Corporate Social Innovation
This book explores Corporate Social Innovation as key to reshaping capitalism. By balancing profitability with purpose, companies can address social and environmental challenges, rebuild trust, and create shared value—providing a roadmap to redefine the purpose of business.
Beyond entertainment, Bollywood films are a platform for India’s soft power. They offer a cultural identity that challenges Western hegemony, resonating with global audiences through universal themes, vibrant visuals, and music, creating a bridge between nations.
Leading experts discuss the ecological and salutogenic design principles for creating a healthy built environment. This book explores how to provide clean air, water, and land, intertwining these principles to support human health and wellbeing globally.
Master the business lifecycle, from launch to profitable exit. Learn to hire, market, sell, grow, and negotiate while sidestepping costly mistakes. This essential guide equips you for lasting success and unlocks your highest earning potential.
Real Challenges of the Classroom
Teaching is messy. This book turns 18 real-life classroom crises into essential learning moments. Each story analyzes what went wrong and reveals the research-backed strategies that worked, offering powerful, practical insights for your own reflective practice.
The Indian Knowledge System presents a timeless, holistic perspective on today’s challenges. Essays on philosophy, yoga, and mathematics explore how ancient wisdom can offer sustainable solutions, bridging past and present for a fresh approach to our shared future.
This book discusses mathematical techniques for stellar kinematics, from classical methods like least squares to modern ones not in other texts, such as total least squares and semi-definite programming. For astronomers, students, engineers, and mathematicians.
Technological Innovation Management
This book shows how to treat your organization as an entity of continuous learning and innovation. Use knowledge as a strategic asset to improve processes, products, and services, leading to improved performance and sustainable value for stakeholders.
A Historical Social Science of Modernity’s Climate Catastrophe
We are changing the Earth’s climate in dangerous ways. This unorthodox text mixes fact, fiction, and prediction to locate climate change at the centre of future social change, creating a scenario where empathy triumphs over toxic politics and unsustainable economics.
This book develops novel mathematical models to investigate the impacts of GHG emissions on coastal and marine ecosystems. It introduces optimal control strategies to mitigate these impacts, providing new methods for scientists working to maintain a healthy environment.
Chinese Export Paintings
This book deciphers the formula for market success of Chinese export paintings, a unique and misunderstood East-meets-West art form. Dr Maria Mok reveals the tactical artistic decisions that made these paintings best-sellers for Western customers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Empowering the Underserved
This book explores the pivotal role of “Bridge People”—bilingual, bicultural individuals who connect underserved communities to healthcare and social support. Discover how these vital links combat social isolation, reduce service gaps, and empower individuals.
This book is a socialist study of radicals and revolutionaries since the French Revolution. It argues for their vital role in creating modern society, showing how their struggles for democracy, freedom, and socialism have changed the world for the better.
A Small and Medium Enterprise’s Guide to Innovation and Growth
Unlock the potential of AI with this guide for SMEs. Break down complex concepts into actionable strategies to innovate, grow, and compete. Learn how to harness AI to streamline processes, enhance decision-making, outpace industry giants, and thrive in an AI-driven future.
Three Victorian Historians
Diverse and contrasting historians like Hallam, Buckle, and Gardiner open windows through which we can see Victorian England as it changed. This book reinterprets the works of these great historians whom the Victorians read, offering its own insight into the era.
The art market is often difficult to understand. Art historian Dr Ruth Polleit Riechert shares her method for assessing art and purchasing high-quality works at fair prices. Learn to recognize good art, which art is a suitable investment, and how new technologies can assist you.
An adventure into the hidden connections that unite science and the humanities. Discover how mathematics can be a humanistic subject and science a branch of literature, where discoveries can be examined like fairy tales and rigor is a form of aesthetic research.
This book examines the intersection of technology and criminal law in India. It addresses how innovations like AI are reshaping crime and law enforcement, discussing critical issues like cybercrime and data privacy, and highlighting the need for adaptable legal frameworks.
This book takes a historical and geometrical approach to Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. It details the latest developments in the field, including cutting-edge research on gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology.
Master the essentials of electromagnetic radiation. This guide for STEM newcomers demystifies lasers with a unique emission-based classification, corrects common misconceptions, and explores key research and commercial applications where they excel over non-laser sources.