Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Clothing Appearance and Fit
Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2004
Fashion and beauty have helped shape history and today more than ever, we find ourselves under increasing pressure to think about what we wear, what we look good in and how best to enhance our body shape and size. Behind this seemingly superficial industry, however, lies a technical thinking firmly...
The American Title Insurance Industry
How a Cartel Fleeces the American Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
After World War II, banks and other mortgage lenders began requiring insurance to protect them against flawed or defective real estate titles. Over the past sixty years, the title insurance industry has grown steadily in size, power, and secrecy: policies are available for both lenders and property...
by Paula Parker, Mike Parker, Torry Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Promotions is a challenge for anyone who works in the arts and entertainment industry. If you don't get your name 'out there' it's hard to make a living. For artists in the Christian entertainment realm there is the double whammy of needing to promote themselves while obeying Paul's...
by Jihong Zhu, Tong Gao
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Topology Optimization in Engineering Structure Design explores the recent advances and applications of topology optimization in engineering structures design, with a particular focus on aircraft and aerospace structural systems. To meet the increasingly complex engineering challenges provided by...
The Future of Chinese Manufacturing
Employment and Labour Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The Future of Chinese Manufacturing: Employment and Labour Challenges gives context and analysis on employment and labor issues in contemporary China, specifically relating to manufacturing industries. With one fifth of the world’s workforce, China has taken advantage of its cheap labor to serve...
by Dr Debra Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Ensure that your hand washing facilities and procedures are optimised. Hands are one of the major sources and routes for cross-contamination in the food industry. Reducing cross-contamination is key in the production of microbiologically safer, higher quality food. Hand hygiene policies and the facilities...
Entertainment Values
How do we Assess Entertainment and Why does it Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This collection brings together the work of a range of scholars from around the world with different perspectives on one simple question: How can we assess the value of various entertainment products and forms?
Entertainment is everywhere. The industries that produce it earn billions of dollars...
Above and Beyond
Exploring the Business of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The global space sector has always been regarded as a cutting-edge field, futuristic and at the forefront of innovation. In recent years, the sector has undergone massive change, giving rise to a high-technology niche worth over $330 billion in revenues worldwide and growing. That process, encompassing...
Multimedia
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Multimedia: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive guide to the new media form which has resulted from the application of computer technology to existing techniques of broadcasting and telecommunications transmission. The rapid growth of multimedia technologies such as the internet, e-mail and...
Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered
Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R®
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Reliability Centered Maintenance – Reengineered: Practical Optimization of the RCM Process with RCM-R® provides an optimized approach to a well-established and highly successful method used for determining failure management policies for physical assets. It makes the original method that was developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Customer satisfaction is a critical factor to the potential success or failure of a business. By implementing the latest marketing strategies, organizations can better withstand the competitive market. Strategic Marketing Management and Tactics in the Service Industry is an essential reference publication...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Economic growth is directly impacted by a multitude of different industries; in recent years, the service industry has emerged as a significant contributor to the global economy. As such, the effective management of this sector has become a widely studied topic. The Handbook of Research on Promotional...
Networked Music Cultures
Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects of the digital distribution of music as it is...
Biotechnological Inventions and Patentability of Life
The US and European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In today’s technological world, biotechnology is one of the most innovative and highly invested-in industries for research, in the field of science. This book analyses the forms and limitations of patent protection recognition for biotechnological inventions, with particular regard to patentability of life.