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View book details for Organizations in the Face of Crisis
Managing the Brand and Stakeholders
Organizations in the Face of Crisis offers a new approach to the treatment of threats to an organization, the brand, and the stakeholders. Case studies and diagnostic tools are used to demonstrate the effects of a crisis and to provide …
View book details for Environmental Heresies
The Quest for Reasonable
This book systematically deconstructs the pervasive and counter-productive discourse surrounding environmental policy. The authors argue that environmental policy problems are always framed such that conflict is inevitablea particular project or policy must be accepted versus a specific environmental asset that …
View book details for Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume Three
Sraffa's Legacy: Interpretations and Historical Perspectives
This book accounts for the work done around the two central aspects of Piero Sraffa's contribution to economic analysis, namely the criticism of the neoclassical theory of value and distribution and the construction of economic theory along the lines of …
View book details for Carbon Trading in China
Environmental Discourse and Politics
This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives …
This volume directly addresses the complexities involved in data mining and the development of new algorithms, built on an underlying theory consisting of linear and non-linear dynamics, data selection, filtering, and analysis, while including analytical projection and prediction. The results …
This book covers all aspects of chronic radiation syndrome (CRS) based on observations in a unique sample of residents of the Techa riverside villages in the southern Urals who were exposed to radioactive contamination in the 1950s owing to releases …
View book details for ABC-TRIZ
Introduction to Creative Design Thinking with Modern TRIZ Modeling
This textbook arms the reader with powerful techniques of Modern TRIZ self-training and real problem solving. It is designed as a simple and efficient, step-by-step crash course in primary TRIZ models based on the author's methods of extraction and reinvention, …
View book details for Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa
Zimbabwe and Namibia
The book investigates the use of bottom-up, community based healing and peacebuilding approaches, focusing on their strengths and suggesting how they can be enhanced. The main contribution of the book is an ethnographic investigation of how post-conflict communities in parts …
View book details for Lab Lit
Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science
Lab Lit: Exploring Literary and Cultural Representations of Science is the first formal, systematic, scholarly investigation of laboratory literature from the perspective of literary studies. Lab Lit as a new genre has received a lot of public and media attention …
View book details for Mayer Matalon
Business, Politics and the Jewish-Jamaican Elite
This biography of Mayer Matalon, an influential Jewish Jamaican, traces his path from humble origins to innovator, public servant, political insider, and leader of his familys conglomerate, from the 1940s to the end of the twentieth century. Mayer Matalon was …
View book details for Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters
Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit
Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development of British and German literary cultures. With increased numbers …
View book details for Erwerbsarbeit als Identitatsziel
Ein Modell von Moglichkeiten fur Menschen mit intellektueller Beeintrachtigung
Inwieweit und auf der Basis welcher Faktoren ist es Menschen mit einer intellektuellen Beeintrachtigung moglich fur sich Arbeit als Identitatsziel zu verhandeln? Auf der Basis von 18 rekonstruierten Lebensverlaufen konstruiert Oliver Koenig das theoretische Modell von Enabling & Disabling. Es …
View book details for Performance-Based Medicine
Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships
Taylor and Francis
With healthcare making the transition from volume-based reimbursement programs to value-based approaches, understanding performance measurement is vital to optimize payment and quality outcomes. Performance-Based Medicine: Creating the High Performance Network to Optimize Managed Care Relationships guides readers through the maze …
View book details for African Archaeology Without Frontiers
Papers from the 2014 PanAfrican Archaeological Association Congress
Confronting national, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries, contributors to African Archaeology Without Frontiers argue against artificial limits and divisions created through the study of ages that in reality overlap and cannot and should not be understood in isolation. Papers are drawn …
Taylor and Francis
Total Quality in Marketing integrates the two areas of marketing and quality management and demonstrates how they are mutually compatible and complementary. Its primary focus is to assist managers in applying total quality principles to the overall marketing management process-preparing …
View book details for Migration, Stadt und Urbanitat
Perspektiven auf die Heterogenitat migrantischer Lebenswelten
Der Band analysiert die Vielfalt des urbanen Zusammenlebens differenziert und mehrdimensional. Ausgangspunkt bildet die soziale Tatsache, dass migrationsbedingte Mobilitat seit jeher fur die Entwicklung von Stadten konstitutiv ist. Verdichtung, Vielfalt und Wandel sind zentrale Merkmale urbaner (Sozial-)Raume. Es sind Orte, …
View book details for The Roots and Future of Management Theory
A Systems Perspective
Interesting and easy-to-read, The Roots and Future of Management Theory: A Systems Approach provides a comprehensive overview of today's workplace -past, present ,and future. The author brings the key characters in the evolution of management theory to life. Not only …
View book details for Narrative Medicine in Hospice Care
Identity, Practice, and Ethics through the Lens of Paul Ricoeur
Narrative medicine, an interdisciplinary field that brings together the studies of literature and medicine, offers both a way of understanding patient identity and a method for developing a clinicians responsiveness to patients. While recognizing the value of narrative medicine in …
View book details for Chance or Choice
Unlocking Innovation Success
Taylor and Francis
Twenty-first century advances in technology, transportation, and business models have enabled companies of all sizes to enter markets once thought to be the exclusive domain of giant enterprises. In this environment, innovation has emerged as the competitive differentiator that will …
View book details for La mejor inversion de un lider
La atraccion, el desarrollo y la multiplicacion de lideres (The Leader's Greatest Return, Spanish Edition)
Cual es la mayor ganancia en el tiempo de un lider? Despues de que los lideres hayan invertido en su propio crecimiento de liderazgo, cual es la mejor manera de lograr su mision y hacer crecer a sus organizaciones? Desarrollar …
This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past predisposes and the present guides Indians in …
"Landscape Bionomics, or Bio-integrated Landscape Ecology, radically transforms the main principles of traditional Landscape Ecology by recognizing the landscape as a living entity rather than merely the spatial distribution of species and communities on the territory, often analysed in separate …
This comprehensive atlas, containing a wealth of high-quality images, illustrates the complete spectrum of presentations of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). It focuses especially on the most recent developments in the use of endoscopy in IBD, providing detailed guidance on endoscopic …
View book details for Subsidies in the Context of the WTO's Free Trade System
A Legal and Economic Analysis
This book analyses subsidies from various perspectives and creates a model that determines whether or not their use is justified. Further, it analyses the various causes of trade distortion, trade-discriminatory practices, and other issues associated with unregulated subsidies. In addition, …
View book details for The Heterogeneity Link of the Welfare State and Redistribution
Ethnic Heterogeneity, Welfare State Policies, Poverty, and Inequality in High Income Countries
This book situates ethnic heterogeneity in the larger discussion of the welfare state and its redistributive outcomes, poverty and inequality. By using comprehensive, longitudinal data covering 1980 to 2010 from 17 high income countries, this analysis helps achieve a major …
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