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“erick wickham”

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  • Dead Fish and Fat Cats

    A No-Nonsense Journey Through Our Dysfunctional Fishing Industry

    by Erick Wickham ...
    Dead Fish and Fats Cats is a lively, no holds barred account of the experiences and entanglements of Eric Wickham, a commercial fisherman who fished for salmon, halibut and sablefish for over fifty years. It describes the unpredictable life of independent commercial fishermen and chastises the fishing bureaucrats for their mismanagement of the fishing industry. Dead Fish and Fat Cats provides a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Continuous Process Improvement

    by George D. Robson ...
    During the past decade Japanese companies have derived many of their competitive advantages from streamlined work-flow processes. Desperate to replicate the Japanese systems, American managers have bought into countless theories advanced by management consultants which, lacking a methodology, have proved fruitless and frustrating. Now, from inside a world-renowned learning organization, comes that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Making MRP Work

    by Giles Johnston ...
    Is your MRP system helping your business to perform, or is it just creating more work for you?'Making MRP work' is a practical guide aimed at Operations Managers and business directors who need some support with their MRP / ERP system. If you are operating an existing MRP system but feel that it could be doing more for you then this book can help you to identify the changes you need to make.Many ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing for Human Reliability

    Human Factors Engineering in the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries

    by Ronald W. McLeod ...
    Industry underestimates the extent to which behaviour at work is influenced by the design of the working environment. Designing for Human Reliability argues that greater awareness of the contribution of design to human error can significantly enhance HSE performance and improve return on investment. Illustrated with many examples, Designing for Human Reliability explores why work systems are ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Global Production

    Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure

    by Pol Antràs ...
    Series series CREI Lectures in Macroeconomics
    Global Production is the first book to provide a fully comprehensive overview of the complicated issues facing multinational companies and their global sourcing strategies. Few international trade transactions today are based on the exchange of finished goods; rather, the majority of transactions are dominated by sales of individual components and intermediary services. Many firms organize global ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Pillars of the Italian Economy

    Manufacturing, Food & Wine, Tourism

    Edited by Marco Fortis ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers a detailed analysis of the key sectors in the Italian economy, with the focus especially on areas in which the economy excels, such as the automatic packaging machinery sector, pharmaceutical production, the food and wine industry, and tourism. The book explains how, contrary to widespread opinion, Italy is one of the world’s most competitive countries in foreign trade, as ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Precisely Wrong: Why Conventional Planning Systems Fail

    by Chad Smith, Carol Ptak ...
    OverviewAt the heart of most supply chains lies a planning tool called Material Requirements Planning (MRP). Invented in the 1950s, codifed in the 1960s and commercialized in the 1970s, MRP became THE way of life for supply order generation and synchronization throughout the world. Yet the people that interact with MRP everyday know that something is very wrong. They may not be able to explain ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Global Shipping in Small Nations

    Nordic Experiences after 1960

    Edited by S. Tenold, M. Jes Iversen, E. Lange ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The authors analyse political and institutional patterns alongside the various corporate responses to the many upheavals of global shipping. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Service Industries and Regions

    Growth, Location and Regional Effects

    Edited by Juan R. Cuadrado-Roura ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The service sector in most advanced economies accounts for up to seventy percent of employment and GDP and, given its growing importance, has received much research attention over the last two decades. However, not very much attention has been paid to the relationship between this sector and both its territorial impact and regional effects. The main objective of this book is to offer a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Econometric Analysis of Carbon Markets

    The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Clean Development Mechanism

    by Julien Chevallier ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Through analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), this book demonstrates how to use a variety of econometric techniques to analyze the evolving and expanding carbon markets sphere, techniques that can be extrapolated to the worldwide marketplace. It features stylized facts about carbon markets from an economics perspective, as well ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reliability, Maintainability and Risk

    Practical Methods for Engineers

    by David J. Smith ...
    Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years. For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic, and illustrative examples and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD