“…Lithuania in Crisis: Nationalism to Communism, 1939–1940 presents a scholarly, thorough, and absorbing study of what is probably the most fateful chapter in the life of the Lithuanian nation: the disappearance of its short-lived second period of national independence during the years 1926–1939 and its absorption into the Soviet Union in 1940. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Hospitals -- Colleges and Universities -- Zoos -- Museums -- Human Services -- Performing Arts -- Technology -- The Truth About Philanthropy -- Chapter 2 Why Our Crisis Exists -- "Oh, You Want Your Diploma?" -- What Can Nonprofits Learn from These Stories -- External Factors -- Tax Changes Made Giving Trickier -- Why This Matters-or Two Problems for the Price of One -- More on Donor Friction -- The Crowding Out Effect -- Competition Between Nonprofits -- Proliferation of Omni-Channel Messaging -- Shifting Values Toward Altruism -- Losing Our Religion -- Happiness Is Trending Negative -- Suspicion Toward Institutions -- Internal Factors -- Taking Donors for Granted -- Failure to Stay True to the Mission -- Failure to Engage in a Meaningful Way -- Technology Reinforcing Transactional Versus Transformational Giving -- Failure to Identify the Right People at the Right Time for the Right Purpose -- Incorrectly Pigeonholing People as Fixed Donors or Non-Donors -- Failure to Discern and Measure Generosity's Real Motivators -- Corporate America Has Your Number -- Chapter 3 From Shareholder Value to Shareholder Values -- Insights from Jamal's Story -- Patagonia -- Ben &amp -- Jerry's -- The Body Shop -- Key Takeaways for Nonprofits -- "You Can Have Both" Comes to Restaurants -- Workers Are Now Values-Driven, Too -- Corporate America Redefined -- What This Means for Nonprofits -- Why the Corporations Took Action -- Chapter 4 The Trust Breakdown -- A Tale of Two Moguls -- Philanthropy Reimagined -- The Public Responds -- Why This Matters -- Sea Change -- What Distrust in Nonprofits Looks and Feels Like -- Going to the Dark Side -- It Gets Worse -- Exploiting Desperate Times Doesn't Make Things Any Better…”

“…. - Funding for longer-term – protracted – crises that helps boost the resilience of crisis-affected communities; going beyond immediate life-threatening needs and supporting self-reliance. - Reworking funding tools and approaches for crises in middle income countries – learning from the challenges facing the Syrian Arab Republic affected region. - Thinking differently about funding disaster response and recovery, and about funding disaster affected states and local response actors. - Making the money go further; reducing the cost, and increasing the cost-benefit, of humanitarian operations…”

“…The financial crisis required governments to make massive interventions in their financial systems. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface -- You can't make this stuff up -- Defining our terms -- What BP should have said -- Attitude adjustments -- Toyota : on a slippery crisis communications slope with no brakes -- Understanding your crisis -- Shaping your crisis communications message -- Spokespersons -- Social media and digital communications or, truth/lies at the speed of light -- Shakespeare was right : "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" -- Protecting your brand -- Telling the truth -- Say it ain't so, Joe! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The impacts of ecological crisis on food, health, and shelter A moral crisis -- Part IV. …”

“…Democrazia in crisi : le nuove frontiere della democrazia…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction / Larry Elliott -- Knowing our limits / Rowan Williams -- Investment and public policy in a globalized economy / Robert Skidelsky -- The common table / Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford -- There is no wealth but life / Phillip Blond -- The knowledge economy, ethics and the challenge of diversity after the crash / Adam Lent -- Investment banking : the inevitable triumph of incentives over ethics / John Reynolds -- Culture and the crisis / Andrew Whittaker -- Reconciling the market with the environment / Zac Goldsmith -- The financial crisis and the end of the hunter-gatherer / Will Hutton…”

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