Author : Kevin Michael Knabe
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Welcome to a contemporary Chicago, where persecuted majickal fae relocate to the sanctuary neighborhood known as Fae Town. Dryads, elves, satyrs, pixies, and more have made Fae Town their new home. Tanin, a young rainbow-eucalyptus dryad, has to manage the task put before him: bringing majick into the world. Already, majick is having a negative effect on humanity as human majickal abilities are emerging, and psychotic breaks are on the rise.
Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Publisher : Visual Arts of Africa and Its
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478016434
Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustration, documentary film and photography, as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, Jasmine Nichole Cobb explores it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness.
Author : Jasmine Nichole Cobb
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478023708
From Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, “natural hair” has been associated with the Black freedom struggle. In New Growth Jasmine Nichole Cobb traces the history of Afro-textured coiffure, exploring it as a visual material through which to reimagine the sensual experience of Blackness. Through close readings of slave narratives, scrapbooks, travel illustrations, documentary films, and photography as well as collage, craft, and sculpture, from the nineteenth century to the present, Cobb shows how the racial distinctions ascribed to people of African descent become simultaneously visible and tactile. Whether examining Soul Train’s and Ebony’s promotion of the Afro hairstyle alongside styling products or how artists such as Alison Saar and Lorna Simpson underscore the construction of Blackness through the representation of hair, Cobb foregrounds the inseparability of Black hair’s look and feel. Demonstrating that Blackness is palpable through appearance and feeling, Cobb reveals the various ways that people of African descent forge new relationships to the body, public space, and visual culture through the embrace of Black hair.
Author : Margaret A. Brunson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 144973460X
p>New Growth: How My Hair Saved My Life is about how God used Margaret's transition back to her natural hair state to transform her heart and life. This period of transformation led her to gain more strength and wisdom to move closer to her destiny. This book will encourage you to focus on a higher and deeper purpose about your life. The events, actions, and choices in your life have played a part in your journey. You can make the choice to view them as hindrances, or you can choose to allow the experiences to push you closer to your God-given future. The hope is that you will develop a sense of who you are and not be afraid to step out and live your destiny.
Author : Joan Metge
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0864737882
This book is in the first place meant to provide basic information for the many Pakeha who interact with Maori as spouses, friends, work colleagues and service providers to help them understand a family type different from their own. It is also a contribution to the debate about the causes of current problems affecting Maori families, and suggests strategies for handling them more effectively.
Author : Carol Willis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2020-01-17
Category :
ISBN : 0359786766
When homeschooled students graduate, what comes next for their moms? Post-Homeschooling Moms addresses the need of refilling and redirection for the next season of their lives. Is the end of your home-schooling career within sight? With a combination of memoir, insights from other women who have experienced this transition, and practical wisdom, author Carol Willis offers encouragement and new vision as you move forward.
Author : Karl Wohlmuth
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 3825819663
This Volume XIV analyses the New Growth and Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Africa. Institutional issues and perspectives in designing new growth and poverty alleviation strategies are considered in various case studies (Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Botswana and Tanzania). Other studies deal with institutional problems of resource-rich countries after conflict (Sudan), and with the institutions to enhance environmental protection parallel with economic growth and poverty reduction (Niger). Further studies deal with institutions to bridge the gap between formal and informal entrepreneurial sectors in Kenya and Tanzania. Local issues and perspectives for designing new growth and poverty alleviation strategies are considered in case studies on rural-urban development gaps in Tanzania, and on microfinance as an instrument for new growth and poverty alleviation strategies (Tanzania and Eritrea). A study on small farmers in Ghana provides information on the role they can play in value chains. Two studies on Nigeria highlight the local and the sub-regional health and poverty alleviation programmes and the relation to growth. Book Reviews and Book Notes on the theme are part of the volume. This Volume builds the foundation for a comprehensive strategy of policy reforms in Africa so as to integrate new growth and poverty alleviation strategies. Complementary to Volume XIV is Volume XIII on New Growth and Poverty Alleviation Strategies for Africa - International and Regional Perspectives. Both Volumes are of importance for all those who work in African countries as officials, executives, managers, researchers, and policy-makers, but also for all those who actively support Africa's development concerns at the international, regional, country, local and project levels. They will experience this Volume XIV and also the complementary Volume XIII as indispensable sources of insight, reference and inspiration.
Author : Barbara Heitger
Publisher : Goldegg Verlag
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN : 3901880461
Author : Panagiotis E. Petrakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1137589442
On June 3, 2015, the Greek Parliamentary Budget Office, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Democritus University of Thrace, and the University of Peloponnese sponsored an international conference to address medium- and long-term growth in Greece. This collection presents the strongest papers on the conditions required to revive and maintain economic growth. Leading experts cover almost every major issue identified in the latest literature, from demographic issues and proposals for export strategy to the need for innovation and structural reform. The combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessing present conditions make this ground-breaking collection a valuable resource for a variety of academics, professional economists, and economic policy practitioners planting the seeds of Greece's future.
Author : Khanh Pham-Gia
Publisher : Diplomica Verlag
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 384285014X
Henry Chesbrough - the Harvard professor and a worldwide expert for Open innovation - has stated that "most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die." In Germany only less than 0.5 % ideas pursuing by industrial companies has led to a success. The question being addressed is how companies can drive innovations effectively and efficiently to create new growth opportunities, particularly in this difficult time due to the global economic crisis. These challenges could be captured by driving radical innovations using open innovation methodology. Radical innovations can create new markets and huge growth potential for the business meanwhile breakthrough innovations can be developed faster and cheaper via open innovation approach. The aim of this study is to provide a deep insight into radical innovation and open innovation management based on a thorough literature research and evaluation. Thereby basic concepts of the both innovation models are explored and compared with other innovation types, e.g. incremental and closed innovations. Moreover, the Christensen’s model of disruptive innovation and Chesbrough’s theory about open innovation are explained into details. In addition, opportunities and challenges as well as managing concept of radical and open innovations are analyzed and illuminated with concrete examples and cases, amongst others the eco-friendly Light Emitting Diode (LED). Beside technology and market breakthroughs, other aspects like future market trend, key success factors and strategies for capturing sustainable growth of disruptive LED technologies in the lighting industry are studied. It could be stated that companies should drive intensively open innovation and boost the outside-in and inside-out processes for creating new breakthroughs in LED technologies. Increased involving customers, suppliers and the outside scientific world into internal R&D, strengthened collaboration within the LED supply chain and intensified out-licensing of own technologies help companies to accelerate the innovation process and create new markets. Besides driving forceful innovation management companies should boost their new product development by exploitation of government supports which have been increased due to the current global climate change problems.
