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The Future of Work in Developing Economies
Author Pablo Egaña del Sol , Connor Joyce
Countries facing the greatest risk from automation are those that have labor economies in which many jobs involve manual or routine tasks that can be easily automated. Analyzing occupations in terms of their component parts provides a much richer way of looking at jobs th....
Release Date 2020/01 -
Author Shaked Spier
Collective Action 2.0 explores the issues related to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in detail, providing a balanced insight into how ICTs leverage and interact with collective action, which will have an impact on the current discourse. Recent eve....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Developing the Global Bioeconomy
Author Heinz Stichnothe , J. Richard Hess , Erin Searcy , Patrick Lamers
Developing the Global Bioeconomy: Technical, Market, and Environmental Lessons from Bioenergy brings together expertise from three IEA-Bioenergy subtasks on pyrolysis, international trade, and biorefineries to review the bioenergy sector and draw useful lessons for....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Michael S. Lubell
Navigating the Maze: How Science and Technology Policies Shape America and the World offers a captivating deep dive into the inner workings of the world of public policy. Written by prominent science advocate and renowned physics researcher and educator, Michael S.....
Release Date 2019/04 -
In the Line of Fire, 3rd Edition
Author Jerry Weissman
In this fully-updated edition of his classic In the Line of Fire, the world’s #1 presentation consultant helps you respond with perfect assurance to the toughest questions from the most hostile questioners as you stay in control and win your audience.Jerry Weissman draws on brand-new case studies to....
Release Date 2021/12 -
Author William Walters , Wendy Larner
Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nation-states. Global Governmental....
Release Date 2004/08 -
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader, 2e, 2nd Edition
Author Jing Yin , Yoshitaka Miike , Molefi Kete Asante
The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication. In this expanded second edition, editors Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, and Jing Yin bring together th....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Environmental Politics in Egypt
Author Jeannie Sowers
Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt from the late 1990s to 2011, this book shows how experts and activists used distinctive approaches to influence state and firm decision-making in three important environmental policy domains. These include; industria....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Karen B. Clay , Daniel Berkowitz
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the ....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Author Matthew Hindman
Is the Internet democratizing American politics? Do political Web sites and blogs mobilize inactive citizens and make the public sphere more inclusive? The Myth of Digital Democracy reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the Internet has done little to broaden po....
Release Date 2008/10 -
Author E. Gabriella Coleman
Who are computer hackers? What is free software? And what does the emergence of a community dedicated to the production of free and open source software--and to hacking as a technical, aesthetic, and moral project--reveal about the values of contemporary liberalism?....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Matthew Hindman
A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economyThe internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online—and grab all the p....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Carl Benedikt Frey
How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of....
Release Date 2019/06 -
British Politics For Dummies, 2nd Edition
Author Michael Pattison , Julian Knight
Your updated and revised guide to British politicsSo, you want to be knowledgeable about British politics but don't know where to start? You've come to the right place! British Politics For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding even the trickiest quest....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Leading Across New Borders: How to Succeed as the Center Shifts
Author Karen Cvitkovich , Christie Caldwell , Ernest Gundling
An insightful, real-world look at the skills today's global leadership demandsLeading Across Borders is the leadership guide for the new business environment. The world's economic center of gravity is shifting at a rapid pace - huge emerging economies have alread....
Release Date 2015/09 -
The Blackwell Companion to Globalization
Author George Ritzer
This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and ....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Author Luca Zamparelli , Roberto Veneziani
Offering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject.Includes a wide range of topics and the....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Nicholas Wallwork
Your practical and fearless guide to surviving the world’s biggest break-up Whether you’re a staunch Remainer, a buccaneering Brexiteer, or are wavering between the two camps, you’ll want to be fully au fait with all the issues surrounding Britain’s exit from the E....
Release Date 2019/07 -
The Conflict Resolution Toolbox, 2nd Edition
Author Gary T. Furlong , Christopher W. Moore
PRAISE FOR THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION TOOLBOXSECOND EDITION "I have been using and recommending The Conflict Resolution Toolbox since its first edition. It is rare to find a resource with such practical tools in a field that is so concrete, but often struggles to bridge theo....
Release Date 2020/09 -
Author Shivaji Das , Aroop Zutshi , Janesh Janardhanan
A collection of insider accounts describing the organizational impact of COVID-19In The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During the Pandemic from Organizations Around the Globe, expert strategists Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi , and Janesh Janardhanan deliver an insightful exploration of this once-in-a-l....
Release Date 2021/12 -
Author Al Naqvi , Mani Janakiram
Get the inside story of American Artificial Intelligence (AI) failure and fall: Learn how to reassume American AI leadership and win against ChinaOn the eve of the Sino-American great power competition General Mattis challenged America to move forward at the speed of relevance. To compete effectivel....
Release Date 2022/08 -
Author Howard Wolk , John Landry
Will America's entrepreneurial spirit continue to define its destiny? What can the rest of the world learn from America's experience?In Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why it Matters to All of Us, Howard Wolk and John Landry provide an insightful and thought-provoking histo....
Release Date 2022/08 -
The, Decision Maker's Playbook
Author Simon Mueller , Julia Dhar
Simon Mueller is the General Manager of The Bruce Henderson Institute in New York, The Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) corporate strategy think-tank. The book is built on a broad body of evidence. It is the result of half a decade of research, and numerous interviews with academics at Harvard Busin....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Author Edward Byrne , Charles Clarke
Ed Byrne is an Academic Neurologist who has worked in Australia and the UK. His research contributions are in the fields of mitochondrial disease and neuromuscular disorders. He was Professor of Neurology and Director of the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne, and then had a numb....
Release Date 2020/01 -
Author Richard Millington
Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee. Over the past 16 years, Richard has helped to develop over 270+ successful communities, including those for Apple, Facebook, Google, The World Bank, SAP, Oracle, Amazon, Autodesk, Lego, The United Nations, Novartis, and many more.Richard is the author o....
Release Date 2021/05 -
Author Henry Mintzberg , Bruce Ahlstrand , Joseph Lampel
Henry Mintzberg is perhaps the world's premier management thinker a Carlsberg-style endorsement of the author from Tom Peters, management guruHenry Mintzberg is one of today’s best-known and most controversial management thinkers. Currently Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill Univers....
Release Date 2020/07 -
The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat
Author Robert Najarian
The Art of Unarmed Stage Combat is your guide to the principles and techniques of theatrical violence, combining detailed discussions of the mechanics of stage fighting with the nuances of acting decisions to make fighting styles reflect character and story. Expert....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Trust and Western-Russian Business Relationships
Author Angela Ayios
Ayios looks at the Western experience of doing business in Russia, and how trust between business partners from East and West is created or destroyed within the business relationship. This book provides the reader with an in-depth look at the key factors that lead ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Cyndi Suarez , Nonprofit Quarterly
Learn to create a nonprofit organization and society in which Black people can thriveIn Building A Pro-Black World: A Guide To Creating True Equity in The Workplace and In Life, a team of dedicated nonprofit leaders delivers a timely roadmap to building pro-Black nonprofit organizations. Refreshingl....
Release Date 2023/07 -
Author Louis Hyman
Before the twentieth century, personal debt resided on the fringes of the American economy, the province of small-time criminals and struggling merchants. By the end of the century, however, the most profitable corporations and banks in the country lent money to mi....
Release Date 2011/01