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The market power of technology
Mordecai Kurz develops a comprehensive integrated theory of the dynamics of market power and income inequality. He shows that technological innovations are not simply sources of growth and progress: they sow the seeds of market power. Technological market power tends to rise, increasing inequalit...
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Sustainable human development across the life course
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. It is critical that the wellbeing of society is systematically tracked by indicators that not only give an accurate picture of human life today but also provide a window into the future for all of us. This book presents impactful findin...
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How much inequality is fair?
How Much Inequality Is Fair? synthesizes concepts from economics, political philosophy, game theory, information theory, statistical mechanics, and systems engineering into a mathematical framework for a fair free-market society. Venkat Venkatasubramanian compares his theory’s predictions to actu...
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The impact of tourism in east africa
This book explores the relationship between imperial formations and individual encounters at African tourist sites. It examines how encounters between tourists and hosts tend to be constructed along colonial thought lines and shows that ruination is omnipresent in postcolonial tourist settings. T...
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Inclusive tourism futures
This book combines studies of inclusivity in tourism with a future lens and provides timely insights into current research and discussions on social inclusion. It considers a future that can be welcoming of different ways of being, doing and knowing to empower all participants in the planning and...
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Gender and the dismal science
This book is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publi...
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The israeli economy
An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a population of nine million and is one of the richest countries in the world. The Israeli Economy te...
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Russian energy chains
Margarita M. Balmaceda follows Russia’s three largest fossil-fuel exports—natural gas, oil, and coal—from production in Siberia through transportation via Ukraine to final use in Germany in order to understand the tension between energy as threat and as opportunity.
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Intelligent data-driven marketing
Following Einstein’s advice, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough,” this book puts a spotlight on the marketing ecosystem from a physicist’s point of view. It provides guidelines for implementing a m...
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Rethinking value chains
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by international organisations, such as the World Ban...
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Renewable energy
This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implication...
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What really counts
What Really Counts is an essential, firsthand story of the promise and challenges of accounting for social, economic, and environmental benefits. Ronald Colman recounts two decades of working with three governments to adopt measures capable of quantifying factors that GDP overlooks.
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Designed leadership
The strategic-design scholar and urban-systems designer Moura Quayle shares her plan for integrating design and leadership, translating processes, principles, and practices from years of experience into tools of change for professional leaders. Designed Leadership uses field-tested examples to te...
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Discovering prices
Paul Milgrom describes how auctions can be used to discover prices and guide efficient resource allocations. Milgrom roots his new theories in real-world examples (including the ambitious U.S. incentive auction of radio frequencies, whose design he led) and provides economists with crucial new to...
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Rescuing retirement
In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. It offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
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Albert o. hirschman
In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman’s approach to social-scientific questions. He traces the many strands of Hirschman’s thought and their place in his multifaceted body of work, considering their ...
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Sex in tourism
This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in tourism, including the light, dark and shades of grey between. It studies the affects and effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism; romance tourism, sex tourism and exploitation in tourism, including the sexual exploitation of ch...
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Why trust matters
Benjamin Ho reveals the surprising importance of trust to how we understand our day-to-day economic lives. Starting with the earliest societies and proceeding through the evolution of the modern economy, he explores its role across an astonishing range of institutions and practices.
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High-tech high-touch recruiting
High-tech recruiting tools can only help you find candidates. In order to retain the best talent, you need to blend "high-tech" candidate search tools with traditional "high-touch" relationship-based recruiting methods.
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Rapid growth, done right
Understand why innovation in organizations shouldn't be left to chance and develop those key skills that will allow you to build an innovative company, increase the quantity and quality of ideas, lead effectively and accelerate success.
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Stand out
Develop your leadership presence and project confidence, credibility and charisma to impact and influence others.
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Law and the "sharing economy"
The rapid expansion of sharing economy platforms such as Airbnb and Uber has generated enormous controversy. This book brings legal and interdisciplinary perspectives to the labour, market and technology and other regulatory challenges that arise from this phenomenon that has taken the world by s...
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Workday warrior
Productivity expert Ann Gomez has a simple, time-saving method to regain control of your workday. If you crave more time in your day, this compelling and practical book is your solution.
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The greenhouse approach
Challenging the status quo, Chitra Anand's The Greenhouse Approach distils the author's research and experience in the technology sector, gained over more than twenty years, into a simple guide to how to shift corporate culture, identify the true agents of change within a company, and assemble to...
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Dancing with robots
Five human superpowers give us a unique advantage in a world being taken over by robots and other advanced technology. Learn to harness your superpowers to survive, compete, and thrive in today's advanced world.
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When the bubble bursts
Hilliard MacBeth argues that investors should stop thinking about real estate as a safe investment, warning that it is only a matter of time before Canada faces a housing crisis of major proportions. He guides investors towards safer and more lucrative investments in order to protect their assets...
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Food security
Today, mainstream agriculture pushes excess food while depleting soil, water, air, and energy instead of growing just enough for adequate, healthy consumption.
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Government digital
Industry, academic, and government experts present a roadmap for radical change in how we govern. Learnings and recommendations point the way forward for governments in an age where standing still and doing nothing equates failure.
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Bullshift
Does your financial advisor tell you that markets recover in the long run? Do they tell you not to worry? You need to heed that uneasy feeling of yours. As De Goey makes clear, advisors, like all of us, suffer from unconscious bias, but their sunny outlook is also the product of industry-wide gro...
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Throw your stuff off the plane
We all want to be accountable, to be responsible, to reveal genuine commitment. We all want to keep on track with our word and stay away from blame. But organizational systems meant to institutionalize accountability often don’t help us accomplish those necessary goals. Throw Your Stuff Off the P...
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The art and science of training
There are more similarities than differences between how artists and scientists work. Both ask countless questions. Both search in earnest for answers. Both are dedicated to reaching the best results. Not so different from today's trainers, are they?Elaine Biech, one of the most highly regarded n...
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The start-up push
This book guides founders in starting businesses with local and international resources. It covers incubators, accelerators, and science parks, emphasizing the importance of support services, interactions, and innovation. It provides strategies for incubator types, assisting founders, and managin...
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The brave new world of ehrm 2.0
This book examines the impact of technology on human resource management, exploring eHRM practices such as e-recruitment, e-selection, gamification, e-learning, and e-performance management. It addresses challenges like cyberdeviance and managing contingent workers while providing insights for HR...
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Crystallizing public opinion (original classic edition)
Edward Bernays' 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and governments have used to influence public attitudes over the past century.
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Humanocracy, updated and expanded
A powerful new edition of the Wall Street Journal bestseller that helps leaders build radically more human—and capable—organizations.Now more than ever, we need organizations that are daring, resilient, and creative. Unfortunately, when confronted by unprecedented challenges, most companies and i...
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Womentality
Thirteen stories by everyday women from around the globe who left the nine-to-five to start their own creative businesses and found far more fulfillment—plus more equitable pay—than in traditional corporate careers. Womentality shows how it is possible for anyone—no matter where they are from or ...
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An economy of well-being
An Economy of Well-being examines the stories and examples of what individuals, families, businesses, non-profit enterprises, communities, and financial institutions can and are doing to implement an economic lifestyle that is based on achieving a flourishing life of well-being and enduring happi...
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Systemic organization development
This book introduces systemic organization development for management and consultancy, emphasizing organizational change processes and tools. It covers trust-building, handling emotions, and managing concerns and resistance. Practical guidelines and case studies illustrate the concept's applicati...
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Entrepreneurship
Learn the skills of entrepreneurship, designed to help anyone who wants to start or grow a business. Brian Tracy is a bestselling author who has consulted for more than 1000 companies and addressed more than 5 million people throughout the world.
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Mentoring programs that work
Amazing Benefits, Unique Risks A stellar mentor can change the trajectory of a career. And an enduring mentoring program can become an organization’s most powerful talent development tool. But fixing a “broken” mentoring program or developing a new program from scratch requires a unique process, ...
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The poverty of work
This study takes readers inside the world of temping to discover a type of work dreadfully insecure yet growing rapidly.
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Sales management
The book explores innovative sales strategies in frontier markets, emphasizing building customer relationships over persuasive arguments. It covers consultative selling, sales force management, leadership qualities, CRM, and SFA systems, with insights from African sales experts, case studies, and...
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Quality management in learning and development
Develop a Quality Management System to Support Learner and Organizational GoalsQuality management is collectively all the activities and processes that ensure your learning products meet the standard your organization is committed to. All errors have consequences that compromise that standard. Or...
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The making of capitalism in france
Political Scientist Xavier Lafrance provides a pathbreaking account of the emergence of capitalism in France.
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L&d order taker no more!
Transform Your L&D Team Into Your Organization’s Strategic Business Partner Most L&D pros dream of the day when stakeholders will stop viewing them as mere order takers and consider them critical, strategic partners in shaping the future of their organization. But how do you get there? In...
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Agile for instructional designers
Discover Agile for Better Instructional Design To serve business needs amid greater volatility and uncertainty in the workplace, learning and development professionals need project management methods that can keep up. Enter Agile.Popular in the software development space as an approach to project...
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Training ain't performance
Despite the explicit emphasis on bottom-line results in the workplace, a great deal of confusion exists regarding what constitutes achievement, and how training should and does relate to performance.Training Ain't Performance untangles the myths and outright fallacies propagated in the workplace.
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Listen!: the art of effective communication
Using vivid examples, easy-to-learn techniques, and practical exercises for becoming a better listener-and making yourself heard and understood, Dale Carnegie will show you how it's done, even in difficult situations. F
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Instructional story design
Once Upon a Time, Storytelling Met Instructional Design From children to adults, everybody likes a good story. Stories are memorable, actionable, and emotional. We are constantly making sense of the world by forming stories, and that makes them perfect for instructional design.Instructional Story...
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Land your next l&d role
Your Road Map to Career Success There has never been a better time to invest in your own L&D career. No matter where you are in your learning and development career, expert career coach and L&D luminary Sarah Cannistra delivers tactical and industry-specific advice for how to conduct and ...
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