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  • Enhancing Employee Engagement

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    by J. Lee Whittington, Simone Meskelis, Enoch Asare, Sri Beldona ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book provides an evidence-based approach to understanding declining levels of employee engagement, offering a set of practices that individuals and organizations can adopt in order to improve productivity and organizational performance. It introduces a model outlining how the experience of meaningful work impacts engagement and other organizational attitudes and behaviors. It recognizes the ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Leading the Sustainable Organization

    Development, Implementation and Assessment

    by Tim Galpin, J. Lee Whittington, Greg Bell ...
    This book is the first to combine the much talked about topics of leadership and sustainability, and provides readers with a comprehensive overview and pragmatic approach to leading sustainable organizations.Chapters include discussions, case examples, steps, and useful tools centred on the components of the Leading the Sustainable Organization model. This model provides managers with a pragmatic, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The Philosophy of Luck

    Edited by Duncan Pritchard, Lee John Whittington ...
    Series series Metaphilosophy
    This is the first volume of its kind to provide a curated collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the philosophy of luckOffers an in-depth examination of the concept of luck, which has often been overlooked in philosophical studyIncludes discussions of luck from a range of philosophical perspectives, including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and cognitive scienceExamines the role of luck in ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • A History of Bangladesh

    by Willem van Schendel ...
    Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twists ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

    by John Siko ...
    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Identity Destabilised

    Living in an Overheated World

    Edited by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Elisabeth Schober ...
    The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’ world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD

    Essays in Macro-Economic History

    by Angus Maddison ...
    This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    by Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Urban Poverty in the Global South

    Scale and Nature

    by Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite ...
    One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agencies worldwide. The ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada:

    by Bob Barnetson ...
    Series series Fabriks: Studies in the Working Class
    Workplace injuries are common avoidable and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts intervening only when necessary to maintain the system's legitimacy. Dr. Bob Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Development Volume II

    Country experiences

    Edited by Shigeru Thomas Otsubo ...
    Globalization and Development is a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that international economic integration provides to the economies of the developing countries. In order to present the "Leading Issues in Development with Globalization" in a balanced manner, to identify differences and commonalities among "Country Experiences ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD