Industrial category: 6894 books
by Linda P. Gross, Theresa R. Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2005
Held in Philadelphia from May 10 through October 10, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition celebrated the 100th anniversary of American independence. Philadelphia hosted 37 nations in five main buildings and 250 additional structures on 285 acres of land. The celebration looked backward to commemorate the progress...
Colin Palmer’s Trilogy on Imperialism in the Caribbean, Omnibus E-Book
Includes Freedom's Children, Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power, and Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are:
Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion...
The Dose Makes the Poison
A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This new edition of a widely-read and highly-acclaimed book broadens the scope of its predecessors from a heavy focus on industrial chemicals as toxicants to include drugs, food additives, cosmetics and other types of compounds that people are exposed to daily. Also new to the 3rd edition are newer...
by John Todd, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
To hear John Todd is to be struck by his dedication, modesty, integrity, and humanity. A biologist and Earth steward, he is in the forefront...
Just Culture
Balancing Safety and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations. The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability...
Immigrant City
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. Immigrant City is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the...
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2006
Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with...
Continuous Improvement- 30 Proven tools to drive Profitability, Quality and Operational Effectiveness in Manufacturing & Service Industry
Business Process Management and Continuous Improvement Executive Guide series, #4
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Continuous Improvement - 30 Proven tools to drive Profitability, Quality and Operational Effectiveness in Manufacturing & Service Industry is the fourth book of Business process management and Continuous improvement Executive guide series.What will you learn from this book?This book covers...
Managing Complex, High Risk Projects
A Guide to Basic and Advanced Project Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Maximizing reader insights into project management and handling complexity-driven risks, this book explores propagation effects, non-linear consequences, loops, and the emergence of positive properties that may occur over the course of a project.
This book presents an introduction to project...
Technology Entrepreneurship
Creating, Capturing, and Protecting Value
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Recognizing the unique needs of the technology startup, Duening focuses on intellectual property development, funding, and marketing/selling more than other texts in this market. Extensive use of technology examples, case studies, and assignments keeps the book relevant and motivating for engineering...
International Contracting
Contract Management in Complex Construction Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
This book, about international contracting and contract management, is written from the angle of the contractor and discussed from an international perspective. It comments on real-life cases, taken from various kinds of projects: infrastructural works (roads, bridges, tunnels, rail roads), wind-...
Implementing Sustainability Strategies in Networks and Clusters
Principles, Tools, and New Research Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book investigates the dynamics of the management of sustainability in networks and clusters – an area of increasing importance that is neglected by the many studies addressing sustainability at the single-enterprise level. The focus is in particular on projects involving groups of enterprises...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The world was shocked in April 2013 when more than 1100 garment workers lost their lives in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka. It was the worst industrial tragedy in the two-hundred-year history of mass apparel manufacture. This so-called accident was, in fact, just waiting to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
For more than a century management education has fostered the development of leaders of many of the world's industrial successes with their immense creation of output that we now see as unsustainable. If we wish to avoid a time of tumultuous environmental crises in the global ecosystem management education...