For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond Gdp (Stiglitz Joseph E.)(Pevná vazba)

For Good Measure: An Agenda for Moving Beyond Gdp (Stiglitz Joseph E.)(Pevná vazba)

Today's leading economists weigh in with a new 'dashboard' of metrics for measuring our economic and social health A consensus has emerged among key experts that our conventional economic measures are out of sync with how most people experience their lives. GDP, they argue, is a poor and outmoded

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity (Stiglitz Joseph E.)(Pevná vazba)

Europe is in crisis. Sluggish economic growth, income stagnation, and recession have led to severe political and social consequences. Government programs designed to provide social protection for citizens have been cut back. Parties on the extremes of the political spectrum are on the rise--

Measuring What Counts: The Global Movement for Well-Being (Stiglitz Joseph E.)(Paperback)

A bold agenda for a better way to assess societal well-being, by three of the world's leading economists and statisticians If we want to put people first, we have to know what matters to them, what improves their well-being, and how we can supply more of whatever that is.--Joseph E. Stiglitz In

Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (Laurent loi)(Pevná vazba)

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability Never before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical revolution has shaped economic research and policy profoundly. But are we measuring, and thus managing, the right things--those that will help us solve

People, Power, and Profits - Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (Stiglitz Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, this account of the dangers of free market fundamentalism reveals what has gone so wrong, but also shows us a way out.We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in

Measures for Measure: Geology and the Industrial Revolution (Mike Leeder)(Pevná vazba)

Measures for Measure features once greatly-disturbed landscapes - now largely reclaimed, physically at least, by post-industrial activity. Yet the surviving machines, buildings and housing of the original Industrial Revolution, founded mostly upon Coal Measures strata, still loom large over many

Economics for the Common Good (Tirole Jean)(Pevná vazba)

From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant

Measure For Measure(Pevná vazba)

Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have

Poet for Every Day of the Year (Esiri Allie)(Pevná vazba)

An inspirational, life affirming, provocative, moving or entertaining poem for each and every day of the

Performing Image (Harbison Isobel)(Pevná vazba)

An examination of how artists have combined performance and moving image for decades, anticipating our changing relation to images in the internet era.In Performing Image, Isobel Harbison examines how artists have combined performance and moving image in their work since the 1960s, and how this

Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism (Soper Kate)(Pevná vazba)

An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Ornato Joseph P.)(Pevná vazba)

An in-depth review by leading authorities of the latest therapies and techniques for rescuing persons in cardiac arrest. The authors explore the physiology behind current state-of-the-art clinical resuscitation and translate it into practical bedside recommendations, clinical tips, and expert

To Be Clear (Collins Philip)(Pevná vazba)

An indispensable style guide of good and bad usage - an inspiring manual for all companies and communicators to speak or write

Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (de Brabandere Luc)(Pevná vazba)

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters. LIGHTERS? With an idea that seemed crazy at first, that bright executive, instead of seeing BIC as a pen company--a business in the

Routledge Handbook of Sport Expertise (Baker Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Understanding and developing expertise is an important concern for any researcher or practitioner working in elite or high performance sport. Whether it's identifying talented young athletes or developing methods for integrating cutting-edge sport science into daily coaching practice, scientists,

Improving Quality of Care in Family Planning: A Research and Advocacy Agenda for India (Satia Jay)(Pevná vazba)

The Made-Up Man (Scapellato Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Existential noir meets absurd comedy when a young man reluctantly enlists as source material for an art projectStanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech's offer to apartment-sit in Prague--he'd known it was one of Lech's proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive,

Beyond Order - 12 More Rules for Life (Peterson Jordan B.)(Pevná vazba)

Lampedusa - Gateway to Europe (Bartolo Pietro)(Pevná vazba)

The moving and essential testimony of an Italian doctor who has worked for twenty-five years on the front line of perhaps the largest mass migration in human

Access to Education in Europe: A Framework and Agenda for System Change (Downes Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Acknowledgements.-Foreword by Sue Waddington, President of the European Association for the Education of Adults (2008-2013).-1. Introduction: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Access to Education for Socio-Economically Marginalised Groups - A Systems Focus.-Chapter 1: Summary.- 2. System

Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Crutchfield Leslie R.)(Pevná vazba)

An updated edition of a groundbreaking book on best practices for nonprofits What makes great nonprofits great? In the original book, authors Crutchfield and McLeod Grant employed a rigorous research methodology derived from for-profit books like Built to Last. They studied 12 nonprofits that have

Institutional Intelligence - How to Build an Effective Organization (Smith Gordon T.)(Pevná vazba)

Institutions matter. They give us an opportunity to have an influence for the common good that far outlasts us. But we often assume that institutions are at cross-purposes with dynamic communities, with personal vocational calling, and with core human values. We view them somewhat cynically as,

Games, Strategies, and Decision Making (Harrington Jr Joseph E.)(Pevná vazba)

Written for majors courses in economics, business, political science, and international relations, but accessible to students across the undergraduate spectrum, Joseph Harrington's innovative textbook makes the tools and applications of game theory and strategic reasoning both fascinating and easy

Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (Davis Heath Fogg)(Pevná vazba)

Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do