Rethinking environmental security

Simon Dalby provides unique insights into the traditional search for security in terms of using firepower to dominate states and environments, and how this is now endangering people across the globe. Whereas earlier concerns about nuclear firepower focused on the security dilemmas it posed, Dalby offers a new perspective into the existential threats to civilization presented by the combustion of fossil fuels.

Learning to be Professionals

The book critically investigates professional education programmes and the assumptions upon which they are based. It argues for an ontological turn in which professional education attends not only to what students know and can do, but also who they are becoming as professionals. In a scholarly, well-grounded account, the book closely interweaves theory and empirical material on learning to be professionals. It provides a fresh, innovative approach to designing professional education programmes, as well as to research about this important enterprise.

The Roskilde Model

This book describes the pedagogical foundations of the Roskilde Model of education and educational design. It presents knowledge about how principles of problem-oriented, interdisciplinary and participant-directed project work may serve as a basis for planning and applying educational activities at institutions of higher learning. It discusses the dilemmas, problems, and diverging views that have challenged the model, provoking experiments and reforms that have helped develop practice without compromising the key principles.

Deleuze

This edition makes available in a single volume Zourabichvili's most important writings on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (1994) and Deleuze's Vocabulary (2003). More than simply defining terms, Zourabichvili uses the form of the glossary to stage a series of pointed confrontations within contemporary Continental philosophy. Its pages are as filled with polemics against Deleuze's hasty disciples and avid competitors as much as refutations of Deleuze's critics and detractors.

Sobreviviendo a Pablo Escobar

Después del Long seller El Verdadero Pablo, sangre, traición y muerte..., llega Sobreviviendo a Pablo Escobar, testimonio directo de alias "Popeye", sicario del temible Cartel de Medellín; principal lugarteniente, secretario privado y amigo de Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, alias "Popeye", tras pagar 23 años y 3 meses de condena en una cárcel de máxima seguridad, fue liberado el 26 de agosto de 2014.

Climate change and business

Climate change is the greatest market failure in world history and thus the most urgent challenge in the world of business for the foreseeable future. This book brings together experts to shed light on the historical impact of business on climate change and of climate change on business.The book shows how corporate responses to climate change emerged out of earlier environmental concerns, regulatory frameworks, and in many cases already established business strategies.

El GEA

El negocio con el que la familia Gilinski adquirió la compañía de alimentos Nutresa es el movimiento empresarial más importante de los últimos tiempos en Colombia y también un momento definitivo en una apasionante y sorprendente historia: la del Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño, GEA, antes conocido como Sindicato Antioqueño.

Gerencia estratégica

En los negocios ya no existen límites geográficos. La globalización de la economía, la apertura de los mercados, la tecnología y la revolución en las telecomunicaciones han dejado atrás las barreras tradicionales. Hoy, la capacidad de respuesta es fundamental, y el cambio y la innovación son las condiciones para sobrevivir. Las empresas necesitan un equipo con una misión, una visión y unos objetivos claros; un equipo capaz de anticiparse al cambio y enfrentarlo con estrategias.

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