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  • Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

    by Abhas K. Jha, Robin Bloch, Jessica Lamond ...
    Urban flooding is a significant challenge which today increasingly confronts the residents of the expanding cities and towns of developing countries, as well as policymakers and national, regional and local government officials. The Global Handbook presents the state-of-the art in urban flood risk management in a thorough and user-friendly way. It serves as a primer in integrated urban flood risk ... Read more

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  • Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition

    The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

    by Dan Ariely ...
    The groundbreaking bestseller from iconic behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely, now the inspiration for the Fall 2023 NBC show The Irrational"A marvelous book… thought provoking and highly entertaining."—Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think"Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser."—George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics ... Read more

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  • How Economics Explains the World

    A Short History of Humanity

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    “If you read just one book about economics, make it Andrew Leigh's clear, insightful, and remarkable (and short) work.” —Claudia Goldin, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics and Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard UniversityA sweeping, engrossing history of how economic forces have shaped the world—all in under 200 pagesOne of The Economist's Best Books of the YearIn How ... Read more

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  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    by Klaus Schwab ...
    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Read more

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  • Think Like a Freak

    The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

    by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner ...
    The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and ... Read more

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • Blue Ocean Strategy with Harvard Business Review Classic Articles “Blue Ocean Leadership” and “Red Ocean Traps” (3 Books)

    by W. Chan Kim, Renée A. Mauborgne ...
    Chart a path to creating uncontested market space and winning the future. This collection of work by globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne brings together their perennial bestseller book Blue Ocean Strategy with their classic articles “Blue Ocean Leadership” and “Red Ocean Traps.”Blue Ocean Strategy, the global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies and is ... Read more

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  • The Super Age

    Decoding Our Demographic Destiny

    by Bradley Schurman ...
    A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future.Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near future, much of the developed world will have at ... Read more

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  • Breaking Economic No-Growth

    by Hak Choi ...
    Series Book 8 - Profit Economics Series
    What is Economic Growth? GDP growth? But when there is no consumption, what is the purpose of growth. Optimal consumption? But when all resources are consumed, what else is left for growth?What is Economic Development? Birth control, industrialization, or capital deepening? Is Economic Development different from Economic Growth?What is steady state, golden rule, endogenous growth, phase diagram or ... Read more

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  • Capital and Ideology

    by Thomas Piketty ...
    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think ... Read more

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  • Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California

    by Jesse M. Keenan ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    This book serves as a guide for local governments and private enterprises as they navigate the unchartered waters of investing in climate change adaptation and resilience. This book serves not only as a resource guide for identifying potential funding sources but also as a roadmap for asset management and public finance processes. It highlights practical synergies between funding mechanisms, as ... Read more

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  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven ...
    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

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  • Social Innovation in Higher Education

    Landscape, Practices, and Opportunities

    Edited by Carmen Păunescu, Katri-Liis Lepik, Nicholas Spencer ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book offers unique and novel views on the social innovation landscape, tools, practices, pedagogies, and research in the context of higher education. International, multi-disciplinary academics and industry leaders present new developments, research evidence, and practice expertise on social innovation in higher education institutions (HEIs), across academic and professional ... Read more

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  • Unlikely Partners

    Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China

    by Julian Gewirtz ...
    Unlikely Partners recounts the story of how Chinese politicians and intellectuals looked beyond their country’s borders for economic guidance at a key crossroads in the nation’s tumultuous twentieth century. Julian Gewirtz offers a dramatic tale of competition for influence between reformers and hardline conservatives during the Deng Xiaoping era, bringing to light China’s productive exchanges ... Read more

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  • Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Management

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    A global survey of research organized by country clusters and covering a comprehensive range of topics including entrepreneurship, leadership, management, governance, finance, human resources management, organizational culture, strategic planning, product development, technology management and globalization. ... Read more

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  • The Process of Capitalist Production

    Enriched edition.

    by Karl Marx, Joel Foster ...
    Translated by Frederick Engels, Samuel Moore, Edward Aveling ...
    Karl Marx's 'The Process of Capitalist Production' delves into the intricate workings of the capitalist system, analyzing labor, commodities, and the accumulation of capital. Written in a clear and assertive style, Marx dissects the economic relationships between workers and owners, shedding light on the exploitation inherent in capitalist production. The book serves as a foundational text in ... Read more

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  • Principles of Economics

    by Saifedean Ammous ...
    Principles of Economics is a university-level textbook in economics that offers a clear and concise exploration of the most important economic concepts.This book is unapologetically Austrian in its approach. It tackles major economic concepts and topics independently, but in a logical sequence aimed at delivering the reader an understanding of economics at an individual and societal level, and the ... Read more

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  • Systems and Innovation Research in Transition

    Research Questions and Trends in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Jakob Edler, Rainer Walz ...
    Series series Sustainability and Innovation
    In the last decades it has become more and more imperative for our societies, and for decision makers in all areas of society, to understand the dynamics through which innovation systems develop and through which socio-technical systems transform themselves. As both innovation and transformation are strongly intertwined, it has equally become imperative to analyse their dynamics as well as their ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of China's Economy

    by Tao Wang ...
    For years, China’s transformation from one of the world’s poorest nations was lauded as a triumph that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. There were always questions about data reliability and growth sustainability, but the general views on China have recently taken a decidedly sour turn. Concerns abound about state interference in the economy, an ageing population, and high ... Read more

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  • The Onlife Manifesto

    Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era

    Edited by Luciano Floridi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and ... Read more

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  • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

    Theory and Practice

    by Peter Kibet ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This e-book provides students of community education and economic development with a theoretical and practical introduction to this field of study. It provides both a conceptual background and contemporary approaches. The book is divided into four sections. These are community education, community development, community mobilization and community participation. ... Read more

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  • Understanding Poverty

    Edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Roland Benabou, Dilip Mookherjee ...
    Understanding poverty and what to do about it, is perhaps the central concern of all of economics. Yet the lay public almost never gets to hear what leading professional economists have to say about it. This volume brings together twenty-eight essays by some of the world leaders in the field, who were invited to tell the lay reader about the most important things they have learnt from their ... Read more

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  • The History of Japanese Economic Development

    Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence

    by Kenichi Ohno ...
    This is an easy-to-read book that explains how and why Japan industrialized rapidly. It traces historical development from the feudal Edo period to high income and technology in the current period. Catch-up industrialization is analyzed from a broad perspective including social, economic and political aspects. Historical data, research and contesting arguments are amply supplied. Japan’s unique ... Read more

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  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

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