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Emerging Economies and Firms in the Global Crisis
ISBN: 9781137277466 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprised of chapters that explore the impact of the global crisis on emerging economies and firms and their response to it. The ways in which the leading emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China are dealing with the challenges of the crisis are complemented by the methods applied by countries and firms in Central and Eastern Europe.
Comprised of chapters that explore the impact of the global crisis on emerging economies and firms and their response to it. The ways in which the lea...
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Industrial Shift: The Structure of the New World Economy
ISBN: 9781137342263 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output everywhere, but it remains hidden by the faster-growing service sector. Engineers, programmers, surgeons, and pilots make up an increasing share of what is actually the service sector, showing that this sector is not in decline. There is no doubt that industries are shifting, but how does it all add up? Quantifying these technology-driven shifts is fundamental, yet such publication has lagged for years, with stale ideas about what makes a healthy...
In a turbulent global economy, the popular idea of declining farms and factories is largely unfounded. UN and World Bank data show growing output ever...
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Investment Under Uncertainty, Coalition Spillovers and Market Evolution in a Game Theoretic Perspective
ISBN: 9781402078774 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both economists and popular writers have once more run away with some fragments of reality they happened to grasp. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 1942. 1. Rational Behaviour and Economics Never in the history of mankind has there been such unlimited belief intheabilitiesofthehumanmindasintheAgeofReasoninthe?rsthalf of the eighteenth century. The likes of Mozart, Goethe, and Rousseau ensured a new era of optimism and creativity in both the arts and the sciences. In mathematics, the theory of probability was re?ned and its laws were believed to be good descriptions...
Both economists and popular writers have once more run away with some fragments of reality they happened to grasp. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, S...
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Health Economics: A Critical and Global Analysis
ISBN: 9781403940834 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health economics applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery. This introductory text uses clear, non-technical language to explain the available economic tools, and critically examine their strengths and weaknesses in relation to health policy and management issues.
Health economics applies the tools of economic analysis to the problems of health care finance and delivery. This introductory text uses clear, non-te...
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225,87 |
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Creative Industries
ISBN: 9781405101486 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional and new media, industry sectors, and national contexts to demonstrate that content still drives a value-neutral, knowledge economy.
Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and und...
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Nanotechnology: The Business
ISBN: 9781420053999 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the new nanotechnology entrepreneur, starting up a venture requires concise navigation through a sea of developmental red tape. This predicament is true of any startup, nano or not, but is particularly exacerbated by the fact that nanotechnology is a new and potentially disruptive technology. A unique exposition on starting and running a nano-business, this indispensible reference:
For the new nanotechnology entrepreneur, starting up a venture requires concise navigation through a sea of developmental red tape. This predicamen... |
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Spiritual Tourism: Travel and Religious Practice in Western Society
ISBN: 9781472514615 / Angielski / Miękka / 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... This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious stu... |
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Iron-Making Societies: Early Industrial Development in Sweden and Russia, 1600-1900
ISBN: 9781571819550 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " The results of the Russian-Swedish research team] are presented an exemplary fashion and rigorously edited ... Whoever is interested in the industrial development of European economy and society should read this book." - Vierteljahrschrift fur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte
..". very well written, clearly arranged and interesting and easy to read ... an important study." - Eva Osterberg, Professor of History, University of Lund. The title of this book has a double meaning: on the one hand, it deals with two very different societies both of which made iron in the early modern... " The results of the Russian-Swedish research team] are presented an exemplary fashion and rigorously edited ... Whoever is interested in the industri...
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Tracing the Roots of Globalization and Business Principles
ISBN: 9781606492093 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The onus to exchange, the bartering of the fruits of one's labor, achieved by physical work or applied knowledge, with another is the natural condition of humankind. In this book, it separates us from other species on earth and underscores humankind's desire to reach out and touch - integrate with others.
The onus to exchange, the bartering of the fruits of one's labor, achieved by physical work or applied knowledge, with another is the natural conditio...
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Innovation in Agri-Food Clusters: Theory and Case Studies
ISBN: 9781780640419 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovation has moved through a range of revolutionary epochs, but there is no clear picture of how, or even if, innovation can be managed. This book explores the models, methods and metrics of innovation analysis in the context of a single centre: the Global Oilseeds Complex centred in Saskatoon, Canada.
Innovation has moved through a range of revolutionary epochs, but there is no clear picture of how, or even if, innovation can be managed. This book e...
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The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management
ISBN: 9781781901588 / Angielski / Miękka / 669 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodological toolkit.
A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodo...
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Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
ISBN: 9781842778609 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.
Laura Agustin makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' disempowers them. Based on extensive research amongst migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says... This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are ...
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Biopesticides: Pest Management and Regulation
ISBN: 9781845939779 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pesticides. Chemical pesticide methods are becoming less readily available due to increasing resistance problems and the prohibition of some substances. This book addresses the challenges of insufficient information and imperfectly understood regulatory processes in using biopesticides. It takes an interdisciplinary approach providing internationally comparative analyses on the registration of biopesticides and debates future biopesticide...
Biological controls that utilize natural predation, parasitism or other natural mechanisms, is an environmentally friendly alternative to chemical pes...
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Industrial Work and Life : An Anthropological Reader
ISBN: 9781847880741 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader is a comprehensive anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non-Western societies. Based on contemporary and historical ethnographic material, the book unpacks the 'world of industry' in the context of the shop floor, the family, and the city, revealing the rich social and political texture underpinning economic development. It also provides a critical discussion of the assumptions that inform much of the social science literature on industrialization and industrial 'modernity.' The reader is divided into... Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader is a comprehensive anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non... |
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Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry
ISBN: 9781847881540 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture?
This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models... The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture?
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Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry
ISBN: 9781847881557 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture?
This volume brings together cutting-edge articles on fashion models, examining modelling through race, class and gender, as well as its structure as an aesthetic marketplace within the global fashion economy. Essays include treatments of the history of fashion modelling, exploring how concerns about racial purity and the idealization of light skinned black women shaped the practice of modelling in its early years. Other essays examine how models... The fashion model's hold on popular consciousness is undeniable. How did models emerge as such powerful icons in modern consumer culture?
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Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-Violence
ISBN: 9781848138070 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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Corporate Water Strategies
ISBN: 9781849711852 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issue for corporations and the public sector This book offers information on global water issues and describes how companies can address these challenges and implement high value global water strategies.
In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issue f...
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707,28 |
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The Economics of Managing Crop Diversity On-Farm: Case Studies from the Genetic Resources Policy Initiative
ISBN: 9781849712224 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors assess a variety of economic issues as they relate to agro-biodiversity across a range of countries & show how addressing these issues can assist in agro-biodiversity policy making.
Contributors assess a variety of economic issues as they relate to agro-biodiversity across a range of countries & show how addressing these issues ca...
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243,84 |
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Food Systems Failure: The Global Food Crisis and the Future of Agriculture
ISBN: 9781849712293 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population. A key aspect of this failure is identified in the neoliberal strategies which emphasize industrial efficiencies, commodity production and free trade-ideologies that underlie agricultural and food policies in what are frequently referred to as 'developed countries'. The book examines both the contradictions in the global food system as well as the implications of existing ideologies of... This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure... |
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