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UNINA9910161646803321 |
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Kleiterp Nanno |
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Banking for a better World / / Nanno Kleitorp ; in conversation with Marijn Wiersma |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2017 |
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9789048533800 |
9789462983519 |
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1 online resource (149 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Economics, finance, business & management |
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When we look at all the challenges facing the world, including inequality, population migration, and climate change, we can see a role for development banking in nearly all of them. But will that role be played for good or ill? This book brings together two people who collectively draw on their forty-five years of experience in that world to argue that development banking can-and must-play a constructive role. <BR><BR> We only need to read the news to find public outrage at tales of short-sighted greed in the financial world. But what happens when banks invest in long-term sustainability? Readers will find a fascinating example in the journey of the Dutch development bank FMO. At times global in perspective, at other moments intimately personal, Banking for a Better World interweaves candid anecdotes with development history, as well as banking lessons with client interviews, to deliver a powerful argument for a business model that generates profit through impact, and impact through profit. <BR><BR>
This is an important and accessible must-read for anyone involved in banking, business, policy making, and civil society as a whole. <i>Banking for a Better World</i> challenges us to start finding overlaps between our own lives and global issues and to bridge the distance between our personal needs and those of our planet. |
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UNINA9910782141403321 |
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Autore |
Pollack David <1951-> |
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Caborn-Welborn [[electronic resource] ] : constructing a new society after the Angel Chiefdom collapse / / David Pollack |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Mississippian culture - Ohio River Valley |
Mississippian culture - Wabash River Valley |
Mississippian pottery - Ohio River Valley |
Mississippian pottery - Wabash River Valley |
Chiefdoms - Ohio River Valley |
Chiefdoms - Wabash River Valley |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Ohio River Valley |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Wabash River Valley |
Ohio River Valley Antiquities |
Wabash River Valley Antiquities |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-228) and index. |
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Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian Regional Centers, Angel's Collapse, and Caborn-Welborn Developments in the Lower Ohio River Valley; 3. Ceramic Descriptions; 4. Site Types and Their Spatial Distribution; 5. Temporal Trends; 6. Cultural and Functional Ceramic Patterns; 7. Interpretations and Conclusions; References Cited; Index |
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An important case study of chiefdom collapse and societal reemergence. Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400?) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000?). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed |
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social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom. Unlike most instances of the demise of a complex socie |
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UNINA9910300404003321 |
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Autore |
Clarke Cathie |
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Dynamics of Young Star Clusters and Associations : Saas-Fee Advanced Course 42. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy / / by Cathie Clarke, Robert D. Mathieu, Iain Neill Reid ; edited by Cameron P.M. Bell, Laurent Eyer, Michael R. Meyer |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
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[1st ed. 2015.] |
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1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Saas-Fee Advanced Course, , 1861-7980 ; ; 42 |
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Astrophysics |
Astronomy |
Astronomy—Observations |
Cosmology |
Astrophysics and Astroparticles |
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Theory of Star Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Stellar Systems -- Kinematics of Star Clusters and Associations -- From whence the Field. |
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Where do most stars (and the planetary systems that surround them) in the Milky Way form? What determines whether a young star cluster remains bound (such as an open or globular cluster), or disperses to join the field stars in the disc of the Galaxy? These questions not only impact understanding of the origins of stars and planetary systems like our own (and the potential for life to emerge that they represent), but also galaxy formation and evolution, and ultimately the story of star formation over cosmic time in the Universe. This volume will help |
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readers understand our current views concerning the answers to these questions as well as frame new questions that will be answered by the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite that was launched in late 2013. The book contains the elaborated notes of lectures given at the 42nd Saas-Fee Advanced Course “Dynamics of Young Star Clusters & Associations" by Cathie Clarke (University of Cambridge) who presents the theory of star formation and dynamical evolution of stellar systems, Robert Mathieu (University of Wisconsin) who discusses the kinematics of star cluster s and associations, and I. Neill Reid (Space Telescope Science Institute) who provides an overview of the stellar populations in the Milky Way and speculates on from whence came the Sun. As part of the Saas-Fee Advanced Course Series, the book offers an in-depth introduction to the field serving as a starting point for Ph.D. research and as a reference work for professional astrophysicists. |
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