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Foresight Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region

Foresight Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region Author: Luke van der Laan,Janson Yap
Publisher: Springer
Summary: This book explores the importance of strategy and how to make it work in an environment characterised by constant change. With a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region, anticipated to become the epicentre of global economic activity, it offers insights into the optimisation of economic potential ...

Perspectives in Environmental Management

Perspectives in Environmental Management Author: Ralf Buckley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Summary: The author, experienced in industry and academia, presents a set of 15 recent review essays which identify and examine critical current issues of environmental management. Topics covered include environmental accounting, economics and taxation, environmental audit and insurance, institutional and ad...

Explaining the Normative

Explaining the Normative Author: Stephen P. Turner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Summary: Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the philosophers committed ...

Host Communities and Pilgrimage Tourism

Host Communities and Pilgrimage Tourism Author: Ricardo Nicolas Progano,Joseph M. Cheer,Xosé Manuel Santos
Publisher: Springer Nature
Summary: This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities from a variety of perspectives through academic research based on the Middle East, Northeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe, where sacred sites have become of great importance for both international and domestic tourism. In...

Final Analysis

Final Analysis Author: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Summary: He was the rising star of psychoanalysis, an intimate associate of Anna Freud and Kurt Eissler, a member of the Freudian "inner circle" with unrestricted access to the Freud Archives. And then Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson threw it all away because he dared to break the psychoanalytic community's deepes...

Death Plays Poker

Death Plays Poker Author: Robin Spano
Publisher: ECW Press
Summary: "World class poker players are being strangled in their hotel rooms, and undercover cop Clare is given her second big assignment: to pose as a poker player in a major televised tournament, befriend the suspects, and find the killer in their midst."--P. 4] of jacket....

Heart of the Hill

Heart of the Hill Author: Andrea Spalding
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Summary: Adam begins to have weird dreams of an evil woman, Vivienne, who tries to control his actions, and he, his sister, and his cousins must work together to retrieve Myrddin's staff before it is lost to the Dark Being....

How Healed Do You Want to Be Finding hope and wholeness in a sharp edged world

How Healed Do You Want to Be Finding hope and wholeness in a sharp edged world Author: William T. Faris
Publisher: Ampelon Publishing
Summary: It is a sharp-edged world and getting hurt is unavoidable. Whether it is physical, spiritual or emotional, we all experience pain on some level and are left with trying to pick up the pieces. What do we do? How do we move forward? Do we want to merely get bandaged up so we can get back into the game...

Practical Identity and Narrative Agency

Practical Identity and Narrative Agency Author: Kim Atkins,Catriona Mackenzie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Summary: The essays collected in this volume address a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns. They also explore the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these issu...

Practical Identity and Narrative Agency

Practical Identity and Narrative Agency Author: Kim Atkins,Catriona Mackenzie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Summary: The essays collected in this volume address a range of issues that arise when the focus of philosophical reflection on identity is shifted from metaphysical to practical and evaluative concerns. They also explore the usefulness of the notion of narrative for articulating and responding to these issu...