A book that will change how you think and transform how you live Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H.

Pink explains in his paradigm-shattering book Drive, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today's world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and the world. Along the way, he takes us to companies that are enlisting new...

Examines the concept of luxury and its meaning across tourism, events and hospitality globally. Packed with case studies, it's a challenging and innovative text that investigates how the idea of luxury is changing in response to a variety factors, such as social change, technological innovation and the challenge of sustainability. It covers the following areas, issues and case studies:* Traditional luxury products: the 'golden age' of luxury cruising; the grand old five star hotels and the 'R...

Srđan Srdić's collection of short stories, Combustions, establishes this author's position as one of the best prose writers in Serbia and across the region. This book consists of nine stories in which the author brings the reader face to face with the seamy side of everyday life, where, somewhere in the province, hopelessness and despair of the endless Balkan transition meet one another in the most radical way. Devoid of illusions of social engagement and narrative tricks, Srdić linguistic...

Remorseless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Relentless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed?In Doughnut Economics, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets th...

This new and fully updated edition of Developmental Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach addresses key issues in child neuropsychology but differs from other books in the field in its emphasis on evidence-informed clinical practice rather than research issues.

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Class 2C sets off on a coach trip to the Ardennes for a work week. At least, that was the plan. They are barely underway when one of the pupils receives a strange message on his phone. There appears to be a bomb on board the bus. No-one may enter or leave, otherwise the bomb will explode. It soon becomes apparent that someone on the bus know...

Jaap Bakema and the Open Society is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect and the remarkable production of his office Van den Broek and Bakema. His ideas on the open society are extremely relevant to the current debates about how to involve citizens in city building and creating alternative systems to crumbling welfare states. This historical document will highlight both his most relevant and less known work through texts, archival materials and photography. The book contains...

The Dageraad is a world-famous social housing complex located in Berlage’s Plan Zuid. It was designed by the architects Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer in the style of the Amsterdam School.

The initiative to build it was taken by a workers cooperative that managed shops and wanted to provide the workers with good quality housing. Important Dutch politicians were involved in its realisation, among them Amsterdam’s Alderman Floor Wibaut, who is still honoured at the complex today. In 2001,...

Digital disruption is the biggest challenge that businesses are facing today. But where there is risk, there is opportunity. New technologies allow you to think big. At the same time, you need to think practical. Make Disruption Work shows you what digital disruption entails and how to ride the wave. The book is focused on evidence, not opinion, and offers real-world examples of companies that underwent digital disruption and how they now bank extremely healthy digital sales. Disruption need ...

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Willow’s life hasn’t been easy. She’s autistic, living in a community closed off from the rest of the world ‘for her own safety’, and the only way she gets to interact with anyone is by logging in to the BASE (Bioelectrical Augmented Synapse Enhancement) platform and play videogames.

Her life revolves around playing VRMMORPGs with her close friends and...