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Basic Income Guarantee and Politics
International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This exciting and timely collection brings together international and national scholars and advocates to provide historical overviews of efforts to pass basic income guarantee legislation in their respective countries and/or across regions of the globe.
We’re Losing Our Minds
Rethinking American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, or meet employers' expectations. The only solution - making learning the highest priority in college - demands fundamental change throughout higher education.
Engaged Learning in the Academy
Challenges and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Moore asks the question of whether and under what conditions experience constitutes a legitimate source of knowledge and learning in higher education. Drawing on theory and research, the book addresses three types of challenges and opportunities facing experiential educators: the epistemological, the pedagogical, and the institutional.
Understanding Branding in Higher Education
Marketing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book provides a critical theory of branding in higher education. The author argues for a higher education for all and positions higher education as a human right necessary for the well-being of citizens and democracy. Firstly, the book introduces the concept of desire as an underpinning for brand...
Learning Agility
The Impact on Recruitment and Retention
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book concretely defines the concept of learning agility and offers a business case for why organizations of all types should concentrate on building and sustaining this approach. It provides readers with a holistic approach towards the topic, and helps leaders leverage the learning agility of...
Data Mining for Managers
How to Use Data (Big and Small) to Solve Business Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Big Data is a growing business trend, but there little advice available on how to use it practically. Written by a data mining expert with over 30 years of experience, this book uses case studies to help marketers, brand managers and IT professionals understand how to capture and measure data for marketing purposes.
Justice, Sustainability, and Security
Global Ethics for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition.
Politics of Favoritism in Public Procurement in Turkey
Reconfigurations of Dependency Networks in the AKP Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book, through an analysis of 49,355 high value public procurement contracts awarded between 2004 and 2011, provides systematic evidence on favoritism in public procurement in Turkey. Public procurement is one of the main areas where the government and the private sector interact extensively and...
The Government of the Peoples
On the Idea and Principles of Multilateral Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
An exploration of the idea of government of peoples who freely accept liberal democracy and try to realize democracy in their common institutions, the author proposes an integrated 'original position' consisting in a hypothetical agreement of liberal democratic peoples and potentially mobile citizens.
by J. Vittori
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
A primer to terrorist financing and resourcing, this book examines what terrorist organizations must acquire in order to survive and operate, and describes the various means used to meet these needs. It also observes how terrorism financing and resourcing has evolved since the beginning of the Age of Modern Terrorism.
Ecotourism and Cultural Production
An Anthropology of Indigenous Spaces in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Ecotourism is a unique facet of globalization, promising the possibility of reconciling the juggernaut of development with ecological/cultural conservation. Davidov offers a comparative analysis of the issue using a case study of indigenous Kichwa people of Ecuador and their interactions with globalization and transnational systems.
Making Global Health Care Innovation Work
Standardization and Localization
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them work, but also how they change the setting into which they are introduced.
The Social Media President
Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The proliferation of social media has altered the way that people interact with each other - leveling the channels of communication to allow an individual to be "friends" with a sitting president. In a world where a citizen can message Barack Obama directly, this book addresses the new channels of communication in politics, and what they offer.
Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds
Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills.