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Contesting the Corporation
Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2007
In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power...
Innovate or Die!
How to Reinvent Yourself and Thrive in the INNOVATION Age
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 19, 2016
With a surprising optimism about the future of Latin America, Andres Oppenheimer reveals in this book the keys to success in the twenty-first century, in which innovation and creativity are the pillars of progress.
What should we do, as individuals and countries, to be more creative and thrive...
Understanding Everyday Governments’ Ways of Job Creation
Ideas and Governments’ Sustainable Strategy to Facilitate Success in Job Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Since the 2008 international economic crisis in the Eurozone countries and North America, much of the debate about a country job creation has been confined to government spending and austerity. Some argue that government spending plays an important role in job creation and economic recovery; while...
by Roland Gareis, Martina Huemann, André Martinuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Illustrated with more than 100 figures and tables, Project Management and Sustainable Development Principles provides practitioners with all the tools they need to understand Sustainable Development and apply its principles to the initiation and management of projects. This comprehensive volume begins...
by Martin Browning, Pierre-André Chiappori, Yoram Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The family is a complex decision unit in which partners with potentially different objectives make consumption, work and fertility decisions. Couples marry and divorce partly based on their ability to coordinate these activities, which in turn depends on how well they are matched. This book provides...
Green Capital
A New Perspective on Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity).
Although...
Second Nature Urban Agriculture
Designing Productive Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research
This book is the long awaited sequel to "Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities".
"Second Nature Urban Agriculture" updates and...
Civil Society and World Regions
How Citizens Are Reshaping Regional Governance in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Supranational regionalism and regional integration have for a long time been top-down processes, led by the few and imposed on the many. The role of citizens, especially those active in civil society, has been neglected by scholars, students, and commentators of regionalism. In reaction to the prevalence...
Energy
Economy and Prospective
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Energy: Economy and Prospective emerged from the course taught by the author at the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne. It focuses on the economics and future prospects of energy. Having as much an analytical as well as a synthetic approach, the author has been struck by the confusion and...
Xi Jinping
Red China, The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
With the rise to power of the fifth generation in 2012, Xi Jinping became the undisputed leader of China. For the first time, the descendant of a Communist hero, a “red princeling,” has reached the highest rungs of power in the Middle Kingdom. His personality a study in contrasts, Xi is the archetypal...
by Terry L. Anderson, Ann M. Carlos, Christian Dippel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Most American Indian reservations are islands of poverty in a sea of wealth, but they do not have to remain that way. To extract themselves from poverty, Native Americans will have to build on their rich cultural history including familiarity with markets and integrate themselves into modern economies...
by André Berndt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2004
Essay from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: Excellent (Grade A), University of Jyväskylä (School of Business and Economics; Department of Management and Leadership), course: Competitive Strategies, language: English, abstract: The...
by Andrée MAURIN
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Ce roman n’est pas autobiographique mais s’inspire de faits réels.
Il débute dans les années 1870 et se déroule sur plus d’un siècle.
Marguerite, enfant non désirée, est élevée par une nourrice jusqu’à cinq ans, puis mise en pension dans une institution religieuse où...
by René Enríquez, Andrés Salazar C.
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
A sequential and easy-to-follow guide which allows you to understand the concepts related to securing web apps/services quickly and efficiently, since each topic is explained and described with the help of an example and in a step-by-step manner, helping you to easily implement the examples in your own...