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The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources How to Open Fill and Grow a Successful Online Curriculum Store

The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources How to Open Fill and Grow a Successful Online Curriculum Store

Anyone can open an online curriculum store but how many know how to do it effectively and in a way that maximizes earning potential? Based on years of experience research pitfalls and triumphs this essential guidebook supports the World Language teacher-author in navigating the exciting world of selling curriculum on an online platform. With this guide there is no more sifting through boring content trying to figure out how it translates to your content area as the World Language-specific examples in Section 1 (Opening Your Store) Section 2 (Filling Your Store) and Section 3 (Growing a Successful Store) cut to the chase with real-world examples for language teachers. Each section provides critical tips all designed to boost sales. The guided workspace pages organize planning and content strategies and serve as markers for your store’s growth. Whether you are just starting out or already have a store established this guide is the #1 tool to level up your online curriculum store. If you are a World Language teacher who enjoys making money while you sleep this is for you! | The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Original World Language Resources How to Open Fill and Grow a Successful Online Curriculum Store

GBP 24.99
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On the Commodity Trail The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West

On the Commodity Trail The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West

Following the journey of eight bargain store objects Alison Hulme reveals the complex story behind society’s simplest and cheapest commodities. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project On the Commodity Trail explores the colourful and fascinating histories of everyday objects. Along the way we observe raw materials on municipal rubbish dumps in China newly re-made products in the world’s largest wholesale market and take a journey across the seas to bargain stores in Europe and North America arriving finally in the homes of consumers. Weaving together narratives from the people we meet at different parts of the commodity chain – waste peddlers wholesalers store owners and shoppers – the book examines the places and people at the heart of these localized yet immense global networks. Unlike other investigations of commodity chains this study does not chart a straightforward trajectory from production to consumption. Instead it demonstrates that the low-end commodity chain is one of constant rupture in which products are made and re-made blurring the dividing line between producing and consuming. An ethnography of material culture as well as an examination of commodity culture at a time of economic downturn this deeply-engrossing book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of commodity chains and consumer culture. | On the Commodity Trail The Journey of a Bargain Store Product from East to West

GBP 28.99
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Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive digital and globalized business landscape. An integrative framework ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’ is introduced which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities technology and innovation (recombination) internationalization and international markets (reach) and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved through an interaction of these four drivers against the backdrop of a globalized and digitized world. It is uniquely practical in its approach combining theoretical understanding with international case studies and real-life examples throughout each chapter including Apple IKEA and Microsoft. Unlocking Strategic Innovation is concise applied reading for postgraduate students studying international business corporate strategy innovation and digital strategy as well as academics in the field. It will also be important reading for practitioners looking to gain further understanding of how firms compete and flourish in a global and technology-driven environment. | Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

GBP 35.99
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The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? The Wicked Learning Workbook is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss. The book offers a new pedagogical approach that we call 'wicked' because it is unorthodox ambitious and tackles complex problems that won’t go away. The pedagogy is also international at the course level rather than the conventional exchange semester enabling institutions to embed international approaches to their core teaching. The Wicked Learning Workbook speaks directly to academics who are looking for solutions that provide stimuli for research and teaching while giving students an innovative international learning experience. The approach develops student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as broad-scale societal issues which are difficult if not impossible to ‘solve’. An important outcome of this approach is the laboratory-style classroom that creates opportunities for faculty students and companies to co-create solutions that are immediately implementable. The resulting methodology is based on industry–university collaboration (such as IKEA and Nestlé). The methodology is of interest to corporate leaders pursuing sustainability goals and business transformation. Achieving sustainability requires cross-boundary cross-disciplinary experimental approaches that allow for scalability. Wicked problems can only be tackled with wicked solution approaches. | The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

GBP 36.99
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Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization however is easier said than done. Even more difficult is being a company that continually disrupts. Is it possible to discern a code for how companies can achieve this? In this highly readable and engaging book a disruptive leadership framework is proposed in which caring deeply is placed at the center of the model. By turning care into a focal point a triphasic model is proposed that moves from the personal sphere (individual) to the corporate arena (organizational) and then to the global stage (impact). Nine keys are identified along this path for how companies can realize organizational excellence. While care may seem like a soft concept in the rough and tumble world of business it is argued how it is actually an inspired manner for providing direction structure and know-how that leads to powerful outcomes. Apple is profiled as a leading example of leveraging what is termed the technology of caring deeply. Other companies such as Nike IKEA Zappos Starbucks are also profiled. Finally a leadership canvas is provided to help activate the lessons shared in the book. | Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

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All In The Future of Business Leadership

All In The Future of Business Leadership

Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies including 3M BASF BP DuPont Google GE Huawei IKEA Interface Marks Spencer Natura Nestle acute; Nike Novo Nordisk Patagonia Shell Tata Toyota Unilever and Walmart explaining how they have gained recognition created value and boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In also outlines what the private sector must do to lift sustainability performance protect business's license to operate and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This unique book rich with quantitative and qualitative insights offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of the most important developments and trends in corporate sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix Chairman Interface and afterword by Paul Polman CEO Unilever. | All In The Future of Business Leadership

GBP 35.99
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High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse characterful independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future. | High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

GBP 40.00
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Visual Marketing From Attention to Action

Visual Marketing From Attention to Action

This comprehensive volume aims to further research and theory development in visual marketing. By bringing together leading researchers in the field it strives to contribute to the establishment of visual marketing as a coherent discipline. The chapters represent an array of issues in visual marketing. They address three areas in theory: attention and perception visual cognition and action and choice. The chapters go beyond what is known and offer in many cases a more speculative and visionary account of the directions that visual marketing research could and should take. Rather than being confined to advertising only this new volume shows how visual marketing permeates almost all consumer and marketing activities. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students in marketing management industrial design and consumer and social psychology. Professional practitioners especially those involved with marketing communications retail and in store marketing and market research will also benefit from the empirically based and innovative ideas put forth in this book. | Visual Marketing From Attention to Action

GBP 38.99
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Parenting as Partners How to Launch Your Kids Without Ejecting Your Spouse

Parenting as Partners How to Launch Your Kids Without Ejecting Your Spouse

Very few families are perfect. But looking from the outside in through conversations in the grocery store or clicking through social media oftentimes it seems we are the only ones struggling with raising our kids or aligning with our spouses on parenting. The reality is that so many families struggle. Vicki Hoefle three-time author parenting coach and sought-after speaker offers a fresh practical roadmap for achievable family—and marital—harmony and happiness. Her strategies work for everyone: whether you have young children and are just starting the parenting journey; are beginning to experience the first challenges of raising children in the 21st century; or if you’re facing crisis stress or the effects of divorce. Hoefle inspires REAL families and shows them how to invest in the relationship focus on what is important and experience the joy of living in a healthy loving family. | Parenting as Partners How to Launch Your Kids Without Ejecting Your Spouse

GBP 18.99
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Vinyl The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Vinyl The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Recent years have seen not just a revival but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze vinyl has become a cultural icon. As music consumption migrated to digital and online this seemingly obsolete medium became the fastest-growing format in music sales. Whilst vinyl never ceased to be the favorite amongst many music lovers and DJs from the late 1980s the recording industry regarded it as an outdated relic consigned to dusty domestic corners and obscure record shops. So why is vinyl now experiencing a ‘rebirth of its cool’?Dominik Bartmanski and Ian Woodward explore this question by combining a cultural sociological approach with insights from material culture studies. Presenting vinyl as a multifaceted cultural object they investigate the reasons behind its persistence within our technologically accelerated culture. Informed by media analysis urban ethnography and the authors’ interviews with musicians DJs sound engineers record store owners collectors and cutting-edge label chiefs from a range of metropolitan centres renowned for thriving music scenes including London New York Tokyo Melbourne and especially Berlin what emerges is a story of a modern icon. | Vinyl The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

GBP 22.99
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Regulation and Planning Practices Institutions Agency

Regulation and Planning Practices Institutions Agency

In Regulation and Planning planning scholars from the United Kingdom France Italy Sweden Canada Australia and the United States explore how planning regulations are negotiated amid layers of normative considerations. It treats regulation not simply as a set of legal guidelines to be compared against proposed actions but as a social practice in which issues of governmental legitimacy cultural understandings materiality and power are contested. Each chapter addresses an actual instance of planning regulation including among others a dispute about a proposed Apple store in a public park in Stockholm the procedures by which building codes are managed by planners in Napoli the role that design plays in regulating the use of public space in a new Paris neighbourhood and the influence of plans on the regulation of development in Malmö and Cambridge. Collectively the volume probes the institutions and practices that give meaning and consequence to planning regulations. For planning students learning about what it means to plan planning researchers striving to understand the influence of planners on urban development and planning practitioners interested in reflecting on practices that occupy a great deal of their time this is an indispensable book. | Regulation and Planning Practices Institutions Agency

GBP 35.99
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3D Printing Basics for Entertainment Design

3D Printing Basics for Entertainment Design

Affordable 3D printers are rapidly becoming everyday additions to the desktops and worktables of entertainment design practitioners – whether working in theatre theme parks television and film museum design window displays animatronics or… you name it! We are beginning to ask important questions about these emerging practices: · How can we use 3D fabrication to make the design and production process more efficient? · How can it be used to create useful and creative items? · Can it save us from digging endlessly through thrift store shelves or from yet another late-night build? · And when budgets are tight will it save us money? This quick start guide will help you navigate the alphabet soup that is 3D printing and begin to answer these questions for yourself. It outlines the basics of the technology and its many uses in entertainment design. With straightforward and easy-to-follow information you will learn ways to acquire printable 3D models basic methods of creating your own and tips along the way to produce successful prints. Over 70 professionals contributed images guidance and never-before-seen case studies filled with insider secrets to this book including tutorials by designer and pioneer Owen M. Collins. | 3D Printing Basics for Entertainment Design

GBP 38.99
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Securing the Cloud Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center

Securing the Cloud Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center

This book provides solutions for securing important data stored in something as nebulous sounding as a cloud. A primer on the concepts behind security and the cloud it explains where and how to store data and what should be avoided at all costs. It presents the views and insight of the leading experts on the state of cloud computing security and its future. It also provides no-nonsense info on cloud security technologies and models. Securing the Cloud: Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center takes the position that cloud security is an extension of recognized established security principles into cloud-based deployments. It explores how those principles can be put into practice to protect cloud-based infrastructure and data traditional infrastructure and hybrid architectures combining cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Cloud computing is evolving so rapidly that regulations and technology have not necessarily been able to keep pace. IT professionals are frequently left to force fit pre-existing solutions onto new infrastructure and architectures for which they may be very poor fits. This book looks at how those square peg/round hole solutions are implemented and explains ways in which the pegs the holes or both may be adjusted for a more perfect fit. | Securing the Cloud Security Strategies for the Ubiquitous Data Center

GBP 42.99
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Power and Subversion in Byzantium Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Birmingham March 2010

Power and Subversion in Byzantium Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Birmingham March 2010

This volume addresses a theme of special significance for Byzantine studies. Byzantium has traditionally been deemed a civilisation which deferred to authority and set special store by orthodoxy canon and proper order. Since 1982 when the distinguished Russian Byzantinist Alexander Kazhdan wrote that 'the history of Byzantine intellectual opposition has yet to be written' scholars have increasingly highlighted cases of subversion of 'correct practice' and 'correct belief' in Byzantium. This innovative scholarly effort has produced important results although it has been hampered by the lack of dialogue across the disciplines of Byzantine studies. The 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in 2010 drew together historians art historians and scholars of literature religion and philosophy who discussed shared and discipline-specific approaches to the theme of subversion. The present volume presents a selection of the papers delivered at the symposium enriched with specially commissioned contributions. Most papers deal with the period after the eleventh century although early Byzantium is not ignored. Theoretical questions about the nature articulation and limits of subversion are addressed within the frameworks of individual disciplines and in a larger context. The volume comes at a timely junction in the development of Byzantine studies as interest in subversion and nonconformity in general has been rising steadily in the field. | Power and Subversion in Byzantium Papers from the 43rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies Birmingham March 2010

GBP 38.99
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Brain Words How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

Brain Words How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

The past two decades have brought giant leaps in our understanding of how the brain works. But these discoveries-;and all their exciting implications-;have yet to make their way into most classrooms. In Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching authors J. Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellette bring their original research-based framework of brain words dictionaries in the brain where students store and automatically access sounds spellings and meaning. This book aims to fill the gap between the science of reading and classroom instruction by providing up-to-date knowledge about reading and neurological circuitry including evidence that spelling is at the core of the reading brain. Brain Words will show how children's brains develop as they become readers and discover ways you can take concrete steps to promote this critical developmental passage including: Incorporating tools to recognize what works what doesn't and why Practical classroom activities for daily teaching and student assessmentInsights about what brain research tells us about whole language and phonics-first movements Deepened understanding of dyslexia through the enhanced lens of brain science With the insights and strategies of Brain Words you can meet your students where they are and ensure they gain confidence as readers spellers and writers. | Brain Words How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching

GBP 28.99
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Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR combines two hugely influential and effective therapies EMDR therapy and sensorimotor psychotherapy to provide a new approach. In doing so the book supports the widely held view of psychotherapists that in trauma the primary store of neurological information is somatic rather than cognitive. Many therapists trained in EMDR find that additional resources are needed for patients who present with symptoms of complex trauma and dissociation. This is because EMDR is primarily a top-down approach based on CBT with the addition of bilateral stimulation (BLS) in visual tactile and auditory modalities. By contrast Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR takes a body-based and bottom-up approach that seeks to resolve trauma by reprocessing information at multiple levels – in the gut-brain the heart-brain and the head-brain as well as in the endocrine immune and nervous systems. Fully revised since The Art of BART (2015) the book looks at the latest advances in neuroscience including research into the effectiveness of psychotherapy and the mysteries of consciousness and the development of mind. It also looks at the role of newly discovered organs the mesentery and the interstitium and provides clear anatomical evidence for the communication of biophotons in energy channels known as the primo vascular system. SF-EMDR is the only therapy that fully integrates Western theories of affective neuroscience with Eastern observations on activation of chakras pranas and energies and in doing so it offers strong potential for enhanced outcomes and optimized performance for patients. | Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

GBP 35.99
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The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases

The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases

This book comprehensively conveys the theoretical and practical aspects of IoT and big data analytics with the solid contributions from practitioners as well as academicians. This book examines and expounds the unique capabilities of the big data analytics platforms in capturing cleansing and crunching IoT device/sensor data in order to extricate actionable insights. A number of experimental case studies and real-world scenarios are incorporated in this book in order to instigate our book readers. This bookAnalyzes current research and development in the domains of IoT and big data analyticsGives an overview of latest trends and transitions happening in the IoT data analytics spaceIllustrates the various platforms processes patterns and practices for simplifying and streamlining IoT data analytics The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics: Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases examines and accentuates how the multiple challenges at the cusp of IoT and big data can be fully met. The device ecosystem is growing steadily. It is forecast that there will be billions of connected devices in the years to come. When these IoT devices resource-constrained as well as resource-intensive interact with one another locally and remotely the amount of multi-structured data generated collected and stored is bound to grow exponentially. Another prominent trend is the integration of IoT devices with cloud-based applications services infrastructures middleware solutions and databases. This book examines the pioneering technologies and tools emerging and evolving in order to collect pre-process store process and analyze data heaps in order to disentangle actionable insights. | The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases

GBP 42.99
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Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

Bringing together ten utopian works that mark important points in the history and an evolution in social and political philosophies this book not only reflects on the texts and their political philosophy and implications but also their architecture and how that architecture informs the political philosophy or social agenda that the author intended. Each of the ten authors expressed their theory through concepts of community and utopian architecture but each featured an architectural solution at the centre of their social and political philosophy as none of the cities were ever built they have remained as utopian literature. Some of the works examined are very well-known such as Tommaso Campanella’s Civitas Solis while others such as Joseph Michael Gandy’s Designs for Cottages are relatively obscure. However even with the best known works this volume offers new insights by focusing on the architecture of the cities and how that architecture represents the author’s political philosophy. It reconstructs the cities through a 3-D computer program ArchiCAD using Artlantis to render. Plans sections elevations and perspectives are presented for each of the cities. The ten cities are: Filarete - Sforzina; Albrecht D¼rer - Fortified Utopia; Tommaso Campanella - The City of the Sun; Johann Valentin Andreae - Christianopolis; Joseph Michael Gandy - An Agricultural Village; Robert Owen - Villages of Unity and Cooperation; James Silk Buckingham - Victoria; Robert Pemberton - Queen Victoria Town; King Camp Gillette - Metropolis; and Bradford Peck - The World a Department Store. Each chapter considers the work in conjunction with contemporary thought the political philosophy and the reconstruction of the city. Although these ten cities represent over 500 years of utopian and political thought they are an interlinked thread that had been drawn from literature of the past and informed by contemporary thought and society. The book is structured in two parts: | Unbuilt Utopian Cities 1460 to 1900: Reconstructing their Architecture and Political Philosophy

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Money and Capital A Critique of Monetary Thought the Dollar and Post-Capitalism

Money and Capital A Critique of Monetary Thought the Dollar and Post-Capitalism

This book renews the Marxian theory of the general equivalent by highlighting the contradiction between the social functions of money (unit of account means of circulation) and its private functions (store of value accumulation). It draws a clear distinction between the monetary base and the commodity base of money and thus avoids the confusion between money and credit on the one hand and money and capital on the other which are found in other heterodox monetary theories. It accounts for the new forms of monetary constraints weighing on the banking systems under and inconvertible fiat money standard the class relationships underlying the interventions of monetary authorities and governments and presents a definition of the state which emphasises its mode of intervention on the collective and social conditions of capitalisms which are money and labour power. The emphasis on the contradiction between these two types of monetary functions gives a more fundamental account of the conflict between the international role and the national origin of the dollar than the Triffin dilemma which has been constantly overcome or deferred by the US since 1960. The author explains this evolution by demonstrating how from the 1950s onwards the dollar began a process of acquiring relative autonomy from the US economy. By focusing on the role and international functions of the dollar he offers a fresh look at the 2008 crisis and its consequences for the international monetary system but also for a possible post-capitalist financial system – which post-revolutionary Russia experimented with in the form of the NEP and whose contemporary implementation is foreshadowed by the rise of digital central bank currencies. The book thereby provides a necessary update to the tools and concepts inherited from Marx for analysing and understanding money capital and the state. | Money and Capital A Critique of Monetary Thought the Dollar and Post-Capitalism

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Winning with Data in the Business of Sports CRM and Analytics

Winning with Data in the Business of Sports CRM and Analytics

New technologies mean that sports clubs and governing bodies are generating more data than ever to help manage their relationship with fans their performance and their income streams. This new edition of Winning with Data in the Business of Sports explains how to acquire store maintain and use data in the most effective ways. The key developments are three-fold: new technology new understanding of how to apply that technology and the new laws informing and controlling the data that can be generated from the technology. Important developments that have occurred since the publication of the first edition include the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on these unique challenges coupled with the opportunities the use of data creates this book is essential reading for professionals within the sports industry. This second edition includes: - An introduction to new technologies the data they generate and the supporting processes we need to have in place to use them. Brand new case studies with recent examples of creative applications from clubs teams leagues and governing bodies including Arsenal AS Roma ICC Cricket World Cup LA Kings Portland Trail Blazers and UEFA. The sports industry’s response to tighter data legislation introduced primarily though the GDPR. The role of data and direct engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book provides clear guidance and knowledge that sports industry professionals need to understand the role of data for the business side of sports. It is essential reading for sports clubs governing bodies and those working in sports marketing media and communications sponsorship merchandise ticketing events and participation development. The book will also be of interest to students of sports management. | Winning with Data in the Business of Sports CRM and Analytics

GBP 31.99
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Co-operation and Globalisation The British Co-operative Wholesales the Co-operative Group and the World since 1863

Co-operation and Globalisation The British Co-operative Wholesales the Co-operative Group and the World since 1863

Globalisation is associated with capitalist multinationals dedicated to the enrichment of wealthy corporate shareholders. However less well known is that the English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Societies owned by the growing number of local co-operative societies across the country were early leaders in global commerce. Owned by their working-class members by 1900 there were over 1 000 societies and millions of individual members. Spreading profits widely through the ‘divi’ which rewarded members shopping at the co-op store and selling safe and wholesome food the co-operative movement was a successful part of the emerging labour movement. This success depended on the wholesale societies supplying societies with commodities from all over the world. Because local societies were free to source produce from whoever they chose competitive pressures required the wholesale societies to develop the world’s most formidable network of international supply chains with branches depots plantations and factories in the USA Canada Denmark Sweden Spain Greece France Germany India Ceylon Australia New Zealand colonial West Africa and Argentina. This book explains how the wholesales developed and managed these networks giving them a competitive advantage in their dealings with the local societies. It will explore why and how this ‘People’s Global Colossus’ declined in the later 20th century and how its focus in international commerce moved onto ethical sourcing investment and Fair Trade. Integral to these global networks were the UK movement’s relations with foreign co-operative movements especially through involvement in the International Co-operative Alliance and promotion of co-operatives in the Empire by successive British governments as a tool for economic development. The ‘People’s Colossus’ was thus a political as well as a commercial player in the increasingly complex world of the late 19th and 20th centuries. | Co-operation and Globalisation The British Co-operative Wholesales the Co-operative Group and the World since 1863

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Plants People and Culture The Science of Ethnobotany

Plants People and Culture The Science of Ethnobotany

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed clothe and heal the world’s population. One out of four prescription drugs for example were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos. Throughout the world the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible design using tattoo inks. Plants also garnered religious significance both as offerings to the gods and as a doorway into the other world. Indigenous claims that plants themselves are sacred is leading to a startling reformulation of conservation. The authors argue that conservation goals can best be achieved by learning from rather than opposing indigenous peoples and their beliefs. KEY FEATURES • An engrossing narrative that invites the reader to personally engage with the relationship between plants people and culture • Full-color illustrations throughout—including many original photographs captured by the authors during fieldwork • New to this edition—Plants That Harm a chapter that examines the dangers of poisonous plants and the promise that their study holds for novel treatments for some of our most serious diseases including Alzheimer’s and substance addiction • Additional readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further exploration • Boxed features on selected topics that offer further insight • Provocative questions to facilitate group discussion Designed for the college classroom as well as for lay readers this update of Plants People and Culture entices the reader with firsthand stories of fieldwork spectacular illustrations and a deep respect for both indigenous peoples and the earth’s natural heritage. | Plants People and Culture The Science of Ethnobotany

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Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

For the greater part of the twentieth century Ibbs and Tillett's concert agency was to the British music industry what Marks and Spencer is to the world of the department store. The roll-call of famous musicians on its books was unmatched and included such international stars as Clara Butt Fritz Kreisler Pablo Casals Sergei Rachmaninov Andr Segovia Kathleen Ferrier Myra Hess Jacqueline du Pr Clifford Curzon and Vladimir Ashkenazy to name but a handful. From 1906 the success of the company was due to the dedication of its founders Robert Leigh Ibbs and John Tillett. After their deaths the agency was run by the latter's wife Emmie who dubbed the 'Duchess of Wigmore Street' became one of the most formidable yet respected women in British music. The history of this unique institution and its owners is told here for the first time often through the fascinating letters that were exchanged between the artists themselves and the agency. It begins in the latter years of the 19th century with the concert and theatrical manager Narciso Vert for whom both Ibbs and Tillett worked until his death in 1905. The story then becomes a history of musical life in twentieth-century Britain illuminating aspects of the day-to-day management of concerts and festivals the lives and livelihoods of professional musicians as well as those who strove to join their ranks through audition or recommendation. The changing profile and particularly the onset and development of personal management of artists represented by Ibbs and Tillett and their reception in the press can be viewed as a barometer of musical taste. The demise of the agency in 1990 was indicative of just how much the world of British music had changed by the end of the century but despite its loss to the profession the legacy and influence of Ibbs and Tillett has remained a benchmark in today's highly competitive world of artist management and concert promotion many of whose principal operators began | Ibbs and Tillett The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire

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Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment

Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment

Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is a how-to book designed for the marketing practitioner. It provides detailed information on how to prepare and implement a marketing plan based in a total quality environment. For the last twenty years the authors as marketing practitioners and educators have been deeply involved in the planning processes of many corporations. This book Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is the product of what they've learned over the years from working with these diverse corporations and their executives. The authors provide readers with each step in the total quality planning process complete with check sheets and plan formats. After readers finish the book they can prepare a quality-driven marketing plan that will be used and followed throughout the year-instead of becoming a shelf item. This book is for you and the many other marketing professionals who are faced with one or more of these situations:You're doing a good job but you'd like to do even better. You're spending valuable time putting out fires. You lack time to do the things that need to be done. You're always having a hard time coordinating major marketing programs. You're faced with a major discrepancy between where you are and where you'd like to be; you've got a planning gap. You realize that you've got to offer your customers more quality if you're going to be competitive in the new market environment. You'd like to have a professional annual marketing plan-one that will be well received by management and will also keep you and your staff focused throughout the year. Because each step on how to develop a marketing plan is covered Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is ideal for presidents of smaller firms marketing directors and planners product managers and planning specialists. The authors include a sample fact book which can be used to store and analyze data planning forms which help convert data into information and marketing plan formats which ensure that the plan will get used.

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Field Guide to Clandestine Laboratory Identification and Investigation

Field Guide to Clandestine Laboratory Identification and Investigation

Clandestine labs that manufacture drugs or explosives may be encountered virtually anywhere. They can range from complex operations employing scientific equipment and exotic chemicals or simply kitchen utensils and chemicals purchased at a local grocery or hardware store. Regardless of their form the key to detecting clandestine labs is the ability to recognize the combinations of equipment and chemicals that constitute the lab in the first place. The first line of defense against the manufacturers—who supply the drug trade and terrorists with their tools of destruction—is law enforcement the fire services and other emergency responders. Field Guide to Clandestine Laboratory Identification and Investigation Second Edition provides the information necessary to recognize operations that produce these deadly brews. As with the prior edition the book has sections covering the chemicals and equipment commonly used in the manufacture of drugs and explosives. They are grouped in a manner that allows the emergency responder to quickly identify common combinations of equipment and chemicals that could potentially be used to manufacture drugs or explosives. Since many clandestine manufacturing operations use commonly available materials that have legitimate uses the author outlines how to quickly assess and recognize key indicators associated with clandestine laboratory operations. Sections within the book address information concerning both the hazards associated with those chemicals involved and the personal protective equipment needed to abate the hazards. In addition documentation requirements field-testing and sampling procedures are detailed for use once the operation has been seized and secured. Reproducible worksheets are provided to be used either as or to supplement the on-scene investigators’ field notes and assist in providing a standardized manner to objectively record information about the crime scene. The ability to identify the tools used to manufacture contraband drugs and explosives is a key element in the battle against drug abuse and terrorism making the Field Guide to Clandestine Laboratory Identification and Investigation Second Edition an indispensible resource for responders and investigators alike.

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