No Frills : The truth behind the low-cost revolution in the skies
ISBN: 9780753510445 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the tremendous success of the earlier editions of No Frills, leading TV presenter and top travel journalist Simon Calder now gives the low down on how these cheap ticket airlines have spread all round the world, enabling the eager traveller to plan economical and exciting long haul trips as well as taking advantage of the ever growing routes and destinations across Europe.
Not a day goes by without there being a headline (or a TV programme!) about one or other of the highly successful low cost airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair. They have truly revolutionised air travel from... Following the tremendous success of the earlier editions of No Frills, leading TV presenter and top travel journalist Simon Calder now gives the low d...
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Transit Talk: New Yorks Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780813525778 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Robert Snyder has compiled the tales and the war stories, sketches of the varied jobs and those who work on the buses and trains of the New York city mass transit system. These are the engrossing stories of the invisible workers-those who labor day and night to ensure a safe trip for the five million who ride the subways and buses of the city. Ever present, the workers have seen it all, and regale us with their experiences. It is an enjoyable read renewing our appreciation and respect for those who tend the transit systems."-New York History New York City may seem to be a place where...
"Robert Snyder has compiled the tales and the war stories, sketches of the varied jobs and those who work on the buses and trains of the New York city...
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155,86 zł |
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business
ISBN: 9781400078721 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe s Airbus overtook America s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies face the challenge of serving burgeoning Asian markets and stiff competition from China and Japan. Combining insider knowledge with vivid prose and insight, John Newhouse delivers a riveting story... The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe s Airbus overtook ... |
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78,21 zł |
Work Identity at the End of the Line?: Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry
ISBN: 9781403939807 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. It combines rich interview material from workers and managers involved in the privatisation process with a fascinating background detail of nationalization. The book will be of interest to sociologists, cultural and economic historians as well as those studying culture change in business. Work Identity at the End of the Line? has been shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2005. It...
Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization ...
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385,52 zł |
The Other Car Workers: Work, Organisation and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry
ISBN: 9781403941916 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other markets; in technological innovation and ship design; and in relation to car manufacturers, ship management companies and crewing agents.
The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dyn...
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385,52 zł |
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil
ISBN: 9781844072484 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Transport Revolutions' sets out the challenges to our dependence on transport fuelled by low-price oil. The book proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.
'Transport Revolutions' sets out the challenges to our dependence on transport fuelled by low-price oil. The book proposes responses to ensure effecti...
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805,53 zł |
Real Time Vehicle Routing in Large Networks- Introducing Global Optimization
ISBN: 9783836421713 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The problems treated in this book are very simple in nature: how to route n
vehicles in real time in a fast varying environment to pickup and deliver m passengers when both n and m are large? These problems are very relevant to future transportation options involving large scale real-time routing of shared-ride fleet transit vehicles. But, even if the nature of these problems looks so simple, solving them is not so straight forward, specially finding fast and reliable solutions. Traditionally, dynamic routing solutions were found as static approximations for smaller-scale problems or using... The problems treated in this book are very simple in nature: how to route n
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310,98 zł |
Management in the Airline Industry
ISBN: 9780415390781 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar challenge that civil aviation pilots present for management. As a highly educated, highly trained, and non-substitutable professional employee, the airline pilot wields considerable industrial power. Based on original research, this book examines the impact of human resource management on airline pilots in recent years as well as drawing out wider conclusions on the management of human resources, union-management relationship and the... Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar cha... |
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753,56 zł |
Transportation and Traffic Theory: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory
ISBN: 9780080434483 / Angielski / Twarda / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. 1999 marks the 40th anniversary of the inception of the ISTTT symposia. It is clear that much has changed in the field of transportation in the last 40 years but in this time the ISTTT triennial symposia have remained the premier series of conferences in transportation science.Presented here are over 30 papers exploring innovative solutions to the analysis of traffic and transportation problems through use of the models, methods and analyses both existent and under development. Issues of safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, planning and the environment are of increasing...
Hardbound. 1999 marks the 40th anniversary of the inception of the ISTTT symposia. It is clear that much has changed in the field of transportation in...
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1378,51 zł |
A Seaman's Guide to Basic Chartwork
ISBN: 9780948254017 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,45 zł |
Pocket Book of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: A Seaman's Guide
ISBN: 9780948254062 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FULL TITLE SEAMANS GUIDE POCKETBOOK OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA
FULL TITLE SEAMANS GUIDE POCKETBOOK OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS FOR PREVENTING COLLISIONS AT SEA
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20,86 zł |
Liverpool Docks
ISBN: 9780752417127 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.
This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Englan...
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76,50 zł |
Wheels Around Paisley
ISBN: 9781840331301 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,99 zł |
U.S. Automotive Industry: Policy Overview & Recent History
ISBN: 9781600211300 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is clear that the US automotive industry has undergone many drastic changes that have had a net adverse effect on American interests. This book examines the causes of these changes. It also covers congressional acts, increasingly stringent emission laws
It is clear that the US automotive industry has undergone many drastic changes that have had a net adverse effect on American interests. This book exa...
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363,74 zł |
Transportation Accident Analysis & Prevention
ISBN: 9781604562880 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents research on transportation accidental injury and damage, including the pre-injury and immediate post-injury phases. This book includes studies of human, environmental and vehicular factors influencing the occurrence, type and severity of transport
Presents research on transportation accidental injury and damage, including the pre-injury and immediate post-injury phases. This book includes studie...
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691,14 zł |
Incorporating Sustainability in Transport Planning & Decision Making
ISBN: 9783639090796 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An increasing number of agencies are taking steps to incorporate the concept of sustainability in the regional transportation planning process. Planning for sustainable transportation systems should at the very least incorporate their broader impacts on system effectiveness, environmental integrity, economic development, and the social quality of life. This book reviews definitions, performance measures, and evaluation methodologies for transportation system sustainability and demonstrates a framework for incorporating sustainability considerations in transportation planning and decision...
An increasing number of agencies are taking steps to incorporate the concept of sustainability in the regional transportation planning process. Planni...
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308,45 zł |
Aircraft Industry Dynamics: An Anlaysis of Competition, Capital, and Labor
ISBN: 9780865690530 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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382,94 zł |
Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Twentieth Century: The Writings of Peter N. Davies
ISBN: 9781905246885 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain's foremost scholar of the international shipping industry, based at the Centre for Port and Maritime History, University of Liverpool, here examines the growth and development of Japan's modern shipping and shipbuilding industries across a wide range of topics, through the pre-war, Pacific War and post-war periods, to the transfer of shipping technology, the role of bulk carriers and world trade and the organization and structure of the Japanese merchant navy. Prompted originally by his research into the decline of the British industries in a global context, his focus inevitably...
Britain's foremost scholar of the international shipping industry, based at the Centre for Port and Maritime History, University of Liverpool, here ex...
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443,85 zł |
X-SCM : The New Science of X-treme Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 9780415873550 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a multi-faceted, multi-media set of products to serve as a definitive guide and toolset for executives who must build and operate global supply chain networks in a period of systemic, extreme change.
This book contains a multi-faceted, multi-media set of products to serve as a definitive guide and toolset for executives who must build and operate g...
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1091,37 zł |
Open Skies for Africa: Implementing the Yamoussoukro Decision
ISBN: 9780821382059 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africa has suffered several decades of inefficient air services, mostly provided by uncompetitive flag carriers. To foster liberalization and development of the air transport sector, African states adopted in 1999 the Yamoussoukro Decision. This book reviews progress made in implementing the decision, and gives recommendations for the way forward.
Africa has suffered several decades of inefficient air services, mostly provided by uncompetitive flag carriers. To foster liberalization and developm...
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189,32 zł |