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Life in the Balance: The Life and Work of William Edward Hipkins
ISBN: 9781456798017 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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177,75 |
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Internet for Everyone: Reshaping the Global Economy by Bridging the Digital Divide
ISBN: 9781462042500 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Help the world bridge the digital divide by learning an easy-to-use method that allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of the Internet using just a phone and their voice. Computer and technology expert Emdad Khan pinpoints the factors that affect the use of technology, including the language divide. While the English-speaking world dominates the Internet, it's possible for all people to reap its benefits using just their voice in their native language. The Voice Internet ushers in a new era of access to technology. It eliminates the need to learn a new language, is affordable, and overcomes...
Help the world bridge the digital divide by learning an easy-to-use method that allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of the Internet using just a pho...
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95,10 |
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Internet for Everyone: Reshaping the Global Economy by Bridging the Digital Divide
ISBN: 9781462042517 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Help the world bridge the digital divide by learning an easy-to-use method that allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of the Internet using just a phone and their voice. Computer and technology expert Emdad Khan pinpoints the factors that affect the use of technology, including the language divide. While the English-speaking world dominates the Internet, it's possible for all people to reap its benefits using just their voice in their native language. The Voice Internet ushers in a new era of access to technology. It eliminates the need to learn a new language, is affordable, and overcomes...
Help the world bridge the digital divide by learning an easy-to-use method that allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of the Internet using just a pho...
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56,98 |
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Howard Hughes: The Las Vegas Years the Women, the Mormons, the Mafia
ISBN: 9781463406943 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people know about Howard Hughes, America's first billionaire. He was an aviation engineer, an Oscar-winning motion picture producer and director, and a hotel and casino owner in Las Vegas and Reno, with seven establishments. He built the biggest airplane in the world at the time-known as the Spruce Goose-and the Glormar Explorer supership for the CIA. He owned RKO Motion Picture Studios in Hollywood, as well as tens of thousands of acres in California, Nevada, and Texas. Fewer people, however, know the Howard Hughes of the neon world of Las Vegas in the 1970s. Reclusive and... Many people know about Howard Hughes, America's first billionaire. He was an aviation engineer, an Oscar-winning motion picture producer and direc... |
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113,35 |
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Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex
ISBN: 9781568586977 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hard-hitting expose of the world's largest and richest military contractor
A hard-hitting expose of the world's largest and richest military contractor
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83,81 |
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Designing Businesses: How to Develop and Lead a High Technology Company
ISBN: 9780852968918 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical book which aims to support engineers, and other technical professionals, who find themselves with the opportunity to run their own business as entrepreneurs.
A practical book which aims to support engineers, and other technical professionals, who find themselves with the opportunity to run their own busines...
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355,45 |
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Developing Public Private Partnerships in Liberia
ISBN: 9780821394809 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liberia is making great strides to recover from its recent era of conflict and reestablish itself as a global competitor. Central to Liberia's economic growth is its rich endowment of natural resource such as iron ore and rubber. Liberia's natural resources have defined, in large part, the country's engagement with the private sector. However, the Government of Liberia is now exploring new ways to partner with the private sector with the objective of growing the economy. One method is by developing public-private partnerships (PPPs) in core infrastructure and social services. This Study...
Liberia is making great strides to recover from its recent era of conflict and reestablish itself as a global competitor. Central to Liberia's economi...
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87,75 |
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Green Infrastructure Finance: Leading Initiatives and Research
ISBN: 9780821394885 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasing concerns over the effects of climate change have heightened the importance of accelerating investments in green growth. The International Energy Agency, for example, estimates that to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent by 2050, global investments in the energy sector alone will need to total US$750 billion a year by 2030 and over US$1.6 trillion a year from 2030-2050. Despite global efforts to mobilize required capital flows, the investments still fall far short. Bloomberg New Energy Finance argues that by 2020 investments will be US$150 billion short from the levels...
Increasing concerns over the effects of climate change have heightened the importance of accelerating investments in green growth. The International E...
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141,40 |
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The Informal Sector in Francophone Africa: Firm Size, Productivity, and Institutions
ISBN: 9780821395370 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized producers operating on the fringes of the formal economy. In West African countries, however, the normal situation is to some extent reversed: a dynamic informal sector dominates the stagnant formal economy. Moreover, in these countries, small operators coexist with very large and politically well-connected informal enterprises and well-organized networks. Notwithstanding its importance, there have been relatively few systematic studies of this dual feature of the...
The informal sector in West Africa has some distinctive characteristics. Informality usually connotes small and unorganized producers operating on the...
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141,40 |
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Modelle Wissensintensiver Dienstleistungen: Ansätze Einer Modernen Produktionstheorie Auf Basis Der Graphischen Aktivitätsanalyse
ISBN: 9783834936585 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trotz der unverkennbaren Fortschritte der Produktionstheorie fur Dienstleistungen und ihres inzwischen recht hohen Entwicklungsstands existieren weiterhin viele ungelo ste Probleme. Zum einen hat sich in der einschlagigen Literatur noch keine konsensfahige Definition des Dienstleistungsbegriffs etablieren konnen. Vielmehr hat die Uneinigkeit uber den Begriff Dienstleistung eine Vielzahl Definitionsansatze entstehen lassen, die einander teilweise fundamental widersprechen. Zum anderen ist der Produktionstheorie ein Versagen bei der Abbildung von Dienstleistungen zu attestieren, wenn sie - wie...
Trotz der unverkennbaren Fortschritte der Produktionstheorie fur Dienstleistungen und ihres inzwischen recht hohen Entwicklungsstands existieren weite...
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263,94 |
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Implementing Energy Subsidy Reforms
ISBN: 9780821395615 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poorly implemented energy subsidies are economically costly to taxpayers and damage the environment. This report aims at providing the emerging lessons form a representative sample of case studies in 20 developing countries that could help policy makers to address implementation challenges, including overcoming political economy and affordability constraints. The sample has selected on the basis of a number of criteria, including the country's level of development (and consumption), developing country region, energy security and the fuel it subsidies (petroleum fuel, electricity, natural...
Poorly implemented energy subsidies are economically costly to taxpayers and damage the environment. This report aims at providing the emerging lesson...
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Mitigating Vulnerability to High and Volatile Oil Prices: Power Sector Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780821395776 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The unprecedented rise in world oil prices over the past decade has created greater economic uncertainty and higher risk introduced by oil price volatility. Countries with a high proportion of oil in their primary energy supply are especially vulnerable. At both macro and micro levels, such countries may suffer serious effects, ranging from short-term to permanent changes that hinder potential growth and international competitiveness. Mitigating Vulnerability to High and Volatile Oil Prices: Power Sector Experience in Latin America and the Caribbean offers an assessment of how these countries...
The unprecedented rise in world oil prices over the past decade has created greater economic uncertainty and higher risk introduced by oil price volat...
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102,39 |
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Adidas Marketing Strategy - An Overview
ISBN: 9783656037873 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 2.0, International Business School Lippstadt, language: English, abstract: The Adidas group, headquartered in Herzogenaurach (Germany) was built on 18th August 1920 by Adolf Dassler. The brand and its products celebrated their first worldwide success in 1954 after the German have won the soccer world championship. After some commercial disappointments in the middle 80s, the family enterprise had to open up for investors. In 1995 followed the...
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Marketing, Corporate Communication, CRM, Market Research, Social Media, grade: 2....
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139,67 |
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The Risk in Risk Management: Financial Organizations & the Problem of Conformity
ISBN: 9780415509848 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while paradoxically believing that they are safe and unique. Gregory Vit suggests that some groups within organizations including both fraudsters and risk governors can manage risk by understanding the process of conformity and by going against it to their advantage. This book presents a unique framework that uses four different packages of constructs and organizational logics to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large organizations, and thus to help organizations... Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while paradoxically believing that they are safe and unique. Gr... |
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707,28 |
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Partnering with Microsoft: How to Make Money in Trusted Partnership with the Global Software Powerhouse
ISBN: 9780123954923 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advance Praise for Partnering with Microsoft: '"Partnering with Microsoft" is the first great book about the breathtaking culture, opportunity and roadmap for joining Microsoft's 850,000 partners cutting an impressive B swath in the marketpl
This inside guide to effective partnering with Microsoft reveals how to become a trusted partner in order to gain supportive co-marketing, assured referrals, and joint success in selling complementary products and services. Advance Praise for Partnering with Microsoft: '"Partnering with Microsoft" is the first great book about the breathtaking culture, opportunity and roa...
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253,60 |
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War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs
ISBN: 9780807865286 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first biography of Elliott White Springs (1896-1959), who was fifth-ranking U.S. pilot of World War I, best-selling author, advertising genius, and maverick maser of a textile manufacturing empire. War Birds, his masterpiece, inspired many books and films on the youth of World War I and the twenties. During the depression, Springs expanded the family textile mills in South Carolina, as others were retrenching, and made Springmaid sheets and the Springmaid girls household words.
Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring... This is the first biography of Elliott White Springs (1896-1959), who was fifth-ranking U.S. pilot of World War I, best-selling author, advertising ge...
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195,11 |
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Making Sense of Iranian Society, Culture, and Business
ISBN: 9781606495988 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Iran represents a large regional economy with a strategic location in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, a huge consumer market, tremendous natural resources, and numerous petrochemical and manufacturing industries which require heavy investment. Understanding the Iranian business environment requires a holistic approach as in Iran religion, society, culture, economy, politics, and family are intimately intertwined. In line with this view, this book aims at offering an analytical, readable, and relatively comprehensive understanding of the Iranian society, culture, and business... Iran represents a large regional economy with a strategic location in the Persian Gulf and Central Asia, a huge consumer market, tremendous natural... |
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83,81 |
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End of the Line: Closing the Last Sardine Cannery in America
ISBN: 9780819573452 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At one time, sardines were an inexpensive staple for many Americans. The 212 photographs in this elegant volume offer a striking document of this now vanished industry. Generations of workers in Maine have snipped, sliced, and packed the small, silvery fish into billions of cans on their way to Americans' lunch buckets and kitchen cabinets. On April 15, 2010, Stinson's Seafood, once the home of Beach Cliff Sardines, shut down the packing line that had made the name world famous. Begun in 1927, Stinson's empire eventually included sardine canneries spread along the Maine coast and a fleet of...
At one time, sardines were an inexpensive staple for many Americans. The 212 photographs in this elegant volume offer a striking document of this now ...
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90,24 |
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The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780226037721 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation.Stymied by legal and financial barriers, they created a new class of quasi-public agencies called public authorities. Today these entities operate at all levels of government, and range from tiny operations like the Springfield Parking Authority in Massachusetts, which runs thirteen parking lots and garages, to mammoth enterprises like the Tennessee Valley Authority, with...
In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies a...
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133,50 |
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Dynamique de la Création de Connaissances: Microsystèmes En Suisse Romande
ISBN: 9783039103690 / Francuski / Miękka / 137 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Avec l emergence de la -nouvelle economie- basee sur les nouvelles technologies de l information et de la communication, les connaissances scientifiques et technologiques deviennent plus que jamais l objet d enjeux economiques et sociaux. Les hautes ecoles sont alors appelees a se mettre davantage au service de la societe, en particulier des industries de haute technologie. Sont-elles pretes a relever ce defi? Quels sont les facteurs favorisant ou restreignant leur cooperation avec l industrie? Quel est le role de l Etat dans ce processus?
Le present volume fait la lumiere sur la... Avec l emergence de la -nouvelle economie- basee sur les nouvelles technologies de l information et de la communication, les connaissances scientifiqu...
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259,05 |