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Motorsport and Fascism: Living Dangerously (Global Culture and Sport Series)
By Paul Baxa. 2022
This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing…
and Fascism that did not exist with other sports. Motorsport was able to bring together the two dominant, and often opposed, cultural roots of Fascism, the Futurism of F. T. Marinetti, and the Decadence associated with Gabriele D’Annunzio. The book traces this cultural convergence through a topical study of motorsport in the 1920s and 1930s placing it in the context of the history of sport under Mussolini’s regime. Chapters discuss the centrality of speed and death in Fascist culture, the attempt to transform Rome into a motorsport capital, the architectural and ideological function of the Monza and Tripoli and autodromes, and two chapters on the importance of the Mille Miglia, a genuine Fascist artefact that became one of the most legendary motor races of all time.Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency (Routledge Revivals)
By H. M. Vernon. 1921
First published in 1921, Industrial Fatigue and Efficiency aims to provide a fairly complete overview of industrial fatigue and its…
influence on efficiency. It brings crucial themes like fatigue and its measurement; output in relation to weekly hours of work; output and hours of work in various industries; the six- hours day and multiple shifts; work spells and rest periods; limitation of output; lost time and its causation; sickness and mortality; industrial accidents and their causation; the prevention of industrial accidents; and adoption of healthy factory conditions, to showcase the importance of adequate lighting, heating and ventilation, washing facilities, cloak rooms, ambulance room and a well found canteen as basic requirements in factories. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of labour studies, labour economics, industrial studies, and political economy.The Silver Bullets of Commercial Negotiation: Strategies and Tactics
By Christopher Lennon. 2022
This book empowers you to immediately grasp the opportunities that present themselves in international commercial negotiation, and to be able…
to create and maintain positive, mutually beneficial relationships with other parties that are long lasting and productive. International commercial negotiations are a vital element of today’s business world. But how do you conduct them successfully? And how well trained, prepared and knowledgeable are those conducting the negotiation? What makes this book different is that it encapsulates the core ‘need to know’ elements of negotiation that can make or break a deal. It is written to be user-friendly and an easy read – it offers simple advice that will be immediately useful to the commercial negotiator and makes many complicated issues easily understandable. ‘Silver Bullets’ are provided, distilling the critical factors that have significant implications for the negotiated outcome. This book has been written with the experienced business professional who is engaged within commercial negotiations in mind. It provides new insight into how to add value in terms of negotiation skills and operational efficiency. The book has been deliberately written in a non-technical, easy-to-read style that will have broad appeal.Ganzkörper-Elektromyostimulation: Effekte, Limitationen, Perspektiven einer innovativen Trainingsmethode (essentials)
By Michael Fröhlich, Wolfgang Kemmler, Christoph Eifler. 2022
Das vorliegende Essential versteht sich als kompaktes Nachschlagewerk für Fragen und Aspekte rund um die innovative Trainingstechnologie Ganzkörper-Elektromyostimulation (WB-EMS). Neben Hintergründen…
und Informationen zur WB-EMS Applikation, bei der die Autoren besonderes Augenmerk auf die sichere und effektive Anwendung legen, erfolgt eine aktuelle Übersicht über Forschungsergebnisse, welche die Effekte von WB-EMS auf unterschiedliche Zielgrößen zusammenfasst. Abschließend wird eine Charakterisierung der Marksituation sowie derzeitiger Trends und eine Prognose von Entwicklungen im Spannungsfeld WB-EMS vorgelegt.Power Purchase Agreements: Stromlieferverträge für Erneuerbare Energien (essentials)
By Stephan Schnorr. 2022
In diesem essential werden Power Purchase Agreements nach verschiedenen Kriterien, wie Lieferrichtung, Preisregime oder Anlagenart kategorisiert. Außerdem wird auf die Besonderheit des…
fluktuierenden Einspeiseverhaltens von Erneuerbaren Energien eingegangen. Insbesondere dieses Verhalten hat Auswirkungen auf die Bepreisung derartiger Verträge. Bei der Beschreibung der Bepreisung wird insbesondere die Capture Rate näher vorgestellt. Ein weiterer wesentlicher Punkt ist die Bewirtschaftung von PPAs, also den Prozessen während der Belieferung. Den Abschluss bildet ein Exkurs zu Herkunftsnachweisen, die in Power Purchase Agreements in der Regel mit übertragen werden.Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2022 International Workshops, Leuven, Belgium, June 6–10, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #451)
By Jennifer Horkoff, Jelena Zdravkovic, Estefania Serral. 2022
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the international workshops associated with the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information…
Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2022, which was held in Leuven, Belgium, during June 6-10, 2022.The workshops included in this volume are: · BC4IS: Second International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems· ISESL: Second International Workshop on Information Systems Engineering for Smarter Life· KET4DF: 4th International Workshop on Key Enabling Technology for Digital Factories They reflect a broad range of topics and trends ranging from blockchain technologies via digital factories, ethics, and ontologies, to the agile methods for business and information systems. The 11 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions.This book explores and critically assesses the challenges and experiences of LGBTQ people within sport in Europe. It presents cutting-edge…
research data and insights from across the continent, with a focus on sport policy, sport systems, and issues around anti-discrimination and inclusion. The book introduces the theoretical and methodological foundations of research into LGBTQ people in sport and then presents in-depth comparative surveys of systems and experiences in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the UK, and Spain. A final section considers the effectiveness of policy in this area and motives for participation, and looks ahead at future directions in research, policy, and practice. Tracing the frontiers of our understanding of the experiences of LGBTQ people in contemporary Europe, this is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport policy, LGBTQI studies, gender and sexuality studies, or cultural studies.Cybersecurity for Coaches and Therapists: A Practical Guide for Protecting Client Data
By Alexandra J.S. Fouracres. 2022
This groundbreaking book filters down the wealth of information on cybersecurity to the most relevant and highly applicable aspects for coaches, therapists,…
researchers and all other practitioners handling confidential client conversations and data. Whether working with clients online or face to face, practitioners today increasingly rely on the cyberspace as part of their practice. Through a solutions-focused lens, the book provides easy-to-apply practical advice and guidelines using non-technical language, enabling practitioners to mitigate the rising threat of cybercrime, which can no longer be ignored. By the last page the reader will have knowledge and awareness towards: securing devices, spotting financial fraud, mitigating the risks of online communications, operating more securely from a home office and handling a cyber event if one occurs. Clear, concise, and easy to follow, this guide is a pivotal resource for coaches, therapists, researchers and all other practitioners protecting their clients and businesses.Rational Decisions in Organisations: Theoretical and Practical Aspects
By Frédéric Adam. 2022
Managers in organisations must make rational decisions. Rational decision making is the opposite of intuitive decision making. It is a…
strict procedure utilising objective knowledge and logic. It involves identifying the problem to solve, gathering facts, identifying options and outcomes, analysing them, considering all the relationships and selecting the decision. Rational decision making requires support: methods and software tools. The identification of the problem to solve needs methods that would measure and evaluate the current situation. Identification and evaluation of options and analysis of the available possibilities involves analysis and optimisation methods. Incorporating intuition into rational decision making needs adequate methods that would translate ideas or observed behaviours into hard data. Communication, observation and opinions recording is hardly possible today without adequate software. Information and data that form the input, intermediate variables and the output must be stored, managed and made accessible in a user-friendly manner. Rational Decisions in Organisations: Theoretical and Practical Aspects presents selected recent developments in the support of the widely understood rational decision making in organisations, illustrated through case studies. The book shows not only the variety of perspectives involved in decision making, but also the variety of domains where rational decision support systems are needed. The case studies present decision making by medical doctors, students and managers of various universities, IT project teams, construction companies, banks and small and large manufacturing companies. Covering the richness of relationships in which the decisions should and must be taken, the book illustrates how modern organisations operate in chains and networks; they have multiple responsibilities, including social, legal, business and ethical duties. Nowadays, managers in organisations can make transparent decisions and consider a multitude of stakeholders and their diverse features, incorporating diverse criteria, using multiple types and drivers of information and decision-making patterns, and referring to numerous lessons learned. As the book makes clear, the marriage of theoretical ideas with the possibilities offered by technology can make the decisions in organisations more rational and, at the same time, more human.Disruptive Leadership for Organizations: Strategies & Innovations in a Digitalized Economy
By Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire. 2022
Aimed as much at the neophyte as at the insider who questions why intellectual property rights (IPRs) matter in the…
digital age and the corporate strategies in the digitalised economy, this book approaches with perspicacity the development of disruptive mechanisms for organisations and IPR-centric leadership. The book is focused on organisations and a management systems perspective. The book identifies the technical practices and proposes multi-level strategies to promote disruptive leadership and encourage growth. The book then addresses the fundamentals of innovation and technology governance, from the production of ideas to the distribution of innovative products or services, including prototyping, financing, industrialisation and so on. It presents recent challenges, including open innovation, creativity and design thinking, and innovation of business models, placing them in the context of knowledge and the collaborative economy. The ambition of the book is to propose a framework for thought and action to the manager, which is composed of five walls – organisational creativity, intellectual property, financing, manufacturing and design of innovation – brought together under one roof, the business model of the technology. This device in which the manager must fit is situated in the strategy of his company and is to be embedded in a specific macroeconomic space.How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real WorldIn this ground-breaking book, author Morten Münster presents a…
set of rules that individuals and companies can follow to bring about necessary change.Using behavioural design and an accessible four-step method, he shows how people can be persuaded to do one thing instead of another and thereby achieve success.By examining an array of examples drawn from business, government, various public groups and institutions he demonstrates how the rules can be learned and applied in different contexts.Managing Visitor Attractions: New Directions
By Alan Fyall. 2022
Visitor attractions represent a complex sector of the tourism industry and are the catalytic focus for the development of tourism…
infrastructure and services. The third edition of this successful text investigates these issues further and provides more solutions and suggestions for the present and future. Now in its third edition, Managing Visitor Attractions has been fully revised and updated to include new content on increased visitor numbers, new destinations and attractions, social media, overtourism, environmental awareness and the experience economy. The book includes case studies on topics such as overtourism at natural attraction sites, new attraction development in Egypt, dark tourism in Latin America, dementia-friendly attractions, and manging sporting venues as attractions. New chapters include the role of the visitor attraction manager, managing safety and risk, themed attractions and storytelling, and digital marketing, among many others. With contributions from around the world, this is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of visitor attraction management, written by subject specialists with a wealth of experience in this field.100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living: 100 Self Help Rules for Life
By Nigel Cumberland. 2021
EXPANDED EDITION FEATURING 10 BRAND NEW CHAPTERS: THE 10 THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE NEVER DO** 100 THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DO: NOW…
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!** TRANSLATED IN 20 LANGUAGES WORLDWIDE'Inspiring and practical' MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, bestselling author of TRIGGERSYOUR GUIDE TO CREATING A SUCCESSFUL LIFE100 Things Successful People Do is your guide to successful living. Mixing simple instructions with activities to get you started, whether you are looking to succeed in your family life, at work, in sports, at school or in retirement, you will find mindsets, habits, and techniques here that will help you get the results you want.100 Things Successful People Do is packed with great ideas for working smart and living well, all carefully chosen to help you achieve any kind of success you can imagine. You will discover the habits that are common to successful people and find out how to use them in your own life.Every chapter features a new idea that will help you get closer to your goals. Mixing simple descriptions with activities and exercises, you will learn the optimal mindset and habits you need to succeed in work and life.And this expanded edition now features a brand new section revealing the 10 things that successful people never do.Dramas of Dignity: Cleaners in the Corporate Underworld of Berlin
By Jana Costas. 2022
Looking beyond the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a designer micro-city within Berlin's city center, this book goes behind-the-scenes with…
the cleaners who pick up cigarette butts from sidewalks, scrape chewing gum from marble floors, wipe coffee stains from office desks and scrub public toilets, long before white-collar workers, consumers and tourists enter the complex. It follows Costas's journey to a large yet hidden, four-level deep corporate underworld below Potsdamer Platz. There, Costas discovers how cleaners' attitudes to work are much less straightforward than the public perceptions of cleaning as degrading work would suggest. Cleaners turn to their work for dignity yet find it elusive. The book explores how these cleaners' dramas of dignity unfold in interactions with co-workers, management, clients and the public. The book will appeal to students and academics in the fields of organisational theory, organisational behavior, organisation studies, sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies and urban studies.Volkswirtschaftslehre – mathematisch gedacht
By Mark Sellenthin. 2022
Dieses Lehrbuch stellt die theoretischen Modelle der Volkswirtschaftslehre durch grundlegende mathematische Konzepte dar. Während eine wirtschaftswissenschaftliche akademische Karriere ohne fundierte…
Methodenkenntnisse undenkbar erscheint, sind in der akademischen Lehre die theoretischen Inhalte und die quantitativen Methoden zumeist relativ streng voneinander getrennt. Dieses Lehrbuch geht einen anderen Weg. Die Mathematik wird als lebendiger, integraler Bestandteil des wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studiums verstanden, ohne den weder ein tieferes theoretisches Verständnis noch eine empirische Anwendung möglich ist. Der Autor analysiert wesentliche Modelle aus der Mikro- und der Makroökonomik mit Hilfe mathematischer Ansätze. Der Anwendungsnutzen mathematischer Methoden steht dabei im Vordergrund und soll daher anhand von Musteraufgaben illustriert werden. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch richtet sich an Bachelorstudierende, die eine Einführung in die mathematische Modellierung grundlegender Modelle der Mikro- und Makroökonomik wünschen.Für die 2. Auflage wurde ein neues Kapitel zu den mathematischen Grundlagen ergänzt, das gebündelt alle benötigten Methoden für ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium vorstellt. Im Kapitel zur Makroökonomik wurde zudem die Makroökonomik offener Volkswirtschaften neu aufgenommen.Actions Speak Louder: A Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming an Inclusive Workplace
By Deanna Singh. 2022
"A timely, practical resource on creating teams and organizations where everyone has the opportunity to succeed."--Adam Grant, #1 New York…
Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast WorkLife A step-by-step guide for managers, teams, and DEI leaders looking to create impactful, lasting change in their organization, from recruitment to retention, and beyond. Are you tired of hollow promises about diversity, equity, and inclusion in your organization? Do you want to take steps towards real change – beyond issuing mission statements, signing checks, and holding listening sessions – but don&’t know where to start? This book is your answer. Designed for teams to read together, Actions Speak Louder offers a comprehensive blueprint for leaders and teams who are ready to get out of their own way, look at their surroundings with new eyes, and turn their energy into a concrete plan. Renowned DEI consultant Deanna Singh has led diversity trainings for a wide range of organizations, from non-profits to Fortune 500 companies. Using narratives, case studies, and the latest DEI research, as well as interactive exercises, Singh will teach you how to: • Write inclusive job advertisements because &“minorities just don&’t apply here&” isn&’t an excuse – you&’re just not reaching them • Design an interview process that reduces status quo bias and challenges hiring decisions that are simply &“no brainers&” • Create a retention plan that considers and prioritizes the needs of underrepresented employees – if you haven&’t intentionally designed one to be inclusive, you&’ve unintentionally reinforced one that is exclusive. • Lead inclusive meetings – the bedrock of company culture – by practicing constructive dissent and elevating underrepresented perspectives As Singh has seen time and time again, any organization can meaningfully change – you just need the right tools.Cultural Dynamics and Leadership: An Interpretive Approach (Elements in Leadership)
By Nathan W. Harter. 2022
The intersection of leadership and culture is undertheorized. This Element looks behind familiar titles in leadership at materials from anthropology,…
sociology, and history to gain a more nuanced understanding of culture. Of particular relevance is an interpretive approach, elaborated in the works of Simmel, Cassirer, Ortega y Gasset, and Gadamer. A five-part schema examines permutations pertaining to the relationship between culture and leadership – as separate, conflicting, derivative, or engaged – with the most attractive being the possibility that leadership and culture are mutually constituting. To explain cultural change, Ortega y Gasset suggested as a unit of analysis the idea of a generation, illustrated in a historical account of translating the Bible. Archer proposed as a mechanism for cultural change the idea of social morphogenesis, which this Element applies to evolving issues of race in the civic order. This process illustrated in the thinking of pundit William F. Buckley, Jr.Las 21 leyes irrefutables del liderazgo: Siga estas leyes, y la gente lo seguirá a usted
By John C. Maxwell. 2009
John C. Maxwell, el experto en liderazgo, conferenciante y autor internacionalmente reconocido, ha tomado este éxito de ventas de un…
millón de ejemplares y lo ha hecho aún mejor.Si nunca ha leído Las 21 leyes irrefutables del liderazgo, se ha perdido uno de los libros de liderazgo más vendidos de todos los tiempos. Si ha leído la versión original, le encantará esta nueva versión ampliada y actualizada.Esta edición revisada se mantiene fiel al original, con actualizaciones de algunos de los conceptos clave de liderazgo de Maxwell adaptados al entorno actual.Todas las leyes del liderazgo han sido afinadas y actualizadasSe incluyen diecisiete nuevas historias de liderazgoSe introducen dos nuevas leyes del liderazgoLa nueva herramienta de evaluación revelará sus puntos fuertes y débiles de liderazgoNuevos ejercicios de aplicación en cada capítulo que le ayudarán a crecer¿Por qué el Dr. Maxwell hizo cambios en su libro más vendido?«Un libro es una conversación entre el autor y el lector», dice Maxwell. «Han pasado diez años desde que escribí Las 21 leyes del liderazgo. He crecido mucho desde entonces. He enseñado estas leyes en docenas de países de todo el mundo. Esta nueva edición me da la oportunidad de compartir lo que he aprendido».The 21 Irrefutable Laws of LeadershipInternationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has taken this million-seller and made it even better.If you've never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you've been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you'll love this new expanded and updated one.This revised edition keeps true to the original, with updates to some of Maxwell&’s key leadership concepts adapted for today's environment.Every Law of Leadership has been sharpened and updatedSeventeen new leadership stories are includedTwo new Laws of Leadership are introducedNew evaluation tool will reveal your leadership strengths—and weaknessesNew application exercises in every chapter will help you growWhy would Dr. Maxwell make changes to his best-selling book?&“A book is a conversation between the author and reader,&” says Maxwell. &“It's been ten years since I wrote The 21 Laws of Leadership. I've grown a lot since then. I've taught these laws in dozens of countries around the world. This new edition gives me the opportunity to share what I've learned.&”The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
By John C. Maxwell. 2022
If you&’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you&’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership…
books of all time. If you have read the original version, then you&’ll love this new expanded and updated one. Internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author John C. Maxwell has taken this million-seller and made it even better: Every Law of Leadership has been sharpened and updatedSeventeen new leadership stories are includedTwo new Laws of Leadership are introducedNew evaluation tool will reveal your leadership strengths—and weaknessesNew application exercises in every chapter will help you growWhy would Dr. Maxwell make changes to his best-selling book? &“A book is a conversation between the author and reader,&” says Maxwell. &“It&’s been ten years since I wrote The 21 Laws of Leadership. I&’ve grown a lot since then. I&’ve taught these laws in dozens of countries around the world. This new edition gives me the opportunity to share what I&’ve learned.&”Trademark Dilution: The Protection of Reputed Trademarks Beyond Likelihood of Confusion
By Amir Friedman. 1905
The world has changed materially since the foundation of traditional trademark laws, according to which the purpose of a trademark…
was to serve as a differentiating source indicator, preventing source confusion in the marketplace. Traditionally, trademarks protected the public from likelihood of confusion, assisted in consumer decisions and reduced search costs. The need to award a special scope of protection to famous trademarks from use on non-competing goods was first discussed in Kodak in 1898, holding that the use of the word Kodak for a bicycle company does not mislead consumers but takes unfair advantage of reputation. However, the most significant point in the evolution of dilution, in its early stages, was the case of Odol decided in 1924, which was the first to acknowledge the need to protect the advertising power of trademarks from being diluted, even in the absence of a likelihood of confusion. This book will provide that dilution is a ‘sui generis’ brand remedy applicable to reputed trademarks in accordance to their aggregated inherent and acquired strength. The book will address the non-harmonised nature of dilution, which reflects a problem in an age of borderless trade and cyber commerce and emphasises the need to answer the question: To what extent should reputed trademarks be protected by dilution beyond the traditional trademark protection from likelihood of confusion? The book includes a proposal for an operative legal framework based on conclusions and distinctions derived from the comparison of dilution, as adopted and interpreted in different areas of the world, comparative case studies and comparison with neighbouring legal rights, such as Tort Law, Unfair Competition, Moral Rights, Equitable Rights, Publicity Rights and Unlawful Enrichment.