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Hitler Redux

The Incredible History of Hitler’s So-Called Table Talks

By: Mikael Nilsson

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Hitler Redux

The Incredible History of Hitler’s So-Called Table Talks

By: Mikael Nilsson

After Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader – two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first in-depth analysis and critical study of Hitler’s so-called table talks and their history, provenance, translation, reception, and usage. Based on research in public and private archives in four countries, the book shows when, why, where, how, by and for whom the table talks were written, how reliable the texts are, and how historians should approach and use them. It reveals the crucial role of the mysterious Swiss Nazi Francois Genoud, as well as some very poor judgement from several famous historians in giving these dubious sources more credibility than they deserved. The book sets the record straight regarding the nature of these volumes as historical sources – proving inter alia The Testament to be a clever forgery – and aims to establish a new consensus on their meaning and impact on historical research into Hitler and the Third Reich. This path-breaking historical investigation will be of considerable interest to all researchers and historians of the Nazi era.

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Fundamental Polymer Science

By: Ulf W. Gedde,Mikael S. Hedenqvist

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Fundamental Polymer Science

By: Ulf W. Gedde,Mikael S. Hedenqvist

This successor to the popular textbook, “Polymer Physics” (Springer, 1999), is the result of a quarter-century of teaching experience as well as critical comments from specialists in the various sub-fields, resulting in better explanations and more complete coverage of key topics. With a new chapter on polymer synthesis, the perspective has been broadened significantly to encompass polymer science rather than “just” polymer physics. Polysaccharides and proteins are included in essentially all chapters, while polyelectrolytes are new to the second edition. Cheap computing power has greatly expanded the role of simulation and modeling in the past two decades, which is reflected in many of the chapters. Additional problems and carefully prepared graphics aid in understanding. Two principles are key to the textbook’s appeal: 1) Students learn that, independent of the origin of the polymer, synthetic or native, the same general laws apply, and 2) students should benefit from the book without an extensive knowledge of mathematics. Taking the reader from the basics to an advanced level of understanding, the text meets the needs of a wide range of students in chemistry, physics, materials science, biotechnology, and civil engineering, and is suitable for both masters- and doctoral-level students. Praise for the previous edition: ...an excellent book, well written, authoritative, clear and concise, and copiously illustrated with appropriate line drawings, graphs and tables. - Polymer International ...an extremely useful book. It is a pleasure to recommend it to physical chemists and materials scientists, as well as physicists interested in the properties of polymeric materials. - Polymer News This valuable book is ideal for those who wish to get a brief background in polymer science as well as for those who seek a further grounding in the subject. - Colloid Polymer Science The solutions to the exercises are given in the final chapter, making it a well thought-out teaching text. - Polymer Science

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3030297942

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Applied Polymer Science

By: Ulf W. Gedde,Mikael S. Hedenqvist,Minna Hakkarainen,Fritjof Nilsson,Oisik Das

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Applied Polymer Science

By: Ulf W. Gedde,Mikael S. Hedenqvist,Minna Hakkarainen,Fritjof Nilsson,Oisik Das

This companion volume to “Fundamental Polymer Science” (Gedde and Hedenqvist, 2019) offers detailed insights from leading practitioners into experimental methods, simulation and modelling, mechanical and transport properties, processing, and sustainability issues. Separate chapters are devoted to thermal analysis, microscopy, spectroscopy, scattering methods, and chromatography. Special problems and pitfalls related to the study of polymers are addressed. Careful editing for consistency and cross-referencing among the chapters, high-quality graphics, worked-out examples, and numerous references to the specialist literature make “Applied Polymer Science” an essential reference for advanced students and practicing chemists, physicists, and engineers who want to solve problems with the use of polymeric materials.

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3030684725

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Elite Business Schools

Education and Consecration in Neoliberal Society

By: Mikael Holmqvist

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Elite Business Schools

Education and Consecration in Neoliberal Society

By: Mikael Holmqvist

Social scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites: There’s a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals but also as a class. By examining elite business schools, the institutions that train and prepare people to assume important leadership and decision-making positions in business, finance and related sectors, we may also learn how the economic elites are made. A key argument in this book is that elite schools are known to create powerful groups in society, offering them the intellectual and analytical means to act as leaders, but, most importantly, the social, moral and aesthetic skills that are deemed necessary to exercise power; in all essential respects elite schools consecrate people. By dominating much of higher education today, and by doing so in a way that creates and reproduces a market-based organization and control of society, elite business schools represent certain interests and ideologies that affect the lives of most people. In understanding how the modern economy is run, elite business schools, therefore, represent critical study objects. This book, based on an in-depth study of the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), offers a sociological analysis of the world of elite business schools. Specifically, this book examines the consecration of SSE’s students from a number of perspectives and in a number of situations, focusing on student union activities, school culture, faculty behavior, teaching, courses and alumni events, noting the symbolic importance of economics and particularly the school’s unique relation among the world’s business schools to the Nobel Prize. The book addresses the topics with regards to the sociology of elites, management education and organizational studies and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students also interested in business history, higher education studies, and sociology of education.

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1000530191

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The Change Book: How Things Happen

By: Mikael Krogerus,Roman Tschäppeler

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The Change Book: How Things Happen

By: Mikael Krogerus,Roman Tschäppeler

The world is in constant flux—this handy book helps make sense of it. From business cycles to budding trends, models make sense of a world that never stops spinning. The Change Book delivers 52 simple and effective models—each with a visual component—about how change happens. Drawing on myth-busting theories and breakthrough discoveries from thinkers of all stripes, Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler, authors of the international bestseller The Decision Book, apply their characteristic wit and knack for the succinct to show what fuels the internet, why empires rise and fall, and why change hurts—but ultimately helps us grow. Whether you’re starting a new job, lobbying for a cause, or wondering how Jesus would invest, The Change Book is your clever guide through transformations in business, culture, technology, relationships, and more.

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Nordic Economic Policy Review 2022: COVID-19 Effects on the Economy in the Nordics

By: Andersen, Torben M.,Holden, Steinar,Honkapohja, Seppo,Eichhorst, Werner,Brunner, Johannes,Zoega, Gylfi,Hultkrantz, Lars,Svensson, Mikael,Hall, Caroline,Hardoy, Inés,Lundin, Martin,Huttunen, Kristiina,Pesola, Hanna

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Nordic Economic Policy Review 2022: COVID-19 Effects on the Economy in the Nordics

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2022-001/ This issue of the Nordic Economic Policy Review surveys the economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the health and economic policies introduced to minimise its impact in the Nordic countries. Although national policies were broadly similar, they also differed in many respects. Given that some enjoyed greater success than others, comparing different policies and their effects may yield valuable lessons for the future. The Nordic countries weathered the pandemic relatively well compared to most other high-income countries, both in terms of public health and economic repercussions. Infection and excess mortality rates were comparatively low in the Nordic Region, except in Sweden, where they relied more on recommendations and guidelines than mandatory measures to contain the spread of the virus. The fall in GDP was also comparatively small and short-lived in all the countries except Iceland, where tourism plays a more prominent role in the economy. Nordic Economic Policy Review (NEPR) aims to convey policy-relevant, up to date research on different economic issues. The review produces one issue per year, each time with a new topic and researchers. NEPR strives to make the latest economic research accessible to both decision-makers and a broader audience, as well as to contribute to Nordic knowledge exchange on economic policy issues and challenges.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289371773

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Evaluation and monitoring of the activities of youth organisations in the Nordics

What could be learned among the Nordic countries?

By: Gretschel, Anu,Kautto, Tuija,Lehikoinen, Jarkko,Lehtonen, Mikael,Särkiluoto, Viola,Tarvainen, Kai

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Evaluation and monitoring of the activities of youth organisations in the Nordics

What could be learned among the Nordic countries?

By: Gretschel, Anu,Kautto, Tuija,Lehikoinen, Jarkko,Lehtonen, Mikael,Särkiluoto, Viola,Tarvainen, Kai

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-531/ Evaluation and monitoring of the activities of youth organisations in the Nordics - what could be learned among the Nordic countries? -project has aimed to identify the best practices in each Nordic country for the evaluation and quality monitoring of youth organisations. The project has produced information on the best practices and put together a situational picture on the evaluation of the impacts of youth organisation activities in different Nordic countries. The best practices will provide good suggestions for youth organisations on how to improve the quality of their activities, while a broader situational picture will create added value especially for public administration.

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Citizen-Consumers and Evolution

Reducing Environmental Harm through Our Social Motivation

By: Mikael Klintman

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Citizen-Consumers and Evolution

Reducing Environmental Harm through Our Social Motivation

By: Mikael Klintman

This book develops a groundbreaking, novel approach to examining ethical consumer behaviour from the perspective of evolutionary theory, illustrating the deeply rooted potentials and limits within society for reducing environmental harm.

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1137276800

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Networked Control Systems

By: Alberto Bemporad,Maurice Heemels,Mikael Johansson

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Networked Control Systems

By: Alberto Bemporad,Maurice Heemels,Mikael Johansson

This book nds its origin in the WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems, which we organized in July 2009 in Siena, Italy. Having gathered experts on all the aspects of networked control systems, it was a small step to go from the summer school to the book, certainly given the enthusiasm of the lecturers at the school. We felt that a book collecting overviewson the important developmentsand open pr- lems in the eld of networked control systems could stimulate and support future research in this appealing area. Given the tremendouscurrentinterests in distributed control exploiting wired and wireless communication networks, the time seemed to be right for the book that lies now in front of you. The goal of the book is to set out the core techniques and tools that are ava- able for the modeling, analysis and design of networked control systems. Roughly speaking, the book consists of three parts. The rst part presents architectures for distributed control systems and models of wired and wireless communication n- works. In particular, in the rst chapter important technological and architectural aspects on distributed control systems are discussed. The second chapter provides insight in the behavior of communication channels in terms of delays, packet loss and information constraints leading to suitable modeling paradigms for commu- cation networks.

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Arthur

The Dog who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home

By: Mikael Lindnord

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Arthur

The Dog who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home

By: Mikael Lindnord

The uplifting true story of an extreme athlete, a stray dog, and how they found each other. “Heroic and heartwarming” (Forbes), this unbelievable adventure will make readers laugh, gasp, cry, and see rescue dogs with a whole new perspective. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MARK WAHLBERG—STREAMING ON STARZ When you're racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, when he threw a scruffy but dignified mongrel a meatball one afternoon. When the team left the next day, the dog followed. Try as they might, they couldn't lose him—and soon Mikael realized that he didn't want to. Crossing rivers, battling illness and injury, and struggling through some of the toughest terrain on the planet, the team and the dog walked, kayaked, cycled, and climbed together toward the finish line, where Mikael decided he would save the dog, now named Arthur, and bring him back to his family in Sweden, whatever it took. Illustrated with candid photographs, Arthur provides a testament to the amazing bond between dogs and people.

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Towards sustainable consumption in the Nordic Region

By: Fråne, Anna,Dahlbom, Maja,Sanctuary, Mark,Malmaeus, Mikael,Fjellander, Liv,de Jong, Annelise

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Towards sustainable consumption in the Nordic Region

By: Fråne, Anna,Dahlbom, Maja,Sanctuary, Mark,Malmaeus, Mikael,Fjellander, Liv,de Jong, Annelise

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/nord2021-024/ This analysis sheds light on the Nordic region's environmental "spillover effect" as a result of our consumption, as well as other social effects.The results indicate that in general consumption-based emissions reveals that the global emissions continue to grow with transport as the biggest source to consumption-based CO2-e emissions from households in the Nordic countries, followed by food and housing. Also, there is a need for better due diligence, transparency and monitoring. Based on reported CO2-e intensities several shifts are suggested to be supported by policy instruments: 1. Shift from beef to other meat consumption. 2. Shift from meat to vegetables. 3. Reduce food waste. 4. Reduce air travel. 5. Shift from private cars to public transportation and soft mobility. 6. Prolong life of goods. 7. Respect human rights. 8. Reduce overall private consumption.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289369841

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The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change

By: Leigh Glover,Mikael Granberg

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The Politics of Adapting to Climate Change

By: Leigh Glover,Mikael Granberg

This book examines the political themes and policy perspectives related to, and influencing, climate change adaptation. It provides an informed primer on the politics of adaptation, a topic largely overlooked in the current scholarship and literature, and addresses questions such as why these politics are so important, what they mean, and what their implications are. The book also reviews various political texts on adaptation.

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3030462056

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Human Sciences and Human Interests

Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences

By: Mikael Klintman

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Human Sciences and Human Interests

Integrating the Social, Economic, and Evolutionary Sciences

By: Mikael Klintman

Within the disciplines of social, economic, and evolutionary science, a proud ignorance can often be found of the other areas’ approaches. This text provides a novel intellectual basis for breaking this trend. Certainly, Human Sciences and Human Interests aspires to open a broad debate about what scholars in the different human sciences assume, imply or explicitly claim with regard to human interests. Mikael Klintman draws the reader to the core of human sciences - how they conceive human interests, as well as how interests embedded within each discipline relate to its claims and recommendations. Moreover, by comparing theories as well as concrete examples of research on health and environment through the lenses of social, economic and evolutionary sciences, Klintman outlines an integrative framework for how human interests could be better analysed across all human sciences. This fast-paced and modern contribution to the field is a necessary tool for developing any human scientist’s ability to address multidimensional problems within a rapidly changing society. Avoiding dogmatic reasoning, this interdisciplinary text offers new insights and will be especially relevant to scholars and advanced students within the aforementioned disciplines, as well as those within the fields of social work, social policy, political science and other neighbouring disciplines.

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1317484177

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Comparison and analysis of national climate change adaptation policies in the Nordic region

By: Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin,Aall, Carlo,Drews, Martin,Juhola, Sirkku,Jurgilevich, Alexandra,Klein, Richard J.T.,Mikaelsson, Mikael Allan,Lyngtorp Mik-Meyer, Villy

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Comparison and analysis of national climate change adaptation policies in the Nordic region

By: Gram-Hanssen, Irmelin,Aall, Carlo,Drews, Martin,Juhola, Sirkku,Jurgilevich, Alexandra,Klein, Richard J.T.,Mikaelsson, Mikael Allan,Lyngtorp Mik-Meyer, Villy

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2023-525/ This report presents the findings from a comparative study of climate change adaptation policy in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Based on a comparative analysis of the policy landscape, including legislative frameworks, policy instruments, and financing mechanisms, the report identifies best practices and main challenges as well as key factors influencing the progress of national adaptation. Despite considerable progress in several of the Nordic countries, the report identifies multiple challenges, including lack of systems for monitoring, reporting and evaluation, lack of sufficient funding and economic incentives and lack of appropriate tools and knowledge for aligning adaptation with other societal goals, such as mitigation and sustainable development. The report ends by suggesting ways to enhance adaptation in the Nordic countries.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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928937635X

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9789289376358

MySQL Cluster 7.5 inside and out

By: Mikael Ronström

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MySQL Cluster 7.5 inside and out

By: Mikael Ronström

MySQL Cluster has been developed for more than 20 years. The amount of innovative ideas in the product deserves a thorough description. This book covers the reasons why NDB was developed, the initial requirements and what applications it is used in. Covers internal algorithms and how they interact with external APIs and configuration. Contains a thorough description of how you configure both NDB and Linux for optimal performance and availability. Covers the NDB APIs, the replication between clusters, how to use MySQL Cluster with Docker, how to use NDB in the Cloud. You will learn how to use the benchmark tool dbt2-0.37.50.15 that is heavily used to benchmark MySQL Cluster.

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The Test Book

By: Mikael Krogerus,Roman Tschäppeler

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The Test Book

By: Mikael Krogerus,Roman Tschäppeler

An essential library of tests for self-knowledge and success, from the strategic thinking experts behind the international bestseller The Decision Book. Are you clever? Can you self-motivate? Are you creative? How do you handle money? Can you lead others well? With their trademark style and wit, best-selling authors Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschäppeler present sixty-four tests spanning intelligence and personality type; creativity and leadership skills; fitness and lifestyle; and knowledge and belief. From what you see in a Rorschach test to comparing your workout against a Navy SEAL’s, from EQ to IQ and Myers-Briggs in between, The Test Book offers a panoply of ways to assess yourself and decide what you need to succeed. As Krogerus and Tschäppeler highlight, you can only know whether you have the right skills, the right job, or the right partner when you know where you stand right now. Small enough to fit in your pocket but packed with insight and good humor, The Test Book delivers a quick, fun way to evaluate your life and happiness.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393247058

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Researching Resistance and Social Change

A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice

By: Mikael Baaz,Mona Lilja,Stellan Vinthagen

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Researching Resistance and Social Change

A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice

By: Mikael Baaz,Mona Lilja,Stellan Vinthagen

Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions. Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change. By drawing connections between resistance and politics, between performance and everyday strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies, this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding of contemporary debates in this emerging field.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786601184

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Marketing and Sustainability

Contradiction or the Path to Profitable Businesses and Sustainable Societies?

By: Pia A. Albinsson,Hugo Guyader,Mikael Ottosson,Anders Parment

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Marketing and Sustainability

Contradiction or the Path to Profitable Businesses and Sustainable Societies?

By: Pia A. Albinsson,Hugo Guyader,Mikael Ottosson,Anders Parment

In-depth, authoritative overview of sustainability issues and how sustainability is integrated into management and marketing theory and practices Marketing and Sustainability equips readers in the fields of management and marketing with an in-depth understanding of sustainability issues and how sustainability is integrated into business. Examples from across the globe are included on topics such as how businesses use services, sharing practices, and sustainable business models in their operations to face increasing demands to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, limited resources, and increased global competition. This book is concerned with consumer and business markets, considering marketing practices as part of business administration. Up-to-date and topical areas of research such as the sharing economy, are thoroughly discussed and illustrated with supporting models, figures, and vignettes. The book is accompanied by a companion site for instructors and faculty, which includes PowerPoint slides and exam Q&A’s. Videos introducing each chapter’s content are also available via YouTube. Written by a team of highly qualified academics, Marketing and Sustainability includes information on: Factors influencing consumers and their choices, sustainable marketing practices and their effectiveness, and how to communicate sustainability initiatives through marketing campaigns Strategies to be heard in a crowded, branded world, and sustainability business models including product-service systems, social enterprises, and sharing and circular economy models Sustainable marketing strategies including chapters on sustainable marketing channels, sustainable pricing, sustainability oriented marketing communication and branding Greenwashing, the process of conveying a false impression or misleading information about how a company’s products are environmentally sound, and why it’s bound to backfire Marketing and Sustainability is an essential reference for undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students as well as managers in companies, the public sector, and civil society—all of whom are under increasing pressure to deal with marketing and sustainability for strategic purposes as well as in everyday practices.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1394273762

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Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Fashioning Difference

By: Mikael Alm

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Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Fashioning Difference

By: Mikael Alm

The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case for the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century, the period in focus of this book. Unlike previous studies on sumptuary laws and other legal actions taken by governments and formal power holders, this book offers a broader and more everyday perspective on late eighteenth-century sartorial discourse. In 1773, there was a publicly announced prize competition on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress in Sweden. Departing from the submitted replies, the study opens a window onto the sartorial world. Several fields of cultural history are brought together: social culture in terms of order, hierarchies, and notions of difference; sartorial culture with contemporary views on dress and moral aspects of sartorial practices; and visual culture in terms of sartorial means of making a difference and the emphasis on the necessity of a legible social order.

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1000415503

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Islamic Art Collections

An International Survey

By: Karin Ådahl,Mikael Ahlund

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Islamic Art Collections

An International Survey

By: Karin Ådahl,Mikael Ahlund

An annotated index and general orientation of Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions and on private hands. Includes a short description of each collection, its main characteristics, documentation, publications and exhibitions.

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Psychology Press

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0700711538

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The Creative Discipline

Mastering the Art and Science of Innovation

By: Nancy K. Napier,Mikael Nilsson

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The Creative Discipline

Mastering the Art and Science of Innovation

By: Nancy K. Napier,Mikael Nilsson

Why are some organizations more creative than others? What sets innovative, high-performing organizations apart? Can creativity and innovation be learned and enhanced? The answer to the last question, say creativity experts Nancy Napier and Mikael Nilsson, is a resounding yes. And with general consensus that creativity and innovation drive business growth, fostering creativity couldn't be more important. In The Creative Discipline, Napier and Nilsson illustrate six key factors that power creative, high-achieving organizations, and they provide managers with guidelines for incorporating those factors into their own companies. Business people will learn how innovative organizations get superior results from employees not just through disciplined methods of thinking, but also through free-flowing work spaces and work practices that help supercharge the imagination. Combining research on creative organizations in several sectors, this book argues that innovative organizations known for doing things differently (and profitably) approach creativity and innovation in similar, disciplined ways, regardless of industry or field. That discipline fosters new ideas, solutions, and approaches, and it ensures that the flow of creativity is constant. The Creative Discipline demonstrates that: -Innovative, high-performing organizations have three disciplines in common: (1) within discipline mastery, (2) out of discipline thinking, and (3) a disciplined process that leads to innovation. -Innovative organizations also have three factors that strengthen the creative disciplines: faces (creative entrepreneurs, leaders, and teams); places (the physical and organizational infrastructure that is reflected in offices, buildings, and location); and traces (elements that act as catalysts for creativity—the culture, networks, and policies that support creative and innovative endeavors). The book explains each factor for creative success in detail. Best, Napier and Nilsson show creativity and innovation at work in a range of sectors from sports to software to theater and contemporary circus. They also show how innovative practices in developed countries like the U.S. and Sweden compare to those in developing countries like Vietnam. Companies can learn to innovate and in the process reap benefits like higher sales and profits, greater productivity—while regaining a valuable element missing in so many workplaces: fun.

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0275998851

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The Time of Their Lives

The Eight Hour Day and Working Life

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On 21 April 1856 Melbourne building workers won an industry-wide agreement to establish the Eight Hour Day. In the 150 years since then the slogan ‘Eight Hours Labour, Eight Hours Recreation, Eight Hours Rest’ has symbolised workers’ efforts to take control over the time of their lives and, in doing so, strike a civilised balance between work, rest and play. It was an assertion that they were not simply ‘operatives’ in a labour market, but also family members and citizens in what they hoped could become a civilised community. This book offers historical perspectives on that continuing campaign to give readers a long-term context for our current debates over the work/life balance and power in the workplace.

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Australian Society for the Study of Labour History

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The Creative Discipline

Mastering the Art and Science of Innovation

By: Nancy K. Napier,Mikael Nilsson

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The Creative Discipline

Mastering the Art and Science of Innovation

By: Nancy K. Napier,Mikael Nilsson

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248

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0275998851

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9780275998851

Christianity in Hitler's Ideology

The Role of Jesus in National Socialism

By: Mikael Nilsson

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Christianity in Hitler's Ideology

The Role of Jesus in National Socialism

By: Mikael Nilsson

This ambitious study analyses Hitler's ideological relationship to Jesus and reconsiders the core beliefs of National Socialism.

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291

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Cambridge University Press

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1009314955

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9781009314954

The Battle for Hearts and Minds in the High North

The USIA and American Cold War Propaganda in Sweden, 1952-1969

By: Mikael Nilsson

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The Battle for Hearts and Minds in the High North

The USIA and American Cold War Propaganda in Sweden, 1952-1969

By: Mikael Nilsson

Mikael Nilsson offers a detailed and groundbreaking analysis of how the United States Information Agency (USIA) conducted its wide-ranging propaganda campaign in Sweden during the Cold War, 1952–1969. The USIA placed propaganda in the Swedish press, radio, and television as well as schools and universities and established connections to labour leaders, government officials, and journalists. The book also details how the U.S. military financed research at Swedish universities. Nilsson shows how Swedish journalists, scientists, and government officials assisted the USIA in its propaganda efforts --- i.e., co-produced U.S. hegemony in Sweden. The book highlights both the width and the limits of USIA’s propaganda and also relates this theme to Swedish security policy and the secret military cooperation between Sweden and the United States.

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BRILL

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9004330593

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9789004330597

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