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Grassroots Innovation Movements Adrian Smith 9781138901223
RRP: €34.50€30.33Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been... -
Artful Creation: Learning-Tales of Arts-in-Business by Lotte Darso 9788759311097
RRP: €38.07€31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788759311097Author Lotte DarsoFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint SamfundslitteraturPublisher SamfundslitteraturWeight(grams) 670g -
In the Clouds: The Impressions of a Chair by Sarah Bernhardt 9781913724443
RRP: €9.51€8.21In 1878 Gustave Flaubert looked on in horror as his publisher picked up a manuscript from the mysterious stage actress Sarah Bernhardt and published it in place of a new edition of his latest work, and watched it go on to become an instant bestseller,... -
Humanitarian Economics: War, Disaster and the Global Aid Market by Gilles Carbonnier
RRP: €41.65€37.46While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's... -
The Post Carbon Reader by Richard Heinberg 9780970950062
RRP: €21.41€15.34This diverse collection by best-selling authors, renowned scientists, and experienced activists is an engaging and practical book that will be of interest to the lay reader as well as university students in both graduate and undergraduate courses. The... -
The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry by Lawrence R. Klein 9780804741651
RRP: €38.08€34.31This book delivers an unpopular message: the West has played a pivotal role in the Russian economic disaster of the 1990s. Western advisors, including the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury, applied a narrow conception of economics that... -
Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries by Justin Yifu Lin
RRP: €23.80€19.19How poor countries can ignite economic growth without waiting for global action or the creation of ideal local conditionsCountries that ignite a process of rapid economic growth almost always do so while lacking what experts say are the essential... -
Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet: Environmental, Business and Policy Solutions Megan Epler Wood 9781138217614
RRP: €53.54€47.11This book helps all those involved in international tourism develop the new skills, tools and investments required to protect irreplaceable global resources from the impacts of escalating tourism demand over the next 50 years. It documents how technology... -
Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change by Benjamin Franks
RRP: €49.97€41.21Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change takes a practical approach to environmental ethics with a focus on its transformative potential for students, professionals, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens. Proposed solutions to issues such... -
Food Security Policy, Evaluation and Impact Assessment Sheryl L. Hendriks 9781138497092
RRP: €52.35€46.10This book offers an essential, comprehensive, yet accessible reference of contemporary food security discourse and guides readers through the steps required for food security analysis.Food insecurity is a major obstacle to development and achievement of... -
Carbon Inequality: The Role of the Richest in Climate Change by Dario Kenner
RRP: €26.17€23.01With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom, Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in contributing to climate change via their luxury consumption and their investments. In an innovative contribution, it attempts... -
Song of the Earth: A Synthesis of the Scientific and Spiritual Worldviews by Maddy Harland 9781856230957
RRP: €17.79€11.89The Song of the Earth is the fourth and final volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and brings together the voices of leading visionaries in science, spirituality, indigenous wisdom, innovative community, and social activism to paint... -
Strategic Corporate Conservation Planning: A Guide to Meaningful Engagement Margaret O'Gorman 9781610919401
RRP: €30.94€26.23Industries that drive economic growth and support our comfortable modern lifestyles have exploited natural resources to do so. But now there's growing understanding that business can benefit from a better relationship with the environment. Leading... -
Business Development Begins Here by Tom Watkin 9781646637867
RRP: €24.93€18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646637867Author Tom WatkinFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Koehler BooksPublisher Koehler BooksWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Inspire Computing International, Student Book, Year 9 Paul Clowrey 9781292404295
€26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781292404295Author Paul ClowreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher Pearson Education LimitedWeight(grams)... -
Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practices by Shahidur R. Khandker 9780821380284
€52.31Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank,... -
Everybody's War: The Politics of Aid in the Syria Crisis by Jehan Bseiso
RRP: €29.14€28.02The Syrian crisis is one of the most serious humanitarian disasters in recent history. Yet the widely reported numbers--more than 6 million displaced, including 5 million refugees--reflect only a fractional toll of the conflict. Numerous international... -
Prioritizing Sustainability Education: A Comprehensive Approach by Joan Armon
RRP: €45.21€39.72Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic approaches to sustainability education. Too often, students graduate with exploitative, consumer-driven... -
Failing in the Field: What We Can Learn When Field Research Goes Wrong by Dean Karlan 9780691161891
RRP: €41.65€33.26All across the social sciences, from development economics to political science departments, researchers are going into the field to collect data and learn about the world. While much has been gained from the successes of randomized controlled trials,... -
The Political Economy of Israel Myron J. Aronoff 9781138516649
RRP: €52.35€45.74The resurgence of political economy as an important topic reflects the deep interpenetration of politics and economics. There are few economic issues of consequence that are not shaped by government decisions, and there are few governments whose agendas... -
Network Origins of the Global Economy: East vs. West in a Complex Systems Perspective by Hilton L. Root
RRP: €41.64€36.56The upheavals of recent decades show us that traditional models of understanding processes of social and economic change are failing to capture real-world risk and volatility. This has resulted in flawed policy that seeks to capture change in terms of... -
Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development by Wolfgang Sachs
€22.46All effects of human action will inevitably be played out within our planet's limits; any hope of infinity is an illusion. And yet, as Wolfgang Sachs warned almost twenty years ago, environmental concerns have been assimilated into the rhetoric, dynamics... -
Managing Startups - Best Blog Posts Thomas Eisenmann 9781449367879
RRP: €14.27€10.26If you want salient advice about your startup, you've hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his... -
Faith-Based Organizations in Development Discourses and Practice Jens Koehrsen 9781032083346
RRP: €47.59€42.04Exploring faith-based organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on... -
Principles of Economic Growth by Thorvaldur Gylfason
€88.86This is a concise and reader-friendly introduction to the principles of economic growth for students of economics and business. Gylfason examines theoretical and empirical models of economic growth through case studies drawn from around the world and a... -
Change for Good: An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World's Most Urgent Social Problems by Paul Klein 9781770416314
RRP: €35.64€21.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416314Author Paul KleinFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Team Champion!: Taking Teamwork Seriously by Allan Mackintosh 9781800463738
€15.64This book is for all team managers, team leaders, team supervisors and all those who aspire to lead teams in the future. It is also aimed at ordinary team members, who, when they are more informed and knowledgeable about essential team development... -
Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology by Kentaro Toyama
RRP: €26.18€21.56After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes... -
Leading Transformative Change Collectively: A Practitioner Guide to Realizing the SDGs by Petra Kuenkel
RRP: €39.26€34.70This book directly helps decision-makers and change agents in companies, NGOs, and government bodies become more proficient in transformative, collaborative change in realizing the SDGs.This practitioner's handbook translates a systemic - and enlivening... -
Growth Theory: An Exposition by Robert M. Solow 9780195109030
RRP: €109.47€56.57In the preface to the first edition of Growth Theory (copyright 1970), the author writes: "I have tried to give some feeling for the scope of aggregate theory of growth, a notion of technical details, and some idea of the directions in which future... -
Globalization and Work Steve Williams (Portsmouth University) 9780745652122
RRP: €22.60€20.38This engaging book offers a lively and rigorous synthesis of the varied interconnections between work and globalization. Drawing on relevant sociological insights, and based on extensive, up-to-date research studies of work and employment, it brings... -
Science & Technology Policymaking by Alfred T. Barrios 9781606924396
RRP: €101.14€67.56Scientific and technical knowledge and guidance influences not just policy related to science and technology, but also many of today's public policies as policymakers seek knowledge to enhance the quality of their decisions. Science and technology policy... -
Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility by Stephen Morse
RRP: €52.35€29.01Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades. Although it originated in the developed countries of the West, the concept has been embraced and adapted by corporations and policy-making agencies in many... -
Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War by Nasya Sara Razavi 9780367770174
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "public," helping to move debates on water services beyond the paralyzing binary... -
The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy: Separating Aspirations from Reality Harry Lehmann 9781032154435
RRP: €148.75€129.36The fifth Factor X publication from the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy provides an overview of the limits to the circular economy, emphasising the relationship between integrated resource... -
Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal Gitanjali Gill 9781138625808
RRP: €52.35€45.74Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals. Strikingly, the list of jurisdictions that have chosen to do this include numerous developing... -
Public Policy and the Economy since 1900 by Jim Tomlinson 9780198287742
€55.64This comprehensive new study gives a full account of the formulation of British economic policy in the twentieth century, drawing on the most recent research based on documents made available under the thirty-year rule to give detailed insight into... -
Foreign Aid: Policy and Practice Phyllis R. Pomerantz (Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA) 9781032208060
RRP: €28.55€25.37Foreign Aid: Policy and Practice offers a complete overview of the basics of foreign aid. Who is it for? Who pays for it? Why does it exist? What is it spent on? How much is it? And most important, does it work?The aid debate has been flooded by academic... -
States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis by Linda Weiss 9780745614571
€23.79This book addresses the role of political institutions in economic performance, examining the changing state--economy relationships through a comparative history of political and economic development in Britain, USA, Russia, Japan, Taiwan and Korea.Book... -
The Rise of "The Rest": Challenges to the West from Late-Industrializing Economies by Alice H. Amsden 9780195170597
RRP: €56.51€38.62After World War II a select number of countries outside Japan and the West-those that Alice Amsden calls "the rest"-gained market share in modern industries and altered global competition. By 2000, a great divide had developed within "the...