Enhancing Organizational Leadership Practice
This book helps organizational leaders balance three core responsibilities: organizational, stakeholder, and ethical. Using Western and Chinese concepts and practical examples, it reframes human resources as a capital investment, enhancing leadership effectiveness.
This text explores ways in which universities in East Africa can better serve the common good. Each essay presents insightful discussions of the role of quality assurance in creating educational systems that are relevant to the global knowledge economy.
For young immigrants and refugees in the Netherlands, ‘othering’ in education harms their development. A sense of belonging is a key predictor of academic success. This book’s message is that education itself must learn that young people urgently need to belong in order to grow.
Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates
Professors reflect on enhancing learning opportunities for their students. The authors take a scholarly approach to examine innovative techniques, from active learning to the effect of technology, providing inspiration for teaching excellence in Higher Education worldwide.
Enriching the Lives of Children
Synthesizing decades of research, this book explores innovations in teaching to enrich the lives of children. It offers practical strategies for educators and parents based on whole child development, creativity, and the power of play. Essential reading.
Agarwal undertakes a process of discovery across civilizations and time periods to unearth the development of the political economy. He offers solutions to guide society away from economic enslavement and to help mitigate the human suffering that results from societal imbalances.
Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals do not Become Rhetoric
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has stalled, with only 12% of targets on track. To ensure the SDGs are not reduced to mere rhetoric, a new strategy is needed. This book argues for a shift to a common household database, with real examples of progress.
Anthony looks at the concept of Christianity in flux, with each chapter recounting a separate moment of crisis and opportunity in the history of the religion; from the selection of the biblical canon to the religious conversions of Scandinavian Norsemen and Native Americans.
As tales of holy people moved across cultures and time, their meanings transformed. While basic storylines remained, changing details reveal important shifts in attitudes. This volume presents case studies from early China to Christian, Muslim, and Jewish contexts.
These essays explore Claire Messud’s fiction and its complex narration of cosmopolitan entanglements. Foci include emigrant identities, 1960s Pop Art, and 9/11 trauma. This collection also provides an interview with the author.
Entanglements of Life with the Law
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London’s magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city’s most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
Beyond mere diversion, entertainment is how we forge our identities. This collection of essays reveals this vital process from the Middle Ages to the present day.
This book examines the link between individual entrepreneurship and the competitive performance of an industry, using Kenya’s leather industry as a case study. It refocuses attention from knowledge-based industries to primary sectors that are typical of African economies.
Entrepreneurship and Employment in the Caribbean Community
This book examines the labour market in hydrocarbon-rich CARICOM states. It reviews successful entrepreneurship case studies and provides policy recommendations to address employment problems, offering lessons for policymakers in mineral-rich countries.
Entrepreneurship and Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 unleashes new business models and insights for decision-making. This book explores how entrepreneurs can balance exploration and exploitation in i4.0, using technologies like AI and Big Data to make intelligent decisions and create value with unmatched efficiency.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This book introduces the principles of entrepreneurship and innovation in a changing global business environment. A guide for students and executives, it solves business problems through a combination of theory, examples, and case studies focusing on famous firms.
Entrepreneurship, Gender, and Disability
This book explores entrepreneurship through the lenses of gender and disability in emerging economies. Presenting research and case studies on the unique challenges facing these entrepreneurs, it provides practical implications for policymakers, educators, and academics.
By reframing the cosmos through entropy and creativity, this book offers a solution to the Fermi paradox, a correction of the Drake equation, and a new definition of singularity, revealing a unique chain of being—from elementary information to all possible worlds.
Ecology’s role is increasingly vital in our dynamic world. This book explores critical environmental topics from climate change and water scarcity to mountain ecosystems, proving fruitful for students and researchers from diverse disciplines.
Human survival depends on nature, a relationship defined by culture. This book argues that environmental conservation is a matter of moral ethics, and must accommodate the traditional knowledge of indigenous cultures to restore the bond between humans and nature.
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