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The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment. For the last thirty years corporate sustainability was synonymous with the pursuit of ‘eco-efficiency’ and ‘win-win’ opportunities. The notion of ‘eco-efficiency’ gives us the illusion that we can achieve environmental sustainability without having to question the pursuit of never-ending economic growth. The ‘win-win’ paradigm is meant to assure us that companies can be protectors of the environment whilst also being profit maximizers. It is abundantly clear that the state of the natural environment has further degraded instead of improved. This book introduces a new paradigm designed to finally reconcile business and the environment. It is called ‘net green’ which means that in these times of ecological overshoot businesses need to reduce total environmental impact and not just improve the eco-efficiency of their products. The book also introduces and explains the four pollution prevention principles ‘again’ ‘different’ ‘less’ and ‘labor not materials’. Together ‘net green’ and the four pollution prevention principles provide a road map for businesses and for every household to a world in which human prosperity and a healthy environment are no longer at odds. The Business of Less is full of anecdotes and examples. This brings its material to life and makes the book not only very accessible but also hugely applicable for everyone who is worried about the fate of our planet and is looking for answers. | The Business of Less The Role of Companies and Households on a Planet in Peril

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Sustainability and Degradation in Less Developed Countries Immolating the Future?

Sustainability and Degradation in Less Developed Countries Immolating the Future?

This title was first published in 2002. The concept of sustainable development has increasingly gained currency as a policy determination tool yet its interpretation and application is widely contested especially with respect to the role of economics in the facilitation of environmentally and socially sustainable outcomes. Sarah Lumley assesses some of the fundamental assumptions of mainstream economic theory as part of an analysis of farmers' motives in adopting soil conservation on degraded lands in the Philippines. The text has a strong focus on the theoretical and practical interactions between environmental economic and social aspects of sustainable development; it is both multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary and draws on conceptually important points of each discipline that it encompasses. | Sustainability and Degradation in Less Developed Countries Immolating the Future?

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75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow With Less Stress and Quick Success

75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow With Less Stress and Quick Success

Highly effective teachers have something in common: They do simple things extraordinarily well—simple uncomplicated things on a daily basis. In this new book by bestselling authors and presenters Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker you’ll learn the secrets of these tried-and-true techniques that will help to improve your teaching your students’ learning and your students’ behavior. Annette and Todd who have years of experience working in schools across the globe reveal 75 easily-implemented strategies that will improve teaching and instruction classroom management student motivation student achievement parent communication and more-with no new programs! Each tip provides practical takeaways that can be used immediately and with remarkable success. | 75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow With Less Stress and Quick Success

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Typographia or The Printer's Instructor

Typographia or The Printer's Instructor

Published in 1981: Authors of early English and American printers's manuals casually appropriated text from their predecessors. The practice common enough not to require explanation or acknowledgement ( much less apology) was documented by Lawrence C. Wroth in 1935. Citing borrowed passages and devising a literary family tree Wroth measured the original work of typographical writers from Moxon to De Vinne with much more praise for them but with less for those in between. The author who whose Typographia is reprinted here was found to be the worst and boldest of offenders. | Typographia or The Printer's Instructor

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Technology Transfer

Technology Transfer

This title was first published in 2000: The theme of this collection of essays is technology transfer. The topic has three major aspects: the interchange of technologies between military and civilian applications - spin-off dual use conversion and diversification fall under this heading; the proliferation of military arms which could occur either through arms races between developed nations or through the transfer of military technology from developed arms industries to less developed nations - proliferation arms races and arms control agreements fall under this heading; and the transfer of civilian technologies from developing nations to less developed nations. The expression North-South transfer and the idea of development come under this final section. The essays offer examination of all three aspects.

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Italy Before Italy Institutions Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States 1815-1860

Italy Before Italy Institutions Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States 1815-1860

Italian unification is one of the pivotal events in European history but the period leading up to Risorgimento has often been analysed in less detail. This book focuses on the history of the Italian states between 1815 and 1860 focusing on state institutions international relations economic and fiscal policies living conditions and culture. | Italy Before Italy Institutions Conflicts and Political Hopes in the Italian States 1815-1860

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The Injustice of Punishment

The Injustice of Punishment

The Injustice of Punishment emphasizes that we can never make sense of moral responsibility while also acknowledging that punishment is sometimes unavoidable. Recognizing both the injustice and the necessity of punishment is painful but also beneficial. It motivates us to find effective means of minimizing both the use and severity of punishment and encourages deeper inquiry into the causes of destructive behavior and how to change those causes in order to reduce the need for punishment. There is an emerging alternative to the comfortable but destructive system of moral responsibility and just deserts. That alternative is not the creation of philosophers but of sociologists criminologists psychologists and workplace engineers; it was developed tested and employed in factories prisons hospitals and other settings; and it is writ large in the practices of cultures that minimize belief in individual moral responsibility. The alternative marks a promising path to less punishment less coercive control deeper common commitment and more genuine freedom.

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Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs

Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs

Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs offers foreign language program managers and directors as well as teachers of less commonly taught languages the insights and proven practical actions they can take to enhance and grow their language programs. Using the Japanese program at UNC Charlotte as the primary case study author Fumie Kato provides step-by-step instructions on how she grew the Japanese program there from 133 students per semester in 2002 to 515 students per semester in 2017; from a program with just one full-time professor and one part-time faculty member to a faculty of seven full-time and three part-time members. While Japanese is the example used in the book the principles can be applied by anyone managing foreign language/less commonly taught language programs who wishes to expand their program and raise their students’ success rates. The book is therefore of interest to instructors coordinators and directors of foreign language education programs throughout the world.

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Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries. As borders have become less permeable to non-Europeans it presents research on civil society practices that oppose the existing border regimes and examine the values that they express. The volume offers case studies from across the region that demonstrate opposition to increasingly restricted borders and which seek to offer hospitality to migrant. One topic is whether these practices impact and transform the Nordic Protestant trajectory. The book considers whether such actions are indicative of new sensibilities and values in which traditional categories and binaries are becoming less relevant. It also discusses what these practices of hospitality indicate about the changing relationship between voluntary organizations and the Nordic welfare states in the time of migration. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology anthropology and religious studies with interests in migration civil society resistance and social values. | Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region

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How to Work the Film & TV Markets A Guide for Content Creators

How to Work the Film & TV Markets A Guide for Content Creators

How to Work the Film & TV Markets takes independent filmmakers television and digital content creators on a virtual tour of the entertainment industry’s trade shows — the circulatory system of the entire global media landscape. This book highlights the most significant annual events around the world details a dossier of all the players that frequent them and examines all the elements that drive the market value and profitability of entertainment properties. In-the-trenches insights from our modern real-world marketplace are contextualized into immediately implementable practical advice. Make the most of your finite investments of funds time and creative energy to optimize your odds for success within the mainstream business-to-business circuit but learn how to select apply and scale prudent proven principles to drive your own Do-It-Yourself/Direct-to-the-Consuming-Crowd fundraising distribution and promotional success. Heather Hale demystifies these markets making them less intimidating less confusing and less overwhelming. She shows you how to navigate these events making them far more accessible productive — and fun! This creative guide offers: An in-depth survey of the most significant film TV and digital content trade shows around the world; An overview of the co-production market circuit that offers financing and development support to independent producers; An outline of the market-like festivals and key awards shows; A breakdown of who’s who at all these events — and how to network with them; Hot Tips on how to prepare for execute and follow up on these prime opportunities; Low-budget key art samples and game plans; A social media speed tour with a wealth of audience engagement ideas. Visit the book’s space on www. HeatherHale. com for additional resources and up-to-date information on all these events. | How to Work the Film & TV Markets A Guide for Content Creators

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Smaller Cities in a World of Competitiveness

Smaller Cities in a World of Competitiveness

Much recent research in Urban Studies has concentrated on the notion of the ‘global city’ but discussion has also covered a larger set of mega cities with populations in excess of 10 million. This analysis has begged the question of the optimal size for a city – is larger always better? Smaller Cities explores the advantages and disadvantages of different sized cities trying to determine their place in the global economy and hierarchy. How can smaller cities gain or retain their competitiveness in a world of large cities? In a globalized world the nation has perhaps been diminished as an economic actor with fiscal shortcomings and political gridlock leaving cities more or less on their own in the task of enhancing their competitiveness and improving the economic lives of their residents. This book argues that smaller cities of varying population can be important actors in competitiveness and aims to bring attention to an area often overlooked by researchers. In short are Pittsburgh San Diego and Austin less competitive than London and Mumbai?This volume will be of interest to students researchers and city professionals who work in urban economy and urban geography. | Smaller Cities in a World of Competitiveness

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Complicated Grieving and Bereavement Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss

Complicated Grieving and Bereavement Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss

Losses may provide a turning point where an individual faces personal and social choices. Still one may derive significance through the experience of loss while another may encounter bereavement with less consequence. Complicated Grieving and Bereavement: Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss examines complicated grief in special populations including the mentally ill POW-MIA survivors the differentially-abled suicide survivors bereaved children those experiencing death at birth death in schools and palliative-care death. | Complicated Grieving and Bereavement Understanding and Treating People Experiencing Loss

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L'Ameto

L'Ameto

Originally published in 1985 this book contains a full translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's L'Ameto alongside textual notes. Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his great collection of short stories the Decameron but his other literary accomplishments are generally less well-known. Yet he helped revive the Latin eclogue and epistle and fostered the study of Greek; he made the major Renaissance compilation of classical myths established the pastoral romance and began formal Dante criticism. Among his more minor works belongs the Ameto the first moden pastoral romance translated here.

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Industrialization in Developing and Peripheral Regions

Industrialization in Developing and Peripheral Regions

The ten years before this book was originally published in 1986 saw major restructuring in the economies of the developed world. This was often closely related to industrial development in newly industrializing and third world countries. This book examines the performance of these developing countries and includes studies of 'peripheral regions' – less developed regions within more advanced economies. The overall findings are that whilst some areas and countries have success stories to tell (such as Korea) many so-called newly industrializing countries and regions have had serious problems. | Industrialization in Developing and Peripheral Regions

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The Greek Economy in the Twentieth Century

The Greek Economy in the Twentieth Century

The Greek Economy first published in 1986 presents a detailed survey of the development of the Greek economy in the twentieth century. It examines the different sectors of the economy traces the different stages of development and relates economic development to the social political and natural resource background. The book concludes by examining the likely future development of the Greek economy within the enlarged EEC – a key question at the time being Will the Greek economy be transformed into a ‘developed economy’ or continue to be like that of a less developed country?

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The Academic System in American Society

The Academic System in American Society

Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed Alain Touraine argues in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay that the period's problems remain with us. Higher degrees have become less and less valuable on the labor market and the demand for academic reform has become more intense. Community colleges still try to provide equal educational opportunities for the poor and the minorities without much success. And the university has not yet resolved the conflict between being the home of impartial inquiry and research and serving constituent interests. Touraine views American higher education as a system within a definite though changing social context. He compares U. S. student movements with those of other countries. He is skeptical about the way Americans view the relationships between the university and what he regards as the ruling forces of the society between knowledge and power between production and education. He offers no facile solutions but he presents an exciting nontraditional analysis of the social and political forces that have shaped the modern history of higher education. In the new introduction Clark Kerr contrasts his own views as an American observer to those of Touraine as a French intellectual. He asserts that the family not higher education is the most important school in the process of reproducing society. Kerr places more emphasis than does Touraine on the labor market on the production functions (training of skills and advancing technology) of the vast nonelite segments of American higher education on the long-term impacts of science in changing society and on scholarly criticism in affecting transformations and places less emphasis on sporadic political protests by faculty and students. He agrees with Touraine however in his two great themes: (1) that you cannot understand the academic system unless you first understand society; and (2) that the rise of the university must be understood to understand modern society where knowledge is power. This volume will be important to all those interested in higher education whether as participants or observers. | The Academic System in American Society

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Community Media and Identity in Ireland

Community Media and Identity in Ireland

This book explores how Ireland’s community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centuries the nation-state of Ireland is less than one hundred years old. Because of this and other elements of the island’s history Irish identity is a contested topic and the island is a place where culture identity and geography are tightly intertwined. By addressing how community media serve as agents for community building the book examines how they in turn influence the way individuals connect with their communities. | Community Media and Identity in Ireland

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Welfare Economics An Interpretive History

Welfare Economics An Interpretive History

Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline. Drawing on both philosophy and economics this book offers a new and original perspective on the history of welfare economics starting with Pigou and charting the trajectory of applied and theoretical welfare economics throughout the twentieth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of philosophy economics and history of economic thought. | Welfare Economics An Interpretive History

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