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Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion
Seed diversity is crucial to the sustainability of food and agricultural systems. Yet as Michel Pimbert’s survey of the global ‘state of seeds’ reveals, both wild and domesticated varieties are disappearing under an onslaught of human-driven pressures. Planetary crises—the sixth great extinction and climate change—constitute one. Industrialized agriculture is another: just three …
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- 9783030894054
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- XIX, 199
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Organization Management – Dynamic Creative Team Coordination
Stavros Georgiades is Professor W2 of Management at the Stuttgart Media University (Visiting Post), Assistant Professor of Management at Frederick University, a research collaborator of the University of Digital Science Berlin and the founder of the Anagnorisis Institute of Media Management (AIMM). He holds a PhD in Management from the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Hi…
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- 9783658375096
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- XI, 81
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Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools
The introductory chapter explains the core concepts of the book: Cultural literacy and creativity. Cultural literacy is defined as a social practice that is inherently dialogic and based on learning and gaining knowledge through emphatic, tolerant, and inclusive interaction. Creativity is seen as stimulating cultural literacy learning through openness and curiosity to test and develop some…
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- 9783030892364
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- XXI, 151
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Multivariate Statistical Machine Learning Methods for Genomic Prediction
Thanks to advances in digital technologies like electronic devices and networks, it is possible to automatize and digitalize many jobs, processes, and services, which are generating huge quantities of data. These “big data” are transmitted, collected, aggregated, and analyzed to deliver deep insights into processes and human behavior. For this reason, data are called the new oil, since …
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- 9783030890100
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- XXIV, 691
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Climate-Smart Food
This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime chocolate bar, to take-away supper, Dave Reay explores the weather extremes the world’s farmers are already dealing with, and what ne…
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- 9783030182069
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- XIV, 201 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands
This chapter discusses the aims and objectives of the study, a short historiography, a justifcation of the study’s delimitations and the book’s structure.
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- 9783030888671
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- XII, 140
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Formalization of Banking Supervision
This book has been many, many years in the making. Eiji Hotori and Mikael Wendschlag presented a crude first draft, including the conceptualization of the formalization process, at the 17th World Economic History Congress in Kyoto, Japan in August 2015 (WEHC 2015). At a session organized by Hotori entitled “Banking supervision in comparative perspective: Europe, America and East Asia,”…
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- 9789811667831
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Digital Entrepreneurship : Impact on Business and Society
This open access book explores the global challenges and experiences related to digital entrepreneurial activities, using carefully selected examples from leading companies and economies that shape world business today and tomorrow. Digital entrepreneurship and the companies steering it have an enormous global impact; they promise to transform the business world and change the way we communicat…
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- 9783030539146
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- XXIV, 327hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Built on Value: The Huawei Philosophy of Finance Management
This book presents the concept of value as the central component to success and longevity of the global ICT industry player, Huawei. It provides examples of how Huawei focuses on customers to pursue sustainable and profitable growth rather than focusing on capital market valuation which is a familiar scenario among Western companies. It is the business departments that are the creators of valu…
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- 9789811375071
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- XXXVI, 456 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Biodiversity-Health-Sustainability Nexus in Socio-Ecological Production Lands…
In the context of a global pandemic and climate crisis, the relationship between humans and nature has come under renewed scrutiny. We are currently in the sixth phase of global biodiversity extinction, primarily driven by anthropogenic activities and unsustainable development. This unprecedented biodiversity loss is placing increasing pressures on the planet, and research shows that it is …
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- 978-981-16-9893-4
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