With Gender and Disability, Lina Abu-Habib examines the situation of women with various types of disability in the Middle East context, and describes the evolution of Oxfam's perspective on working with disabled women.
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Contends that the crisis in the global economy is triggering a potential paradigm shift from one defined as "employment" to an alternative theorized as "work". Interprets the findings from Organization and Worker Surveys carried out in the Toronto social economy. Reflects on iss…
"In his worldwide bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, Christensen explained how industry leaders get blindsided by disruptive innovations precisely because they focus too closely on their most profitable customers and businesses. The Innovator's Solution shows how companies get …
Comprises a collection of papers on a wide range of subjects related to globalization and the roles of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
The Economic Geography of the Tourist Industry explores how tourism is defined and examines whether or not tourism can be conceptualized as an industry. Detailed analyses of key sectors of the travel and tourism industry, such as tour operators, airlines and the hotel industry, …
Presenting the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a constantly evolving field with direct impact on organizational strategies and success, this work links numerous subjects such as strategy, marketing and ethics, encouraging a multidisciplinary approach to this sub…
In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is a new impetus for industrial policy. In Europe and the United States, where the crisis emphasized that markets are by themselves imperfect, industrial policy has re-entered the dialogue about restoring growth. And in emerging …
"An important and original work ... The collection demonstrates that ... there is no simple equation linking economic liberalization and political democratization to either peace and development or war and state unravelling. Instead, the authors suggest that by analyzing the mec…
"Author Marc Rosenberg discusses the technological issues but, more importantly, assesses the dramatic strategic, organizational, and political issues involved in the process of making e-learning a reality. Written for professionals responsible for leading the revolution in work…
Contributed articles presented at a workshop held in 1994.
"Cisco Internetwork Design teaches you how to plan and design a network using various internetworking technologies. Created for those seeking to attain CCDP certification, this book presents the fundamental, technical, and design issues associated with campus LANs; TCP/IP networ…
Using Critical Military Studies (Basham & Bulmer, 2017; Duncanson & Woodward, 2016), this exploratory case study analysis describes how women officers made sense of their gendered experience within the military, and uses agency, as defined by Post-structural feminism (Da…
Computer technology has been popular for teaching English as a foreign language in non-English speaking countries. This case study explored the way language instructors designed and implemented computer-based instruction so that students are engaged in English language learning.…
This two-year qualitative study examined parental involvement, advocacy in particular, of four Arabic-speaking Muslim couples who fled Iraq to the United States as refugees. Through interviews and ethnographic observations at their homes, children's schools, religious and social…
This research explores the transformative potential and effect of democratic education as an alternative to mainstream hegemonic education. It examines and compares two unique schools in two diverse communities: The one is a bilingual (Spanish and English) multicultural public e…
Nigerian mothers have long taught their children collectivism values that emphasize interdependence and prioritizing the needs of others over those of oneself. However, some researchers have hypothesized that the past two decades' dramatic social changes in Africa may have led t…
This study examined the representation of national and religious dimensions of Iranian history and identity in Iranian middle school history textbooks. Furthermore, through a qualitative case study in a school in the capital city of Tehran, teachers' use of textbooks in classroo…
Geography Education Promoting Sustainability
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