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Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advanced Foods (D-2): Credit Agreement - Lender Perspective
By Guhan Subramanian, Mike Harmon. 2019
Gavi and COVID-19: Pandemic of the Century
By Sid Misra, Tarun Khanna. 2020
Gavi has helped immunize over 760 million children in the world's poorest countries over the past 20 years saving 13…
million lives. How should Gavi respond to the need for a vaccine for the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic?Sustainable Innovations in Management in the Digital Transformation Era: Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovations in Management in The Digital Transformation Era (SIMDTE 2023), Bahrain
By Rania Nafea, Shabana Faizal, Dorota Jelonek, Narendra Kumar, Jayendira P. Sankar, Ilona Paweloszek. 2024
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the recently concluded conference, held on May 2–3, 2023, in…
the beautiful Kingdom of Bahrain. This pivotal conference was focused on “Sustainable Innovations in Management in the Digital Transformation Era”. In an age defined by rapid technological advancements and digital innovation, the way we understand and carry out management is continually evolving. The conference brought together thought leaders, industry professionals, academ□ics, and innovators from around the globe to share insights, exchange ideas, and cata□lyze change. The digital transformation era has not only revolutionized our personal lives but has significantly impacted the business landscape. It became a strategic prior□ity, driving companies to reassess their business models, reinvent their strategies, and redefine their value propositions. Amidst this change, ensuring sustainability, building resilient, adaptable, and future-proof businesses became a central theme.Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
By Stanley L. Engerman, Jacob Metzer. 2004
Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning
By Joyce Cooper-Kahn, Laurie Dietzel. 2024
Does your child have difficulty meeting deadlines, staying organized, or keeping track of important information? Do they tend to forget…
details? Are they prone to emotional meltdowns? This book will become your go-to, all-inclusive guide to helping children manage issues with these executive functions, a set of related yet distinct mental skills that allow us to stay on target as we work toward our goals.Packed with encouragement, strategies, overviews, case studies, tips, and more, this newly revised edition offers science-based information explained in accessible, everyday language. You will find down to earth examples and a flexible framework that allows you to think on your feet and adapt the strategies to any child or situation.In addition to providing approaches for helping your child to manage demands in the short run, this book offers strategies for building independent skills for long-term self-management. Covering what you need to know, as well as what you can do, Late, Lost, and Unprepared gives parents the support they need to help their child become productive and independent – today and in the future.The go-to guide on how to market a creative organization, why it is important, and what techniques work. Marketing influences…
the success of creative services businesses more than any other issue: bad luck, insufficient funding, difficult clients, and weak employees all pale by comparison. Old standbys—word of mouth, referrals, and occasional promotions—are inadequate in today's competitive environment. Whether focused on design, advertising, interactive, editorial, or public relations, all creatives need this know-how book for marketing their business.Closest of Strangers: Liberalism And The Politics Of Race In New York
By Jim Sleeper. 1990
"In this study of race relations in N.Y.C., Sleeper, an editorial writer for New York Newsday, harshly criticizes both black…
leaders and their liberal supporters for pointing a finger at America's racist society rather than setting concrete goals to overcome inequality." —Kirkus Reviews A report of the current state of race relations in New York City, which examines the differing views of militants, liberals and forgotten minorities, and presents suggestions for racial common sense that attempt to demolish long-standing stereotypes.Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office
By Lynn Peril. 2011
Feed your boss’s ego. Dress for success. And don’t let your heels trip you up on the corporate ladder. Millions…
of women have held the position of secretary, alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and excoriated as dead-end busy work. From the female pioneers who infiltrated Capitol Hill offices during the Civil War to today’s tech-savvy administrative assistants, secretaries have withstood criticism for abandoning their rightful sphere (the home), weathered the dubious advice of secretarial guide-books, taken hits from feminists and antifeminists alike, and demanded the right to resist making coffee—all while making their bosses look good. In Swimming in the Steno Pool, author-secretary Lynn Peril profiles the various incarnations of the secretary, from pliable, sexy mate of the "office husband" to postfeminist executive-in-training, drawing inspiration from a wide range of "femorabilia" and secretarial guidebooks of yesteryear. Featuring an array of fabulous illustrations promoting office equipment and office girls alike, Peril delivers a feisty, witty celebration of the women who’ve been running the show for decades.Contraband: Smuggling and the Birth of the American Century
By Andrew Wender Cohen. 2015
How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world. In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence…
made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband. Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs on most imports. Protecting the nation was the custom house, which waged a “war on smuggling,” inspecting every traveler for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds, and art. The Civil War’s blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband, but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age, when characters like assassin Louis Bieral, economist “The Parsee Merchant,” Congressman Ben Butler, and actress Rose Eytinge tempted consumers with illicit foreign luxuries. Only as the United States became a global power with World War I did smuggling lose its scurvy romance. Meticulously researched, Contraband explores the history of smuggling to illuminate the broader history of the United States, its power, its politics, and its culture.The Malaria Capers: Tales Of Parasites And People
By Robert S. Desowitz. 1983
"Reads like a murder mystery…[Desowitz] writes with uncommon lucidity and verse, leaving the reader with a vivid understanding of malaria…
and other tropical diseases, and the ways in which culture, climate and politics have affected their spread and containment." —New York Times Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical diseases, Desowtiz searches for answers in this provocative book.A new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World. The first level in a…
twelve-level series designed to take young students from elementary through high school, Telling God’s Story: Year One provides weekly lessons for elementary-grade students, based on the parables and the Gospels. The Instructor Text and Teaching Guide contains pithy, content-filled background information for the teacher, a biblical passage to read aloud, and a scripted explanation of the passage designed especially for young children to grasp with ease. This Year One curriculum provides a full year of religious instruction.Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
By Thomas Glave. 2013
With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef KomunyakaaNamed a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Nonfiction!Included…
in the 2014 Over the Rainbow listSelected by Publishers Weekly as a Pick of the Week (July 1st, 2013)!Selected by The Airship/Black Balloon Publishing as a Best Book of 2013"This collection is wide-ranging, moving from the Caribbean (Jamaica in particular) to Cambridge, England, and from poetry to sex to discrimination."--Library Journal (BEA Editors' Picks feature)"A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities, the oppressed, and the colonized, informs [Glave's] searing, beautifully evocative collection of essays...He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica...A graceful and original stylist, Glave highlights the marginalized--calling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past, and, in effect, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately, his work is critical, yet filled with generosity and compassion."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Thomas Glave surely is one of the bravest of contemporary authors...He is a fearless truth-teller whose essays in Among the Bloodpeople are fully, unhesitatingly engaged with his and our world."--New York Journal of Books"This is a collection that will leave you with chills; you will return to it not only for its sheer beauty, but also for its raw honesty, pain, and passion."--Lambda Literary Report"Glave writes beautifully...his...voice deserves our attention."--The Gay & Lesbian Review"A wonderful anthology, interspersing personal essays with more academic-leaning articles."--CCLaP"Glave remarks on the state of an island as he sees it, and of a people whose legacies bear out in astonishing ways, employing prose that soothes while its subject matter sears genteel sensibilities."--Caribbean Beat"Glave crosses boundaries of genre and community, speaking with extraordinary candor and vulnerability variously as the American son of immigrants, as a Jamaican, as a professor, as a queer boy from the Bronx...What unifies these identities and these essays is the ferocity of Glave's voice, his sentences that can feel like living, untamed things."--Towleroad: A Site with Homosexual Tendencies"I didn't know [homosexuals in Jamaica] were disemboweled with machetes. And I didn't consider one could be poetic about fear and anger and isolation. But the touchingly phrased sentences don’t soften the impact of reading about murder and political corruption. Instead, it eats at you because it makes you attentive to every word, feel the pauses as Glave takes a breath and speaks with the pulse of his heartbeat."--Reeling and Writhing and Fainting in Coils"With Among the Bloodpeople, [Glave] has given us a book as beautiful as it is necessary."--Next Magazine"After stunning readers with his story collections Whose Song? and The Torturer's Wife, the O. Henry- and multiple Lammy-winner now returns to nonfiction in Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh."--Band of Thebes"Glave's texts examine themselves, change course, and raise questions about their own assertions. Glave's hatred of oppression is balanced by his love of writing."--Ithaca.comThomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author's new collection, Among the Bloodpeople, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political, the personal, and the secret.Each essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica's prime minister on antigay bigotry, contemplating the risks and seductions of "outlawed" sex, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge, Glave expresseEveryday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition
By Momina Zakzouk, Lila Abu-Lughod, Fida J. Adely, Walter Armbrust, William O. Beeman, Anne H. Betteridge, Robert R. Bianchi, Melani Cammett, Steven Caton, Dawn Chatty, Victoria Fontan, Angel Foster, Sherine Hamdy, Farha Ghannam, Simon Hawkins, Marcia C. Inhorn, Natalie K. Jensen, Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Kristin V. Monroe, Kristina Nelson, Yagmur Nuhrat, Christine El Ouardani, Marcie Patton, Jonathan Holt Shannon, Samer S. Shehata, Brian Silverstein, Diane Singerman, Susan Slyomovics, Jenny White, Quintan Wiktorowicz, Erika Friedl Loeffler, Andrew Gardner, Brian K. Barber. 2014
The substantially revised and updated third edition of Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East focuses on the experiences of…
ordinary men, women, and children from the region. Readers will gain a grassroots appreciation of Middle East life, culture, and society that recognizes the impact of wars and uprisings as well as changes to Islamic practice due to advances in technology. The book also explores the influence of social media on politics and labor relations and the changing status of women, family values, marriage, childrearing, gender, and gay rights. This dynamic and imaginative volume continues to provide a rich resource for understanding contemporary Muslim culture in the Middle East.Kartellrecht: Grundlagen des deutschen und europäischen Kartellrechts (essentials)
By Immo Schuler. 2024
In diesem essential werden die Grundlagen des deutschen und europäischen Kartellrechts kurz und übersichtlich aufbereitet. Nach einer kurzen wettbewerbstheoretischen Einführung…
zu den Zielen des Kartellrechts vermittelt der Autor zunächst die Grundlagen der „3 Säulen“ des Kartellrechts, das heißt des Kartellverbots, des Verbots des Missbrauchs einer marktbeherrschenden Stellung sowie der Zusammenschlusskontrolle. Dabei werden die jeweiligen Eingriffsvoraussetzungen, nach deutschem und nach europäischem Kartellrecht, ebenso beleuchtet wie die möglichen Rechtsfolgen im Falle eine Kartellrechtsverstoßes. Abschließend wird die weiterhin an Bedeutung gewinnende private Durchsetzung kartellrechtlicher Schadensersatzansprüche dargestellt.This book navigates global educational policy concerning critical thinking skills and competencies. The author explores the concept of criticality from…
the perspectives of several critical traditions, and draws on the works of Paulo Freire and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The diverse and intricate ideas, methods and ways of thinking that emerge are examined in the new perspectival space of ‘criticality scholarship’. Pursuing his own political and philosophical aspirations, the author endeavours to link a critical education with the promotion of democracy and social justice. Opportunities for further empirical and theoretical research are signposted. The book will be of interest to scholars in educational philosophy.Modelling and Mining Networks: 19th International Workshop, WAW 2024, Warsaw, Poland, June 3–6, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14671)
By Megan Dewar, Bogumił Kamiński, Daniel Kaszyński, Łukasz Kraiński, Paweł Prałat, François Théberge, Małgorzata Wrzosek. 2024
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks, WAW 2024, held in…
Warsaw, Poland, during June 3–6, 2024. The 12 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The aim of this workshop was to further the understanding of networks that arise in theoretical as well as applied domains. The goal was also to stimulate the development of high-performance and scalable algorithms that exploit these networks.Resilient Smart Cities: Theoretical and Empirical Insights (The Urban Book Series)
By Ayyoob Sharifi, Pourya Salehi. 2022
This book provides a thorough guide to building resilient cities, through the use of smart solutions enabled by information and…
communication technologies. It introduces innovative approaches for integrating smart solutions into urban resilience planning and offers numerous global case studies to illustrate the benefits of the theories discussed. Against a background of increased natural disasters, pandemics, and climate change, this book answers research questions such as: • Do smart city projects contribute to urban climate resilience?• What are the indicators of smart city resilience?• What procedures should be taken to improve efficacy of smart city solutions?• What are the opportunities and challenges for promoting smart city resilience and for integrating resilience thinking into smart city planning? Including contributions from international experts, explanatory illustrations, and data-driven tables, this book is of interest to researchers, policymakers, and graduate students focused on developing more sustainable, smart, and resilient cities.Smart Learning Solutions for Sustainable Societies (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology)
By Cândida Silva, Susana Silva, Dulce Mota, Paula Peres. 2024
This book showcases research and project results on technology, smart learning, and sustainability education and analyzes smart learning solutions for…
lifelong learning. It discusses their impact and potential for transfer and scaling and reviews how real solutions perform in the real world. Sustainable societies are built on twenty-first-century skills. Attaining the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals requires a focus on a new set of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, as well as novel and smart strategies that leverage state-of-the-art technologies and make these skillsets widely available in our societies to all groups of people, at any time in their lives, in professional as well as academic settings. This book serves as a helpful resource for researchers, academics, practitioners, and consultants from around the world who are involved in the study, management and development of educational technology, smart learning, sustainability education, and related issues.Intelligent Systems and Computing (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #207)
By Bing-Yuan Cao, Shu-Feng Wang, Seyed Hadi Nasseri, Yu-Bin Zhong. 2024
This book includes high quality research papers submitted at the 2022 “Four Session (ICFIE, ICORG, GDORS, CGHMORS) Celebration” Joint International…
Conference held on December 28, 2022 and the online meeting of the Fuzzy Information and Engineering Branch of the China Operations Research Society on September 17, 2022. It covers topics in the fields of certainty, stochastic uncertainty, and fuzzy uncertainty, including computer science and mathematics, operations research and control, artificial intelligence, information and engineering technology, barrier-free communication for people with disabilities, digital logistics and knowledge representation, medical applications, queuing theory and game theory, algorithms and optimization methods. The book is a valuable reference book for scholars, engineers, management professionals, and graduate, undergraduate, and vocational students interested in computer science, mathematics, and fuzzy mathematics and operations research, as well as their applications in information technology and engineering.Managing the Post-Colony: Voices from Aotearoa, Australia and The Pacific (Managing the Post-Colony)
By Gavin Jack, Michelle Evans, Billie Lythberg, Jason Mika. 2024
This edited book is the second in the book series “Managing the Post-Colony”. The book series is co-edited by Nimruji…
Jammulamadaka (IIM Calcutta, India) and Gavin Jack (Monash University, Australia). The book series seeks to present cutting-edge, critical, interdisciplinary, and geographically and culturally diverse perspectives on the contemporary nature, experience, and theorisation of managing and organising under conditions of postcoloniality. This book specifically presents voices and perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and The Pacific, locations with shared and distinctive histories and present-day experiences of colonisation and imperialism. Ways of managing, organising, and doing business in these places demonstrate cultural continuity and change in such histories, present sites of postcolonial struggle, and diverse prospects for self-determined future-making. The book explores struggles and prospects of managing in the post-colony through qualitative empirical cases, historical and legal studies, conceptual essays and provocations, and interviews with Indigenous business leaders. It contributes to the ongoing diversification, provincialisation, and decolonisation of management and organisation studies and practice. A strong focus is placed on diverse Indigenous knowledges and experiences, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Pasifika, and Māori peoples, and insights into the capacity for Indigenous culture-specific modes of business to offer decolonising futures.