Marybeth Gasman, "Doing the Right Thing: How Colleges and Universities Can Undo Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring"
English | ISBN: 069119307X | 2022 | 296 pages | EPUB | 865 KB
An honest confrontation of systemic racism in faculty hiring―and what to do about it

Diversity and Developmental Science: Bridging the Gaps Between Research, Practice, and Policy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031231627 | 650 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This book examines the challenges faced by developmental scientists as the population under the age of 18 in the United States has become a majority-minority, with no racial/ethnic group having a numeric majority. The volume tackles how these demographic shifts compel scientists to consider the unique and universal processes that promote the growth, thriving, and resilience of these populations across this new landscape and also takes into account systems of oppression, power, privilege, racial justice, and structural disadvantage. It describes the challenges of conducting research with diverse populations and offers practical methodological solutions.

Discovering Mathematics: Book B:: 2 By Open University Team
2014 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1780078641 | PDF | 2 MB
This book contains three units of study, Algebra, Graphs and Equations and Inequalities. It introduces you to Linear Equations, Relationships, in particular the connections between algebra and graphs and develops more sophisticated mathematical problem-solving skills and shows how these can be applied to practical situations.

Disappearing Peasantries?: Rural Labour in Latin America, Asia and Africa By Deborah Bryceson (editor), Jos Mooij (editor)
2000 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 1853394777 | PDF | 19 MB
This book comes at a time when the peasant transition process has reached a critical juncture. It points out how peasant labor redundancy can undermine rural welfare and political stability, and why academics and policy-makers of the twenty-first century cannot ignore the world's disappearing peasantries without endangering sustainable development and international security. The editors combine the most recent rural research with a new analytical perspective on the major peasant and agrarian development debates, and provide a new insight into peasant studies and the western biases that have permeated it.The book begins by tracing patterns of peasant formation and dissolution over time and explores whether today's rural producers in Africa, Asia and Latin America are peasants in either a theoretical or practical sense. The rich case study material from all three continents illustrates the pressures and opportunities that have befallen peasants, leading them to 'diversify' into a number of occupations and non- agricultural income-earning avenues. The relationship of peasants to the land has changed; and the editors discuss the factors influencing this.They include multi-occupational livelihoods, intensified labor mobility and flexibility, straddled urban and rural residences, and flooded labor markets. The state and market influences on the rural family and village community are also examined. This book points out how peasant labor redundancy can undermine rural welfare and political stability, and why academics and policy-makers of the twenty-first century cannot ignore the world's disappearing peasantries without endangering sustainable development and international security. The editors combine the most recent rural research with a new analytical perspective on the major peasant and agrarian development debates, and provide a new insight into peasant studies and the western biases that have permeated it.

Digital Transformation of the Financial Industry: Approaches and Applications
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031232682 | 588 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB
This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art research findings on the digital transformation of financial services. Digitalization has fundamentally changed financial services and has a tendency to reshape the landscape of the financial industry in an unprecedented manner. Over the last ten years, the development of new financial technologies has contributed to the creation of new business and organizational models, along with new approaches to service delivery. By encompassing significant conceptual contributions, innovations in methods and techniques, and by delineating the main applications of digital transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the volume extends current knowledge on digital transformation in the financial industry.

Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication: 17th International Forum, IFTC 2020, Shanghai, China, December 2, 2020, Revised Selected Papers by Guangtao Zhai
English | PDF | 2021 | 457 Pages | ISBN : 9811611939 | 101.2 MB
This book presents revised selected papers from the 17th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2020.

Digital Government: Managing Public Sector Reform in the Digital Era By Miriam Lips
2019 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 1138655643 | PDF | 2 MB
Digital Government: Managing Public Sector Reform in the Digital Era presents a public management perspective on digital government and technology-enabled change in the public sector. It incorporates theoretical and empirical insights to provide students with a broader and deeper understanding of the complex and multidisciplinary nature of digital government initiatives, impacts and implications. The rise of digital government and its increasingly integral role in many government processes and activities, including overseeing fundamental changes at various levels across government, means that it is no longer perceived as just a technology issue. In this book Miriam Lips provides students with practical approaches and perspectives to better understand digital government. The text also explores emerging issues and barriers as well as strategies to more effectively manage digital government and technology-enabled change in the public sector. Digital Government is the ideal book for postgraduate students on courses in public administration, public management, public policy, political science and international relations, and e-government. It is also suitable for public service managers who are experiencing the impact of digital technology and data in the public sector.

Digital Economy and the Green Revolution
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031198859 | 506 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 36 MB
This book presents a selection of the best papers from the 16th International Conference on Business Excellence, "New Challenges of the Century. Digital Economy and the Green Revolution" (ICBE 2022), held in Bucharest, Romania, in March 2022. Showcasing research findings and perspectives on the new challenges posed by the digital economy and research systems, the book offers valuable insights into the present context of global crisis, together with solutions for the real-world challenges we face today.

Doug Strycharczyk, "Developing Resilient Organizations: How to Create an Adaptive, High-Performance and Engaged Organization"
English | ISBN: 1398696188 | 2021 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Much of the fear and uncertainty surrounding the global recession is concerned with the adverse impact it will have on organisations and society. However, recessions are nothing new. We know from past experience that when a recession is over, there always emerge organisations and individuals who have not only survived but have thrived. They often emerge stronger, fitter and better performing.

Designing Design By Kenya Hara
2007 | 467 Pages | ISBN: 303778105X | PDF | 86 MB
Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his mentors, using long overlooked Japanese icons and images in much of his work. In "Designing Design", he impresses upon the reader the importance of "emptiness" in both the visual and philosophical traditions of Japan, and its application to design, made visible by means of numerous examples from his own work: Hara for instance designed the opening and closing ceremony programs for the Nagano Winter Olympic Games 1998. In 2001, he enrolled as a board member for the Japanese label MUJI and has considerably moulded the identity of this successful corporation as communication and design advisor ever since. Kenya Hara, alongside Naoto Fukasawa one of the leading design personalities in Japan, has also called attention to himself with exhibitions such as "Re-Design: The Daily Products of the 21st Century" of 2000.