Ian: 5018 books
Offshore Safety Management
Implementing a SEMS Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Offshore Safety Management, Second Edition provides an experienced engineer's perspective on the new Safety and Environmental System (SEMS) regulations for offshore oil and gas drilling, how they compare to prior regulations, and how to implement the new standards seamlessly and efficiently. The second...
Urban Planning Methods
Research and Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In order to develop and exercise their skills urban planners need to draw upon a wide variety of methods relating to plan and policy making, urban research and policy analysis. More than ever, planners need to be able to adapt their methods to contemporary needs and circumstances. This introductory...
Swans, Swine, and Swindlers
Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Swans, Swine, and Swindlers addresses a core, contemporary question: What steps can we take to better anticipate and manage mega-crises, such as Haiti, Katrina, and 9/11? This book explores the concept of "messes." A mess is a web of complex and dynamically interacting, ill-defined, and/or...
21st Century Workforces and Workplaces
The Challenges and Opportunities for Future Work Practices and Labour Markets
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
What does the future of work look like?
Every day, workplace decisions are made that directly impact and change the workforce of tomorrow. From the way we are managed to the rewards we receive, all aspects of our work life are determined by the changing dynamics of the workplace. Recent concerns...
by Ian Oldfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Work for yourself and sell at birthday parties, engagement parties, weddings, parties, village shows, markets, car boots, Bar B-Q’s, church fetes, coffee morning, spring up shops etc.
Catch on to this craze that does not go away. Plus it makes people happy.
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Managing Sustainable Innovation
The Driver for Global Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Ian Maxwell applies decades of research and application to present a novel approach to innovation, with an emphasis on sustainable and renewable practices that benefit many, and not just a handful of executives and shareholders. Featuring examples from a wide range of innovators around the world,...
Why Australia Prospered
The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how...
Confidence: Your Practical Training: How to Develop Healthy Self Esteem and Deep Self Confidence to Be Successful and Become True Friends with Yourself
Positive Psychology Coaching Series, #10
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Have you ever considered how many opportunities you have missed and how many chances you have wasted by lacking self-confidence when you need it most?
Have you ever given up on your plans, important goals, and dreams not because you just decided to focus on something else, but simply because...
by Ian Oldfield
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
An informative book detailing how to RUN a successful business as a self employed professional. It looks at how to go about self employment along with questions to ask if you suited to self employment and there is a Business Plan Template. I have been self employed for over 12 years, setting...
Making the Business Case
Proposals that Succeed for Projects that Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A good business case is so much more than simply the means to justify a decision. A well-written and well-researched business case will secure funding; make sure any project stays on the right side of regulation; mobilize support for the cause; provide the platform for managing the project and the...
Opening the Mind's Eye
How Images and Language Teach Us How To See
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Ian Robertson has always been fascinated by how the mind makes images, for that awesome power directly and deeply affects our lives. All of us "visualize" the world differently, and how we do so dictates the way we feel, remember, and think--and therefore our health, memory, and creativity....
by Ian Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Press and rugby fans around the world were agreed that Richie McCaw’s All Blacks were the best team in the world and that Rugby World Cup 2015 itself had been an enormous success and the best to date. While the All Blacks paraded around the ground with the Webb Ellis Cup after a thrilling final...
Applied Urban Analysis
A critique and synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Much of the theoretical literature in planning and human geography at present is materialist in perspective. This offers a powerful critique but locates the dynamics of urban systems too specifically in just one basic social relationship. It fails to provide an intellectual base broad enough for constructive,...
Economics in the Twenty-First Century
A Critical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.
In Economics in the Twenty-First...