Shipping and Globalization in the Post-War Era: Contexts, Companies, Connections (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics) by Niels P. Petersson (Palgrave Macmillan) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This volume highlights the contribution of the shipping industry to the transformations in business and society of the postwar era. Shipping was both an example and an engine of globalization and structural change. In turn, the industry experienced and pioneered, mirrored and enabled key developments that led to the present-day globalized economy. Contributions address issues such as the ...

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The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management: Challenges and Prospects by Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book includes a selection of contributions from the Life Cycle Management 2019 Conference (LCM) held in Pozna?, Poland, and presents different examples of scientific and practical contributions, showing an incorporation of life cycle approach into the decision processes on strategic and operational level. Special attention is drawn to applications of LCM to target, organize, analyze and manage product-related information and activities towards continuous improvement, along the different products life cycle. The ...

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Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship: Swiss SMEs Competing in Global Markets by Jean-Pierre Jeannet (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book focuses on Switzerland-based medium-sized companies with a longstanding export tradition and a proven dominance in global niche markets. Based upon in-depth documentation and analysis of 36 Swiss companies over their entire history, an expert team of authors presents several parallels in the pathways and success factors which allowed these firms to become dominant and operate from a high-cost location such as Switzerland. The book enhances these insights by providing detailed company profiles documenting the ...

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The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age: Perspectives from Europe and Japan (Perspectives in Law, Business and Innovation) by Markus Heckel (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access. The increasing capacity of digital networks and computing power, together with the resulting connectivity and availability of "big data", are impacting financial systems worldwide with rapidly advancing deep-learning algorithms and distributed ledger technologies. They transform the structure and performance of financial markets, the service proposition of financial products, the organization of payment systems, the business models of banks, insurance ...

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Courting Failure: How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts by Lynn LoPucki (University of Michigan Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

LoPucki's provocative critique of Chapter 11 is required reading for everyone who cares about bankruptcy reform. This empirical account of large Chapter 11 cases will trigger intense debate both inside the academy and on the floor of Congress. Confronting LoPucki's controversial thesis-that competition between bankruptcy judges is corrupting them-is the most pressing challenge now facing any defender of the status quo." -Douglas Baird, University of Chicago Law School "This book is smart, shocking and funny. This story ...

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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects Book 58) by Sungsup Ra (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of 'learning communities.' It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, ...

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Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by Abebe Shimeles (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

What are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This open access collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected paper provides valuable insights for improved policy making and defines relevant strategic priorities on Africa's sustainable transformation process, which is in line with the international development agenda. Although agriculture remains the main source of income for Africa's ...

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Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Digital Finance: Increasing Personalization and Trust in Digital Finance using Big Data and AI by John Soldatos (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent advances in these technologies facilitate banks, FinTech, and financial institutions to collect, process, analyze, and fully leverage the very large amounts of data that are nowadays produced and exchanged in the sector. To this end, the book also describes some more the most popular Big Data, AI and Blockchain ...

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Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2): Comparing Consular Services and Diaspora Policies (IMISCOE Research Series) by Jean-Michel Lafleur (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states' engagement in the area of social protection, this book shows how a series of emigration-related policies that go beyond the realm of social security address the needs of nationals abroad in the area of health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions and economic hardship. In addition, this volume highlights the variety of ...

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The Entrepreneurial Society: A Reform Strategy for the European Union (International Studies in Entrepreneurship Book 43) by Niklas Elert (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book builds on the European Union's (EU) Horizon 2020 project 'Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society' (FIRES). The authors outline how Europe can move towards more inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth through reforms that will rekindle its entrepreneurial spirit. Based on decades of research and countless discussions with stakeholders, the book also features the FIRES project's full list of policy interventions and institutional reforms that can help policymakers make that agenda ...

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Process Mining Handbook (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing 448) by Wil M. P. van der Aalst (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This is an open access book. This book comprises all the single courses given as part of the First Summer School on Process Mining, PMSS 2022, which was held in Aachen, Germany, during July 4-8, 2022. This volume contains 17 chapters organized into the following topical sections: Introduction; process discovery; conformance checking; data preprocessing; process enhancement and monitoring; assorted process mining topics; industrial perspective and applications; and closing.

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Designing Digital Work: Concepts and Methods for Human-centered Digitization by Stefan Oppl (Palgrave Macmillan) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Combining theory, methodology and tools, this open access book illustrates how to guide innovation in today's digitized business environment. Highlighting the importance of human knowledge and experience in implementing business processes, the authors take a conceptual perspective to explore the challenges and issues currently facing organizations. Subsequent chapters put these concepts into practice, discussing instruments that can be used to support the articulation and alignment of knowledge within work processes. A timely and ...

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The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America by Jonathan Barth (Cornell University Press) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary ...

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Transition and Opportunity: Strategies from Business Leaders on Making the Most of China's Future (China and Globalization) by Huiyao Wang (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Multinational corporations (MNCs) have long played a crucial role in the Chinese economy. This role is one that is set to continue in the post-pandemic era as China works to transit to a high-quality growth model that is more sustainable and innovation-driven. With global experience and front-line involvement in some of the most pressing economic, technological, and environmental issues of our day, leading figures in MNCs and chambers of commerce are well placed to share ...

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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America: Evidence and Perspectives by Irwin Kirsch (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different adult outcomes. How did we get to a place where circumstances of birth have become so determinative? And what must we do, within ...

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Neighbourhoods in Transition: Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas (The Urban Book Series) by Emmanuel Rey (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool. Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with an overview of historic urban development and strategic areas in the hearts of towns to be developed. It then defines several key issues ...

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China's Global Political Economy: Managerial Perspectives (Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics) by Robert Taylor (Routledge) Price verified 7 hours ago

Much has been written about China's economy, as well as its business management system. China's Global Political Economy, however, is designed to bring together these two perspectives, serving to enhance our understanding of China's growing global role. Examining changes in the management strategies of foreign companies investing in China and Chinese enterprises doing business overseas, this book analyses China's political economy in the context of the Communist Party's changing policies. The introductory section begins by studying ...

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Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World: Metropandemic Revolution (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and ... by Anthony Larsson (Routledge) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Are pandemics the end of cities? Or, do they present an opportunity for us to reshape cities in ways making us even more innovative, successful and sustainable? Pandemics such as COVID-19 (and comparable disruptions) have caused intense debates over the future of cities. Through a series of investigative studies, Designing Smart and Resilient Cities for a Post-Pandemic World: Metropandemic Revolution seeks to critically discuss and compare different cases, innovations and approaches as to how cities can utilise nascent and future ...

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A Study of Crisis by Michael Brecher (University of Michigan Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is time to look back on an epoch of widespread turmoil, including two world wars, the end of the colonial era in world history, and a large number of international crises and conflicts. This book is designed to shed light on the causes and consequences of military-security crises since the end of World War I, in every region, across diverse economic and political regimes, and cultures. The primary aim of this volume is to uncover patterns of crises, conflicts and wars and thereby to ...

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A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China) by Jenny T. Chio (University of Washington Press) Price verified 7 hours ago

While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person's leisure is another person's labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates ...

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Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation (Sustainable Development Goals Series) by Christopher B. Barrett (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel's rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple actionable recommendations that, if adopted, would simultaneously lead to healthy and nutritious diets, equitable and inclusive value chains, ...

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Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution by Michael Allen Meeropol (University of Michigan Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Michael Meeropol argues that the ballooning of the federal budget deficit was not a serious problem in the 1980s, nor were the successful recent efforts to get it under control the basis for the prosperous economy of the mid-1990s. In this controversial book, the author provides a close look at what actually happened to the American economy during the years of the "Reagan Revolution" and reveals that the huge deficits had no negative effect on the economy. It was the other policies of the Reagan years--high interest rates to fight ...

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Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare ... by Gerhard Lehmbruch (Routledge) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate institutions have learned from their bad performances, modified their structures and style of operation, and assumed responsibility for welfare state ...

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Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) by Gianluigi Coppola (Routledge) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to the context, choices and experiences of young people, the consequences of which resonate throughout their lives. The focus of the contributions to this volume is on issues which, whilst undoubtedly important, have thus far received less attention than they arguably deserve. The first part of the book is concerned with issues related to education and training, covering matters such as the ...

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Mastering Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering (Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering) by Peter F. Pelz (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book reports on innovative methods, technologies and strategies for mastering uncertainty in technical systems. Despite the fact that current research on uncertainty is mainly focusing on uncertainty quantification and analysis, this book gives emphasis to innovative ways to master uncertainty in engineering design, production and product usage alike. It gathers authoritative contributions by more than 30 scientists reporting on years of research in the areas of engineering, applied mathematics and law, thus offering ...

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Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) by Gianluigi Coppola (Routledge) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The recent recession has led to an ongoing crisis in the youth labour market in Europe. This timely book deals with a number of areas related to the context, choices and experiences of young people, the consequences of which resonate throughout their lives. The focus of the contributions to this volume is on issues which, whilst undoubtedly important, have thus far received less attention than they arguably deserve. The first part of the book is concerned with issues related to education and training, covering matters such as the ...

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Evaluating Environment in International Development by Juha I. Uitto (Routledge) (38 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing countries. Evaluating Environment in International Development focuses on the approaches and experiences of leading international organizations, not-for-profits, and multilateral and bilateral aid agencies to illustrate how systematic evaluation is an essential tool for providing evidence for decision-makers. Moving beyond projects and programmes, it explores normative work on the environment as well as environmental ...

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Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals: Global and Regional 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios with Non-energy GHG Pathways for +1.5°C and +2°C by Sven Teske (Springer) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book presents detailed pathways to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2050, globally and across ten geographical regions. Based on state-of-the-art scenario modelling, it provides the vital missing link between renewable energy targets and the measures needed to achieve them. Bringing together the latest research in climate science, renewable energy technology, employment and resource impacts, the book breaks new ground by covering all the elements essential to achieving the ambitious climate mitigation targets set out ...

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Workers, Managers, Productivity: Kaizen in Developing Countries by Akio Hosono (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as "Kaizen," and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a contextualized view of the mechanisms of initiatives implementing Kaizen in developing countries; compared with productivity studies, it places the relationship between workers and managers at the center of inquiry, reflecting the intent of SDG8 concerning decent work and economic growth; and it provides an overview ...

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Dynamics of Long-Life Assets: From Technology Adaptation to Upgrading the Business Model by Stefan N. Grösser (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book is published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The editors present essential methods and tools to support a holistic approach to the challenge of system upgrades and innovation in the context of high-value products and services. The approach presented here is based on three main pillars: an adaptation mechanism based on a broad understanding of system dependencies; efficient use of system knowledge through involvement of actors throughout the process; and technological solutions to enable efficient actor communication and ...

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GMAT Foundations of Verbal: Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep GMAT Strategy Guides) by Manhattan Prep (435 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Developed for test-takers who need a refresher, Manhattan Prep's GMAT Foundations of Verbal provides a user-friendly review of basic verbal concepts crucial for GMAT success. Written by active instructors with 99th-percentile scores, GMAT Foundations of Verbal is designed to help students, particularly ESL students, who struggle with the basics of the verbal section of the GMAT. The book comes with robust online resources, including a practice test, a question bank and interactive lessons. Designed to be user-friendly for all ...

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GMAT Foundations of Math: 900+ Practice Problems in Book and Online (Manhattan Prep GMAT Strategy Guides) by Manhattan Prep (962 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Developed for test-takers who need a refresher, Manhattan Prep's GMAT Foundations of Math provides a user-friendly review of basic math concepts crucial for GMAT success. GMAT Foundations of Math comes with robust online resources, including a practice test, question banks, and interactive video lessons. Written by active instructors with 99th-percentile scores, this guide is designed with the student in mind. Designed to be user-friendly for all students, GMAT Foundations of Math provides: • 700+ practice problems for realistic ...

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Words, Objects and Events in Economics: The Making of Economic Theory (Virtues and Economics Book 6) by Peter Róna (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume of the Virtues in Economics series and represent further contributions to the themes set out in that volume: (i) examining the ...

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In Defense of Monopoly: How Market Power Fosters Creative Production by Richard B. McKenzie (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In Defense of Monopoly offers an unconventional but empirically grounded argument in favor of market monopolies. Authors McKenzie and Lee claim that conventional, static models exaggerate the harm done by real-world monopolies, and they show why some degree of monopoly presence is necessary to maximize the improvement of human welfare over time. Inspired by Joseph Schumpeter's suggestion that market imperfections can drive an economy's long-term progress, In Defense of Monopoly defies conventional assumptions to show readers why an ...

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Social Determinants of Health in Non-communicable Diseases: Case Studies from Japan (Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health) by Katsunori Kondo (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ageing in Japan. With the highest life expectancy and the largest elderly population in the world, Japan has witnessed health inequality by region and social class becoming more prevalent since the 2000s. The first half of this volume describes in detail major NCDs, such as cancers, heart and kidney diseases, ...

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Emerging States at Crossroads (Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies) by Keiichi Tsunekawa (Springer) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the 'emerging states' in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate solutions have emerged at home largely as a consequence of the rapid economic development and associated sociopolitical changes. The middle-income trap is a major economic challenge faced by emerging states. This volume regards interest ...

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Hot Property: The Housing Market in Major Cities by Rob Nijskens (Springer) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and central banks. Cities are booming everywhere, leading to a growing demand for urban housing. In many cities this demand is out-pacing supply, which causes house prices to soar and increases the pressure on rental markets. These developments are posing major challenges for policymakers, central banks and other authorities responsible for ensuring financial stability, and economic well-being in ...

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Global Health Economics: Shaping Health Policy In Low- And Middle-income Countries (World Scientific Series In Global Health Economics And Public ... by Paul Revill (World Scientific) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book contains a collection of works showcasing the latest research into global health economics conducted by leading experts in the field from the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York and other partner research institutions. Each chapter focuses upon an important topic in global health economics and a number of separate research projects. The discussion delves into health care policy evaluation; economic evaluation; econometric and other analytic methods; health equity and universal health coverage; ...

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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia (Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being) by Almas Heshmati (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the global financial crisis. This book examines poverty and related issues and aims to advance the development of new tools and measurement of ...

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Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy by Iris Lewandowski (Springer) (29 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, bioenergy and ecological services. The chapters highlight the importance of bioeconomy-related concepts in public, scientific, and political discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors outline the dimensions of the bioeconomy as a means of achieving sustainability. The authors are ideally situated to ...

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Sustainable Manufacturing: Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives (Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management) by Rainer Stark (Springer) (109 Reviews)    Price verified 28 minutes ago

This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 "Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation". The book aims at providing a reference guide of sustainable manufacturing for researchers, describing methodologies for development of sustainable manufacturing solutions. The volume is structured in four chapters covering the following topics: sustainable manufacturing technology, sustainable product development, sustainable value creation networks and systematic change towards ...

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Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management: TU München, September 2013 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics Book 99) by Glau (Springer) (51 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Quantitative models are omnipresent -but often controversially discussed- in todays risk management practice. New regulations, innovative ?nancial products, and advances in valuation techniques provide a continuous ?ow of challenging problems for ?nancial engineers and risk managers alike. Designing a sound stochastic model requires ?nding a careful balance between parsimonious model assumptions, mathematical viability, and interpretability of the output. Moreover, data requirements and the end-user training are to be considered as ...

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Developmental State Building: The Politics of Emerging Economies (Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies) by Yusuke Takagi (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the 'developmental state' to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the 'developmental state' concept. The nature of the 'emerging state' is characterized by its attitude toward economic development and industrialization. Emerging states have engaged in the promotion of agriculture, trade, and industry and played a ...

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Faith, Finance, and Economy: Beliefs and Economic Well-Being by Tanweer Akram (Palgrave Macmillan) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic progress by drawing on research across economics, finance, history, philosophy, ethics, theology, public policy, law, and other disciplines. Chapters in this edited volume examine themes as consequential as economic opportunities, real world outcomes and faith; values and consumerism; faith, financial intermediation and economic development in Western and Islamic societies; and the impact of faith ...

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 19th International Conference, XP 2018, Porto, Portugal, May 21–25, 2018, ... by Juan Garbajosa (Springer) (31 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in May 2018. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice, and XP 2018 provided a playful and informal environment to learn and trigger discussions around its main theme - make, inspect, adapt. The 21 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: ...

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Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy by Matthias Kalkuhl (Springer) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.

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Vocational Teacher Education in Central Asia: Developing Skills and Facilitating Success (Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, ... by Jens Drummer (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The volume presents papers on vocational education, project-based learning and science didactic approaches, illustrating with sample cases, and with a special focus on Central Asian states. Thematically embedded in the area of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), the book examines the following main topics: project-based learning (PBL), specific didactics with a linkage to food technologies and laboratory didactics, media and new technologies in TVET, evaluation of ...

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Norwegian Shipping in the 20th Century: Norway's Successful Navigation of the World's Most Global Industry (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics) by Stig Tenold (Palgrave Macmillan) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND 4.0 license. This book belongs to the Maritime Business and Economic History strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series. This open access book discusses how Norwegian shipping companies played a crucial role in global shipping markets in the 20th century, at times transporting more than ten per cent of world seaborne trade. Chapters explore how Norway managed to remain competitive, despite being a high labour-cost country in an industry with global competition. ...

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Designing Sustainable Energy for All: Sustainable Product-Service System Design Applied to Distributed Renewable Energy (Green Energy and Technology) by Carlo Vezzoli (Springer) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in low- and middle-income contexts. Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low- income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity. Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approach to address this challenge and provide energy access to all. However, even if promising, the implementation of DRE systems is not always straightforward. The book ...

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S-BPM in the Wild: Practical Value Creation by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This is the first book to present field studies on the application of subject-oriented business process management (S-BPM). Each case presents a specific story and focuses on an essential modeling or implementation issue, and most end with implications or suggestions for further studies. Significant variables and success factors are identified that were discovered during the respective study and lead to suggesting S-BPM novelties. For each case, the authors explain step-by-step how the story develops, and provide readers guidance by ...

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Managed Software Evolution by Ralf Reussner (Springer) (12 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book presents the outcomes of the "Design for Future - Managed Software Evolution" priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation ("Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)") to develop new approaches to software engineering with a specific focus on long-lived software systems. The different lifecycles of software and hardware platforms lead to interoperability problems in such systems. Instead of separating the development, adaptation and evolution of software and its platforms, as well as ...

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Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics: Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis (Topics in Biodiversity and ... by Roseli Pellens (Springer) (29 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book is about phylogenetic diversity as an approach to reduce biodiversity losses in this period of mass extinction. Chapters in the first section deal with questions such as the way we value phylogenetic diversity among other criteria for biodiversity conservation; the choice of measures; the loss of phylogenetic diversity with extinction; the importance of organisms that are deeply branched in the tree of life, and the role of relict species. The second section is composed by contributions exploring methodological aspects, ...

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The EU and China in African Authoritarian Regimes: Domestic Politics and Governance Reforms (Governance and Limited Statehood) by Christine Hackenesch (Palgrave Macmillan) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments' survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU's task of supporting governance reforms difficult, positing that the EU's good governance strategies resonate better with the survival strategies of governments in some dominant party regimes ...

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Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health (International Political Economy Series) by Maureen Mackintosh (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a strong African and more broadly Southern presence, to find ways to link technological development, investment and industrial growth in pharmaceuticals to improve access to essential good quality medicines, as part of moving towards ...

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Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Engine of Economic Development by Inter-American Development Bank (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, pushing past the limits of traditional macroeconomic analyses. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age, access to credit, and international linkages - highlighting the differences in firm characteristics, behaviors, and strategies. By showcasing this remarkable heterogeneity, this ...

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 20th International Conference, XP 2019, Montréal, QC, Canada, May 21–25, 2019, ... by Philippe Kruchten (Springer) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a hybrid forum where agile researchers, academics, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. Following this history, for both ...

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Autonomous Driving: Technical, Legal and Social Aspects by Markus Maurer (Springer) (40 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book takes a look at fully automated, autonomous vehicles and discusses many open questions: How can autonomous vehicles be integrated into the current transportation system with diverse users and human drivers? Where do automated vehicles fall under current legal frameworks? What risks are associated with automation and how will society respond to these risks? How will the marketplace react to automated vehicles and what changes may be necessary for companies? Experts from Germany and the United States define key societal, ...

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Technologies for Development: From Innovation to Social Impact by Silvia Hostettler (Springer) (15 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and information and communication technology, disaster risk-reduction technologies, habitat and sustainable access to energy. The authors discuss how ...

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Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research by Chuanfu Chen (Springer) (94 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book explores the development, trends and research of library and information sciences (LIS) in the digital age. Inside, readers will find research and case studies written by LIS experts, educators and theorists, most of whom have visited China, delivered presentations there and drafted their articles based on feedback they received. As a result, readers will discover the LIS issues and concerns that China and the international community have in common. The book first introduces the opportunities and challenges faced by the ...

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Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics (Virtues and Economics Book 5) by Peter Róna (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships encountered in social life. The idea that social reality is contingent has been known (and largely undisputed) at least since Wittgenstein's ...

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Emerging States and Economies: Their Origins, Drivers, and Challenges Ahead (Emerging-Economy State and International Policy Studies) by Takashi Shiraishi (Springer) (19 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have "emerged" under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their "emergence," and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the nature of major risks and uncertainties in the world, we must look squarely at the political and economic dynamics of emerging states, such as China, India, Brazil, Russia, and ASEAN countries. Their rapid economic development has changed the distribution ...

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Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics: Centre of Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway, 2014-2015 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & ... by Fred Espen Benth (Springer) (30 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

These Proceedings offer a selection of peer-reviewed research and survey papers by some of the foremost international researchers in the fields of finance, energy, stochastics and risk, who present their latest findings on topical problems. The papers cover the areas of stochastic modeling in energy and financial markets; risk management with environmental factors from a stochastic control perspective; and valuation and hedging of derivatives in markets dominated by renewables, all of which further develop the theory of stochastic ...

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The Economy as a Complex Spatial System: Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives (Springer Proceedings in Complexity) by Pasquale Commendatore (Springer) (32 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. This collected volume represents the final outcome of the COST Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of economic systems: models, tools and policy evaluation". Visualizing the EU as a complex and multi-layered network, the book is organized in three parts, each of them dealing with a different level of analysis: At the macro-level, Part I considers the interactions within large economic systems (regions or countries) involving trade, workers migration, and other ...

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Marginality: Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology by Joachim von Braun (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. "Marginality" is the position of people on the edge, preventing their access to resources, freedom of choices, and the development of capabilities. The book is research based with original empirical analyses at local, national, and local scales; book contributors are leaders in their fields and have backgrounds in different disciplines. An important ...

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Subject-Oriented Business Process Management by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (22 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Activities performed in organizations are coordinated via communication between the people involved. The sentences used to communicate are naturally structured by subject, verb, and object. The subject describes the actor, the verb the action and the object what is affected by the action. Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM) as presented in this book is based on this simple structure which enables process-oriented thinking and process modeling. S-BPM puts the subject of a process at the center of attention and ...

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Life Cycle Management (LCA Compendium – The Complete World of Life Cycle Assessment) by Guido Sonnemann (Springer) (40 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of business and its value chains. In this regard, LCM is an opportunity to differentiate through sustainability performance on the market place, working with all departments of a company such as research and development, procurement and marketing, and to enhance the ...

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Selling the Economic Miracle: Economic Reconstruction and Politics in West Germany, 1949-1957 (Monographs in German History Book 18) by Mark E. Spicka (Berghahn Books) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Through an examination of election campaign propaganda and various public relations campaigns, reflecting new electioneering techniques borrowed from the United States, this work explores how conservative political and economic groups sought to construct and sell a political meaning of the Social Market Economy and the Economic Miracle in West Germany during the 1950s.The political meaning of economics contributed to conservative electoral success, constructed a new belief in the free market economy within West German society, and ...

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Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics (Routledge Annals of Bioethics) by Mark J. Cherry (Taylor & Francis) Price verified 3 hours ago

Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.

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STOP Flushing Your Money Down The Drain by David A. Thyfault (53 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book is about "Why You Have To Immediately Revise Your Living Habits IF YOU WANT THE REWARDS OF A DEBT FREE LIFE. There are so many financial traps that you can fall into that drain any hope that you will take those long vacations you hear others enjoy. This book is a complete guide to rescue the money you have been flushing down the sewer and put it to work for you.

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Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden (163 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Principles of Macroeconomics 2e by Timothy Taylor (OpenStax) (614 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Principles of Macroeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory economics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.

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Principles of Microeconomics 2e by Steven A. Greenlaw (OpenStax) (570 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Principles of Microeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters.

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Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e by Timothy Taylor (OpenStax) (111 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e covers the scope and sequence requirements for an Advanced Placement® macroeconomics course and is listed on the College Board's AP® example textbook list. The second edition includes many current examples and recent data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), which are presented in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts.

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Regulatory Pathways For Smart Grid Development in China by Gert Brunekreeft (Springer Vieweg) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The study's recommendations describe institutional elements in the context of electric power sector regulation and has the objective to increase the understanding of the interdependencies of the institutional elements. In future work, the study results might be employed for designing very specific regulatory policies. The recommendations developed in this study focus primarily on the regulatory framework for smart grids and contains a quite detailed description of how the German electricity markets evolved. It also focuses on the ...

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Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Edith Wyatt Price verified 5 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen (340 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

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