Industries category: 12638 books
Asia Solar Energy Initiative
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The common use of solar energy and other cleaner energy technologies is key to combating climate change while sustaining global economic growth. Previously, the high cost of solar generation restricted its advancement to developed economies. Today, the new and emerging markets of Asia and the Pacific...
South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation
Trade Facilitation Strategic Framework 2014-2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Program brings together Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka in a project-based partnership to promote regional prosperity by improving cross-border connectivity, facilitating faster and less costly trade among member...
Gender Tool Kit: Energy
Going Beyond the Meter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This tool kit assists staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in conceptualizing and designing gender-responsive projects in the energy sector. It guides users in key questions to be asked and data to be collected during project preparation. It also offers a menu of entry points...
Improving Rice Production and Commercialization in Cambodia
Findings from a Farm Investment Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Cambodia has a potential advantage in agricultural production due to significant amounts of fertile land and high levels of agricultural employment, but rice production and commercialization remain well below potential. This study uses a farm investment climate assessment to provide evidence on key...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
This energy sector assessment, strategy, and road map documents the status and strategic priorities of the Government of the Philippines in the energy sector. It highlights sector performance, development constraints, government plans and strategies, past support of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)...
Assessment of Power Sector Reforms in Viet Nam
Country Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Viet Nam envisions a completely competitive power sector in the long term, including full wholesale and retail competition. To attain this goal, it unbundled its power sector's monopoly structure and instituted institutional, regulatory, and pricing reforms. Although considerable progress has been...
Microsoft Secrets
An Insider’s View of the Rocket Ride from Worst to First and Lessons Learned on the Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A great deal has been written about Steve Jobs and Apple. Not nearly as much has been produced about Bill Gates and Microsoft, especially in the ten-year period that Dave Jaworski was at Microsoft. Microsoft was the company that drove the hardest and built the fastest. He was there during this rapid...
A Beginner's Guide to Polyvore
How to Become Famous & Popular on Polyvore
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Are you into fashion?
Do you have your very own brand of women’s clothing?
Do you wish to make your brand known and to sell more products?
Polyvore is the perfect social networking site for all fashion lovers! But what exactly is Polyvore and how does it work?
Even if you have never...
I'll Drink to That
Beaujolais and the French Peasant Who Made It the World's Most Popular Wine
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
The remarkable saga of the wine and people of Beaujolais and Georges Duboeuf, the peasant lad who brought both world recognition.
Every third week of November, wine shops around the world announce “Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé” and in a few short weeks, over seven million bottles are...
Hit Makers
How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**NATIONAL BESTSELLER **
**A Book of the Year Selection for Inc. and Library Journal
“This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off**." -- Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE
Nothing “goes viral.” If...
Making It
Why Manufacturing Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
A veteran New York Times economics correspondent reports from factories nationwide to illustrate the continuing importance of industry for our country.
In the 1950s, manufacturing generated nearly 30 percent of US income. But over the decades, that share has gradually declined to less than...
Scandal
A Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
When the world first learned of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee’s impromptu wedding, when Sarah Jessica Parker had an explosive falling-out with her Sex and the City castmates, or when Ruth Madoff discovered the truth of Bernie’s marital infidelity
Spills and Spin
The Inside Story of BP
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In April 2010, the world watched in alarm as BP's Macondo well suffered a fatal explosion and a catastrophic leak. Over the next three months, amid tense scenes of corporate and political finger-pointing, millions of barrels of crude oil dispersed across the Gulf of Mexico in what became one of the...
The Bank That Lived a Little
Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Based on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britain's biggest financial institutions. In a tale of feuds, grandiose dreams and a struggle for supremacy between rival strategies...