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Reporter Alexandra Wolfe's biting but admiring story of Silicon Valley, and the men and women whose hubris and ambition are changing the world.

After all the research on agricultural risk to date, the treatment of risk in agricultural research is far from harmonious.

Do we need a new car or a new refrigerator every ten years?

It is not uncommon that a group of scientists from many different disciplines join a working group, discuss a topic of interest and edit a volume of articles related to this topic.

This volume is concerned with the role of science in fishery management.

Coordination of land use and transport is one of the most important issues in urban planning from the viewpoint of transport infrastructure supply and amenity in urban space.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Countries with smaller governments grow faster.

This book showcases the discussion about megaprojects carried out at the MeRIT (Megaproject Research Interdisciplinary Team) workshop 2023: the crisis, discontinuity, rising prices, and supply chains disruption force radical reflection for those involved in megaprojects.

We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future.

*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation - and a must-read.

Where do you stand on the junior doctors' strike?

This volume contains a comprehensive guide to farm management, with a particular focus on the financial side of running a farm and including information on borrowing, hire purchase, and returns.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision makers make better informed policy decisions.

IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions.

IZA World of Labor distils and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers make better informed policy decisions.

Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply.

The study of urban political economy needs no justification, for cities are the heart (and arguably the soul) of our civilization, and their political and economic conditions are the linchpins of its existence.

This book unravels the complex mechanisms involved in global real estate capital markets, enabling the reader to understand how they have grown and evolved, how they function, what determines market pricing, and how the public and private debt and equity markets are linked to each other.

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Management presents the state-of-the-art in hybrid electric vehicle system modelling and management.

Air Conditioning with Natural Energy is a comprehensive examination of the principles, theory, applications, and energy saving performance of newly developed technologies for air conditioning using natural energy.

Air Conditioning with Natural Energy is a comprehensive examination of the principles, theory, applications, and energy saving performance of newly developed technologies for air conditioning using natural energy.

This book presents the core elements that underwrite agroecology.

A passionate, practical roadmap for addressing inequality and finally making our workplaces work for women Arianna Huffington Foreword by Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel For years, we've been telling women that in order to succeed at work, they need to change themselves first lean in, negotiate like a man, don't be too polite or you'll never succeed (like a man).

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives.

The Definitive Guide to Captive Insurance Companies:What Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know About Creating and Implementing a CaptiveAmerica s top corporate estate, tax and asset protection attorney provides readers with true insight on multiple key sophisticated planning techniques for small business owners implementing captive insurance companies.

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1885 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

Clinical and Statistical Considerations in Personalized Medicine explores recent advances related to biomarkers and their translation into clinical development.

The Paradox: Americans are not as healthy as people in dozens of comparable countries that spend 30 percent less on health care, and our medical marketplace overall is plagued by persistent problems of cost, quality, and access.

This book addresses the question of the double exposure of marine ecosystems, i.

For the Movers, Shakers, and Policy Makers in Energy Engineering and Related IndustriesThe latest version of a bestselling reference, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Handbook, Second Edition covers the foremost trends and technologies in energy engineering today.

An accountable care organization (ACO) is a healthcare organization characterized by a payment and care delivery model that seeks to tie provider reimbursements to quality metrics and reductions in the total cost of care for an assigned group of patients.

If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, ita s that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does.

As many biological products face losing their patents in the next decade, the pharmaceutical industry needs an abbreviated regulatory pathway for approval of biosimilar drug products, which are cost-effective, follow-on/subsequent versions of the innovator's biologic products.

There is a secret inside healthcare, and ita s this: We can do healthcare for a lot less money.

In this book, a world-class editorial advisory board and an independent team of contributors draw on their experience in operations, leadership, and Lean managerial decision making to share helpful insights on the valuation of hospitals in today's changing reimbursement and regulatory environments.

If the furious debate around the state of healthcare in the US has led to any consensus, ita s that the system should be delivering better quality for less cost than it does.

Rapid population growth, limited water availability, climate variability and environmental pollution together cause a significant challenge to provide sufficient water to urban residents in a sustainable and effective way.

With healthcare making the transition from volume-based reimbursement programs to value-based approaches, understanding performance measurement is vital to optimize payment and quality outcomes.

There is a secret inside healthcare, and ita s this: We can do healthcare for a lot less money.

Theory of Drug Development presents a formal quantitative framework for understanding drug development that goes beyond simply describing the properties of the statistics in individual studies.

Economic evaluation has become an essential component of clinical trial design to show that new treatments and technologies offer value to payers in various healthcare systems.

Recent healthcare reform and its provisions have pushed health information technology (HIT) into the forefront.

La Tesis tiene los siguientes campos de desarrollo: el primero aborda la evolucin terica y conceptual de las categoras de anlisis referidas al Espacio, la Regin, la Frontera y la Integracin en el marco de una visin territorial del desarrollo en sub espacios nacionales que confluyen formando un Espacio Regional Fronterizo; el segundo discurre examinando, en dos escenarios que el Per comparte con Bolivia y Ecuador, la dimensin real del proceso hasta demostrar tangiblemente una dinmica econmica, social y poltica propia de dichos espacios; el tercer eje examina el rol del Estado en la administracin y gestin de aquellos procesos tanto desde una plataforma unilateral como en sus expresiones de carcter multilateral, dentro de las cuales se subraya la participacin de la subregin andina.

A unique book that takes the reader into the depths and mysteries of creating a wondrous people-initiated economic plan grounded in centuries of cultural and ecological wisdom.

Any business can take steps to be friendlier to the environment, but how do you do it while maintaining and actually boosting profits?

Federal Facility Environmental Management Systems explains how, why, and when federal agencies need to establish compliant EMSs in accordance with the April 21, 2000, Executive Order.