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Theories of alienation had a long history, burgeoned since the 1960s, yet almost disappeared in recent decades - but in his book, Christoph Henning brings these theories back on the agenda, to better account for contemporary social pathologies. Feelings of estrangement, of not feeling at home in the world, in one's own body or surroundings, are widespread in contemporary societies. They go hand in hand with loneliness, with a burnout, with depression, or with anger and hatred. But where do they come from, what do they signify? Henning tracks theories of alienation from three different traditions: a conservative approach from Rousseau to Hartmut Rosa explains alienation with change and is based on nostalgia; a liberal approach from Simmel to Rahel Jaeggi relies on individual autonomy and explains it as a loss of control; and a third, Aristotelian approach from Humboldt to Marx or British idealism, based on theories of flourishing, relies on a perfectionist anthropology and critical social theory. In doing so, Henning vividly reconstructs these traditions with contemporary examples and excursions into the movies. Theories of Alienation: From Rousseau to the Present shines important new light on this important field of contemporary social philosophy and is very approachable to the general reader.

This book examines the possibilities - and realities - of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.Kevin B. Anderson critically examines the revolutions, uprisings, social movements, and forms of national resistance that have arisen across the Middle East and North Africa, Sudan, South Africa, Ukraine, and France in the past fifteen years, providing a salient snapshot of geopolitical and social events in a way that is both timely and in-the-moment. The book represents an effort to analyze world events, especially revolutions and radical movements, in a dialectical manner, combining contemporary analysis of the class, gender, and ethnic dimensions of these upheavals with theoretical and historical reflection that engages Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, CLR James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and other thinkers in the Marxian tradition.A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances is an important resource for researchers and current affairs opinion leaders, as well as a key text for courses in social change, political sociology, and social movements, and contemporary social theory.

This book explores how in a rapidly shifting world, higher education has found itself at the crux of socio-economic, demographic, and technological transformations. This book dives deep into this evolving landscape, navigating the vast complexities of global higher education and its cultural implications.From demographic challenges and economic pressures to the game-changing implications of Artificial Intelligence, this book paints a holistic picture, highlighting the intersections and potential futures of academia. Equipped with meticulous research, global case studies, and enlightening expert opinions, this book offers a rich tapestry of insights that cater to a diverse array of readers. As universities grapple with uncertainties, this book emerges as a compass, offering actionable insights, strategies, and foresight into the transformative potential of various factors. It's not just a diagnosis of the current state but also a prescription for the road ahead. This book distinguishes itself as a unique and essential discourse in the realm of educational literature, presenting a rich, multidimensional analysis of the crossroads at which higher education currently stands. This book is not just an academic treatise; it is a clarion call to action, urging universities, policymakers, educators, and students to engage deeply with the transformative challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age.This book is tailored for a broad spectrum of readers including Higher education policymakers, university administrators, and educators will find it particularly invaluable. Yet, its accessible language and engaging narratives also appeal to students, and anyone curious about the trajectory of higher education in our rapidly changing world.

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies. Chapter authors are artists, activists, curators, and teachers applying creative and cultural practices in deliberate efforts to build democratic ways of working and interacting in their communities in a range of countries including the US, Australia, Portugal, Nepal, the UK, and Canada. The book demonstrates how creativity is integrated in place-based actions, aesthetic strategies, learning environments, and civic processes. As long-time champions and observers of community-based creative and cultural practices, editors Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer elucidate work that not only responds to socio-political conditions but advances practice. They call on artists, funders, cultural organizations, community groups, educational institutions, government, and others to engage in and support this work that fosters a culture of democracy. This book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, activists, funders, and artists who seek to understand and effect change on local and global scales to preserve, extend, and improve practices of democracy.

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognition.Isabelle Darcy expertly defines key concepts and offers a detailed step-by-step guide to designing empirical psycholinguistic research in this complex, interdisciplinary area. The book covers: setting up an efficient workflow to enhance reproducibility of findings; determining a methodology; selecting experimental controls and designing stimuli; collecting data using an array of methodological tools; addressing common challenges; preparing and analyzing data; preregistering the study; and sharing data transparently in accordance with Open Science practices. Darcy provides everything needed to design and carry out robust behavioral studies on L2 speech processing, in a laboratory or online.This book will be an invaluable practical resource for researchers and advanced students in second language speech learning, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, cognitive science, and language teaching, as well as those interested in applied linguistics, pronunciation, and related subjects.

Lekha, Kumar M. and their team of contributors embark on a transformative exploration of 'Intersectionality' in the Indian context, where gender, culture, and development intersect to shape the destinies of diverse groups. Drawing from extensive research and nuanced analyses by scholars across the country and a few scholars on India from outside the country, the handbook uncovers the intricate connections between gender inequalities, cultural norms and practices and developmental trajectories that illuminate how these factors intersect and shape the lives of individuals, communities and societies beyond India's borders.The book encompasses discussions on the category of gender and the practice of gender studies, workspace economy, and technology. It explains the intricate intersections between gender, labour, migration, and informal economies, offering a deeper understanding of the composite factors that shape women as the workforce and its role within the workplace and the economy. It also delves into the multifaceted influences of culture on various aspects of society, including gender roles, language, agriculture, and development. The focus upon the socio-cultural dimensions connected to the portrayal of gender in the media, elaborated on how diverse media platforms, ranging from digital interfaces to televised serials, play a pivotal role in shaping and mirroring gender identities, roles, and societal norms within their specific environments. Most importantly, it critically engages with issues of education, marginalization, inclusion, and sustainable development. Case studies on marginalized communities such as the urban poor, elderly sweepers, and widows contribute to broader discourses on developmental paradigms vis-à-vis poverty and social exclusion.Academics, researchers and students interested in gender, culture and development studies will find this handbook invaluable in understanding and addressing gender inequities, cultural imbalances and development complexities. Policymakers, NGOs, and activists committed to social progress will appreciate the evidence-based insights enabling them for informed actions and policies that transcend conventional boundaries.

A collaboration between a seasoned math teacher and a research mathematician, this resource offers balanced instructional ideas based around student intellectual engagement and skilled teacher leadership. It is solidly grounded in many areas of classroom practice, but rather than serving as a prescriptive how-to manual, the authors invite reflection and discussion across classrooms and math departments, much in the way you would share ideas in the teachers' lounge or across the table at a conference. Chapters offer practical suggestions and concrete examples to teachers of grades 6-12 on just about every aspect of the job: manipulatives, technology, lesson planning, group work, classroom discussion, and more. In opposition to the idea of a 'one-size-fits-all' curriculum, the authors explain how to integrate teaching techniques: formal and informal, student-centered and teacher-led, experiential and rigorous. Chapters also include vignettes, as well as many links to curricular materials. Ideal for math educators of grades 6-12, this book is both comprehensive in its strategies and sensitive to the complexities of teaching. For these reasons, math departments, coaches, teacher leaders, and faculty at other levels can also easily reference its content where relevant. This book offers multiple entry points for teachers and departments to discuss and enhance their practice, making it essential reading for any math classroom or professional development opportunity.

This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it traces the changing approaches to empathy in the post-financial-crisis imagination, highlighting a crucial re-conceptualization of empathy as a boundaryless force, untethered to local or social circumstance. This reconceptualization implicitly aligns empathy with the neoliberal ethos of globalism and distances it from the traditional notion of "sympathy." Via complex dialogue with the novelistic tradition of sympathy, contemporary novelists highlight the problematics of boundaryless empathy, while exploring ways to resist neoliberal views and values. Analyzing engagements with empathy in post-2008 literature and culture, the book sheds light on the underlying affective dynamics that enabled the persistence of neoliberalism after the 2008 financial crisis, alongside efforts to challenge its dominance.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices. Wellness Architecture and Urban Design presents definitions, an analysis of the wellness literature and a brief history of the wellness movement. Specific planning and design strategies are presented citing examples worldwide and emphasizing the importance of wellness considerations at all scales of the built environment from rooms to cities. Both case studies offer fully integrated and comprehensive wellness design approaches creating resilient and life-enhancing wellness through each of the architecture and urban design scales. The book will be of interest to practitioners and students working in urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and affiliated fields.

This seminal volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to presenting an authoritative account of contemporary philosophies of Catholic education, intersecting the substantive boundaries of education, religious studies, philosophy, and theology to ultimately re-examine these philosophies and reinvigorate the authentic aspects of the Catholic educational endeavour.Against the backdrop of an increasingly volatile debate between liberal and conservative values within Catholic educational and theological settings, chapters provide a thorough and judicious blending of historical accuracy with contemporary urgency. Combining a diversity of knowledge and historical account - including discussion on Thomism, Christian existentialism, and ideologically oppositional philosophies - the book argues that philosophies of Catholic education are in a new process of evolution necessary in order to justify the aims and priorities of Catholic education.This book will be of value to academics, scholars, teachers, and researchers with an interest in Roman Catholicism and the philosophy of education. Those more broadly interested in exploring the intersection between education, philosophy, and religion will also find the volume of use.

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan's interest in literary topics.Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which Lacan spoke on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Purloined Letter, Hamlet, Sophocles' Antigone, and Paul Claudel's The Coûfontaine Trilogy, and where literature is related to meaning. This is followed by an exploration of Lacan's seminar on Lituraterre in 1971, in which Lacan elaborates on the different ways in which literature appeared to turn towards lituraterre. Finally, Biswas considers Lacan's 1975-1976 seminar on James Joyce, who created literature out of "litter" and was concerned with jouissance rather than with meaning.The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan will be of great interest to Lacanian psychoanalysts, academics and students of Lacanian studies, literature and psychoanalysis and other practitioners interested in the teachings of Lacan.

Managing People in Changing Organizations addresses the contemporary problems faced by managers in dealing with people, organizations and change in a theoretically-informed and practical way. It does so by drawing on classic studies in management, up-to-date research (including the author's own), case studies, and reflective exercises. This textbook approaches people management and organizational development from the perspective of practising and aspiring managers, making it a valuable alternative to existing texts on organizational behaviour, change management, and human resource management. This third edition incorporates new research and recent changes in technology, including artificial intelligence, work and job design, and additional insights into innovation, corporate governance, and sustainability. Built around a chapter framework that connects different themes to managerial action and practices, this textbook covers a wide range of topics including: managing at the individual, group and organizational levels, culture change, managing internationally, reputation management, managing creativity and innovation, and corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. There is an increased international flavour, reflected in the range of contemporary case studies and literature used throughout, which explore business and management problems in the private and public sectors. The content also reflects the author's recent experience of consulting and managing at Board level. This text will be relevant to practising and aspiring managers studying leadership, people management, organizational behaviour and development, and change management on courses at later stage undergraduate, masters, doctoral and executive education levels.

This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region. It advances explanations that transcend the state-centric narrative that has nationalised cross border security.It provides insights from non-state actors such as informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), informal cross-border transporters, undocumented migrants and cross-border communities. It argues that security needs to be understood beyond a state-centric paradigm by focusing on the political, economic, environmental and societal threats at macro, meso and micro levels. The book suggests that at the core of cross border security challenges in the Southern African region is a post-colonial governmentality. This drives the nationalisation of cross-border security as though it is the only security leading to nation-states, in turn depoliticising and invisibilising the security and livelihoods of ordinary people, even when nation states claim to be protecting the same.The book will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African Studies, Border Studies, Human Geography, Migration Studies, Development Studies, International Studies, International Relations, Political Science and Security Studies.

Focusing on a less well-known area of education, the Further Education (FE) sector, this book provides education studies students a chance to provoke reflection, analysis and understanding, as well as personal and professional development in the area. Jim Crawley brings over 40 years' experience working in or with the FE sector, reflected in his committed and passionate approach alongside carefully balanced academic analysis and discussion.The book covers subsectors of FE including colleges, skills for life, work-based learning and offender learning, and cross sector themes such as working and managing, social justice, equality and diversity and sustainability. The book also supports independent study and complement other topics and themes across and education studies degree. The book is perfect for new and existing students of Education Studies, joint honours courses, teacher training, and those researching for a master's degree or doctorate. It is the definitive text in the field, and ideal for anyone wanting to further their understanding of the FE sector.

Featuring tools, activities, and insightful stories from a CIA analyst and instructor with 30+ years' experience, this practical and engaging book supports busy educators to teach the lifelong skills of news and media literacy to their students.Based around existing curriculum and teaching standards, this guidebook shows how Social Studies and English Language Arts (ELA) teachers can build students' confidence with social media evaluation skills, which are critical to engaging in civic discourse and building a stronger democracy. In Part 1, Whitehurst gives an overview of the media evaluation techniques based on those you would learn as a CIA analyst, including understanding how our biases and mindset make us vulnerable to disinformation, learning how media tries to persuade us, checking facts, and spotting disinformation. Part 2 dives deeper by showing teachers how learners can check if an argument on social media is valid, and how fallacies and manipulation tactics in online arguments can complicate this important skill. It is illustrated by examples from social media and contemporary popular culture in different mediums, including videos, photos, memes, and AI-generated content. You can also find fresh and updated social media examples on the author's website, News Literacy Sleuth.Packed with practical classroom resources, examples from popular culture, and engaging insights into the CIA analyst role, this book is designed to support middle and high school teachers with news and media literacy in Social Studies, Civic Education, and ELA.

Stories give meaning to our lives and make us who we are. They shape our self-awareness, thus helping make sense of personal experiences, no matter how complex or difficult. Stories can also have a profound impact on our behaviours, values, and attitudes. This exciting new book examines the powerful role stories can play in schools both as a curriculum/teaching tool and as a framework for school improvement.The Stories We Tell looks holistically at the uses of story in schools and sets out the ways it can be used to support teaching, including by: Organising the curriculum and helping to structure lessons Aiding students' memorisation Promoting inclusion Preparing students for future success. In addition, it offers four ways of using story and storytelling in the school improvement process to: Consult, communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to the school improvement journey Articulate a vision for the future and foster a set of shared values Build trust and adopt ethical leadership behaviours to create a no-blame culture that encourages risk-taking Resolve conflict and manage people, and lead change and manage PR Providing a fresh and stimulating approach to teaching and learning, curriculum-development, and school improvement, this will be valuable reading for teachers and school leaders across the primary and secondary phases.

Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development investigates how to create a culture that supports sustainable purpose-driven innovation and growth. This book takes readers through an in-depth case study, offering invaluable insights from a 'paradox' lens on how to balance competing innovation demands. The research findings reveal how to develop highly adaptive and innovative responses in the face of rapid change - while simultaneously ensuring organisational stability grounded in a clear core purpose.The in-depth case study approach enables the reader to understand how to harness and transform the creative energy into practical innovations that drive meaningful change. Action and reflection questions are also included guide applications and implementation. The aim is to equip readers looking to understand and effect innovative change through sensemaking, helping them to understand how research insights can be obtained and applied, and empowering them to implement relevant principles.Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development will assist researchers, higher education educator and students with exploring purpose-driven innovation leadership principles and practices through a case study methodology. The book will also be of interest for businesses looking for evidence-based insights in an accessible and actionable format.

Neurodivergent students of color are often overlooked, as research and teaching strategies predominantly focus on white males in the classroom. How can we help teachers reach all students to honor their full humanity, and to understand how ableism - neuronormativity in particular - and racism intersect on our bodies and brains? JPB Gerald's fascinating book offers a blend of narrative and interviews to show what would help neurodivergent students of color feel more supported and cared for in schools, and to demonstrate how much better their lives could be when they feel that love. Each chapter covers a common trait among neurodivergent students, and concludes with takeaways and approaches for supporting our youth in the classroom. Turning from a deficit-based look to a strength-based one, JPB helps us see how NDPOC students think and learn differently, and how we can do right by them, supporting them more effectively in the classroom and beyond.

Using the drama classroom to shape an active, student-centred space and foster a new perspective for understanding the dramatherapeutic change process, this book explores the processes that underpin the ways young people negotiate and perform their identities as ethical people.Arguing for the retention of process-based exploratory drama on the curriculum, chapters critique the impact of neo-liberalism and managerialism on the development of young people's ethics and values. Using concepts such as aesthetic distance, encoding, the role of audience and witness, and the contrast between individual, multi, and group roles, to enable students to develop as thinking, reflecting people, the book argues that dramatherapy should not be limited to clinical settings, disconnected from classrooms and the pedagogical contributions that it can make. By absorbing dramatherapy into the broader field of education, an expanded understanding of the concept of the managed classroom space can be gained, based on an understanding of the multiple embodied psychosocial relational processes at play in the drama classroom.This innately multidisciplinary book will be of use to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students studying drama education, dramatherapy, and curriculum studies more broadly. Drama teachers and educators will also find this volume of use.

This book challenges the wide use of majority rule in many constitutional courts for declaring statutes unconstitutional, and argues that these courts should rather perform constitutional review by using supermajority rules. Considering that constitutional courts often tackle hard moral issues, it is questionable whether a bare majority of judges should suffice for settling them, especially considering these courts' counter-majoritarian nature. Further, the wide use of majority rule for checking the constitutionality of legislation may increasingly risk their reputation. Such a concern is developing in the United States, following a series of Supreme Court decisions. This book argues that majority rule is unjustified in constitutional review. This means that, in constitutional review, considering majority rule's traits, there are no decisive reasons for using this voting rule over other voting rules. Additionally, the book argues that, when checking the constitutionality of legislation, constitutional courts should replace majority rule with supermajority rules. Thus, for declaring statutes unconstitutional, it is argued that more than 50% of the judges present plus one judge present should be needed. This book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of Constitutional Law and Politics.

The first comprehensive review of all extant 'Italian' chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes 'Filipino' Otherness with the unique condition of 'Italian' ambivalence and alterity within Europe.This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an analytical middle ground, highlighting the ambivalence of Italian chroniclers while acknowledging their participation in epistemological practices subsumed within the broader enterprise of conquest.Beyond the role of travel writing in colonial episteme, the book also situates the act of writing about one's travels in instances of national character building (in Italy's case) and in attempts of constructing a national historiography (in the Philippine case). This manner of nuancing literary productions by the West while navigating its implications in the East, specifically, how pre-Unification "Italian" travel informed nationalist constructions in the Revolutionary Philippines, could enrich our understanding of and refract monolithic conceptions of metropole-periphery relations.

This edited collection interrogates notions of curriculum, inclusivity, diversity, and cultures of learning in higher education from a variety of cultural backgrounds and educational perspectives.Bringing together an international selection of contributors from a range of disciplines, this book presents different avenues for rethinking the foundational base of cultures of learning while emphasising the importance of interculturality. The crux of the book lies in the fact that the contributors, living through complex cultures, speak/write from their own experiences of seeing, knowing, and doing. Through insights presented by the authors, the book promotes a broadened and deeper understanding of teaching and learning across diverse fields including alternative knowledge, creative arts, education, technology, STEM, study skills, and environmental sustainability. Arguing for the need to review curriculum issues and policies at both an institutional and national level, it highlights the importance of creating collaborative spaces for constructing new and alternative scholarship and methods within higher education. Supported by case studies and examples of teaching practice, the text reveals the current state of educational and cultural changes and challenges for students and educators in higher education while looking towards the future.This book is a requisite text for academics, researchers, policymakers, support staff, and postgraduate students in higher education.

Alverdian explores how a distinct national character of maritime governance enables Indonesia to go beyond an archipelagic to a 'maritime' character, focusing on political culture and connecting previous studies on historical changes and geopolitical contexts.The main theme of this research is the three-pillar framework of the Tanah-Air concept, which includes the political culture of persatuan nasional (national unity), strategic culture of cakra manggilingan (turning of the times from dark to golden periods), and the geopolitical context of posisi silang dunia (world crossroad position). The findings of this publication indicate the dominant influence of Javanese political culture, philosophy, values, and traditions on the distinct character of Indonesia's maritime orientation. Specifically, Javanese political philosophy and traditions within each pillar of Tanah-Air have influenced continuity rather change in the evolution of Indonesia's maritime policy. The book helps readers understand how the defining theme of unity in national political culture has shaped the evolution of Indonesia's maritime policy from 1945 to 2019. It illustrates how the continuous influence of the theme of national unity as devised by the political elites through history has addressed the realities of the archipelago's geography and it is significant from both an academic and practical policy perspective.A book designed for academics and the general public interested in gaining greater insight and knowledge on Indonesia's maritime policy and maritime nation aspirations.

Towards an Integrated Analytical Psychology presents a sophisticated overview of some of the salient philosophical, cultural, social, and clinical ingredients that have gone into contemporary visions of human psychology and psychotherapy, and proposes a "unified field" theory of mental representation which puts psychoanalytic, analytic, and cognitive-behavioral perspectives in a mutually integrative framework. The model proposed by Matthew Bennett, called Integrative Analytical Psychology, presents two major dimensions of personality development, and is integrative of Jungian and psychoanalytic perspectives, but places the Jungian concept of archetype as its core organizing principle. The six mental respresentations included within this model are: Archetype, Symbol, Object, Complex, Schema and Self. This book strongly accents clinical application, and more broadly considers the applied clinical implications of these mental representations to psychotherapy and clinical practice. This book offers a novel model of understanding personality and will be of direct and immediate use for psychotherapists and students of psychotherapy, especially those from the psychoanalytic and analytic/Jungian tradition. It would also be of interest to social workers, marriage and family therapists and psychiatrists.

Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm explores the relations between Erich Fromm's theory and practice in politics and the psychoanalytic clinic - their points of continuity and contradiction.Drawing on a systematic reading of Fromm's published output, as well as extensive research in the Fromm archives, Matheus Romanetto extracts the fragments of ontology, logic, and ethics implicit in his writings, leading to a re-evaluation of Fromm's place in 20th century intellectual history. Interpolated with the theoretical argument are three historical excursi thematizing Fromm's practice in political life, religious life, and the psychoanalytic clinic, setting the grounds for a new political sociology of radical humanism and critical theory.Critique and Affirmation in Erich Fromm will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic studies, sociology, contemporary philosophy, political theory, and critical theory.

This book is the collection of selected articles that appeared at the First International Analytics Conference 2023 held in Hyderabad in virtual mode on February 2nd the 3rd 2023. In the fast-paced, ever-changing world of business, the pursuit of diversity and sustainability has emerged as a dynamic catalyst for progress. This illuminating volume takes you on a journey through the evolving realm of business, where innovative approaches are redefining corporate strategies and values.

This book is the collection of selected articles that appeared at the First International Analytics Conference 2023 held in Hyderabad in virtual mode on February 2nd the 3rd 2023. In an era defined by the twin imperatives of knowledge and sustainability, this compelling volume explores the powerful synergy between advancements in education and the transformation of society towards a more sustainable future. Delve into the heart of progress as educators, innovators, and change-makers come together to catalyze positive change.

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level. It offers concepts, tools, and ways of thinking about how systems change that can be applied to the most wicked problems facing the world today.More than an abstract argument for complexity theory, the book offers a targeted critique of the today's highest-profile proposals for improving the governance of our environment, security, finance, health, and digital space. It suggests that we should spend less effort and resources on upgrading existing institutions, and more on understanding how they (and we) relate to each other.The volume will be essential reading for public policymakers, NGOs and think tanks, foreign policy experts, government officials, and global decision makers.

This book discusses three key aspects of business operations: sustainability, human factors and smart manufacturing, which make up modern business. The authors share their experiences in the transformation of enterprises to Industry 4.0/5.0 and the sustainability of steel production, as well as the reorganization of human factors using the example of the steel sector. The steel industry is covered both from a global perspective (key producers in the global steel market), as well as from a local and sectoral perspective (the companies that make up the sector of metal and metal product producers, using Poland as an example).This insightful book discusses how the steel industry can develop intelligent solutions to enhance sustainable performance and the challenges they must overcome, including policy and regulation. Case studies evaluate how steel companies are investing in new technologies that meet environmental requirements but also human resource development to enhance digital skills and competencies of the workforce.The book will find an audience across disciplines but be of particular value to scholars of industrial, operations and technology management.

No matter who you are or what your background might be, deciding whether or not to go to college, and which college to attend, is a complex and often stressful process. Why You Should (or Shouldn't) Go to College is written to help you become more informed and more comfortable in your decision-making so that perhaps some of the unavoidable anxiety is reduced, your questions are answered, and you can move forward confidently toward your goal...whatever it might be.Full of easy-to-understand data and background on higher education and current economic workforce trends, this book provides an overview of the college process, including academic keywords and jargon, alternative routes, and "Student Silhouette" stories from others who have chosen a variety of paths post high school, . This book will enhance your knowledge and choices when deciding what path is right for you.Whether you are a stressed high school student trying to decide what's next, a parent deliberating your child's future, or a non-traditional student following your own path, this has the knowledge and information needed to make deliberate and informed choices about your future education and career choices.