Social, Economic And Environmental Uncertainties – alle Bücher, Seite 8

Annie Lowrey
The Time Tax

A powerful investigation into how and why the government wastes our time with administrative burdens, how these burdens discriminate and drive inequality, and what we can do to protect our time---and make…

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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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Jonas Albrecht,
The Moral and Market Economies of Bread

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albr…

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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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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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Participatory Grantmaking in Philanthropy

Georgetown University Press

A new community-based framework assessing the impact of participatory grantmaking on philanthropyInstitutional foundations are influential, yet it can be difficult to understand how they operate. How do t…

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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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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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Jr
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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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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Laurent Bossavie, Daniel Garrote Sanchez, Mattia Makovec
The Journey Ahead

This book seeks to enhance the understanding of migration in Europe and Central Asia, and to propose policy solutions tailored to the diversity of migration experiences and challenges in the region, to be…

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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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Dylan Gottlieb
Yuppies

How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.Yuppies may …

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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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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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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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The Palgrave Handbook of Carbon Trading in Africa

This handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the economics, law and governance of carbon pricing in Africa. It explores carbon trading in Africa and sets the agenda for its adoption through robust econ…

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Daniel Reichert
Lean & Green: Best Practice

This book presents the success strategies of leading European companies that achieve competitive advantages through lean management and sustainability. The featured companies---participants in the Lean &a…

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Seeing China's Belt and Road

In Seeing China's Belt and Road, editors Edward Schatz and Rachel Silvey assemble the ground-level fieldwork of leading scholars to examine the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from different "downstre…

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