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by Kelly L. Odom
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Greenville's textile heritage is what made the community the economic force it is today. From its antebellum beginnings with only a handful of mills, Greenville continued to grow industrially as more and more Northern investors saw financial opportunity in the area. With its notable feats, such as...
by Michael Rogol
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Negative network effects will transform the economics and operations of our infrastructure within 1,000 days. Are you prepared to benefit from the massive value creation that will come with game-changing shifts in energy and other industries? In this comprehensively researched economic analysis, noted...
by Jason C. Libby, Earle G. Shettleworth Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
With the same patriotic fervor as Maine's response to a call for troops in the Civil War, more than 35,000 men and women across the state joined the armed forces in 1917-1918 to fight in aid of America's European allies against Germany, as well as to redress German destruction of American vessels...
Success By Design
The Essential Business Reference for Designers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Want to make your design business a success? Start here.
Fellow Designer,
In your career you may have been like me: Trying to keep projects on the rails and clients happy. Digging through blogs for useful advice. Wondering if there was a better way to handle all of the demands of being...
The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies
A guide to the new world of performance-oriented operational risk
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies is a groundbreaking new book. It seeks to apply for the first time a range of proven operational risk techniques from other industries and disciplines to the troubled territory of financial services. Operational risk expert Brian Barnier introduces...
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook
A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2015 Edition) and Related Guidance
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The Safety Critical Systems Handbook: A Straightforward Guide to Functional Safety: IEC 61508 (2010 Edition), IEC 61511 (2016 Edition) & Related Guidance, Fourth Edition, presents the latest on the electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic systems that provide safety functions that guard...
by Neil Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Discover the book which will cover everything from a simple “What is Blockchain” to the advanced Blockchain programming applications.
“Blockchain is the first native digital medium for value, just as the internet was the first native digital medium for information.” – Harvard Business...
The Price of Global Health
Drug Pricing Strategies to Balance Patient Access and the Funding of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Public debate on the rising cost of new biotechnology drug treatments has intensified over the last few years as healthcare budget pressures have mounted under a strained economy. Meanwhile, the demand for new, effective medical and drug treatments continues to rise as unhealthy lifestyles cause further...
The Search for Survival: Lessons from Disruptive Technologies
Lessons from Disruptive Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
In recent decades, technology has changed rapidly to the point that it can very quickly affect a seemingly impregnable company or industry. Unexpected technological developments enable innovators to offer new products and services that threaten incumbents. In order to survive, existing firms must...
by John Tribe
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
One of the leading texts in the field, The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism is the ideal introduction to the fundamentals of economics in these industries, helping you to pass an economics module as part of tourism, recreation, events or sport management degrees.
It is written in...
Wine Globalization
A New Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In this anthology, editors Kym Anderson and Vicente Pinilla have gathered together some of the world's leading wine economists and economic historians to examine the development of national wine industries before and during the two waves of globalization. The empirically-based chapters analyse developments...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This publication provides a summary of the information available in the OECD Structural and Demographic Business Statistics (SDBS) database. Key economic variables are presented at the International Standard of Industrial Classification, Revision 3 (ISIC) 2-digit level, for all industries and OECD...
by Mr Morgan L Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Sponsor SUCCESS - The WHATs and HOWs for business improvement projects. A powerful and practical guide to delivering effective sponsorship of business improvement project. The trouble with Lean Six Sigma is that there is an awful lot written and discussed about the organisational deployment models, successes...
by Ian Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process risk and reliability management, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance. Many companies are now looking to go beyond mere compliance; they are expanding their process safety management (PSM) programs to improve performance...