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Sustainable Working Lives
The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's workers. We focus on the school to work transition, job insecurity, job loss and re-employment and…
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- 978-94-017-9798-6
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- Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being
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Educational research : discourses of change and changes of discourse
This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research. It examines a wide variety of issues such as girls’ education in France, educational neuroscience, the professionalization in Child Protection, and mathematics discourses. It pays attention to the pervasiveness of crisis rhetoric in American Edu…
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- 9783319304557
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- xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- 370.72
Challenges to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: Economic and Policy Responses
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) kills, increases the costs of our health care, damages trade and economies, and threatens health security. The most recent studies show that in the European Union (EU) over 33 000 people die every year due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria; of which, 75% of these deaths are caused by health care-associated infections. This is a burden that is comparable to that of…
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- 9781108864121
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- 614.4 AND c
Sustainable Water Use and Management
Contributing to the growing debate on the need for sustainable water use and management, with concrete examples of new approaches, concepts, arguments, methods and findings which illustrate how this can be achieved, this book will be attractive for large groups of readers familiar with one or more of the themes it tackles, and to the general public. Within this context, the book makes use of ma…
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- 978-3-319-12394-3
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- IX, 408
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- Green Energy and Technology
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Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature
This is a book about pleasure. It is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the debts I have incurred when writing this book. My greatest debt is to the two supervisors of the Cambridge dissertation on which this book is based; I owe a great deal to my Doktormutter Emily Gowers for her generosity, learnedness, and inspiration. Every page benefited from her advice. I also owe a great deal to Rich…
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- 9781009039789
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- 874.01 ROH c
Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity
Many animal lawyers react to critiques of carceral animal law by contending that punishment is no longer a priority, and that there are only but a handful of anecdotes about over-charging.
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- 9781108919210
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- 344.049 MAR c
Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?
Existing scholarship has not systematically examined BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) as a rising power de-dollarization coalition, despite the group developing multiple de-dollarization initiatives to reduce currency risk and bypass US sanctions.
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- 9781009029544
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- 332 LIU c
Business School Leadership and Crisis Exit Planning: Global Deans' Contributi…
The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) is the largest international accreditation body for business schools, with more than 950 members across 92 countries, including the world’s highestranked schools
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- 9781009083164
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- 174.4 COR b
Sustainable Value Chain Management
This book introduces the integrated management concept of "Sustainable Value Creation", which delivers sustainability ‘inside-out’ from the core business. It is based on the premise that sustainability can provide a platform for growth, if it is implemented in a company’s products, services and supply chains (combined also known as the 'Value Chain'). Managing the Value Chain from the out…
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- 978-3-319-12142-0
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- XII, 426
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- CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance
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Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and nontraditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction, and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine.
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- 9781009072854
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- 610.73092 HAS b
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