Geoffrey: 1373 books
by David Nordfors, Daniel Harple, Esther Wojcicki
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Innovation disrupts things. Can it disrupt unemployment? Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf and David Nordfors, co-founders of i4j Innovation for Jobs, say IT and artificial intelligence should be seen as tools for tailoring meaningful new jobs for workers. In this groundbreaking book they present ideas,...
Strengthening and Enriching Your Professional Learning Community
The Art of Learning Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to improving student achievement? That question is at the heart of this comprehensive and practical guide to process learning circles, a unique and powerful way...
Endangered Economies
How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can we save our environment and grow our economy?" This issue has become only more urgent in recent years with the threat of climate change, the accelerating...
Uneasy Partnership
The Politics of Business and Government in Canada, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
In this new edition of Uneasy Partnership, Geoffrey Hale examines the interdependent relationship between Canadian governments and businesses, considering governments’ multiple roles in the economy and their implications for the business environment. Hale provides an overview of the historical dimensions...
by Geoffrey Pilling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Geoffrey Pilling’s treatment of this complex issue in political economy, first published in 1986, concentrates on a review of Keynes’ writings rather than the vast literature that has developed surrounding his work since the Second World War. It does, however, consider the work of the ‘Left...
Renewing Unilever
Transformation and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Unilever is one of the world's largest suppliers of fast moving consumer goods in foods, home and personal care. It operates in over 100 countries. Its scope and scale make it a unique global corporation. Yet the story of Unilever is not simply a tale of corporate evolution: Unilever is a corporation...
by Geoffrey Hosking
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a harsh climate, is cut off from most maritime contact with the outside world, and has open and vulnerable...
by Geoffrey Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
In this important new book, Geoffrey Ingham draws on neglected traditions in the social sciences to develop a theory of the ‘social relation’ of money.
Genuinely multidisciplinary approach, based on a thorough knowledge of theories of money in the social sciences
An original...
From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities
An Evolutionary Economics without Homo economicus
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate...
by Geoffrey Peruniak
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Career development - the processes that shape a person's career over his or her life - is a relatively new field of research in applied psychology. In A Quality of Life Approach to Career Development, Geoffrey S. Peruniak draws from philosophy, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, political...
Why Does Policy Change?
Lessons from British Transport Policy 1945-99
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. Why Does Policy Change? examines and explains the dynamics of major policy change by looking at case studies from British Transport policy since 1945. The significant contrasts...
El rey imprudente
La biografía esencial de Felipe II
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Felipe II fue el creador del Estado más avanzado de su tiempo, que culminó la formación del primer imperio global jamás conocido. Llegó a gobernar sobre la cuarta parte de la población mundial.
En esta nueva edición –actualizada y revisada– de la biografía, que ya es, sin dudas, la...
by Michael Watts, Zvi Eckstein, Esther Gal-Or
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy.
Editors of academic journals are often the top scholars in their fields. They are charged with managing the flow of hundreds of...
Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker’s prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities—revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars,...