Industrial category: 6894 books
Evoluzione del Distretto Industriale
L'industria alla sfida del ventunesimo secolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Si può ancora parlare di distretto industriale a distanza di oltre un secolo dalla sua nascita nell'Inghilterra della trasformazione della lana. Questo modello ha accompagnato lo sviluppo industriale nelle sue infinite ramificazioni ed è quanto mai attuale. La riscoperta delle eccellenze locali...
Doing History from the Bottom Up
On E.P. Thompson, Howard Zinn, and Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In the 1960s historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an understanding of history "from below." In this collection, Staughton Lynd, himself one of the pioneers of this approach, laments the passing of fellow luminaries David...
Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce—”scattered sand,” in Chinese...
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research...
Blacklisted
The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This is a story of a bitter struggle, in which collusion with the UK police and security services resulted in victimization, violence and unemployment, with terrible effects on families and communities. Drawing on first-hand accounts of the workers, Blacklisted reveals how, when major construction projects...
by Lynne Rostochil
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
From its very first land run days in 1889, Oklahoma City has been a mecca for daring men and women intent on transforming the flat, grassy prairie into a thoroughly modern metropolis. This risk-taking ethic came to beautiful fruition after World War II when several enterprising young architects, many...
by Stephen McIndoe, Andrew Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Delivering patient safety, increased return and enhancing reputation. The essential resource for implementing sustainable packaging labelling and artwork capabilities. Foreword by Steve Richmond, Head of Global Packaging, AstraZeneca. The knowledge and expertise contained in this book will help you...
Cotton
From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
In the barbeque joints and plate lunch cafes off Memphis�s Front Street, one is easily reminded of the days when cotton was king, of a society of characters and cads; the big time and the small time; the rich and the richer; the hangers-on, anointed, powerful, and busted. Cotton created empires in...
Big Dead Place
Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”—The Times of London
by Robert A. Geake
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Dating back to the colonial era, the historic barns and outbuildings of Rhode Island have withstood the test of time. From the state's early barnyard taverns to the modern-day horse and dairy farms that populate rural Rhode Island, each of these buildings has a story to tell. In the mid-eighteenth century,...
by Karen Rodemich Roman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In 1825, the Schuylkill Navigation Company completed a waterway of 108 miles, linking Port Carbon to Philadelphia. The waterway, known as the Schuylkill Navigation but commonly referred to today as the Schuylkill Canal, consisted of a system of interconnected canals (often called reaches), locks, and...
by Harold Kerzner
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
A new edition of the most popular book of project management case studies, expanded to include more than 100 cases plus a "super case" on the Iridium Project
Case studies are an important part of project management education and training. This Fourth Edition of Harold Kerzner's Project...
by Clarence C. Rodrigues, Stephen K. Cusick
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
A Complete, Fully Updated Guide to COMMERCIAL AVIATION SAFETY
Presenting the latest procedures and standards from U.S. and international air traffic and regulatory agencies, this extensively revised resource covers the entire commercial aviation safety system--from human factors to accident investigation....
by Brian Whetstone, Jessie Harris, Buffalo County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The city of Kearney was founded in 1871 under the name Kearney Junction. Rev. D.N. Smith and Moses S. Sydenham were tasked with the job of choosing a townsite. In 1873, after much debate, the small railroad stop was named Kearney. Over the years, the town continued to grow; it really began to boom in...