Action learning and its applications

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Erin Arvedlund

"A bestselling financial reporter exposes the decades-long banking conspiracy that swindled ordinary investors out of billions. Following her national bestseller Too Good to Be True, the inside story of the Bernie Madoff scandal, Erin Arvedlund brings her reporting chops and deep financial expertise to the first book to tell the full story of the Libor scandal. In 2012, news broke that a group of young, chummy bankers had, for years, been colluding to manipulate the London Interbank Offered Rate--the interest rate that determines how money is borrowed and lent throughout the world. They set the Libor higher or lower to suit each others' needs, while ordinary savers and investors suffered without even knowing it. It was a classic "open secret" among competitors that cost countless victims as much as $1 trillion. Arvedlund takes us behind the scenes of elite firms like Barclays Capital, where twenty-something masters of the universe played fast and loose, while their bosses looked the other way. She also examines the failures of prominent regulators and other officials"--

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James Newman

Despite record sales and an ever-growing global industry, the simple fact is that videogames are disappearing. Most obviously, the physical deterioration of discs, cartridges, consoles and controllers means that the data and devices will crumble to dust and eventually will be lost forever. However, there is more to the disappearance of videogames than plastic corrosion and bit rot. Best Before examines how the videogames industry's retail, publishing, technology design, advertising and marketing practices actively produce obsolescence, wearing out and retiring old games to make way for the always new, just out of reach, 'coming soon' title and 'next generation' platform. Set against the context of material deterioration and the discursive production of obsolescence, Best Before examines the conceptual and practical challenges faced within the nascent field of game preservation. Understanding videogames as rich, complex and mutable texts and experiences that are supported and sustained by cultures of gameplay and fandom, Best Before considers how - and even whether - we might preserve and present games for future generations. -- From publisher.

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Rita Clifton and Esther Maughan

"The Future of Brands offers the insights of 25 international opinion-formers on these questions and more. From the guardians of some of the greatest brands of today, including BMW, Reebok, Procter & Gamble, Samsung and The Body Shop, to social commentators such as Will Hutton and Deepak Chopra, our contributors paint a compelling picture of the role of brands over the next 25 years and the factors influencing their success. Others represent more recently established brands such as Starbucks, as well as growth areas of the future." "The book includes interbrand's 1999 league table of the world's most valuable brands, and covers topics as diverse as the impact of the IT revolution, the informed consumer and the increasing importance of corporate responsbility.". "It concludes with some key observations for successful brand owners of the future, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the future of brands and branding."--BOOK JACKET.

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Shalini Srivastava, Pritee Goyal

Current research revolves around trends to bring technology into harmony with the natural environment and in order to protect the ecosystem. Bioremediation involves processes which reduce the overall treatment costs by using agricultural residues. Regeneration of the biosorbent further increases the cost effectiveness of the process, thus warranting its future success in solving water quality problems. Special emphasis is paid to chemical modifications resulting in tailored novel biomaterials which improve its sorption efficiency and environmental stability. In this way it can be used commercially as a simple, fast, economical, ecofriendly green technology, for the removal of toxic metals from waste water particularly in rural and remote areas of the country.