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Intro -- Sustainable Energy Technology, Business Models, and Policies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The structure of the book -- References -- Part I: Drivers to change: Theoretical conceptualisation -- Chapter 1: Circular economy: Policies to drive sustainability and the measures to improve energy efficiency -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Current trajectories: Circularity and energy efficiency -- 1.3. Circular economy -- 1.3.1. Concept of a circular economy -- 1.3.2. Benefits of a circular economy -- 1.3.3. True price -- 1.4. Exploring `sustainability -- 1.4.1. Concepts of sustainability and sustainable development -- 1.4.2. The relationships between the circular economy and sustainability -- 1.5. Sustainability policies at the international arena -- 1.5.1. The United Nations international frameworks -- 1.5.2. Sustainable Energy for All -- 1.5.3. Energy Charter Treaty and Energy Charter Protocol on Energy Efficiency -- 1.6. The EU sustainability policies and packages -- 1.6.1. The European Green Deal -- 1.6.2. The EU Circular Economy package -- 1.6.3. The clean energy for all Europeans package -- 1.6.3.1. The EU Energy Efficiency toolkit -- 1.6.4. Recent developments: The Fit for 55 Package -- 1.7. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG). Introduction to sustainable -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability -- 2.2.1. Historical context -- 2.2.2. Concept of CSR and its changes -- 2.2.3. Current approaches and standards -- 2.2.4. Corporate Sustainability -- 2.2.5. The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework -- 2.3. CSR and ESG in the EU -- 2.4. Introduction to sustainable business models -- 2.4.1. Underlying concepts.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Endeavors to Put the Guilty to Death": Systems of Violence in the American South -- 2. "Baptized in the Blood": Settler Death and Consecrating Native Dispossession -- 3. "Thoroughly Aroused to Vengeance": The Invasion of Creek Country -- 4. "Half Peace, Half War": Perpetual Violence on the Southern Border -- 5. "Gallant Sons of the South": Native Expulsion and Civic Militarism -- 6. "Suffering Seldom Equaled": Sharing Memories of White Victimization -- 7. "Result of This Great Conquest": Sectionalism and Southern Coalescence -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto De Martino is often glossed as "ahead of his time." In his work, a reader sees the roots of psychological and medical anthropology; discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer; considerations of colonialism and migration and the trauma they might engender; and an anticipation of the "existential turn" in anthropology. A reader would also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book, La fine del mondo (The End of the World). Perhaps the end of the world is an overstatement. But in a rapidly globalizing world, one in which the entire earth becomes our shared "cultural homeland," despite our different values and local histories, "the end of the world" might simply mean the end of "a world," our particular world, and the dawning of something new-"the world of tomorrow." De Martino seeks, in part, to make the idea of the end of a world less horrifying, while at the same time attending to the individual loss-of-self that one might feel in contemplating an apocalypse, especially as modernization has divorced us from the rituals and folklore that might make such an eventuality less terrifying. De Martino writes: "Two opposed terrors dominate our age: the terror of losing the world, and the terror of being lost in the world... The end of the world, the loss of presence." Interweaving the cultural and individual levels of apocalypse, treating subjects both classic and contemporary and both European and "non-Western," ranging across ethnography and philosophy, De Martino probes how we relate to our world and how we might be better subjects and thinkers within it"--

Of all the conundrums that have puzzled Sherlockian scholars, few have been thornier than the "vexed question" of Dr. Watson's wives. In these ten stories, readers will meet the all-but-unknown women who preceded and succeeded Mary Morstan, as well as learning more about poor Mary's fate. Other cases involve Our Heroes with all levels of Victorian society, including prime ministers and prostitutes, aristocrats and generals, amateur sleuths and Scotland Yarders, composers, novelists, and even ghosts. The tales cover the entire span of Holmes and Watson's friendship, running from 1881 to 1937.

Intro -- Assessments and Conservation of Biological Diversity From Coral Reefs to the Deep Sea: Uncovering Buried Treasures and the ... -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the author -- Foreword to ``Assessments and conservation of biological diversity from coral reefs to the deep sea: Uncovering buried trea ... -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The seabed-Where life began and still evolves -- Introduction -- Setting the place-Biogeographical regions and abiotic components of the seafloor -- Expeditions to the deep blue -- Pelagic-benthic connections (and vice versa) -- Connectivity within benthic species -- How common is benthic continuity and cosmopolitanism? -- Higher diversity of benthic macrofauna -- Porifera -- Crustacea -- Echinodermata -- Cnidaria, Mollusca, and other phyla -- Marine microbial diversity -- Generation of biodiversity -- Marine symbioses-Getting to know each other better -- Corals provide the structure for many benthic ecosystems -- Possible origins of biodiversity -- References -- Chapter 2: Multiple approaches to understanding the benthos -- Living in the era of big science -- Big experiments on the seafloor are difficult -- Informative maps show a way -- Genetic and genomic maps -- Leading wedge technologies for benthic assessments -- Submersibles and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are leading wedges that visit the ocean floor -- Benthic monitoring-All eyes on the sea -- Underwater soundscapes, landscapes, and unexpected sources of innovation -- The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) -- Biotechnologies applied to the seafloor -- Bioprospecting for new natural products and ideas -- Secondary metabolites from marine microbes -- Molecular ecology, conservation genomics, and genome sequencing -- References -- Chapter 3: Diversity hotspots on the benthos-Case studies highlight hidden treasures.

THE HURTING finds DS Angus Thoroughgood recovering from injuries from his most recent adventures in 'Parallel Lines' and questioning his career with the Glasgow police force. After handing in his resignation, Thoroughgood is pulled back into the line of duty once his recovery at the police convalescence home, Castlebrae, is complete. Terrorist attacks in and around Glasgow see Thoroughgood, alongside his partner DC Hardie, return to action. As their world as they know it and the city they love falls apart, the pair work alongside MI5 in a race to discover the source of these attacks.The second installment in the DS Thoroughgood series of novels by RJ Mitchell, The Hurting picks up right where Parallel Lines left off and sends Thoroughgood and Hardie on a rollercoaster ride through Glasgow's seedy underworld and that of international terrorism.

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Section I: Background and Review of Related Literature -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 General Background -- 1.2 Background to the Ethiopian Higher Education System -- 1.3 The Need for Diversifying the Higher Education System of Ethiopia -- 2 Objectives -- 2.1 General Objective -- 2.2 Specific Objectives -- 3 Expected Outcomes -- 4 Review of Literature -- 4.1 Conceptualizing Differentiation -- 4.2 Importance of Differentiation -- 4.3 National Experience -- 4.4 International Experience -- 4.5 Experience from Selected Countries -- 4.5.1 Africa -- 4.5.1.1 Egypt -- 4.5.1.2 South Africa -- 4.5.1.3 Ghana -- 4.5.1.4 Tanzania -- 4.5.1.5 Pan Africa University (PAU) -- 4.5.2 Asia -- 4.5.2.1 China -- 4.5.2.2 South Korea -- 4.5.2.3 Uzbekistan -- 4.5.3 South America -- 4.5.3.1 Chile -- 4.5.4 Europe -- 4.5.4.1 Germany -- 4.5.4.2 France -- 4.5.4.3 The United Kingdom -- 4.5.5 North American -- 4.5.5.1 The USA -- 4.5.5.2 Canada -- 4.5.6 Summary of Lessons Learnt from the Case Countries -- 4.5.7 International Classification Systems -- 4.5.8 Types of Differentiation -- 4.5.9 Pre-differentiation Actions -- 4.5.10 Enabling Factors and Challenges for Differentiation -- 4.5.10.1 Enabling Factors -- 4.5.10.2 Challenges -- 4.5.11 Key Lessons -- 4.5.11.1 Lessons From National Experience -- 4.5.11.2 Lessons From International Experience -- 5 Developing a Differentiation Model and Standards for Ethiopia -- 5.1 Characteristics of the Ethiopian Higher Education System: A conceptual model for differentiation -- 5.2 Setting Standard for Differentiating HEIs in Ethiopia -- 5.2.1 Suggested Differentiation for the Higher Learning System of Ethiopia -- 5.2.1.1 Research University -- 5.2.1.2 University of Applied Sciences -- 5.2.1.3 Comprehensive University -- 5.2.1.4 TVET Colleges.

"Befriending the North Wind is about the moral lives of children and their agency in decisions about death. It examines the dimensions of human meaning children reveal and the new horizons they open to us. It asserts that children can die a good death and that they can and should have a voice in their end-of-life care"--

"This book tells the history of how the field of public health arose and developed via a distinctive way of approaching human health. This "public health approach" is marked by abstracting away from the health of particular individuals and studying populations of individuals and how a variety of factors affect population health"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Get Unstuck -- Chapter 2: Look for the Trail Signs -- Chapter 3: Have a Why -- Chapter 4: Find Courage, Flow & -- Awe When You Get Outside -- Chapter 5: Map Your Trail -- Chapter 6: Cultivate Community -- Chapter 7: Start -- Chapter 8: Face Fear -- Chapter 9: When It All Goes Haywire -- Chapter 10: Trail Angels -- Chapter 11: Scenic Routes and Side Trails -- Chapter 12: Finish Lines -- Appendix 1: REI Co-Op's 'Wild Ideas Worth Living' Episode List -- Appendix 2: Awesome Outdoor Organizations -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Copyright.

Intro -- Title Page -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Booting the Barrel -- Chapter 2: The Rattle of Stags in Rut -- Chapter 3: High Skill and the Rustle of Petticoats -- Chapter 4: Knock Her Head Off, Billy -- Chapter 5: Buttocking and Velvet -- Chapter 6: The Crack of Steel on Bone -- Chapter 7: Thunderous Dairy -- Chapter 8: Metal Melody -- Chapter 9: Never Bet on Anything That Talks -- Chapter 10: Cake, Rattle and Bowl -- Chapter 11: Big Rocks and Shortbread -- Chapter 12: An Uncommon Bias -- Chapter 13: Bullets and Bruised Shins -- Chapter 14: Cheggies and Alleys -- Chapter 15: Tap and Slap -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright.