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Beryl: The Making of a Disability Activist
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.Building a cyber risk management program: Evolving security for the digital age
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 enterpriseThe power of teamwork: How we can all work better together
By 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 togetherNomadland: Surviving america in the twenty-first century
By Jessica Bruder. 2017
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people…
who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better lifeHealth for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada
By Jane Philpott. 2024
From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health professionals (and former federal Minister of Health), a timely, practical, ambitious,…
and deeply personal call for action on health that sets out the roadmap to our future well-being.Jane Philpott has spent her life learning what makes people sick and what keeps people well. She has witnessed miracles in modern medicine. She has also watched children die of starvation in a world that has plenty of food. With Health for All, she sounds a clarion call for a radical disruption in a health care system that is broken—but not beyond repair. The vision is rooted in a deep-seated commitment to health equity.Decades ago, a few visionary Canadian leaders put laws in place to ensure health care insurance for all. But the structures to deliver that care were never fully developed as envisioned. As a result, our health systems are not comprehensive or well-coordinated. In the wake of a pandemic, we risk it all falling apart. More than six million people have no family doctor, nor any other access to primary care. Emergency rooms are routinely closed. Exhausted health workers wonder if it will ever get better. Some say we should hand health care over to the private sector. But to abandon our commitment to publicly funded health care now would only lead to more expensive and less equitable care. Philpott outlines a different solution—an ambitious, once-in-a-generation reset of health systems with universal access to primary care teams.What sets this book apart is that it’s more than a prescription for better medical care. Philpott looks at the big picture of health for all. This includes an intimate look at the personal roots of well-being: hope, belonging, meaning, and purpose. Then, through real-life stories, she examines the impact of the social determinants of health. Finally, she explains that none of this will happen without the political will to do the hard work of rebuilding a healthy society. The remedy we await is serious leadership to implement what we already know and to put the well-being of Canadians at the top of the agenda.Who's Afraid of Gender?
By Judith Butler. 2024
Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, the "anti-gender ideology movement" has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against…
sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their right to pursue a life without fear of violence. Here, Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic Gender Trouble redefined how we understand gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on "gender" that have become central to right-wing movements today. Who's Afraid of Gender? examines how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In this vital, courageous book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways in which this phantasm of gender collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction, resulting in a movement that demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation. An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those who fight against injustice. Imagining new possibilities for freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us a hopeful work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless—a book whose verve and rigor only they could deliver.Buying a Business For Dummies
By Eric Tyson, Jim Schell. 2024
Prospect, evaluate, purchase, and grow an existing business Buying a Business For Dummies guides you through the process of becoming…
an entrepreneur without starting from scratch. Before you purchase an existing business, you'll need to know what types of opportunities are out there, how to identify the right fit for your goals, and which strategies to use as you negotiate the deal and manage a smooth transition. This book gives you step-by-step advice on all of that. What about actually running the business successfully? You're covered there, too, with clear information on executing a smooth ownership transition and growing your new business. Let this friendly Dummies guide be your mentor as you embark on your business ownership adventure. Know what's involved in buying a business and see if it's for you Evaluate your risk tolerance and identify businesses worth buying Negotiating a great deal and managing a seamless handover Making changes to your new business —without making enemies Buying a Business For Dummies is a great starting point for entrepreneurs interested in a lower-risk route to business ownership.The Extended Reality Blueprint: Demystifying the AR/VR Production Process
By Annie Eaton. 2024
Follow a tried-and-tested approach to integrating augmented and virtual reality into your business The Extended Reality Blueprint focuses on design…
for non-gaming or gaming adjacent applications in extended reality (XR), including augmented and virtual reality. Author Annie Eaton is a leading producer of immersive content in the XR space. Many of Annie's clients come to her with the same questions, often not knowing where to begin as they seek to implement extended reality solutions into their business. This book presents the discovery and product development process through an immersive technology lens. You will walk through the XR production process and learn how to apply this technology directly within your organizations in a meaningful and effective way. Join leading businesses like Delta Air Lines, Mars Wrigley, Georgia-Pacific, and JLG Industries, and learn how top companies are leveraging XR for greater market share, engagement, and profit. Learn about the latest applications of extended reality (XR), including augmented and virtual reality. Discover the steps of the XR product development process, including how to find profitable uses of XR and decide on technology suites. Assemble effective teams of XR developers, designers, artists, and other key members to bring your projects to fruition and success. Learn from the real-world examples and lessons learned of businesses that have taken the leap into extended reality. The Extended Reality Blueprint, delivers a concrete, actionable process for brining extended reality into your organization and embracing this crucial technology to remain current.Reducing Your Taxes For Dummies
By Eric Tyson. 2024
Get year-round insight on reducing tax burdens This book walks you through the best strategies for reducing your personal tax…
burden and keeping more dollars in your pocket. If you plan and manage your finances all year round, tax season can be a cakewalk. Reducing Your Taxes For Dummies offers tips on maximizing your deductions, minimizing your income tax, and hunting for breaks on investment, real estate, and business income tax. Written by Dummies financial guru Eric Tyson (Personal Finance For Dummies, Taxes For Dummies), this guide explains tax basics, savings plans, retirement accounts, and myriad ideas for reducing your personal tax burden. Understand filing status, child tax credits, alternative minimum tax, IRS audits, and beyond Avoid common tax mistakes and identify all your possible deductions Plan and invest in a tax-wise way throughout the year Make the most of your retirement accounts and savings plans Keep your hard-earned cash with Reducing Your Taxes For Dummies. It's full of year-round opportunities for reducing your tax burden and paying less in taxes each year.Resilience Practice: Building Capacity To Absorb Disturbance And Maintain Function
By Brian Walker & David Salt. 2012
In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after…
shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we need from them? This idea caught the attention of both the scientific community and the general public. In Resilience Practice, authors Brian Walker and David Salt take the notion of resilience one step further, applying resilience thinking to real-world situations and exploring how systems can be managed to promote and sustain resilience. The book begins with an overview and introduction to resilience thinking and then takes the reader through the process of describing systems, assessing their resilience, and intervening as appropriate. Following each chapter is a case study of a different type of social-ecological system and how resilience makes a difference to that system in practice. The final chapters explore resilience in other arenas, including on a global scale. Resilience Practice will help people with an interest in the “coping capacity” of systems—from farms and catchments to regions and nations—to better understand how resilience thinking can be put into practice. It offers an easy-to-read but scientifically robust guide through the real-world application of the concept of resilience and is a must read for anyone concerned with the management of systems at any scale.Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
By Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter Reid. 2012
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain…
our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down. In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world. It is an engaging and important work for anyone interested in managing risk in a complex world.Brand Management: Co-creating Meaningful Brands
By Michael Beverland, Pinar Cankurtaran. 2024
This popular textbook introduces students to contemporary brand management and innovation with a focus on how companies and consumers are…
interacting and co-creating brands today. The latest edition continues to provide equal focus on theory and practice with all new case studies and examples from brands around the globe to help show the wide range and diversity of brands and consumers today. These include Glossier, Lovehoney, Whisper, Shinola Detroit, Trung Nguyen, Shatta Wale, Tony’s Chocolonely. Also included are updated research references and online resources, as well as a brand-new chapter on the creative aspects of branding from naming to logos and experiences. This textbook is essential reading for all students studying branding and brand management at university level. Michael Beverland is Professor of Brand Marketing at University of Sussex Business School. Pinar Cankurtaran is Assistant Professor of Brand Strategy at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology.Brand Management: Co-creating Meaningful Brands
By Michael Beverland, Pinar Cankurtaran. 2024
This popular textbook introduces students to contemporary brand management and innovation with a focus on how companies and consumers are…
interacting and co-creating brands today. The latest edition continues to provide equal focus on theory and practice with all new case studies and examples from brands around the globe to help show the wide range and diversity of brands and consumers today. These include Glossier, Lovehoney, Whisper, Shinola Detroit, Trung Nguyen, Shatta Wale, Tony’s Chocolonely. Also included are updated research references and online resources, as well as a brand-new chapter on the creative aspects of branding from naming to logos and experiences. This textbook is essential reading for all students studying branding and brand management at university level. Michael Beverland is Professor of Brand Marketing at University of Sussex Business School. Pinar Cankurtaran is Assistant Professor of Brand Strategy at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology.The Death Penalty as State Crime: Who Can Kill?
By Laura L. Finley. 2024
This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or…
state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human beings, but is also aware of its deep flaws and chooses not to address them.Building on the vast literature on state crime together with case examples and interviews with activists seeking to abolish the death penalty, this book offers a new and innovative critique of state punishment in the US. It draws on a range of issues and topics such as arbitrariness, inadequate counsel, racial bias, mental illness, innocence, conditions on death row, the protocols, and the equipment used for executions. It emphasizes the need for abolition of the death penalty and highlights efforts being made to do so, with a focus on successful elements of abolition campaigns.The Death Penalty as State Crime is essential reading for all those engaged with capital punishment, human rights, and state crime, and will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars and political scientists alike.Strategisches Management in Unternehmen: Ziele - Prozesse - Verfahren
By Harald Hungenberg. 2011
Strategische Entscheidungen prägen die langfristige Entwicklung eines Unternehmens. Sie werden gerade in der heutigen Zeit eines intensiver werdenden Wettbewerbs immer…
wichtiger. Das Lehrbuch "Strategisches Management in Unternehmen" setzt sich umfassend und praxisorientiert mit strategischen Entscheidungen auseinander und gibt einen Überblick über die Theorien, Konzepte und Instrumente des strategischen Managements auf Geschäftsfeld- und Unternehmensebene. Es zeigt, wie Erfolg versprechende Strategien formuliert und umgesetzt werden können. Die übersichtliche Struktur des Buchs erleichtert den Zugang zum Thema, viele praktische Beispiele und Erläuterungen fördern das Verständnis. Die sechste Auflage ist wiederum überarbeitet und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht. Dabei werden insbesondere die dynamische Betrachtung von Strategien weiter ausgebaut und neuere Instrumente diskutiert.Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America
By David McCormick. 2023
Discover a groundbreaking vision for how to unlock America&’s full potential for greatness from one of the country&’s foremost conservative…
leaders: David McCormick, the former CEO of Bridgewater Associates. It&’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of our country these days, but as McCormick explains, if the true test of a great country is its capacity for self-renewal, the United States of America stands apart. Our country has continually defeated grave threats and overcome domestic divisions when the odds have been stacked against us. That&’s the American story, and we can do it again. Drawing on decades of leadership in business, the military, and government, McCormick issues a call for visionary, servant leadership and outlines a conservative agenda for American renewal that would expand access to the American Dream, ensure U.S. technological supremacy, confront China, and revive the restless, courageous, and indefatigable spirit that dwells within the American heart. This book is a must read for those who care deeply about the future of America. McCormick, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022, argues the path forward is treacherous and uncertain. It will undoubtedly test our resilience and place in the world. But if we commit ourselves to renewal, America's best days are yet to come.This book is a concise but comprehensive guide to the history, present and possible futures of carbon capture and storage…
policy and action in the United Kingdom (UK).There have been multiple failed starts, promises and “last chances” for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe, North America, China and Australia, but thus far it has repeatedly collided with the political and economic realities that the technology is too expensive and complicated to gain and keep policymakers’ support. However, in the UK that might be changing, with explicit government support for CCS to help decarbonise industry. Set within the broader context of global interest in CCS, this book first outlines the technologies involved in the types of capture technology, transport options and storage options in the UK. It then briefly introduces an overarching policy analysis framework (John Kingdon’s multiple streams approach) and uses it to give an account of the long history of CCS interest and efforts in three chapters covering the 1970s to 2002, 2003 to 2015 and 2016 to the present day. Marc Hudson focusses on the various arguments made for the introduction of CCS, and the slowly shifting coalitions of actors who make those arguments, while contrasting these with the perspectives of those opposed to CCS.This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers researching and working in the field, as well as the related areas of energy policy, energy transitions and climate change.Digital Office Complex: Reengineering Vision Delivery by Transforming Teaming
By Brad M. Jackson, Gary L. Richardson. 2024
With ever-increasing competitive pressures, the need to reduce the time-to-value (or time-to-bail) of a “big idea” – a new product,…
an organizational transformation, a healthcare initiative, or a humanitarian development project – has never been greater. Unfortunately, the current digital infrastructure for vision delivery teams is woefully inadequate. Improvement opportunities lie in replacing it with one that is designed to support teams working together in a unifying manner. The focus of this book is describing the Digital Office Complex and the accompanying digital teaming and governing capabilities needed to reengineer vision delivery.Digital Office Complex: Reengineering Vision Delivery by Transforming Teaming offers an in-depth understanding of the elements of “digital teaming and governing” and how they can be applied to vision delivery to accelerate and improve performance. The book identifies and describes the requirements for an integrated infrastructure to support: team goal management, teamwork coordination, team decision support, team “work product” support, and approval workflow capabilities in addition to “team-to-team” navigation, “team-to-team” coordination, and “team-to-team” data exchange. The aim for this book is to describe and illustrate “digital teaming and governing” practices using the Digital Office Complex to improve performance. The book goes on to a team-centric delivery method for initiatives and artificial intelligence capabilities to augment teamwork. The book concludes with critical success factors for implementation and an approach for reengineering vision delivery.Written for people who desire to implement the next level of high-performance teaming to improve organizational performance, this book is an ideal read for management consultants, executives, strategy managers, project managers, HR managers, team leaders, team members, and students in business and engineering programs.Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong (Asia Shorts)
By Michael C. Davis. 2024
What happens when liberal constitutional institutions are undone? Can Freedom survive the loss of separation of powers with the associated…
legal and political accountability? The Chinese Communist Party has been at the forefront in its disdain for liberal institutions and promoting illiberal alternatives. This disdain placed Hong Kong people on the frontlines of the global struggle for freedom. Since its handover from Britain, Hong Kong has felt the brunt of China’s illiberal agenda, recently with increased intensity since the crackdown in 2019 and Beijing’s imposition of a National Security Law in 2020. Thousands have been jailed and a city famous for vigorous protests has been silenced. Professor Michael Davis, a close observer who taught human rights and development in the city for three decades, takes us on the constitutional journey of both the city’s vigorous defense of freedom and its repressive undoing—a painful loss for Hong Kong and a lesson for the world.The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention
By Marsha Henry. 2024
In The End of Peacekeeping, Marsha Henry makes use of feminist, postcolonial, and anti-militarist frameworks to expose peacekeeping as an…
epistemic power project in need of abolition. Drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought, and from postcolonial and critical race theories, Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities through increasingly militarized strategies.The book’s intersectional analysis of peacekeeping is based on data amassed through more than fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork on peacekeeping missions and training centers around the world, including interviews with UN peacekeepers, humanitarian aid personnel, and local populations. Henry demonstrates how focus on the policy and practice of peacekeeping has obscured the geopolitical knowledge project at peacekeeping’s root, allowing its harms to persist unquestioned by mainstream scholarship. Arguing that we must recover critical theoretical contributions that have been sidelined within the field, she brings the insights of feminist and postcolonial scholarship to bear on peacekeeping studies, whose production of empirical data and evidence continues to provide the justification and foundation for policy and global governance actions.Revealing that peacekeeping is not the benign, apolitical project it is often purported to be, this book encourages readers to imagine and enact alternative futures to peacekeeping.