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  • Sexton Soldier: The Multiplicity of Jonas Engel

    by Jane Nelson O'Leary ...
    This story is a fictional look into the sometimes quirky life of Jonas Engel, a 19th Century Swedish soldier. His parents died when he was a teenager. His youth, typical of many Swedish country orphan peasants, was directed by the church to ensure that he would be a productive, if not lucrative, member of the parish. He apprenticed formally as a tailor, and informally as the church cemetery sexton ... Read more

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  • Theme and Variations about Short Lives, Child Death, Parent Grief

    by Jane Nelson O'Leary ...
    This book is based on a musical form. The theme is the death of an infant, child, or young adult, and the effects of that death on parents and other family. Its variations are considerations of the experiences and observations of the author, the mother of three. Her two sons both died in car accidents separated by 23 years. Rather than publishing a journal or a lengthy description of her sons' ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For the World’s Profit

    How Business Can Support Sustainable Development

    Edited by Homi Kharas, Koji Makino, John W. McArthur, Ms. Jane Nelson ...
    This edited volume brings together a remarkable array of distinguished corporate, investor, government, academic, and nonprofit perspectives to consider how the targeted pursuit of business profits can better add up to the world's profit, broadly defined.Chapter authors tackle such questions as how businesses can work more effectively with governments, financial institutions, and civil society to ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Corporate Responsibility Coalitions

    The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism

    by David Grayson, Nelson Jane ...
    The significance of business-led corporate responsibility coalitions is indisputable. The WBCSD has 200 member companies with combined annual revenues of US$7 _trillion_; the UN Global Compact has almost 8,000 corporate members, over two-thirds of them from developing countries. It is estimated that there are more than 110 national and international generalist business-led CR coalitions. But there ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Corporate Responsibility Coalitions

    The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism

    by David Grayson, Jane Nelson ...
    It is estimated that there are more than 110 national and international business-led corporate responsibility coalitions. Given the growing reach and significance of these alliances, there is now a critical need for an informed and balanced analysis of their achievements, their progress, and their potential.In Corporate Responsibility Coalitions, the first book to chronicle the subject, David ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Sustainable Enterprise Value Creation

    Implementing Stakeholder Capitalism through Full ESG Integration

    by Richard Samans, Jane Nelson ...
    This Open Access book provides a practical guide to the creation of sustainable enterprise value and implementation of the principles of stakeholder capitalism for corporate boards and management teams. The authors argue that business leadership is on the threshold of a new era driven by major shifts in technology, society, political economy and climate change. They set this transition in ... Read more

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  • The New Global Road Map

    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

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