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2012
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For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Regional geographers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a muc...
Slow Wonder
Letters on Imagination and Education
2022
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Slow wonder bears witness to the possibilities of the imagination. In a series of letters the authors playfully imagine alternatives to current orthodoxies that privilege technocratic approaches to education that have strangled discussion about what it might mean to make education good and right, or even beautiful. The authors position the imagination as a powerful site of resistance within education and academic life. They unpack their philosophical positionings through vignettes of their...
Remember Who You Are
What Pedro Gomez Showed Us About Baseball and Life
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- Frank MartinDave SheininTim KeownBruce JenkinsRachel NicholsMark KreidlerMax ScherzerBob LeyPedro GomezPeter GammonsHoward BryantMike BarnicleBrian MurphyChelsea JanesDusty BakerRob KingRio GomezRoss NewhanJon DanielsKen RosenthalBuster OlneyShelley M. SmithT.J. QuinnScott BorasSandy AldersonDan ShaughnessyMike SwansonRobin CarrTony La RussaJason La CanforaRay RattoRon WashingtonChuck CulpepperTracy RingolsbyBud BlackTim KurkjianJack CurryMichael ZagarisPaul BegalaBrad ManginJeremy SchaapJeff PassanBob MelvinScott OstlerGeorge A. King IIITerry FranconaDerrick GooldAlex CoffeySean McAdamBrian SnitkerBrett KurlandAlden GonzalezSarina MoralesMarcos BretónJohn D'AnnaSteve FainaruOrlando "El Duque" HernandezDante GomezBud GeracieDennis EckersleyAJ HinchKeith Olbermann
2021
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Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons.Pedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had...
Social and Solidarity Economy
Beyond the Fringe
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- Suzanne BergeronStephen HealyCarina MillstoneBénédicte FonteneauGeorgina GómezMarguerite MendellPaul NelsonJohn-Justin McMurtryCecilia RosselAbhijit GhoshAnanya Mukherjee-ReedJean-Louis LavilleJustine NannyonjoProfessor Bina AgarwalBéatrice AlainProf Cristina GrasseniFrancesca FornoSilvana SignoriDarryl ReedRoldan MuradianJosé Luis CoraggioMilford Bateman
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- Just Sustainabilities
2015
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As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development.While we are beginning to understand what social and solidarity economy is, what it promises and how it differs from 'business as usual', we know far less about whether it can really move beyond its fringe status in many ...
Information Technology in Environmental Engineering
Selected Contributions to the Sixth International Conference on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE2013)
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- Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
2013
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Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires interdisciplinary approaches, where computing science offers the infrastructure for environmental data collec...
Pinochet's Economic Accomplices
An Unequal Country by Force
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- José Miguel AhumadaRodrigo Araya GómezJosé AylwinLaura Bernal-BermúdezJuan Pablo BohoslavskyFrancisco BustosSilvio CuneoElvira Domínguez-RedondoKarinna FernándezMagdalena Garcés FuentesMarcos González HernandoNancy GuzmánDaniela Marzi MuñozJuan E. MendezCarla MoscosoCristian OlmosLeigh A. PayneGabriel PereiraJulio Pinto VallejosNaomi Roht-ArriazaJavier E. Rodríguez WeberMariana RulliPietro Sferrazza TaibiMagdalena SepúlvedaSebastián SmartAndrés SolimanoTomás UndurragaÁngela VergaraFrancisco Vergara PerucichPeter Winn
2021
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With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country byForce uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing onthe behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectivesin terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. Thisbook makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chileandictatorship and explains their links with the radical inequal...
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A New Synthesis of Public Administration
Serving in the 21st Century
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- Queen's Policy Studies Series
2011
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In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. The desired results on many public issues exceed the reach and resources of government....
World 3.0
Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It
2011
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Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist Pankaj Ghemawat reveals the folly in both of these responses...
Progressive Capitalism
How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice
2013
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The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have to do to achieve competitive advantage in today's global economy. The cornerstone of the political economy of Progressive Capitalism is a belief in capitalism. But it also incorporates the three d...
Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small or Medium-sized Enterprises
Main Criteria and Tools for Managers
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- Engineering (R0)
2011
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Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Owing to the increased competition in the worldwide market, several SMEs operating in the same industrial sectors have agreed collaborative market strategies, both for raw material procurement and for final product delivery. The resulting networks, however, have a tendency to suffer ...
Public Administration
Key Issues Challenging Practitioners
2012
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How public affairs are run depends upon the degree of authority and control central government decides to relinquish to regional and local governments, and the extent to which it favors citizen involvement in the governing process. Public administrators do not operate in a vacuum. The context within which decision-making takes place greatly influences public administrators approach to public issues. Consequently, what government decides to do and how it decides to carry it out affects the ...
Cloudonomics
The Business Value of Cloud Computing
2012
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The ultimate guide to assessing and exploiting the customer value and revenue potential of the CloudA new business model is sweeping the world—the Cloud. And, as with any new technology, there is a great deal of fear, uncertainty, and doubt surrounding cloud computing. Cloudonomics radically upends the conventional wisdom, clearly explains the underlying principles and illustrates through understandable examples how Cloud computing can create compelling va...











