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Pearson Education Limited Service Operations Management
Book SynopsisAddress real-world organisational challenges by applying the principles of Service Operations Management Service Operations Management, 6th edition provides an understanding of how service performance can be improved in organisations. It features tools and techniques throughout, along with examples from a wide variety of international businesses.
£59.39
Right Book Press Graceful Leadership
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£19.79
Kogan Page The LD Leader
Book SynopsisLaura Overton is an award-winning learning expert with over 35 years' experience in the industry. She is the founder of Towards Maturity, an academic fellow of the CIPD and the Royal Society of Arts. Based in London, UK, she is consistently recognized as a significant global influencer of workplace learning trends. Michelle Ockers is the Founder and Director of Learning Uncut where she helps organizations to develop a high-impact L&D strategy. Based in New South Wales, Australia, she is a popular keynote speaker and the host of the podcast series, Learning Uncut.
£31.34
Princeton University Press The Wealth of a Nation
£17.09
Right Book Press The Future is Human
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£15.29
Kogan Page Retail Marketing
Book SynopsisSarah Montano is Professor of Retail Marketing at University of Birmingham. She leads the modules 'Services and Retail Marketing' and 'International Marketing Strategy' for the MSc Marketing. She is the BBC's retail expert, writes for the BBC website and often appears on the BBC news and radio channels to talk about a range of retail subjects.
£37.99
Kogan Page Sustainable Tourism and Hospitality Management
Book SynopsisBrooke Hansen is Associate Professor at the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of South Florida, USA. She was previously the Director of Sustainable Tourism and the SDG Action Alliance at the University of South Florida's College of Global Sustainability. She is an academic affiliate of Corporate Responsibility for the Environment and a Sustainable Tomorrow (CREST), on the Board of Directors for Keep Florida Beautiful and has served on sustainability committees for the National Football League's Super Bowl LV and Alaska Airlines.
£37.99
Right Book Press The Shape of Taste
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Kogan Page Creativity in PR and Communications
Book SynopsisJon Cope is the Course Leader of the MA in Public Relations at the University of Westminster, UK. He is also a PR practitioner with over 25 years of experience in consumer and healthcare sectors.Stuart Mayell is Visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster, UK. Stuart is also a communications professional with over 25 years of experience.
£37.99
Kogan Page Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace
Book SynopsisKathy Beevers, Chartered FCIPD, is a qualified trainer, coach and author and is the Chief External Quality Advisor (CEQA) for CIPD. She is based in Halifax, UK. David Hayden, Chartered FCIPD, is the founder of Talents Drivers, an L&D consultancy. He was previously a Learning Content Manager at CIPD and has been working with CIPD qualifications for more than 15 years. He is based in Doncaster, UK.
£44.99
Barlow Publishing The Art of the Turnaround
£22.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Governance of Artificial Intelligence
£22.50
LID Publishing Brilliant Data
Book SynopsisBanking and other financial services remain surprisingly traditional in the main. They focus on their products and profits and miss impactful opportunities to engage with their customers. However, in the era of Banking 5.0 in which digital technologies will combine with human creativity to create more value-added and customer-centric banking services the huge transformative change on offer from new technologies can no longer be ignored if financial service firms are to thrive. This book explores the impact of AI and behavioural economics on banking and financial services. Written by a pioneer in human-centred AI, it provides practical insights for leaders to transform companies for the future. The current abundance of data about human behaviour, along with advances in mobile technology and (generative) AI and perspectives from behavioural economics, provides the potential for financial service companies to gain better insights into risks and opportunities before they materialize. Furthermore, embracing AI-powered customer engagement and retention strategies opens up a world of possibilities.
£15.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Silencing a Whistleblower: A Story of Hypocrisy
Book SynopsisThis book examines how insufficient policies can lead to the alleged abuse of power in organisations. When independent ethical structures and processes are missing or weak, practices of abuse, misconduct and cover-ups can easily arise at the leadership level. Even organisations that specialise in good governance are no exception, as illustrated by this case study on arguably the world’s most influential anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International (TI). Written by the former Managing Director of Transparency International, this book chronicles its ethical breakdown over a 5-year period starting in 2015. By comparing TI’s whistleblower policies with its internal whistleblower practices, it demonstrates how the organisation gradually became trapped in a vicious cycle of secrecy, corruption and lies. The author chronologically tracks TI’s practices, drawing on 12 whistleblower complaints filed with TI since 2017, as well as communications with TI, international donor agencies, and other international civil society organisations from 2015 to 2020 to do so. The chronological format aptly reveals the snowball effect that ethical weaknesses can create over time, as well as the emotional warfare that whistleblowers are typically subjected to. The unfolding chronology also shows what it means to be a whistleblower for an organisation that avoids public transparency, reporting on and scrutiny of its own practices.Table of ContentsSaturday 1 May 2004: Berlin.- 1993-2020: TI: A Short History of Holding the Powerful to Account.- October 2014 - December 2016: Breakdown of Ethical Conduct.- January - 14 March 2017: Organisational Coup.- 15 March - May 2017: Becoming a Whistleblower.- June - September 2017: Fire a Whistleblower.- October - December 2017: New Beginning.- January - September 2018: Avoid Responsibility.- 8-20 October 2018: Criminalise Whistleblowing.- 21 October 2018 - June 2019: Celebrate Whistleblowers.- July 2019: Accountable Now.- August 2019 - May 2020: Manage Independent Investigations.- 2 June 2020 - 19 March 2021: ‘Mission Accomplished’.- WBC Day 1480: 10 April 2021: Reflections.
£18.74
Princeton University Press A World Safe for Commerce
£19.80
Kogan Page Sustainability in Tourism Hospitality and Event Fundamentals of Practical Approaches
Book SynopsisDimitri Lera is Lecturer in Tourism, Hospitality and Events, the Edge Hotel School, University of Essex, UK. He has over thirty years professional experience in managerial roles across the tourism, hospitality and events sector.Michel Mason is the Sustainability Engagement Manager and Lecturer at the University of Essex, UK, where she embeds education for sustainability into teacher-training curricula and trains Hospitality and Events students at the Edge Hotel School.
£37.99
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Financial Market Bubbles and Crashes: Features,
Book Synopsis Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships. Financial economists have for decades attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms of rational expectations, efficient markets, equilibrium, arbitrage, and capital asset pricing models, but they have not made much if any progress toward a consistent and reliable theory that explains how and why bubbles (and crashes) evolve and are defined, measured, and compared. This book develops a new and different approach that is based on the central notion that bubbles and crashes reflect urgent short-side rationing, which means that, as such extreme conditions unfold, considerations of quantities owned or not owned begin to displace considerations of price.Table of ContentsPart I- Background1. Introduction2. Bubble Stories3. Crash Stories 4. Money and Credit FeaturesPart II- Theories Past5. Random Walks6. Rationality Rules7. Behavioral BeatsPart III- Theories Present and Future8. Bubble Dynamics9. Behavioral Risk Features10. Estimating and ForecastingPart IV- Round Up11. Financial Asset Bubble Theory
£41.24
Kogan Page Applied Consumer Psychology
Book SynopsisGareth J Harvey lectures in Consumer Psychology at HEG Geneva, Switzerland. He is also a guest lecturer Lancaster University, UK and Bangor University, UK, where he was previously Professor in Consumer Psychology. In his previous role as the Director of the Laboratory of Consumer Psychology, he ran projects for the likes of Unilever, Cadbury and Aldi, applying principles of psychology to improve their marketing. He is a Chartered Psychologist and also the Director of Consumer Psychology for DECIDE, the UK's longest established independent marketing agency, and is regularly featured on radio and television, including BBC Radio.
£35.14
Kogan Page PeopleCentric Internal Communication
Book SynopsisEmma Bridger is one of the world's leading employee engagement and experience experts. She is the founder of People Lab and co-founder of The EX also the author of Employee Engagement and Employee Experience by Design, both published by Kogan Page. She is based in Brighton, UK. Lee Smith played pivotal roles in shaping employee communication and engagement at some of the world's leading organizations. He was the co-founder of Gatehouse and the co-founder of The EX Space. He helped develop one of the first competency frameworks for internal communication and is based near Shrewsbury, UK.
£31.34
Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Daily Perils of Executive Life: How to
Book SynopsisDuring a period of enforced solitude during the Covid-19 pandemic, Manfred Kets de Vries became introspective, reflective, and considered how executives could emerge from unprecedented global events. The result is a collection of 23 thought-provoking and focused chapters to help executives take stock and re-evaluate their path during a time of uncertainty. Beginning with essays on ‘Managing Self,’ Kets de Vries starts with people’s search for meaning and how we can deal with this important question. Given our need for meaning, the question of human energy is discussed. What gives executives energy? What makes them feel alive? How best to use this energy? Several essays in this section deal with the effects of the pandemic on people’s perception and management of time. The second section focuses on leadership and highlights several executive types you’ve probably encountered at work and struggle to deal with; complainers, belligerent people, and borderlines, will be part of this parade. Also touching upon mental health issues and how organizations should deal with this, this section gives a deep insight into the leadership issues that we now face in what might be termed ‘the new normal.’ Finally, Kets de Vries places societal issues under the microscope. Tackling a multitude of interrelated topics, he explores the challenges of bringing in democratic processes into organizational settings, as well as the perils of loneliness and the issues faced by women in organization – and how society can better deal with it. Littered with Manfred Kets de Vries’ trademark wit and psychological insight into the pressing issues of today, these essays can be read independently or as part of a guided tour around the daily perils of executive life.Table of ContentsAbout the authorPreface PART 1: MANAGING SELF Chapter 1: What do the five pillars of meaning mean to you? Chapter 2: How do you rate on your “energy barometer”? Chapter 3: Are you creating “eureka moments”? Chapter 4: Is revenge a dish best served not at all? Chapter 5: How to cultivate patience in an impatient world Chapter 6: Making Groundhog Day a learning experience Chapter 7: The labyrinth of forgetfulness Chapter 8: The triumph of hope over experience PART 2: LEADERSHIP Chapter 9: How is your shadow side treating you? Chapter 10: Everything is bad: Complaining as a way of life Chapter 11: The belligerent (“B”) personality Chapter 12: Managing “on the borderline” Chapter 13: How do you deal with people with mental problems? Chapter 14: What is the person really telling me? Chapter 15: Are you working in a trust-based organization? Chapter 16: Co-leadership: A curse or a blessing? Chapter 17: Onboarding or unboarding? PART 3: SOCIETY Chapter 18: Is democracy in the workplace a mirage? Chapter 19: The societal costs of loneliness Chapter 20: Bluebeard revisited Chapter 21: Do we get the leaders we deserve? Chapter 22: Why do societies regress? Chapter 23: Drinking the Kool-Aid Epilogue
£19.99
LID Publishing Unmanaged
£15.99
Broad Book Press The 5K Startup
£15.29
De Gruyter The House is in a State: Christian Wolff's
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents Chapter 1 1. Introduction 1.1. The reception of Wolffian philosophy 1.2. Wolff's Oeconomica in the literary context 1.3. Research question and methodology Chapter 2 2. The hallmarks of Wolffian philosophy 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Wolff's scientific method 2.2.1. Wolff's method in context 2.2.2. Demonstrative morality 2.3. Wolff's philosophical system 2.3.1. The concept of system in context 2.3.2. Wolff's system in practice 2.4. Wolff's natural law 2.4.1. Wolffian natural law in the historical context 2.4.2. Natural law as a theoretical foundation for moral philosophy Chapter 3 3. A contextual reading of the Oeconomica methodo scientifica petractata 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Oeconomica – methodo scientifica pertractata 3.2.1. Truth, non-contradiction and household wisdom 3.2.2. A house built on sufficient reasons 3.2.3. Sources of knowledge in the Oeconomica – empirical, rational, practical 3.3. Oeconomica in the philosophical system 3.3.1. Crosspollination in the systema doctrinarum 3.3.2. The household as a structural liability 3.4. Natural law in the Oeconomica 3.4.1. A contractual reading of family life 3.4.2. Reconciling reason and religion 3.4.3. Natural law beyond the home turf 3.5. Summary Chapter 4 4. Oeconomica, natural law and social welfare in the absolutist state 4.1. Introduction 4.2. The theoretical foundation of social welfare in Wolff's natural law 4.2.1. The contract as a legitimising fiction 4.2.2. Patrimonial welfare: moral duty with an ulterior motive 4.3. State education in philosophy and reality 4.3.1. Non scholae sed vitae – pedagogy in education 4.3.2. Universities: theory in practice 4.4. Preserving prosperity, providing for the poor 4.4.1. Economic sustainability in the household 4.4.2. The case for state-managed poor relief 4.5. Public Health 4.5.1. Keeping the healthy healthy 4.5.2. A priori medicine contra institutional innovation 4.6. Summary Chapter 5 5. Michael Hanov's completion of the Wolffian system 5.1. Introduction 5.2. Hanov: From independent scholar to wavering Wolffian 5.2.1. Hanov's intellectual background 5.2.2. Congruences and dissonances between Hanov and Wolff 5.3. Hanov's Oeconomica – method, system, natural law 5.3.1. Method 5.3.2. System 5.3.3. Natural Law 5.4. Hanov versus Wolff – political systems in comparison 5.4.1. Legitimacy, power and levels of administration 5.4.2. Social welfare programmes in contrast 5.5. Summary Chapter 6 6. Conclusion Bibliography
£67.50
Pearson Education Adobe InDesign Classroom in a Book
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£48.59
Columbia University Press The Future of Work in Developing Countries
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£55.80
De Gruyter The Resilient Enterprise: Thriving amid
Book SynopsisThe Covid-19 crisis caused massive disruptions to businesses around the world. Many were caught unprepared by the pandemic, putting some in danger of collapse. But not all were equally affected—some emerged from the crisis in a position of advantage. Research on corporate performance over decades shows that the dispersion between companies consistently increases in times of crisis. In other words, resilience to unexpected shocks has a disproportionate impact on long-term competitive advantage. Furthermore, ongoing trends are making it harder for businesses to sustain success over time. New offerings are being adopted, matched, and made obsolete faster, and competitive advantage is becoming less durable. In order to survive in the long run, businesses must reinvent themselves regularly—doing the same thing over and over will eventually lead to failure. Many business leaders are now expressing an intention to make their companies more resilient, but there is not yet a well-codified playbook for doing so. This book, drawing on research from the BCG Henderson Institute over many years, provides a set of perspectives on how to thrive under adverse conditions and how to reinvent businesses for the changing context. Overcoming both of these challenges is necessary for leaders to build long-lasting companies.
£18.00
MIT Press The AI Conundrum
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£20.00
De Gruyter The Rise of AI-Powered Companies
Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence is emerging as a game-changer in the business world, with impacts across all sectors. AI allows business to process massive amounts of data instantaneously, and to scale solutions at almost zero marginal cost, forcing companies to adapt and reimagine their business and operations. The Rise of AI-Powered Companies examines some of the most successful examples of companies using artificial intelligence to their advantage. From AI-enabled countries across the globe that stayed resilient and strong in the face of COVID-19, to Business-to-Consumer businesses that transformed their product development processes thanks to unprecedented amounts of consumer data, increasing their revenues manifold along the way. The book then delves into the critical enablers to becoming AI-powered and the critical steps to activate and integrate them within business organizations. Starting with data strategy, it examines new forms of data sharing and how companies should think about governance and privacy risks. It then focuses on human–AI collaboration and its role in building a stronger team culture. Finally, "Responsible AI" is discussed as well as the impact of AI-powered businesses on society at large. AI-powered companies will become the norm in the years to come. By unpacking and showcasing the major steps of a successful AI transformation, this book will help guide organizations in making the critical leap to become AI-powered—essential to survive and remain competitive in the near future.
£17.62
Penguin Young Readers Parent Like a Millionaire Without Being One
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£17.00
Penguin Putnam Inc Sparks Fly
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk Idea Work: Lessons of the Extraordinary in
Book SynopsisWhat does it take to find oil in an area where many have tried, but failed? What does it take to design buildings that become prize-winning cultural landmarks? And what can the best architects, oil explorers, business lawyers, journalists, and business developers within banking and trading analysis have in common? Idea Work can provide the answers. This book builds on a four-year research project and describes what extraordinary idea work looks like in practice. The authors take you behind the scenes of some of Norway''s leading companies and show how surprisingly similarly they work when they are working creatively to develop and realise new ideas. The book gives us, for example, a glimpse of how Snøhetta designed the Opera and the 9/11 memorial, and how explorers at Statoil discovered the most oil of all oil companies in the world in 2011. Narratives are presented on how prepping, sketches, pin-ups, drama, wonder, and punk are important aspects of the extraordinary. Examples are supported by theory, placing this book at the forefront of international research. Idea Work will appeal to practitioners as well as students. It recounts engaging stories from actual production processes and combines new theoretical perspectives with practical advice. It will also be of interest to anyone working with development, particularly with developing new ideas. From a professional standpoint, this book is an uncommon contribution to describing and understanding creativity as something collective and grounded in everyday activity.
£43.20
Princeton University Press The Israeli Economy
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£22.50
Princeton University Press Money Capital New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society
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Penguin Random House SEA Sustainable Sustainability: Why ESG is Not Enough
Book SynopsisEighteenth-century economist Adam Smith propagated profit maximization as the incentive for businesses to create goods and services that society needs. He argued that free-market competition would ensure consumers get the best quality product at the cheapest price. Two hundered years later, Milton Friedman agreed in his seminal 1970 New York Times op-ed that the sole responsibility of business is to maximize profits ‘so long as it stays within the rules of the game’. Incentives coupled with some regulations were to henceforth safeguard societal interests. Instead, incentives created bad behaviour. Regulations were routinely bypassed with intelligent loopholes. Despite this—to encourage sustainability today—we are again using incentives and regulations. That’s predominantly what the ESG framework focuses on. And what do we see? Rampant greenwashing and box-ticking. To address today’s existential challenges, we need innovation of the highest order. Innovation can neither be legislated nor driven by extrinsic incentives alone.Table of Contents Part One: Stewardship and Steward Leadership Chapter 1: From ESG to ESL Chapter 2: A Higher Form of Personal Leadership Chapter 3: Enterprise-wide Steward Leadership Part Two: Steward Leadership in Action and Inaction Introduction to Part Two Chapter 4: Faber-Castell: More than 260 Years of Sustainability Enabled Profitable Growth Chapter 5: Doi Tung Development Project: Self-sustaining Community Stewardship Chapter 6: The Tata Group: A 155-Year Legacy Chapter 7: Mars, Incorporated: The Role of Corporate Values in Anchoring Purpose Chapter 8: Farm Fresh: Dairy, Just as Nature Intended Chapter 9: Riau Ecosystem Restoration (RER): Finding Purpose in Adversity: An Asian Story Chapter 10: The Boeing 737 Max Twin Tragedies Chapter 11: Volkswagen: When the Mighty Stray Chapter 12: Theranos, the Unicorn: A Case of Purpose-washing? Part Three: Steward Leadership Measurement and Applications Introduction to Part Three Chapter 13: Is ESL Tangible and Measurable Enough? Chapter 14: Steward Leadership in Business Ecosystems Chapter 15: Steward Leadership and DEI: Leading Inclusively for Sustainable Growth
£17.05
Princeton University Press The Power of Hope How the Science of WellBeing Can Save Us from Despair
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Princeton University Press Breaking the Mold Indias Untraveled Path to Prosperity
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£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Meet the Frugalwoods
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC How to Start a Market Garden
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£18.00
Harvard Business Review Press Genius at Scale
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£26.25
Yale University Press Adventurers
Book SynopsisThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company—from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch—to laying the groundwork for future British expansionTrade Review“Howarth tells some hair-raising tales from the maiden voyage of the Company ship Peppercorn. . . . Packed with tales, as well as gruesome accounts of clashes between rival traders in the east.”—Dan Jones, Times (UK) “Adventurers is essential reading.”—Dan Jones, Times (UK)“[Adventurers] details the early years of what would become the world’s biggest corporation…By no means a defence of the empire, this dizzying work makes its emergence all the more remarkable.”—Daniel Brooks, Sunday Telegraph“The writer can glide from Jahangir’s memoirs and Mughal miniatures to the gossipy asides of Spanish spies, the travel tales of Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas, the letters and journals of Roe.”—David Arnold, Times Literary Supplement“Howarth’s study [is] quite different from its rivals, and overflowing with surprises.”—William Dalrymple, The Spectator“This is a book [Howarth] has wanted to write for 50 years. . . . The frequent exuberance of his prose echo[es] the voices of larger-than-life venturers and seafarers who fill his pages.”—Alan Mallinson, Country Life“Adventurers is an important counterpoint to received knowledge of Anglo-Indian history, and the foundations of what was perhaps the world’s first and most controversial corporation.”—Lubaaba Al-Azami, BBC History Magazine“Howarth’s book is a joy of revelation, page by page. . . . Beautifully written.”—Robert Lyman, The Critic“I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there might be a further volume. . . . Perhaps Howarth, like those first Adventurers, will have the right amount of intrepid bravery and insanity to attempt it.”—Debbie Kilroy, Get History“Drawing on an abundance of sources . . . indicative of deep research and of scholarship. . . . Howarth brings to life the Company’s way of doing business.“—Seagull: Journal of the Indian Maritime Foundation“This is a fascinating book, rich in texture, beautifully written, and covering a broad sweep of history. Strongly recommended.”—Richard Morgan, Chowkidar: The BACSA Journal“The history of the East India Company is so often read backwards. This wonderfully well-written book restores its early development to its true context—it is, like cold water in a desert, the picture for which we’ve gasped.”—James Evans, author of Merchant Adventurers“Fascinating and authoritative. David Howarth weaves a rich and rewarding tapestry of the uncertain, often chaotic development of the company, moving with style from London to Southeast Asia, and amassing a colourful cast list of princes, merchants and politicians. Adventurers will become the standard book on the subject, and deservedly so.”—Jerry Brotton, author of This Orient Isle“Howarth’s keen eye for intrigue weaves together a tale of commercial competition and imperial ambition that carries us from the Tudor court to the coasts of Japan. Adventurers is a quick-paced romp through the chaotic early history of Britain’s most infamous corporation.”—Edmond Smith, author of Merchants“Pragmatic, ruthless, and chaotic in turn, the early English East India Company is revealed in all its baroque extravagances in this superb and necessary new history.”—Nandini Das, author of Courting India
£12.34
Princeton University Press Two Paths to Prosperity Culture and Institutions in Europe and China 10002000
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Wiley-Blackwell Great Leaders Care
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Little, Brown & Company The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth (10th
Book SynopsisAre there actually tried and true principles that are always certain to help a person grow? John Maxwell says the answer is yes. He has been passionate about personal development for over 50 years, and in the 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, he teaches everything he has gleaned about what it takes to reach our potential. In his trademark style, Maxwell covers:- The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself- The Law of Awareness: You Must Know Yourself to Grow Yourself- The Law of Modeling: It's Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow- The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You are and Where You Could Be- The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop OthersThis 10th anniversary edition comes with an updated foreword from John Maxwell. The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth will help you become a lifelong learner whose potential keeps increasing so you can lead others with passion and get results.
£14.24
Kogan Page Ltd The Handbook of Logistics and Distribution Management
Book SynopsisAlan Rushton was a Director of Dialog Consultants and Director of Graduate Programmes at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield University.Phil Croucher is an independent supply chain consultant and lecturer. He is based in Suffolk. Peter Baker worked in international freight forwarding and then as a consultant. He is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University.Ioannis Koliousis is an Associate Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Cranfield School of Management. He is the Director of the Executive MBA and Director of Executive Development for Supply Chain Management.
£44.99
Kogan Page Marketing Technology
Book SynopsisDr Ediz Edip Akçay is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing and BSc (Hons) Marketing Programme Leader at the Business School, Bournemouth University, UK. He has published work in publications including Journal of Customer Behaviour and Qualitative Market Research, across subject areas of digital advertising, cause-related marketing, user experience in mobile apps and branding.
£42.74
Creed and Culture Books, Inc. End of the Road
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Political Ecology of Kenyas Mau Forest
Book SynopsisA timely and important examination of the environmental crises, investigating their biophysical, political, economic, and socio-cultural aspects, that reveals why previous conservation efforts failed.The eastern part of the Mau Forest, the most important closed-canopy forest in East Africa, has come under severe threat since the 1990s. In this political ecology Lisa Fuchs exploring the failure of the government-led forest restoration and rehabilitation initiative to 'Save the Mau', launched in 2009, the author examines two of the most contentious issues in Kenya since colonial times: land and the environment. She sheds light on the structural factors and the role of individuals in the forest's destruction and of non-protection and traces the colonial legacy of post-independent environmental conservation policies and practices. In doing so, Fuchs demonstrates that the Mau crisis is more than an environmental crisis: it is also a political, an economic, and a socio-cultural crisis.Though a detailed empirical analysis, the author shows that the 'Mau crisis' led to the near collapse of landscapes and livelihoods in the Mau Forest ecosystem. She traces the implementation of insufficient conservation programmes, which resulted from historical path-dependency and the adoption of global environmental governance blueprints, forest allocation and benefits, and exposes a forest management system that prioritises commercial forest production over biodiversity conservation. Access and entitlements to the highly fertile forest land, and the amalgamation of forest rehabilitation with the reclamation of grabbed public forest are emphasised as a further core contributor to the crisis. The socio-cultural dynamics within and among various forest-dwelling communities, including the indigenous hunting and gathering Ogiek and 'in-migrant' groups, are also analysed. The book highlights that local types of environmentalism are caught between the 'invention of traditions' and 'perverse modernisation' and shows the contradictory effects of the celebrated, highly anticipated but poorly executed 'Save the Mau' initiative, and how the presence of political will to maintain the crisis conditioned its perseverance. Finally, the book proposes realistic alternatives to sustainable forest management in politicised environments, whose relevance and applicability are considerable in this age of anthropogenic 'environmental' crises and conflicts.Published in association with IFRA/AFRICAE
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Atria Books Stream Big
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