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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Rural Europe investigates
how social entrepreneurship advances social innovation in rural
Europe and contributes to fighting social and economic challenges
in these regions. Based on longitudinal data collected in four
European countries, this book explains how social enterprises enact
their business model based on an entrepreneurial reconfiguration of
resources they obtain from their network relations, and how their
activities empower local communities, driving change and eventually
innovation. In these activities, the entrepreneurial mindset and
the role as intermediary between different groups and domains of
society help to reframe challenges into opportunities. The argument
in this book develops from a description of what social enterprises
report to do to an analysis of how they do it, and results in an
explanation of why they take these actions. In doing so it
gradually broadens the view from a focus on the social enterprises
themselves to their interactions and network partners and, finally,
to their positioning in societal fields. The presented model
complements network theory with the concept of strategic action
fields. This book reveals the crucial role of social
entrepreneurship in innovation in rural regions, and the rich
insights provided have far reaching implications for research,
practice and policy. This book will appeal to everyone interested
in the interface of social entrepreneurship, innovation, and
regional/rural development, either on a practical or academic
level.
Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in
search of victims. They're rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal
beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For
seventy years they've lurked on the fringes of society, roaming
from town to town, dingy motel to dingy motel, stalking the
transients, addicts, and prostitutes they feed on. This hard-boiled
supernatural hell ride kicks off when the brothers encounter a
young woman who disrupts their grim routine, forcing Jesse to
confront his past and plunging his present into deadly chaos as he
finds himself scrambling to save her life. The story plays out
through the eyes of the brothers, a grieving father searching for
his son's murderer, and a violent gang of rover bikers, coming to a
shattering conclusion in Las Vegas on the eve of America's
Bicentennial. Gripping, relentless, and ferocious, Rovers
demonstrates once again why Richard Lange has been hailed as an
"expert writer, his prose exact, his narrative tightly controlled"
(Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times). Finalist for the 2022 Killer
Nashville Silver Falchion Award
How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable
conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities
learn from each other? How can each individual in the local area
contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know-how
can successfully be transferred on a communal level? To answer all
these questions, the authors of this book draw on results from a
six-year research programme and comprehensively discuss the
manifold opportunities, restrictions and prerequisites of
establishing favourable conditions for small and medium enterprises
in rural municipalities in Central Europe.
Written by clinicians, for clinicians, Cardiovascular Medicine and
Surgery offers a comprehensive, authoritative, and
multidisciplinary approach to this rapidly evolving field. Covering
every area relevant to the daily practice of cardiovascular
medicine, this new and innovative reference text, led by Drs.
Debabrata Mukherjee and Richard A. Lange, brings together a stellar
team of cardiovascular specialists from leading medical centers
worldwide who focus on cutting-edge strategies for the clinical and
surgical management of patients. Both medicine and surgery are
highlighted in chapters along with follow-up care and changing
technology to equip the clinician for optimal patient care. Highly
structured and templated chapters cover pathogenesis, diagnosis,
management, special considerations/limitations, follow-up care, and
on-going and future research , Provides clinicians and fellows with
comprehensive, evidence-based guidance on clinical cardiology,
cardiovascular imaging, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology,
heart failure, vascular medicine, cardiovascular surgery, adult
congenital heart disease, and preventative cardiology. Offers a
multidisciplinary, heart team approach for valvular pathologies and
coronary heart disease, with chapters authored either by a
cardiologist or cardiac surgeon, or both based on subspecialty.
Features a dedicated section on cardiac surgery to provide
cardiologists a better perspective of commonly performed cardiac
surgical procedures, risks and benefits, follow-up patient care,
and changing technology. Includes hundreds of high-quality
full-color anatomic illustrations, diagnostic images (ECGs,
transthoracic echocardiograms, angiograms, MRIs), diagnostic and
management algorithms, quick-reference tables, and clinical case
studies throughout. eBook provides on-the-go access to additional
online-only figures, tables, and videos Serves as a comprehensive,
easily accessible reference for busy practitioners and
cardiovascular trainees. , Enrich Your eBook Reading Experience
Read directly on your preferred device(s), such as computer,
tablet, or smartphone. Easily convert to audiobook, powering your
content with natural language text-to-speech. ,
How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable
conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities
learn from each other? How can each individuals in the local area
contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know how
can successfully be transferred on a communal level?
To answer all these questions, the authors of this book
comprehensively discuss the manifold opportunities, restrictions
and prerequisites of establishing favourable conditions for small
and medium enterprises in rural municipalities in Central Europe.
Conclusions are therein drawn for similar regions throughout Europe
and the world.
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Rural Europe investigates
how social entrepreneurship advances social innovation in rural
Europe and contributes to fighting social and economic challenges
in these regions. Based on longitudinal data collected in four
European countries, this book explains how social enterprises enact
their business model based on an entrepreneurial reconfiguration of
resources they obtain from their network relations, and how their
activities empower local communities, driving change and eventually
innovation. In these activities, the entrepreneurial mindset and
the role as intermediary between different groups and domains of
society help to reframe challenges into opportunities. The argument
in this book develops from a description of what social enterprises
report to do to an analysis of how they do it, and results in an
explanation of why they take these actions. In doing so it
gradually broadens the view from a focus on the social enterprises
themselves to their interactions and network partners and, finally,
to their positioning in societal fields. The presented model
complements network theory with the concept of strategic action
fields. This book reveals the crucial role of social
entrepreneurship in innovation in rural regions, and the rich
insights provided have far reaching implications for research,
practice and policy. This book will appeal to everyone interested
in the interface of social entrepreneurship, innovation, and
regional/rural development, either on a practical or academic
level.
Winner of the CWA Short Story Dagger. Every life is uncertain.
Every choice is a danger. Set on the dark side of Los Angeles, this
is a masterful collection of edge-of-your-seat tales: a prison
guard must protect an inmate being tried for heinous crimes. A
father and son set out to rescue a young couple trapped during a
wildfire after they cross the border. An ex-con trying to make good
as a security guard stumbles onto a burglary plot. A young father
must submit to blackmail to protect the fragile life he's built.
Sweet Nothing is an intense and gripping journey through real lives
with big problems, from one of America's great short story writers.
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As I See It (Hardcover)
Douglas Edison Harding; Edited by Richard Lang
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Angel Baby (Paperback)
Richard Lange
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"Angel Baby is taut and vicious, unfurling like a rumba of
rattlesnakes." ---Los Angeles Times
Luz has made lots of mistakes. She should never have left her
daughter in L.A. She should never have returned to Tijuana. She
should never have married "El Principe, "a key player in a vicious
drug cartel. But today's the day she sets things right. Taking only
the clothes on her back, a Colt .45, and all the money in her
husband's safe, she makes a desperate attempt to escape the hell
her life has become. Between her and her little girl lie a border,
a desert, a coldblooded enforcer, and a corrupt cop on the scent of
cash.
Relentlessly paced and emotionally gripping, ANGEL BABY is "a lean
novel that leaps and sings with hard-boiled intuition...it's his
best work yet." ("Los Angeles Review of Books").
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Rovers (Hardcover)
Richard Lange
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Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in
search of victims. They're rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal
beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For
seventy years they've lurked on the fringes of society, roaming
from town to town, dingy motel to dingy motel, stalking the
transients, addicts, and prostitutes they feed on. This hard-boiled
supernatural hell ride kicks off when the brothers encounter a
young woman who disrupts their grim routine, forcing Jesse to
confront his past and plunging his present into deadly chaos as he
finds himself scrambling to save her life. The story plays out
through the eyes of the brothers, a grieving father searching for
his son's murderer, and a violent gang of rover bikers, coming to a
shattering conclusion in Las Vegas on the eve of America's
Bicentennial. Gripping, relentless, and ferocious, Rovers
demonstrates once again why Richard Lange has been hailed as an
"expert writer, his prose exact, his narrative tightly controlled"
(Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times).
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