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  • Art and Life in Modernist Prague

    Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938

    by T. Ort ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Ethics of ESG

    Critically Assessing the Environmental, Social and Governance Movement

    Edited by Valentina Gentile, Eric W. Orts, Andreas Rasche, Alan Strudler ...
    In recent years, new forms of investment have been created to direct funds towards companies performing well according to predefined environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators. This volume addresses moral, political, and legal questions about the legitimacy of ESG as a management and investment strategy. Some chapters argue that ESG strategies should focus on creating real-life impacts ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Fiction, Memory, and Ethnic Politics in the South Caucasus

    Edited by Mikail Mamedov, Peter Orte, Nona Shahnazarian, Ulvi Ismayil ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    The book explores the aftermath of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the effects of war and nationalism in the South Caucasus. While the Soviet Union’s dissolution seemed to promise democracy and liberalization, the rise of nationalist movements in Armenia and Azerbaijan led to those countries becoming undemocratic monoethnic states, which ethnically cleansed their largest minorities ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    One Page Talent Management, with a New Introduction

    Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value

    by Marc Effron, Miriam Ort ...
    Narrated by Jim Denison ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    You know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent. Yet somehow, your company's beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don't translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why?Talent management experts Marc Effron and Miriam Ort argue that companies unwittingly add layers of complexity to their talent ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Moral Responsibility of Firms

    Edited by Eric W. Orts, N. Craig Smith ...
    Individuals are generally considered morally responsible for their actions. Who or what is responsible when those individuals become part of business organizations? Can we correctly ascribe moral responsibility to the organization itself? If so, what are the grounds for this claim and to what extent do the individuals also remain morally responsible? If not, does moral responsibility fall entirely ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Problem-Driven Political Economy Analysis

    The World Bank's Experience

    Edited by Verena Fritz, Brian Levy, Rachel Ort ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Public Sector Governance
    Problem-driven political economy analysis holds considerable promise for development practitioners seeking to identify policies and strategies that are most likely to deliver solutions for difficult development challenges. This volume takes stock of the World Bank's experiences applying this approach. The eight good practice cases presented in this volume illustrate recent Bank achievements. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evolution of the Chilean-Argentinean Andes

    Edited by Andrés Folguera, Eduardo Contreras-Reyes, Nemesio Heredia, Alfonso Encinas, Sofía B. Iannelli, Verónica Oliveros, Federico M. Dávila, Gilda Collo, Laura Giambiagi, Andrei Maksymowicz, María Paula Iglesia Llanos, Martín Turienzo, Maximiliano Naipauer, Darío Orts, Vanesa D. Litvak, Orlando Alvarez, César Arriagada ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the Mesozoic to Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean and Argentinean Andes. The book is structured from a historical perspective concentrating on specific processes explained in each chapter. The chapters cover dynamic subsidence; neotectonics; magmatism; long and short term deformation; spatial development of ancient orogenic processes that control Andean reactivations; relation ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Growth of the Southern Andes

    Edited by Andrés Folguera, Maximiliano Naipauer, Lucía Sagripanti, Matías C. Ghiglione, Darío L. Orts, Laura Giambiagi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents recent findings on the structure and evolution of the Southern Andes. Through a detailed description of a series of orogenic segments reviewed by the different groups that have worked with structural and geophysical tools in each area over the last several years, it illustrates the diversity of mechanisms that have impacted strong orogenic gradients and consequently mountain ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in Specialised Genres

    Providing Keys to the Rhetoric of Professional Communities

    Edited by Ruth Breeze, Maurizio Gotti, María Ángeles Orts Llopis ...
    Series Book 227 - Linguistic Insights
    This volume focuses on the study of linguistic manipulation, persuasion and power in the written texts of professional communication, to go further into the understanding of how they are constructed, interpreted, used and exploited in the achievement of specific goals. Such texts are here contemplated from the stance of genre theory, which starts from the premise that specialised communities have ... Read more

    $114.59 USD

  • Images of Otherness

    Edited by Carles Cortés Orts ...
    Series Book 40 - Romania Viva
    We define others based on the image we have of ourselves, in other words, by opposition to what we are or think we are. This is the theory advocated in sociological studies that seek to examine the deepest aspects of a changing society, ever more heterogeneous and complex. This monograph is intended as a meeting point for specialists from European universities, giving them a platform to reflect on ... Read more

    $49.59 USD

  • A Christmas Carol: Of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come

    by Stefan Orts-Romanet ...
    Tick tock, tick tock. It's Christmas time; Santa's ghosts are coming to town. New York, 1963. A man in his late fifties, by the name of Robert Marley, is of the same blood as the wolves of Wall Street. One of a kind. As old as cold, as rich as selfish, as greedy as grumpy. Time is money… But time becomes Marley's nemesis when the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come question and ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Page Talent Management, with a New Introduction

    Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value

    by Marc Effron, Miriam Ort ...
    A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fastYou know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent. You also know what it takes to build that talent--and you spend significant financial and human resources to make it happen. Yet somehow, your company's beautifully designed and well-benchmarked processes don't translate into the bottom-line talent depth you need. Why ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook