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By Mary Fairhurst Breen. 2023
The activists between these pages have stood up for the queer community, whether on their own behalf or in support…
of people they love. Some made a difference by confronting injustice; others dared to be fully themselves.By Colleen Nelson, Kathie MacIsaac. 2023
From award-winning author Colleen Nelson, and literacy advocate Kathie MacIsaac, twenty-five profiles present a plethora of jobs, and people, making…
it easier than ever for young people to see their dreams and to live their dreams!By Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.By Brian Allen. 2024
Cyber risk management is one of the most urgent issues facing enterprises today. This book presents a detailed framework for…
designing, developing, and implementing a cyber risk management program that addresses your company's specific needs. Ideal for corporate directors, senior executives, security risk practitioners, and auditors at many levels, this guide offers both the strategic insight and tactical guidance you're looking for. You'll learn how to define and establish a sustainable, defendable, cyber risk management program, and the benefits associated with proper implementation. Cyber risk management experts Brian Allen and Brandon Bapst, working with writer Terry Allan Hicks, also provide advice that goes beyond risk management. You'll discover ways to address your company's oversight obligations as defined by international standards, case law, regulation, and board-level guidance. This book helps you: understand the transformational changes digitalization is introducing, and new cyber risks that come with it; learn the key legal and regulatory drivers that make cyber risk management a mission-critical priority for enterprises; gain a complete understanding of four components that make up a formal cyber risk management program; and implement or provide guidance for a cyber risk management program within your enterpriseBy Brian Goldman. 2022
The national bestseller from the host of CBC Radio's White Coat, Black Art — now in paperback! In the high-pressure…
and complex setting of health care, a new approach to teamwork is leading to healthier patients, happier staff and more efficient operations. Doctors are learning art appreciation to improve diagnostic skills. Hospitals are adopting airplane-style "black boxes" in operating rooms to reduce errors and create better teams. And lessons from the medical world are helping to build better teamwork outside hospitals. Through board games like Friday Night at the ER, Fortune 500 companies and other organizations are learning that running a busy emergency room provides valuable insight that can help anyone who is part of a team, or leads one, to be more effective. Although a group is not a team, any group can become a team. Drawing on groundbreaking research, including how to leverage the science of team building, Brian Goldman offers teachable strategies and examples from around the world that can make us all work better togetherBy Jessica J. Lee. 2024
INSTANT TORONTO STAR BESTSELLERThe prize-winning and bestselling author of Two Trees Make a Forest turns to the lives of plants…
entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared futureA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens when these plants leave their original homes and put down roots elsewhere?The themes in these fourteen essays become invigorating and intimate in Lee’s hands, centering on the lives of plants like seaweed, tangelos, and soy, and their entanglement with our human worlds. Lee explores the rich backstory of cherry trees in Berlin; a tea plant that grows in the Himalayan foothills just southwest of China; the world of algae and wakame, and the journeys they’ve made to reach us.Each of the plants considered in this collection are somehow perceived as being "out of place"—weeds, samples collected through imperial science, crops introduced and transformed by our hand. Lee looks at these plant species in their own context, even when we find them outside of it.Dispersals draws a gorgeous, sprawling map of the diaspora of flora. Combining memoir, history, and scientific research in poetic prose, Jessica J. Lee meditates on the question of how both plants and people come to belong, why both cross borders, and how our futures are more entwined than we might imagine.By Denise Chong. 2024
From the bestselling author of The Concubine’s Children and The Girl in the Picture, a gripping story of a domestic…
assault that shocked the world, of the exercise of power and political influence, and of the Bangladeshi woman whose irrepressible spirit found light in sudden darkness.From the outside, Rumana seemed an unlikely victim of domestic abuse: married to a man of her own choosing and progressing in her career as a professor of international relations at Dhaka University. But in 2011, on return from graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, her husband attacked and blinded her in front of their young daughter. As Rumana's horrifying story garnered international headlines, and connections brought her to Vancouver in an attempt—ultimately futile—to restore her sight, her plight underscored the fact that there are no typical victims of intimate-partner violence. Denise Chong goes behind the headlines to reveal the devolution of a love story into a tale of tyranny behind closed doors, and the pursuit of justice that proved all the more elusive during the rise of social media. Out of Darkness tells a globe-spanning narrative of loyalty, perseverance and a woman’s determination to face the future and rebuild a life with meaning.By Wolfgang Amann and Michael Pirson and Claus Dierkmeier and Ernst von Kimakowitz and Heiko Spitzeck. 2011
In a time of instability trust in managers is low. Management education is being scrutinized for its impact on society and business…
schools have been considered as 'silent partners in corporate crime' This book outlines how business schools can get out of the line of fire by presenting the cornerstones of a humanistic business education.By Dietmar Abts, Wilhelm Mülder. 2013
Mit unveränderter Dynamik etablieren sich neue IT- Anwendungsmöglichkeiten in unserer Gesellschaft. In Folge sind Unternehmen permanent gezwungen ihre bestehenden Informationssystem…
auf ihre Eignung, Aktualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit zu überprüfen. Daneben ermöglicht der technologische Fortschritt dabei auch immer wieder die Entwicklung völlig neuartiger IT-Systeme. Der „Grundkurs Wirtschaftsinformatik" beschreibt als Gesamtwerk der Wirtschaftsinformatik neben Hard- und Software-Lösungen auch deren praktische Anwendung und zeigt Wege in der Methodik und Organisation. Fallbeispiele, Übungsteile und Lösungen runden das Themenspektrum ab. Alle Kapitel wurden gründlich überarbeitet und didaktisch verbessert. Neu hinzu-gekommen sind Themen wie z.B. Software as a Service, Ruby on Rails, LTE, WiMAX, NoSQL-Datenbanken, Social Media, App-Stores und Green IT. Zwei neue Kapitel befassen sich ausführlich mit den aktuellen Trends „Mobile Business" und „Soziale Netzwerke". Durch zusätzliche Aufgabenund Wiederholungsfragen lässt sich das Buch noch besser als bisher zum Selbststudium und zu Klausurvorbereitung nutzen. Hinzu gekommen ist auch ein erweiterter Online-Service mit Klausuren und Musterlösungen.By L. J. Kapteyn, D. De Bie. 2001
Het boek bestaat uit twee delen. In deel I behandelen de auteurs de ontwikkelingsfasen die zich op het terrein van…
het personeelsbeleid hebben voorgedaan. Deze fasen worden beschreven en becommentarieerd tegen de achtergrond van veranderingen in de relatie tussen mens, arbeid, organisatie en maatschappij. De auteurs wijzen er onder meer op dat personeelsfunctionarissen zich meer moeten gaan inzetten om arbeidsorganisaties ook in bedrijfsethisch opzicht goed te laten functioneren. In deel II bespreken de auteurs de diverse aandachtsgebieden van de personeelsfunctie, zowel in hun onderlinge samenhang als in hun gerichtheid op de verwezenlijking van interne en externe organisatiedoelstellingen.By Cengiz Kahraman, Elif Haktanır. 2024
This book is a practical and theoretical guide that demonstrates how to leverage investment data in numerical models despite uncertainty…
and ambiguity. The author presents innovative methods that incorporate fuzzy set theory to overcome the imprecision of expert opinions and appraisals. Through real industry case studies and comparative analyses, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of how these novel approaches can be implemented to measure robustness. This book is a must-read for managers involved in investment decision making, for economists, lecturers, as well as M.Sc. and Ph.D. students studying investment decision-making.By Jörg Niemann, Benedikt Reich, Carsten Stöhr. 2024
The Lean Six Sigma Workshop describes important and practically relevant methods and tools for optimizing industrial production structures. In addition…
to theoretical foundations, the book provides extensive hands-on exercise materials with solutions for each method, ensuring application-oriented knowledge transfer. The book particularly assists educators and learners in preparing and conducting entire teaching units, which can be deepened and practically applied through 13 workshops as group activities.The playful application of theory over multiple game rounds enables learners to use the methods in practice and apply gained insights in an industrial setting.By Bahaaeddin Alareeni, Allam Hamdan. 2024
This book proceedings addresses a crucial gap in understanding the impact of technology on Business Model Innovation (BMI). It emphasizes…
the need for further research to explore the intricate relationship between technology and BMI, focusing on opportunities and challenges. By delving into how technology influences emerging business model innovations and enhances operational efficiency, the publication aims to advance knowledge. Inviting diverse research methods, it sheds light on various ideas within the technology and BMI realm. Tailored for students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers, this book contributes to the evolving field of BMI and technology.By Raúl Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Yves Ducq, Ramona-Diana Leon, David Romero. 2024
Enterprise Interoperability X presents contributions ranging from academic research and case studies, to industrial and administrative experiences with interoperability. These…
contributions help organizations to analyse and improve their products and processes in the face of the high degree of uncertainty in the current commercial environment, and to predict their performance. To this end, the contributors exploit digital twin technology that integrates tools from the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and software analytics. Enterprise interoperability necessarily arises from the processes required to make associated digital twins work together. The book forms the proceedings of the I-ESA’22 Conference, which was organised by the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, on behalf of INTERVAL and the European Virtual Laboratory for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab), and was held in Valencia, Spain in March 2022. Many of the papers in this eleventh volume ofthe Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences include examples and illustrations to help deepen readers’ understanding and generate new ideas. Offering a detailed guide to the state of the art in systems interoperability, the book will be of great value to all engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries, and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in academic settings.Mit dem näher rückenden Ende der ersten EEG-Vergütungsphase stellt sich für eine Vielzahl der Betreibenden von landwirtschaftlichen Bestandsbiogasanlagen die Frage…
nach geeigneten Konzepten für einen wirtschaftlichen Weiterbetrieb. In dem Band werden die relevantesten Folgekonzepte ermittelt und in Zahlungsstrommodellen dargestellt. Um einen möglichst hohen Erkenntnisgewinn über die Folgekonzepte für die Fortführung der Stromerzeugung und Biogasaufbereitung und die damit zusammenhängende Investitionsentscheidung zu erlangen, werden verschiedene Verfahren der Investitionsrechnung angewandt.By Deepak Bajaj, Thayaparan Gajendran, Sanjay Patil. 2024
This book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Sustainable Built Environment (ICSBE 2023). It discusses the issues of…
sustainability and resilience in all types of building projects, construction projects, operational building, and infrastructure projects within urban regions of the world. The key themes covered in this book are sustainable urban planning, sustainable construction, real estate, housing, net-zero built environment, climate change policy, legal framework, climate finance, technology, and innovation toward decarbonization of the built environment. This book is useful for researchers and professionals working in the fields of construction management, built environment, and allied fields.By Antonio De Vito, Francesco Grossetti. 2024
This book explores the intricate realm of tax avoidance, synthesizing existing empirical literature in the field. The work starts by…
exploring the theoretical underpinnings of tax avoidance, dissecting its unique features compared to tax evasion. It delves into measurement methodologies and dissects the determinants contributing to its prevalence. Moreover, it analyzes the economic consequences of tax avoidance, emphasizing its impact on critical accounting issues, including financial reporting transparency, cost of capital, and firm value. Next, the book offers a foundational understanding of graph theory, unveiling the core elements of networks, such as nodes and edges. The book covers the theoretical fundamentals and addresses the practical side of constructing networks based on real-world relational systems. It emphasizes the importance of effective data collection and representation methods and underscores the importance of optimizing network layouts for enhanced visual representation. Using network analysis, the book further offers a deep dive into empirical studies on tax avoidance over the past two decades, revealing insights into the collaborative nature of this stream of research. Finally, the book summarizes the key insights of the network analysis on tax avoidance. It underscores the dynamic nature of individual authors' roles and affiliations, shedding light on the collaborative dynamics within institutions.By Klaus Rainer Kirchhoff, Sönke Niefünd, Julian A. von Pressentin. 2024
Immer mehr Investoren haben ESG-Kriterien in ihre Investitionskriterien integriert und immer mehr Banken ergänzen ihre Vergaberichtlinien für Kredite um ESG-Aspekte.…
Mit einer gelebten ESG-Strategie und ESG-Kommunikation werden Unternehmen für Investoren und Banken folgerichtig attraktiver.Dieses Buch soll Unternehmern und Managern zeigen, wie sie zu einer überzeugenden ESG-Strategie kommen und wie sie diese professionell kommunizieren.By Jun Peng, Qiushi Wang. 2024
Since 1978, when China started remaking its economy, it has also embarked on an unparalleled effort at remaking its pension…
system to accommodate its hybrid economic model. This book tells the story of how China has managed to build a national pension system that now covers most of its population and what this system holds for its future.This book covers the following topics: evolution of Chinese pension system to its current form; benefit design, financing, and governance of current pension system; challenges facing the pension system, especially the looming funding shortage due to accelerating population ageing; solutions to the challenges; and lessons learned from the Chinese experience. Due to the fragmentation of pension system among 31 mainland provinces, we also select three provinces as case studies to help readers gain a richer understanding of how economic and geographic diversity has created disparity in pension benefit design and financing between provinces and within a province and how such disparity adds complexity and challenges to the pension system.This timely and important study provides up-to-date and in-depth analyses for policymakers and stakeholders to make informed decisions and will be relevant for all scholars and students of public administration and public policy studies.By Mara Del Baldo, Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli, Elisabetta Righini. 2024
Without respecting and nurturing ‘place’ we cannot achieve a state of ecological sustainability. Place-based organizations are not run on a…
purely materialistic basis. The non-materialistic features of a place, its aesthetics, cultural heritage, community feelings, transcendence, should be integrated into sustainability management. This far-reaching two-volume work breaks with the economic logic of efficiency and profit maximization, and suggests that organizations should inform their sustainability by encompassing feelings of identity with and attachment to place.According to this vision, the editors have compiled scholarly contributions aimed to support the ecological transformation of humankind by exploring both theoretical and practical models that integrate the sense of the place, ethics and spirituality in new ways of organizing of economic and social life. This second volume takes the theoretical direction, established in the first model, and puts it into practice withcases from business and society. It will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students of sustainability, business ethics and spirituality.