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  • Cow up a Tree

    Knowing and Learning for Change in Agriculture. Case Studies from Industrialised Countries

    by Niels Röling, Marianne Cerf, David Gibbon, Ray Ison, Janice Jiggins, Jet Proost, Hubert Bernard, Mark Paine ...
    Western societies are calling for speedy change in agriculture and the agrifood industries to incorporate new quality criteria into the goods they produce. To promote these changes what scientists must develop are not universally implementable technical solutions, but self-diagnosis methods to be used by agricultural producers and their advisors. They also need to evolve new procedures for ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking

    Governance in a Climate Emergency

    by Ray Ison, Ed Straw ...
    Series series Systems Thinking
    The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency is a persuasive, lively book that shows how systems thinking can be harnessed to effect profound, complex change.In the age of the Anthropocene, the need for new ways of thinking and acting has become urgent. But patterns of obstacles are apparent in any action, be they corporate interests, lobbyists, or outdated political and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate Change World

    by Ray Ison ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    It is now accepted that humans are changing the climate of the Earth and this is the most compelling amongst a long litany of reasons as to why, collectively, we have to change our ways of thinking and acting. Most people now recognise that we have to be capable of adapting quickly as new and uncertain circumstances emerge: this capability will need to exist at personal, group, community, regional ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Systems Practice: How to Act

    In situations of uncertainty and complexity in a climate-change world

    by Ray Ison ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This book shows how to do systems thinking and translate that thinking into praxis (theory informed practical action). It will be welcomed by those managing or governing in situations of complexity and uncertainty across all domains of professional and personal life. The development of capabilities to think and act systemically is an urgent priority. Humans are now a force of nature, affecting ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Mapping Environmental Sustainability

    Reflecting on Systemic Practices for Participatory Research

    by Simon Bell, Ray Ison, Kevin Collins, Natalie Foster, Chris Blackmore, Rachel Slater, Geraud de Ville, Ryan Benjamin, Rebecca Xavier, Grace Albert, Elisa Bignante, Deirdre Jafferally, Lakeram Haynes, Jay Mistry, Andrea Berardi, Dave Wield, Les Levidow, Martin Reynolds ...
    While there is growing interest in participatory research to address issues around environmental sustainability, the focus of analysis tends to be on the results or products of the research rather than the processes involved. Addressing this gap, the authors draw on their experience of specific mapping techniques, based on different systemic concepts and theories, that have helped facilitate, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

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  • Systems Thinkers

    by Magnus Ramage, Karen Shipp ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker’s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker’s own writing, to give a flavour of their ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Managing Change, Creativity and Innovation

    by Costas Andriopoulos, Patrick Dawson ...
    A fresh approach to managing organizational change by looking at it as complex, dynamic and messy as opposed to a series of neat, linear stages and processes leading to success.Key to the approach is the idea that change, creativity and innovation all overlap and interconnect rather than being three separate areas of study and that managing the three together is central to organizations having the ... Read more

    $84.59 USD

  • Provable Security

    11th International Conference, ProvSec 2017, Xi'an, China, October 23-25, 2017, Proceedings

    Edited by Man Ho Au, Yong Yu, Tatsuaki Okamoto, Yannan Li ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2017, held in Xi'an, China, in October 2017. The 24 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on secure cloud storage and computing; digital signature and authentication; authenticated ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Organizational Behaviour

    People, Process, Work and Human Resource Management

    by Raisa Arvinen-Muondo, Stephen J Perkins ...
    There is a large body of shared knowledge between the study of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management but despite the crossover, they are often treated as very distinct disciplines. Written by a team of experts across both fields, Organizational Behaviour bridges the gap between OB and HRM, with an emphasis on inter-cultural and cross-cultural perspectives of organizational ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • How To Get A Phd: A Handbook For Students And Their Supervisors

    by Estelle Phillips, Derek.S. Pugh, Colin Johnson ...
    How to Get a PhD is the market leading, classic book for PhD students and their supervisors. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Leading Public Design

    Discovering Human-Centred Governance

    by Christian Bason ...
    This powerful new book provides a clear framework for understanding and learning an emerging management practice, leading public design.Drawing on more than a decade of work on public sector innovation, Christian Bason uses his extensive practical experience and research conducted among public managers in the UK, the US, Australia, Finland and Denmark to explore how public organisations can be ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Provable Security

    9th International Conference, ProvSec 2015, Kanazawa, Japan, November 24-26, 2015, Proceedings

    Edited by Man-Ho Au, Atsuko Miyaji ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Provable Security, ProvSec 2015, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in November 2015.The 19 full papers and 7 short papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on fundamental, protocol, authenticated encryption and key ... Read more

    $49.99 USD