Maurice: 1983 books
Inventing a Space Mission
The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
This book describes prominent technological achievements within a very successful space science mission: the Herschel space observatory. Focusing on the various processes of innovation it offers an analysis and discussion of the social, technological and scientific context of the mission that paved...
by Maurice Stucke, Allen Grunes
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Big Data and Big Analytics are a big deal today. Big Data is playing a pivotal role in many companies' strategic decision-making. Companies are striving to acquire a 'data advantage' over rivals. Data-driven mergers are increasing. These data-driven business strategies and mergers raise significant...
by Ken Arnold, Maurice Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Produced Water Treatment Field Manual presents different methods used in produced water treatment systems in the oil and gas industry. Produced water is salty water that is produced as a byproduct along with oil or gas during the treatment. Water is brought along with the oil and gas when these are...
by Maurice Stewart, Ken Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Although the processing of natural gas is in many respects less complicated than the processing and refining of crude oil, it is equally as necessary before its use by end users. The actual process used to separate oil from natural gas, as well as the equipment that is used, can vary widely. Gas Sweetening...
Only One Earth
The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows...
by Christa Maurice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
They could make beautiful music together…
Hoping to dodge a scandal that could destroy her personal life and her career, Alex fled grad school for a summer job in tiny Potterville, West Virginia. She didn’t expect the town cupids to orchestrate a “chance” meeting with Marc—a sexy, brooding...
Adam Smith's Economics
Its Place in the Development of Economic Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The conventional received opinion of Adam Smith as an isolated figure, the founder of ‘modern’ economics, is thoroughly mistaken and misleading. This is the central premise of this book, first published in 1988, in which the author argues that by placing Smith’s work in its historical context,...
by Maurice Dobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Part 1 of this volume analyses the main issues in the theory of Applied Economics. Part 2 surveys the rise of capitalist enterprise and indicates the importance of certain institutions in the growth and working of the economic system at the start of the twentieth century. The concluding chapters stress...
by Maurice Godelier
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the aim of answering two questions:
First, what is the rationality of the economic systems that appear and disappear throughout history—in other words, what is their hidden logic and the underlying necessity for...
Understanding Organizational Fitness
The Case of China
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The focus if this book has two dimensions: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical dimension is concerned with the fitness of an organization to satisfactorily address processes of transformational change. Such fitness, it will be argued, can be expressed in terms of the coherence (degree of integration)...
by Berry Hsu, Syren Johnstone, Paul Lejot
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, financial regulation around the world has changed dramatically as a result of the 2008 global financial crisis. As one of the world's leading financial centres, international regulatory reforms have had a significant impact on the legal and regulatory...
Political Economy and Capitalism
Some Essays in Economic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This volume examines questions concerning the nature and behaviour of capitalism and the development of economic thought and the relation between economic thought and practice in the early twentieth century.
Handbook of Carbon Offset Programs
Trading Systems, Funds, Protocols and Standards
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are lower. Offsets have the potential to deliver...
Equitable Assurances
The Story of Life Assurance in the Experience of The Equitable LIfe Assurance Society 1762-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The original establishment of life assurance upon a sound basis was largely the achievement of The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships (now known as The Equitable Life Assurance Society and still affectionately called the 'Old Equitable'), and of the men who served her.
Old...