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A full colour map, based on digitised OS maps of Alnwick and
Alnmouth of about 1920, with its Anglo-Saxon and medieval past
overlain and important buildings picked out. The map's cover has a
short introduction to the area's history, and on the reverse an
illustrated and comprehensive gazetteer of Alnwick's and Alnmouth's
main sites of historic interest. The back of the map has coloured
early views of buildings, monuments and street scenes of Alnwick
and Alnmouth. The map has been created by a team of people
representing the various historical societies of Alnwick and
Alnmouth, a number of individuals with specific local knowledge and
the curators of local historical collections, including the
extensive archives of both the Duke of Northumberland and
Bailiffgate Museum. Members of the team have previously produced
works on particular aspects of the area's history, including the
town itself, local heritage heroes, the Abbey, the Shrovetide
Football Game and the district during the Great War.
Climate change and the depletion of resources will have a
long-lasting effect on the globe. Thus, it is essential that
businesses and organizations across the world adopt financial
practices and strategies that allow them to continue their service,
limit emissions, and preserve resources. However, these practices
are only made more difficult to adopt within the context of a
turbulent economy. In this context, it is imperative to research
financial strategies to protect the environment and support
business resilience. Finance for Sustainability in a Turbulent
Economy provides international financial strategies to achieve
sustainable business practices within a turbulent economy. It
highlights the importance of maintaining environmental health in a
cost-effective way. Covering topics such as environmental finance,
renewable energy frameworks, and social responsibility, this
premier reference source is an essential resource for environmental
scientists, government officials, engineers, business executives,
environmentalists, politicians, students and educators of higher
education, researchers, and academicians.
It is not a question whether the world is in transition, rather it
is quite clear to see that the world is transitioning into new
uncharted territories. Digital transformation has taken over the
many facets of management and will create advantages for the
organizations that are innovative with these competitive core
capabilities. From manufacturing to education, every business
sector is shifting their traditional ways of doing business to
reach organizational goals and survive. Innovation takes the lead
here. In this digitalized era, it is obvious that firms and
organizations will not survive if they do not adapt to the changing
demands and business strategies of the new era. New developments in
information technologies provides an essential base for digital
transformation leading to many artificial intelligence
implications. This can lead to time-effectiveness, lowered costs,
better timing, and improved efficiency in personalized products and
services. New forms of work, new performance criteria, new training
and new development programs for employees and new recruitment and
selection procedures will be among the most important issues of new
human resource management systems. This stems from the urgency of
digital transformation in the new World order. All organizations
need to establish new management strategies, policies, and
practices to govern vital transformations in the new age. This will
be achieved by formulating and implementing a digital
transformation strategy which fits to all levels of management in
today's organizations. From supply chain management systems to
human resource management within organizations need to be
transformed accordingly with the digital transformation strategy.
For all these reasons, the latest research on the selected subjects
of leadership, innovation and entrepreneurship will fill a critical
gap in the related literature. This reference book aims to bring
together the emerging topics of digital transformation, information
technologies, new management strategies and digital practices in
human resources and new forms of work. At the same time, it
provides theoretical infrastructure to share the latest empirical
research findings within management, artificial intelligence and
digital business functions and strategies. A tremendous
contribution will be made to the contemporary research on these
subjects by collecting the most up to date research findings and
combining these with the theoretical framework. The most popular
contemporary topics in digitalization in management fields and
information technologies will provide valuable insight for
understanding today's business organizations operating in a global,
dynamic, and complex environment. The chapters of the book will
handle an up-to-date topic, mostly based on technological advances,
and readers will benefit from learning the latest management skills
and techniques. This book will fill a critical gap by providing
digital business strategies and emerging digital human resources
issues from the perspective of innovation.
The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from
self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader
Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and
the rise of the green movement. Back in the nineties, Loaded
journalist, Pete May was your normal twenty-something male: a
football mad, beer guzzling, Dr Who watching lad's lad, quite happy
surrounding himself with countless pizza boxes, beer cans and other
environmentally unfriendly consumer items. Recycling to Pete was a
debate about whether he should turn his socks inside out and reuse
them. Then one day, out of nowhere, along came eco bunny Nicola - a
greener than green environmental activist. Could two people so
different really fall for each other? Would Pete ever change his
ways and sign up to the green lifestyle of composting loos,
freezing cold houses, multiple jumper wearing, chicken rearing,
recycling, cycling, energy saving and general self-sufficiency?
This is the charming and funny true-life tale of one man's struggle
to grapple with the good life, go green and get the girl.
'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs,
brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors
in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as
creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.' - The Sunday
Times, 'Best Books For Summer' 'In this terrific new book, Steve
Brusatte . . . brings well-known extinct species, the sabre-toothed
tigers and the woolly mammoths, thrillingly back to life' - The
Times The passing of the age of the dinosaurs allowed mammals to
become ascendant. But mammals have a much deeper history. They -
or, more precisely, we - originated around the same time as the
dinosaurs, over 200 million years ago; mammal roots lie even
further back, some 325 million years. Over these immense stretches
of geological time, mammals developed their trademark features:
hair, keen senses of smell and hearing, big brains and sharp
intelligence, fast growth and warm-blooded metabolism, a
distinctive line-up of teeth (canines, incisors, premolars,
molars), mammary glands that mothers use to nourish their babies
with milk, qualities that have underlain their success story. Out
of this long and rich evolutionary history came the mammals of
today, including our own species and our closest cousins. But
today's 6,000 mammal species - the egg-laying monotremes including
the platypus, marsupials such as kangaroos and koalas that raise
their tiny babies in pouches, and placentals like us, who give
birth to well-developed young - are simply the few survivors of a
once verdant family tree, which has been pruned both by time and
mass extinctions. In The Rise and Reign of the Mammals,
palaeontologist Steve Brusatte weaves together the history and
evolution of our mammal forebears with stories of the scientists
whose fieldwork and discoveries underlie our knowledge, both of
iconic mammals like the mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers of which
we have all heard, and of fascinating species that few of us are
aware of. For what we see today is but a very limited range of the
mammals that have existed; in this fascinating and ground-breaking
book, Steve Brusatte tells their - and our - story.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive study of research, practice
and policy at the nexus of accounting and sustainability, or
sustainable development. Internationally renowned accounting
academics in the field offer critical discussions of the topic to
stimulate debate as the future policy infrastructure is formed.
Chapters explain key drivers of developments at the nexus, critique
those developments, summarise the findings of research on key
themes in the field, and suggest areas for further research,
offering evidence-based practice and policy solutions. The Handbook
sets the scene by exploring accounting, power, social justice and
unsustainability, before moving on to appraise the role of
enterprise value-based integrated reporting in (un)sustainable
development. It further analyses contemporary issues in the field,
including climate change-related disclosures, accounting for
greenhouse gases and emissions trading schemes. The thorough
coverage of key issues in accounting and sustainability, and the
analysis of research literature in the Handbook will make this a
critical read for accounting and business researchers and students.
It is an invigorating guide for policymakers and policy
influencers, accounting professionals and business leaders looking
to move forward in a more sustainable way.
An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers an
insightful, no-holds-barred exploration of today s most
controversial yet promising new energy technology: fracking.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is the process of injecting
fluid into the ground at extremely high pressure in order to
fracture shale rocks and release the oil and natural gas inside. It
has been the subject of three major films, countless news articles,
and has become a hotly contested topic both for its environmental
impact and its positive effect on the economy and job creation.
In "Frackistan," Russell Gold examines both sides of the arguments
and illuminates the truth of this frequently misunderstood
technology. It is a thrilling journey filled with memorable and
colorful characters: a green-minded Texas oilman who created the
first modern frack; an Oklahoman natural gas empire builder who
gave the world an enormous new supply of energy but was brought
down by his own success; and a cast of many. Gold melds his natural
gift for engaging, in-depth storytelling and reportage with his
insight into the energy industry to bring to life the fascinating
history of how this major new source is changing the way we use
energy.
"Frackistan" is not simply the story of fracking: It is the
compelling and thought-provoking story of the modern global economy
and how the United States and the world have been forever changed.
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