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(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry
ISBN: 9780415855280 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. (Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited volume examine the spatial and regulatory contours of the sex industry from a range of disciplinary perspectives urban planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and, cultural and media studies and geographical contexts Australia, the UK, US and North Africa. In overall terms, (Sub)urban... (Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and eme... |
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730,17 |
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Technology and Industrial Growth in Pre-War Japan: The Mitsubishi-Nagasaki Shipyard 1884-1934
ISBN: 9780415862127 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to discredit the myth that has the unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more realisable foundation of long-term investment in training and research is responsible.
The book looks at the development of Japan in the pre-War period. Yukiko Fukusaku sees the achievements of this period as central to the present competitiveness of the country's industrial technology. She uses the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyard as a case study, looking at technological innovation and training as the keys to long-term stability and economic... This book aims to discredit the myth that has the unique cultural traits' of the Japanese as the key to the country's success, arguing that the more r...
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223,87 |
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Food Between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape
ISBN: 9780857855381 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both places continue to be debated. Building upon the foundation of Raymond Williams' classic work, The Country and the City, this volume examines how conceptions of the country and the city invoked in relation to food not only reflect their changing relationship but have also been used to alter the very dynamics through which countryside and cities, and the food grown and eaten within them, are produced and sustained. Leading scholars in... At a time when the relationship between 'the country' and 'the city' is in flux worldwide, the value and meanings of food associated with both plac... |
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180,06 |
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Japanese Multinationals (Rle International Business): Strategies and Management in the Global Kaisha
ISBN: 9781138007826 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International in perspective, this volume provides insights into the important problem of how to transfer Japanese practice to Western countries. It also examines key aspects of Japanese multinationals and discusses how they are developing their global strategies and how they are managing their local workforces.
International in perspective, this volume provides insights into the important problem of how to transfer Japanese practice to Western countries. It a...
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223,87 |
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The Growth of Global Business (Rle International Business)
ISBN: 9781138007833 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, leading contributors look at the development of the evolutionary approach to international business, the internationalisation of service industries and the implications of the changing face of Europe for international business in the 1990s. Providing a blend of theory, analysis and case-study material, it is a vital resource for students of international business and related fields.
In this volume, leading contributors look at the development of the evolutionary approach to international business, the internationalisation of servi...
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Transaction Costs & Trade Between Multinational Corporations (Rle International Business)
ISBN: 9781138007864 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until this book was published little had appeared on the matter of the organization of production in oil gathering. This book: Describes the global offshore oil supply industry and its features on one of the world's major offshore oil services bases Draws on the theory of the multinational corporation to explain why buyers and sellers should have internationalized themselves into a symbiotic relationship Discusses the preference of the oil companies for vertical disintegration Explains the transaction cost paradigm Integrates the largely American literature on the transaction cost paradigm...
Until this book was published little had appeared on the matter of the organization of production in oil gathering. This book: Describes the global of...
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107,05 |
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Multinationals: The Swedish Case (Rle International Business)
ISBN: 9781138007871 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume considers the question of the impact of multinationals on Sweden. Based on extensive original research, it examines their benefits and drawbacks and relates the Swedish case of multinationals to theories of multinational enterprise and to theories of industrial change.
This volume considers the question of the impact of multinationals on Sweden. Based on extensive original research, it examines their benefits and dra...
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The Multinational Motor Industry (Rle International Business)
ISBN: 9781138007895 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume analyses the multinational enterprise using the example of the world motor industry. It begins by examining the multinational enterprise in general, considering its nature, the economic theory of its behaviour and is effects on the nation state. It goes on to explore the growth and development of the multinational motor industry, and then surveys the state of the motor industry, and the role of multinationals in it, in various types of economy, using case studies from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Brazil and India.
This volume analyses the multinational enterprise using the example of the world motor industry. It begins by examining the multinational enterprise i...
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107,05 |
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The Corporate Firm in a Changing World Economy (Rle International Business): Case Studies in the Geography of Enterprise
ISBN: 9781138007932 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the economic environment and phenomena of multinational business with reference to case studies of major multinational companies, including IBM, Philips, Nissan and Volvo. It assesses how the major theories explaining the response of companies to changes are borne out by the experience of individual firms.
This volume examines the economic environment and phenomena of multinational business with reference to case studies of major multinational companies,...
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Securing U.S. Innovation: The Challenge of Preserving a Competitive Advantage in the Creation of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781442256354 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabilities), espionage (the theft of specific capabilities), and defection (the carrying of knowledge out of the country). Today, the changing innovation environment has created new challenges. Significant advances are being made in start-ups as well as larger companies who no longer rely on U.S. government contracts. Not only does this place a key element of national power in the hands of the private sector, but it often leaves Washington at an...
As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabilities)...
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Securing U.S. Innovation: The Challenge of Preserving a Competitive Advantage in the Creation of Knowledge
ISBN: 9781442256347 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabilities), espionage (the theft of specific capabilities), and defection (the carrying of knowledge out of the country). Today, the changing innovation environment has created new challenges. Significant advances are being made in start-ups as well as larger companies who no longer rely on U.S. government contracts. Not only does this place a key element of national power in the hands of the private sector, but it often leaves Washington at an...
As experienced by the United States, competition has played out in three distinct types of threat activity: sabotage (the destruction of capabilities)...
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462,44 |
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Sports Business Unplugged: Leadership Challenges from the World of Sports
ISBN: 9780815634768 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than seven years, the incisive commentary of Burton and O'Reilly has graced the pages of SportsBusiness Journal, the industry's leading trade journal. Now, fifty of their most recent columns are collected in one volume, providing thoughtful and deeply knowledgeable insight into many of the industry's most contentious issues. Covering an era in sports that has experienced rapid change, the authors discuss such topics as gender equity, corporate sponsor-ship, collegiate athletics, diversity, and the future of sports. As two of the leading scholars in the business of sports, Burton and...
For more than seven years, the incisive commentary of Burton and O'Reilly has graced the pages of SportsBusiness Journal, the industry's leading trade...
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Farmageddon in Pictures: The True Cost of Cheap Meat – in bite-sized pieces
ISBN: 9781408873465 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Farmageddon: the quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms, and food. Farm animals have been disappearing from our fields as the production of food has become a global industry. We no longer know for certain what is entering the food chain and what we are eating--as the UK horsemeat scandal demonstrated. We are reaching a tipping point as the farming revolution threatens our health and the quality of our food wherever we live in the world. Farmageddon is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of... Farmageddon: the quiet revolution of mega-farming that is threatening our countryside, farms, and food. Farm animals have been disappe... |
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Facets of Power. Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe's Blood Diamonds
ISBN: 9781779222886 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the worlds largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since their discovery in 2006. Against the backdrop of a turbulent political economy, control of Chiadzwas diamonds was hotly contested. By 2007 a new case of blood diamonds had emerged, in which the countrys security forces engaged with informal miners and black market dealers in the exploitation of rough diamonds, violently disrupting local communities and looting a key national resource. The formalisation of diamond mining in 2010 introduced new...
The diamond fields of Chiadzwa, among the worlds largest sources of rough diamonds have been at the centre of struggles for power in Zimbabwe since th...
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Curtiss-Wright
ISBN: 9781531623005 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The oldest names in aviation joined forces in 1929, when Wright Aeronautical and Curtiss Aeroplane formed the giant Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Curtiss airplanes were already "the best things with wings," while Charles Lawrance had made Wright powerplants the leader in American radial engines. Aviation founding father Glenn Curtiss, along with superstars Charles A. Lindbergh, Jimmy Doolittle, Admiral Byrd, and "Wrong-Way" Corrigan, all blazed skytrails with Wright engines and Curtiss wings. Tiny Sparrowhawk biplane fighters flew from airborne dirigibles. Huge factories poured out war birds in...
The oldest names in aviation joined forces in 1929, when Wright Aeronautical and Curtiss Aeroplane formed the giant Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Curtis...
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Geovalue: The Socioeconomic Value of Geospatial Information
ISBN: 9781498774512 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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803,19 |
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Democracy, Bureaucracy and Public Choice: Economic Approaches in Political Science
ISBN: 9780745002330 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public choice approaches have revolutionized contemporary political science, particularly in the United States, where a "new right" political movement has developed. This book develops a critique of new right views through its coverage of aspects of the public choice/new right literature.
Public choice approaches have revolutionized contemporary political science, particularly in the United States, where a "new right" political movement...
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301,76 |
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The Art and Science of Rotating Field Machines Design: A Practical Approach
ISBN: 9783319390796 / Angielski / Twarda / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights procedures utilized by the design departments of leading global manufacturers, offering readers essential insights into the electromagnetic and thermal design of rotating field (induction and synchronous) electric machines.
This book highlights procedures utilized by the design departments of leading global manufacturers, offering readers essential insights into the elect...
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805,10 |
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Price Level Regulation for Diversified Public Utilities
ISBN: 9781461289005 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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402,53 |
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Incentive Regulation and the Regulation of Incentives
ISBN: 9781461361657 / Angielski / Miękka / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The class is theory of price regulation assumed that the regulator knows the fIrm's costs, the key piece of information that enables regulators to pressure fmns to choose appropriate behaviors. The "regulatory problem" was reduced to a mere pricing problem: the regulator's goal was to align price with marginal cost, subject to the constraint that revenues must cover costs. Elegant and important insights ensued. The most important was that regulation was inevitably a struggle to achieve second-best outcomes. (Ramsey pricing was a splendid example. ) Reality proved harsh to regulatory theory....
The class is theory of price regulation assumed that the regulator knows the fIrm's costs, the key piece of information that enables regulators to pre...
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402,53 |