The first global story concerns Finland’s entry to the world of global capitalism and the benefits of accommodating a huge international company. It also looks at the other side of the coin, a Nordic welfare state dependent on one field of technology and the special interests of one dominant actor with an Anglo-Saxon busi-ness mindset. In that context, ideas and argumentat…
Some years ago when I started "collecting" angels as a literary diversion, it was certainly with no thought of serving as their archivist, biographer, and finally as their lexicographer. Such an idea did not occur to me-indeed, could not have occurred to me-until I had corralled a sufficient number of the heavenly denizens to make a dictionary of them feasible. At first I thought that angels, n…
This book explores how narratives are deeply embodied, engaging heart, soul, as well as mind, through varying adult learner perspectives. Biographical research is not an isolated, individual, solipsistic endeavor but shaped by larger ecological interactions – in families, schools, universities, communities, societies, and networks – that can create or destroy hope. Telling or listening to l…
Among the most commonly used types of beverage bottles are bottles made from plastics for single use. The environmental impact of single-use plastic bottles has been widely discussed in society. For example, they are among the top plastic products found on beaches, contributing to the growing littering of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To mitigate the environmental problems of single-use pl…
The discussion on whether or not entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete. The number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand for entrepreneurial education teachers or instructors is constantly growing. The global community of entrepre-neurial…