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

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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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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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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Anna Louie Sussman
Inconceivable

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Labour History and the Economy in Iran

Iran underwent major economic changes in the twentieth century, but these have to date largely been studied in the context of oil, centralization and revolutions. This book examines Iran's economic develo…

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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 exa…

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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 exa…

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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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Rogayeh Tabrizi
Behavioral AI

Turn your organization's data into concrete, hands-on solutions using principles from behavioral economicsBehavioral AI: Unleash Decision Making with Data is a hands-on playbook for enterprises who want t…

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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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