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  • Civic Empowerment in an Age of Corporate Greed

    by Edward C. Lorenz ...
    A thought-provoking investigation of an urgent issue facing American communities today, Edward C. Lorenz’s book examines the intersection of corporate irresponsibility and civic engagement. At the heart of this case study is a group of firms responsible for seven of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, the largest food contamination accident in U.S. history, stunning stock ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Global Circulation of the Atmosphere

    Edited by Tapio Schneider, Adam H. Sobel ...
    Despite major advances in the observation and numerical simulation of the atmosphere, basic features of the Earth's climate remain poorly understood. Integrating the available data and computational resources to improve our understanding of the global circulation of the atmosphere remains a challenge. Theory must play a critical role in meeting this challenge. This book provides an authoritative ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Firm-Level Innovation In Africa

    Overcoming Limits and Constraints

    Edited by Abiodun Egbetokun, Richmond Atta-Ankomah, Oluseye Jegede, Edward Lorenz ...
    The literature on innovation in Africa is rapidly expanding, and a recurring thread in the emergent literature is the pervasiveness of systemic weaknesses that inhibit the innovation process. Despite these, firms are able to innovate in Africa. It is then logical to ask: how do African firms manage to overcome the prevalent constraints and learn to innovate?This book directly tackles this question ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Globalisation, New and Emerging Technologies, and Sustainable Development

    The Danish Innovation System in Transition

    Edited by Birgitte Gregersen, Edward Lorenz, Jesper Lindgaard Christensen, Jacob Rubæk Holm ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
    This book explores the capacity of the Danish innovation system to respond to key societal challenges including the green imperative of achieving growth with environmental sustainability and the need to adapt to new and possibly disruptive changes in technology, often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution.The book is divided into four main parts. The first describes the evolving ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Montesinos' Legacy

    Defining and Defending Human Rights for Five Hundred Years

    by Gregory Baum, Eve Bratman, Chelsea Clark, Kevin Edmonds, Charlotte Hulme, Betcy Jose, Daniel Mandell, Deirdre Martinez, Arielle Pardes, Rishi Rattan, Pablo Adrián Arrocha Olabuenaga, Erin B. Corcoran, Lisette Acosta Corniel, Kevin W. Gray, Kenneth F. Maffitt, David T. Orique, Karen A. O'Rourke, Vincent J. Pastro, Father Ezra Sullivan, Fr. Ambrose Mary Little ...
    Montesinos’ Legacy brings scholars together in honor of the 500th anniversary of Dominican Antonio de Montesinos’ famous sermon in defense of the rights of the indigenous Amerindians. The collection addresses the historical context for this sermon, but also the continued relevance of Montesinos today. Montesinos’ Legacy examines the origins of human rights concepts in the West, the rights of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    by Matthew Desmond ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago ... Read more

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  • Climate and the Oceans

    by Geoffrey K. Vallis ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters

    by Leo H. Holthuijsen ...
    Waves in Oceanic and Coastal Waters describes the observation, analysis and prediction of wind-generated waves in the open ocean, in shelf seas, and in coastal regions with islands, channels, tidal flats and inlets, estuaries, fjords and lagoons. Most of this richly illustrated book is devoted to the physical aspects of waves. After introducing observation techniques for waves, both at sea and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Co-Creation for Sustainability

    The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Partnerships

    by Christopher Ansell, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing ...
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of ... Read more

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  • Nonlinear Climate Dynamics

    by Henk A. Dijkstra ...
    This book introduces stochastic dynamical systems theory in order to synthesize our current knowledge of climate variability. Nonlinear processes, such as advection, radiation and turbulent mixing, play a central role in climate variability. These processes can give rise to transition phenomena, associated with tipping or bifurcation points, once external conditions are changed. The theory of ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management

    Edited by Mark Dodgson, David M. Gann, Nelson Phillips ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management offers a comprehensive and timely analysis of the nature and importance of innovation and the strategies and practices that can be used to improve organizational benefits from innovation. Innovation is centrally important for business and national competitiveness, and for the quality and standard of living around the world, but it does not happen by ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Cheating Culture

    Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

    by David Callahan ...
    A public policy expert reveals how decades of deregulation and increasing inequality have fostered a culture of cheating across America.There have always been people who cut corners, but in The Cheating Culture, David Callahan demonstrates how cheating on every level—from the highly publicized corporate scandals to Little League fraud—has risen dramatically in recent decades. He then asks the ... Read more

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