Business Aspects category: 650 books

Specific professional knowledge and skills are required in engineering practice. The core competency of an engineer is to solve complex problems, and this book shows how complexity arises. The applications of this to professional practice are sketched out. Career guidance is provided for entry into...

This work will be the continuous unit for the "Foundation of Cognition" and "Foundation of Reality with Practical values", for the development of modern trend through the informational explosion and internet revolution with the various forms of the establishment of rationality with the derivatives...

“The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.” --Zhu Yongxin One of today’s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education is...

The conduct of most of social science occurs outside the laboratory. Such studies in field science explore phenomena that cannot for practical, technical, or ethical reasons be explored under controlled conditions. These phenomena cannot be fully isolated from their environment or investigated by...

This book reviews James Meade's prolific contribution to economics and its lasting impact. Few economists have written so much and on so many different topics. Meade was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1977 (jointly with Bertil Ohlin) for his contribution to international economics, but could...

Poses the problems inherent in being a ‘psychomanager’ that requires specialized knowledge so that many Australian managers have yielded their authority to counsellors, coaches and consultants. Unpacks the falsie that human behavior is determined by internal and external forces over which individuals...

This book links the philosophical perception of time and Einstein’s theory of special relativity to economic processes, showing that the phenomena of time dilation and length contraction seen in physics can be identified within – and adapted to – an economic framework. The author expands on...

This book offers a vision of economics in which there is no place for universal laws of nature, and even for laws of a more probabilistic character. The author avoids interpreting the practice of economics as something that leads to the formulation of universal laws or laws of nature. Instead, chapters...

Scholars in philosophy, law, economics and other fields have widely debated how science, environmental precaution, and economic interests should be balanced in urgent contemporary problems, such as climate change. One controversial focus of these discussions is the precautionary principle, according...

The most comprehensive work on China’s education reform available--from one of the nation’s most influential figures in education In Advice on the Education of China, Zhu Yongxin explores points of view from both educational researchers and government officials and policymakers, thus providing...

Years ago, prompted by Grize, Apostel and Papert, we undertook the study of functions, but until now we did not properly understand the relations between functions and operations, and their increasing interactions at the level of 'constituted functions'. By contrast, certain recent studies on 'constitutive...

China enjoys a splendid ancient culture, which is inseparable from the role of cultural transmission played by the country’s system of education. As a nation that attaches great importance to education, China possesses an abundance of educational thought throughout its long history. In History...

China’s top education thought leader provides a thorough examination of the state of China’s education system—what’s working, what’s not, and what’s to be done Observations on the Education of China is a guide to the current status of education and educational thought in China,...

Die herausragende Bedeutung von Bildung für die Entwicklung, die Zukunftschancen und den Wohlstand einer Gesellschaft sind hinlänglich bekannt. Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit Geist- und Geldfragen sowie einem passenden Ordnungsrahmen für hervorragende Bildung: Was ist Bildung und was ist ein...