E-book Zero Distance : Management in the Quantum Age

Writing inThe New York Timesduring the midst of the Covid-19 crisis,Thomas Friedman said that, from the time the Coronavirus appearedonward, “There is the world B.C.—Before Corona—and the worldA.C.—After Corona.” This is definitely an After Corona book, and I amcertain there will be many others. Most thinking people recognize theCovid-19 crisis as a turning point in our human affairs,…

E-book Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere : A Postcolonial Programme

In April 2017, scientists took to the streets in a historically unprecedented Global March for Science. The event was seen as symbolic of a crisis in the relationship of science and society. This book considers the Global March for Science from a postcolonial perspective to inquire into the toolkit that the academic field of Science & Technology Studies (STS) has to offer. It argues that new co…

E-book A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility

Since the Industrial Revolution in late eighteenth century, there have been tremendous increases in both production and population growth. In the 1960s, the society began to consider the relationship between industrial development, environmental degradation, and the costs it imposed on everyone in one way or another. The United Nations (UN) initiated the World Co…

E-book Pathways in Decentralised Collective Bargaining in Europe

One of the main trends in labour relations across Europe – started already in the 1980s – is “decentralisation” in collective bargaining at the company level. This involves a shift from multi-employer bargaining to single-employer bargaining with trade unions or other workers representatives (Marginson, 2015; oecd, 2018; Traxler, 1995; Visser, 2016). This development continued in the la…

E-book Stocks for All : People’s Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century

Public stock markets aretoosmall. The lack of companies with publicly-tradedshares creates manyproblems.Ifpublicly-traded shares are scarce, valuationsare higher and thereisanincreased risk of bubbles. The lack of companieswith publicly-traded shares can increase financial inequality,because retail in-vestors are excluded from privatestock markets.Itcan alsomake itmore difficultto fund futurepe…

E-book Corporate Finance for Long-Term Value

What is the company’s social responsibility? Following Milton Friedman’s state-ment that “the business of business is business”, shareholders have been playing an increasingly dominant role in business since the 1980s. Shareholders have the primary objective of maximising the financial value (F) of the company. But corporate models that adopt …

E-book Pro-ecological Restructuring of Companies : Case Studies

Business-driven pro-environmental measures were the inspiration behind col-lating practical examples from both within and outside the EU into one book. Another impulse to conduct a case-study type analysis was research carried out within the 7th Framework Program of the EU on “Proecological restructur-ing for jobs”. Three countries participated in the research: Poland as the leade…

E-book The German Chambers of Commerce and Industry : Self-governance, Servic…

But what many people are no longer aware of today is that predicting this devel-opment 70 years ago would have been a risky bet. To understand this better, let ustake a moment to look back at the country’s situation in 1949. After 12 years(1933–1945) of the totalitarian, criminal and aggressive Nazi dictatorship, Germanywas literally in ruins at the end of the Second World War. Not only had…

E-book The Corporation as a Protagonist in Global History, c. 1550-1750

For almost two decades, historians and academics from a wide- range of sub- disciplinary backgrounds have been situating their research within a global context, crossing boundaries both geographically and methodologically, in such large numbers as to necessitate the emergence of a recognisably new field of enquiry: Global History. From comparative to connective histories, the …

E-book Religion and Governance in England’s Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601�…

On 15 September 1622, the poet, onetime MP, lawyer and cleric JohnDonne delivered a sermon in the grounds of the old cathedral at St Paul’sCross, in which he argued the importance of religion to the govern-mental success of the Virginia Company (VC). Donne demonstrated,in his inimitable style, that structured religious governance would leadto the company successfully establishing control over…

E-book Eyewitness: Arms & Armor

Full-color photos. "An eye grabber: large, clear photographic layouts of weapons share pages with explanatory text and definitive illustrations. Each double spread covers a subject, from primitive weapons to the 'Guns That Won the West'; it's easy to forget their function in the beauty of the pieces and their clever designs. The weapons from the Middle Ages are breathtaking simply as art. A plu…

E-book Eyewitness Books: Christianity

An introduction to Christian beliefs and culture discusses the life and teachings of Jesus, the Gospels, divisions and sects within Christianity, and Christian life.

E-book 100 Chinese Silences

There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an “orientalist” tradition that has defined modern American poetry, these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American litera…

E-book Eyewitness: Ancient Greece

This Eyewitness guide to the Ancient Greek world provides information on the mythical heroes and gods as well as the temples and statues still surviving today.

E-book Eyewitness Books: Food

Complements the new look of the Eyewitness series by exploring the myriad ways in which food affects our lives.

E-book Eyewitness: Matter

Examines the elements that make up the physical world and the properties and behavior of different kinds of matter

Ebook Eyewitness: Shakespeare

Presents the life and work of the English playwright William Shakespeare and provides information about the theater of sixteenth-century London.

E-book Eyewitness Companions : Film

History, genres, world cinemas, A-Z of directors, top 100 movies.

Ebook Eyewitness Books: Da Vinci and His Times

An overview of the philosophy, inventions, art, government, religion, and daily life of the Renaissance.

E-Book The Italian Protector

Pergi mengunjungi Italia adalah impian terbesar Isabella - ia mencintai tempat itu hampir seumur hidupnya. Ketika akhirnya keinginan itu terpenuhi, Isabella pun berangkat dengan segudang rencana. Namun, pemikiran untuk menggoda pria-pria di sana? Oh, ia sama sekali tidak tertarik. Sampai ia bertemu dengan pria Italia bertubuh tinggi besar yang memancarkan aura menggoda sekaligus berbahaya. Isa…

E-book Eyewitness: Ecology

Discover the diversity of animals, plants, energy, and matter in the world's environments

E-book DK Eyewitness: Early Humans

Here is an original and exciting new look at the fascinating world of ancient people and their ways of life. Detailed real-life photographs of tools, weapons, jewelry, clothing, and even the remains of the people themselves, offer a unique "eyewitness" view of how human life changed during its first four million years. See the tools used by the first farmers, the oldest surviving food, the weap…

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E-book Greenland in Arctic Security : (De)securitization Dynamics under Clima…

As the Arctic is getting warmer, ice at sea and on land is melting. Great powers appear ready to conflict over resources appearing from under the ice. Science tells us about this climatic thaw already happening; much commentary and great power strategies want us to believe that a geopolitical freeze is inevitable. Either way, the Arctic region we have known since the end of the Cold …

E-book Picturing Royal Charisma : Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000…

From the earliest Near Eastern urban civilizations to modern times, rulers and their retinues have disseminated ideological information with regard to the legitimacy of their status, their obligations, and their rights. The visual expressions of these royal statements were the subject of our research group, under the auspices of the Mandel Scholion In…

E-book Tracks from the Crypt

Is film a medium of communication? This is a basic question of film studies. It is about as old as the field itself, and the discursive frameworks and underlying assumptions that make the question relevant are about as old as the medium, or the art form, of cinema itself. As John Durham Peters argues, “only since the late nineteenth century have we defined ourselves in terms our ability to co…

E-book Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of …

When the Immediations book series at Open Humanities Press was launched, it was done with Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the intercessor1 in mind. We were looking for a way to give voice to a kind of collaboration that would work from within the weave of research and writing, a collaboration that would give texture to a voice (or a multiplicity of voice) toward a conversation to come. A conversa…

E-book A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of P…

A Nuclear Refrain is a piece of “spatial fic-tion” that challenges vital but neglected is-sues around the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and the concomitant policy of nuclear deterrence. We issue this challenge via the extension of our geographical imagi-nations into the past, present, and future.The UK’s 2016 decision to replace its Vanguard submarine fleet, as a major step to-w…

E-boo Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia

In early 2012, when I visited Theodore (Ted) Schwartz at his home in Del Mar, California, he had recently finished digitising audio recordings of interviews he had conducted with Manus people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) from 1953 through 1995; the annotated catalogue went on for many pages.1 Ted gave me an audio tour and we listened to Paliau, his supporters, an…

E-book Theatre in Towns

While we were researching theatre in towns for this book, a perfor-mance was taking place across Europe. Little Amal, a giant child- refugee puppet, began a walk from Gazientep in Turkey, close to the Syrian border, a city that had become home to half a million refu-gees during the ten-year-long war. Little Amal travelled more than 8000 kilometres be…

E-book Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World

Much of the thought and the practice of human life is irredeem-ably related to Ionia, to Achaea, to classical Greek civilisation. Certainly one, if not the only one, of the central imaginings of ourselves and our world is Ionian. Our mapping of ourselves in our world also owes a huge debt to the classical. The emergence, materialisation, and extra-territorialisation of Ionian spaces of philosop…

E-book Ibsen at the Theatrical Crossroads of Europe : A Performance History o…

The aim of this book is to investigate the performance history of Henrik Ibsen in the Ro-manian theatre from the end of the 19thcentury to the first half of the 20thcentury.On the one hand, the quantitative analysis of data on the early Romanian produc-tionsofIbsen’splaysbetween1894and1947revealsthathewasnotperformedwithgreatfrequency in either the major state or independent theatres. Yet, it…

E-book The Supernatural Media Virus : Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990

In June 2009, a thread on the forum SomethingAwful.com asked usersto participate in a Photoshop challenge involving the creation of imagesdisplaying a paranormal feature. One user named Victor Surge, whosereal name was later revealed to be Eric Knudsen, uploaded two grainyblack-and-white images in response to this call. These pictures showeda faceless and uncannily tall figure in a suit lurking…

E-book The Boggart Sourcebook : Texts and Memories for the Study of the Briti…

This section gathers nineteenth-century boggart ephemera, particularly from newspapers but also from magazines, rare books and broadsides. Given the space constraints, I concentrate on material that other researchers might have trouble finding. I have typically included here actual boggart news (everything from ‘boggart hunts’ to children dying from boggart stories, sic)…

E-book Living with Monsters : Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters

"Did you hear a single thing Uncle said to you, Sarah? A single damn thing?” Marvin shook his head in exasperation. “Don’t go looking for things unless you want them to find you.” These quotes are extracts from some of the chapters that follow, and they superbly condense what we mean by Living with Mon-sters. There is a fundamental distinction between the monsters you will meet on t…

E-book The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and …

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The t…

E-book Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters

Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-D…

E-book Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

When the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as 100,000 people perished as a result of the blast and an ensuing famine caused by the destruction of rice fields on Sumbawa and neighboring islands. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in the infamous ''year without a summer'' in North America, food riots in Eur…

E-Book Labirin

Aku dan Han tidak sedang mempermainkan kepercayaan atau tidak menghormati Sang Pencipta. Kami hanya mencari sebuah cara untuk menyadarkan orang tua - Lizda Kami tidak membunuh. Tidak juga berzina. Bukan pula pencuri atau penjahat. Mengapa cinta kami dianggap salah? - Johan Akhir kisah, garis akhir labirin, entah menuju ke mana... Kamu dan aku terlalu jauh berbeda. Bersiaplah memasuki la…

E-book Laporan Informasi Intelijen Bisnis 2019 : Vegetable Oil HS 1516

Penggunaan kelompok animal and vegetable fats and oils (HS 1516) sangat beragam seperti sebagai bahan pembuatan sabun hingga untuk produksi bahan makanan. Namun demikian, salah satu penggunaan utama dari kelompok produk ini adalah sebagai bahan baku untuk produksi makanan olahan. Lemak dan minyak yang didapatkan dari binatang dan tumbuhan merupakan komponen yang sangat penting untuk menjag…

E-book Ring of Fire: An Encyclopedia of the Pacific Rim's Earthquakes, Tsunam…

n March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off Japan's coast, triggering a powerful tsunami. The massive destruction that resulted proved that not even sophisticated, industrialized nations are immune from nature's fury. Written to take some of the mystery out of the earth's behavior, this encyclopedia chronicles major natural disasters that have occurred around the Pacific Rim, an are…

E-book Become a Barista

Cofee is grown typically between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn where conditions are ideal for the species. There are two main branches of the cofee varietal, Robust and Arabica. Robusta is less favoursome, high yielding with high pest tolerance. Hence, it is great for cheaper, low-quality instant cofees. Arabica makes up the majority of the cofee grown in the world and is wha…

E-book Natural Hazards: Earth's Processes As Hazards, Disasters, and Catastro…

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E-book Meditations

Marcus Aurelius is said to have been fond of quoting Plato’s dictum, and those who have written about him have rarelybeen able to resist applying it to Marcus himself. And indeed, if we seek Plato’s philosopher-king in the flesh we could hardly do better than Marcus, the ruler of the RomanEmpire for almost two decades and author of the immortal Meditations. Yet the title is one that Marcus …

E-book The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, 3rd Edition

The definitive book on Warren Buffett's views on everything from investing to management, this is the classic curated collection of his famous shareholder letters, masterfully arranged according to topic by long-time Buffett expert, Lawrence Cunningham.

E-book How to Hack Computers: How to Hack Computers, Hacking for Beginners, P…

Hackers are shrouded in a cloud of mystery, and most people don't understand who they are, what they do, how they do it, and what motivates them. As a network security engineer, I want to reveal the mysterious world of hackers to beginners so you can get your feet wet hacking. Not only will I teach you the background of hacking, but I will also expose you to some of the latest software and even…

E-book Arts of The Samurai

The legends of the Japanese warrior-statesmen, referred to as the samurai, are renowned for accounts of military valor and political intrigue—epic conflicts between powerful lords, samurai vassals, and the imperial court—as well as accounts of profound self-sacrifice and loyalty. The term samurai is derived from the word saburau, or “one who serves.” The evolution of the samurai from mo…

E-book Hacking: Beginner to Expert Guide to Computer Hacking, Basic Security,…

This book will teach you how you can protect yourself from most common hacking attacks -- by knowing how hacking actually works! After all, in order to prevent your system from being compromised, you need to stay a step ahead of any criminal hacker. You can do that by learning how to hack and how to do a counter-hack. Within this book are techniques and tools that are used by both criminal a…

E-book The Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene, 250 Milestones in the …

From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an important role in countless medical and technological advances. Covering entertaining stories and unexpected applications, chemist and journalist Derek B…

E-book The Drug Book: From Arsenic to Xanax, 250 Milestones in the History of…

Throughout history, humans everywhere have searched for remedies to heal our bodies and minds. Covering everything from ancient herbs to cutting-edge chemicals, this book in the hugely popular Milestones series looks at 250 of the most important moments in the development of life-altering, life-saving, and sometimes life-endangering pharmaceuticals. Illustrated entries feature ancient drugs lik…