A practical roadmap to achieve annual returns of 25% or more with a well-designed angel portfolio

Angel Investing is a comprehensive, entertaining guide that walks readers through every step of the way to becoming a successful angel investor. From building your reputation as a smart investor, to negotiating fair deals, to adding value to your portfolio companies and helping them implement smart exit strategies, this book provides both the fundamental strategies and the specific tools you need to take full advantage of this rapidly growing asset class.

Written by David S. Rose, the founder of Gust, the global platform that powers the world of organized professional angel investing, this book delivers insights on:

• Why everyone with six figures to invest should consider angel investing, plus the non-financial rewards of angel investing
• How to source and identify high-potential opportunities, and build your angelic reputation so that the best deals come to you
• The impact of AI and advancing technology on angel investing and why you absolutely must completely understand the concept of exponential growth
• The impact of crowdfunding, syndicates, and the global revolution on angel investing
• Major angel investing blogs, groups, and courses to explore

Angel Investing is an essential read for all investors seeking to establish a long-term view and approach to angel investing as a serious part of an alternative asset portfolio while also enjoying being an integral part of exciting new ventures.

Great presentations get ideas approved, secure funding, and drive action. But even experienced professionals fall into common traps that weaken their message and lose their audience.

In Presentation Pitfalls, executive communication experts John Polk and Justin Hunsaker reveal the ten traps that cause presentations to fail-and, more importantly, the techniques to avoid them. You'll learn how to craft a compelling narrative, design slides that engage rather than distract, and deliver your message with confidence.

Presenters fall into "the Frankenstein Trap" when they cobble slides together without a clear storyline, leaving audiences confused. Or they stumble into "the Lipstick on a Pig Trap," dressing up a weak message with flashy design instead of strengthening the content. Or they trip over "The Just the Facts Trap," believing that data alone is enough to persuade. These missteps-and seven others-can be the difference between winning buy-in and losing your audience.

Inside, you'll discover how to:

• Tell a clear story
• Leverage graphics
• Reduce the noise
• Present with confidence

Estimates put the corporate waste from ineffective presentations at over $1 billion daily. Don't let your ideas get lost in the shuffle. Whether you're leading a key meeting, presenting to senior leadership, or pitching a new idea, this book gives you the tools you need to get results.

John Polk and Justin Hunsaker are on a mission to rid the world of bad presentations and the bad decisions that come with them. Presentation Pitfalls will teach you how to craft compelling presentations that engage to influence and influence to drive action.

The focus of this book is on women-led initiatives and innovative solutions for women in entrepreneurship. It sheds light on the unique challenges faced by diverse groups of women from various fields and how their collective contributions drive sustainable development globally, specifically in African countries.

Diversity in Women's Entrepreneurship: Global Sustainability in African Countries examines the professionalism and expertise of women in innovation and entrepreneurship, recognizing and analyzing the varied experiences of women from diverse backgrounds. It presents cases and accounts of women in African countries, emphasizing how empowering women across various intersections can lead to more impactful sustainable development on a global scale.

The professional book takes a multidisciplinary approach, integrating business, engineering, and sustainability as it provides a comprehensive understanding of women's entrepreneurship in various domains.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the authoritarian context. It challenges prevailing CSR frameworks, which largely derive from liberal democratic contexts and overlook how political institutions shape the conceptualisation and practice of corporate responsibility. By situating CSR within China's political-economic system, the book sheds light on how CSR is dynamically interpreted, strategically communicated, and selectively implemented by corporate and state actors.

Drawing on a mixed-method research design, the study analyses both qualitative and quantitative evidence. The analysis integrates policy documents, regulatory frameworks, CSR and sustainability reports from Chinese corporations, and in-depth qualitative interviews with corporate managers, NGO leaders, and experts. The findings highlight how CSR in China emerges through the normative interplay between market logics and power politics, involving various actors, including enterprises, state entities, and NGOs. The book also presents a critical account of how Chinese companies strategically adapt CSR discourses to align with governmental priorities while navigating complex stakeholder relationships.

A book of vital interest to researchers in business ethics, international business and Asian studies, it will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers seeking to enhance strategies and policies for responsible business conduct.

The book presents empirical insights on the relationship between corporate governance, environmental exposure and environmental sustainability performances of Indian non-financial companies.

The book discusses and analyses the basic theories and concepts associated with corporate governance and environmental exposure like the concept of board size, board meetings, proportion of independent director, CEO duality, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution; and corporate governance theories like the various forms of ownership, agency crisis and its kinds, dominance and expropriation of large shareholders and the possible way out to protect the interest of their minority counterpart etc. It also explores the theoretical postulations, concepts and conventions relating to the topic and critically goes through the literature to develop the hypotheses and to finally testify the set of hypotheses using a set of reliable and suitable econometric estimation techniques to draw meaningful inferences on Indian non-financial companies. The conceptual and theoretical aspects of the topic are presented in a lucid and intelligible manner which enhances the theoretical and practical understanding of the students and scholars in the domain of commerce and management studies.

Offering robust empirical evidence, this book will be useful for corporate governance professionals, sustainability and CSR managers, environmental consultants, regulatory authorities, policymakers, academics, industry associations, and think tanks working on corporate governance, environmental sustainability, environmental studies, CSR, commerce, management, and banking.

This volume presents Ralph Waldo Emerson's engagement with diverse philosophical traditions with the concurrent aim of showing the contemporary relevance of his Transcendentalism.

As scholarship increasingly centers on Emerson's place within American philosophy, this collection offers fresh insights into the expansive reach of his thought across Western and Eastern traditions, spanning the nineteenth century to the present. Featuring comparative analyses and innovative applications of Transcendentalism, it connects Emerson's ideas to global philosophies, religions, and cultures. Thematically organized into three parts, the volume first situates Emerson within Romanticism and Platonism. Part 2 examines his metaphysics and his intersections with both Eastern and Western religious thought. Finally, Part 3 applies his philosophy to education, aesthetics, environmental ethics, and politics. The cosmopolitan essays in this collection situate Emerson not only within Western thought but also in dialogue with Greek, Buddhist, Islamic, and Vedantic philosophies. Geared primarily toward scholars and advanced students, though accessible to well-informed casual readers, the contributions are meticulously researched and calibrated for specialists in American philosophy, literature, religious studies, and Emerson's oeuvre.

Emerson's Affinities is essential reading for scholars and graduate students in American Transcendentalism, literature, philosophy, and religious studies.

This book addresses marginalization as a form of disempowerment - social, economic, and political exclusion that prevents people from realizing their potential. In response, it explores how organizations can foster empowerment, focusing on Social Business Hybrids (SBHs), which use market-based strategies to activate the economic capabilities of marginalized people. However, such empowerment only succeeds under specific conditions, especially in relation to the environments - or "loci" - where SBHs operate.

The book aims to understand both the transformative actions SBHs undertake and the contexts in which these actions occur. Drawing from the Capabilities Approach (Sen, Nussbaum, Kabeer) and Community Psychology (Rappaport), the authors develop a framework integrating two key concepts: The empowering role of organizations and an ecological perspective that considers the relevance of social spaces.

They identify two main types of SBH actions: "creation empowerment" and "access empowerment", and two types of empowerment spaces: "safe spaces" and "open spaces for reconnection". These dimensions come together in the proposed SBH Empowering Matrix, which outlines four strategies - safe creation, open creation, safe access, and open access. Each is illustrated through a dedicated case study, providing practical insights into how SBHs can unlock the potential of marginalized people.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

THE DESIGN FLAW

Technical teams build capabilities but often lack business context. Business leaders demand solutions but rarely fully understand technical constraints. Data teams control the raw material but are often disconnected from both. And when things go sideways-as they often do-the fingerpointing begins.

This isn't a minor coordination issue; it's a fundamental design flaw in how organizations approach artificial intelligence (AI)-and a fundamental failure in how we create, capture, connect, and communicate its value. It is also a failure in our underlying understanding of how to get value from AI.

The Values of Artificial Intelligence shows how to fix this flaw-not through reorganization or the usual buzzwords, but through frameworks that make value creation truly broadly-owned when it succeeds and accountable when it fails.

The tools in these pages are practical, tested, and deeply human-designed to bridge what technology delivers with what people ultimately value.

Amplifying Your Leadership Voice is a transformative guide designed to help professionals at all levels to discover, refine, and amplify their leadership voice. This step-by-step, evidence-based approach moves beyond basic communication skills, emphasizing self-awareness, confidence, and authenticity to expand your influence, impact, and presence. Since communication is the primary yardstick by which others assess your leadership-whether or not you have a formal title-the more attention and practice you give to verbal, nonverbal, and written expression, the more confident and effective you'll become. This book empowers you to communicate with intention and lead with purpose.

Through four distinct levels-discover, refine, amplify, and sustain-you'll learn to assess your strengths, identify growth areas, craft compelling stories, navigate difficult conversations, and leverage digital tools. Each chapter offers actionable tips, real-world examples, reflective exercises, and expert insights to help you speak up more often and influence others. Whether you're an emerging leader or an experienced executive, these strategies will help you overcome fear, build resilience, and foster meaningful connections to advance your career and create lasting impact.

If you're ready to move beyond silence and step into your leadership power, this book is your essential guide to sustained growth and success. Ideal for both new and seasoned professionals, it is also an excellent resource for executive education, MBA, and graduate courses in leadership communication.

This book is a practical, straight-talking guide for professionals who are ready to stop chasing quick fixes and start leading with purpose. At the heart of this book is the Process-People-Product Model. A practical framework that helps leaders focus on what drives performance. It starts with building consistent, repeatable processes, then shifts to developing and supporting the people who carry them out. The third element, product, is not about obsessing over output. It is a reminder that when your processes are sound and your team is capable, the product will naturally follow. Too often, leaders get stuck chasing results while ignoring the systems and behaviors that create them.

This model keeps the focus where it belongs and gives leaders a simple way to solve problems, lead better, and drive steady improvement. The challenges facing leaders today are not new. Missed targets, team disengagement, and improvement efforts that never stick. The same problems show up in every industry, every company, and every plant. The real difference between teams that thrive and those that stay stuck is not tools or technology; it is leadership.

Author and seasoned decision-making expert Chris Ortiz draws on more than 25 years of hands-on experience across engineering, marketing, business ownership, maintenance, continuous improvement, and top-level management to show how real change happens. Through relatable stories and two real-world case studies, he illustrates why so many companies fail to improve. And what it takes to finally break the cycle.

Each chapter dives into specific roles and reveals the most common leadership pitfalls in each. More importantly, it offers a roadmap to correct them by applying the Process-People-Product Model in clear, actionable ways. Whether you lead a project team, sales force, production line, human resources, or own a business, the leadership concepts apply anywhere systems and people intersect. The problems may look different, but the opportunities are always the same for those willing to step up and lead differently.

This book is not about trends or theory. It is about getting back to what works. If you are ready to stop watching your team repeat the same mistakes and start driving meaningful, lasting change, this is your blueprint.

This volume offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalence in suicidal agency, a phenomenon that, despite its significance in clinical psychology, remains under-conceptualized.

Philosophers debate what ambivalence amounts to and whether ambivalence undermines practical rationality and agency, yet this discourse has rarely been applied to suicidal ambivalence. This volume examines the structural features of ambivalence in suicidal individuals, focusing, among other things, on the conflicting desires to end one's life versus the desire to live. By analyzing these opposing mental states, it clarifies the psychological and philosophical dimensions of ambivalence and its impact on the transition from suicidal ideation to action. Additionally, it critically evaluates whether ambivalence reflects diminished rationality and whether suicidal ambivalence potentially justifies paternalistic interventions. Bridging psychology and philosophy, this volume provides a nuanced understanding of ambivalence in suicidal agency, with significant implications for clinical practice and ethical decision-making.

Exploring Suicidal Ambivalence will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, clinical psychology, medical ethics, and psychiatry.

In recent years, the global socio-economic balance has been disrupted by a series of events: first, the economic crisis, then the pandemic, followed by conflicts both within and outside Europe, and finally the energy crisis. These events have had significant repercussions on the resilience of people and organizations worldwide. In this context, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted as part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, provide a universal framework for addressing pressing global economic, environmental, and social challenges. They also emphasize the critical role of innovation in developing novel solutions for people, the planet, and prosperity.

Business firms are recognized as key drivers in the global pursuit of the SDGs. However, it remains unclear how to strategically allocate resources and set business objectives that align with sustainability requirements. The path to fully achieving the SDGs is still evolving and requires the generation and application of new knowledge, as well as practical, actionable solutions to support the transition to more sustainable practices.

This book contributes to our understanding of how business firms can support the achievement of the SDGs, drawing on both theoretical developments and practical insights from emerging areas of business research. Researchers, policymakers, and practitioners will find value in these novel perspectives as they engage with the challenges of achieving the SDGs.

Critical thinking skills are important in decision making, but they're not enough.

This book offers a kit of conceptual tools that empower you - an already savvy thinker - to advance your ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, and learn quickly. Weaving together insights from both philosophy and psychology and more than a decade of work with professionals and leaders at all levels of businesses, government agencies, and NGOs, Haywood Spangler has written the inquirer's guide to the universe of sources offering guidance regarding civic, personal, and professional choices, from self- help books, to TED talks, to periodicals, financial planners, psychologists, and successful entrepreneurs. Rather than providing oversimplified constructs or generic answers, his book expands your perspective and thought processes, applying concepts from philosophy based on people's actual questions, needs, and challenges. It functions as a handbook, enabling the reader to consult specific chapters as needed, and as a comprehensive guide to developing personal judgment.

This book is for business leaders looking for strategies to vet the results of AI queries, human resource managers wanting to be discerning in their use of data, analysts and forecasters needing a realistic understanding of statistically based predictions - and any professional who selects tools critically to assess trends impacting their life.

Packed with memorable stories, the latest neuroscience, and original frameworks and models, this blueprint for a successful "gifted" organization is a must read for any leader who is surrounded and supported by an exceptional group of people-and must keep them climbing in a market that demands hyper-growth.

A once inspired workforce is now disillusioned with the workplace, and leaders of extraordinary organizations are terrified to execute high-growth strategies because they won't survive if their precious talent leaves under the strain of such a significant change. In this pithy and pragmatic book, seasoned management consultant John Weathington helps leaders better understand the secrets of esprit de corps in a fresh way that incorporates recent discoveries in neuroscience, anthropology, and organizational behavior. John walks the reader through the technical and emotional decisions that should be made during difficult circumstances, using examples from his own 30+ years of experience working with complex and gifted organizations. This book takes on the thorny subject of collective human behavior and extracts golden nuggets for leaders to apply to their strategy, organizational design, and their own development, all while fostering a healthy, vibrant workplace where people thrive.

Distilling a vast array of science-based disciplines into immediately actionable advice, this book is a transformative resource for C-Suite leaders of mid- to large-sized companies, senior vice presidents of very large organizations, and the professionals supporting these leaders, who all face the unenviable challenge of scaling up an organization while retaining top talent.

This book identifies the growing importance of the sharing economy and its practical applications in such areas of the economy as tourism, transportation, and micromobility. At the same time, it highlights the challenges and benefits of this modern form of resource and service management. While there is literature available on these issues, this book offers value in providing a synthetic and up-to-date approach to the topic.

It recognizes the impact of the sharing economy on business models, consumer behavior, especially in the tourism market, and urban logistics and answers research questions such as what place sharing has in contemporary economic and consumer trends, how the sharing economy influences the changes in traditional business models, how business financing models are evolving in light of the sharing economy, and what role crowdfunding plays in the era of the sharing economy. It also examines how the sharing economy can contribute to meeting contemporary challenges.

The book provides insights for academics, researchers, and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners, and, more importantly, for further scientific research.

The Routledge Handbook of Argumentation Theory offers 43 chapters-written specifically for this volume by a team of leading international scholars-that survey a wide spectrum of research on the nature, purpose, and promise of argument and the associated practice of argumentation. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art survey to help readers understand and engage with the field's main ideas and problems.

The book is split into two parts:

• Part I covers orienting approaches in argumentation studies.
• Part II focuses on the main debates in argumentation theory.

The Handbook illustrates how different disciplines contribute to argumentation theory, integrating contributions from logic, epistemology, social psychology, political science, communication, rhetoric, and other fields. This volume thus provides researchers and students with a picture of the diversity and depth to the work in argumentation theory today. Throughout, it clarifies complex questions and methods in this evolving field of study. And references at the end of chapters and a comprehensive index at the back of the book provide readers with central resources for further work in this important area of research.

This book is intended to help people newly involved in the development of workplace safety and health programs to understand principles and concepts that can help them roll out what is often referred to as a "safety program." It introduces the safety and health landscape in simple terms and provides a framework for common program start-up or program improvement action steps.

Providing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a primer on how to think about and go about creating a safety program, this book presents a higher-level overview, framework models and suggestions, resource information, and shares concepts that can help readers not only meet regulatory requirements but also provide true value to the organization. Safety consultant Greg G. Zigulis presents readers with an accessible overview of the types of things that should be known and considered in order to create and run an effective and sustainable health and safety program.

Written for a broad professional readership, this book will be invaluable for all SME businesspersons and practitioners who need a seasoned expert to provide an understandable introduction to safety programs, whatever their situation. It's particularly relevant to start-ups and people given responsibility for workplace safety without a background in this area.

This lively and engaging book helps marketers create more effective strategies and campaigns. It explores why customers behave the way they do, drawing on hundreds of psychological theories and showing how these can be applied to marketing practice.

The book presents a broad framework, grouping psychology theories together into a simple to follow 'ABC' approach: Understanding your audience, communicating brand perception and helping customers to make the right choice - posing key questions to consider. Understanding the basics of psychology gives invaluable insight into customer behaviour, whether in B2C, B2B, or non-profit contexts. Written by authors with expertise in both marketing psychology and marketing practice, the book presents the latest research in a way that will be accessible to all, guiding readers through the psychology underpinning marketing to understand human behaviour and explain what we know about how customers think.

Offering effective strategies to develop successful marketing plans, Marketing and Psychology is essential reading for marketing practitioners, from early career to seasoned professionals. It will also be relevant reading for students of marketing, consumer psychology, and advertising.

What does it mean to live a meaningful life? Can life be meaningful at all, and if it can, what exactly makes it so? This new volume in the Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Issues series addresses these questions through fictional dialogues that relate the theoretical problems that philosophers tend to focus on to the lives of ordinary people, the concerns they have, and the problems they face.

Overseeing the seven dialogues presented in this book is the Socrates-like character, Richard Roe, a middle-aged man who has recently lost his son to COVID-19, a tragedy that sets him out on a quest to understand what makes people pursue the goals they do to give their lives meaning. Guided by an engaging set of characters and a captivating narrative, readers are invited to reflect on various contemporary issues. Among them are our common obsession with fame and celebrity, the disturbing tendency of people to rally behind morally obnoxious causes and people, mental crises as a response to the perceived meaninglessness of life, scientific efforts to halt the aging process and to postpone death indefinitely, and the future of work in an age of increasing automatization. This book shows how such issues are intimately connected to both our ability and our desire to live a meaningful life.

Dialogues on the Meaning of Life is an accessible introduction to complex philosophical issues raised by theism, atheism, nihilism, transhumanism, well-being, human rights, and theories about death and friendship, and offers an easy-to-follow approach to core questions surrounding the nature of our existence.

Key features include:

• Provides an accessible introduction to the philosophical debate on the meaning of life.
• Connects abstract philosophical issues to the concrete concerns of ordinary people.
• Develops and conveys key insights through an engaging narrative.
• Shows the practical relevance of philosophical theory.

Sustainable Brand Leadership reveals, in simple steps, how to cultivate a leadership mentality to nurture future-fit brand management systems. These systems nurture balance, build resilience and evolve organizational cultures to sustainably achieve business outcomes. Distilling hundreds of case studies and decades of consultancy and agency expertise into an enjoyable journey and story-based guide, this book is packed with engaging and compelling tips, best practices and disruptive techniques for managing businesses, brands and ultimately your own leadership career.

The book addresses head-on the worrying disconnect at a leadership and management level between organizations and their wider trading environment, including the community and natural world: the dangers of subsidized capitalism without effective boundaries; extreme liberalism; chaotic change management; rampant consumerism; chronic short-termism and the limitations of trickle-down and command and control management. Written in an accessible coaching style, the authors re-examine the core hypothesis that organizations are more successful and sustainable if they focus on actual behaviour rather than clever words and promises, an increasing threat against a backdrop of rampant social media. They do this in the very real context of the modern socio-political and commercial environment but take a positive, appreciative, balanced, business-focused and practical approach that motivates, challenges, enlightens and empowers. With quality contributions from business and thought leaders across sectors, including HRDs and CEOs, the book includes interviews and case studies from organizations as varied as Bellway, everflow, AIME, the Mind Gym and the National Trust.

CEOs, COOs, Marcomms professionals, human resource professionals, line managers, change agents, consultants, coaches and people professionals will all find this book invaluable.

Although the origins of public relations can be firmly traced back to an approach integrating psychology, sociology, politics, and journalism, the psychological component has not been well developed in current PR theorising and education. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive understanding of the role of psychology in public relations practice and scholarship.

The book presents the original, goal-centred approach that comprises psychological evidence, level of analysis, and methodology to address everyday and societal challenges facing PR practitioners. The author develops a microlevel, psychological perspective in public relations and provides an argument for integrating the psychological scholarly acumen with the existing body of PR knowledge, proposing an integrative framework for blending psychological insight with existing PR practice. The Psychology of Public Relations offers definitions of audience and publics members developed around the topical subject of content. The abundance of content is considered a constituent characteristic of the current communication and media landscape, leading to the formation of divided publics.

This novel approach will appeal to postgraduate students and scholars across public relations and communication studies in particular, as well as organisational and applied psychology.

This book explores greenwashing practices in company marketing communications, outlining the different types of greenwashing and recommending strategies for readers to successfully differentiate between greenwashing and green marketing.

It reviews the theoretical and practical concepts of greenwashing - focusing on those related to marketing communication and marketing strategy - and highlights the various tools companies utilise to mislead their customers, including green advertising, green packaging, eco-labelling, AI, and social media. Drawing upon specific case study examples, the volume illustrates how and when companies employ these methods and the subsequent impact on the environment, while contrasting these with best practices in ethical, pro-environmental marketing communications. Overall, the book campaigns for increased awareness of greenwashing among stakeholders and outlines a proposal for controlling the implementation of pro-environmental practices in green marketing communication to ensure that consumers are not misled.

Assisting readers in easily identifying truly green products, as well as those which have been marketed inaccurately, Greenwashing Practices in Company Marketing Communications will be useful for researchers, academics, and students analysing contemporary marketing communication and its compatibility with the principles of sustainable development.

Chapter 2, 3 and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license

Emotional intelligence, often referred to as emotional quotient (EQ), has emerged as a critical soft skill in public relations (PR), proven essential for performance, leadership, and fostering collaborative organizational cultures. Despite its importance, EQ remains understudied in PR contexts. This groundbreaking volume presents the first comprehensive collection of cutting-edge research and theoretical and practical insights exploring the pivotal role of EQ across PR practice and education.

Leading scholars contribute original research, theoretical frameworks, and case studies examining EQ in various settings. The book covers diverse topics including EQ's importance in PR roles, internal communication, listening and mindfulness, leadership, intercultural relations, work-life harmony, crisis communication, health communication, organizational listening, social capital, and diversity initiatives. Each chapter provides practical recommendations for implementing EQ principles in daily PR practice and future research directions.

This essential resource serves multiple audiences: PR educators seeking to incorporate EQ into their curriculum, researchers exploring the intersection of EQ and communication, and practitioners looking to enhance their professional capabilities. Whether used as a supplementary text for PR theory courses, a foundation for professional development, or a required text for specialized EQ classes, this volume delivers valuable insights into why EQ truly is the new IQ in public relations.

This comprehensive textbook examines the digital maturity of modern supply chains, presenting innovative frameworks for assessing and enhancing digital capabilities across procurement, production, distribution, and city logistics while offering forward-looking scenarios for supply chain evolution.

Logistics and Digital Transformation: The Challenges of Modern Supply Chains leads the reader through the various applications of information and communication technology (ICT) in logistics and suggests how digital logistics systems may develop in the future. These concepts present research conducted at the scale of the entire supply chain, as well as at the scale of individual logistics subsystems (supply logistics, production logistics, distribution logistics), and in the area of city (urban) logistics, which is closely related to the development of modern distribution systems. Unique to this book is its description of the relationship between the digital development of individual subsystems and entire supply chains, to identify the determinants of this development and challenges - this approach has not yet been addressed in the literature.

This book will find an appreciative audience amongst advanced students, researchers, practitioners in logistics, supply chain management, manufacturing, trading, IT companies, and policymakers interested in logistics innovation and digital maturity.

Written by experts who have trained global audiences in finance and designed real-life solutions, this book provides exactly what financial decision-makers need: a survival kit for disruptive times.

The increasing use of AI has posed challenges and brought benefits at organizational and individual levels. However, financial decision-makers are often not equipped with the necessary skills and may even feel threatened by the speed at which AI is automating the decision-making process. This book takes a balanced look at how AI and ML are applied across operations, finance, and risk management. It is not meant to turn finance professionals into coders; instead it shows clearly how these tools can be used to tackle real business problems. This will help financial decision-makers actively engage with projects involving the implementation of ML tools in their organizations. Beyond simple ML tool identification, the book goes one step further and provides representative codes that the reader can use by tweaking information to make it relevant to their own situation. To keep up with the rapid developments in AI and ML, this book is accompanied by a website where tools and codes will be regularly updated as standards change.

Anyone involved in financial decision-making will find this book to be an invaluable resource, whether a CFO, finance director, management accountant, budget officer, auditor, strategic planner, or early career professional.

With the window to keep the 1.5-degree goal alive rapidly closing, it is now more crucial than ever for organizations to intensify the scope and pace of their actions. This book focuses on the existing gaps in the sustainability accounting research field for carbon matter. It addresses the decarbonization practices adopted by firms to achieve the sustainability transition, including the implementation of new technologies and sustainable practices, analyzing their impact from a socioeconomic and environmental perspective. This book provides a rigorous systematization of scientific literature and grey literature concerning the measurement and reporting systems for the carbon processes that firms are adopting to mitigate climate change.

The evolving regulatory landscape and the increasing institutional pressures underscore the responsibility of each actor, including firms, in making a concrete contribution to a sustainable future. The call for the actions to be taken aligns with the need for a solid framework to guide efforts toward achieving goals related to people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership. These efforts align with the United Nations 2030 Agenda, reflecting a global commitment to sustainable development across environmental and social dimensions.

Positioning firms as pivotal agents in climate mitigation, the book highlights the growing importance of integrating artificial intelligence into sustainability accounting and disclosure processes. It advances timely questions about how artificial intelligence can support ethical, transparent, and effective reporting while helping organizations strike a balance between profitability and environmental stewardship, an issue that remains central to current debates among scholars, practitioners, and corporate consultancy firms.

Assunta Di Vaio, Ph.D., is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.

Tayyab Ali has a Ph.D. in economics, statistics, and sustainability (Doctor Europaeus) from the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy.

Now in its fifteenth edition, Law Made Simple is the perfect introduction to the English Legal System and combines an overview of both the legislation and case law relating to all the foundation subjects, including Contract, Torts, Land, Trusts, Criminal, Public and EU. Fully updated, this book acts as a clear and concise guide for students studying law at any level, and takes into account developments across the curriculum. With that in mind, this edition includes additional questions and examples of the law in practice. It is suitable for students studying law at A-Level, or as an excellent background for students thinking of embarking on the study of law or a related course at degree level.

This popular coursebook offers an accessible introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including the mind-body problem, causal interactions between the mental and the physical, computational models of thought, and assorted -isms, including: behaviorism, dualism, eliminativism, emergentism, functionalism, materialism, neutral monism, and panpsychism.

Updates to the Fifth Edition include a new chapter on artificial intelligence (AI) and a revised chapter on eliminativism, externalism, and extended mind. In addition, Chapter Summaries and five Discussion Questions now appear at the end of each chapter to highlight key concepts and facilitate meaningful classroom dialogues.

The aim of the Fifth Edition, however, remains the same as the previous four: to offer a clear and engaging, relevant, and metaphysically grounded introduction to philosophy of mind. Philosophy majors and other advanced undergraduate students will, after finishing this book, have a solid grasp of problems central to this field and know where to turn next for the most promising avenues of further inquiry.

Key Updates to the Fifth Edition

• A chapter on Davidson's 'radical interpretation' has been replaced by a chapter on artificial intelligence, reflecting a growing interest in this area
• New sections on 'content externalism' and the 'extended mind' have been added to the chapter on eliminativism
• Revisions to all existing chapters, with the addition or expansion of important topics and the elimination of some less relevant material, make the book more reader-friendly without sacrificing rigor and accuracy
• New Chapter Summaries and Discussion Questions appear after each chapter to cultivate productive student dialogue in the classroom
• Updates to Suggested Reading lists at the end of each chapter and the Reference list at the back of the book