Susanna Alexius, Staffan Furusten, "Managing Hybrid Organizations: Governance, Professionalism and Regulation"
English | 2018 | pages: 374 | ISBN: 3319954857 | PDF | 4,2 mb
A much-needed addition to literature, this timely edited collection aims to provide clarity and understanding on how modern organizations work. The authors explore the characteristics of hybrid organizations in contemporary society, taking into account the complex societal challenges that face businesses today. Arguing that hybrid organizations are in fact not a new phenomenon, this thought-provoking collection goes beyond existing research and re-evaluates our traditional understanding of this concept. Scholars of organization, management and innovation will find this book an insightful read, as it sheds light on the fundamental aspects that shape today's hybrid organizations.

James L. Patton, Ulyses F. J. Pardiñas, Guillermo D'Elía, "Mammals of South America, Volume 2: Rodents"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 022616957X | PDF | pages: 1363 | 18.9 mb
The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse mammalian order on Earth―and an increasingly threatened one―Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is both a timely and exhaustive reference on these ubiquitous creatures.

Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style By Letizia Paoli
2003 | 312 Pages | ISBN: 0195157249 | PDF | 3 MB
Secrecy is one of the defining characteristics of the Italian Mafia. Wiretaps, financial records, and the rare informant occasionally reveal its inner workings, but these impressions are all too often spotty and fleeting, hampering serious scholarship on this major form of criminal activity. During her years as a consultant to the Italian government agency responsible for combating organized crime, Letizia Paoli was given unparalleled insider access to the confessions by pentiti (literally, repentants), former Mafia operatives who had turned. This mafia ''''hard core'''' came primarily from the two largest and most influential Southern Italian mafia associations, known as Cosa Nostra and 'Ndrangheta, each composed of about one hundred mafia families. The sheer volume of these confessions, numbering in the hundreds, and the detail they contained, enabled the Italian government to effectively break up the Italian mafia in one of the dramatic law enforcement successes in modern times. It is on these same documents that Paoli draws to provide a clinically accurate portrait of mafia behavior, motivations, and structure. Puncturing academic notions of a modernized Mafia, Paoli argues that to view mafia associations as bureaucracies, illegal enterprises, or an industry specializing in private protection, is overly simplistic and often inaccurate. These conceptions do not adequately describe the range of functions in which the mafia engages, nor do they hint at the mafia's limitations. The mafia, Paoli demonstrates are essentially multifunctional ritual brotherhoods focused above all on retaining and consolidating their local political power base. It is precisely this myopia that has prevented these organizations from developing the skills needed to be a successful and lasting player in the entrepreneurial world of illegal global commerce. A truly interdisciplinary work of history, politics, economics, and sociology, Mafia Brotherhoods reveals in dramatic detail the true face of one of the world's most mythologized criminal organizations.

Elspeth McKay, John Lenarcic, "Macro-Level Learning through Massive Open Online Courses: Strategies and Predictions for the Future"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1466683244 | PDF | pages: 336 | 6.1 mb
To some in academia, Massive Open Online Courses are a paradigm shift in online education, while others perceive them as a threat to traditional styles of pedagogy. In this regard, the time-honored model of the university lecture is seen as being a potential casualty of the rise of MOOCs.

Lucean Arthur Headen : The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur
by Jill D. Snider
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1469654350 | 327 Pages | ePUB | 8 MB

Love Her Well: 10 Ways to Find Joy and Connection with Your Teenage Daughter
By Kari Kampakis
English | 2020 | ISBN : 0785234187 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2.33 MB

Living for What Really Matters: 7 Weeks in the Book of Philippians (Get Wisdom Bible Studies) by NavPress
English | July 14, 2020 | ISBN: 1631469983 | 256 pages | EPUB | 7.89 Mb
The Get Wisdom Bible Studies help women connect with Scripture in an accessible and energizing way. Teresa Swanstrom Anderson guides with a winsome style that is rich in depth, but still approachable for newer readers of the Bible.

Live Your Best Life: 219 Science-based Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine by Stuart Farrimond
English | December 1st, 2020 | ISBN: 1465493298 | 256 pages | True PDF | 22.68 MB
Explore the science behind your daily living habits and make your day healthier, happier, and more productive.

Ştefan Cobzaş, Radu Miculescu, Adriana Nicolae, "Lipschitz Functions"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030164888 | PDF | pages: 605 | 6.1 mb
The aim of this book is to present various facets of the theory and applications of Lipschitz functions, starting with classical and culminating with some recent results. Among the included topics we mention: characterizations of Lipschitz functions and relations with other classes of functions, extension results for Lipschitz functions and Lipschitz partitions of unity, Lipschitz free Banach spaces and their applications, compactness properties of Lipschitz operators, Bishop-Phelps type results for Lipschitz functionals, applications to best approximation in metric and in metric linear spaces, Kantorovich-Rubinstein norm and applications to duality in the optimal transport problem, Lipschitz mappings on geodesic spaces.

Stephen Bryant, "Limitless Memory: Brain Training Tricks and Techniques for Memory Improvement and Accelerated Learning"
English | 2014 |ASIN: B00NU30LYY | 33 pages | AZW3 | 0,4 MB

Stephen Bryant, "Limitless Memory: Brain Training Tricks and Techniques for Memory Improvement and Accelerated Learning"