This is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions. This textbook is essential reading for students of business, management and sustainability courses. This new edition is updated throughout, and contains an additional chapter on the circular economy.

The second edition of this popular introductory undergraduate textbook uses examples, applications, and a problem-solving approach to convey the impact of biomedical engineering. Updated throughout, the author has included more qualitative and quantitative questions and problems, highlighting recent advances in biomedical engineering to provide a modern overview of the field.

In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic.

What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing th...

Conducted properly, information security risk assessments provide managers with the feedback needed to manage risk through the understanding of threats to corporate assets, determination of current control vulnerabilities, and appropriate safeguards selection. Performed incorrectly, they can provide the false sense of security that allows potential threats to develop into disastrous losses of proprietary information, capital, and corporate value. Picking up where its bestselling predecessors ...

A focused look into the business and management practices across Asia, from an author team located across three Asian-Pacific countries and experience of leading organisations spanning over more than two decades.

The world's bestselling guide to negotiation. Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years. This timeless classic has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Founded on principles such as:* Don't bargain over positions* Separate the people from the problem* Insist on objective criteria. Getting to Yes simplifies the whole negotiation process, offering a highly effective framework that will ensure success.

Remorseless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Relentless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed?In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets th...

Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

Het Kursbuch bestaat uit tien Lektionen. In de Inhaltsverzeichnis worden de onderdelen van elke Lektion weergegeven: opbouw, thema's, taalhandelingen, woordenschat en grammatica, uitspraak en spellingregels. Thema's die aan bod komen zijn onder andere: introductie van een nieuwe medewerker, de bedrijfsstructuur, een fabrieksbezoek, een zakenreis, vergaderingen, thuiswerken, beroepskleding en de computerwerkplek.

De tien Lektionen zijn helder gestructureerd en bieden een ruim aanbod aan opdra...

Niveau B1 bis C1

Die em Übungsgrammatik ist die ideale Ergänzung für Lernende, die mit dem Lehrwerk em neu arbeiten, aber auch lehrwerksunabhängig einsetzbar.

Voraussetzungen: Grundstufenkenntnisse (obere Grundstufe).

Zielgruppe: Lernende der Niveaustufen B1 bis C1.

Lernziel: Vertiefung und Wiederholung der Grund- und Mittelstufengrammatik.

Konzeption: Die em Übungsgrammatik vermittelt einen Überblick über die frequenten Phänomene der deutschen Grammatik. Durch den integrierten Lösun...