This book presents key insights about the challenges and the approaches they applied. All companies are featured in 15 teachable case studies – ready to use in entrepreneurship and strategy courses – that represent a broad level of diversity with regard to countries, industries, topics, growth phases, challenges and internationalization strategies.

Neben großen Themen wie Beauty, Kochen und Katzen haben sich wachsende Nischen für religiöse Kommunikation im digitalen Raum etabliert. Instagram, das heißt heute auch: gelebte Religion, Bibel, Spiritualität, Kirchenpolitik, Seelsorge und Bildung. Der Band gibt Einblick in die Entwicklung von Instagramkanälen, zeigt neue Formen der Gemeinschaftsbildung und behandelt religiöse Influencer. Er beleuchtet, wie authentisch erklingende Instagram-Stimmen von religiös und kulturell interessierten ...

Through ethnographic research conducted among landfill workers and waste pickers, Europe’s Disappearing Waste explores the inner workings of the Czech waste management system that is underpinned by the belief that waste should disappear. Waste streams give rise to underflows that provide opportunities for those who refuse to be passive witnesses of disposal and loss of value. The normative assumptions about market-based solutions and techno-optimism in waste management are called ...

This book emphasizes that there are essential, universal human truths and we can tap into them to reassure ourselves during times of turbulence. In addition, the book focuses you on how to take principled action, do the right thing and have courage in the face of lifes challenges. It is aspirational and practical. 1. Understanding that our lives, like the great classic stories, follow a pattern 2. That this pattern is common to all human beings, the world over 3. Understanding the pattern ...

"The Child Development Program: Preventing and Remediating Learning Problems" is divided into two books. The first book outlines the Child Development Program, specifically explaining what it is and how it can be implemented. It is written in sensible, straightforward language, describing the procedures, materials, and "how-to" every step of the way.

Meet the challenges of life and master your futureDo you ever feel like you’re just floating through life with a lack of direction? Or get that nagging feeling that things could be better? Then it’s time you thought about your life plan.Our lives can be thought of as stories – as narratives and adventures – and nearly all classic stories share certain universal characteristics. Our lives should be seen as a hero’s journey, a quest filled wi...

In this sweeping and inventive debut novel that's perfect for fans of Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, and Tim Burton, a prodigal inventor flees his home to find his destiny. In the humdrum town of Moormouth, Walter Mortinson's unusual inventions cause nothing but trouble. After one of his contraptions throws the town into chaos, Walter's mother demands he cut the nonsense and join the family mortuary business. Far off on Flaster Isle, famed inventor Horace Flasterborn plans to take Walter under h...

Der Band schildert Geschichte und Gegenwart der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen aus der Perspektive der gemeinsamen Migrationserfahrungen. Im ersten Teil widmen sich die Beiträge der Beschreibung der unterschiedlichen Migrationsformen auf dem Alten Kontinent und in Übersee. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt der Koexistenz der deutschen und polnischen Migranten in den USA, Kanada, Australien und Kasachstan. Die Beiträge veranschaulichen das Weiterbestehen der Nachbarschaft an den neuen Niederlas...

Waste represents a category of ‘things’, which is familiar and ubiquitous but rarely reflected in archaeological and cultural studies. Perception of waste changes over time and practices associated with waste vary. The ambiguity of waste challenges traditional archaeological approaches that take advantage of refuse to infer past behavior. Recent developments in research in the social sciences and humanities indicate that waste offers many more dimensions for exploration.This interd...

Canticles for LobotomyBy: Robert S. SosnaFor private eye Rashid Sosnova and his wife/partner, Talullah Blackwell, weird cases are nothing out of the ordinary. The Valley of Rabbits, in parallel-universe Pansylvania, has plenty of weird to go around.But when an incident on the yeti-infested Big Mountain seems to connect to a string of bad-guy lobotomies by a vigilante called Dr. Lobe, Rashid and friends find themselves neck deep in a full-fledged bigfoot noir that ties...

Music and art can help us feel and express deep emotions. We can be happy or sad, but that is only the beginning. This beautiful book explores the powerful link between art, music, and emotion, and is ideal for deepening Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and building a fuller emotional vocabulary. Built on the principles of SEL, each page of The ABCs of My Feelings and Music offers an emotion word in a piece of colorful artwork, one for each letter of the alphabet. Below each illustration ar...

Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and transition, but the stereotype of a region with one party politics, one crop agriculture, white supremacy, cultural insularity, grinding poverty , somnolent cotton towns, and languorous rural landscapes has largely passed into history. Possum Trot and Tobacco Road have been suburbanized and how have ...