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International Encyclopedia of Business Management

1st Edition
September 1, 2025
Vanessa Ratten
English
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The Encyclopedia of Business Management, Four Volume Set is a comprehensive resource that covers over 200 topics across various areas of business management. Each entry is written in an accessible manner, making complex concepts easy to understand. The encyclopedia addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as cultural entrepreneurship, tourism innovation, and marketing promotions. By emphasizing definitions and practical applications, the entries help readers grasp the relevance of each topic. Expert editors lead each section, ensuring that the contributions are authoritative and well-rounded.The encyclopedia is divided into seven broad themes, including business entrepreneurship, human resource management, innovation management, international business, organizational behavior, project management, supply chain management, and sport and tourism management. Each section's articles begin with a technical analysis of key definitional issues, followed by an exploration of the topic's broader context. This structured approach provides a holistic examination of the subjects, allowing readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of vital business management concepts.

Disrupting Ageism

1st Edition
June 1, 2025
Tracey Gendron
English

In Disrupting Ageism: From Theory to Practice, the chapters delves deep into the pervasive issue of ageism in society. In part one, readers are guided through an eye-opening journey, exploring how ageism influences physical health, brain health, identity, and trauma, while also shedding light on its intersection with other forms of discrimination, particularly ableism. Through poignant anecdotes and thought-provoking research, the book underscores the distressing reality of ageism's role in instances of abuse. Part two shifts the focus to the solutions that can break the shackles of ageism. It uncovers the subtleties of ageism in healthcare, unravels the intricate web of ageism as an industry, and dissects the portrayal of older adults in media, entertainment, and culture. Furthermore, the book offers a comprehensive look at the intricacies of aging in the realms of policy, politics, and law. Part three encapsulates the journey towards change by highlighting the significance of intergenerational programming and adult education, encouraging readers to reconsider the societal construction of elderhood, and emphasizing the power of individual narratives in reshaping perceptions. Disrupting Ageism: From Theory to Practice is a compelling and enlightening read that challenges preconceived notions, promotes empathy, and provides actionable insights for a more inclusive and age-friendly world. It underscores the importance of fostering meaningful social connections and addressing the broader societal factors that contribute to loneliness.

Integration of Energy, Information, Transportation and Humanity

1st Edition
October 11, 2023
C.C. Chan + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Focusing on energy, transportation, information, and economic networks and flows, Integration of Energy, Information,Transportation and Humanity uniquely examines the interconnection, interaction, and integration across these multiple sectors. It helps readers understand the correlation of energy, transportation, and information via the integration of humanity world, cyber world and physical world. It clearly explains the objectives of the integration of energy network, transportation network, information network, humanity network, as well as the integration of energy flow, information flow, material flow and value flow (4N4F); the philosophy, science, and engineering of the integration of 4N4F; the mechanism, keys and benefits of the integration of 4N4F; the carriers of the integration of 4N4F; and the framework of the integration of 4N4F.

Individual Differences and Personality

4th Edition
March 26, 2022
Michael C. Ashton
English
Paperback
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Individual Differences and Personality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research regarding what personality is and how and why it differs between people. This book begins with a description of the study of personality and then presents basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of personality variation. Further chapters review personality change and stability, biological causal mechanisms, genetic and environmental influences, and evolutionary adaptive function. Personality disorders are examined as are life outcomes (such as relationships, work, and health) that are predicted by personality characteristics. In addition, the book examines important individual differences beyond personality, such as mental abilities, religious beliefs, political attitudes, and sexuality. Revisions to the fourth edition include updates to all chapters and substantial new content. For example, the developmental change chapter includes new studies of long-term stability, and the biological bases chapter includes new research about the effects of dopamine-like substances on impulse control. The genetics chapter has been heavily revised to cover recent meta-analyses and large-scale studies of the heritability of personality traits. In the chapter on the evolutionary function of personality, the discussion of sex differences is expanded to include cross-cultural variation. The chapter on personality and life outcomes includes new coverage of rating the personality of one's hypothetical ideal partner. The chapter on mental ability has updates on brain volume and IQ and on motivation and IQ.

Human Sexuality

1st Edition
January 22, 2021
Ami Rokach + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Human sexuality touches us all, pun intended. We all either enjoy it, struggle with it, or may have been victims of it. Sexuality is not just about sex, but about human sexual function, the physiology of sex, the hormones involved and how they affect us, and the cultural norms related to it. Sexual function and dysfunction are closely tied to one’s self-esteem, self-respect, and to relationships with intimate partners. Human Sexuality: Function, Dysfunction, Paraphilias, and Relationships, explores the interplay of intimacy and sexuality; how it can enhance relationships, and how it can negatively affect them, or be affected by them. When individuals or partners encounter sexual problems or dysfunctions it can have a long-lasting affect both biologically and psychologically. Dr. Rokach explores the causes and the reasons that these dysfunctions are maintained, and successful treatment methods. Chapters on sexual offenses and paraphilias and what treatment options are available to sexual offenders are also included. This book is the first book to place sexuality where it belongs, within the context of relationships demonstrating how sexuality relates to intimacy by both enhancing and negatively affecting it.

The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes

1st Edition
January 20, 2021
John F. Rauthmann
English
Paperback
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The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes is a primer to the basic and most important concepts, theories, methods, empirical findings, and applications of personality dynamics and processes. This book details how personality psychology has evolved from descriptive research to a more explanatory and dynamic science of personality, thus bridging structure- and process-based approaches, and it also reflects personality psychology’s interest in the dynamic organization and interplay of thoughts, feelings, desires, and actions within persons who are always embedded into social, cultural and historic contexts. The Handbook of Personality Dynamics and Processes tackles each topic with a range of methods geared towards assessing and analyzing their dynamic nature, such as ecological momentary sampling of personality manifestations in real-life; dynamic modeling of time-series or longitudinal personality data; network modeling and simulation; and systems-theoretical models of dynamic processes.

Child and Adolescent Online Risk Exposure

1st Edition
November 19, 2020
Michelle F. Wright + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Child and Adolescent Online Risk Exposure: An Ecological Perspective focuses on online risks and outcomes for children and adolescents using an ecological perspective (i.e., the intersection of individuals in relevant contexts) for a better understanding of risks associated with the youth online experience. The book examines the specific consequences of online risks for youth and demonstrates how to develop effective and sensitive interventions and policies. Sections discuss why online risks are important, individual and contextual factors, different types of risk, online risks among special populations, such as LGBT youth, physically or intellectually disabled youth, and ethnic and religious minorities, and intervention efforts.

Creative Success in Teams

1st Edition
September 10, 2020
Alexander S. McKay + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Today's workers spend upwards of 80% of their time collaborating and teams have become the fundamental unit within organizations. Creative Success in Teams summarizes for practitioners and researchers what drives team creativity. Utilizing research from psychology, organizational behavior/management, business, and education, the book discusses how best to start, manage, and foster creativity in team environments, how to encourage participation and collaboration, what makes for the most creative team, and how best to lead and evaluate creative teams.

Sticky Creativity

1st Edition
November 1, 2019
Bo T. Christensen + 2 more
English
Paperback
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Sticky Creativity: Post-It® Note Cognition, Computers, and Design presents the interesting history of sticky notes and how they have become the most commonly used design material in brainstorming, business model generation, and design thinking. The book brings together researchers from psychology, computer science and design in order to understand why and how sticky notes are used, why they work well, and whether sticky notes are replaceable or improvable by a digital counterpart. The book covers psychology, computers and design respectively. From a psychological perspective, cognitive and socio-cognitive theories are used to explain the functions sticky notes serve in idea generation and creative collaboration. Following sections present the findings from three very different computerized instantiations of sticky notes and discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise when trying to digitize sticky notes.

Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities

1st Edition
September 20, 2019
Vladlena Benson + 1 more
English
Paperback
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Emerging Cyber Threats and Cognitive Vulnerabilities identifies the critical role human behavior plays in cybersecurity and provides insights into how human decision-making can help address rising volumes of cyberthreats. The book examines the role of psychology in cybersecurity by addressing each actor involved in the process: hackers, targets, cybersecurity practitioners and the wider social context in which these groups operate. It applies psychological factors such as motivations, group processes and decision-making heuristics that may lead individuals to underestimate risk. The goal of this understanding is to more quickly identify threat and create early education and prevention strategies. This book covers a variety of topics and addresses different challenges in response to changes in the ways in to study various areas of decision-making, behavior, artificial intelligence, and human interaction in relation to cybersecurity.

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