Development

This pocket guide helps those who may be lacking in specialist knowledge achieve compliance with the ISO14001 Standard for Environmental Management. The authors, two experienced auditors, are acknowledged experts in the area and have drawn on material...

Sounds, Ecologies, Musics poses exciting challenges and provides fresh opportunities for scholars, scientists, environmental activists, musicians, and listeners to consider music and sound from ecological standpoints. Authors in Part I examine the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739621117Author Adjei Steven NFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Bluecloud PublishingPublisher Bluecloud Publishing

Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. "The End of Growth" proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning...

Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government and citizens. In Business and Politics in India, leading scholars of Indian politics have gathered to...

According to the conventional wisdom, factors like taste, dietary beliefs and cultural traditions drive our decisions to buy animal foods. But the reality is that price plays a huge role in our eating choices as well. The alarming result of consumers...

Search engines and social media have changed how prospecting pipelines for salespeople are built today, but the vitality of the pipeline itself has not. The key to success for every salesperson is his pipeline of prospects.In High-Profit Prospecting,...

China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899559569Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737759Author Hyeon-Wook KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm)...

With clarity, conscience, and courage, global-systems pioneer Jorgen Randers and his distinguished contributors map the forces that will shape the next four decades. Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how...

Discover new strategies for maximizing performance and profit across your organization through the concept of operational excellence.Companies must learn that you cannot fire and budget-slice your way to sustainable growth. Our world is too complex, too...

Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329610Author Steven KurutzFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

An unusual and irreverent guide to transforming your meetings from time-sucking interruptions to productive moments of collaboration - whether your team is together or virtual. What if meetings could be the high point of collaboration in your day,...

Executive Power arms readers with effective, fast-acting techniques that show them, step-by-step, how to get what they need before they and their companies pay a heavy toll for lack of it. This book contains specific, carefully formulated psychological...

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet interconnected disciplines of tourism studies and development studies. This revised and expanded second edition...

This is a new introductory text providing an up-to-date account of leading theories of development. The book includes a discussion of classical accounts of development, particularly that of Marx, but also considers current debates on the issue. Theories...

The authors offer solutions for established corporations facing disruptive challenges. Based on extensive research and discussion, a unique management approach, the High 5 approach, has been developed to promote successful self-disruption in established...

With a foreword by Peter Wohlleben How much can one love a tree? Rajasthan, in northern India, is home to the Bishnoi, a community renowned for the extreme lengths they go to in order to protect nature: Bishnoi men and women have died to defend trees...

START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up...

Brand management just got easierSuccessful brands provide meaning: a higher purpose, a vision of a better future, a code of values, and a culture that drives performance. Brands with meaning stand out in their marketplace and attract like-minded people:...

In Equality and the City, Enrique Penalosa Londono draws on his experience as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781338438Author Jeremy BlainFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Rethink PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Microeconomics in Context lays out the principles of microeconomics in a manner that is thorough, up to date, and relevant to students. Like its counterpart, Macroeconomics in Context, the book is uniquely attuned to economic, social, and environmental...

The introduction is free to download here.This book is about empowering ordinary people to make a difference in the world. It explores the transformation that emerges when groups spread around the world working on similar issues discover synchronicities,...

The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and the planet. Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality,...

From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of civilizations', our 'humanitarian space' is shrinking. Put in another way, the freedom of action and of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544537757Author Doug DavidoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why- beyond the idle curiosity- do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots , Branko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592211654Author Osita OgbuFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 711g

In an inspirational tale of global adventure Ed Gillespie takes anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world. Cargo ships to camels, hitch-hiking to hovercrafts. Playing table tennis with heavyweight Ukrainian boxers. Border arrests and drug...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853393860Author Professor Robert ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action...

A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model. Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic...

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry...

This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry...

Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and...

What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world's most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544524832Author Hazem MulhimFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Houndstooth PressPublisher Houndstooth PressWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Married at twelve, then separated, divorced and widowed, Nisa is the mother of four children, none of whom survived. She is strong, capable of foraging on her own in one of the world's most hostile environments, not dependent on any man for her daily...