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Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States
ISBN: 9781137397126 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States draws on the expertise of established researchers and public officials from within the SIDS community to answer the following pressing questions related to sustainability, debt accumulation, and prospects for future growth.
Debt and Development in Small Island Developing States draws on the expertise of established researchers and public officials from within the SIDS com...
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401,58 |
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Creative Industries and Urban Development: Creative Cities in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781138841772 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world's population, particularly in relation to the significance of cities as sites of cultural production and consumption. Much of the work on creative industries and cities, however, has drawn upon 'imagined geographies' about the relationship between creativity and place. This collection draws together contributions that critically appraise recent urban cultural policy...
The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified...
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217,20 |
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Beyond Crisis: The Financial Performance of India's Power Sector
ISBN: 9781464803925 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In September 2012, the Government of India approved a financial rescue scheme to revive the power generation sector. This bailout amounted to about Rs 1.9 trillion and came in response to banks and financial institutions with large nonperforming loans to the power sector. This is the second bailout of the sector in a decade. The first was in 2002 when the government had to convert the outstanding arrears of state electricity boards to central public sector undertakings. The 2002 bailout came to Rs 400 billion in state government bonds to restore the sector to financial solvency. The recent...
In September 2012, the Government of India approved a financial rescue scheme to revive the power generation sector. This bailout amounted to about Rs...
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120,65 |
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Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
ISBN: 9780393246803 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer, an entrepreneur, an online shopper, a job-seeker, or a community leader. If people can't move, if goods are delayed, and if information networks can't connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates and social inequity grows. We have been stuck for too long, writes Harvard Business School professor and best-selling... Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, ... |
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106,67 |
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A Kennecott Story: Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997
ISBN: 9781607813705 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,83 |
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Supply Chain Risk Management: Vulnerability and Resilience in Logistics
ISBN: 9780749476298 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective, sustainable supply chain networks are an integral part of any organization's success. However, in a global, rapidly evolving environment full of turbulence and uncertainty, supply chains are more vulnerable than ever.
Now in its second edition, "Supply Chain Risk Management" is essential reading for risk managers and supply chain managers or operators who want to know about the growing impact of risk on supply chains, its management and how to mitigate its effects. Using jargon-free, accessible language, it identifies both the possible effects that disruptions can cause and how... Effective, sustainable supply chain networks are an integral part of any organization's success. However, in a global, rapidly evolving environment fu...
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386,23 |
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Energy, Environment and Economic Transformation in China
ISBN: 9781138910355 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010. However, the growth model in China is still extensive in nature and may be characterized with high energy consumption and heavy environmental pollutions etc. In fact, China has successively become the largest carbon emitter since 2007 and the largest energy consumer since 2009 in the world. This book endeavors to analyze whether such energy driven and environment restricted economic growth can be sustainable in China in the long run. The book... China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010. Howev... |
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144,78 |
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Service Level Manager: Careers in IT service management
ISBN: 9781780172941 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of service level manager is a critical one in that the agreements negotiated with customers should inform the activities of the service provider. This book aims to help those whose role is to establish, negotiate, manage or update service level agreements and to use these as the basis of continual service improvement. It covers areas such as purpose, required skills, responsibilities, interface and career progression as well as tools, standards and frameworks related to the role. The role of service level manager is a critical one in that the agreements negotiated with customers should inform the activities of the service pr... |
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124,48 |
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Making the Desert Modern
ISBN: 9781625341563 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How one American oil company shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
How one American oil company shaped U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East
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323,47 |
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Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Frontier, 1933-1973
ISBN: 9781625341570 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian king granting the company sole proprietorship over the oil reserves in the country's largest province. As drilling commenced and wells proliferated, Aramco soon became a major presence in the region. In this book Chad H. Parker tells Aramco's story, showing how an American company seeking resources and profits not only contributed to Saudi onation buildingo but helped define U.S. foreign policy during the early Cold War. In the years following...
In 1933 American oilmen representing what later became the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco) signed a concession agreement with the Saudi Arabian ...
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125,48 |
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The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd
ISBN: 9781742234199 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, and was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania as well as its largest private landowner. Most of its profits came from woodchipping, mainly from clear-felled old-growth forests. A pulp mill was central to its expansion plans. Its collapse in 2012 was a major national news story, as was the arrest of its CEO for insider trading. Quentin Beresford illuminates, for the first time, the dark corners of the Gunns empire. He shows it was built on close relationships with state and federal governments,...
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, and was the largest employer in the state of Tasmania as well as i...
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77,20 |
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The Energy Economy: Practical Insight to Public Policy and Current Affairs
ISBN: 9781137471697 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prolonged economic downturn is forcing policy makers and professors to examine how to improve economic development. State and regional governments are therefore moving from public sector-led strategies to private sector-led strategies to enact substantial business-friendly policy reforms. This view of growing economic development sparks interest among public policy, public administration, urban planning, and other academic programs to teach about how America goes about implementing economic development strategies at the state and local level. The Energy Economy is a public policy and current...
Prolonged economic downturn is forcing policy makers and professors to examine how to improve economic development. State and regional governments are...
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522,07 |
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Public Private Partnerships for Infrastructure and Business Development: Principles, Practices, and Perspectives
ISBN: 9781137487827 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In our market economy, under ordinary conditions, infrastructure development is funded by public budgets and enterprise development is funded by private investors. However, public budget constraints, liquidity shortages, the equity gap, and increasing global competition have led to alternative approaches, especially in areas targeted for economic growth and development. In response, there has been an upward global trend in the creation of public private partnerships (PPPs) that allow public and private interests to share resources and support development. Public Private Partnerships for...
In our market economy, under ordinary conditions, infrastructure development is funded by public budgets and enterprise development is funded by priva...
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441,75 |
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The Disposable Visionary: A Survival Guide for Change Agents
ISBN: 9781440840364 / Angielski / Twarda / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do many companies state they want change but then often fire employees who truly rock the boat in their efforts to shift the paradigm to make improvements? How should "disposable visionaries" leaders who are passionate about new ideas, but who underestimate or intentionally ignore the political environment that supports maintaining the status quo and consequently are in danger of losing their jobs keep their passion regardless of the opposition and also keep their jobs? Written with wit and filled with poignant insights and well-documented examples, this book provides practical... Why do many companies state they want change but then often fire employees who truly rock the boat in their efforts to shift the paradigm to make i... |
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218,53 |
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Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing
ISBN: 9780803278691 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though best known for aircraft and aerospace technology, Boeing has invested significant time and money in the construction and promotion of its corporate culture. Boeing s leaders, in keeping with the standard of traditional American social norms, began to promote a workplace culture of a white, heterosexual family model in the 1930s in an attempt to provide a sense of stability for their labor force during a series of enormous political, social, and economic disruptions. For both managers and workers, the construction of a masculine culture solved problems that technological innovation and...
Though best known for aircraft and aerospace technology, Boeing has invested significant time and money in the construction and promotion of its corpo...
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202,78 |
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Toward New Sources of Competitiveness in Bangladesh: Key Insights of the Diagnostic Trade Integration Study
ISBN: 9781464806476 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bangladesh's ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty reduction achievements, and accelerate growth to become a middle income country by 2021, and share prosperity more widely amongst its citizens. This includes one of its greatest development challenges: to provide gainful employment to the over 2 million people that will join the labor force each year over the next decade. Moreover, only 54.1 million of its 94 million working age people are employed. Bangladesh needs to use its labor endowment even more intensively to increase growth and, in turn, to absorb the incoming...
Bangladesh's ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty reduction achievements, and accelerate growth to become a middle income country...
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120,65 |
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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Construction of Power and the Struggle for the East Asian International Order
ISBN: 9781137593863 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the significance of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by examining the logic of international power and order, historic trends in East Asian international relations, the AIIB's design in comparison to 'rival' financial institutions, recent tendencies in Chinese foreign policy, and Chinese political economy. This book assesses the significance of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by examining the logic of international power and order, his... |
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220,86 |
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Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780393352917 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer, an entrepreneur, an online shopper, a job-seeker, or a community leader. If people can't move, if goods are delayed, and if information networks can't connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates and social inequity grows. We have been stuck for too long, writes Harvard Business School professor and best-selling... Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, ... |
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53,11 |
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Strategic Marketing Planning
ISBN: 9781138133952 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical planning aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. It has a clear structure that offers a digest of the five principal dimensions of the strategic marketing planning process. Leading authors in this sector, Gilligan and Wilson offer current thinking in marketing and consider the changes it has undergone over the past few years. Updated information in this new edition includes: * Changing corporate perspectives on the role of strategic marketing activity* Changing social structures and the rise...
Strategic Marketing Planning concentrates on the critical planning aspects that are of vital importance to practitioners and students alike. ...
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Energy Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security
ISBN: 9781598888164 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism--the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial sector and cause cascading effects--is very real. Energy Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, Second Edition, is a reference for those involved with our energy infrastructure who want quick answers to complicated questions. It is intended to help employers and employees handle security threats they must be prepared to meet on a daily basis. This updated second edition focuses on all components of the energy sector, including sites...
In the post-9/11 world, the possibility of energy infrastructure-terrorism--the use of weapons to cause devastating damage to the energy industrial se...
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