Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of reduced inequalities

Examining family businesses from Mongolia, Spain, India, Australia, and Malaysia, each chapter presents a unique perspective from their respective country, analysing how SDG#10 translates into tackling inequalities and generating insights and key takeaways into how family businesses help to reduc...

Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of responsible consumption and production

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. With a focus on SDG12, this book generates insights and key takeaways into the role of family businesses in sustaining the livelihoods of current and future generations.

Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of sustainable cities and communities

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. With a focus on SDG11, this book generates key insights and takeaways into the role of family businesses in developing and encouraging sustainable practices that have a positive effect on every member of their com...

Attention and alienation

Aarushi Bhandari offers a new way to understand the political economy of attention, combining quantitative analysis and personal narrative to critique the role of information and communications technologies in global society.

Attention deficit democracy

Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widesp...

Attention, shoppers!

How large American retailers outgrew the capacity of government to regulate themThe United States is widely recognized as the quintessential consumer society, one where huge companies like Walmart and Amazon are famous for enticing customers with cheap goods and speedy delivery. Attention, Shoppe...

Attitudes toward history, third edition

This book marks Kenneth Burke’s breakthrough in criticism from the literary and aesthetic into social theory and the philosophy of history. In this volume we find Burke’s first entry into what he calls his theory of Dramatism; and here also is an important section on the nature of ritual.

Attraction, love, sex

Simon LeVay introduces readers to a memorable cast of researchers trying to unravel the many mysteries that surround sex and sexuality. He distills vast expertise on the biology and psychology of sex into an engaging and easy-to-understand survey with scientific acumen, a critical eye, and a sens...

Attuned learning

Practice-oriented educational philosopher Elie Holzer invites readers to grow as teachers, students, or co-learners through “attuned learning,” a new paradigm of mindfulness. Groundbreaking interpretations of classical rabbinic texts sharpen attention to our own mental, emotional, and physical wo...

Au revoir les enfants

Aubrey beardsley

This 240-page book, Aubrey Beardsley: The Decadent Magician of the Light and the Darkness, reveals the core of the artist Aubrey Beardsley through more than 180 of his art works, compiled under the supervision of Hiroshi Unno, a critic and a writer who has contributed to many books on the fin-de-...

Auctions

Long the preferred method of exchange for antiques and horseflesh, auctions are used today to sell everything from bestselling books to real estate, government bonds to abandoned automobiles. As sociologist Charles Smith reveals, the mechanical law of supply and demand rarely governs the auction ...

Auctions and auctioneering

Discover the fascinating world of auctions, where commerce, strategy, and human behavior converge in a dynamic marketplace. In Auctions and Auctioneering, Ralph Cassady, Jr. provides the first comprehensive analysis of the auctioning process, delving deeply into its economic, cultural, and practi...

Audible loss

An innovative and much-needed critical work on music and memorialization in relation to AIDS, 9/11, and anti-Black violence in AmericaMusic has long served as a powerful medium for communal mourning and remembrance in times of crisis. Audible Loss examines musical responses to three major crises ...

Audience economics

Focusing on the electronic media—television, radio, and the Internet—Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers. Philip M. Napoli presents ...

Audience evolution

Today's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce, and distribute media content. The development and overlap of television, the internet, and other media technologies is fragmenting and empowering media audiences more than ever. Building o...

Audience revolution: dispatches from the field

From experts in the theatre field, an indispensable book of essays on how to engage your audience.

Audio-vision: sound on screen

Michel Chion’s landmark Audio-Vision has exerted significant influence on our understanding of sound-image relations since its original publication in 1994. In this updated and expanded edition, Chion considers many additional examples from recent world cinema and formulates new questions for the...

Audiofuturism

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-...

Audiovision in the middle ages

The Monastery of Sainte-Foy (Holy Faith) at Conques in Occitania, Southern France, presents a unique case of survival: its golden effigy of Santa Fides is the earliest extant sculpture in the round in the Latin west, while the local eleventh-century architecture, music, and texts offer rich conte...

Audiovisual disruption

Pedro Ferreira examines aesthetics in contemporary audiovisual arts as reactions to our post-digital condition.

Audit analytics in the financial industry

Split into six parts, contributors explore ways to integrate Audit Analytics techniques into existing audit programs for the financial industry. Chapters include topics such as fraud risks in the credit card sector, clustering techniques, fraud and anomaly detection, and using Audit Analytics to ...

Auditing practices in local governments

Through a comparative analysis of the development of auditing practices in governments across the globe, Auditing Practices in Local Governments: An International Comparison provides a contemporary overview of public sector auditing practices at both local and state level.

Audubon's last wilderness journey

A new presentation of J.J Audubon's final great natural history work, the first volume to document America's animals.

Augmented software design

Augmenting humanity

Augmenting Humanity neatly demystifies the concept of Industry 5.0 and human-machine collaboration and provides concrete ways to progress whilst considering both technological and human factors in tandem.

Augmenting retail reality, part a

In an era marked by unprecedented technological advancements, the retail industry is at the forefront of a transformative journey. This work delves into the dynamic interplay between cutting-edge technologies and the evolving landscape of retail commerce.

Augmenting retail reality, part b

In the ever-evolving realm of retail commerce, the confluence of groundbreaking technologies is not merely a trend but a transformative force reshaping the industry’s very foundations. This work delves into this dynamic landscape, offering an insightful exploration of how cutting-edge innovations...

August

Emilia parses through the five years since her best friend’s suicide in this self-deprecating examination of grief and loss.

August: osage county (tcg edition)

A Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning family drama from author Tracy Letts.

Augusta savage

A visual exploration of the lasting legacy of sculptor Augusta Savage (1892-1962), African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

Augustan culture

Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies throughout Western history. Although much research has been done on individual facets of Augustan culture,...

Augustine of hippo

This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of ...

Augustine's confessions

From Pulitzer Prize–winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine’s ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in th...

Aunt dan and lemon

“A compulsive, mesmerizing and thoroughly uncomfortable experience.”—Time OutAunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon (alias Leonora) who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her li...

Aunt safiyya and the monastery

This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers—including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz—noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, tel...

Aureole

Intimate and erotic celebration of desire from one of America's most innovative and daring writers.

Aurora americana

From an award-winning poet, an exciting new collection that explores exile and return, from North Africa to North AmericaIn Aurora Americana, Myronn Hardy, an American poet who moved back to the United States after living for years in Morocco, reflects on exile and return as he describes the expe...

Auspicious animals

The world of mythical creatures born from human imagination is presented in this beautiful collection of artworks that symbolize good luck.Many imaginary animals that are believed to be auspicious symbols of good fortune originated in ancient China. The most famous examples are the “Big Four”: th...

Austerity

John Fender explains how the economics of austerity works in theory and how it has played out in practice in the UK, U.S., and the EU. He provides students with a clear and rigorous guide to the principles and mechanisms of austerity economics and offers a balanced point of reference.

Australia

Australia and canada in afghanistan

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Australia and Canada joined the U.S. and other Western allies in attacking al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. In the book, a stellar group of academic and political experts explore the Canadian and Australian experiences in Afghanistan.

Australia, canada, and iraq

The 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq was intensely controversial. Australia joined in the war, while Canada refused to. Australia, Canada, and Iraq is a collection of essays by world leaders and esteemed academics that offers a fresh review of the war and the critical Australian and Canadian decision...

Australian franchising code of conduct

Including chapters on the areas of disclosure, good faith, and intellectual property, Buberis takes a comprehensive approach in exploring the Australian Franchising Code of Conduct's development through its consideration and enforcement by the Regulator and the courts.

Australian metal music

This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question wha...