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The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500
ISBN: 9780521200127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1022 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, dealing with the last century and a half of the middle ages, follows the general pattern of the second volume which described the generations of agricultural expansion between the time of Domesday and of the Black Death. The third volume, however, concerns itself with the new demographic and economic circumstances created in large measure by endemic plague, and how these circumstances influenced patterns of settlement in the countryside, farming practices and the structure of rural society, both at the level of landlords and in...
The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, dealing with the last century and a half of the middle ages, follows the general patter...
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620,14 |
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The World Copper Industry: Structure and Economic Analysis
ISBN: 9781617260568 / Angielski / Twarda / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is part of the collection which brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as the pre-eminent research institution devoted exclusively to environmental issues.
This volume is part of the collection which brings back landmark books published by Resources for the Future throughout its nearly 60-year history as ...
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881,59 |
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The Airline Industry: Challenges in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9783790825718 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The debate on the future of the aviation sector and the viability of its traditional business practices is the core of this book. The liberalization of the EU market in the 1990s has radically modi?ed the competitive environment and the nature of airline competition. Furthermore, the new millennium began with terrorist attacks, epidemics, trade globalization, and the rise of oil prices, all of which combined to push the industry into a perfect storm . Airline industry pro?tability has been an elusive goal for several decades and the recent events has only accentuated existing weaknesses. The...
The debate on the future of the aviation sector and the viability of its traditional business practices is the core of this book. The liberalization o...
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563,56 |
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Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets: The Feasibility of Designing and Managing Governance Style Combinations
ISBN: 9783790825589 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is modern governance? Is it the battle against old-fashioned hierarchy, or is it the restoration of key hierarchical values? Is it optimizing network management, or maximizing the benefits of market thinking in the public-sector? This book argues that it is the combination of all this. The next question is: In practice, how do successful public managers design and manage combinations of hierarchical, network and market governance? In other words: what is their rationale to apply metagovernance? Five case-studies show that metagovernance is a public management requisite: it... What is modern governance? Is it the battle against old-fashioned hierarchy, or is it the restoration of key hierarchical values? Is it optimizing ... |
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603,81 |
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Produktions- Und Kostentheorie
ISBN: 9783642153662 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Standardwerk zur Produktions- und Kostentheorie (bisher: Produktion I) vermittelt Grundlagen und weiterfuhrende Ansatze fur eine fundierte Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse von Fertigungsvorgangen. Der Autor beginnt mit einer Stoffubersicht und entwickelt ausgehend von der Aktivitatsanalyse die Produktionsfunktionen. Auf dieser Grundlage werden die kostentheoretischen Ansatze behandelt. Die Neuauflage wurde um Abschnitte zu Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) sowie zu Umweltschutz, Dienstleistungsproduktion und Rationalitat der Ineffizienz erweitert.
Das Standardwerk zur Produktions- und Kostentheorie (bisher: Produktion I) vermittelt Grundlagen und weiterfuhrende Ansatze fur eine fundierte Wirtsch...
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169,28 |
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Services Science: Fundamentals, Challenges and Future Developments
ISBN: 9783642093906 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the economic impact of the service sector, services science must be established as an academic discipline. This book includes detailed articles and short statements written by academics and experts on services research, service-oriented education, and service-related collaborations. All the contributions in this book stem from the presentations and statements given at the first German Services Science Conference. In response to the economic impact of the service sector, services science must be established as an academic discipline. This book includes detail... |
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201,24 |
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Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation: Schumpeterian Legacies
ISBN: 9783642080487 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The general theme of the 10th International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conf- ence, held during June 9th 12th, 2004 at Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, was the exploration of the dynamics of industries driven by the highly interrelated processes of innovation and of structural transformation. The phenomena addressed are at the core of Schumpeter s work and the discussion of these endogenously created modes of change constitutes one of the major Schumpeterian legacies of today. Indeed, the in?uence of the Schumpeterian approach to economic dynamics is far reaching and covers evolutionary as...
The general theme of the 10th International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conf- ence, held during June 9th 12th, 2004 at Universita Luigi Bocconi, Mila...
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402,53 |
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Printers, Stationers and Bookbinders of London and Westminster in the Fifteenth Century
ISBN: 9781108026758 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Gordon Duff (1863 1924) was a bibliographer and librarian with a particular interest in early printed books. He was librarian of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, from 1893 to 1900, and Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge in 1899, 1904 and 1911. Alongside research and writing he also did freelance cataloguing. Duff's work set new standards of accuracy in bibliography, which he considered a science. This study of the early London book trade contains the text of Duff's 1899 Sandars Lectures. William Caxton began printing in England in 1476 at Westminster, but most printers...
Edward Gordon Duff (1863 1924) was a bibliographer and librarian with a particular interest in early printed books. He was librarian of the John Rylan...
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169,13 |
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Applied Health Economics
ISBN: 9780415676816 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition of this book did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econometric techniques can help health economists and health professionals make sense of information better than ever before. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout.
The first edition of this book did an expert job of showing how the availability of large scale data sets and the rapid advancement of advanced econom...
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979,55 |
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Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500
ISBN: 9780415895781 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history - the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages.
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history - the process of aggregate economic growth a...
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734,66 |
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Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars: Facing the Ever-Expanding Market for Medical Care
ISBN: 9781441925435 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars is about the costs of health care and their impact on health. The U.S. health care system is the largest sector in the biggest economy, and the US spends significantly more per capita on health care than any other country, yet it ranks last among comparison nations on the major health indicators. Within the U.S., there is evidence that regions that spend more do not have better outcomes, and some evidence suggests that quality of care is lower in the regions that spend more, not less, on health care. Robert Kaplan takes the controversial position that... Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars is about the costs of health care and their impact on health. The U.S. health care system is the largest sector in ... |
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100,60 |
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Market Integration in the European Community
ISBN: 9789024729883 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the present stage of integration, private and public market integration is really what the European Community is all about. A stable security settin- itself, in part, a result of European integration - and cooperative politics in Western Europe have enabled the creation and maintenance of an elaborate legal system and common institutions facilitating the unification of product markets throughout the Community. Of course, the pervasive and incessant politicisation of Community decision-making at the Ministerial level tends to diminish attention for what actually happens in the Community...
In the present stage of integration, private and public market integration is really what the European Community is all about. A stable security setti...
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603,81 |
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Shifting Baselines: The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries
ISBN: 9781610910002 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expectations, in which each generation regards a progressively poorer natural world as normal. This seminal volume expands on Pauly's work, showing how skewed visions of the past have led to disastrous marine policies and why historical perspective is critical to revitalize fisheries and ecosystems....
Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the ocea...
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335,11 |
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Who Owns Whom: The Southern African Edition
ISBN: 9781853339080 / Angielski / Twarda / 1095 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The thirteenth edition of McGregor's Who Owns Whom presents a summary of the annual report of every company listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange, plus those on the stock exchanges of Harare, Windhoek and Gaberone. For each company, the data presented include: ultimate controlling shareholder, shareholders above 1%, directors, addresses of registered offices, nature of business, year end, number of employees, capital structure, financial statistics and ratios, subsidiaries, associated companies and investments.
Comprehensive indexes reveal the ownership of approximately... The thirteenth edition of McGregor's Who Owns Whom presents a summary of the annual report of every company listed on the Johannesburg stock ...
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201,24 |
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Oxfordshire Colony: Turners Court Farm School, Wallingford, 1911-1991
ISBN: 9781452077291 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first independent account of a unique institution, the Wallingford Farm Training Colony - later known simply as 'Turners Court' - which opened a century ago. Founded by a group of philanthropic non-conformists, the 'Colony' aimed to take unemployed young men off the streets, train them on the land and send them off to the 'Dominions'. During its 80 year history, Turners Court's clientele, training programme and lifestyle all changed radically. The author has used the institution's own records, together with the (mainly unpublished) accounts of former 'colonists' and staff members,...
This is the first independent account of a unique institution, the Wallingford Farm Training Colony - later known simply as 'Turners Court' - which op...
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93,87 |
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Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-violence
ISBN: 9781848138087 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns. This book analyses the causes, dynamics and politics underpinning oil-related violence in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It focuses on the drivers of the conflict, as well as the ways the crises spawned by the political economy of oil and contradictions within Nigeria's ethnic politics have contributed to the morphing of initially poorly coordinated, largely non-violent protests into a pan-Delta insurgency.
Approaching the issue from... The recent escalation in the violent conflict in the Niger Delta has brought the region to the forefront of international energy and security concerns...
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416,30 |
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M�thodes de D�tection Des Unit�s Atypiques
ISBN: 9786131563942 / Francuski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage est le fruit A la fois d''enseignements dispensA(c)s sur plusieurs annA(c)es A l''universitA(c) et en formation continue, d''une recherche et d''une pratique dans l''analyse statistique et A(c)conomique des donnA(c)es. Il s''adresse d''une part aux A(c)tudiants des masters et d''autre part aux professionnels qui sont confrontA(c)s A la rA(c)alitA(c) des donnA(c)es. L''approche retenue dans cet ouvrage est orientA(c)e vers la pratique. Le recours A la thA(c)orie vise A prA(c)senter les mA(c)thodes qu''il est possible de mettre en oeuvre pour rA(c)pondre A des problA(c)matiques...
Cet ouvrage est le fruit A la fois d''enseignements dispensA(c)s sur plusieurs annA(c)es A l''universitA(c) et en formation continue, d''une recherche...
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174,45 |
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Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society
ISBN: 9781441150448 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an...
This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studie...
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1031,33 |
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The Waste Makers
ISBN: 9781935439370 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An expose of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals." Introduction by Bill McKibben.
An expose of "the systematic attempt of business to make us wasteful, debt-ridden, permanently discontented individuals." Introduction by Bill McKibbe...
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76,88 |
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Agricultural Transformation in a Global History Perspective
ISBN: 9780415684958 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History teaches us that the agricultural transformation process is a necessary step towards better living conditions in all societies. A rising productivity in agriculture allows for increasing incomes within agriculture simultaneously as more resources can be devoted to other sectors. Within the field of economic history one of the overriding debates during the last decade has been whether long term economic change is primarily driven by institutional change or changes in factor endowments. This book uses a global history approach to better understand the agricultural transformation process,...
History teaches us that the agricultural transformation process is a necessary step towards better living conditions in all societies. A rising produc...
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734,66 |