Gill: 949 books

This book examines the role of strategic visions of future technological development in the evolution of market structure. This perspective offers a novel way of resolving some of the puzzles that have arisen in understanding the effects of rapid technology change and market structure. Strategic visions...

A comprehensive and critical review of the global scholarly literature on diversity, this book presents findings from original UK-based research involving in-depth organizational case studies, interviews, observation and documentary data from over fifty organizations. Analyzing the findings...

This book presents a comprehensive and novel adaptive enterprise service systems approach to adapting, defining, operating, managing and supporting (ADOMS) the adaptive cloud enterprise architecture. The adaptive cloud enterprise architecture provides a platform for creating the service-centric agile...

Drupal' is a gratis and open-source software and open-source subject matter administration model authored in PHP and dispersed under the GNU GPL|GNU General Public License. It is applied like a back-end model for at minimum 2.1% of altogether websites international varying as of private Weblogs to business,...

The Dynamics of Managing Diversity was one of the first books to respond to growing academic coverage of the topic of diversity management at degree level. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect new working practices, statistical information and developments in equality and diversity...

Die Baubranche hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten einen deutlichen Wandel vollzogen. Nach einem Boom nach der Wiedervereinigung kennzeichneten insbesondere Jahre mit Auftragsrückgängen und Pleiten das Bild. Durch die historisch niedrigen Zinsen nach der Finanzkrise 2008 hat sich das Bild jedoch...

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and...

What sort of mathematics do I need for computer science? In response to this frequently asked question, a pair of professors at the University of California at San Diego created this text. Its sources are two of the university's most basic courses: Discrete Mathematics, and Mathematics for Algorithm...

Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment, despite the numerous initiatives over the past 25 years to attract and retain more women in engineering. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not attracted,...

[b]Bicentenary Edition" Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen[/b] In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane turned quietly into a genius… The...

In every classroom there are children of many abilities. Managing the curriculum to meet the needs of all of these children can prove to be time consuming and difficult, as both OFSTED inspection and teacher appraisal observations have shown. This book looks at the many ways that teachers can differentiate...

This one-stop practical guide will show you how to get your body back on track. To make your progress easier, it comes in a handy format with colour photos and expert advice throughout. Alcohol, cigarettes, caffeine, sugar, salt, wheat and dairy as well as pollution inside and out are all toxins and...

Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste...

Human-Centred Education (HCE) radically rethinks the aims of education, the nature of learning, and the relationship between individuals in schools. This accessible guide presents a HCE approach to schooling and includes a variety of rich pedagogical examples. It provides practical suggestions as...