Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities - Changing Our World(Pevná vazba)

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities - Changing Our World(Pevná vazba)

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms (Furman Jeffrey)(Pevná vazba)

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how innovation and entrepreneurship impact the creation and appropriation of value, numerous questions remain unanswered. This volume draws together scholars working at the forefront of entrepreneurship-, strategy-, and innovation-related domains to

The World We Create (Bjrkman Tomas)(Pevná vazba)

The world is entering a new technological, social and global age and it is our ability to create meaning which will decide whether we face a bright future or a tragic decline. We are living in an unsustainable state of cultural tension. Stress and depression are becoming more common, we are

The University Challenge: Changing Universities in a Changing World (Byrne Edward)(Paperback)

More than ever, we need our universities to be engines of change and social justice. Universities can play a major role in making this complex and changing world a better place, helping economies and societies to adapt and respond to the grand challenges we face, from tackling climate change to

The Affinities (Wilson Robert Charles)(Paperback)

In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic,

Our Changing Views of Photons: A Tutorial Memoir (Shore Bruce W.)(Pevná vazba)

Advances in technology often rely on a world of photons as the basic units of light. Increasingly one reads of photons as essential to enterprises in Photonics and Quantum Technology, with career and investment opportunities. Notions of photons have evolved from the energy-packet crowds of Planck

Mathematical Modelling of System Resilience (Das Kanchan)(Pevná vazba)

Almost all the systems in our world, including technical, social, economic, and environmental systems, are becoming interconnected and increasingly complex, and as such they are vulnerable to various risks. Due to this trend, resilience creation is becoming more important to system managers and

Social Entrepreneurs (Stephens Melodena)(Pevná vazba)

The growing field of social entrepreneurship sits between purpose-built start-ups that pursue a traditional for-profit business model, and the conventional non-profit models that depend on grants, charity and public funding. Because of their position, social entrepreneurs face a unique challenge to

Sex, Likes and Social Media: Talking to Our Teens in the Digital Age (Havey Allison)(Paperback)

Welcome to the world of the Digital Native, where self-esteem is measured in Likes, everyone is sexting and 'Pimps and Hoes' is an acceptable party theme. Dates have been replaced with swipes, rape jokes are hilarious and 'No' means 'Yes'. For most parents, the digital landscape that our kids and

Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life (Rosen Bob)(Pevná vazba)

Conscious is a deeply human approach to personal changeOur world is changing faster than our ability to adapt. Ambushed by speed, complexity, and uncertainty, many of us are unprepared for this acceleration. We act on autopilot as new challenges confront us. We are too reactive to problems and miss

The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Jacobs Alan)(Pevná vazba)

Sport Entrepreneurship: An Economic, Social and Sustainability Perspective (Ratten Vanessa)(Pevná vazba)

This book is the first of its kind to focus on the role of economics, social issues and sustainability in terms of sport entrepreneurship, thereby paving the way for both a monetary and social perspective of the subject. Ratten focuses on sport entrepreneurship from multiple levels of analysis

The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (Feld Brad)(Pevná vazba)

The Way Forward for Entrepreneurship Around the World We are in the midst of a startup revolution. The growth and proliferation of innovation-driven startup activity is profound, unprecedented, and global in scope. Today, it is understood that communities of support and knowledge-sharing go along

Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Take a fascinating around-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every continent, in this picture-packed children's book. Discover the countries of the world--exploring their geography, wildlife, traditions, and arts--in this picture-packed children's book. Every country profile is full

Stories of the Self: Life Writing After the Book (Poletti Anna)(Pevná vazba)

The importance of personal storytelling in contemporary culture and politics In an age where our experiences are processed and filtered through a wide variety of mediums, both digital and physical, how do we tell our own story? How do we 'get a life,' make sense of who we are and the way we live,

Our World in Crisis: Immigration (Martin Claudia)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Our World in Crisis: Terrorism (Martin Claudia)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Our World in Crisis: Poverty (Minay Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Garden of Earthly Delights (Rosenthal Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

The garden as a metaphor for the state of the world, in an exploration of the complexities of our chaotic and increasingly precarious present. Text in English and

Designing Performance Measurement Systems: Theory and Practice of Key Performance Indicators (Franceschini Fiorenzo)(Pevná vazba)

Given our rapidly changing world, companies are virtually forced to engage in continuous performance monitoring. Though Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may at times seem to be the real driving force behind social systems, economies and organizations, they can also have far-reaching normative

Our World in Crisis: Global Pollution (Watts Franklin)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change (Simon Morgan)(Pevná vazba)

A leading investment professional explains the world of impact investing--investing in businesses and projects with a social and financial return--and shows what it takes to make sustainable, transformative change. Impact investment--the support of social and environmental projects with a financial

Deviced!: Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World (Dodgen-Magee Doreen)(Pevná vazba)

Americans engage with screens for more than ten hours a day, changing our brains, our relationships, and our personal lives. Here, Dodgen-Magee illuminates the effects of device overuse, and offers wisdom gleaned from personal stories, research, and anecdotes from youth, parents and professionals

Getting Beyond Better: How Social Entrepreneurship Works (Martin Roger L.)(Pevná vazba)

Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it?In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new,