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  • Fit for Purpose?

    The Futures of Universities

    by Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Jonathan Y H Sim ...
    Series Book 9 - Exploring Complexity
    Schools and universities educate (mostly young) people, to equip them to deal with the future as it unfolds from the present. The question — whether these schools and universities are fit for that purpose — has always been relevant, even in slow-paced times of relative stability, where the future seems predictable as a simple extension of the past.Now that the future is not predictable anymore. ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Buying Time For Climate Action - Exploring Ways Around Stumbling Blocks

    by Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Jonathan Y H Sim ...
    Series Book 8 - Exploring Complexity
    The 2021 IPCC report made one thing crystal clear — global climate change is here to stay. Time is up. We need to act or climate change will lead to inconceivable suffering by billions of people. Buying Time for Climate Action is the combined narrative of world class experts, all committed to help humanity survive its largely self-induced destructive course. Changing that course requires urgent ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Grand Challenges For Science In The 21st Century

    by Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Balazs Gulyas, Jonathan Y H Sim ...
    Series Book 7 - Exploring Complexity
    This interesting book is a compilation of the lectures and discussions held during a four-day event — Grand Challenges for Science in the 21st Century — organized by Para Limes at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.The elite group of speakers included Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner who called on all scientists to adopt a truth-seeking approach and not be afraid of challenging ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, Third Edition

    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov ...
    The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up shapes the way we think, feel, and act-- with new dimensions and perspectivesBased on research conducted in more than seventy countries over a forty-year span, Cultures and Organizations examines what drives people apart—when cooperation is so clearly in everyone’s interest. With major new contributions from Michael Minkov’s analysis of ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind

    by Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede ...
    The landmark study of cultural differences across 70 nations, Cultures and Organizations helps readers look at how they think—and how they fail to think—as members of groups. Based on decades of painstaking field research, this new edition features the latest scientific results published in Geert Hofstede’s scholarly work Culture’s Consequences, Second Edition. Original in thought and profoundly ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The History Manifesto

    by Jo Guldi, David Armitage ...
    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Enough Is Enough

    Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

    by Robert Dietz, Daniel W. O'Neill ...
    Strategies for transitioning to a steady-state economy that maximizes long-term well-being for all people.We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Humanism in Business

    Edited by Heiko Spitzeck, Michael Pirson, Wolfgang Amann, Shiban Khan, Ernst von Kimakowitz ...
    What is the purpose of our economic system? What would a more life-serving economy look like? There are many books about business and society, yet very few of them question the primacy of GDP growth, profit maximization and individual utility maximization. Even developments with a humanistic touch like stakeholder participation, corporate social responsibility or corporate philanthropy serve the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • The Power of Unreasonable People

    How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World

    by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan ...
    Series series Leadership for the Common Good
    Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." By this definition, some of today's entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable--and have even been dubbed crazy. Yet as John Elkington and Pamela Hartigan argue in The Power ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Universities and Colleges

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Palfreyman, Paul Temple ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is a university? What is the University? How have universities evolved over the centuries? How might they change over the coming decades as the physical and organisational entity most identified with 'higher education' being delivered to over 250 million students? What will be the impact of digital- and distance-learning, of commercial for-profit new entrants to the higher education market, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Another World Is Possible

    How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    As the world reels from the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change, we've also faced a third, less visible emergency: a crisis of imagination. We can easily picture ecological disaster or futures dominated by technology. But we struggle to imagine a world in which people thrive and where we improve our democracy, welfare, neighborhoods or education. Many are resigned to ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • True Wealth

    How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    by Juliet B. Schor ...
    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously enhance our lives and protect the planet. Schor shares examples of urban farmers, DIY renovators, and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD