. It presents research and case studies, elaborating on benchmark practices adopted by tourism and hospitality professionals.In recent years, technology has transformed the tourism and hospitality industry; the chapters in this book cover areas such as guest experience and service quality, as well as operational areas such as housekeeping and waste management.Further social transformation in tourism is a result of drivers such as a growing interest in gastronomy and the use of social media; this is covered in the first part of the book. The second part outlines how communities may learn from these events.With contributions from academics, entrepreneurs, destination managers and government officials from the South Asia region, this book offers a real insight in to these areas of growing interest and provide a useful resource for those researching and studying within the areas of tourism development and hospitality.

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to sustainable events management theory and practice, based on academic research and illustrated with empirical case studies. The book provides a comprehensive view of sustainable management and how it relates to the many sectors within the events industry. It emphasises the fundamental importance of local communities, businesses and stakeholders to events organisation in regional, national and international locations. It brings into focus international governing bodies, and national government strategic objectives as the corner stones for sustainable development in the events sector. The relationship between strategic objectives and on-the-ground operational responsibilities are presented using research by contributing authors and accredited organisations to add scope and depth. Best-practice case studies are used throughout the book to highlight and explain particular sustainable management issues and practices. The scope of the book is inte

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Book SynopsisWith 16 chapters covering science communication skills, the editor and author of this book, Dr Charles Wendo, has used his detailed knowledge of the field to consult leading editors and journalists across Africa. Providing examples, learning activities, graded and ungraded quizzes to facilitate learning, the content has been tried and tested by lecturers at two universities in Nigeria and Uganda by using it to help successfully train thousands of students in science communication. Each chapter includes hands-on advice on the practice of science journalism, with learning activities to deepen the learner's understanding of the topic. The book also includes five academic systematic review papers that identify, review and synthesize available literature and experiences on science journalism and communication issues in Africa. It also includes a case study detailing the experience of Uganda's Makerere University in introducing science journalism and communication into their undergraduate and post-graduate curricula. This book is ideal for students of science journalism and communication and those wanting to improve the understanding of science, particularly in Africa.Table of ContentsPart I: Theory and experience Chapter 1: What is scientific research and how is it conducted? Chapter 2: Theories and models of science communication Chapter 3: Current status and future of science communication in Africa Chapter 4: Science communication in Uganda: revising a university curriculum to meet the needs Chapter 5: Thinking across boundaries: interdisciplinarity as the basis of science journalism Chapter 6: The place of science in the African newsroom Part II: Science journalism practice Chapter 7: Working with scientists Chapter 8: Getting a story from an original research paper Chapter 9: Getting a science story from technical reports Chapter 10: Advanced technical skills for science reporting Chapter 11: Reporting science responsibly Chapter 12: Simplifying scientific facts, numbers and statistics Chapter 13: Packaging a science story Chapter 14: Bringing a science story to life Chapter 15: Interrogating science Chapter 16: Earning a living from science journalism

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Book SynopsisTourism as a Resource-based Industry presents the conceptual framework of the Norwegian economic geographer Sondre Svalastog and functions as a practical tool for analyzing and identifying resources when working towards a more sustainable tourism industry. Tourism resources and their sustainability are analysed through the lens of a multidisciplinary approach which includes social, economic, cultural and natural dimensions. Contextual awareness is achieved by combining research-based knowledge with local know-how and information on local conditions. The book facilitates a way forward that examines both productivity and sustainability. The usefulness and value of Svalastog's conceptual work is demonstrated by a selection of new case studies by experts in the field, from different countries including Sweden, Norway, Slovenia, and the UK. This book: - Identifies local conditions and resources, climate change concerns, different types of tourists and a variety of challenges in high-cost and low-cost countries. - Considers how best to maximise potential and production, ensuring that both the host community and tourist benefits. - Provides a wide-ranging selection of case studies covering topics such as urban heritage, national parks, niche tourism and location-specific tourism products. - Presents ideas on how to secure sound planning within the industry, using conceptual and methodological tools. Tourism researchers and students will find this book helpful for understanding the development of tourism and how it can contribute to the UN Agenda 2030 which reflects the urgency for change, to secure cultural and natural resources, health and social resilience, and the stability of a socially constructed economy. Thus, tourism research needs to include a constant review and if required, renewal of processes that manage how society, culture and natural resources are used to achieve a balanced sustainable tourism process.Table of Contents1: Introduction: A resource approach to tourism. Anna Lydia Svalastog, Ian Jenkins and Dieter K. Müller. Section 1: Tourism as a Resource-based Industry. 2: Tourism in local communities. Sondre Svalastog. 3: Localization of tourism. Sondre Svalastog. 4: About resource analyses. Sondre Svalastog. 5: On the production process and international competitiveness. Sondre Svalastog. Section 2: Case Studies. 6: National parks, protected areas and tourism labor markets in Arctic Sweden. Dieter K. Müller. 7: The competitive power in the Norwegian and local tourist industry. Børge Dahle. 8: Norwegian salmon fishing tourism: Only a resource-based tourism product? Øystein Aas, Stian Stensland & Sjur Baardsen. 9: Postmodernist niches in tourism development. Ian Jenkins. 10: Living environment and attractiveness. Lars Aronsson. 11: Heritage trails through Dolenjska and Bela krajina in Slovenia: Tourism entrepreneurship in action and stakeholders’ relationship. Marko Koscak. 12: The post-industrial urban landscape: Heritage resources enhancement in urban renewal: The case-study of Central Birmingham (UK). Anthony S.Travis. 13: Rethinking tourism development: Theoretical perspectives -Concluding synopsis. Ian Jenkins.

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Book SynopsisTheories within tourism can be difficult, even confusing areas to understand. Developed from the successful Portuguese textbook Teoria do Turismo, Tourism Theory provides clear and thorough coverage of all aspects of tourism theory for students and researchers of tourism. Consisting of five sections and over fifty entries, this book covers nine of the most important models in tourism study. The first three sections examine general concepts in tourism; disciplines and topics; and the tourist, which includes areas such as demand, gaze, psychology and typologies. A fourth section covers intermediation, distribution and travel, reviewing aspects such as travel agencies, tourist flows and multi-destination travel patterns. The final section encapsulates the tourism destination itself, covering organizations, the destination image, supply, seasonality and more. Encyclopedic cross-referencing between entries makes navigation easy, while in-depth analysis, exercises and further reading suggestions for each of the selected areas provide the context and detail needed for understanding. Entries can be used individually as a reference, or as part of the whole for a complete introduction to tourism theory.Table of Contents-: Introduction Section 1: Concepts 1.1: General systems theory and tourism 1.2: Hospitality 1.3: Leisure 1.4: Entertainment 1.5: Recreation 1.6: Tourism and travel 1.7: Food and beverage 1.8: Events 1.9: Landscape 1.10: Authenticity in tourism Section 2: Disciplines and Topics of Study 2.1: Jafari’s interdisciplinary model 2.2: Ethics in tourism 2.3: The anthropology of tourism 2.4: Culture and tourism 2.5: Postmodernity and tourism 2.6: Psychology and tourism 2.7: The sociology of tourism 2.8: Boullón’s theory of touristic space 2.9: Nodal functions 2.10: Tourism public policy 2.11: Tourism planning 2.12: Tourism balance of payments 2.13: Tourism satellite account 2.14: The tourism multiplier effect 2.15: Tourism administration 2.16: Tourism clusters 2.17: Tourism marketing 2.18: The economics of tourism companies 2.19: Sustainability in tourism Section 3: The Tourist 3.1: Tourism demand 3.2: Tourist experience 3.3: Determinant and motivational factors 3.4: Crompton’s destination-choice model 3.5: Schmöll’s tourism consumer choice model 3.6: Urry’s theory of the ‘tourist gaze’ 3.7: Plog’s psychographic model 3.8: Traveller typologies 3.9: Klenosky and Gitelson’s conceptual model on travel agent recommendation process Section 4: Intermediation, Distribution and Travel 4.1: Tourism distribution channels 4.2: Travel agencies 4.3: Computer reservation system 4.4: Mariot’s model of tourist flows 4.5: Campbell’s model of recreational and vacational travel 4.6: Multi-destination travel pattern models 4.7: Defert’s tourist function index 4.8: Pearce and Elliott’s trip index 4.9: Transport and tourism mobility Section 5: The Tourism Destination 5.1: Tourism destinations 5.2: Tourism organizations 5.3: Tourism destination image 5.4: Resorts 5.5: Butler’s model (tourism destination life cycle) 5.6: Prideaux’s resort-development spectrum 5.7: Tourism supply 5.8: Tourism services and facilities 5.9: Tourism infrastructure 5.10: Tourist attraction 5.11: Lodging establishments 5.12: Seasonality

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Book SynopsisResearch delivers a multitude of approaches to value creation, represented here as a set of definitions, perspectives and interpretations of how tourists, as customers, create value alone and with others. Now updated throughout, Creating Experience Value in Tourism, 2nd Edition provides a clarification of these approaches as well as a practical translation as to how they can work within industry. Including a framework to distinguish among key resources or antecedents of customer value, this new edition: - Introduces the concept of co-creation of value in the tourist experience, looking at the definitions, structures and models available; - Provides a new chapter addressing value creation and resource configuration; - Considers consumer behaviour and factors affecting value creation from both physiological and psychological perspectives; - Introduces a new full colour internal design to aid understanding. Concluding with a summary of the areas for future research, this is a key resource for researchers, particularly those interested in experience value and co-creation, as well as a useful read for students of tourism and related industries.Table of Contents1: Co-creation of Tourist Experience: Scope, Definition and Structure 2: Dynamic Drivers of Tourist Experiences 3: Tourist Experience Value: Tourist Experience and Life Satisfaction 4: Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in the Tourism Context 5: Why, Oh Why, Oh Why, Do People Travel Abroad? 6: Self-congruity Theory in Travel and Tourism: Another Update 7: Moving People: a Conceptual Framework for Understanding How Visitor Experiences can be Enhanced by Mindful Attention to Interest 8: Co-creation of Experience Value: a Tourist Behaviour Approach 9: Authenticity as a Value Co-creator of Tourism Experiences 10: Experience Co-creation Depends on Rapport-building: Training Implications for the Service Frontline 11: Approaches for the Evaluation of Visitor Experiences at Tourist Attractions 12: Storytelling in a Co-creation Perspective 13: Tourist Information Search: A DIY Approach to Creating Experience Value 14: Co-creation of Value and Social Media: How? 15: Prices and Value in Co-produced Hospitality and Tourism Experiences 16: Value Creation: a Tourism Mobilities Perspective 17: Guide Performance: Co-created Experiences for Tourist Immersion 18: Value Creation and Co-creation in Tourist Experiences: an East Asian Cultural Knowledge Framework Approach 19: Perspectives on Value Creation – Resource Configuration 20: Value Co-creation: Challenges and Future Research Directions

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Book SynopsisAddressing a dearth of literature in this area, this book provides a comprehensive overview and framework of study of the politics of religious tourism. Existing work shows awareness that politics is present but the approach has been one of benign neglect, and/or a priori assumptions about the role of politics in the management of sacred sites. Previous literature is fragmented into various perspectives and approaches that best serve different disciplinary interests. By understanding the politics of religious tourism through the various perspectives and approaches from the discipline of political science, law, public policy, and other fields, this book: Focuses on how power is exercised regarding religious tourism. Looks at the governing institutions of religious tourism including the role of relevant governmental bodies such as ministries of tourism or national tourism boards, ministries of religion and/or culture. Covers the role and influence of religious governing institutions, such as state-supported church/mosque officials, and universities.This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of religious tourism, pilgrimage, as well as related subjects such as political science, economics, sociology, tourism, law studies, and religious studies.

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Book SynopsisDespite the increased research interest in tourism in Asia, most research has focused on the key destinations (China, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand), while neglecting other destinations which are less well explored. Little is known about the marketing efforts and practices, along with the successes and challenges, countries in the East and Southeast Asia have been experiencing. This book aims to address this oversight by exploring the marketing approaches, techniques and tools used by various countries in the region both collectively and individually to manage their tourism offerings and position them in the global tourism market: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Macau, Mongolia, Myanmar, Vietnam.It offers a contemporary and insightful look at the various case studies in East and Southeast Asia using inter-disciplinary perspectives and a range of methodological approaches and tools. The book: Provides case studies developed by tourism researchers who are experts in their researched context countries; Focuses on several countries at different stage of development; Explores specific marketing strategies in East and Southeast Asian destinations, considering global trends and forces to fully understand the marketing environment.The book will be of interest to tourism marketing researchers, practitioners, academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students who will find these insightful contemporary case studies useful in the classroom.

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Book SynopsisThe future of Africa and the whole globe is dependent on sustainable agribusiness management. This book offers insights to a wide range of agricultural marketing and agribusiness management practices with a focus on sustainability. It is designed to provide academics and graduate students in business studies with a comprehensive treatment of the nature of agricultural marketing and agribusiness management, as well as sustainability transitions and related practices in certain regions of the world (particularly in Africa). The text also serves as an invaluable resource for agricultural marketing practitioners requiring more than anecdotal evidence on the structure and operation of agricultural marketing and agribusiness management, as well as sustainability in different organisations and geographical areas. It allows the reader to compare and contrast agricultural marketing and agribusiness management, as well as sustainability practices across different research methodologies and settings. The book provides a unique mix of theory, reviews, primary research findings and case studies.

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Book SynopsisHeritage is a social construction rooted in modern and contemporary societies. It is commonly a positive assessment of many elements of the physical and human environment (e.g. ecosystems and landscapes, monuments, customs, gender norms, religious practices, gastronomy, and livelihoods). Heritage and tourism are strongly related to each other in that heritage gives rise to tourist attractions and activities, and tourism enhances the designation of heritage sites. Non-human animals (hereafter 'animals') are present as implicit or explicit heritage elements through multiple tourist environments: animals may be themselves the heritage focus of tourist interest (visual arts, gastronomy, as charismatic and distinguished beings, as part of festivities or rituals), or it may be that animals are agents involved in heritage tourist environments such as working animals or in recreational activities. A post-humanist perspective the moral valuation of equality between humans and other animals demands that both are sentient beings and self-aware of their pain and pleasure. Thus, the involvement of animals as heritage elements by themselves or as an element of tourist consumption in heritage sites implies their commodification and lack of agency. As such, these practices are usually unethical, since they threaten the animals' primary interests: not to suffer, not to feel pain and to be able to live their freedom. This book contains chapters that reveal both the unethical interactions between humans and animals within heritage tourism, and those that show experiences in which efforts are made to minimize damage within the commercialization of animals involved as heritage themselves. It will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics, NGOs and tourism planners.Table of ContentsSection 1: Humanist benefits and animal exploitation exploitation Chapter 1: Introduction. Muted torment: Speciesism, tourism, and animal commodification by David A. López Varela Chapter 2: Heritage and commodification of non-human animals in tourism: a posthumanist reflection by Álvaro López López, Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas and Carol Kline Chapter 3: The legacy of zoos? Moral reasons against considering zoos as heritage by Gustavo Ortiz-Millán Chapter 4: Fill Your Cup: a multi-species exploration of Balinese kopi luwak agrotourism by Jes Hooper Chapter 5: Animal trade and dark tourism in the Sonora market by Jean Azcatl Pineda and Alicia Mariana Penélope Castro Pérez. Chapter 6: Jallikattu: Walking the tightrope between culture and animal welfare by Javed Salim and Nusrat Yasmeen Chapter 7: Bullfights, tourism and intangible cultural heritage in Mexico: A dissonant heritage by Georgina Flores Mercado Chapter 8: Bullfighting at the San Marcos National Fair: animal cruelty behind tourism and heritage by Alejandro Morales Pérez and Brenda Martínez Velasco Section 2: Navigating animal-human relationships: tension in minmizing damage Chapter 9: Restoring relationships of respect with eagle relatives: Tribal-led Eagle Aviary Tours in Oklahoma Indian Country by Bobbie Chew Bigby Chapter 10: A posthumanist view on theming the axolotl for a Pueblo Mágico by Gino Jafet Quintero Venegas, Álvaro López López and Carol Kline Chapter 11: Feline saviours: Nekonomics, stray agency, and the kawaiification of heritage tourism in Japan by Émilie Crossley and Johan R. Edelheim Chapter 12: The heritage of the cute: Commodifying pandas in urban and rural China by Yulei Guo Chapter 13: Contested boundaries: Towards a posthumanist political ecology approach to recognize human-deer relationship as an intangible cultural heritage by Rie Usui and Carolin Funck Chapter 14: Conclusion. Shifting animal abuse in heritage tourism to the paradigm of building multispecies communities by Leonardo Garavito-González, Jorge Iván Ruiz Barrera, Estephania Sepúlveda Perdomo, Tomás Arias Roncancio and Mateo Nicolás Rico Medina

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Book SynopsisThe nexus of human mobility and communication is intricate, and this volume uncovers the deep-rooted significance of tourism and media . From antiquity to modern day, Western communication systems have artfully crafted the allure of destinations, making places irresistible to the travellers. At its core, this book proposes that the impetus for travel is a primal human necessity, rooted in our inherent need for movement, consciousness expansion, and cultural development.Featuring Greek civilization as a case study, the book reveals how the rich cultural capital of modern Greece, long admired and assimilated by many global cultures, has immensely contributed to Greece's contemporary tourism "imaginary".Readers are challenged to look beyond prevailing practices where tourism management and marketing are the driving force for commercial exchange, but to encompass its broader essence as a vital human function, leading to richer experiences.Drawing on theory from c

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Book SynopsisThe impact of individual appearance on career success, either positive or negative, often remains unspoken or even unconscious within the world of work. Appearance has been shown to influence decisions regarding renumeration, recruitment and promotion through biases such as size and gender discrimination. For women especially, there appears to be a delicate balance between achieving the right look and being perceived as professional. Such issues require a critical examination of the relationship between appearance and careers. Through a sharp intersectional lens honed by experts from across the globe, The Emerald Handbook of Appearance in the Workplace focuses on both internal and external influences that may complicate issues of workplace appearance and further impact the development and progression of individuals’ occupations. Thoughtfully structured to consider both theoretical and applied points of view, chapters examine topics such as body art, hair textures, lookism and ageism across a variety of industry sectors and levels of employment. The first of its kind in addressing appearance and careers with varying approaches and across a diverse range of concepts, this Handbook provides an essential overview of the unspoken impact that personal presentation and assumptions can have on how employees are perceived and ultimately progress in their careers.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Adelina Broadbridge Chapter 1. Appearance as Carnal Capital and Symbolic Violence: An Intersectional Approach; Mustafa Özbilgin, Marios Samdanis, and Pelin Arsezen Chapter 2. Is Curly Hair Viewed as Professional? Examining Hair Bias Against White Women with Curly Hair; Joy V. Peluchette and Katherine A. Karl Chapter 3. Examining Hair Choices of Black Women in Academia; Katherine A. Karl, Joy V. Peluchette, and Gail Dawson Chapter 4. Body Weight Discrimination Against Women in Customer-Facing Roles: A Systematic Literature Review; Sharon Grant, Toby Mizzi, and Elly O’loghlen Chapter 5. Ageism, Sexism, and Appearance: Navigating Workplace Discrimination in Later Life; Laura Hurd Chapter 6. The Price of ‘Extra Layers’: British Muslim Women’s Work and Career; Sajia Ferdous Chapter 7. Dress Codes in a “Singular They” World: Gender Nonbinary Identity and Expression and Employer Appearance Policies; Todd Brower Chapter 8. Dressing to Be(Come) a Business School Dean: Autoethnographic Accounts; Gina Grandy, Sharon Mavin, and Elise Gagnon Chapter 9. Appearance Matters: Appearance Management in Political Careers; Minita Sanghvi and Nancy Hodges Chapter 10. Status Effects of Attractiveness at Work; Tonya K. Frevert, Tarya Bardwell, and Lisa Slattery Walker Chapter 11. Lookism Knows No Age: Aesthetic Labour in Women’s Careers; Marjut Jyrkinen, Mira Karjalainen, and Linda McKie Chapter 12. Appearance Discrimination In Hiring: Challenges and Dilemmas for Managers in the United States; Bahaudin G. Mujtaba , Frank J. Cavico , and Tipakorn Senathip Chapter 13. Legislating Against Lookism in Australia; Chris Warhurst, Richard Hall, and Diane Van Den Broek Chapter 14. Appearance in the Workplace: Impact on Career Development; Peter Waring Chapter 15. Advising Clients on Appearance: Ethical Tensions and Positive Conversations; Julia Yates Chapter 16. The Visibility of Invisibility: Exploring Criminal History Appearance and Implications to Careers; Nicole C. Jones Young and Kemi S. Anazodo Chapter 17. The Impact of Workers’ Tattoos and Piercings on Employment: Suggestions for Pragmatic Career Planning; Leonidas Efthymiou, Yianna Orphanidou, and Achilleas Karayiannis Chapter 18. A Tattooed Workforce – Still a Liability?; Beth Wood and Adelina Broadbridge Chapter 19. Tattoos and The Social Psychology of Stigma: Implications for Career Development; Terence Chia and Andrew R. Timming Conclusion; Adelina Broadbridge

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Book SynopsisAdvances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. This includes work on topics such as status, power, exchange, justice, influence, altruism, decision making, intergroup relations and social networks. Contributors have included scholars from diverse fields including sociology, psychology, political science, economics, biology, philosophy, mathematics and organizational behaviour. Volume 38 brings together papers related to a variety of topics in small groups and organizational research. The volume includes papers that address theoretical and empirical issues related to occupational deference structures, emotions generated by social identities, racial threat, sticky expectations, status and response latency, race and moral expectations in employment, comparison processes and competition and models of intergroup association. Overall, the volume includes papers that reflect a wide range of theoretical approaches from leading scholars who work in the general area of group processes.Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Emotional Implications Of Occupational Deference Structures; Emily Maloney And Lynn Smith-Lovin Chapter 2. Separate And Unequal: Predicting Intergroup Behavior And Emotions From Social Identity Meanings; Kimberly B. Rogers Chapter 3. The Multi-Dimensionality Of Racial Threat: A Consideration Of Its Affective Dimension; Ashley V. Reichelmann and Matthew O. Hunt Chapter 4. Sticky Expectations; Daniel Burrill Chapter 5. Are They High Status Or Just Assertive? Response Latency In Task Groups; Kayla Pierce Chapter 6. The Double Disadvantage: Using Status And Stigma Processes To Understand Race, Criminal Record, And Moral Expectations In Employment; Jessica Pfaffendorf Chapter 7. Comparing And Being Compared: A Dual Process Framework Of Competition; Patricia Chen, Stephen M. Garcia, Valentino E. Chai, and Richard Gonzalez Chapter 8. The Big Tent: Integrating Macro Models For Intergroup Association With Experimental Data On Exchange Relations In A Minimal Group Setting; Zbigniew Karpiński, John Skvoretz, Adam Kęska, and Dariusz Przybysz

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Book SynopsisIn this 37th volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott assemble a group of lead experts to showcase new historical data, analyses of historical questions, and an investigation of historians’ networks. The volume covers a wide range of ideas, beginning with an examination of the sharp decline in school attendance among white children in the Southern US after the Civil War, followed by a study on the fiscal administration of an experimental parliamentary subsidy on English knight’s fees and income from 1431. A third paper assembles new county-level, household-level, and individual-level data, including new complete-count IPUMS microdata databases of the 1830-1880 censuses, to evaluate different theories for the nineteenth-century American fertility decline. The volume then pivots to deal with the development of banking in the Crown of Aragon from the end of the 13th century through the establishment of money changers. Finally, the volume summarizes in detail the content of Pieter Stadnitski’s revolutionary 1787 report An Explanatory Message Concerning the Funds, analyzing its arguments with the context of Dutch archival materials including deeds, newspaper reports, and letters, as well as congressional records from American sources. This new volume presents fascinating new areas of enquiry and analysis for all scholars in the field of economic history, including economists, historians and demographers.Table of ContentsChapter 1. When the Race between Education and Technology Goes Backwards: The Postbellum Decline of White School Attendance in the Southern US; Hoyt Bleakley and Sok Chul Hong Chapter 2. The Parliamentary Subsidy on Knights' Fees and Incomes of 1431: A Study on the Fiscal Administration of an Abortive English Tax Experiment; Alex Brayson Chapter 3. Early Fertility Decline in the United States: Tests of Alternative Hypotheses using New Complete-Count Census Microdata and Enhanced County-Level Data; J. David Hacker, Michael R. Haines, and Matthew Jaremski Chapter 4. Private banking and financial networks in the Crown of Aragon during the 14th century; Albert Reixach Sala Chapter 5. Pieter Stadnitski Sharpens the Axe: A Revolutionary Research Report on American Sovereign Finance, 1787; Peter Theodore Veru

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Book Synopsis The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatization profoundly reshaped the nation’s forests, farmlands, and rivers. From bureaucrats abetting illegal deforestation to peasants opposing government agricultural policies, it reveals the social and political mechanisms by which neoliberalism was introduced into the Romanian landscape.Trade Review “This book has been a rarity in the social science literature of Romania and South-Eastern Europe. The novelty and originality reside in the introduction of themes and theories… which, intertwined with the social anthropological approach, highlights and revives seemingly outdated topics such as post-socialism.” • Martor “This very well-written and thoroughly researched book is an important addition to the collection of not-so-numerous books on the politics of land in Romania, together with valuable comparison analyses of the similar development in other postsocialist countries in Eastern Europe. Dorondel also offers us an impressive list of references, adding a valuable rendition of the selected number of sources in English. Adding even more value to Disrupted Landscapes are the statistical data, maps, and selected illustrations. The volume should be of interest to both general readers and specialists in that it covers a very broad range of issues placed within a large comparative framework.” • EuropeNow “For those concerned with the transformations of land relations since the fall of socialism and of the mechanisms behind them, this book is essential reading.” • Slavic Review “This is clearly the best study on the environmental history of Romania published to date. It is a paragon of vivid, illustrative, and intimate local history combined with an international outlook.” • Joachim Radkau, Universität Bielefeld “Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Disrupted Landscapes takes a broad view of the transformations taking place in rural Romania in the first part of the 2000s. It presents one of the most finely granulated pictures of the workings of power in rural settings.” • Diana Mincyte, New York City College of TechnologyTable of Contents List of Illustrations List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Privatizing the State and the Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape Chapter 1. Dragomiresti and Dragova: Two Centuries of Ecological and Socio-economic Transformations Chapter 2. Postsocialism as Neoliberalism: Reorganizing Society and Nature Chapter 3. Bureaucrats, Patronage, Illegal Logging Chapter 4. Contested Forest Chapter 5. Waning Pastures Chapter 6. Fragmented Lands Chapter 7. Wasted Rivers Conclusion: A Disrupted Landscape References Index

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Book Synopsis Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite. Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.Trade Review “This is a fascinating ethnography of the ‘micro-politics of elite lives’…a depressing but important read and a necessary corrective to every study of Pakistan that concludes with an aspirational list of policy reforms.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI) “In a true scholarly form, Armytage deploys ethnographies like a blacksmith slams his hammer: to shape and define, solidify and congeal, and meaningfully weld together disparate narrative elements of otherwise banal and ordinary character. She deserves our thanks for that, and much more.” • Jamhoor “…an extremely valuable contribution to the anthropology of Pakistan and has much to offer to scholars of Pakistan in various academic fields.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale “a rich, highly engaging and very insightful biography of Pakistan’s business and industrial elite… This book can be a landmark to understand the classes and structures of Pakistan’s society. It offers insights about power and the numerous multipurpose ways it is accumulated and applied every day in the top 1% in Pakistan… a meticulously crafted and nuanced [study], enlivened by her extensive ethnographic content, expertly employed to demonstrate broader results.” • Pakistan Institute of Development Economics “Through remarkable access, rich descriptions, and incisive analyses, the author deepens our understanding of the reproduction of elites and inequalities. She provides important insights into the spaces and relationships through which capital is accumulated, channeled, and secured by elites, all the while taking seriously the question of gender, ‘race,’ nation, and sexuality as it relates to class formation. Her book provides a rich resource for future research to explore old and new forms of elite integration and division…In an increasingly interdependent and unequal world, books like this enable us to better understand the consequences of elite formations for all of our lives.” • FOCAAL “Rosita Armytage has compiled a fascinating ethnography of elite businessmen and their families in Pakistan…[Her] work is a carefully constructed and nuanced picture of elites in Pakistan, enlivened by her rich ethnographic content which is used skilfully to illustrate wider findings… a nuanced and thoroughly contextualised piece of research.” • Bloomsbury Pakistan “A rich, very insightful and highly engaging biography of Pakistan’s business and industrial elite.” • Nafisa Shah, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. “An entertaining, surprising, and lively account of the secret life of the global elite in their particular parochial Pakistani setting. Scholars of Pakistan, of economic and political anthropology, and of development, will all surely look forward to this book with eager anticipation.” • Caroline Schuster, Australian National UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgements Note on Anonymity Introduction: Making Money in an Unequal and Unstable World Chapter 1. Middle Class Woman in an Elite Man’s World Chapter 2. Creating and Protecting an Elite Class Chapter 3. Old Money, New Money Chapter 4. Making an Elite Family Chapter 5. The Elite Network Chapter 6. The Culture of Exemptions Conclusion: What Pakistan’s Elite Reveals About Global Capitalism References Index

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Book Synopsis Marginal in status a decade ago, cash transfer programs have become the preferred channel for delivering emergency aid or tackling poverty in low- and middle-income countries. While these programs have had positive effects, they are typical of top-down development interventions in that they impose on local contexts standardized norms and procedures regarding conditionality, targeting, and delivery. This book sheds light on the crucial importance of these contexts and the many unpredicted consequences of cash transfer programs worldwide - detailing how the latter are used by actors to pursue their own strategies, and how external norms are reinterpreted, circumvented, and contested by local populations.Trade Review “The book is recommendable for anyone interested in the recent proliferation of a seemingly globalised social policy, that, however, is here shown to have very different faces, logics and effects in different localities across the global South.” • Critical Social Policy “This is a very interesting study of targeted cash transfers mainly from an anthropological perspective. While, as the authors point out, there is an abundant literature on such transfers (particularly in terms of ‘grey’ literature) most of this is heavily econometric and top-down rather than providing a more bottom-up perspective.…an innovative study which deserves a wide readership both amongst academics and policy makers working in the field.” • European Journal of Social Security “Read this book for a thoughtful analysis of how models travel if you are interested in institutional diffusion and the globalisation of social policy…[It shows that] Anthropology can make a contribution to understanding the politics of aid and social policy.” • Anthrodendum “This book has much to say to scholars, students and practitioners of development. It addresses a particular development model which is widely disseminated around the globe, neither aiming to endorse nor critique it in principle, but to examine how it actually works, or fails to work, in specific locations.” • Lindsay DuBois, Dalhousie University “This book – the first collection of its kind – will make an important contribution to the literature on cash transfer programs. Many of the chapters are written by practitioners with in-depth knowledge of the communities they write about, which brings an on-the-ground perspective that is often missing from the literature.” • Linda Abarbanell, San Diego State UniversityTable of Contents List of Figures and Tables Cash Transfers and the Revenge of Contexts: An Introduction Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Emmanuelle Piccoli Chapter 1. Miracle Mechanisms, Travelling Models, and the Revenge of the Contexts: 
Cash Transfer Programmes; A Textbook Case Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan Chapter 2. Realizing Cash Transfer Programs through Collective Obligations: An Ethnography of Co-responsibility in Mexico Alejandro Agudo Sanchíz Chapter 3. Types of Permanence: Conditional Cash, Economic Difference, and Gender Practice in Northeastern Brazil Gregory Duff Morton Chapter 4. Queuing in the Sun: The Salience of Implementation Practices in Recipients’ Experience of a Conditional Cash Transfer Maria Elisa Balen Chapter 5. Conditional Cash Transfer Program Implementation and Effects in Peruvian Indigenous Contexts Norma Correa Aste, Terry Roopnaraine and Amy Margolies Chapter 6. Making Good Mothers: Conditions, Coercion, and Local Reactions in the Juntos Program in Peru Emmanuelle Piccoli and Bronwen Gillespie Chapter 7. Expectations beyond Development: Towards a Prospective Chronology of Cash Transfers from Mexico to Argentina Andrés Dapuez and Sabrina Gavigan Chapter 8. Conditional Cash Transfer and Gender, Class, and Ethnic Domination: The Case of Bolivia Nora Nagels Chapter 9. Behind the Official Story: The Unintended Effects of Social Transfer Programmes in Conflict-Affected Contexts Fiona Samuels and Nicola Jones Chapter 10. Are Cash Transfers Rocking or Wrecking the World of Social Workers in Egypt? Hania Sholkamy Chapter 11. Juggling between Social Obligations and Personal Benefit in Western Côte d’Ivoire: How Do Ex-combatants Spend their Cash Allowance? Magali Chelpi-den Hamer Chapter 12. Cash Transfers in Rural Niger: Social Targeting as a Conflict of Norms Jean Pierre Olivier de Sardan and Oumarou Hamani Index

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Book SynopsisHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation and what we can do about itWarehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet.Points, badges and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You've Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You've Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.

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