Stephen Green - Böcker

Everyone’s idea of family can be different – who’s your family?This is a little book about family. Family is special because it looks different for each of us! And no matter what your family looks like, you know you've found it when you feel happy and at home.This book was made to introduce little ones aged 0-4 to the diverse definition of family for each and every one of us. What does it mean to be family? Can my family grow as I get older, or include my friends as well? This book about family and belonging for toddlers aims to help you answer these questions!A Little Book About Family features: A large, bold and colourful board book that engages growing minds and teaches them about important, fundamental topics.A friendly, approachable, empowering and toddler-appropriate tone throughout.An incredible and diverse group of authors in the series who are experts or have first-hand experience of the topic.Little books that explore big ideas!The A Little Book About titles are best used when read together, starting kids on important concepts early. This series introduces vital and empowering topics for toddlers and their grown-ups through beautiful and engaging pages. The series supports an incredible and diverse group of authors, who are either experts in their field, or have first-hand experience on the topic.A Kids Co. is a new kind of media company enabling kids to explore big topics in a new and engaging way, with a growing series of books, podcasts and blogs made to empower. Learn more about us online by searching for A Kids Co.

‘Erudite, bold and wide-ranging – a book that makes you think about knowledge, wisdom and what the future has in store.’ PETER FRANKOPAN'A book of remarkable sweep and scope - not just learned, but deeply humane.' TOM HOLLANDThe long human odyssey of self-discovery has reached a crucial stage: everything we do affects everyone and everything else - and we know it. The next hundred years will bring more change than we can easily imagine: more opportunities for more people to achieve the fulfilment of a good life, and more risks that could result in catastrophic harm to the entire planet.Viewed geopolitically, the main question is whether the world-views of the world’s most important and influential powers – China and America (the one fundamentally Confucian, the other essentially individualist) – can be made to work together constructively.At the same time, on a deeper level, the even greater question is how the irreversible fact of urbanisation may nurture healthy and mature human individuality, such that the accumulated wisdom of the world’s great cultures becomes mutually transforming and enriching.This bold and wide-ranging book explores those questions, with all the risks and opportunities they hold for generations still to come.

As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market economy? Without the correct institutions, laws and agencies that implement the laws in place, the remarkable growth witnessed in China over the last two decades will falter. Financial sector reform lies at the heart of China's economic transition and China's stock market has become critical to the reform of state-owned industry, the supply of fiscal revenues and in building a modern pension system. The Development of China's Stockmarket takes a close look at the policy-making and regulatory institutions the government has created to manage equity development and shows how, in contrast to neo-institutional and economic theories of regulatory development, public actors have controlled institutional development.Based on extensive field research in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing and over forty interviews with regulators and market players, The Development of China's Stockmarket provides the first detailed academic analysis of the country's stockmarket. With a comprehensive review of Chinese language literature available on the subject, this book is essential reading for all scholars with an interest in Asian Business and China's transition from socialism.

As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market economy? Without the correct institutions, laws and agencies that implement the laws in place, the remarkable growth witnessed in China over the last two decades will falter. Financial sector reform lies at the heart of China's economic transition and China's stock market has become critical to the reform of state-owned industry, the supply of fiscal revenues and in building a modern pension system. The Development of China's Stockmarket takes a close look at the policy-making and regulatory institutions the government has created to manage equity development and shows how, in contrast to neo-institutional and economic theories of regulatory development, public actors have controlled institutional development.Based on extensive field research in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing and over forty interviews with regulators and market players, The Development of China's Stockmarket provides the first detailed academic analysis of the country's stockmarket. With a comprehensive review of Chinese language literature available on the subject, this book is essential reading for all scholars with an interest in Asian Business and China's transition from socialism.

In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever. This essential resource introduces us to the multitude of ways philosophers make sense of things.Drawing on China, Japan, the Indic world, Islamic and European thought as well as pre-colonial African and pre-Spanish Meso-American traditions, a team of leading philosophers and historians of ideas bring case studies, texts, themes and thinkers of very different thought worlds into conversation, including such topics as:Spinoza and Wang Bi on substance and changeKukai and Gregory Palamas on essence and energyPhenomenological echoes in the metaphysics of a Tantric systemSufi and Mayan reflection on the human role in constructing the cosmosSenghor and African art as expression of an original philosophy.On the basis of this exceptionally rich and diverse canvas, they reflect on questions of enduring human significance: What is suchness? What do we mean by being, becoming and beyond? What is personhood? How do we name and order our world? How should we live? Crossing cultures, languages and history, the authors’ inclusive approach liberates metaphysics and comparative philosophy from the constraints of traditional Western interpretation.

In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever. This essential resource introduces us to the multitude of ways philosophers make sense of things.Drawing on China, Japan, the Indic world, Islamic and European thought as well as pre-colonial African and pre-Spanish Meso-American traditions, a team of leading philosophers and historians of ideas bring case studies, texts, themes and thinkers of very different thought worlds into conversation, including such topics as:Spinoza and Wang Bi on substance and changeKukai and Gregory Palamas on essence and energyPhenomenological echoes in the metaphysics of a Tantric systemSufi and Mayan reflection on the human role in constructing the cosmosSenghor and African art as expression of an original philosophy.On the basis of this exceptionally rich and diverse canvas, they reflect on questions of enduring human significance: What is suchness? What do we mean by being, becoming and beyond? What is personhood? How do we name and order our world? How should we live? Crossing cultures, languages and history, the authors’ inclusive approach liberates metaphysics and comparative philosophy from the constraints of traditional Western interpretation.

Nominated for the 2006 IPEG Book PrizeDrawing on the research of ten scholars from around the world, this volume evaluates China’s privatization experience by investigating the efficiency and fairness of the sale process and the credibility of the government’s ambition to create world-class state-owned conglomerates. One of the first book-length works to evaluate China’s privatization experience. Draws on the research of ten scholars from around the world including Liu Xiaoxuan (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Sun Laixiang (SOAS, London University) and Chih-jou Jay Chen (Academic Sinica). Investigates the factors determining the decision by government officials to sell or retain their firms. Evaluates how credible the government’s ambition is to create world-class state-owned conglomerates. Compares the efficiency and fairness of the sales against the lessons learned from the former Soviet bloc. Explains how the state is withdrawing from key sectors such as automobiles, energy and telecoms.

Nominated for the 2006 IPEG Book PrizeDrawing on the research of ten scholars from around the world, this volume evaluates China’s privatization experience by investigating the efficiency and fairness of the sale process and the credibility of the government’s ambition to create world-class state-owned conglomerates. One of the first book-length works to evaluate China’s privatization experience. Draws on the research of ten scholars from around the world including Liu Xiaoxuan (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Sun Laixiang (SOAS, London University) and Chih-jou Jay Chen (Academic Sinica). Investigates the factors determining the decision by government officials to sell or retain their firms. Evaluates how credible the government’s ambition is to create world-class state-owned conglomerates. Compares the efficiency and fairness of the sales against the lessons learned from the former Soviet bloc. Explains how the state is withdrawing from key sectors such as automobiles, energy and telecoms.

A hunt for a vampire pulls Geralt into a series of swindles, twists, and punch-ups.Geralt arrives to a small town rumored to be under attack by a vampire. The bounty on its head is substantial, drawing in every two-bit monster hunter for miles, but the competition stiffens when another Witcher, wearing the medallion from the School of the Bear, joins the hunt.Geralt is offered an advantage in the hunt by a peasant woman, but there's a catch, and a small issue of her being locked up in prison. And with an orphan boy appointing himself as Geralt’s squire, the White Wolf finds himself with an unlikely team, and even more unlikely rivals, but are they after the same prize?Collects The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly #1–#4.

Is there any such thing as a European identity? Amidst all the kaleidoscopic variety what - if anything - do 28 members of the European Union have in common? The facts of history have created shared interests and cultural connections that are in the end more important than the differences. We know we are different from Asia; and we are more different from America than we - perhaps especially the British - think. So in a 21st century of globalisation and emerging great powers, Europe must discover and define that common identity. This is a challenge for all the big states of the EU.Europe clearly has something distinctive and vitally important to offer: it is the experience of a unique journey through centuries of exploration and conflict, errors and learnings, soul-searching and rebuilding. It is an experience of universal significance. One way or another, the world will have to learn these lessons, and it will certainly be the poorer if this European voice is not heard.

Germany is a country with a deep and complex history. Arguably there is no greater culture and no country has contributed more to the development of human ideas and creativity. Nor has any country sunk deeper into the abyss or experienced such redemption and renewal. It is this that instils the German story with a profound and universal significance.A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall much of Europe remains uncertain about its identity and direction. As Britain prepares to leave the European Union these uncertainties are greater than ever. The euro and migrant crisis have seen Germany reluctantly assume a prominent role among the states of the European Union, but outright leadership remains deeply problematic for a country haunted by its past.What part will Germany – a land where over a long history of people have adopted layered identities – play in this new Europe? Whatever the answer, the implications for Britain and the future of the wider European project will be profound.

Whatever the eventual outcome of the Brexit negotiations, the critical questions remain: what does the Referendum vote tell us about the sort of society we are?We have not been wholly honest with ourselves about our past and this has allowed us to ignore uncomfortable truths. It is time to acknowledge that underlying all the sound and fury of the Brexit debate was a question – whether or not fully recognised – about our identity.

The integrity of the UK is under threat. In fact, is it too late to save the Union? Not yet, write Stephen Green, Thomas Legg, and Martin Donnelly – but to so will require extensive reform, crucially of the UK’s constitution. And the national discussion must begin now. In Unwritten Rule, the authors add an authoritative voice to the conversation, identifying first the flaws in the UK’s constitution and second the opportunities we must seize if the Union is to remain a meaningful part of our identity and to serve its people effectively.