Ibidem: 334 books
The Development and Challenges of Russian Corporate Governance I
The Roles and Functions of Boards of Directors
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Despite increasing attention toward Russia’s economy and capital market, corporate governance norms of Russian public firms are rarely analyzed. This project presents and interprets evidence regarding various governance practices followed by Russian firms covering almost the entire period of the...
Heat, Dust, and Taxes:
A Story of Tax Schemes in Australia’s Outback
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In ‘Heat, Dust, and Taxes,’ Lex Fullarton explores the taxpayer compliance behavior of blue-collar workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in the 1990s who participated in mass-marketed tax avoidance schemes at significantly higher rates than any other group of Australian taxpayers....
by Johanna Emeney
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspective of doctors, patients, and carers in light of the growing popularity of the medical humanities. She provides a close analysis of poetry from New Zealand,...
Watts in the Desert
Pioneering Solar Farming in Australia's Outback
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This unique book offers an introduction to the development of renewable energy in Australia in the early 2000s. Examining the rise of dispersed, embedded solar energy systems in Western Australia, it looks specifically at the Solex project in Carnarvon, WA, which pioneered the harvest of solar energy...
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[T]axing Greenhouse Gases
An Australian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Lex Fullarton takes a closer look at the three pillars of the sustainable development framework known as the “Triple Bottom Line” (TBL). The concept of the TBL is that for a project to be sustainable it must not simply be profitable in economic terms, but it must also benefit society and enhance...
Goldratt and the Theory of Constraints
The Quantum Leap in Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This book uses engaging language and real-life examples to provide an overview of the methods and tools of the theory of constraints: drum-buffer-rope, buffer management, throughput accounting, pull distribution, irresistible offer, corporate strategy, and viable vision. It explains how to recognize...
by Thomas Pogge, Amélia Bastos, Stefanos Papanastasiou
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty,...
Academic Culture: An Analytical Framework for Understanding Academic Work
A Case Study about the Social Science Academe in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
That we live in a world ruled and confused by cultural diversity has become common sense. The social sciences gave birth to a new theoretical paradigm, the creation of cultural theories. Since then, social science theorizing applies to any social phenomenon across the world exploring cultural diversities...
An Interesting Life, So Far
Memoirs of Literary and Musical Peregrinations
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Finally, Bruce King, acclaimed literary critic, presents his autobiography and offers fascinating insights into his life as bon vivant and literary critic.
Development-Induced Displacement and Resettlement
Causes, Consequences, and Socio-Legal Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
This book explores the issue of development-induced resettlement, with a particular emphasis on the humanitarian, legal, and social aspects of this problem. Today, so-called 'development-induced displacement and resettlement' (DIDR) is one of the dominant causes of internal spatial mobility worldwide....
How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social
Outline of a Critique
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries of...
Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America
Rights and Social Protection in Unequal Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The...
by David R. Marples, Andreas Umland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This timely book examines how the regime of President Aliaksandr Lukashenka has used the ‘Great Patriotic War’ (1941-45) as a key element in state and identity formation in Belarus. The campaign was discernible from 2003 and intensified after a rift with Russia that led to a re-examination of...
The Foreigner’s Guide to German Universities
Origin, Meaning, and Use of Terms and Expressions in Everyday University Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Figuring out the many new terms confronting international students at German-language universities can be difficult. Even if the degree program is in English, most administrative work has to be done in German, and the bureaucratic university jargon is a language in and of itself. This guide aims to...