Industry and industrial studies

Public Management and Governance examines the factors which make government critically important and the barriers which often stop it being effective.

Fuel cells have been recognized to be destined to form the cornerstone of energy technologies in the twenty-first century.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the themes and concepts related to nature-based tourism development.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book presents a series of research essays on the state of unions in many different parts of the world.

Truman Locke is a television executive.

Tolerance, the ability of populations to cope with the chemical stress resulting from toxic contaminants, has been described in many organisms from bacteria to fungi, from phytoplankton to terrestrial flowering plants, and from invertebrates such as worms to vertebrates like fish and amphibians.

This book investigates the functioning and ecosystems of biorefineries and assesses the potential of the industrial bioeconomy.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains.

Teaches you to start up Nginx and quickly take your expertise to a level where you can comfortably work with various aspects of the web server and make informed design decisions for your web farm.

This volume presents the history and current state of the public-private partnership (PPP) sector in Russia.

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The practical guide to celestial navigation - know what to do step by step, understand why you're doing it, and be confident that you can put it into practice when on board.

The Waistcoat Workbook: Historical, Modern, and Genre Drafting of Waistcoats for Men and Women 1837-Present Day provides comprehensive coverage of the design, construction, and role of waistcoats from the reign of Queen Victoria to the present day in the United Kingdom.

Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to 'undo' or 'subvert' popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force.

Weaving has been a significant aspect of India's cultural and economic history.

For two decades, Swine in the Laboratory: Surgery, Anesthesia, and Experimental Techniques has been the most respected practical technical guide for medical and veterinary researchers using swine as experimental animals.

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

"e; When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania.

Wine is becoming increasingly popular in the Anglophone world and there are many books available which describe how and where it is made.

This study, conducted in Kenya, gives the first insight into the performance of a constructed treatment wetland receiving pulp and paper mill wastewater in the tropics.

This book explores gender-based violence within the music industry, and how women who have experienced violence represent it in their music.

The Lake and Pond Management Guidebook is the successor to the bestselling Lake Smarts: The First Lake Maintenance Handbook, the "e;bible"e; for small-scale lake and pond improvements, published by the Terrene Institute in 1993.

Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mediterranean showcases and examines the current and future trends in sustainable tourism in this popular region where tourism is one of the leading determinants of economic development.

This book, first published in 1985, is a study of the functioning of one sector of American capital markets - non-reserve city national banks - between 1870 and 1900.

Hazards of the Job explores the roots of modern environmentalism in the early-twentieth-century United States.

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This book explains use of data science-based techniques for modeling and providing optimal solutions to complex problems in civil engineering.

Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and India have a direct relation to the security of energy supply anywhere in the world.

The timely, true story of Thomas Nast, the granddaddy of political satire who destroyed a corrupt regime in 19th century New York City—with cartoons.

What 'live music' means for one generation or culture does not necessarily mean 'live' for another.

This book explains the decline in trade union participation, looking at both macro and micro levels.

Are you fully prepared for the implementation of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime across financial services firms and the related regulatory scrutiny on conduct and accountability?

In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process risk and reliability management, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance.

Work-related stress and resulting sickness absence costs the UK economy about GBP3.

This book is pretty much our official story so far.

In this book, Richardson's research spans a decade and two cities - Sydney, Australia and Montreal, Canada - focusing on three metro-style rail infrastructure case study projects: one ongoing, one failed and one upgraded after reaching fifty years of age - to build an irrefutable case that the news media is highly influential to policy, and that these influences are complex, messy and changing.

First published in 1985.

The post-Enron disintegration of Arthur Andersen in 2002 reduced the number of international accounting firms that audit nearly all of the world's largest public companies to the surviving Big Four -- Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC.

Creators and creative industries are struggling to navigate the digital age.

The book reports on the development of householdfinances in rural China.

The negotiation of the Free Trade Area between the US and Israel was, at the time, a remarkable political accomplishment, and is a useful case study because it includes all of the industrial and agricultural sectors, thus spanning the full spectrum of issues that would be dealt with in negotiations.

This book discusses integral groundwater management with scale flow issues and presents methods for defining, preventing, controlling, and mitigating negative environmental impacts related to groundwater.

Mobility and Migration in Film and Moving Image Art explores cinematic and artistic representations of migration and mobility in Europe from the 1990s to today.