"A guide for organizations to improve their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, focusing specifically on the experiences of women of color"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
The unexpected diversity, beauty, and strangeness of life in ancient lakes -- some millions of years old -- and the remarkable insights the lakes are yielding about the causes of biodiversity. Most lakes are less than 10,000 years old and short-lived, but there is a much smaller number of ancient lakes, tectonic in origin and often millions of years old, that are scattered across every continen…
"A quantitative look at labor market outcomes for women in STEM along multiple dimension of identity, including race, disability, immigrant status, etc"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A look at how behavioral science can combat systemic bias in the workplace"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Experts discuss the challenges faced in agrobiodiversity and conservation, integrating disciplines that range from plant and biological sciences to economics and political science. Wide-ranging environmental phenomena -- including climate change, extreme weather events, and soil and water availability -- combine with such socioeconomic factors as food policies, dietary preferences, and market f…
A wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
This book combines several ideas and philosophies and provides a detailed discussion on the value addition of fruits, vegetables, spices, plantation crops, floricultural crops and in forestry. Separate chapters address the packaging, preservation, drying, dehydration, total quality management and supply chain management of horticultural crops. The book explains value addition as a process of in…
In Open Book in Ways of Water, poet and artist Adam Wolfond explores the synaesthetic quality of autistic perception, the way in which water in its different materializations shapes and channels language. Building on notions such as “wetness,” “streams,” and “currents,” Wolfond constructs a linguistic universe in which writing and perception merge, move, and “pace to gether” –…
With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and ""family-f…
There has been several decades of research on why women are under-represented in the expatriate population, but it is only in the past few years that research has begun to focus on issues with members from other diverse groups and how they fit into the expatriate picture. This chapter’s authors spotlight gender, age, race, religion and sexual orientation diversity. They point out, however, th…