Industry and industrial studies

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.

This title was first published in 1980: This volume analyzes Japan's industrial organization both from a historical perspective and by looking in details at specific industries such as iron, steel and the automotive industry.

Americans spend nearly $600 billion a year eating out.

Place branding as a field of research is still in a state of infancy.

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual.

Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond, Second Edition, provides a complete reference for performing JHA and setting up a JHA program.

Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene.

Louis Austin (1898-1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina.

Risk-informed Methods and Applications in Nuclear and Energy Engineering: Modelling, Experimentation, and Validation presents a comprehensive view of the latest technical approaches and experimental capabilities in nuclear energy engineering.

The United States today supports the strongest, most varied nonprofit sector in the world, an economic force of about $2 trillion, responsible for 5.

Create a first-rate resume that will get you hired in ITStand out in a crowd of IT job applicants by creating and submitting a winning resume and cover letter with help from this practical guide.

Luxury Marketing, Sustainability and Technology explores how new technologies, sustainability, and relationship marketing impact and change the future of luxury brand management.

The main question addressed in this book: why has the Hollywood sound serial received so little scholarly attention?

Destinations include the places, landscapes and communities where sport tourism development takes place.

Originally published in 1988.

Over the past fifteen years or so, there has been a widespread and increasing fascination with the theme of mobility across the social sciences and humanities.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

This volume discusses the development of the Mexican manufacturing sector during the NAFTA era.

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people-not only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives.

With the introduction of new production methods and technological innovation, tradesmen and workers encountered new challenges.

Tourism is a fast-growing and changing industry, which has become a driver of economic development in both developed and underdeveloped countries.

Sunshades in October (1963) argues that under certain circumstances economic domestic restraint will in fact do precisely the opposite.

This book addresses concerns with the international trade and investment dispute settlement systems from a statist perspective, at a time when multilateralism is deeply questioned by the forces of mega-regionalism and political and economic contestation.

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Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century.

This volume examines general driving offences, concentrating on those which punish risk-taking whilst driving, with the primary goal of increasing road safety.

This is a revised and updated edition of Paul Ferguson's successful textbook.

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study.

The introduction of new medicines has dramatically improved the quantity and quality of individual and public health while contributing trillions of dollars to the global economy.

This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space.

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society.

Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.

Health systems across the world face multiple pressures.

This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today.

This book covers the fundamental concepts required to solve typical problems in water and wastewater engineering.

This book examines the reconstruction of Afghanistan's economy during the US and international occupation of the country between 2001 and 2021.

The study of pharmaceutical dosage forms has many connections to biological and medical sciences including physiology, biochemistry, pharmacology, pharmacotherapy, therapeutics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacognosy.

Written by internationally renowned scientist and author Thomas S.

In this important reference work, Zeliger catalogs the known effects of chemical mixtureson the human body and also proposes a framework for understanding and predicting theiractions in terms of lipophile (fat soluble) / hydrophile (water soluble) interactions.

Policy Uncertainty and Risk presents a contribution to risk analysis and risk management in public policy and management at large.

This two-volume set collects key essays examining economic theory, methods, and issues salient to agri-environmental policy in the US and in Europe, as well as in other countries.

Theory and Practice in Hospitality and Tourism Research includes 111 contributions from the 2nd International Hospitality and Tourism Conference 2014 (Penang, Malaysia, 2-4 September 2014), and covers a comprehensive range of topics, including:- Hospitality management- Hospitality & tourism marketing- Tourism management- Technology & innova

This book examines the work of Adam Smith and his interest in the science of the legislator.