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This book presents a unique collection of case studies from across
the globe to create a comprehensive understanding of how family
firms can respond to future disruptions. Each case contains
learning notes with objectives, discussion questions and suggested
readings to facilitate learner understanding and engagement with
the topic. Cases on topics such as global succession and governance
practices will aid strategic decision-making capabilities in family
businesses and will also benefit practitioners in these areas.
Diverse in terms of generational involvement, demographic groups,
cultural aspects, institutional settings and industries, the cases
range from founder-led SMEs to multi-generational family
conglomerates in 18 countries spanning over four continents. In
addition to identifying successful practices, this book offers
unconventional wisdom on the impact of family feuds, sudden death,
divorce and multiple marriages on family businesses. It concludes
by exposing new understandings on succession and the unique role
played by rising-generation leaders in this disruptive era.
Informed by the common research paradigm of the Successful
Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project Global
Consortium, this book will provide a practical learning experience
for advanced students and scholars of family business, family
entrepreneurship, and strategic management studies.
This book presents a unique collection of case studies from across
the globe to create a comprehensive understanding of how family
firms can respond to future disruptions. Each case contains
learning notes with objectives, discussion questions and suggested
readings to facilitate learner understanding and engagement with
the topic. Cases on topics such as global succession and governance
practices will aid strategic decision-making capabilities in family
businesses and will also benefit practitioners in these areas.
Diverse in terms of generational involvement, demographic groups,
cultural aspects, institutional settings and industries, the cases
range from founder-led SMEs to multi-generational family
conglomerates in 18 countries spanning over four continents. In
addition to identifying successful practices, this book offers
unconventional wisdom on the impact of family feuds, sudden death,
divorce and multiple marriages on family businesses. It concludes
by exposing new understandings on succession and the unique role
played by rising-generation leaders in this disruptive era.
Informed by the common research paradigm of the Successful
Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practice (STEP) Project Global
Consortium, this book will provide a practical learning experience
for advanced students and scholars of family business, family
entrepreneurship, and strategic management studies.
Experience the drama of the explosive cosmos and the astonishing
discoveries being made about the universe's wildest phenomena. The
violent birth of the universe was only the first bang of a very
bumpy ride. This unfathomably cacophonous beginning has spawned
blasts, implosions, cosmic cannibalism, collisions, and countless
other fleeting energetic events punctuating the cosmos. Although
often brief, these transient phenomena pack a powerful punch. Armed
with decades of theoretical progress, unrivaled computing power,
and cutting-edge technology, astronomers find themselves at the
cusp of understanding not just the events themselves, but also how
those events reveal the story of the entire cosmos. In Things That
Go Bump in the Universe, astronomer and science writer C. Renée
James introduces us to her colleagues around the world, who are
using pioneering research techniques to explore everything from the
very first explosions in the universe to the dark energy that could
destroy it all. Along the way, James describes the history of
transient astronomy, how the universe presents itself through
various astronomical messengers, and the unexpected connections
between different phenomena. Capturing the drama of a wild, violent
cosmos for the curious reader, James explains a different category
of transient event in each chapter, using easy-to-understand
metaphors and stories to explain the science behind these
awe-inspiring, cosmological encounters. Things That Go Bump in the
Universe explores the incredible discoveries being made in this
revolutionary field, the tools used to detect cosmic events, and
the astronomical mysteries that continue to puzzle observers and
theorists. James weaves together the stories of our turbulent
universe—informative, entertaining, frequently perplexing, and
occasionally philosophical—and the people who are trying to make
sense of it.
We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is
limited because there is not enough moisture. Systems of farming
and burning often degrade dryland further until it is desert.
Today, however, the problem is becoming much more serious. Over 20
per cent of the world's population lives in dryland areas, and
unless action is taken drylands will increase dramatically. This
book focuses on the people who live and .farm in the drylands,
their use of land resources and the economic returns from their
decisions. In a clear and thorough economic appraisal, the authors
show how it is still possible to arrest the problem. Originally
published in 1989
Using ethnographic data, the book provides insights into first
generation university students' educational aspirations,
institutional opportunities, and familial supports. Draws from a
growing body of research that has documented the changing student
population in universities, particularly the increasing numbers of
those who are the first in their families to attend university.
Explores how students experiences are complicated by a myriad of
factors such as race, class, gender, sexuality, immigrant status
and geographic location.
Analyses the behaviour of not-for-profit organizations under a variety of conditions and contrasts them with profit maximizing firms, other types of profit-constrained firms and with public bureaucracies.
Environmental and social performance measurement and reporting by
business has become a high-profile issue during the 1990s. It is
increasingly being requested by stakeholders and required by
governments. Companies too are finding that they need better
environmental and social performance data for effective internal
management. And there are a growing number of standardisation
initiatives - such as the ISO 14031 guidelines on environmental
performance evaluation or the CERES Global Reporting Initiative
(GRI) template for sustainability reporting - that are aimed at
making it easier for more companies to take action, and for
stakeholders to compare their progress. Sustainable Measures
collects together most of the key work and individuals concerned
with the topic from around the world. Contributions include:
environmental and social reporting by John Elkington and colleagues
at SustainAbility; the GRI discussion draft; Roger Adams and Martin
Houldin on the FEE study of environmental reporting; Janet
Ranganathan of the World Resources Institute on sustainability
measures; and Martin Bennett and Peter James on ISO 14031 and the
future of environmental performance evaluation. There are also
chapters examining current practice in Austria, Denmark, India,
Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands and South Africa, developments in
electronic reporting, as well as case studies of Baxter, Kunert,
Niagara Mohawk, Unox, The Body Shop and the UK water industry, and
an analysis of leading social reports. The book is essential
reading for all academics, campaigners, policy-makers and
practitioners with an interest in issues such as: The
standardization and comparability of environmental and social
performance measures Measuring and reporting on sustainable
business Eco-points and other means of evaluating product impacts
The implementation of measurement and reporting Best practice in
corporate environmental and social reporting New means of
communicating environmental data Environmental performance
evaluation in developing countries
Using ethnographic data, the book provides insights into first
generation university students' educational aspirations,
institutional opportunities, and familial supports. Draws from a
growing body of research that has documented the changing student
population in universities, particularly the increasing numbers of
those who are the first in their families to attend university.
Explores how students experiences are complicated by a myriad of
factors such as race, class, gender, sexuality, immigrant status
and geographic location.
-Goes beyond a paradigm of "culturally responsive pedagogy" to
address issues of educational access for "superdiverse"
communities. -Provides a portrait of schooling experiences and
civic participation issues related to students aligning to multiple
identity qualifiers. -Presents a comprehensive picture of this new
complexity in cosmopolitan education, featuring perspectives from
the fields of education, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and
more.
Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of
published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study
examines the largest corpus of women's private writings available
to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out,
commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status,
familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to
have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of
their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed
actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and
did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis
of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from
all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an
entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable
individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and
used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James
demonstrates how wills describe strategies for end-of-life care,
create platforms of remembrance, and offer insights into the myriad
occupational endeavors in which women were engaged. James
illuminates how these documents were not simply instruments of
bequest and inheritance, but were statements of power and control,
catalogues of material culture from which we are able to gauge a
woman's understanding of her own reality and the context that
formed her environment. Wills were tools and the way in which women
wielded these tools offers new ways to look at England in the 16th
century and reveals the seminal role women played in its
development.
-Goes beyond a paradigm of "culturally responsive pedagogy" to
address issues of educational access for "superdiverse"
communities. -Provides a portrait of schooling experiences and
civic participation issues related to students aligning to multiple
identity qualifiers. -Presents a comprehensive picture of this new
complexity in cosmopolitan education, featuring perspectives from
the fields of education, sociology, linguistics, anthropology, and
more.
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable
land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts
of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas
that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall
or irrigation. Following their successful and innovative work The
Economics of Dryland Management the editors have assembled twenty
case studies from nine countries in the continents of Africa, Asia,
North America and Australia. They help to explore more fully the
costs of land degradation and illustrate the economics of
reclamation, rehabilitation and prevention. The cases in this book
present a rich, varied and readable survey of a wide range of
drylands and their resources. Originally published in 19990
While comprehensive textbooks are essential to the practice of
urology, equally important are readily accessible manuals that
students, residents, trainees and even experienced urologists can
carry with them in their pockets or on PDAs. Filling a gap in the
market for a definitive pocket urology reference guide, this
easy-to-use text covers the key topics in the field, with an
emphasis on the straightforward presentation of practical knowledge
and bedside skills. Written by residents and attending physicians
at the world famous Brady Institute of Urology at Johns Hopkins
University Hospital, this is a much-needed, highly useful handbook
for those in the field.
Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable
land. They vary from the hyper-arid regions of the classic deserts
of Africa and Asia to the more common semi-arid and sub-humid areas
that support extensive agricultural systems dependent on rainfall
or irrigation. Following their successful and innovative work The
Economics of Dryland Management the editors have assembled twenty
case studies from nine countries in the continents of Africa, Asia,
North America and Australia. They help to explore more fully the
costs of land degradation and illustrate the economics of
reclamation, rehabilitation and prevention. The cases in this book
present a rich, varied and readable survey of a wide range of
drylands and their resources. Originally published in 19990
A significant contribution to the understanding of
sixteenth-century English art in an historical context, this study
by Susan James represents an intensive rethinking and restructuring
of the Tudor art world based on a broad, detailed survey of women's
diverse creative roles within that world. Through an extensive
analysis of original documents, James examines and clarifies many
of the misperceptions upon which modern discussions of Tudor art
are based. The new evidence she lays out allows for a fresh
investigation of the economics of art production, particularly in
the images of Elizabeth I; of strategies for influencing political
situations by carefully planned programs of portraiture; of the
seminal importance of extended clans of immigrant Flemish artists
and of careers of artists Susanna Horenboult and Lievine Teerlinc
and their impact on the development of the portrait miniature.
Drawn principally from primary sources, this book presents
important new research which examines the contributions of Tudor
women in the formation, distribution and popularization of the
visual arts, particularly portraiture and the portrait miniature.
James highlights the involvement of women as patrons, consumers and
creators of art in sixteenth-century England and their use of the
painted image as a statement of cultural worth. She explores and
analyzes the amount of time, money, effort and ingenuity which
women across all social classes invested in the development of art,
in the uses they found for it, and the surprising and unexpected
ways in which they exploited it.
Analyses the behaviour of not-for-profit organizations under a
variety of conditions and contrasts them with profit maximizing
firms, other types of profit-constrained firms and with public
bureaucracies.
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Medieval Clothing and Textiles 9 (Hardcover)
Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker; Contributions by Antonietta Amati Canta, Eva I. Andersson, John Block Friedman, …
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The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. Topics in this volume range widely
throughout the European middle ages. Three contributions concern
terminology for dress. Two deal with multicultural medieval Apulia:
an examination of clothing terms in surviving marriage contracts
from the tenth to the fourteenth century, and a close focus on an
illuminated document made for a prestigious wedding. Turning to
Scandinavia, there is an analysis of clothing materials from Norway
and Sweden according to gender and social distribution. Further
papers consider the economic uses of cloth and clothing: wool
production and the dress of the Cistercian community at Beaulieu
Abbey based on its 1269-1270 account book, and the use of clothing
as pledge or payment in medieval Ireland. In addition, there is a
consideration of the history of dagged clothing and its negative
significance to moralists, and of the painted hangings that were
common in homes of all classes in the sixteenth century. ROBIN
NETHERTON is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the
interpretation of medieval European dress; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is
Emerita Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of
Manchester. Contributors: Antonietta Amati, Eva I. Andersson, John
Block Friedman, Susan James, John Oldland, Lucia Sinisi, Mark
Zumbuhl
A dedicated guide to the basics of urology available in a handy,
useable format. A straightforward presentation of practical
knowledge and bedside skills. Written by residents and attending
physicians at the world famous Brady Institute of Urology at Johns
Hopkins University Hospital and marketed using the name of the
Brady Institute of Urology. While comprehensive textbooks are
essential to the practice of urology, equally important are readily
accessible manuals that students, residents, trainees and even
experienced urologists can carry with them in their pockets or on
PDAs. Filling a gap in the market for a definitive pocket urology
reference guide, this easy-to-use text covers the key topics in the
field, with an emphasis on the straightforward presentation of
practical knowledge and bedside skills. Written by residents and
attending physicians at the world famous Brady Institute of Urology
at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, this is a much-needed, highly
useful handbook for those in the field.
With the Almanach de Gotha's return in 1998, after a hiatus of more
than 50 years, Sir Stephen Runciman wrote in the Spectator "In this
present age, which we are often told sees the twilight of royalty,
it is comforting to be able to welcome the reappearance of the most
distinguished of genealogical almanacs." The 2014 192nd edition
follows the successful format of previous editions with family
listings including births, marriages and deaths of all living
members. Volume II lists the non-sovereign Princely and Ducal
Houses of Europe. This new edition has been fully updated to
include additional families with a number of those houses appearing
for the first time, including Almazan de Saint Priest, Altemps,
Amalfi, Assergi, Aveiro (Aveyro), Bailen, del Balzo, Baucina,
Belmonte, Belosselsky Belozersky, Carpegna Falconieri Gabrielli,
Castro-Enriquez, Galati, Gallese, Giuliano, Gualtieri, Lante
Montefeltro della Rovere, Lobanov-Rostovsky, Lopukhin-Demidov,
Mestchersky, Montealegre, Nemi, Pescolanciano, Pozzo di Borgo,
Putiatin, Raffadali, Reburdone, Sant' Elia, Serradifalco, Tetuan,
Turrisi Grifeo, Union de Cuba, Valencia, and Valguarnera. This is
the official and authorised publication. The most comprehensive
listing of its kind, with an impeccable pedigree, the book remains
an essential reference for genealogists, libraries and scholars.
There is and never has been a comparable source, a book once
described as "the second most important ever published."
The 21st century is now almost upon us and, whilst this represents
a somewhat artificial boundary, it provides an opportunity for
reflection upon the changes, and the accelerating pace of change,
in our social, economic, and natural environments. These changes
and their effects are profound, not least in terms of access to
information and communication technologies, at once global in
effect and manifest locally. These changes and their consequent
demands are reflected in the theme of this volume: Synergy Matters,
proceedings from the 6th UK Systems Society International
Conference.
The 30th scientific meeting of the International Society on Oxygen
Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) was held at the Western Conference
Centre, UMIST, Manchester, in August 2002. It was attended by some
96 delegates and accompanying persons and there were 128
presentations.
The contribution of economic thought and method to environmental
management needs practical illustration. Too few books on the
subject achieve such an outcome. This book is among the notable
exceptions. That economics can provide a powerful vehicle for
communicating an integrated understanding of the often diverse
scientific findings germane to environmental im pact assessment
needs to be illustrated convincingly. This book does just that. But
it does more. It speaks across cultures: not to transfer know-how
from one culture to another, but rather to activate an effective
exchange of insights from one locale on the planet to another. As
such, it is a genuine contribution to the great en vironmental
exhortation of our times - think globally, act locally. Too often
the people best placed to make such contributions are too committed
to practical outcomes and making a living doing so. Just
occasionally, however, they can be persuaded to make the special
effort required to communicate globally. In this book, David James
has once again orchestrated the contributions of vir tuoso
performers. In doing so he has emulated the contribution he
sustained throughout the International Drylands Project and
preparation of the books written with John Dixon and Paul Sherman:
The Economics ofDry/and Management and Case Studies in Dry/and
Management (Earthscan, London). Taken together with his recent work
as Special Commissioner for the path breaking national Forest and
Timber Inquiry for the Australian Government, we have a body of
work characterised by great worthiness, integrity and true global
significance."
The 30th scientific meeting of the International Society on Oxygen
Transport to Tissue (ISOTT) was held at the Western Conference
Centre, UMIST, Manchester, in August 2002. It was attended by some
96 delegates and accompanying persons and there were 128
presentations.
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