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  • The Constructed Mennonite

    History, Memory, and the Second World War

    by Hans Werner ...
    John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life.John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik Revolution, he was named Hans and grew up in a German-speaking Mennonite community in Siberia. As a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Journey of Leadership

    How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out

    by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, Ramesh Srinivasan ...
    **A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!When the pressure is on, many of the world’s top CEOs turn to McKinsey & Company to reinvent themselves and their organizations. The Journey of Leadership brings the experience of one of the world’s most influential consulting firms right to your fingertips.**This book is the first-ever explanation of McKinsey’s step-by-step approach to transforming leaders both ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Imagined Homes

    Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities

    by Hans Werner ...
    Series Book 1 - Studies in Immigration and Culture
    Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities is a study of the social and cultural integration of two migrations of German speakers from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to Winnipeg, Canada in the late 1940s, and Bielefeld, Germany in the 1970s. Employing a cross-national comparative framework, Hans Werner reveals that the imagined trajectory of immigrant lives influenced the process ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Green Paradox

    A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming

    by Hans-Werner Sinn ...
    A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach—which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy—has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Sustainable Living and Business

    Management of Social Innovations as a Shaping of Social Transformation

    Edited by Hans-Werner Franz, Gerald Beck, Diego Compagna, Peter Dürr, Wolfgang Gehra, Martina Wegner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The title of the book derives from the theme of the 20th Conference on Applied Social Sciences of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, held in Munich in May 2019.The question of what concrete contributions social innovations can make to the transition to forms of sustainable coexistence and economic activity is as much the focus of this book as the question of what contribution the ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Organisational Excellence and Resilience

    Stress Management as a Component of a Sustainable Corporate Development Strategy

    Edited by Rita Berger, C.-Andreas Dalluege, Hans-Werner Franz ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance. This book introduces the web-based diagnostic tool IMPRESS, which provides employees, managers and HR professionals with information about potential stress factors. The book describes the underlying methodology for this integrated approach and presents the tools and learning modules to support the methodology. A ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD

  • Responsibility

    The Many Faces of a Social Phenomenon

    Edited by Ann Elisabeth Auhagen, Hans-Werner Bierhoff ...
    Series series Routledge Research International Series in Social Psychology
    First Published in 2004. The importance of responsibility in the third millennium is increasing. The rise of new technologies and related environmental hazards, the problem of the neglect of poor and old people, and the increase in violence and aggression in general indicate that responsibility is the characteristic which is of critical importance for the survival of modern democratic structures. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Food Ethics

    Edited by Franz-Theo Gottwald, Hans Werner Ingensiep, Marc Meinhardt ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    In this first decade of the 21st century, more than 854 million people in the world are starving, while industrial nations are debating about obesity, generating energy from food plants, and a myriad of other topics many African and south Asian nations could only fathom. In this great discord, there have arisen many interdisciplinary discussions about problems in the field of applied Ethics, with ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Successful Ageing

    Ambition and Ambivalence

    by Clemens Tesch-Romer, Hans-Werner Wahl, Suresh Rattan, Liat Ayalon ...
    The ambition of ageing science to discover the golden fleece of longevity and health is closely connected to the concept of 'successful ageing'. Still, for a large portion of the population, frailty and cognitive impairment is the reality of ageing, and it is by no means certain if health promotion, prevention and other interventions will reduce the probability of its occurrence. This book argues ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Open Packing — Laparostomy —

    In Pancreatitis and Peritonitis

    Edited by Hans-Werner Waclawiczek, Oskar Boeckl, Gernot Pauser ...
    The Open Packing is a new and efficient method for treating necrotizing pancreatitis and severe peritonitis. It can reduce significantly the complications and lethality of these diseases. Close interdisciplinary cooperation with intensive care staff is essential for good results. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 35, 2015

    Subjective Aging: New Developments and Future Directions

    Edited by Manfred Diehl, PhD, Hans-Werner Wahl, PhD ...
    How do individuals perceive the experience of aging? Can this perception predict such developmental outcomes as functional health or mortality? The 35th volume of ARGG encompasses the most current and fruitful research findings about the subjective experience of aging and describes how they fit within a theoretical framework. It reflects a new and advanced stage of development in the discipline of ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • Challenge Social Innovation

    Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society

    Edited by Hans-Werner Franz, Josef Hochgerner, Jürgen Howaldt ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social ... Read more

    $217.79 CAD