This accessible, philosophically framed early childhood education text shows how to create and implement a civic-minded, anti-bias curriculum.

This accessible early childhood education text offers an in-depth look at the creation and implementation of a series of civic-minded, anti-bias curriculum maps in contrasting classroom settings: one residing in a state with a "divisive concepts" law and another residing in a state without one. Grounded in philosophically informed conceptualizations of flourishing and personal autonomy, Joy Dangora Erickson argues that anti-bias education is a crucial component of a larger civic education and that schools have a moral obligation to provide it. However, social biases can impede citizens' abilities to make and execute well-informed decisions supportive of their own and others' well-being. Given that the current sociopolitical landscape in the United States actively discourages many educators' efforts to cultivate anti-bias learning spaces, being able to navigate these outside pressures and do right by children at this time is imperative. This book supports preservice and in-service early childhood educators by thoughtfully considering the curriculum maps designed by the research team and how they were employed in classrooms in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Master the newest methods, tools, and strategies in supply chain management

In The Supply Chain Playbook: How to Transform Planning, Inventory, and Execution into Competitive Power, supply chain planning and transformation expert Marcia Williams, delivers a practical, planning-first guide to transforming supply chain decision-making and execution to move from a largely reactive supply chain management strategy to one that anticipates and responds to challenges before they disrupt business performance.

Williams draws on more than two decades of supply chain experience to provide expert advice for leaders interested in transforming their organizations' supply chains, strengthening cross-functional collaboration and alignment, structuring core planning roles, improving forecasting and demand planning, strengthening supply, inventory, and capacity planning, and more. She explains how to optimize supply, inventory, and materials planning, effectively use existing planning tools, and track useful metrics.

Inside the book:

• Comprehensive discussions of the foundations of traditional supply chain planning and how recent developments - especially those that occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic - have changed the fundamentals
• Detailed walkthroughs of demand planning and forecasting as well as supply planning, inventory management, capacity planning, and materials planning
• Advice for implementing the latest technological developments in your organization's approach to supply chains, including analytics, machine-learning-based demand forecasting, and AI-enabled tools that support better planning decisions
• A clear, practical roadmap for implementing S&OP and S&OE, linking long-term planning decisions with short-term execution through well-defined roles, metrics, and operating cadence.

Filled with detailed case studies and step-by-step strategy guides for working supply chain professionals, The Supply Chain Playbook is a must-have resource for navigating the latest disruptions, opportunities, and technologies that will define the future of supply chain management.

This book offers a multi-dimensional account of why the third sector (associations, foundations, cooperatives, social enterprises and related non-profit organizations) differs so markedly across European countries. Combining historical-institutional, political-economic, moral-cultural, legal-regulatory and structural-economic perspectives, it links values, cleavage histories, welfare-state design and institutionalized state-civil-society relations to observable national patterns of third-sector structure, function and behaviour. The volume pairs conceptual innovation with an original empirical programme (cluster analysis, multi-level modelling and policy-field case comparisons) and shows how different "third-sector regimes" arise from interactions between welfare institutions, moral logics, and economic contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers who want theory-driven, evidence-based explanations of cross-national variation in non-profit size, welfare provision by third-sector actors, organizational hybridity and the democratic role of civil society.

This book presents a rigorous exploration of responsible entrepreneurship through an analysis of Deignan Award laureates across Hong Kong and Macao. Drawing on 18 in-depth interviews with gold and merit awardees, the co-authors deliver empirically rich, context-specific insights into ethical business practices within the Greater Bay Area. The dual-region perspective enables cross-comparative analysis, advancing scholarly discourse on culturally embedded entrepreneurial ethics.

This book is a resource that public relations instructors can use to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) use into their classes. As public relations professors strive to not only teach the foundations of public relations but help students apply what they learn to actual work in their field, this book contains many exercises and examples of teaching ideas. Every chapter has a focus on a topic that students must learn and understand about working in public relations, and every chapter includes ideas for professors on leading class discussions, creating in-class work and homework, and, finally, incorporating the ever-growing AI use into the classroom.

• systematischen Aufbau der Bearbeitung mit Normzweck, Entstehungsgeschichte und Einzelerlaeuterungen
• wissenschaftliche Gruendlichkeit und praxisbezogene Loesungen
• Einbeziehung von angrenzenden Materien wie z.B. der Insolvenzrechtlichen Verguetungsverordnung (InsVV), des Europaeischen und des Internationalen Insolvenzrechts (mit allen wichtigen Laenderberichten) und des Steuerrechts
• hochqualifizierte Autorinnen und Autoren aus Praxis, Rechtswissenschaft, Betriebswirtschaft und Steuerrecht

• in die Tiefe gehende, richtungweisende Kommentierung
• mit aktuellster BGH-Rechtsprechung
• Novellen (u.a. Anfechtungsrecht und Konzerninsolvenz) ausfuehrlich und fundiert erlaeutert
• mit Band 4 liegt ein eigener Band zum europaeischen Insolvenzrecht mit einer weltweiten Sammlung von Laenderberichten vor
• EuInsVO 2015

Uncovers the hidden history of conservation, conflict, and resistance on the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border.

Drawing on rich oral testimonies and archival records, this book examines the impact of colonial wildlife conservation policies on African societies and borderlands. Through this exploration, the author shows how colonial "fortress conservation" policies-game reserves, hunting concessions, and land restrictions-disrupted rural life, fueled grievances, and shaped popular participation in the wars of liberation.

By comparing Portuguese and British approaches across a shared cultural and ecological region, this book challenges conventional colonial divides to reveal how conservation became entangled with nationalism, migration, and survival. Extending into the postcolonial era, it also highlights how projects like the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park carried forward legacies of exclusion under new guises.

Engaging and accessible, this book is essential reading for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in African history, environmental politics, or the complex ties between people, land, and wildlife.

This book explores how Global Value Chains can be resilient in a world marked by disruptions, from pandemics to geopolitical tensions and climate shocks. By bringing together international business and supply chain management perspectives, the book directly engages with and seeks to advance debates on the processual nature of resilience, the multidimensionality of GVCs, and the interplay between governance, geography, and network relationships. Moreover, the book clarifies the conceptual boundaries between resilience and related constructs such as robustness, flexibility, agility, and adaptability. Supported by in-depth case studies from oil & gas, automotive, and semiconductor sectors, the book offers a dedicated definition, actionable insights, and a comprehensive framework for GVC resilience.

This book explores topics related to sustainability, including the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and accountability in various activities. Following the success of Volume 1, this sequel deepens the exploration of sustainability and the UN's 17 SDGs. It expands on the complex, evolving landscape of organizational efforts toward sustainability, highlighting new use cases and perspectives from global contributors-including UNITAR, Sorbonne Qatar, Ca' Foscari and IUAV in Venice and numerous other universities, and leading local and regional governments and NGOs. Rather than offering a single "Big Picture," it embraces the diversity of bottom-up and top-down initiatives, emphasizing the Three-Pillar-Model and the power of purpose, transformation, and connectivity. Historical and contemporary examples illustrate the urgency and momentum of change. This volume aims to inspire organizations to shape their own journeys and contribute meaningfully to a fair, sustainable future.

An international cross-regional and cross-cultural comparison of how women experience incarceration, encompassing various historical, social, economic, and systemic factors unique to those regions.

The issue of women's imprisonment is a complex and multifaceted one, as women face unique challenges behind bars, compared to their male counterparts. Although imprisoned women around the world may share common hardships, their experiences also vary according their specific social and regional circumstances.

This volume takes a global view of incarcerated women, examining the cultural, historical, economical, and political influences that affect their imprisonment. Addressing the historical context of women's prisons across all geographical regions of the world, each chapter dives deep into the local female incarceration trends over time, and the influencing laws and policies; the physical and mental health issues women face in prison, including mental illness, substance abuse, sexual abuse, and pregnancy; as well as re-entry programs, recidivism, and policy reform.

Written by an expert in the field of criminal justice and gender studies, this is a useful primer for research into the topic of women and incarceration around the world.

Colleen Elizabeth Kelley and Michael J. Miller explore how democracy both functions and falters when media, politics, and rhetorical discourses collide.

Democracy thrives on information and public engagement. Digital spaces and technologies, while significantly enriching our cyberculture and playing a crucial role in our interconnected global system, have introduced significant threats to our democracy including misinformation, privacy concerns, and public polarization as platforms emerge as increasingly powerful intermediaries. Examining discursive manifestations of these problematic intersections during the 2024 presidential election cycle, Kelley and Miller demonstrate the impact of digital media and a digitally disrupted political ecosystem on democracy in the United States.

Kelley and Miller provide a salient reminder that political frameworks - especially democracy - are mediated systems constituted and agreed upon through communication behaviors. Our political future, they contend, can still be shaped by the people.

Trust is the missing skill of the AI era. This book shows you how to build it.

AI systems already advise our doctors, tutor our children, and drive our cars. They sound confident while being wrong, intimate without being responsible, and authoritative without being accountable. Our instincts for deciding whom to trust are no match for machines that fake understanding at scale. The question is not whether AI will reshape society. It is whether humans will remain in the driver's seat when it does.

In The Trust Code, Tiffany Xingyu Wang-a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, USPTO patent holder, and digital safety pioneer who helped build AI systems protecting over a billion users-delivers the first comprehensive framework for practicing trust as a discipline in the age of AI. Trust is not a feeling. It is a decision. And it is the most consequential one you will make.

Through three movements-rethink trust, decode AI, reclaim your agency-you will learn:

• A new language for trust-where it comes from, what it rests on, and why your instincts can mislead you-so you create common ground when everyone talks past each other
• The hidden pattern behind major technological leaps from the printing press to autonomous vehicles, and why AI is the first to break it
• The forces driving AI forward-curiosity, greed, and fear-and how to separate earned trust from demanded trust so you see clearly instead of react blindly
• Thousands of AI risks distilled into three categories you can act on-mirrors, weapons, and ghosts-freeing you to decide what to mitigate, constrain, or refuse
• With clear sight and firm boundaries, what AI makes possible as it transforms how we create, heal, and power the world, and how we can stay at the center of that promise
• C.A.L.I.B.R.A.T.E.-a nine-step practice that turns trust from a feeling you have into a judgment you make, from the boardroom to your child's screen time

The Trust Code is essential reading for leaders, technologists, parents, and anyone who refuses to let algorithms decide what deserves their trust. The question is no longer whether to trust AI. It is how to trust wisely.

The operator-tested framework for leading AI transformation as a talent strategy

Most enterprise AI initiatives fail because organizations treat them as technology rollouts rather than talent management challenges. In Workforce Intelligence: The People-First Playbook for Leading Your Company Through AI Transformation, OneDigital co-founder Mike Sullivan and Chief Product Officer Vinay Gidwaney introduce an operating model that treats the workforce as a composed capacity of human judgment and machine capability, orchestrated together.

Built from the authors' experience scaling OneDigital to a $1.7 billion enterprise serving 100,000 employers, Workforce Intelligence traces the evolution from Personnel Management to Human Capital Management to the new discipline of WI. The book delivers real client situations, internal operating metrics, and a tested management philosophy forged under private-equity scrutiny.

Ultimately, you'll learn how to pass the "Humanity Test": When confronted with the option of reinvesting returns from AI in the people who built your business or pocketing the excess margins, you'll know the best option is the first one - and exactly how to execute it. You'll also find:

• A historical arc showing why each workforce management transition required a new philosophy, not just new tools
• Named scenes and real client situations illustrating how the Workforce Intelligence framework operates in practice
• Guidance for CHROs on positioning people leadership, not technology teams, as the owner of AI transformation
• A measurement framework designed to withstand board-level scrutiny when justifying AI-driven workforce investments
• Practical direction for people managers who need to act on AI-related workforce changes starting Monday morning

Written for HR leaders, CHROs, benefits executives, CEOs, and people managers at mid-to-large employers, Workforce Intelligence provides the operational framework and management philosophy needed to lead AI transformation as a people strategy rather than a technology deployment.

This book explores the evolution of digital advertising in the 21st century and explains how technology is transforming modern marketing strategies. It examines key trends such as video advertising, social media marketing, artificial intelligence in advertising, and changing consumer engagement in the digital marketing landscape. The chapters begin by tracing the shift from traditional advertising to digital platforms and the growing role of social media in product discovery. It then examines important themes such as social proof, fear of missing out, and the psychological triggers used in modern advertising. It also discusses the transition from banner ads to artificial intelligence-driven marketing strategies and the use of data to analyze customer sentiment. Further sections explore ethical issues such as nostalgia in advertising, and successful technology-driven campaigns, including challenges and opportunities in regions such as South Asia. Designed for researchers, marketers, and students, this book provides clear insights into the future of digital advertising and online marketing.