Bøger af Andrzej Nowak

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenin¿s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent.

New and reliable truck weight data allows accurate calculations of vertical loading of traffic on bridges, both, whereas codes are often crude and inconsistent for different load effects. This book provides the state-of-the-art and best-practice for short-span, single and multi-lane bridge loading, dynamic allowance and long-span bridges.

This book examines the underlying nature of price formation in financial markets as a predominantly sociological phenomenon that relates individual decision-making to emergent and co-evolving social and financial structures.

This book shows how complex systems science, using insights and methods from mathematics and computer simulation, enables scientists to shine its concepts, methods, and tools on issues of conflict in interpersonal, intergroup and international relations.

Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible, social impact. Utilizing case studies drawn from various fields and all over the world, the authors document how social entrepreneurs foster bottom-up change that empowers people and societies. They also review the specific personality traits of social entrepreneurs and introduce the new kind of leadership they represent. This book will be valuable to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, while remaining accessible to non-academic readers thanks to its clear language, illustrative case studies and guidelines on how to become a successful social entrepreneur.

This text uses concepts and tools to illuminate the processes by which individuals, groups and societies evolve and change in a systemic, self- sustaining manner, at times seemingly independent of external influence.