Open your students` minds with the course that delivers on all levels. Discover English uses simple tried and tested principles to address the needs of the modern student. No class is homogeneous, no two days the same - variety is key! Discover English provides a solid grammar and lexical syllabus with the perfect mix of variety and challenge to motivate young learners. Discover the world from your classroom with Discover English! Expand your students` knowledge along with their English. Four levels two possible starting points, Discover English provides a solid grammar and lexical syllabus with the right amount of variety and challenge to motivate young learners. CEF A1-A2 Learn, Discover, Enjoy!

ISBN: 978-1-4082-0937-0
Издательство: Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

“The End of Inequality” covers the global arena in the quest for a diagnosis and a cure of the problems confronting mankind, the magnitude of which is enormous and vast. It is also not possible to address all issues in one go. Nevertheless, an attempt has been made in this book in compiling some such issues under one umbrella. Facts have been presented with comments. Some ideas like “Trauma (engineering) centers” need to be set up to help those who have gone through traumatic circumstances- war, sexual abuse, and natural disasters. As far as the world's underprivileged is concerned, emphasis should be given on education for children, economic rehabilitation for the middle aged and social rehabilitation for aged people. The book...

ISBN: 978-3-8433-8612-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In recent years the automotive industry has experienced significant changes due to the globalisation of its value chain. For the coordination of as big a supplier network as of the BMW Group, there is no alternative to Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). As business relationships go global, conventional processes are challenged by country- and industry-specific technologies and codes of conduct. The analysis of the development of EDI standards shows that evolving from proprietary and national standards (VDA), the focus was extended to the European level (Odette) and finally reached the generic standard EDIFACT. But how are the suppliers prepared to follow this standardization process? Is EDIFACT already fully accepted? How do new...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-7422-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

As increasingly diversified patterns of growth are emerging and different avenues are followed by industrial districts to face globalisation, more attention should be paid to industrial districts response to global competition. How global forces shape industrial districts in different ways? This research addresses the theme of the viability of industrial districts in dealing with dramatic changes in their competitive environment. By relying on a cross-national comparison and a mono-sectoral investigation of the footwear industry, this study attempts to shed the light on the formulae or recipes for both success and failure in two industrial districts - Montebelluna in Italy and Northampton in Britain. In particular, the interpretative...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-4165-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book addresses the crucial intersection between the African Renaissance and higher education. While using the case of Christian higher education in South Africa, the value of this Renaissance-style book, extends beyond the impact of the phenomena on religious affairs in South Africa into all aspects of present-day African life. Africans cannot deny that the core influence of the phenomena, i.e., to revalidate African traditions in the face of challenges such as post-colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization, is sweeping the continent, thus an understanding of its impact is crucial in situating African perspectives in regards to African identity in academia and other spheres. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-8733-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

One of the main challenges humanity is facing in the 21. century is climate change with its impacts and consequences for the life on our Planet. Caused by natural and human factors, its consequences woke up the international community which subsequently adopted the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change where climate change has been tackled internationally ever since. Within the multilateral climate diplomacy the governments, scientists, businesses and civil society cooperate together on this global issue to adopt effective measures and policies to slow the climate change process. The role of international organizations is crucial and the climate talks at the Copenhagen Summit in 2009 was an important international event...

ISBN: 978-3-8433-7234-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Earlier theoretical and empirical approaches in development and planning were on the assumption that there is a distinction between rural and urban areas. Both spatial units have been given different emphasis that obscured joint synergy of RUL for poverty reduction and mutual development. The importance of developing the two areas in an integrated manner can no longer be overlooked by development stakeholders. In a globalizing world that is swiftly urbanizing, the need to overcome these dichotomies by including RULs into policy and planning is becoming increasingly self evident. Therefore, this book is written to contribute to the policy debate by empirically identifying the key forces driving RULs along with key emerging issues that...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-1818-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book is an ethnographically based investigation of Turkish modernities in which the domains of state, Islam, and neoliberalism, in all the multiplicities each entails, are struggling for political, economic, social, and cultural domination. Yet, they are not entirely oppositional as the three domains’ interactions contribute to keeping overlapping and ever evolving versions of patriarchies in place. I explicate my arguments through a focus on the Province of Hatay and its population of Syrian Alawi Arabs. Attending to their cultural and historical specificities, I contextualize both the region and its peoples with the formation of the Turkish state and the rapid and complex transformations that are occurring in Turkey at this...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-1028-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

International Education has become a global industry, driven by aggressive marketing overseas of degree programs by universities. Actors in international education are contributing to the new phase of international education industry. International education providers, thus, need to acknowledge the developments, understand marketing strategies and address the challenges of the future. By investigating Australian international education industry, this book explores the concepts and practices of international marketing strategies from Australian educational institutions. Marketing lessons and strategies from Australian international education are the highlight of this book. Данное издание не является...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-6249-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The question of gain from the degree of economic openness, in both trade and investment, is challenged in this study. The computable general equilibrium (CGE) model named GTAP has been modified to address the question above under the non-Classical assumptions, which include technological improvement, scale economies, and imperfect competition. The North-South analysis has been adopted by assuming that the developed region is the leader in machinery improvement, while the rest of the world is the South. Moreover, the electronic equipment sector in industrialized developing countries is assumed to have economies of scale in the production process with the Cournot oligopolistic competition. Simulation exercises have been performed as...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-3587-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

For more than three decades, the World Bank has been proposing global policies for education. Presented as research-based, validated by experience, and broadly applicable, these policies are ideologically driven, insensitive to local contexts, and treat education as independent of international dynamics and national and local economies and cultures. Target countries, needing resources and unable to generate comparable research, find it difficult to challenge World Bank recommendations. The World Bank and Education: Critiques and Alternatives represents a powerful challenge to World Bank proposals. Probing core issues-equity, quality, finance, privatization, teaching and learning, gender, and human rights-highlights the disabilities of...

ISBN: 9789460919015
Дата выхода: январь 2012

On 17 May 2007, the International Telecommunication Union launched the Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA), to provide a framework within which the international response to the growing challenges to cybersecurity can be coordinated and addressed. The Global Cybersecurity Agenda represents an initiative by the ITU to develop a comprehensive framework for international cooperation. The ITU Secretary-General benefited from the advice of an expert panel, the High-Level Experts Group, representing expertise in policy making, government, academia and the private sector. This advisory group met for the first time in Geneva, on 5 October 2007 , to develop strategies to combat cybercrime and promote cybersecurity. It formulated proposals to the...

ISBN: 978-6-1306-3166-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book is an attempt to historically and conceptually address the present human condition and the current specific role of education as a distinctively creative symbolic violence. In doing so, the book reevaluates the various manifestations and conflicting alternatives to normalizing education. The author suggests a unique, Diasporic, counter-education that transcends modern politics, postmodern philosophical assumptions and spiritual telos towards an impetus for the re-birth of what the author refers to as the "enduring improviser". It is a first step towards a new critical language that addresses the challenges of globalizing capitalism, of the cyberspace, of racism and of the new antisemitism that springs from postcolonialism. The...

ISBN: 9789087900717
Дата выхода: январь 2007

The world's economy still continues to globalise at rapid progression. However, this leaves organisations with the challenge of managing their human resources across cultural boundaries. The retention and development of internationally competent managers is critical to globally operating organisations. This calls for research that can help to more intelligently managing expatriate assignments. The purpose of this research project was to elaborate job performance-critical competencies for German-speaking expatriate managers working in the Middle East. Building on findings of competence models which are assumed to be applicable universalistically, it was this study’s aim to accommodate cultural factors influencing job performance. Eight...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-5160-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Diasporic Ruptures: Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity lies at the intersections of various processes emerging from globalization: border-crossings, transnationalism, identity formations. Carefully selected and placed in two volumes, the essays here represent works of both well-seasoned scholars as well as emerging writers, academics and intellectuals. The volumes critically examine various manifestations of the trend now commonly known as globalization--manifestations that many diasporic communities, immigrants, and people from all walks of life experience. They also illuminate recent political, social, economic and technological developments that are taking place in a rapidly changing world. Volume One offers...

ISBN: 9789087900502
Дата выхода: январь 2007

Diasporic Ruptures: Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity lies at the intersections of various processes emerging from globalization: border-crossings, transnationalism, identity formations. Carefully selected and placed in two volumes, the essays here represent works of both well-seasoned scholars as well as emerging writers, academics and intellectuals. The volumes critically examine various manifestations of the trend now commonly known as globalization--manifestations that many diasporic communities, immigrants, and people from all walks of life experience. They also illuminate recent political, social, economic and technological developments that are taking place in a rapidly changing world. Volume One offers...

ISBN: 9789087900632
Дата выхода: январь 2007

HIV/AIDS has challenged humans perhaps more than any other pandemic in recent history. In the era of globalization and increased movement of people crossing borders, immigrants especially from HIV prone countries to the western world have been singled out as one of the ‘risk groups’ by host nations.In countries like Sweden, where multicultural society is in the making, HIV prevention programs have targeted immigrants more than others. However, HIV infections are still on the increase and HIV prevention strategies and methods have been questioned. This book explores the views of HIV prevention workers drawn from immigrants themselves and closely examines explanations from structural to specific contextual factors for the challenges of...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-1318-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This research work is an application of Social Forecasting as given by Daniel Bell, distinguished sociologist, to provide solutions to people issue of job attrition of Business Process Outsourcing Industry in India. The social forecasting technique has been used for the first time to address issues of industry with focus on value priorities,individualization, role scope and job satisfaction. The BPO industry's novelty,variability,technological intensity,work intensity with new sociological, anthropological and economic networks at the intersection of globalization provide challenging opportunity for the present research. Individualization which refers to structural transformation of social institutions and change in the relationship of...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-9717-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Through White Noise is structured around poetry and personal stories about living in liminal space that requires and encourages cultural sensitivity, awareness, and commitment for a just society. A prominent theme in this book is the challenge of reconciling the ideal of Canadian multiculturalism with experiences of marginalization and stereotyping. Before her arrival, Khalida imagined her new homeland as a multicultural rainbow arched over a diversity of races, beliefs and practices. Entering Winnipeg in the middle of winter, she was greeted with a white world: white people, white, snow-covered ground, white trees and a pale blue sky. Jon is a Caucasian professor from England who has a privileged position as an academic citizen. He felt...

ISBN: 9789462090385
Дата выхода: январь 2012

The book addresses one of the hotly discussed global health policy topics of engaging Civil Society Organizations in the national health and development strategies. Particularly at this time of global economic down turn, the book provides a critical incite into the 21st centaury challenges of government and market failures in providing efficient and equitable health services to citizens across the world. It brigs a new perspective on acceptable methodologies of building partnerships between local and international Civil Society Organizations and the national governments in the developing countries context. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-7351-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The vision of the Internet has prompted politicians to influence the economic and social transition via an active technology policy. The technological development of society is a product of a complex interplay of technological, economic and socio-political opportunities and constraints. It involves multiple participants with diverse backgrounds and interests. During a fundamental paradigmatic change policy-makers face continuous challenges regarding the definition and implementation of effective and sustainable policies. Although this book predates the rise of eCommerce, it addresses themes of continuing present concern. Many of these remain politically unsettled, on national, supranational and especially international levels. For...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-4634-2
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The complexity of the sustainable future of mankind is not just the battle for better world or better tomorrow but a process which will take much more from humanity, shaping our needs to guarantee our presence through daunting challenges. The philosophy, observation and research have been supported by the system theory, systems thinking, analysis and synthesis of an engaged academic work. This work wants to address some of those inconvenient questions on where we are heading to, looking at the current state of systems dynamics, across disciplines. Many researchers, on a global scale, have contributed to the creation of this publication, which wants to be a testimonial of the never ceasing reflection on the challenges that will need to be...

ISBN: 978-3-8433-6287-0
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The computing infrastructures of the modern high-energy physics experiments need to address an unprecedented set of requirements. The collaborations consist of hundreds of members from dozens of institutions around the world and the computing power necessary to analyze the data produced surpasses already the capabilities of any single computing center. A software infrastructure capable of seamlessly integrating dozens of computing centers around the world, enabling computing for a large and dynamical group of users, is of fundamental importance for the production of scientific results. Such a computing infrastructure is called a computational grid. The SAM-Grid offers a solution to these problems for CDF and DZero, two of the largest...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-6506-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Child labor is regarded as one of the most serious problems of human rights violations in the contemporary world. Millions of children around the world have their rights violated every day and this is of great concern for the international community. This study will mainly focus on worst forms of child labor in a Bangladeshi context, nevertheless also touching upon other aspects of child labor both positive and negative. In doing so I found it important to investigate how a concept such as ‘globalization’ influences three important factors, child labor, education and poverty. The role of the government is important since they decide the political agenda and possess the power to make important decisions on behalf of the country and...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-9403-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Today, unprecedented emphasis is being placed on research as key motor for advancing the knowledge society and its offspring, the knowledge economy. Consequently, "research on the state of research" has moved high on the priority agendas for governments, for their specialized agencies and bodies devoted to this area, and for higher education institutions. Against this background, the central premise of the 2006 Global Colloquium of the UNESCO Forum for Higher Education Research and Knowledge "Universities as Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation - An Endangered Species" was that research is a key ingredient in the institutional identity of universities and an indispensable prerequisite for a successful programme of teaching and...

ISBN: 9789087904784
Дата выхода: январь 2008

Concerns about the environment and development are certainly not new.However, more recently the ongoing global dialogue has formed around the strategies needed to address the interrelated challenges of building healthy societies, economies, and environments.Over the past few decades, blind optimism about the creation of a modern technological utopia has been replaced by a more realistic understanding of the forces contributing to the world’s problems.“Sustainability” is becoming the key and essential element in every approach we plan towards new development.“Sustainability” is a challenge,for all of us.If,at all,we are to succeed, it will take more than a “Business As Usual” approach.In fact, we believe the whole definition...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-8149-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

At the present time, power systems are forced to operate at almost full capacity. Generation patterns result in heavy flows that tend to incur greater losses as well as threatening stability and security of the system. The utilization of the existing power system can be improved through the application of advanced power electronics technologies. Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) provide technical solutions to address the new operating challenges being presented today. This book presents a complete formulation of the problem of optimizing power system performance using shunt and series FACTS devices considering power system's reliability, steady state performance, and stability under small and large perturbations. The optimization...

ISBN: 978-3-8433-7122-3
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Humans are social creatures that long for relational connectedness. At the same time, they have a strong sense of self that seeks to maximize the capabilities of the individual. In these partially contradictory motivations self-evaluation has been proposed as a major process to initiate self-regulative mechanisms. One frequently identified self-evaluative indicator is self-esteem. The present research aims at exploring the extent to which self-evaluative processes depend on and interact with social relationships. The author links the self-esteem and social relationship literature with an emphasis on age related changes and specific challenges in the context of childlessness. Two empirical studies explore differential patterns of...

ISBN: 978-3-8381-0929-9
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Ethnic minority cross-genre texts are collections of subverted mainstream canonical traditions and conventions. Cross-genre writing challenges traditional notions about genre through content and form. This work covers four ethnic groups of U.S. women writers and their development of cross-genre writing; namely, Latina, African, Indian, and Asian. The analysis includes the formation of cross-genre writing and its connection to women of color, and examines a number of cross-genre women writers. Eclectic critical literary theories used include the "posts" of modernism, colonialism, feminism structuralism, and cultural studies. The analysis designates that cross-genre writing is a new creative way for ethnic women writers to theorize their...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-3797-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The non-profit National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) was launched in 1989 to address this economic and education challenges facing the country. It began by creating the first Commission on the Skills of the American workforce, charged with analyzing the impact of the globalizing world economy on the requirements for education and job training in the United States. Its report, America's Choice: high skills or low wages!, framed NCEE's agenda from that time to 2005, when NCEE convened the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, whose 2006 report, Tough Choices or Tough Times, called for a dramatic redesign of the nation's education and training systems. NCEE is...

ISBN: 978-6-1310-5462-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

How to conceptualize and study ‘shared power’ in multistakeholder collaborations? What are the ‘lessons learned’ from the early-ICANN open deliberations with significance to the current Internet Governance debate? "Powerscape of Internet Governance" is an in-depth investigation of the power dynamics of global multistakeholderism in ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). The private corporation was created in 1998 to manage the address resources of the global Net. Its authority and policy decisions have been challenged ever since by governments and civil society champions. By applying Foucault’s concept of power, this critical exploration construes the experimental ICANN as a network of interdependencies,...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-0614-5
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

We confront the capitalist dilemma. Our fabulously productive, wealth-creating global economic system is also fragmenting our communities and destroying the earth's ecosystem. The words "green" and "sustainability" are heard everywhere as humanity sounds the alarm of a planet in peril. The author argues we will transform our economy only when a global public conversation emerges with the power to shake up and move our politics, one that insists that ethics and values be infused into the way we do economics. Academically, this is the realm of discourse ethics - conversations in economics and ethics. In this volume, the author examines the discourse ethics of Jurgen Habermas in the context of two historical, real-world public conversations...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-5311-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Contamination of aquatic ecosystems with heavy metals has become a global problem and the impact of them on aquatic environments is severe due to the inability of water to disperse contaminants. To meet this threat, ecotoxicologists face a difficult challenge on how to assess the long-term impacts of metals which have already been released into the environment. Biomarkers indicate molecular and biochemical responses in exposed individuals as a tool to assess the status of an impacted environment and they can also serve as a basis for a Rapid Risk Assessment of Fish Health. In this context, this study evaluated three biomarkers (metallothionein (MT), Na+K+ ATPase and heat shock/stress protein 70 (HSP 70)) to determine the integrated...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-2854-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Over the past decade, the DNA microarray has evolved into one of the most commonly utilized genomic tools in biology labs around the world. While applications for microarrays have significantly grown over the years, they were originally designed for analyzing global gene expression profiles of tissues or cells. Through genetic profiling of thousands of cell lines and tissue samples, an exorbitant amount of genomic data has been obtained, revealing extensive large-scale gene expression changes that occur during essentially all normal and disease processes, such as cancer and aging. However, understanding the origins and consequences of these large-scale changes remains a challenge. To address this problem, we describe two computational...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-1099-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Addressing the challenges of a climate-constrained world will be an immense task for a country like India with a growing economy, a large population and the obligation to bring hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. Current projections show that India, after China, will experience the greatest increase in energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and must take critical steps today, at this important juncture in its development, to avoid “lock-in” to an obsolete high emissions trajectory. A critical part of the solution will lie in promoting renewable energy technologies as a way to address concerns about energy security, economic growth in the face of rising energy prices, competitiveness, health costs, and...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-7883-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

The relationship between migration and development is becoming an important field of study, yet the fundamentals - analytical tools, conceptual framework, political stance - are not being called into question or dialogue. This volume provides a valuable alternative perspective to the current literature as the contributors explore the contradictory discourses about migration and the role these discourses play in perpetuating inequality and a global regime of militarized surveillance. The assumptions surrounding the assymetrical transfers of resources that accompany migration are deeply skewed and continue to reflect the interests of the most powerful states and the institutions that serve their interests. Those who seek to address the...

ISBN: 9780857451781
Дата выхода: январь 2010

Fostering Human Development through Engineering and Technology Education (ETE) is a collaborative work offered to students, scholars, researchers, decision-makers, curriculum developers, and educators interested in the rich learning opportunities afforded by engineering and technology education. This book provides perspective about the roles ETE might uniquely play in applying contemporary pedagogical practices to enhance students` intellectual, cognitive, and social skills in the service of promoting equitable and sustainable human development. Education about engineering and technology has become an imperative for all people due to the exponential rate of technological change, the impact of globalization on culture and economy, and the...

ISBN: 9789460915475
Дата выхода: январь 2011

A decade has passed since the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms were introduced to the international community as economic instrument aimed to mitigate climate change. The purpose of this work is to highlight the implementation of the Kyoto flexible mechanisms and their future role in the light of global climate change mitigation; also addresses the issues that should be considered while contracting for carbon credits under CDM/JI projects. In order to see how the flexible mechanisms have been implemented, the following issues are discussed: the project-based and market-based Kyoto mechanisms and their implementation during the first commitment period (2008-2012); legal nature of carbon credits as a form of emission rights; the development of...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-3920-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Intercountry adoption emerged in Australia in the 1970s, at the end of the Vietnam War and with each new decade the adoption community and broader society have become more aware of the challenges and complexities of the adoptee experience. This book addresses the dearth of sociological literature available on the topic and considers the diverse experiences of Australian intercountry adoptees. It offers a fresh approach to the issue of 'cultural identity', utilizes qualitative research methods and asks questions about how particular discourses about race, culture, adoption and identity have impacted on intercountry adoptees' lives. The work illustrates how adoptees are managing to (re)define their fluid, hybrid identities within the...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-7741-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In What`s Wrong with America? Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation`s chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what needs to be done now to rediscover America`s power and prowess. They explain how the end of the cold war blinded the nation to the need to address these issues seriously. They show how America`s history, when properly understood, provides the key to coping successfully and explain how the paralysis of the US political system and the erosion of key American values have made it...

ISBN: 978-0-349-00009-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Water management in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and a city with 12 million inhabitants, faces numerous challenges such as flooding, poor service quality, groundwater depletion, inadequate sanitation, polluted river water, unplanned urban development, and the existence of large slums where more than one third of its population lives. Residents of Dhaka enjoy one of the lowest water tariffs in the world, which limits the utility`s capacity to invest. The utility in charge of water and sanitation in Dhaka, DWASA, addresses these challenges with a number of measures. It says that in 2011 it achieved a continuous water supply 24 hours per day 7 days a week, an increase in revenues so that...

ISBN: 978-5-5088-6026-4

We desperately need the dynamic revolution in education that this book offers us, reflecting the new ways of thinking and being on this planet that will permit us to live in peace as a global family even through massive climate changes. Read it and put these ideas into practice as quickly as possible in any ways you can! ELISABET SAHTOURIS, Evolutionary biologist and futurist, author of EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution Fasten your seatbelts before you enter this collection of provocative, sometimes brilliant, essays, because it will take you at warp speed on a journey to many places you have not conceived of before, places where your past understandings and current beliefs may be shaken up. Basing their work on theory, imaginative...

ISBN: 9789087905118
Дата выхода: январь 2008

В настоящей книге рассматриваются экономические и социальные результаты рыночных реформ в странах с переходной экономикой за 15-летний период, включая: реформирование отношений собственности; динамику ВВП, промышленного производства и занятости; актуальные направления территориально-отраслевых преобразований в рыночных условиях; социальные и экологические последствия промышленной...

ISBN: 9785484005277
Издательство: КомКнига
Дата выхода: октябрь 2023

Higher education has become a site of contestation for many stakeholders such as administrators, academics, students, funders and government. Interestingly, emerging challenges are unprecedented. One of the key challenges in a developing society is the high failure rate among first year students. These students are seen to lack the necessary educational tools to negotiate the terrain of higher education, successfully. Cultural differences and individual insecurities serve to hamper meaningful integration into a highly sophisticated system of learning This book explores how peer facilitated mentoring at a university in South Africa, the Westville campus of the University of Natal, potentially addresses the academic and social needs of...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-5050-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Navigating in Educational Contexts: Identities and Cultures in Dialogue includes selected papers from the 2009 Biennial Conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT), held at the University of Lapland in Finland. This volume contains keynote addresses and papers based on the thematic presentations held at the conference: Identity, context and marginality, Professional development and learning, Context and teaching, and ICT in teaching and learning. The articles open perspectives to the challenges in. education and point to the need for dialogue between different racial, cultural, social and gender groups. The articles benefit educators, teacher educators and policy makers aiming to enhance equity and...

ISBN: 9789460915208
Дата выхода: январь 2011

Architecture-Centered Software Project Planning (ACSPP) is an important software development methodology for planning software projects. By utilizing software architecture when managing projects, practitioners experience better success completing projects on time and within budget, while effectively fulfilling the project\'s requirements. Written for project managers and software architects, Architecture-Centric Software Project Management demonstrates how to draw on software architecture to design schedules, generate estimates, make scope decisions, and manage the team for a successful outcome. The book addresses each cornerstone of effective project management-planning, organizing, implementing, and measuring. Daniel Paulish...

ISBN: 0-201-73409-5
Издательство: Addison-Wesley
Дата выхода: май 2002

This book is a comparative study on women, governance and democratization in Nigeria and Ghana. It addresses the major challenges facing women in their attempt to move from their marginalised position. It focuses on the past, the present, and what the future holds as they interact globally in this era of Third Wave Feminism, in a world where women more than before desire emancipation and integration into political processes and governance. It also examines the governments' commitment to international covenants and obligations entered into by them. In a world of globalisation where domestic rules and norms are being overshadowed by international supremacy, the book reviews why women in these two Anglophone countries are yet to attain the...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-7406-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In recent years a new approach to macroeconomics has been developed that challenges conventional wisdom and uncovers how money `works` in the modern economy. This book synthesizes the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, currency regimes and exchange rates in both the USA and developing nations. Randall Wray addresses the pressing issues of how misunderstandings about the nature of money have caused the current global financial meltdown, and provides fresh ideas about how policymakers around the world should address the continued weaknesses in their economies

ISBN: 978-0-230-36889-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012

What does it mean to learn and educate in these social and historical times? This edited collection engages an international group of education thinkers in a series of ongoing intercultural conversations that speak to the challenges and possibilities of engaging with education, difference and diversity in a globalised world. Shifting across a range of geographical, theoretical, institutional and disciplinary contexts, the contributors identify in their own empirical and theoretical research work examples of localised solutions to the problems of diversity for the practice of education. These "educational enactments" illustrate the interactions of localised and global level discourses within contexts of educational policy and practice,...

ISBN: 9789460910081
Дата выхода: январь 2009

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs is an academic research center at Georgetown University in Washington, DC dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of religion, ethics, and politics. Its work focuses on global challenges of democracy and human rights, economic and social development, international diplomacy, and interreligious understanding. The center lists two guiding premises: "that a deep examination of faith and values is critical to address these challenges, and that the open engagement of religious and cultural traditions with one another can promote peace." Conceived as part of Georgetown`s "Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Peace" in 2004, the Berkley...

ISBN: 978-5-5149-3403-4

Climate Change, air pollution, and energy security are three key policy issues in China’s energy sector. To address the aforementioned challenges, JianJun Tu applied CIMS, a technologically explicit and behaviourally realistic model to the most populous country. His research findings show that there are plausible energy development paths that would enable China to continue economic development while ensuring security of energy supply and acceptable local and global environmental quality. Advanced technologies have been identified as the key drivers to achieve ambitious emissions control and energy security targets. In addition, This book reveals that while a carbon tax can effectively reduce both carbon and sulphur emissions, a sulphur...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-4380-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Companies of the 21st century are faced with increasing demands from the market. These demands are among other things derived from technological innovations and the corresponding development towards a global marketplace. Specific advantages deriving from operating in a global market appear to be exploitable only by large organizations. Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), in particular, must find organizational solutions that allow them to cope with global business opportunities without suffering the effects of their limited resources. In this context, the notion of the virtual enterprise (VE) is receiving increasing attention as a business model addressing these new business challenges. This book, therefore introduces a methodology...

ISBN: 978-3-6391-4163-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In recent years, international efforts to improve educational quality in sub-Saharan Africa have focused on promoting learner-centered pedagogy. However, it has not fl ourished for cultural, economic, and political reasons that often go unrecognized by development organizations and policymakers. This edited volume draws on a long-term collaboration between African and American educational researchers in addressing critical questions regarding how teachers in one African country-Tanzania-conceptualize learner-centered pedagogy and struggle to implement it under challenging material conditions. One chapter considers how international support for learner-centered pedagogy has infl uenced national policies. Subsequent chapters utilize...

ISBN: 9789462092228
Дата выхода: январь 2013

This volume is a collection of research cases illustrating the interrelationships among education, dominance and identity in historical- and contemporary contexts. The cases reflect particular ways in which local-, group, and indigenous identities have been affected by a dominant discourse, how education can support or undermine identity, and how languages (including dominant and sub-dominant languages) and the language of instruction in schools are at the centre of challenges to hegemony and domination in many situations. Examining the issues in their research, the contributors reveal how members of minority-, disadvantaged-, or dominated groups (and the teachers and parents of children in their schools) struggle for recognition, for...

ISBN: 9789462091238
Дата выхода: январь 2012

This book is the first of its kind in Russian legal literature. Written by distinguished practitioners and providing an overview of Russian real estate law in the English language, this book examines the opportunities and challenges players encounter in Russia`s real estate market, which has been dramatically reshaped by the recent global financial turmoil. In 11 chapters the authors address all relevant legal aspects of transactions in the real estate arena, including property issues, development and construction, traditional financing structures and post-crisis trends, civil and corporate law aspects, tax and currency control regimes, merger control and insolvency procedures, as well as specific due diligence issues and the significant...

ISBN: 978-5-466-00752-7
Издательство: Волтерс Клувер
Дата выхода: октябрь 2010

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CAMERA, or the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, is a microbial ecology research project which was announced in January 2006.The project aims to serve the needs of the microbial ecology research community by creating a vast data repository and a bioinformatics tools resource that will address many of the unique challenges of metagenomic analysis. The project is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation which awarded a 7-year, $24.5-million research grant to the CAMERA project, beginning in January 2006. CAMERA is devoted to serving the needs of scientists studying the complexity of...

ISBN: 978-6-1310-4746-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

In the face of unprecedented global challenges like poverty and climate change, can individuals make a difference? This book reveals what motivates people to devote their time and energies to addressing social, environmental and ethical issues. Based on in-depth research among corporate sustainability and responsibility (CSR) professionals, it shows the pivotal role of values, inspiration, expertise, empowerment, strategic thinking and social contribution among "purpose-inspired leaders". Using extensive illustrative quotations, different types of CSR change agents are identified, including experts, facilitators, catalysts and activists. The implications for business of better understanding these CSR leaders is explored, as well as the...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-7188-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Economic developments of the last several decades have changed the economic and social structures of industrialized and developing countries, leading to new business opportunities but also to terrifying social risks and rising ecological catastrophes worldwide. Multinationals are increasingly expected by their stakeholders to find strategies and ways to respond to these global challenges, to play a more active role in addressing social issues, and to take responsibility for their actions in developing countries. Kathrin Bauer describes in her report how corporations can balance these societal demands and stakeholders’ expectations with the goals of their company by using corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a public relations...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-7865-7
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ceres is a non-profit, American network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges, such as global climate change. Founded in 1989, its core mission is integrating sustainability into capital markets. In 2007, Ceres was named one of the 100 most influential players in corporate governance by Directorship magazine. Ceres was a recipient of the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006, as well as a recipient of the Fast Company Social Capitalist Awards in 2008. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

ISBN: 978-6-1341-4472-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA), formerly CA, Inc. and Computer Associates, Inc., is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest independent software corporations in the world. Headquartered in Islandia, New York, the company supports software which runs in mainframe, distributed, virtualized and cloud environments and which a majority of the Forbes Global 2000 has installed. In 2010, CA Technologies announced its cloud computing management strategy at its CA World user conference, and its new CA Cloud-Connected Management Suite of products that address the emerging challenges presented by the cloud.

ISBN: 978-5-5108-2918-1

Exploring Geography in a Changing World is a new Key Stage 3 series designed to present real-life geography to motivate and stimulate pupils. With challenging content, engaging practical activities and an emphasis on `thinking skills` pupils can achieve a solid foundation of knowledge and skills for progression to GCSE. Book 3 addresses global issues such as population distribution, the contrast between rich and poor societies and environmental concerns. Opportunities for fieldwork are provided throughout the course, and pupils relate the content to the real world through the Issues activities at the end of each chapter.

ISBN: 978-0-340-94606-0
Издательство: Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Professor Jesse Mugambi is one of the most challenging and prolific African scholars in the disciplines of Christian Theology, Philosophy of Religion and Applied Ethics. Early in 1990 he became widely acclaimed in Christian theological circles after he addressed the General Committee of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) on 30 March at Nairobi, reflecting on “The Future of the Church and the Church of the Future in Africa.”. This event was a few weeks after Nelson Mandela had been released on 11 February 1990 and Namibia had attained national independence on 21 March of the same year. In his Address, Mugambi suggested that African Christianity must shift theological gear from the...

ISBN: 978-5-5131-1787-2

Sustaining food supply to burgeoning global population especially under changing climate is a challenge for mankind. Though several options are available to address this challenge, many of them are constrained while considering the conservation of resource base. In this context, farm diversification offers good scope and dominance of small farms in developing nations is an advantage to practice spatial or temporal integration of farming enterprises. This integration could offer leads for solving many issues such as enhancing livelihoods of resource poor farmers, ensuring nutritional security, conserving soil health and agro- biodiversity. Methodologies and results of the research undertaken to evolve suitable Integrated Farming System...

ISBN: 978-3-8383-3626-8
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

This book includes the materials from author's PhD thesis. In the past three decades, the use of foreign currency options has increased exponentially as a hedging tool and for speculative purposes into a major foreign exchange activity. Increased use of foreign currency options is a reflection of the explosive growth in the use of other kinds of options. It leads a major concern about the improvements in pricing currency options in the 24- hour-a-day basis foreign exchange market. In order to ensure that options are correctly priced, the options market needs to be efficient. This book, therefore, provides a systematic analysis of the key issues currency options pricing and its market efficiency. The contemporary market microstructure...

ISBN: 978-3-6392-9957-1
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

While Grid computing is rapidly emerging as the dominant paradigm for distributed problem solving for a wide range of application domains, the heterogeneity, dynamism, and uncertainty of Grid environments result in significant application coordination challenges. This book investigates a shared-space based decentralized architecture model for addressing scalable and robust coordination for Grid applications. This model employs fully decentralized architecture and provides a global virtual shared-space abstraction that can be associatively accessed by all peers in the system. Further, this access is independent of the physical location of the tuples or identifiers of the host. In this research, we design and develop Comet decentralized...

ISBN: 978-3-8364-9948-4
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011

Training therapists can be challenging when considering they must effectively develop a strong therapeutic alliance and obtain a clear assessment of patient problems, often in a limited number of sessions. This book seeks to present two different models of psychotherapy to address these needs. Psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral theories are combined to provide one model. A family psychology model is presented to provide a more systemic and global perspective. The training tool offered for implementing these models is a multimedia environment with DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) technology that combines multiple learning factors including pictures, text, video, and audio in an easy-to-use format. Данное издание не...

ISBN: 978-3-6390-5738-6
Издательство: Книга по требованию
Дата выхода: июль 2011