The business solution to poverty [[electronic resource] ] : designing products and services for three billion new customers / / Paul Polak and Mal Warwick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779891203321
• Autore: Polak Paul
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2013
• ISBN: 1-78402-614-X; 1-60994-078-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Collana: A BK currents book The business solution to poverty
• Altri autori (Persone): WarwickMal
• Disciplina: 658.5/038
• Soggetti: Poverty; Social responsibility of business; Industrial management - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction: eight keys to ending poverty -- Only business can end poverty -- "The poor are very different from you and me" -- What is poverty? -- What can government and philanthropy do? -- Why business is best equipped to fight global poverty -- Zero-based design and the bottom billions -- What to do before you launch your business -- The ruthless pursuit of affordability -- Zero-based design in practice : low-cost drip irrigation -- Design for the market -- Zero-based design in practice : a cautionary tale -- Design for scale -- Zero-based design in practice: safe drinking water for small villages -- Design for delivery the last 500 feet -- Building a mission-driven global business -- Opportunities abound -- It's your turn now -- Resources : takeaways and what we say to critics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: How can the world's nearly 3 billion who live on 2 a day or less be lifted out of poverty? Paul Polak (bestselling author of Out of Poverty) and the organizations he has founded have pioneered methods that have already helped nearly 20 million of the world's poorest people to get out of poverty without charitable or government handouts. Now Polak teams with social entrepreneur and author Mal Warwick (bestselling ; author of Values-Driven Business) to reveal the keys for entrepreneurs, businesses, and others to replicate this success and expand its scale to include hundreds of millions of the po

The reformation of romance : the Eucharist, disguise, and foreign fashion in early modern prose fiction / / Christina Wald

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787189903321
• Autore: Wald Christina <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 3-11-039496-0; 3-11-034338-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 p.)
• Collana: Buchreihe der ANGLIA/ANGLIA Book Series, , 0340-5435 ; ; Volume 44
• Classificazione: HI 1272
• Disciplina: 823/.309
• Soggetti: English fiction - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; Disguise in literature; Transubstantiation in literature; Lord's Supper in literature; Reformation in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Acknowledgements of Rights -- Introduction -- 1. The Eucharist in Disguise: Theology and Prose Fiction in Early Modern England -- 1.1 The Eucharist in Early Modern England: Theological Controversies and Liturgical Reform -- 1.2 William Baldwin: Beware the Cat (1553/70) -- 2. Disguise and Identity Transformation in Elizabethan Pastoral Romances -- 2.1 Robert Greene: Pandosto: The Triumph of Time (1585 or 1588) and Menaphon: Camilla's Alarum to Slumbering Euphues in His Melancholy Cell at Silexadra (1589) -- 2.2 Philip Sidney: The Old Arcadia (c. 1580) and The New Arcadia (1590 -- 2.3 Thomas Lodge: Rosalynd: Euphues' Golden Legacy (1590) and A Margarite of America (1596) -- 3. Foreign Fashion and the Transubstantiation of Englishness ; -- 3.1 George Gascoigne: The Steele Glas (1576) -- 3.2 John Lyly: Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578, expanded 1579) and Euphues and His England (1580) -- 3.3 Barnabe Riche: Riche His Farewell to Military Profession (1581) -- 3.4 Robert Greene: A Quip for an Upstart Courtier: Or, A Quaint Dispute between Velvet Breeches and Cloth Breeches (1592) -- 3.5 Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) -- 4. Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This study takes a fresh look at the abundant scenarios of disguise in early modern prose fiction and suggests reading them in the light of the contemporary religio-political developments. More specifically, it argues that Elizabethan narratives adopt aspects of the heated Eucharist debate during the Reformation, including officially renounced notions like transubstantiation, to negotiate culturally pressing concerns regarding identity change. Drawing on the rich field of research on the adaptation of pre-Reformation concerns in Anglican England, the book traces a cross-fertilisation between the Reformation and the literary mode of romance. The study brings together topics which are currently being strongly debated in early modern studies: the turn to religion, a renewed interest in aesthetics, and a growing engagement with prose fiction. Narratives which are discussed in detail are William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, Robert Greene's Pandosto and Menaphon, Philip Sidney's Old and New Arcadia, and Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd and A Margarite of America, George Gascoigne's Steele Glas, John Lyly's Euphues: An Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, Barnabe Riche's Farewell, Greene's A Quip for an Upstart Courtier, and Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller.