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Spineless (Paperback)
Samantha San Miguel
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Positioning industrial relations in a discussion that is sensitive
to broader political, historical, and ideological tensions, this
insightful book offers reflections on the politics of de-regulation
that have developed in southern European work and employment
relations over the past 20 years. Interwoven with case studies from
Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, the book reviews critical
debates and issues related to de-regulation in employment relations
and neoliberalism in southern Europe. Taking stock of major changes
and crises affecting these national contexts over time, from
austerity politics to the COVID-19 pandemic, chapters investigate
how new voices, actors, and social movements are beginning to
emerge and engage with the politics of work. The book ultimately
posits that debates on production and work need to pay closer
attention to changes in patterns of consumption and the changing
nature of worker voice, and highlights how these changes are being
used to undermine collective and social rights. Surveying political
shifts in collective worker voice and representation over time, the
book will benefit students and scholars of industrial relations,
labour studies, the sociology of work, and employment politics. Its
evaluation of the impact of de-regulation strategies imposed across
southern Europe will prove invaluable to practitioners and
policymakers involved in public employment and industrial
relations.
The Research Handbook on Private Enforcement of Competition Law in
the EU provides wide-ranging coverage of a key aspect of
competition law enforcement which is undergoing constant and rapid
growth in significance. The Handbook examines the private
enforcement of competition law across the EU and beyond, shedding
light on pertinent and underlying issues. This Research Handbook
brings different perspectives into the dialogue, curating
contributions from judges, academics and practitioners. As a whole,
the Handbook delivers a deft exploration of strategies to
successfully enforce rights across the EU and encompasses
discussion and scrutiny of legal instruments, institutional
developments, key litigation issues and judicial practice. It
delivers contemporary and comparative reflection on developments in
practice, including the impact of the Antitrust Damages directive,
and the impact of a range of CJEU case-law. Organised into three
main sections covering general issues, key aspects relating to
private enforcement, and the experience of enforcement in key
jurisdictions, this rigorous and engaging Research Handbook will be
an invaluable resource for scholars, advanced students and
practitioners.
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The Courier (DVD)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Mickey Rourke, Til Schweiger, Lili Taylor, Miguel Ferrer, …
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Fast-paced action movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mickey
Rourke. The Courier (Morgan) has earned his nickname through a
remarkable ability to track down individuals and deliver messages
and packages. The Courier is particularly prized, in certain
circles, for his refusal to ask questions or query the legality of
the material he carries. However, when he is handed a package by a
branch of the Russian mafia and asked to deliver it to an
especially notorious underworld figure, The Courier's skills will
be tested to the limit. He believes he has made a breakthrough when
he gets in contact with Maxwell (Mickey Rourke), a former associate
of the elusive figure he is seeking, but how far can Maxwell be
trusted?
This crucial Handbook investigates an urgent area for
policy-makers, academia and industries alike: the circular economy.
International experts on the subject bring together the latest
thinking on this critical global issue. Providing a comprehensive
overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the circular
economy, as well as its limitations, it raises important questions
concerning how the world should proceed when non-renewable
resources, such as fossil fuels and minerals, are being depleted
and the environment is struggling to cope with the waste and
emissions of unsustainable production and consumption systems.
Contributors explore a broad range of themes, such as new
sustainable production and consumption systems, new design
requirements, recycling systems, new business models and the social
impacts of the circular economy, while also consolidating the many
ways in which the topic has been dealt with in research, business
and policy-making. Shedding light on a concept that has become
increasingly relevant during the last decade, the Handbook of the
Circular Economy is essential reading for students, academics and
policy-makers trying to make sense of the plethora of ways in which
the term has been applied and interpreted.
This crucial Handbook investigates an urgent area for
policy-makers, academia and industries alike: the circular economy.
International experts on the subject bring together the latest
thinking on this critical global issue. Providing a comprehensive
overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the circular
economy, as well as its limitations, it raises important questions
concerning how the world should proceed when non-renewable
resources, such as fossil fuels and minerals, are being depleted
and the environment is struggling to cope with the waste and
emissions of unsustainable production and consumption systems.
Contributors explore a broad range of themes, such as new
sustainable production and consumption systems, new design
requirements, recycling systems, new business models and the social
impacts of the circular economy, while also consolidating the many
ways in which the topic has been dealt with in research, business
and policy-making. Shedding light on a concept that has become
increasingly relevant during the last decade, the Handbook of the
Circular Economy is essential reading for students, academics and
policy-makers trying to make sense of the plethora of ways in which
the term has been applied and interpreted.
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Nana Loves You More
Jimmy Fallon; Illustrated by Miguel Ordóñez
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R280
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Originally published in 2005 under the title La Tierra Herida, this
book grew out of a series of conversations that took place during
the previous summer between Miguel Delibes and his son, Miguel
Delibes de Castro. Acknowledged as one of Spain's foremost
novelists and essayists of the 20th century, Miguel Delibes won
every literary award his country had to offer. In 1975 he was
elected into the Spanish Royal Academy and used the occasion of his
acceptance speech (later to be published under the title A World
that is Dying) to make explicit his growing concerns about the
future of the planet. Miguel Delibes de Castro, an internationally
recognised research biologist, was for many years the Director of
the Biological Station at the world-renowned Donana National Park.
He was an adviser to the Spanish delegation at the Rio de Janiero
Conference on Biodiversity and was awarded the King James I prize
for his efforts in protecting the environment. Father and son,
novelist and scientist, each with a life-long commitment to the
environment, discuss the environmental changes threatening our
planet at the start of the 21st century, and whether or not we can
find the means and summon up the will to reverse them. It is the
father, speaking here as the anxious citizen, and pessimistic for
our future, who asks the layman's questions; it is his son who
provides the scientific explanations, and offers whatever cause for
optimism there is to be found. Miguel Delibes de Castro has
provided a Postscript, written in November 2019, shortly before the
United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, which brings
events up to date.
Many organizations operate in an environment that is increasingly
dynamic, turbulent, and unpredictable. This volume makes the case
that they need to embrace improvisation as a core organizational
capability, not to replace but to complement planning and
forecasting. Research on organizational improvisation has evolved
from a jazz and theater metaphor to a distinct body of empirical
and conceptual work that tackles how improvisation unfolds in the
full range of organizational contexts. These contexts often have
very different goals, constraints and possibilities than
improvisation in the arts. This makes it crucial to develop
understanding of improvisation at all levels and in all types of
organizations including but not limited to day-to-day operations of
large firms and government agencies, strategic change, emergency
management, product development, and start-ups. This book pulls
together in one place major advances in understanding
organizational improvisation. It describes major theoretical- and
evidence-based advances in models of organizational improvisation,
which the authors define as the deliberate and substantive
convergence of the design and execution of a novel activity, that
can be created at the individual, team, or organizational level.
The authors provide, integrate and consolidate the existing
literature on organizational improvisation and offer a
comprehensive analysis of key processes. They go beyond a
mechanical literature review to include illustrative mini-cases,
novel concepts in contemporary work and short personal comments
from researchers in the field. Grounded in rigorous academic work
to date, this book speaks both to scholars interested in developing
research on organizational improvisation and to managers. It
discusses both promising paths for academic research and practical
recommendations, especially those who deal with unpredictable
environments that force them to either improvise or to face harmful
or even fatal outcomes for organizational members and/or the entire
organization.
This insightful Elgar Introduction comprises the first effort to
provide a succinct overview of the field of organizational paradox
theory, exploring contradictions and tensions in organizational
settings. By conceptually mapping the field, it offers guidance
through the literature on paradox, making space for new
interpretations and applications of the concept. Opening with a
critical analysis of research to date, the authors explore ideas
related to dialectics and ambidexterity in organizations, as well
as pragmatic approaches to organizational paradox. Chapters propose
new ways to analyse responses to paradox, bringing together
influential contributions that consider the nestedness of paradox,
the relation between power and paradox, and paradoxes of positive
organizational scholarships. Providing novel approaches to the
discipline, this cutting-edge book is crucial for graduate students
and management scholars interested in employing organizational
paradox theory as a conceptual framework for their research.
With organizational environments becoming increasingly unstable,
uncertain and equivocal, the concept of resilience has become
increasingly significant for management studies and practice.
Resilience connotes organizational, team and individual capacities
to absorb external shocks and to learn from them, while
simultaneously preparing for and responding to external jolts. This
book pinpoints the essential aspects of managerial and
organizational resilience and offers insights that stimulate
critical thinking. As the concept of resilience is essentially made
up of contrasting forces, the volume presents some innovative
synthetic interpretation that allows a deeper comprehension of the
phenomenon and provides managers and policy makers with a solid
basis for taking their decisions. This book provides an accessible
yet rigorous systematization of individual resilience, team
resilience and organizational resilience. Rich with real-life
concept illustrations and containing practice-oriented tools,
reflection questions and exercises, it shows how resilience can be
cultivated across levels of organizational aggregation:
individuals, teams, organizations and communities. The authors
distinguish individual and collective resilience from related
constructs and shed light on the boundaries of resilience and its
potential implications for management practice. Elgar Introduction
to Theories of Organizational Resilience will serve as a key
resource for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students
as well as academics and practitioners who are interested in
deepening their understanding of resilience.
Join the Digits for another action-packed adventure! When the
Digits start squabbling over whether odd or even numbers are best,
Ten challenges everyone to a football match to settle the argument.
Ideal for understanding odds and evens - you can count on the
Digits to make numbers fun! This playful picture book series about
a group of number friends is ideal for developing early maths
skills.
The need for innovative thinking about alternative constitutional
experiences is evident, and readers of Comparative Constitutional
Theory will find in its pages a compendium of original,
theory-driven essays. The authors use a variety of theoretical
perspectives to explore the diversity of global constitutional
experience in a post-1989 world prominently marked by momentous
transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, by multiple
constitutional revolutions and devolutions, by the increased
penetration of international law into national jurisdictions, and
by the enhancement of supra-national institutions of governance.
Scholars around the globe will be interested in this book's unique
discussion of comparative constitutional theory, and students and
college professors will appreciate the accessibility of the
chapters and the placement of the United States in comparative
focus. Contributors include: W.-C. Chang, J.I. Colon-Rios, V.
Ferreres Comella, J.E. Finn, S. Gardbaum, M.A. Graber, G. Halmai,
J. Hiebert, G. Jacobsohn, J. King, H. Klug, D. Landau, D.S. Law, J.
McLean, J.-W. Mueller, D. Robertson, Y. Roznai, C. Saunders, M.
Schor, H. Schweber, S. Tierney, A. Torres Perez, M. Tushnet, J.
Weinrib
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How It Works: Electricity
Victoria Williams; Illustrated by Miguel Bustos
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R360
R281
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Electricity is the power behind smartphones and thunderstorms and
vacuum cleaners. It lights up our homes and cooks our food, but
what IS it and where does it come from? Lift the flaps and try some
simple experiments to find out.
Bobbers are the hottest style in the custom bike market, and now
you can afford one without paying a fortune! All you need to make a
killer custom bike is a set of tools, a little know-how, and
imagination and creative vision. Despite the rise of high-priced
Gucci cycles, the true custom bike is still affordable, and can be
built by you on a budget - and cheaper than buying a new one! Jose
de Miguel is an experienced motorcycle custom builder, and in
clear, simple, easy to follow terms, he shows readers how to turn
odds and ends into one-off motorcycle parts and turn a cheap,
run-of-the mill custom bike into a drop-dead show stopper! Clear
and straightforward instructions are given, along with full
illustrations of the projects, showing how any owner with
rudimentary skills, a basic tool kit, a little resourcefulness, and
- perhaps more importantly - a lot of imagination can build the
Bobber of their dreams...and all on a budget!
Revisit the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk with this graphic novel
for new readers. Jack trades his father's only cow for three magic
beans. When an enormous beanstalk grows outside his window, Jack's
adventure begins. What happens when Jack wakes the sleeping giant?
Will Jack get back all the things the giant has stolen from his
father?
As featured on CBeebies Bedtime Stories and read by Steve Carell,
The Eyebrows of Doom is an outrageously funny and bonkers adventure
story written by the rhyming genius, Steve Smallman (Monkey With a
Bright Blue Bottom, Bear's Big Bottom, Cock-a-Doodle-Poo) with
bright, bold and brilliant artwork by award-winning illustrator,
Miguel Ordóñez (This is Baby, Everything is Mama, Your Baby's
First Word Will Be Dada). In some woods in a cave, a big bear
called Dave Was sweeping his floor with a broom, When two clumps of
hair leapt into the air and cried . . . "WE ARE THE EYEBROWS OF
DOOM!" The Eyebrows of Doom are trying to take over the world! Join
Dave and his friends as they try to stop them leaping from one
unsuspecting animal to the next. And just when it looks as though
the eyebrows' antics have been thwarted . . . all is not as it
seems! This hilarious rhyming romp will have readers young and old
laughing out loud and is perfect for fans of Steve Smallman's Poo
in the Zoo series, Nibbles The Book Monster, You Can't Take an
Elephant on the Bus and Oi Frog!
Both the textbook and lab manual introduce engineering students to
the fundamentals and applications of real-time environmental
monitoring based on electronic sensors, instruments, systems, and
software that allow continuous, long-term ecological and
environmental data collection. Tested in classrooms by the author,
the second edition includes applications with state-of-the-art
sensor technology and programs such as R, Python, Arduino, and SQL.
Written to help both students and instructors in engineering better
understand how to use and design a variety of sensors and build
systems and databases when monitoring different environments such
as soil, water, and air. Features Emphasizes real-time monitoring
as an emerging area for environmental assessment and compliance and
covers the fundamentals on how to develop sensors and systems.
Includes 14 lab guides that parallel the theory developed in 14
chapters in the textbook. Uses a practical and hands-on approach
with low-cost devices and includes applications to many
environmental and ecological systems A valuable guide for students
and practitioners worldwide engaged in efforts to develop, employ,
and maintain environmental monitors. Provides theoretical knowledge
along with exercises and problems based on author’s 40 years of
academic experience Designed for students in upper-level
undergraduate or graduate programs, taking courses in civil and
environmental engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical
engineering, geosciences, and environmental sciences, as well as
professionals in environmental services, researchers in
engineering, academics in engineering.
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