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Indian Cotton
(Hardcover)
International Federation of Master Co; Arno Smith 1872- Pearse
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America is stuck: just look at the crumbling roads and bridges,
mismanaged railways, old-fashioned and easily overloaded air
traffic control system, and perpetual lack of political will to do
anything about it all. In contrast, take a trip around the world.
Whiz through the "Chunnel", get high-speed Internet and phone
signal on a remote mountain in Turkey or travel in a driverless
Mercedes in Germany and see a future of possibilities that the US
is barely glimpsing. Rosabeth Moss Kanter's bold solutions will
motivate Americans to move their transportation infrastructure into
a cleaner, faster and more prosperous future.
With new technologies constantly being created, implemented, and
sold, it is a robust opportunity for companies to hop on board with
the latest digital trends. With the business world undergoing rapid
changes and advancements in current times, the transformation
process has been rapid and the disruptions significant. This has
created a culture of innovation and a plethora of available
business opportunities, especially when focused on Central Asia,
Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Along with these innovative
technologies and new opportunities in the business world comes
challenges and trends within the Asian region that require more
attention and advanced research to fully understand this digital
transformation era and the resulting impacts, challenges, and
solutions. The Handbook of Research on Disruptive Innovation and
Digital Transformation in Asia addresses key topics for
understanding business opportunities in Asia, covering a variety of
challenges and nations in the Asian region from technological
disruption and innovation to connectivity and economic corridors in
Asia, Islamic finance and tourism, and more. Due to its innovative
topics and approaches, geographical focus, and methodologies, the
chapters provide readers with a unique value in bringing new
perspectives to understanding emerging businesses and challenges in
Asia. This book is ideal for professors in academia, deans,
students, politicians, policymakers, corporate heads of firms,
senior general managers, managing directors, information technology
directors and managers, and researchers.
Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been
arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes
democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and
is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these
effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that
draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian
smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements.
This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault's method of
genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization
of the present to reveal the historical constitution of
contemporary alternative food discourses. While alternative food
activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to
counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these
discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular,
the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial
practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and
anthropocentric relations to the land. In combination with the
genealogical analysis, this book brings continental political
philosophy into conversation with Indigenous theories of
sovereignty and alternative food discourse in order to open new
spaces for thinking about food and politics in contemporary
Australia.
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