Social, Economic And Environmental Uncertainties – alle Bücher, Seite 5

Alan Barker
Speak Up, Stand Out

If you've just entered the workforce, it can be difficult to know how and when to express yourself in conversation.Being in a professional situation for the first time can be an intimidating experience, a…

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Jean-Martin Bauer
The New Breadline

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • WINNER OF THE 2025 ZÓCALO BOOK PRIZE • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the globa…

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Dan Cassino
Bitcoin Bros

Crypto, NFTs, meme stocks and other digital currency investments are seen as either a transparent Ponzi scheme or the future of finance. But what all of these new ways of investing - and generally losing …

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Women's Impact on Environmental Governance

This open access book assembles geographically diverse analyses of case studies from around the world to demonstrate how women interact with global drivers of change to create new governance structures, s…

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Fandom for Us, by Us

"Fandom for Us, by Us is an in-depth study of Black fan practices using more than 70 interviews with Black fans of Black Panther, The Wiz, The Golden Girls, and the African American ballerina Misty C…

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Scott W Schwartz
Losing Interest

Nothing about endless capitalist growth is normal. Across thousands of years of human history, most cultures have placed explicit social and moral restrictions on economic growth, with charging interest s…

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Ruth Milligan, Acacia Duncan, Blythe Coons
The Motivated Speaker

Praise for THE MOTIVATED SPEAKER"A refreshingly approachable and empowering guide to public speaking, this addition to the literature combines actionable strategies with emotional intelligence to cre…

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Thomas Hale
Long Problems

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other "long problems" that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climat…

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Dan Collyns
Blood Gold

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world's biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse.

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Michelle Jackson
The Division of Rationalized Labor

Specialization should make workers perform an ever-narrower range of tasks. Yet evidence shows that many specialized occupations have grown more complex. Michelle Jackson untangles this paradox, arguing t…

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Anna Louie Sussman
Inconceivable

For generations, creating a family was an ordinary part of human life. But today, there's a marked gap between how many children people want to have, and how many they actually will. As birth rates plumme…

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Mark O'Connell
Year Science Changed Everything

In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earth's greatest mysteries---and changed science forever.The International Geophysi…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Cindy L Cain
Called to Care?

Health care workers are burned out. Health care leaders know that workers are burned out but do not yet have the right tools to fix the problem. Called to Care? argues that we can mitigate burnout by exam…

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Jerome Denis, David Pontille,
The Care of Things

"What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician …

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John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle
Henry at Work

What Thoreau can teach us about working---why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry…

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Elena Bruni, Lianne M Lefsrud
Organized Science Denial

Science denialism - fuelled by mis/disinformation - is a global existential crisis that erodes social cohesion and our collective capacity to confront crises like climate change, transform energy systems,…

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Adi Imsirovic, Colin Bryce
The Rivers of Money

Modern oil trading, as we know it today, has its roots in the 1970s, especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry, controlled by oil majors. Oil trading flouris…

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