Effective strategic management education and practice must focus on the whole team rather than the individual - this book guides readers toward collaborative excellence in strategizing and decision-making by taking such an approach.

Organized into four interlinked parts, this book offers readers the conceptual resources to critically rethink how strategic leadership capability can and should be developed in top management teams, along with practical interventions to implement this vision. Each chapter begins with a clear justification of its importance, asserting alignment and relevance. By laying out the objectives and drawing connections between chapters, teams are better positioned to see both the individual trees and the overarching forest of strategic management. A myriad of field-based insights and team-focused examples serve as a launchpad for collaborative discussions grounded in real-world dynamics. Readers will learn how to implement strategic management principles effectively, maximizing both individual and collective potential.

With chapters supporting a modular executive education program, this exciting new title will also be a valuable resource for MBA students, advanced undergraduates, future business leaders, consultants, and reflective practitioners.

The work is fully supported by a variety of online resources including downloadable participant handouts and templates for key exercises, together with an adaptable core slide deck.

This book is a broad and rich collection of contributions to the debate on cooperatives in Cuba and argues that they have the potential to both improve Cubans' material standard of living and to strengthen the Revolution's project of building socialism.

For almost 200 years advocates of socialism have argued about whether having cooperatives as base production units is inconsistent with socialism's requirements for a socially and democratically planned economy. Concerning what is possible, the contributors argue that organizing large parts of Cuba's existing and necessary small and medium scale production into cooperatives would be beneficial both for improving Cubans' material standard of living and for strengthening the Revolution's project of building a socialist economy. Concerning the cooperatives that exist in Cuba today, the contributors argue two factors constitute key barriers to the cooperatives' ability to achieve these goals. First, their performance is severely crippled by inadequate autonomy of cooperatives from those state institutions tasked with their management under. Second, cooperatives need to be massively developed and promoted not only in the agricultural sector where they already play such an important role, but also in the much larger nonagricultural sector of the economy, where an official program to do exactly that has been "on pause" for over a decade. Cooperatives in Cuba is a call for the Cuban government to promote an authentic cooperativization of significant parts of the small and medium productive units that are explosively developing there, as a part of its new socioeconomic model for its desired "prosperous and sustainable socialism."

This timely book offers an overview of how to understand health and wellbeing in custodial settings. It draws on cutting-edge research for a big picture perspective on the issues of prisoners' health and wellbeing in prison settings. Bringing together international experts from research psychology, health and criminology, the volume creates a multidisciplinary narrative to highlight contemporary issues within prisons concerning health and wellbeing. It also explores how these issues can be effectively researched and subsequently understood.

The book covers how to navigate ethics in prisons research, the practicalities of conducting research in custodial settings, as well as discussions and case study examples from custodial settings in different countries. Chapters include illustrative examples and practical guidance from those working in the area, offering rich and in-depth insights into the different factors that affect health and wellbeing within prisons. The book also reflects on contemporary changes to prison research following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The book will be essential reading for postgraduate and upper-level undergraduate students of research psychology, criminology and health psychology. The book will also be highly relevant for postgraduate students and professionals studying or working on health and wellbeing in prisons and custodial environments.

This book explores how modern technologies-especially data analytics, machine learning (ML), and the Internet of Things (IoT)-are transforming supply chain and manufacturing operations. Bridging academic research and industrial practice, this book presents data as a strategic asset driving agility, efficiency, and resilience.

Structured around four themes, it covers:

• Foundational analytics and optimization
• Predictive and prescriptive analytics for proactive decision-making
• Real-time IoT data for workflow monitoring and control
• Digital Twins and Natural Language Processing (NLP) for modeling and interaction

Chapters include mathematical modeling, case studies, and implementation frameworks, with coverage spanning stochastic forecasting, reinforcement learning, anomaly detection, and semantic parsing of logistics documentation.

Key benefits include its emphasis on integrated intelligence-blending ML, IoT, and simulation for real-time, predictive insights. It also highlights scalability across industries, with tools adaptable to sectors like automotive, healthcare, and aerospace. Each chapter concludes with open problems and future directions, offering a roadmap for innovation in intelligent operations.

This book analyses the financial policies and institutions developed under the Franco regime over nearly four decades and how key actors - banks, savings banks, the foreign sector, the Banco de Espana and public debt management - were used to support the regime's economic objectives.

Situating Francoist financial policy within the broader European context of post-World War II financial repression, it highlights the distinctive features of the Spanish case, shaped by a political dictatorship that profoundly influenced both policy design and institutional practice. By combining institutional analysis with the study of regulation, financial mechanisms and historical evolution, the book offers a nuanced account of the financial history of Francoism and places Spain within broader postwar European patterns of financial interventionism.

Offering new empirical evidence, critical interpretations and comparative perspectives, this volume targets a broad academic audience, including undergraduates seeking an introduction to the Franco regime's financial system, postgraduate and PhD students requiring in-depth analysis for advanced research in economic history, as well as researchers and scholars interested in transnational approaches to economic policy and institutional development.

In the swiftly transforming environment of the 21st century, businesses and organizations encounter unparalleled challenges and prospects. At the vanguard of this transformation is artificial intelligence (AI), which has emerged as a pivotal catalyst for innovation across various sectors. By optimizing operational efficiencies, enhancing customer engagement, and facilitating data-informed decision-making, AI is fundamentally altering the operational frameworks of enterprises. Nevertheless, the incorporation of AI into business strategy transcends mere technological adoption; it entails a comprehensive reimagining of the business model to synchronize with the capabilities and potentialities of AI.

This new book, Contemporary Strategic Business Transformation: AI Frontiers, investigates the confluence of modern strategic business transformation and AI. It scrutinizes the principles and methodologies that organizations must implement to adeptly navigate the intricacies of the contemporary business milieu. Through the analysis of empirical case studies and the provision of pragmatic insights, the book helps to empower leaders with the necessary knowledge and tools to leverage AI for enduring growth and competitive superiority.

This volume highlights various aspects of AI in business strategy, such as the role of artificial intelligence in combating climate change, the impact of machine learning and artificial intelligence on strategic management, the new tech-focused age of humans-the Technopocene, digital adaptation in the educational sector, deepfakes in media, and more, all of which are very related with the present business world.

Offering chapters on diverse topics on AI in business transforming, this volume will be a rich resource for business and IT professionals in many sectors who hope to harness the power of AI for future growth and success.

Offering a wide range of case studies, this new book highlights the practical applications of integrating quality management, data analysis, and multidisciplinary research for solving urgent environmental challenges, improving public health and company operations, and more. By bridging the gap between theory and practice, it emphasizes the transformative power of data and interdisciplinary approaches in addressing complex challenges and driving innovation.

This book highlights many methods and applications for data analysis and interdisciplinary research, including various statistical methods, CUSUM (Cumulative Sum) control charts, Poisson distribution models, the Bayesian approach, software programs like Mathematica, machine learning algorithms, big data, and more. The book applies data analysis approaches in addressing complex challenges in many areas, including for environmental problems such as measuring air pollution; in socioeconomic issues like insurance costs and dynamics; in healthcare such as for analyzing epidemiological data (such as from the COVID-19 pandemic); in the agricultural sector, such as to understand and forecast agricultural trends and to enhance agricultural sustainability; and more.

Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the offenses known to law enforcement. This reference is the most comprehensive official compilation of crime statistics in the United States and is an important addition to your library's collection.

While the FBI no longer prints these findings, we continue to provide this practical information in convenient book form.

In this intricately detailed source, legal and law enforcement professionals, researchers, and those who are just curious will find violent and property crime statistics for the nation as well as for regions, states, counties, cities, towns, and even college and university campuses.

Crime in the United States includes statistics for:
?Offenses known to police
?Violent crime offenses: murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault
?Property crime offenses: burglary, larcency-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson
?Clearance data: crimes solved by police or cleared by exceptional means
?Persons arrested
?Police employees: sworn officers and civilian law enforcement personnel
?Hate crimes with data by offense type, location, bias motivation, victim type, number of victims, and race of offender

A practical handbook examining how established businesses can use their unique advantages to fight back and win in a digital arena too often dominated by tech start-ups, disruptors and unicorns.

The big tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft) have had an enormous impact on our everyday lives. A new wave of start-ups in the tech sector has dominated the press and swallowed up huge amounts of investment. But what about those established companies in the traditional parts of the world's economies, from energy, industrial and consumer goods to travel and health? They rarely got a mention. Everyone was talking about the disrupters - the start-ups and the entrepreneurs - and not about the incumbents. This book is a call for a reality check.

For at the core of our established companies are capabilities and qualities that remain highly relevant in the digital age. They are often market leaders for very good reasons - they know their customers and markets well, and they have great product, sales and marketing expertise. They are operationally savvy and financially strong, with deep insights into areas of expertise that no one else has, giving them a unique advantage.

John Fallon and Julian Birkinshaw have come to a clear conclusion: incumbents are not going quietly into that dark night. Organizations will need to jettison their analogue baggage and infrastructure and embrace digital transformation. They will survive and they will prosper. And this shows how they are doing it.

Sierra Leone was founded as a refuge for emancipated slaves in the late 18th century and is an important case study for contemporary global issues. The region in which the country is located was important for the early migration and settlement of diverse cultures throughout western Africa. The dictionary offers information and analysis about the territory's ethnographic, economic, social, and political characteristics from early times to the present.

Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country's politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Sierra Leone.

This book provides a practical, step-by-step approach to designing and implementing evaluation projects targeting a variety of DEI goals in academic library collections.

Offering both flexibility and detailed guidance, this book begins with a discussion of aspects of diversity that librarians could target in their assessment projects and notes project planning considerations such as defining a scope and timeline. It particularly notes how larger academic libraries can narrow the scope of a project to make it feasible. Subsequent chapters explain different methods for assessing a collection, with many examples throughout.

Methods include:
- List-checking involves comparing the collection to a list of recommended books.
- Metadata searching produces a count of library holdings that contain certain subject headings or use specific call numbers.
- Diversity coding allows staff to create their own categories and assign them to books in a sample.

All three of these methods can be used to analyze the collection by subject matter. It is possible to use diversity coding to examine author identities as well, a sensitive endeavor for which this book provides both cautions and guidance. A fourth approach focuses on organizational efforts or inputs. This method involves tracking and reflecting on the library's progress towards goals the staff have set, which could involve a variety of collections-related activities, including staff development, changes to workflows, revising policies, or increasing outreach. The book describes advantages and limitations of the four methods, allowing librarians to make an informed choice of which to use. It also offers resources for implementing each of these strategies as well as guidance on creating one's own evaluation tools. Three chapters by guest authors provide examples of DEI assessment projects from academic libraries. A concluding chapter discusses sharing findings and suggests a range of changes libraries can make to their collecting practices.

This book offers an intimate ethnographic window into the ways Chinese Muslims produce, maintain, and transmit religious, cultural, and historical knowledge through their everyday practices of heritage literacy.
Sino-Muslims in China inhabit a unique landscape of religious and spiritual expression, shaped by the intersections of the Islamic faith with Chinese cultural traditions, and where the spoken and written word plays a vital role in sustaining Islamic heritage across generations.

Drawing from multiple personal narratives across diverse regions - including Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Jilin, Henan, and Hong Kong SAR - this book illuminates the lived experiences of Chinese Muslims as they navigate the intersections of faith, language, and identity. These accounts trace practices of heritage literacy shaped by migration, linguistic-semiotic ideologies, life-cycle rituals, and forms of artistic expression. The authors show how practices of heritage literacy, rooted in Islamic traditions yet responsive to contemporary shifts, tether Sino-Muslims to a broader sense of Muslimness while also anchoring them in local Chinese cultural and historical milieus and diverse linguistic traditions.

This interdisciplinary study offers new insights into the significance of heritage literacy in linguistic anthropological study, and the vital role of narrative in preserving and articulating Islamic heritage in China's evolving sociocultural landscape.

Global supply chains, long seen as engines of efficiency and economic integration, have been increasingly disrupted by recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and shifts in trade and industrial policy. These developments have raised costs, increased uncertainty, and reduced the predictability of cross-border production and exchange. Firms operating in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) face particularly strong pressures as overlapping geopolitical forces reshape production networks, market access, and strategic choices.

This book examines how firms build and sustain supply chain resilience (SCRES) under persistent geopolitical uncertainty. It maps how research on SCRES has evolved and provides detailed empirical evidence on how firms in the CEE region respond to geopolitical risk. Focusing on practical adjustment mechanisms such as supplier diversification, nearshoring, inventory buffering, and route reconfiguration, this book analyses how firms adapt supply chains in environments shaped by sanctions, trade disputes, and regulatory fragmentation.

Using qualitative case studies and causal modelling, the analysis shows that resilience does not result from isolated decisions or single best practices. Instead, it emerges from the interaction of multiple strategic choices made over time. By combining insights from dynamic capabilities, institutional economics, and systems thinking, this book conceptualises SCRES as an economic outcome shaped by firms' responses to changing costs, governance constraints, and information conditions under geopolitical pressure.

The book is intended for researchers and graduate students in supply chain management, economics, international business, and related fields, as well as for policymakers and practitioners concerned with geopolitical risk, industrial adjustment, and resilience in global production networks.

Library support staff who work with collections assist with the processes that put library materials on the shelf or online; this work requires knowledge and understanding of publishers, vendors, collection care, and item preparation. This is a text for library support staff programs and an introductory reference manual for support staff who work in libraries.
This book will prepare support staff to:
? Know how to use an integrated library system and other appropriate online tools.
? Know the basic principles of collection development and management.
? Assist with decisions regarding selection, de-selection, retention, and replacement of all types of library resources.
? Apply the appropriate procedures to the processes that provide users with access to a wide variety of content.
? Know the ways in which content, in multiple formats, is produced and distributed to libraries.
? Understand the value of resource sharing agreements and apply them to collection decisions.
? Know and use the recognized standard evaluative sources to assist with collection development.
? Know the principles and practices of cataloging materials.
? Know the principles and practices regarding the preservation of library resources.
? Apply appropriate methods and techniques to preparing library resources.
? Explain and apply policies regarding library collections.
The Library Support Staff series is aimed for staff that work in libraries and want to enhance their skills; college professors who teach library support staff instruction; and/or students who seek academic credit. Each book in the series addresses a specific course in an academic curriculum for library support staff. Content of each book in the series is aligned with American Library Association competencies for accredited programs and learning for library support staff (ALA-LSSC). The text is written in clear language with practical examples of how performance can contribute to exemplary library service.

Small words carry enormous weight. Your words, chosen with care, are among the most powerful tools you have for making people feel seen, heard, and valued. Saying "tell me more" instead of moving on. Choosing we over I or knowing when not to speak at all. These micro-decisions shape how leaders are perceived, how teams perform, and whether organizations thrive or stagnate.

Small Words of Leadership examines the often-underestimated dimension of leadership communication. Companies are defined by what leaders say, and the smallest elements of language accumulate into defining our culture. Word choice, framing, tone, silence. Drawing on psychological research and real-world examples, each chapter examines a specific facet of intentional communication, including inclusive language, the strategic use of silence, the architecture of feedback, and the subtle signals that either build or erode trust and belonging.

Leadership development has long emphasized bold decisions and grand strategies. This book makes the case for something quieter and more durable. Everyday conversations are where leadership actually lives. In a world where machines can generate endless language, choosing the words that matter is the most human thing a leader can do

Practical and immediately applicable, this book offers leaders at every level a new lens for examining their own language habits and a concrete set of tools for communicating with greater precision, empathy, and effect.

Use the power of organization to transform chaos into efficiency so you can run your business instead of letting it run you

The entrepreneurial struggle is all too real for business owners who find themselves wearing multiplehats, strapped for time, and pulled away from the passion that drove them to start their business in the first place. Swapping the daily grind to work smarter, not harder, requires a shift in mindset and a new vision for business processes.
In Organize Your Business Like a Boss: An Entrepreneur's Six-Step System to Gaining More Time, Money, and Freedom, author Jane Stoller helps readers eliminate hidden timewasters, streamline business processes, and organize their finances to gain control over their work and personal lives.
Full of worksheets, templates, and actionable tips, this book allows entrepreneurs to come to grips with the current state of their business, taking it from a disorganized mess to a laser-focused operation without overwhelming levels of stress and the inevitable burnout that follows. While individuals and businesses are unique, the means for making positive change are not. This book's six-step system will take every entrepreneur from chaos to efficiency, with the ultimate goal of enjoying more time for their passions and loved ones.

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026*

'This book is fun to read, exciting to apply, and profitable to implement.' Sir John Kay, economist

Buying an established company - rather than creating a start-up from scratch - is an increasingly popular path to success for many entrepreneurs. So what's stopping you?

Let's face it - starting a business is stressful, time-consuming and often ends in failure. Buying into an existing business (known as Entrepreneurship through acquisition or ETA) is becoming a popular alternative, and it's not surprising. An existing business already has customers, suppliers and staff; from day one, you can make a positive impact on the company and the people you are working with, rather than risking everything on a new venture.

Whether you are an MBA graduate, a successful corporate manager looking to strike out on your own, or someone who would rather run a business than work for one, Buy, Run, Build is your go-to guide on how to do ETA yourself, and contains all the tools you'll need to embark on this new chapter of your life.

Buy, Run, Build is rooted in real-life business experience and Charles Skinner's own insights as an industry specialist. With over 30 years' experience of running listed companies and acquiring tiny companies and turning them into national champions, Charles shares the secrets of his successes - and the invaluable lessons he's learnt from his failures - and guides you through the dos and don'ts of ETA:
? Finding and valuing companies;
? Funding acquisitions and negotiating deals;
? Managing acquired businesses and running fast-growing businesses, and;
? Most importantly - what to do when things go wrong.

So if you want to run a company, what are you waiting for?

*AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARD WINNER 2026 *

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2026*

'Take your dream, read this, and let it fly.' JO YOULE OBE, CEO of Missing People

The world can be a challenging place. It is often tempting to say 'why doesn't someone do something about it?' But why shouldn't that 'someone' be you?

You don't have to be rich, powerful or a genius to make a profound and lasting difference to our world. All you need is an idea and the determination to make it happen. How to Change the World is the springboard to help you impact the world in the way you've always wanted.

From finding the money, to identifying the best people with whom to join forces, Jo Owen will help you launch, develop and scale an idea so that it has the most effective and meaningful social impact, and benefits as many people as possible.

Your idea can come from anywhere: from reading an article, talking to colleagues, or stumbling across a good idea that can be developed. Jo Owen champions that anyone can turn an idea into something that can have a meaningful and lasting impact on people's lives and can perform the miracle of creating something great out of nothing.

This edited volume brings together a remarkable array of distinguished corporate, investor, government, academic, and nonprofit perspectives to consider how the targeted pursuit of business profits can better add up to the world's profit, broadly defined.

Chapter authors tackle such questions as how businesses can work more effectively with governments, financial institutions, and civil society to mitigate their own enterprise risk alongside risks to people and planet; how private resources, innovation, and networks can be mobilized to create value in solving major social and environmental challenges; and what types of accountability structures are needed to set boundaries, provide oversight, and create positive incentives for business performance. Their perspectives offer insights into how sustainability can be introduced into business practices, finance, and policymaking in a way that expands market opportunities and accelerates progress towards global sustainable development.

This pioneering collection provides a space for Latin American English language teacher educators and leaders to share their innovative professional practices.

Their autoethnographic contributions adeptly intertwine personal trajectories with wider societal and pedagogical narratives, elucidating crucial themes across the region's terrains.

Latin America's English language pedagogy still trails behind on the global stage despite countries like Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia bolstering their English teacher education and enhancing the delivery of English as a foreign language. This landscape demands a deeper scholarly inquiry, particularly at the crossroads of innovative pedagogies and their real-world applications within the distinctive milieu of Latin America. Spanning the entire continent and a vast variety of teaching and learning contexts, this book's contributors tackle challenges including collaboration, professional identity and development, queer texts, democratizing access, social justice and materials design.

Gathering perspectives and experiences through auto-, duo- and trio-ethnographic chapters, this collection of personal and deeply collaborative reflections is a powerful account of first-person lived experiences in TESOL teacher education in Latin America.

Decolonizing English Language Education offers a grounded introduction to decolonial practices in language learning. It invites readers to problematize and rethink English language education by uncovering its deep ties to colonial history and imagining new, more humanizing possibilities for the contemporary classroom.

Spanning histories of empire to present-day policies and practices, this book traces how English has been commonly associated with power, opportunity, and mobility while also perpetuating inequality and marginalization. Molina guides teachers through a reflective and methodical journey: first, understanding how colonial legacies shape language education; then, moving toward decolonizing one's own consciousness; and, ultimately, adopting practical strategies for a transformative pedagogy rooted in critical, decolonial love. Drawing on the author's own experience and insights from Indigenous knowledge systems and critical traditions, this book emphasizes the importance of love, spirituality, and relationality in language teacher education. Case studies and hands-on examples highlight how teachers can use translingual, multimodal, and culturally sustaining practices to affirm learners' diverse identities and gifts. This book effectively re-imagines language teaching not just as skills-based instruction but as a moral and transformative endeavor.

By incorporating decolonial practice and reflection into research, this book is ideal for policymakers, scholars, and teachers alike. It is a valuable resource for applied linguistics, language acquisition, second language acquisition theory and methodology, and practical courses offering work placements.

This timely and innovative handbook presents an up-to-date, critical, and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes relating to regenerative tourism and hospitality and offers a deep dive into the operational, strategic, and policy dimensions of regenerative strategy and practices.

Organized into four parts, this volume comprises over 40 specifically commissioned original contributions from recognized authors in the field, providing a systematic guide to the current stage of knowledge in this area. It is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content. This book serves as an essential guide to achieveing a common understanding of the concept of 'regeneration' and to inspiring and equipping stakeholders and academics with the tools needed to transition from conventional and sustainability-focused practices towards restorative and regenerative business models that generate tangible social and environmental impact, particularly amidst increasing environmental concerns and evolving market expectations in the tourism and hospitality industries.

This is essential reading for students, researchers, and academics interested in regenerative tourism and hospitality.

Economics as a subject helps equip young people with the knowledge and skills they need to understand and navigate the complexities of the world around them. This book supports teachers, particularly those that are new to the profession or who may not be economics specialists, in teaching the key topics so they can plan and deliver lessons that maximise students' understanding.

Covering the specifications at GCSE and A-Level, each chapter outlines the 'big picture' in each topic and explores common misconceptions students have. This is followed by an example of how to effectively explain the topic to students alongside case studies and assessment for learning questions to check students' understanding. Chapters cover the following:

• Price elasticity of demand and supply
• The law of diminishing marginal returns and short-run cost curves * Long run average cost curves and economies of scale
• Oligopoly and game theory
• The long-run aggregate supply curve and macroeconomic equilibrium
• Inflation and price stability
• The Phillips curve and natural rate of unemployment
• Financial institutions and money markets

Highly practical and packed with strategies that teachers can use immediately in the classroom, this is essential reading for all economics teachers especially nonspecialists.

Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums is a much-needed guide to marketing for libraries, archives, and museum professionals in the social media age. This book is both an introductory textbook and a guide for working professionals on developing a comprehensively planned marketing campaign that integrates social media into a holistic marketing strategy.

Beginning with mission, goals, and objectives, readers will put together working knowledge of the essential components for planning a marketing campaign. Chapters cover how to do a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis, identify and involve stakeholders, a 4-step marketing model, market research, market segmentation, market mix strategy, and evaluation. The final chapter, "From the Social Media Manager's Perspective: Putting it all Together," guides readers through first days on the job of taking over an organization's social media marketing efforts, and the steps to be taken in the first days, weeks, and months that follow, including promotional and assessment activities.

Throughout the book, chapters include examples from marketing campaigns, key terms, and discussion question activities which can be developed into classroom or workshop assignments. Illustrative case study examples from libraries, archives and museums are embedded throughout the chapters. The new edition provides more extensive examples from all three types of institutions as well as other relevant nonprofit and government organizations, and features updated coverage of social media technologies, techniques, and practices.

This book explores how adoption evolved in Germany's turbulent twentieth century, experiencing both drastic changes and unexpected continuities.

The history of adoption in twentieth-century Germany has been dramatic and complex. The Weimar Republic's assumption of responsibility for children's welfare in 1922 empowered state authorities to regulate private adoption agencies, to set up their own public adoption offices, and to require prospective adoptive parents to prove their competence to social workers. These policies subsequently allowed nazis, communists, and democrats to frame adoption policies to match their social and political goals and values. Differing conceptions of the best interests of the child and the family, redefinitions of "family", changing criteria for a family's or child's suitability for adoption, abduction, international adoption, and even European integration all came into play, empowering authorities to define, regulate and sometimes even forbid adoptive relationships to that end. The evolution of German adoption and German society reflected each other, showing both fundamental changes and unexpected continuities, and deepening our understanding of both.

Librarians continue to work under budget constraints while still needing to increase the user experience and remove barriers to library resources. Learning to evaluate the best options for managing projects to accomplish goals while balancing with the reality of day-to-day work needs is integral to overall success.

In this book, readers will learn: how to balance the goals of the project with the reality of working in libraries today, what key questions can help move readers effectively through the project process and choose the right tools, best practices to ensure sustainability in project plans as well as outcomes, and how to incorporate diversity, inclusion, and accessibility principles into your project management. This practice guide provides step-by-step instructions to determine what project management tools and techniques match the needs of the particular library project and person/team's skills level, while also providing these in the context of libraries' specific cultures and norms.