Infrastructure category: 179 books
by William James Hubler Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
This book is not a reconstruction plan for the United States of America's vast system of roads and bridges. Instead, it is a very simple collection of commonsense, low cost and no cost ideas that could or should help the system last longer. A little longer useful life for roads and bridges could buy some much needed time before the money is found for major improvements and replacements.
Principal Emergency Response and Preparedness
Requirements and Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2008
Anticipating and planning your organization's response to an emergency situation isn't just a good idea: it's a federal requirement. Since 1989, OSHA has issued numerous standards that explicitly require employers to have emergency action plans for their workplaces and dozens more regulating specific...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
A Growth Model for Europe Beyond the Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
To increase productivity and create value, businesses and companies need to innovate. But how is innovation created? And how can entire regions, countries, and continents innovate in a fast changing world where the old economies have broken down? Dr. Tataj proposes a replicable model for innovation...
by Constantine Samaras, Abigail Haddad, Clifford A. Grammich
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The Department of Defense (DoD) constructs, operates, and maintains a large number of facilities. DoD incorporates life-cycle cost-effective practices into many aspects of the military planning and construction processes. This report provides RAND's description and assessment of the process used to obtain...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book looks at the future role of local economic development. Once New Labour came to power in 1997, they sought a third way between the new right agenda of Thatcherism with its attempts to reduce the role of the local state and foster a free market and the left’s attempts to take more control...
by Terrence K. Kelly, Anthony Atler, Todd Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Land-based anti-ship missiles (ASMs) feature prominently in the capabilities of many island nations in the Western Pacific, but the United States currently lacks such systems. This report illustrates the potential strategic advantages of the United States working with partners to build a coalition...
by John C. Chicken
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Nuclear Power Hazard Control Policy presents an analysis of the factors that appear to have influenced the formation and form of nuclear power hazard control policy in Britain. Particular attention is directed to those political groups that have developed a special interest in the problems of nuclear...
Digitalisierung der Bildung
Warum und wie lernen wir ein Leben lang? Forschungsergebnisse zur Online-Weiterbildung im Tourismus. Bedeutung Erwartung Nutzung
Language: German
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Dieses Buch untersucht lebenslanges Lernen im Rahmen der zunehmenden digitalen Anreicherung unserer Lebensbereiche. Die Lern- und Arbeitswelten verändern sich und damit auch die Anforderungen an Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung. Immer mehr Wissen ist verfügbar, gleichzeitig schrumpft die Zeitspanne,...
The Customer Centricity Playbook
Implement a Winning Strategy Driven by Customer Lifetime Value
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
How did global gaming company Electronic Arts go from being named “Worst Company in America” to clearing a billion dollars in profit?
They discovered a simple truth—and acted on it: Not all customers are the same, regardless of how they appear on the surface. The most successful companies,...
Electrical Load-Curve Coverage
Proceedings of the Symposium on Load-Curve Coverage in Future Electric Power Generating Systems, Organized by the Committee on Electric Power, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Rome, Italy, 24 – 28 October 1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Electrical Load-Curve Coverage covers the proceedings of the Symposium on Load-Curve Coverage in Future Electric Power Generating Systems, organized by the Committee on Electric Power, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Rome, Italy, on October 24-28, 1977. This symposium considers the...
Sloss Furnaces and the Rise of the Birmingham District
An Industrial Epic
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and interpreted by W. David Lewis are of more than local or regional significance. The rise of Sloss furnaces and Birmingham epitomized the emergence of the...
Out of Nowhere
The Inside Story of How Nike Marketed the Culture of Running
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
This book provides a compelling insider's account of how Nike became the world's largest sports and fitness company. It includes a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign to targeted sports interest media & organizations. How does a young boy from a small Oregon town get swept up in the politics of his...
by Stacie L. Pettyjohn
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
This monograph describes the evolution of the U.S. global defense posture from 1783 to the present as the nation grew from a relatively weak and insular regional power into the preeminent global power. As new and unpredictable threats emerge, alliance relationships are revised, and resources decline, past efforts at dealing with similar problems yield important lessons for future decisions.
Heavy Current Electricity in the United Kingdom
History and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Heavy Current Electricity in the United Kingdom: History and Development focuses on the history and development of the electricity supply industry in the United Kingdom. The laws passed by Parliament, including those governing gas or other public companies supplying light by electricity, are considered,...