This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events. Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as...

1. Introduction -- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 3. Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10 -- 4.Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four...

Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a...

This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets...

Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place...

1 The Importance of Education for Sustainability in Tourism -- PART I Tourism and Sustainability: Core Knowledge -- 2 Tourism and Sustainability: Challenges, Conflict and Core Knowledge -- 3 Ethics in Tourism -- 4 Corporate Social Responsibility and Tourism -- 5 Tourism and Governance -- PART II...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 How to Use This Brief -- Chapter 3 Management -- Chapter 4 Education -- Chapter 5 Research -- Chapter 6 Industry – Management -- Chapter 7 Industry – Education -- Chapter 8 Industry – Research -- Chapter 9 Academia – Faculty Members – Management --...

Introduction -- A RECIPE for Meaningful Gamification -- Studying Gamification: the Effect of Rewards and Incentives on Motivation -- A Conceptual Framework for Gamification Measurement -- Implementing Game Design in Gamification -- Applied Behavioral Economics: A Game Designer’s Perspective --...

Part I Information Profession and Information Literacy -- Chapter 1 Career and Professional Opportunities and Challenges for Librarians and Other Information Professionals Specializing in Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning -- Chapter 2 So What’s the Big Deal With Information Literacy...