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How do peak oil, climate change, and the limits of growth affect abortion rights, income equality, and civil liberty? In this impassioned treatise, author and activist Alexis Zeigler reveals the hid……続きを見る

Innovation Strategy for the Knowledge Economy is intended for managers who have practiced the best of quality and re-engineering management techniques and are ready to transform their organizations ……続きを見る

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First Published in 2005. The book has two principal aims. First, to provide a description of the major international monetary developments in the industrial world in the post-war years. Second, to e……続きを見る

It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects. But no one has made much effort to quantify and assess the extent of this sort of damage. In……続きを見る

A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including climate change; increasing ……続きを見る

This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are us……続きを見る

First published in 1985, this title includes contributions from leading economists and addresses many seminal aspects of Keynes' work and methods. This revival will be of particular interest to lect……続きを見る

Large retail chains have become the most powerful corporations in America and are rapidly transforming our economy, communities, and landscape. In this deft and revealing book, Stacy Mitchell illust……続きを見る

Rice: The Primary Commodity de-mystifies the trade, outlines its workings and the problems which confront it. A.J. Latham outlines the history and cultivation of rice, and the research programmes wh……続きを見る

First published in 1954, this reissue deals with the problem of international tensions arising from demographic and fertility differences, with special reference to such heavily populated Asian coun……続きを見る

In this book W. O. Henderson has brought together in English translation the journals of four foreign visitors who travelled in England and Scotland in the years immediately following the Napoleonic……続きを見る

Attitudes and methods derived from the hard sciences have become increasingly commonplace in the human and social sciences. Whilst this 'scientifization' process has undoubtedly fostered the growth ……続きを見る

The economic success of East Asia is often attributed to the relationship between state and business. In The State and Industry in South Korea , Jong-Chan Rhee presents a more balanced view of Korea……続きを見る

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Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, is a professional speaker who flies over 100,000 miles a year to get to her conference destinations. Although not everyone has the natural ability to live out of ……続きを見る

Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, T……続きを見る

Due to the vital importance of SMEs in developed economies worldwide, this book aims to provide a unique and much-needed investigation into the underlying mechanisms and practices of management with……続きを見る

First Published in 2005. The author’s intention was to write a history of the greatest economic boom in European history, of that unique, ugly and triumphant experience of the 1950s and 1960s which ……続きを見る

This book looks at two-stage industrial cluster theory and new innovation models in view of IT-ization and servitization of products. The formation of industrial clusters such as export processing z……続きを見る

*'A masterpiece of succinct analysis.'*New Statesman *'Penetrating in analysis and closely packed in thought.'*Financial Times Analysing and examining the history of the economic events of the inter……続きを見る

Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. ……続きを見る

This book describes an economic alternative to our current western credit system that will eliminate poverty and recessions, control inflation, and release the full potential of your economy. Where ……続きを見る

In Knowledge Leadership, Cavaleri and Seivert describe the dawning of a new era in which individuals are “leading” rather than “managing” knowledge. In the past, many knowledge-based initiatives hav……続きを見る

The note will make the case for a substantial increase in the VAT in Japan as a core measure of fiscal consolidation, assess its macroeconomic impact (on real activity and inflationary expectations)……続きを見る

If you just bought a vehicle chances are that you paid more for it than someone who bought this book! If your credit is jacked up and you think having money in the bank is for other people, chances ……続きを見る

This paper explores the private- and public-sector responses to the crisis and some of the probable outcomes. Aside from improved supervision of individual institutions, greater emphasis needs to be……続きを見る

A comprehensive and critical review of the global scholarly literature on diversity, this book presents findings from original UK-based research involving in-depth organizational case studies, inter……続きを見る

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen ……続きを見る

As commodity markets have continued their expansion an extensive and complex financial industry has developed to service them. This industry includes hundreds of participating firms, including asset……続きを見る