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What We Owe Each Other
One of the world's most influential economists sets out the basis for a new social contract fit for the 21st century
This landmark study by Minouche Shafik, Director of the LSE, draws on evidence from across the globe to show that the social contract - how we pool risks, share resources and balance individual and collective responsibility - shapes not just our wealth and opportunities but the very fabric of our lives. And yet societies everywhere are failing to adapt to the global upheavals of technology, demography and climate, leading to a breakdown in mutual trust the world over.
Brilliantly lucid and accessible, What We Owe Each Other draws on a wealth of evidence and learning to outline the basic principles that every society must adopt to meet these challenges. Reshaping the social contract will have profound implications for gender equality, education, healthcare provision, the role of business and the future of work. This book will equip every reader to understand and play their part in this urgent and necessary transformation.
Free and Equal
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?
This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely ambitious and exhilarating intervention, it is by rediscovering Rawls that we can find a way out of the escalating crises that are devastating our world today.
Taking Rawls's humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for a progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better. He shows how we can protect free speech and transcend the culture wars; get money out of politics; and create an economy where everyone has the chance to fulfil their potential, where prosperity is widely shared, and which operates within the limits of our finite planet.
This is a book brimming with hope and possibility - a galvanising alternative to the cynicism that pervades our politics. Free and Equal has the potential not only to transform contemporary debate, but to offer a touchstone for a modern, egalitarian liberalism for many years to come, cementing Rawls's place in political discourse, and firmly establishing Chandler as a vital new voice for our time.
*A Waterstones, Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*
The 4 Day Week Handbook
What if there was a simple idea that could transform the lives of workers, employers, the economy, our society, and our environment?
More and more employers are switching to a four-day week, leaving workers happier and economies healthier.
In the UK we work some of the longest hours in Europe, staggering home on a Friday evening stressed out and tired out.
Written by the director of the UK's 4 Day Week campaign, this handbook shows how all that can change for the better.
Using real-life case studies, it shows the positive impact of everyone working one day less a week for the same pay:
Learn the practical steps necessary to change employment contracts and working conditions.
Discover how to have happier staff who are more loyal and have fewer sick days.
Start finding out how a four-day week can transform your organisation.
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The Sustainability Scorecard
Using a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are good for the planet, human health, and profits.
Natural resource inputs to business operations are getting scarcer and more expensive, while climate-change-related economic shocks pose a risk to seamless operations and, more importantly, threaten business continuity. How can organizations integrate sustainable design in their overarching operations and align it with profitability and corporate strategy?
Based on Paul Anastas’s foundational Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry, the Sustainability Scorecard is the first scientifically rooted, data-driven methodology for creating inherently sustainable and profitable products and processes. By redesigning with sustainability as a key design element, firms open themselves to unexpected solutions, leapfrog innovations, and sources of value that simply don’t occur when sustainability is leveraged purely as a risk-avoidance and compliance measure.
Urvashi Bhatnagar and Anastas offer dozens of examples of how sustainable operations can yield benefits such as expanding market share, creating new service lines, and transforming supply-chain and sourcing models to drive the most consistent and highest long-term value. With this comprehensive framework, your firm will be able to identify truly innovative, inherently sustainable products as opposed to “less bad” products and processes that don’t provide the exponential value that only breakthrough products can.
The World War I Book
Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars".
Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images The World War I Book explores the historical background to the war, its causes, all of the key events across the major theatres of conflict, and its aftermath.
Using the original, graphic-led approach of the series, entries profile more than 90 of the key events during and surrounding the conflict - from the growing tensions between Europe's major powers to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the German invasion of Belgium, the endless slaughter in the trenches, the American entry into the war, the Russian Revolution, the Armistice, and the creation of the League of Nations.
In this book, you can explore the following:
-Key milestones of the First World War – exploring the technologies, tactics, and turning points.
-Main theatres of the conflict and the experience of war – from civilian life to the horrors of gas attacks.
-Bold imagery and clear text with insightful and inspiring quotes from military leaders and historians
Offering a uniquely compelling, accessible, and immediate history of the war, The World War I Book shows how certain key battles, individual leaders, political and economic forces, and technological advances influenced the course of the conflict and the following decades. This book is part of the Big Ideas Simply Explained series, with other titles including The Art Book, The Architecture Book and The Astronomy Book.
The Daughter of Auschwitz
An incredible story of courage, resilience and survival.
'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I must speak on their behalf.'
Tova Friedman was one of the youngest people to emerge from Auschwitz. After surviving the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Central Poland where she lived as a toddler, Tova was four when she and her parents were sent to a Nazi labour camp, and almost six when she and her mother were forced into a packed cattle truck and sent to Auschwitz II, also known as the Birkenau extermination camp, while her father was transported to Dachau.
During six months of incarceration in Birkenau, Tova witnessed atrocities that she could never forget, and experienced numerous escapes from death. She is one of a handful of Jews to have entered a gas chamber and lived to tell the tale.
As Nazi killing squads roamed Birkenau before abandoning the camp in January 1945, Tova and her mother hid among corpses. After being liberated by the Russians they made their way back to their hometown in Poland. Eventually Tova's father tracked them down and the family was reunited.
In The Daughter of Auschwitz, Tova immortalizes what she saw, to keep the story of the Holocaust alive, at a time when it's in danger of fading from memory. She has used those memories that have shaped her life to honour the victims. Written with award-winning former war reporter Malcolm Brabant, this is an extremely important book. Brabant's meticulous research has helped Tova recall her experiences in searing detail. Together they have painstakingly recreated Tova's extraordinary story about the world's worst ever crime.
Net Positive
These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and shrinking biodiversity—threaten our very existence on the planet. Yet division and discord risk undermining our response, just when we need to come together. Global partnership and leadership are lacking, free trade and globalization are under attack, and populism continues to breed intolerance and disruption.
At this critical time in history, the imperative to reimagine our economies and companies could not be more urgent. Fortunately, many in the business community—from large corporations to microenterprises—are helping to solve our most profound challenges by deploying long-term, purpose-led business models that put people and planet first. And they are profiting on this new path with new tools, AI and data-driven transparency, and radical improvements in the economics of clean technologies.
The key question has flipped from Why would you do sustainability? to Why wouldn't you?In this paradigm-shifting book, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman and sustainable-business guru Andrew Winston provide a model to help leaders build companies that contribute more to the world than they use or take—that is, net positive companies. They bypass the last gasps of denial to show how purpose and profits are inextricably linked and how collective action can deliver the scale of change and transformation the world needs.
Net Positive outlines the principles and practices for surviving and thriving, based on the experience of one world-leading company, Unilever, and other groundbreaking global organizations. This essential book is for leaders, executives, managers, and professionals who want to succeed, but know that winning requires caring deeply about serving the world. Building a net positive company is the key, and this book shows the way.
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Berlin
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.
In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.
How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before.
Climate Shock
If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you’d take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you’d reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there’s a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren’t we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future—why not our planet?
In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater. A rogue nation might shoot particles into the Earth’s atmosphere, geoengineering cooler temperatures. Zeroing in on the unknown extreme risks that may yet dwarf all else, the authors look at how economic forces that make sensible climate policies difficult to enact, make radical would-be fixes like geoengineering all the more probable. What we know about climate change is alarming enough. What we don’t know about the extreme risks could be far more dangerous. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance—as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale.
With a new preface addressing recent developments Wagner and Weitzman demonstrate that climate change can and should be dealt with—and what could happen if we don’t do so—tackling the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.
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Na lodi Pentcho za slobodou z Bratislavy do Palestíny
Kniha vtiahne čitateľov do fascinujúceho príbehu z obdobia druhej svetovej vojny. Opisuje putovanie parníka Pentcho, no najmä osudy ľudí, ktorí sa ocitli na jeho palube. Rozprávanie sa začína v máji 1940, keď loď vyplávala z bratislavského prístavu a za novým životom sa na nej vydalo 500 Židov. Na malom priestore v zlých podmienkach sa ocitli ľudia z rôznych sociálnych vrstiev, rôzneho veku a odlišnou motiváciou opustiť Európu. Cesta mala trvať niekoľko týždňov, no putovanie sa pre väčšinu stroskotancov skončilo až v roku 1944, keď ich previezli do Palestíny. Kniha spája príbehy ľudí do pestrej mozaiky doplnenej jedinečným obrazovým materiálom vrátane dobových fotografií či osobnej korešpondencie a zápiskov vysťahovalcov.
Profesor Eduard Nižňanský je slovenský historik a vysokoškolský pedagóg. Zaoberá sa 20. storočím a skúma najmä extrémne režimy. Zaoberá sa témami ako nacizmus a holokaust a je autorom viacerých publikácií.
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Výběr z ekonomické statistiky: Od OECD k České republice
Soubor doplňků a komentářů k dílu Enrica Giovanniniho – Understanding Economics Statistics (OECD, 2008). Kniha může být studována také samostatně, nejedná se ovšem o souvislé dílo pokrývající celou problematiku, ale o vybraná témata, která se autoři snažili rozvést a komentovat. Zaměřili se především na představení OECD a její role v oblasti tvorby a koordinace ekonomických statistik, na problematiku statistických klasifikací zejména v souvislosti se změnami, ke kterým došlo v poslední době, a také na vybrané matematické nástroje používané v ekonomické statistice. Pro zájemce o studium ekonomické statistiky může i tato příručka představovat užitečný doplněk ke stávajícím studijním textům. Překlad knihy Understanding Economics Statistics od E. Giovanniniho vyjde v květnu 2010 v našem nakladatelství pod názvem Ekonomická statistika srozumitelně v překladu V. Friedricha a R. Majovské.
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Ekonómia pre technikov
Publikácia nadväzuje na tradíciu založenú dielom významného slovenského ekonóma Rudolfa Brišku (1908 1971), ktorý bol prvým profesorom ekonómie na Vysokej škole technickej v Bratislave. Študentom technických odborov umožní pochopiť ekonomické proce
sy a vzťahy v modernej trhovej ekonomike a poskytne im východiská na orientáciu v nej. Okrem toho tu nájdu aj vysvetlenia základných makroekonomických súvislostí a opatrení hospodárskej politiky štátu, ktoré súhrnne vytvárajú pre podniky objektívnu r
ealitu, ovplyvňujúcu výsledky ich hospodárenia.
Publikácia je určená študentom technických odborov vysokých škôl.
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Wanderlust : A History of Walking
What does it mean to be out walking in the world, whether in a landscape or a metropolis, on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age, from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers. With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body, the imagination, and the world around the walker.
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Me Before You
The New York Times bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture; US release on June 3, 2016. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life?steady boyfriend, close family?who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex?Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life?big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel?and now he?s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy?but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn?t have less in common?a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks,What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart? From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Order without Design
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.
Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground—the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative—“sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient”—often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings. In this book, the eminent urban planner Alain Bertaud argues that applying the theories of urban economics to the practice of urban planning would greatly improve both the productivity of cities and the welfare of urban citizens.
Bertaud explains that markets provide the indispensable mechanism for cities' development. He cites the experience of cities without markets for land or labor in pre-reform China and Russia; this “urban planners' dream” created inefficiencies and waste. Drawing on five decades of urban planning experience in forty cities around the world, Bertaud links cities' productivity to the size of their labor markets; argues that the design of infrastructure and markets can complement each other; examines the spatial distribution of land prices and densities; stresses the importance of mobility and affordability; and critiques the land use regulations in a number of cities that aim at redesigning existing cities instead of just trying to alleviate clear negative externalities. Bertaud concludes by describing the new role that joint teams of urban planners and economists could play to improve the way cities are managed.
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Exploring Culture
A masterpiece in intercultural training!
Exploring Culture brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life. Gert Jan Hofstede and his co-authors Paul Pedersen and Geert Hofstede introduce synthetic cultures, the ten "pure" cultural types derived from the extremes of the five dimensions. The result is a playful book of practice that is firmly rooted in theory.
Part light, part serious, but always thought-provoking, this unique book approaches training through the three-part process of building awareness, knowledge, and skills. It leads the reader through the first two components with more than 75 activities, dialogues, stories, and incidents. The Synthetic Culture Laboratory and two full simulations fulfill the skill-building component.
Exploring Culture is suitable for students, trainers, coaches and educators. It can be used for individual study or as a text, and it serves as an excellent partner to Geert Hofstede's popular Cultures and Organizations.
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Je planeta Země už plná?
Počet obyvatel zatěžuje naši planetu a ta je jen stěží schopna nás uživit..."
Z takového výroku se zdá, že globální kolaps už je na spadnutí, ale počet obyvatel, o kterém se zde mluví, byl asi 190 milionů lidí na celé Zemi a myslitel, jenž šířil tuto poplašnou zprávu, byl Tertullianus, obyvatel Kartága píšící ve 2. století našeho letopočtu. Za posledních 40 let se světová populace zdvojnásobila až na současných 7 miliard lidí, ale tempo jejího růstu se zpomaluje a počet obyvatel ani není jedinou rozhodující proměnnou, uvažujeme-li o tom, zda je planeta Země už plná. Žijeme v "globální vesnici" a jsme v nebezpečí, protože nám chybí vesnická rada starších, která by nás vedla. Změny klimatu, zásoby vody a potravin, využívání neobnovitelných zdrojů a v poslední době především migrace - to všechno jsou problémy, kterým lidé čelí.
Jaké jsou etické důsledky růstu světové populace? Je stávající úroveň spotřeby bohatých lidí trvale udržitelná? Je možné, aby taková úroveň byla rozšířena na všechny obyvatele planety? Jaký je současný stav planety Země a jejího ekosystému a jak se asi změní s růstem populace a příjmů? Co mohou lidé, firmy a vlády dělat, aby zastavili negativní dopady populačního růstu a naopak využili ty pozitivní? Na tyto otázky v knize o současnosti i budoucnosti planety odpovídají akademici z oborů ekonomie, demografie, filozofie, geografie, biologie, fyziky i medicíny z Oxford Martin School při Oxfordské univerzitě.
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Understanding the World. The Atlas of Infographics
Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans have looked at this Earth that is our home and endeavored to understand it.
This expansive visual atlas presents the most exciting, creative and inspiring ways of explaining the world in information graphics. Divided into five chapters, the book covers the environment, technology, economics, society, and culture to reveal some of the Earth's greatest intricacies in accessible visual form. Featuring more than 280 graphics, reproduced in large scale including seven fold-out spreads, the collection focuses on the 21st century, but also includes historical masterpieces to put our current situation into perspective.
Nigel Holmes introduces the book with an exclusive infographic of his own, while Sandra Rendgen provides an illustrated historical essay to explore how we have studied and interpreted our world over the centuries. With graphics drawn from such sources as Fortune, National Geographic, and The Guardian, this is not only a showcase of outstanding data design, but also a fascinating digest of where and how we live.
Iron and Blood
Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing book, encompassing five centuries of political, military, technological and economic change to tell the story of the German-speaking lands, from the Rhine to the Balkan frontier, from Switzerland to the North Sea. Wilson's narrative considers everything from weapons development to recruitment to battlefield strategy.
Germans' military impact on the rest of Europe has been immense. If there is one constant it has been the sense of being beset by seemingly more powerful enemies - France or Russia or Turkey - and the need to strike a rapid knockout blow to ensure a favourable result. Almost inevitably, this has in practice meant protracted, relentless and often unwinnable wars, and - in 1939-1945 - moral catastrophe.
The author of definitive books on the Holy Roman Empire and the Thirty Years War, Peter Wilson has with Iron and Blood written his masterpiece.
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