Christlike Leadership: Leadership that Starts with an Attitude (Christlike Leadership Theory and Practice Series Book 1) by William C. Oakes (101 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This is Book 1 in the Christlike Leadership and Practice Series. Learn how your ethics impact your life, business, and career. Christ-based ethical principles and attitudes work. They make a difference at home, at work, at the club, at church. They are the means to becoming a better, more holistic, leader, manager, teacher, parent, and coach. And this book, written by a pastor and award-winning project manager, explains how.

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Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals by Donald R. Chambers (CFA Institute Research Foundation) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Alternative Investments: A Primer for Investment Professionals provides an overview of alternative investments for institutional asset allocators and other overseers of portfolios containing both traditional and alternative assets. It is designed for those with substantial experience regarding traditional investments in stocks and bonds but limited familiarity regarding alternative assets, alternative strategies, and alternative portfolio management. The primer categorizes alternative assets into four groups: hedge funds, real ...

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Mobile Hollywood: Labor and the Geography of Production by Kevin Sanson (University of California Press) Price verified 15 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Contemporary film and television production is extraordinarily mobile. Filming large-scale studio productions in Atlanta, Budapest, London, Prague, or Australia's Gold Coast makes Hollywood jobs available to people and places far removed from Southern California -- but it also requires individuals to uproot their lives as they travel around the world in pursuit of ...

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Colorado Marijuana Real Estate: Work from Home by Jay Hidoshi (25 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

"Colorado Marijuana Real Estate" is a how to guide for the entrepreneur and the blue-collar guy. This book provides a blueprint for starting a medical marijuana business plan. Colorado real estate is a great investment. Anyone that lived through the .com/tech boom/real estate boom, should try to borrow some money to buy Colorado real estate. This book explains the evolution of legal marijuana in Colorado from 2001 to 2014. It's for all who are interested in how it became Colorado Law. This book gives insight on Colorado marijuana ...

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Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Julie Kumble (Purdue University Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Veterinary medicine has undergone sweeping changes in the last few decades. Women now account for 55 percent of the active veterinarians in the field, and nearly 80 percent of veterinary students are women. However, average salaries have dropped as this shift has occurred, and even with women in the vast majority, only 25 percent of leadership roles are held by women. These trends point to gender-based inequality that veterinary medicine, a profession that tilts so heavily toward women, is struggling to address. How will the ...

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Macroeconomic Modelling of R&D and Innovation Policies (International Economic Association Series) by Ufuk Akcigit Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book encompasses a collection of in-depth analyses showcasing the challenges and ways forward for macroeconomic modelling of R&D and innovation policies. Based upon the proceedings of the EC-DG JRC-IEA workshop held in Brussels in 2017, it presents cutting-edge contributions from a number of leading economists in the field. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current academic and policy challenges surrounding R&D as well as of the state-of-the-art modelling techniques. The book brings to the forefront ...

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Money and Happiness (The Scientific Way): Scientifically Proven Ways To Be Happy And Highly Effective Life Hacks For Financial Independence by Dr L V George (13 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

#1 BEST SELLER IN FREE KINDLE BOOKS** What is the fastest and most effective scientifically proven way to become a happier person? There is a growing body of scientific research answering those exact questions and it turns out that money has a small but significant role to play. This is not only a fascinating book full of surprises, but vital too: you will be left with practical, evidenced based techniques that will help you live a happier and more fulfilled life. In this practical and scientific based guide towards happiness and ...

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Fundamentals of Futures and Options by Roger G. Clarke (Research Foundation of CFA Institute) (19 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Derivative securities and markets have experienced tremendous worldwide growth since 1970. But even so, they are not always well understood. To remedy this situation, the authors explain the link between options and futures and the underlying security or index from which they ultimately derive their value. Pricing and hedging relationships of futures contracts, option characteristics and strategies, and option pricing and hedging relationships are also addressed. To further assist the reader, the authors include exercises to ...

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Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation by George McCready Price (5 Reviews)    Price verified 52 minutes 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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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 6 minutes 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 Ultimate 7 Day Financial Fitness Challenge: A Step-by-Step Workbook to Mastering Your Money in Just One Week (Dorian Hale 5) by Dorian Hale (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck, drowning in debt, and feeling the burden of financial stress? It's time to take control of your financial future with The Ultimate 7-Day Financial Fitness Challenge! Break Free from Financial Stress: • ? Overcome anxiety and stress caused by debt and financial uncertainty. • ? Gain essential financial knowledge to make informed decisions. • ? Turn your financial goals into actionable plans. Transform Your Financial Life: • ? Learn budgeting, saving, investing, and debt ...

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Manual of Ship Subsidies An Historical Summary of the Systems of All Nations by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon (1 Review)    Price verified 15 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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T-Shirts and Suits: A Guide to the Business of Creativity by David Parrish (35 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Successful creative enterprises integrate creativity and business.T-Shirts and Suits offers an approach which brings together both creative passion and business best practice. Written in an engaging and jargon-free style, the book offers inspiration and appropriate advice for all those involved in running or setting up a creative business. Marketing, intellectual property, finance, competition, leadership- and more - are included in this guide. Examples of best practice are illustrated in eleven 'Ideas in Action' sections featuring a ...

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The Little Bond eBooklet: Must-Knows About Your Bond Portfolio by Marilyn Cohen (Writers Resource Group, Inc.) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Must-knows about your fixed income portfolio packed into a 30+ page booklet. Twenty-year Forbes magazine columnist and fixed income investment expert, Marilyn Cohen and best selling author, Chris Malburg join forces in producing the shortest, most valuable book on fixed income investing. This 30+ page booklet is packed with the do's and don'ts, risks and solutions every person who invests in municipal and corporate bonds must know before another trading day goes by.

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Universities, Stakeholders and Social Mission: Building Cooperation Through Action Research (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and ... by Ewa Bogacz-Wojtanowska (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Today's universities are confronted with questions about the increasing scale of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as their decreasing activity in the field of the social mission, i.e., engagement in the real problems of ordinary people, local communities and society at large. As a remedy for this problem, this book proposes using action research as a means of shaping collaboration between universities and their stakeholders, taking into account related benefits, opportunities and challenges. In this context, we ...

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The Settlement of Wage Disputes by Herbert Feis (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

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Towards a Sustainable Future - Life Cycle Management: Challenges and Prospects by Zbigniew Stanislaw Klos (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 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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Stock Fundamental Analysis Mastery: Unlocking Company Stock Financials for Profitable Trading: Stock Fundamental Analysis Mastery: Unlocking Company ... by Angel Talamantes Price verified one hour ago

Discover the power of fundamental analysis with "Stock Fundamental Analysis Mastery: Unlocking Company Stock Financials for Profitable Trading." This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge and tools to dissect financial statements, uncover hidden investment gems, and navigate the stock market with confidence. Whether you're a seasoned trader or a novice investor, this book is your key to success. Inside, you will: • Demystify Financial Statements: Learn to decode balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow ...

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Co-Creation for Sustainability: The UN SDGs and the Power of Local Partnerships by Christopher Ansell (Emerald Publishing Limited) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range of actors to accomplish the first 16 goals. Only through such partnerships can the distributed knowledge, resources and capacity of government ...

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Gender, Food and COVID-19: Global Stories of Harm and Hope (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability) by Paige Castellanos (Routledge) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This book documents how COVID-19 impacts gender, agriculture, and food systems across the globe with on-the-ground accounts and personal reflections from scholars, practitioners, and community members. During the coronavirus pandemic with many people under lockdown, continual agricultural production and access to food remain essential. Women provide much of the formal and informal work in agriculture and food production, distribution, and preparation often under precarious conditions. A cadre of scholars and practitioners from ...

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Masterpieces of Swiss Entrepreneurship: Swiss SMEs Competing in Global Markets by Jean-Pierre Jeannet (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 13 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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General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business by Maria Fusaro (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business, focusing particularly on 'General Average' - a mechanism by which extraordinary expenses regarding ship or cargo, incurred during a voyage to save the venture, are shared between all participants to protect equity. This volume traces the history of this risk management tool from its origins in the pre-Roman Mediterranean through to its use in the shipping sector today. Contributions range from the Islamic ...

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Inspirational Investing (2023 edition): What matters in the world of investing – by women, for women by Amanda Taylor (5 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

When it comes to investing, the most important message for women is to start. Inspirational Investing is an empowering read that enables you to reflect on your own finances and plan ahead for those moments that matter. Many women doubt their own investing ability, but this book shows you why it is critical to plan for a better future, with inspiration from leading industry experts. Learn from some of the most successful women in finance as they share practical advice, combined with real-life journeys from people who have achieved ...

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ESG and Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World: A Critical Review by Pedro Matos (48 Reviews)    Price verified 32 minutes ago

This survey examines the vibrant academic literature on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. While there is no consensus on the exact list of ESG issues, responsible investors increasingly assess stocks in their portfolios based on nonfinancial data on environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions), social impact (e.g., employee satisfaction), and governance attributes (e.g., board structure). The objective is to reduce exposure to investments that pose greater ESG risks or to influence companies to become more ...

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A Guide to Sustainable Corporate Responsibility: From Theory to Action by Caroline D. Ditlev-Simonsen (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of corporate responsibility, this book moves from academic theory to practical application. It points to ways in which companies can successfully manage their transition to a more responsible, sustainable way of doing business, common mistakes to avoid and how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are integral to any ...

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Bremen Cotton Exchange 1872/1922 by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer (2 Reviews)    Price verified 15 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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Industrial Policy for Growth and Diversification: A Conceptual Framework (Departmental Papers) by Mr. Gonzalo Salinas (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

As countries strive for a strong recovery and to recoup the losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic, they need to map out a new path for development and high and sustained growth. Promoting diversification, developing new industrial capabilities, and designing the policies needed to achieve this goal should be a priority. A successful diversification strategy should tackle both broad policy failures, such as an unfavorable business environment and investment climate and sector-specific market failures. This departmental paper ...

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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 13 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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Just Invest and Become Insanely Wealthy! : Intuitive Investing Across Asset Classes by Jayaram Rajaram (105 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Just Invest and become Insanely Wealthy! is a book for action takers. The content inside is gold standard for those who seek to learn investing in various asset classes through intuitive, common-sensical ways. This book is as much for people who hate numbers and complexity as it is for the finance geeks, as it gives a fresh perspective on visual, systematic and intuitive investing across asset classes. Whether you like equity, real estate, gold, debt, angel investing or crowd financing, this book will teach you how you can win across ...

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The Future of Investment Management by Ronald Kahn (15 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Investment management is in flux, arguably more than it has been in a long time. Active management is under pressure, with investors switching from active to index funds. New "smart beta" products offer low-cost exposures to many active ideas. Exchange-traded funds are proliferating. Markets and regulations have changed significantly over the past 10-20 years, and data and technology -- which are increasingly important for investment management -- are evolving even more rapidly. In the midst of this change, what can we say about the ...

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Investments: The Easy Guide to Building Wealth with Agricultural Business for Beginners by Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh (80 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

***Investments: The Easy Guide to Building Wealth with Agricultural Business for Beginners*** No matter what your plan is for your agribusiness, the key to your success lies in creating a strong foundation that will support your business into the future. Creating a profitable agricultural business not only builds wealth for you and your family. It also has the potential to build wealth for the surrounding community. If you're ready to leave the corporate rat-race and take the leap into being your own boss, agribusiness is an ...

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How to Start a Lip Gloss Business : Get Your Lip Gloss Company to Grow to The International Level and Excel in The Long-Term by Maxwell Rotheray (4 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Helena Rubinstein became rich selling beauty, you too can, but this lies in understanding your purpose of creating new lip gloss. The world will not applaud you for creating a money stream for yourself; it will for your passion for making humanity better. How does your lip gloss better society? Your sure step to success is developing a product that solves a problem; it is what will set you apart from the other numerous lip gloss brands in the world. This means having a unique selling proposition. Besides knowing this unique ...

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Globalisation and its Economic Consequences: Looking at APEC Economies (Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics) by Shujiro Urata (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Given the rising criticisms of and growing doubts about globalisation, this timely edited volume looks at globalisation and its economic impact on eight countries in Asia and the Pacific region, namely Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, the United States (US), and Vietnam. The eight selected countries are members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and yet the economies of these member countries have benefited differently from globalisation. This book summarises findings from existing academic ...

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Governing Social Protection in the Long Term: Social Policy and Employment Relations in Australia and New Zealand (Global Dynamics of Social Policy) by Gaby Ramia (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book examines the comparative evolution of social protection in Australia and New Zealand from 1890 to the present day, focusing on the relationship between employment relations and social policy. Utilising longstanding and more recent developments in historical institutionalist methodology, Ramia investigates the relationship between these two policy domains in the context of social protection theory. He argues that treating employment relations as dynamic, and as inextricably intertwined with changes in the welfare ...

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From Zero to Interview : The proven three-step guide to getting the interviews you want, now. (The Work Connection Book 1) by M.K. Woodward (6 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Spending hours applying online for jobs you know you can do and not hearing back, is a highly frustrating and depressing process. In From Zero Interview, M.K.Woodward a recruiter with 20 years experience provides a simple, proven recruitment insider's guide on how to get better interviews with the employers you want, without applying online There is no reason to wait, especially in such unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is to escape your current job, being paid what you're worth or just living more and enjoying your ...

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200 Important Quotes From Napoleon Hill by Noel N (82 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Learn from the best selling author who studied success and failure for over 20 years! Many of the worlds' most successful men have attributed Napoleon Hill's books to their success, most notably John C. Maxwell who lists it on his MUST READ list. Reading Napoleon Hill books made Noel realize the power of the human mind. These quotes from the various books by Napoleon Hill are some of what he considers to be the most important and powerful things he's ever said. Read them again and again whenever you feel the need and perhaps use ...

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The Crypto Handbook: The ultimate guide to understanding and investing in digital assets, Web3, the metaverse and more. by Sam Volkering (Harriman House) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Turbulence in crypto markets has left investors and potential investors terrified about the future of digital assets and decentralised finance. Valuations have collapsed, exchanges bankrupted, and billions of dollars washed away. But is it really a crisis? Or is the immense promise and potential of this dynamic new asset class stronger than it's ever been? This isn't the first crypto boom and bust (likely not the last), and with every cycle exciting, emerging innovative opportunities rise to the surface and provide untapped ...

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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 14 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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Innovation Capacity and the City: The Enabling Role of Design (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Grazia Concilio (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call "User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation". The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasible answers to complex global challenges. In this way, innovation can become disruptive, while also sparking a dynamic of gradual change in the "urbanscape" it ...

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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 4 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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Urban Recycling Cooperatives: Building resilient communities (Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy) by Jutta Gutberlet (Routledge) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-term consequences. Inappropriate management of solid waste can lead to damaging environmental impacts, particularly in the megacities of the Global South. Urban Recycling Cooperatives explores the multiple narratives and interdisciplinary nature of waste studies, drawing attention to the pressing social, economic and environmental challenges related to waste management. The book asks ...

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Data Collection in Fragile States: Innovations from Africa and Beyond by Johannes Hoogeveen (1 Review)    Price verified 15 hours ago

'This open access book addresses an urgent issue on which little organized information exists. It reflects experience in Africa but is highly relevant to other fragile states as well.' -- Constantine Michalopoulos, John Hopkins University, USA and former Director of Economic Policy and Co-ordination at the World Bank Fragile countries face a triple data challenge. Up-to-date information is needed to deal with rapidly changing circumstances and to design adequate responses. Yet, fragile countries are among the most data deprived, ...

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Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa by Abebe Shimeles (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 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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The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare by Andy Green (Palgrave Macmillan) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life domains. A central question addressed is whether current changes are best understood as growing inequalities within and across age groups, ...

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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 14 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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Investing For Beginners: Quickstart Guide On Stock Market, Forex Trading, Futures, Etfs And Cryptocurrency (Transform Your Life And Get Rich With ... by Magnus Brewer (3 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Are you planning to enter the world of investment? Are you interested in Options Trading? Do you want to improve your investment strategies? Don't worry. This book has got you covered. Wealth, they say it doesn't grow on trees, but the concept is just similar to how a tree grows i.e. it takes time. We all want to be wealthy but the problem is that we don't want to go through the process as a tree grows. We are looking for quick fixes and rugs to reaches stories that we read about every day don't make things any easier for us. Think ...

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Risk Management Maturity: A Multidimensional Model (Routledge Focus on Business and Management) by Sylwia Bąk (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic are wake-up calls for enterprises to review their current risk management models. This book suggests a more robust risk management maturity model and illustrates the application in crisis situations. The book surveys existing risk management maturity models and proposes a new model appropriate for assessing the risk management processes in enterprises during times of crisis. Its key advantages include the correlation of its attributes with crisis situations and an innovative methodological approach ...

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100 Stocks That A Young Warren Buffett Might Buy: Proven Methods for Buying Stocks and Building Wealth Like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger by James Pattersenn Jr (Trilogy Publishing Group) (65 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

"Success in [stock] investing doesn't correlate with IQ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing." - Warren Buffett In 100 Stocks that a Young Warren Buffett Might Buy, author James Pattersenn reveals how Warren Buffett and his partner Charlie Munger earned a mind-blowing 1156% return on investment with stocks and led Buffett to be one of the richest men in the world with a net worth of more than $109 billion. You will learn the most important stock buying guidelines ...

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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 15 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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Taxing Multinationals in Europe (Departmental Papers) by Mr. Alexander D Klemm (INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This paper aims to contribute to the European policy debate on corporate income tax reform in three ways. First, it takes a step back to review the performance of the CIT in Europe over the past several decades and the important role played by MNEs in European economies. Second, it analyses corporate tax spillovers in Europe with a focus on the channels and magnitudes of both profit shifting and CIT competition. Third, the paper examines the progress made in European CIT coordination and discusses reforms to strengthen the ...

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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 6 minutes 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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Times of Insight: Conscience, Corporations, and the Common Good (Issues in Business Ethics Book 54) by Kenneth E. Goodpaster (1 Review)    Price verified 26 minutes ago

This open access book traces the research and teaching contributions of Kenneth Goodpaster over more than 45 years of his career. The book shows the content and the progression of these themes over the years identifying four insights in applied ethics: the moral insight, the institutional insight, the anthropological insight, and the Socratic insight. It highlights such concepts as conscience, corporate responsibility, corporations as agents and as recipients, stockholders, stakeholders, comprehensive moral thinking, and ethics ...

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The Ultimate Stress-Relief Tool Kit: Simple Strategies For a Happier, Healthier Life (Vita Meadows Book 5) by Vita Meadows (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Pain, anxiety and stress have become part of everyday life in today's hectic society. From work demands to relationship strains and more personal matters, many of us feel trapped by stress and anxiety. There is hope--an escape from this cycle! The Ultimate Stress-Relief Tool Kit: Simple Strategies For A Happier, Healthier Life provides just that solution. The Ultimate Stress-Relief Tool Kit is an essential guide that aims to provide peace in an often overwhelming world. Filled with proven techniques for relieving tension and anxiety ...

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Organization Management – Dynamic Creative Team Coordination (Edition Digital Science) by Stavros Georgiades (1 Review)    Price verified 16 hours ago

This open access book, through an in-depth process study of the interactions of two creative groups (film production crew) in temporary organizations during two media projects, explores how a team developmental process unfolds and proposes a model illustrating how the groups repeatedly change formation so that individuals can manage job interdependencies and new issues arising while developing, building up, and synthesizing new ideas into a final creative solution. This theory on creative group dynamic coordination builds theory on ...

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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 14 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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The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace (SpringerBriefs in Business) by Agustin Chevez (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This is an Open Access book. Hoping to incubate a unique idea about workplace design, Dr. Agustin Chevez walked in isolation for 42 days from Melbourne to Sydney. His pilgrimage delivered 34 Signposts, a collection of insights which hold the promise to guide us to a better place to work. While firmly positioned within the shifting context of work, the Signposts point away from reactive solutions with a short shelf life. Instead, these markers are infused with a diversity of thought instilled by Agustin's pilgrimage and reclaim ...

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The Downfall of the American Order? by Peter J. Katzenstein (Cornell University Press) Price verified 14 hours ago

The Downfall of the American Order? offers penetrating insight into the emerging global political economy at this moment of an increasingly chaotic world. For seventy-five years, the basic patterns of world politics and the contours of international economic activity took place in the shadow of American leadership and the institutions it designed -- an order designed to avoid the horrors of previous eras, including, most poignantly, two world wars and the Great Depression. But all things must pass. The global financial crisis of ...

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Are You Free?: Beginners Guide to Liberty (Christian Liberty) by Tim Bankes II (13 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Growing up in America made me think that I was as free as anyone could be. I ran into libertarianism and that changed everything. Do you want to find out the truth about freedom? The truth about why being free is the most important thing in the world. This book will offer an angle for all sides of the political spectrum. It will open your eyes to a new way, a completely separate way of thinking about how we can solve our problems. Most people who really open themselves up to these ideas find themselves having a conversion-like ...

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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics (BAFE 2022) (Advances in Economics, Business and ... by Fanyu Chen (Atlantis Press) Price verified 13 hours ago

This is an open access book. The Faculty of Business and Finance, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) is pleased to organize the 10th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance, and Economics (BAFE 2022) on 11th October 2022 in virtual mode via Microsoft Teams or Zoom platform. This conference aims to bring together researchers to present up-to-date works that contribute to new theoretical, methodological and empirical knowledge

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Implementing Industry 4.0 in SMEs: Concepts, Examples and Applications by Dominik T. Matt (1 Review)    Price verified 15 hours ago

This open access book addresses the practical challenges that Industry 4.0 presents for SMEs. While large companies are already responding to the changes resulting from the fourth industrial revolution , small businesses are in danger of falling behind due to the lack of examples, best practices and established methods and tools. Following on from the publication of the previous book 'Industry 4.0 for SMEs: Challenges, Opportunities and Requirements', the authors offer in this new book innovative results from research on smart ...

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Women Workers And Technological Change In Europe In The Nineteenth And twentieth century by Gertjan De Groot (Routledge) (18 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

From the traditional stereotyped viewpoint, femininity and technology clash. This negative association between women and technology is one of the features of the sex-typing of jobs. Men are seen as technically competent and creative; women are seen as incompetent, suited only to work with machines that have been made and maintained by men. Men identify themselves with technology, and technology is identified with masculinity. The relationship between technology, technological change and women's work is, however, very complex.; ...

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Designing Digital Work: Concepts and Methods for Human-centered Digitization by Stefan Oppl (Palgrave Macmillan) (12 Reviews)    Price verified one hour 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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History of Innovative Entrepreneurs in Japan by Takeo Kikkawa (1 Review)    Price verified 13 hours ago

This is the first Open Access book introducing more than 20 of Japan's leading innovative entrepreneurs from the 17th century to the present. The author outlines the innovative business models created by entrepreneurs including SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, Fast Retailing (Uniqlo)'s Yanai Tadashi, Honda's Soichiro Honda, Sony's Akio Morita, Panasonic's Konosuke Matsushita, and Toyota's Kiichiro Toyoda, as well as their predecessors including Takatoshi Mitsui of Mitsui Zaibatsu, Shibusawa Eiichi of Daiichi Bank. While introducing the ...

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World Economic Outlook, October 2021 by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. Price verified 14 hours ago

The global recovery continues but the momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. Fueled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the recorded global COVID-19 death toll has risen close to 5 million and health risks abound, holding back a full return to normalcy. Pandemic outbreaks in critical links of global supply chains have resulted in longer-than-expected supply disruptions, further feeding inflation in many countries. Overall, risks to economic prospects have increased, and policy trade-offs have become more complex.

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How to Trade Binary Options Successfully: A Complete Guide to Binary Options Trading by Meir Liraz (Liraz Publishing) (213 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

The purpose of this book is to show you how to make money trading Binary Options. Binary Options are a popular investment instrument for trading stocks, commodities and currencies. Trading Binaries is very simple and straightforward, all you need to do is decide which of the two directions the asset will move, up or down. And binaries has quite a high profit potential. Binary options allow even beginners the opportunity to succeed with financial trading. Actually people that have minimum financial track record can easily make money ...

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Passive Income: How to Make Money Online by Blogging, Ecommerce, Dropshipping and Affiliate Marketing (Wealth Using Real Estate And Online Business) by Stephen J Jackson (33 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This book will make you realize how special and easy generate passive income can be! You will learn about great passive income ideas and streams to profit from for years and years to come. Do you want to know how to make money while you sleep? Want to someday quit your job but can't? Do you want to break free from the shackles of living paycheck to paycheck? Do you believe in the possibility of retiring before you are 30? Then you need the secrets in this book! Highlights of The Smart Passive Income Guide: ? Common Misconceptions ...

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Victory At All Costs: An Exhortation On What Success Demands by A.P. Hovsepian (11 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Why are there so many books about success? And if you want to succeed, which one do you read? So many authors and individuals feel as though their unique experience is publishworthy. It is not. Most success stories are riddled with luck, timing, and survivorship bias. They don't really know what it takes to win, and are only doing damage to hopefuls who pick up their material. Victory At All Costs is a sobering checklist of what is required to win in this world. It does not instruct you on what to do, rather, what you should be ...

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The Success Roadmap (The Hero's Journey Series Book 1) by C. A. Touré (26 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

Take charge of the direction of your life. Are you fed up, thrashing in the dark with no clear way to attain your coveted goals? Are you aching to start building a life you can be proud of? Then the reader this book was written for is you. One who's truly trying to attain higher levels but keeps coming up short. You don't know where to start, yet you don't wish to quit and still have enough fight left in you for another round. On the other hand, if you're lucky enough to have avoided all the pain of seeking answers and this was your ...

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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 16 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 Marginalized Youth: Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World (Routledge Studies in Labour Economics) by Mark Levels (1 Review)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, countries' institutions and policies, and their complex interplay. Readers will come to understand youth marginalization as a process that ...

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The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead (Routledge Frontiers in Project Management) by Terry M. Williams (1 Review)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance. This book delves into the reality of large public projects, to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently, recognising the ...

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Contextual Process Digitalization: Changing Perspectives – Design Thinking – Value-Led Design by Albert Fleischmann (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 32 minutes ago

This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants' perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a model and how it is embedded in the organizational and IT environment of the company. Lastly, the book examines the joint processing of instances in the resulting socio-technical systems. A corresponding illustration, which expands with the overview, enables readers to gain a ...

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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America: Evidence and Perspectives by Irwin Kirsch (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 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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The Art of Communicating: Addressing Current Trends (Communication Mastery Series Book 3) by Marcus Smith (8 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Learn How The Digital Age Is Harming Our Communication Capabilities And Why It Prevents Us From Building Meaningful Relationships! Do you spend a lot of time online connecting with others? Do you feel isolated? Is your mental health suffering? Do you struggle to create genuine bonds with other people? Do you feel anxious when you need to talk to other people? Are your personal and professional relationships suffering due to all this? If yes, then this book, The Art of Communicating is PERFECT FOR YOU! Technology allows us to ...

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The Politics of Green Transformations (Pathways to Sustainability) by Ian Scoones (Routledge) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Multiple 'green transformations' are required if humanity is to live sustainably on planet Earth. Recalling past transformations, this book examines what makes the current challenge different, and especially urgent. It examines how green transformations must take place in the context of the particular moments of capitalist development, and in relation to particular alliances. The role of the state is emphasised, both in terms of the type of incentives required to make green transformations politically feasible and the way states must ...

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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 14 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 2 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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Bestseller Amazon: Come Pubblicare un Libro e Scalare le Classifiche per Essere Numero1 Bestseller su Amazon con il Protocollo di Lancio, di Prezzo e ... by Giacomo Bruno (280 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

"Giacomo Bruno: da ingegnere elettronico a papà degli ebook" Il Corriere "L'Editore che Sforna Bestseller e Autori Milionari" La Repubblica "I libri di Bruno danno un vantaggio competitivo ai lettori" Forbes "Giacomo Bruno è l'uomo giusto. Ho visto poche persone fare quello che fa Giacomo quando si tratta di scrivere e pubblicare un libro. E tu hai la fortuna di averlo in Italia. Pronto a seguirti e insegnarti tutto quello che ti serve per diventare Autore Bestseller ed essere il Numero 1 del tuo settore." Robert Allen Vuoi ...

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The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States by Guaranty Trust Company of New York (1 Review)    Price verified 2 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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Dynamics in Logistics: Twenty-Five Years of Interdisciplinary Logistics Research in Bremen, Germany by Michael Freitag (2 Reviews)    Price verified 14 hours ago

This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research on classical supply chain management, digitalized business processes, production engineering, electrical engineering, computer science and ...

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