Boards of Directors in Disruptive Times: Improving Corporate Governance Effectiveness
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009165801 | 411 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The current business context of disruptive, accelerated change requires a new framework for understanding how boards of directors can best support their organizations. In this book, Professor Jordi Canals presents a new model of effective governance, positioning the board of directors as the steward of the firm's future development, and focusing on the notion of corporate purpose. Canals argues that boards of directors should focus on strategy and corporate transformation, CEO and senior management development and succession, the board and the firm's culture, the board as a team, the engagement of shareholders and critical stakeholders, and the firm's overall impact. Moreover, for boards to be effective, directors must develop new competencies. Drawing on well-grounded theory and international case studies, this book outlines a new, holistic model of boards of directors, offering a pathway to effective governance that will enhance companies' reputation and success.

Thomas S. Freeman, David L. Smith, "Biography and History in Film"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3319894072 | PDF | pages: 339 | 3.6 mb
The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them. This is an original approach to biographical (as opposed to historical) films and one that has so far played little part in the growing literature on historical films. The films discussed here date from the 1920s to the 2010s, and deal with males and females in periods ranging from the Middle Ages to the end of the twentieth century. In the process, the book discusses how biographical films reflect changing attitudes towards issues such as race, gender and sexuality, and examines the influence of these films on popular perceptions of the past. The introduction analyses the nature of biographical films as a genre: it compares and contrasts the nature of biography on film with written biographies, and considers their relationship with the discipline of history.As the first collection of essays on this popular but understudied genre, this book will be of interest to historians as well as those in film and cultural studies.

Anne S. Troelstra, "Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives"
English | ISBN: 9050115969 | 2017 | 482 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Anne Troelstra's fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences.

Penguin India, "Bhagavata Purana (Set of 3 Volumes)"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0143428012 | EPUB | pages: 500 | 4.3 mb
A seamless blend of fable and philosophy, the Bhagavata Purana is perhaps the most revered text in the Vaishnava tradition. It brings to life the legends of gods, asuras, sages and kings-all the while articulating the crucial ethical and philosophical tenets that underpin Hindu spiritualism.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, "Behold the Pierced One"
English | 1986 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0898700876 | EPUB | 0,1 mb
In this profound and illuminating work, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger turns the gaze of an accomplished theologian upon the crucified Savior. This synthetic and meditative work is theological without being abstract or dry, and spiritual without being sentimental. The pierced heart of Christ must be the heart of theology and Christian life as well.

Wei Lu, "Beginning Robotics Programming in Java with LEGO Mindstorms"
English | 2016 | pages: 252 | ISBN: 1484220064 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
Chapter 1: Introduction to Lego Mindstorms and LeJOS.-Chapter 2: Introduction to Motor Sensors.-Chapter 3: Controlling Wheeled Vehicles.-Chapter 4: Coordinators and Navigator APIChapter 5: Depth-First Searching Algorithm and its Implementation with Lego Mindstorms.-Chapter 6: Breadth-First Searching Algorithm and its Implementation with Lego Mindstorms.- Chapter 7: Hill Climbing Algorithm and its Implementation with Lego Mindstorms.-Chapter 8: Dijkstra's Algorithm and its Implementation with Lego Mindstorms.-Chapter 9: A* Algorithm and its Implementation with Lego Mindstorms.-Chapter 10: Touch Sensor and Ultrasound Sensor.-Chapter 11: Light and Color Sensor.-Chapter 12: Introduction to Behavior Programming.-Chapter 13: Multithread Programming with Java leJOS.

Becoming Human Amid Diversions: Playful, Stupid, Cute and Funny Evolution
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031138767 | 435 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 16 MB
This book develops a philosophy of the predominant yet obtrusive aspects of digital culture, arguing that what seems like insignificant distractions of digital technology ​- such as video games, mindless browsing, cute animal imagery, political memes, and trolling - are actually keyed into fundamental aspects of evolution.These elements are commonly framed as distractions in an economy of attention and this book approaches them with the prospect of understanding their attraction, from the starting point of diversions. Diversions designate not simply shifting states of attention but characterize the direction of any system on a different course, a theoretical perspective which makes it possible to investigate distractions as not only by-products of contemporary media and human attention. The perspective shifts from distractions as the unwanted and inconsequential to considering instead the function of diversions in the process of evolutionary development. Grounded in media theory but drawing from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives in biology, philosophy, and systems theory,this book provocatively theorizes the process of diversions - of the playful, stupid, cute, and funny - as significant for the evolution of a range of organisms.

Basic Mathematics: Ratio, Rate, Proportion, with Work and Time Problems by Kingsley Augustine
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BBPKQYR7 | 82 pages | PDF | 0.85 Mb
The topics of this book are listed below. Check them out to be sure that you have not bought any of my books containing these topic. However, additional topics and the solutions to the exercises have been added to this edited version.

Derek Gentile, "Baseball's Best 1,000: Rankings of the Greatest Players of All Time"
English | 2017 | pages: 672 | ISBN: 0316463876 | EPUB | 97,7 mb
Using various (and completely subjective) criteria including lifetime statistics, personal and professional contributions to the game at large, sportsmanship, character, popularity with the fans, and more, sports writer Derek Gentile ranks the best players of all time.

Barth on the Descent into Hell: God, Atonement, and the Christian Life By David Lauber
2004 | 196 Pages | ISBN: 0754633411 | PDF | 22 MB
The Christian confession that Jesus Christ descended into hell has been variously misunderstood or simply neglected by the Church and dogmatic theology. This work is a significant retort to dogmatic forgetfulness and ecclesial misunderstanding. It succeeds in doing so by offering a close reading and critical analysis of Karl Barth's treatment of the descent into hell and its relation to his extraordinary theology of the atonement. The reach of David Lauber's work is extended by placing Barth in conversation with Hans Urs von Balthasar's innovative theology of Holy Saturday. In revealing and unexpected ways, this book casts light upon the ecumenical breadth of Barth's theology. It is a valuable interpretation of significant facets of Barth's doctrine of God, reflection upon the passion of Jesus Christ, and ethics. In addition, Lauber offers a constructive theological proposal for how the descent into hell affects the theological interpretation of Scripture, the trinitarian being and activity of God, and the non-violent and authentic shape of Christian life and witness before our enemies.