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At Work eBook Series

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  • Portsmouth at Work

    People and Industries Through the Years

    by Philip MacDougall ...
    Series series At Work
    Portsmouth is best known for its longterm association with the Royal Navy. Its naval dockyard was at one time the world’s largest employer of a civilian workforce. While there can be no dispute that the navy, for many centuries, totally dominated the town, it was not, by any means, the only employer. Others were active in the various service industries that met the needs of those employed in the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Medway Towns at Work

    People and Industries Through the Years

    by Philip MacDougall ...
    Series series At Work
    The history of the Medway Towns is synonymous with the large-scale military industrial complex that was centred on the dockyard, military barracks and various fortifications. This has, over many years, provided employment for the people of Chatham and Gillingham as well as Rainham, Rochester and Strood, along with the service industries that were part of the military-industrial complex. But the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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    by Christopher Donegan ...
    If you like vehicle repossession stories, you will like this book. I also share with you my insights and 11 1/2 years work experience in the High Interest Loan Industry in the United States. Topics include income, collateral, the application process, and collections. I also share customer short stories. ... Read more

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  • Men, Wage Work and Family

    Edited by Paula McDonald, Emma Jeanes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    In the last two decades there has been a plethora of research on a range of subjects collectively and rhetorically known as ‘work-life balance’. The bulk of this research, which spans disciplines including feminist sociology, industrial relations and management, has focused on the significant concerns of employed women and/or dual career couples. Less attention has been devoted to scholarship ... Read more

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  • Fleet Purchasing, Maintenance and Reliability

    by Diarmaid Murphy ...
    OverviewFleet Purchasing and Maintenance is a concise, easy to understand guide on vehicle purchasing and fleet maintenance for the benefit of business and maintenance managers at all levels, plus students and academics. Not a textbook full of formulas but a guide containing both detail and insights for the practicing fleet and financial manager.The book first covers all aspects of the vehicle and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Evolution of a New Industry

    A Genealogical Approach

    by Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Zur Shapira ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    The Evolution of a New Industry traces the emergence and growth of the Israeli hi-tech sector to provide a new understanding of industry evolution.In the case of Israel, the authors reveal how the hi-tech sector built an entrepreneurial culture with a capacity to disseminate intergenerational knowledge of how to found new ventures, as well as an intricate network of support for new firms. ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus

    Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era

    by Sophie Hohmann, Claire Mouradian, Silvia Serrano ...
    After the final collapse of the Soviet Union, the so-called 'last empire', in 1991, the countries of Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan - and of the Caucasus - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia - became independent nations. These countries, previously production centres under the socialist planning system of the Soviet Union, have made enormous economic ... Read more

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  • Water

    The International Crisis

    by Robin Clarke ...
    Only 3 per cent of the world's water is freshwater and about one third of that is inaccessible. The rest is very unevenly distributed, parts of Canada and the Amazon, for example are both more than amply suppied. Terrible and permanent water stress can be seen, among other places, in the drylands of Africa caused not just by drought, but by poverty leading to poor land management and over ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Systems of Innovation

    Technologies, Institutions and Organizations

    Edited by Charles Edquist ...
    The systems of innovation approach is considered by many to be a useful analytical approach for better understanding innovation processes as well as the production and distribution of knowledge in the economy. It is an appropriate framework for the empirical study of innovations in their contexts and is relevant for policy makers. This text is the result of the work within an international inter ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Early Computer Industry

    Limitations of Scale and Scope

    by A. Gandy ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Uses case studies to explore why large scale electronics failed to win a leadership position in the early computer industry and why IBM, a firm with a heritage in the business machines industry, succeeded. The cases cover both the US and the UK industry focusing on electronics giants GE, RCA, English Electric, EMI and Ferranti. ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Questions and Citizens' Rights

    An Omnibus comprising Constitutional Questions in India: The President, Parliament and the States and Citizens’ Rights, Judges and State Accountability

    by A.G. Noorani ...
    This omnibus brings together two highly acclaimed volumes of essays written by India's leading constitutional expert and political commentator, A.G. Noorani. The volume also includes nine new essays that examine key issue areas that emerged in the debate on institutions and citizens' rights later. The essays explore the Indian Constitution and its basic structure, Parliament and the making of ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China

    Edited by Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang ...
    China's rise as an economic powerhouse raises a number of questions that are the subject of lively debate. How did the country do it? How applicable are the lessons of China's economic reform of the past thirty years to the challenges it faces in the next three decades? What does the detailed pattern of China's success and challenges look like at the sub-sectoral and sub-national levels, and what ... Read more

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