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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter ferdinand”
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  • Managing Oneself

    by Peter Ferdinand Drucker ...
    Series series Harvard Business Review Classics
    We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out. But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers careers. Instead, you must be your own chief executive officer. That means it's up to you to carve out your place in the world and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hong Kong in Transition

    One Country, Two Systems

    Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook, Robin Porter ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Hong Kong in Transition offers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule. There have been both successes and failures, and a perceptible process of change which is important to document.The particular appeal of this volume lies in the fact that it combines a broad overview ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Internet, Democracy and Democratization

    Edited by Peter Ferdinand ...
    Series series Democratization and Autocratization Studies
    The Internet is transforming relations between states and citizens. This study gives examples of how it is creating new political communities at various levels, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. It is also used by marginalized anti-democratic groups such as neo-Nazis. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation

    3D Printing and its Implications for Society, Industry, and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Jan-Peter Ferdinand, Ulrich Petschow, Sascha Dickel ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book identifies, analyzes and discusses the current trends of digitalized, decentralized, and networked physical value creation by focusing on the particular example of 3D printing. In addition to evaluating 3D printing’s disruptive potentials against a broader economic background, it also addresses the technology’s potential impacts on sustainability and emerging modes of bottom-up and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Governance in Pacific Asia

    Political Economy and Development from Japan to Burma

    by Peter Ferdinand ...
    This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII. "Governance in Pacific Asia" offers a comprehensive account of the diverse experiences of the states in Pacific Asia. Organized thematically around government and business relations in the main sectors of the economy, chapters cover the historical, social, and cultural ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Entrepreneurship in Innovation Communities

    Insights from 3D Printing Startups and the Dilemma of Open Source Hardware

    by Jan-Peter Ferdinand ...
    Series series Contributions to Management Science
    Drawing on empirical insights from the field of desktop 3D printing, this book elaborates the concept of innovation communities as a pattern of open and distributed innovation. As these communities spur a fruitful exchange of explorative, open source knowledge, they represent a novel mode of “doing innovation”, which considerably differs from established practices in market and business realms. ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Enterprise and Welfare Reform in Communist Asia

    Edited by Peter Ferdinand, Martin Gainsborough ...
    Featuring a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other 'fraternal' states and have to devise their own strategies for survival. All have shown a trend towards ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Introduction to Politics 4th Edition

    by Robert Garner, Peter Ferdinand, Stephanie Lawson ...
    Narrated by Corrie James ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 35 min

    Combining theory, comparative politics, and international relations, Introduction to Politics, Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to the subject for first year undergraduate students, with the most global perspective.Written by three experts in the field, this book takes a balanced approached to the subject, serving as a strong foundation for further study. Assuming no ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Made In America

    by Sam Walton, John Huey ...
    In this “sure-fire all-American success story” (The New York Times Book Review), the founder of Wal-Mart describes the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to build the largest retailer in the world.“[A] wise and inspiring autobiography—Walton tells his quietly fantastic story with conviction and makes no bones about his mistakes.”—San Francisco ChronicleMeet a genuine American folk ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time

    by Will Durant ...
    A wise and witty compendium of the greatest thoughts, greatest minds, and greatest books of all time—listed in accessible and succinct form—by one of the world's greatest scholars.From the “Hundred Best Books” to the “Ten Greatest Thinkers” to the “Ten Greatest Poets,” here is a concise collection of the world’s most significant knowledge. For the better part of a century, Will Durant dwelled upon ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Civilization and Its Discontents

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by David McLintock ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Where Good Ideas Come From

    by Steven Johnson ...
    A fascinating deep dive on innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Unexpected LifeThe printing press, the pencil, the flush toilet, the battery--these are all great ideas. But where do they come from? What kind of environment breeds them? What sparks the flash of brilliance? How do we generate the breakthrough technologies that push forward our lives, our ... Read more

    $9.99 USD