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View book details for Lives in Peril
Profit or Safety in the Global Maritime Industry?
Lives in Peril demonstrates how and why seafarers are a vulnerable group of workers. It argues they are made so by the organisation and structure of their employment; the prioritisation of profit over safety by the actors that engage and …
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From a New York Times bestselling author, an FBI agent becomes a suspected serial killer's next-door neighbor. FBI agent Drex Easton is driven by a single goal: to outmaneuver sociopath Weston Graham, who's responsible for the disappearance of eight women. …
View book details for Internationalization of Higher Education
An Analysis through Spatial, Network, and Mobilities Theories
This book provides a cutting-edge analysis of the ways in which higher education institutions have become more international over the past two decades. Drawing upon a range of post-foundational spatial, network, and mobilities theories, the book shifts our thinking away …
View book details for Bankwirtschaft, Rechnungswesen und Steuerung, Wirtschafts- und Sozialkunde
Prufungswissen in Ubersichten
Dieses Buch bietet den kompletten, fur die Abschlussprufung relevanten Lernstoff in Form von knappen tabellarischen Ubersichten und ubersichtlichen Grafiken - und zwar fur alle drei Prufungsfacher. Die Auszubildenden konnen somit gezielt Wissenslucken schlieen und sich die wesentlichen Inhalte merken - …
Finally available in English, Prihonsky's New Anti-Kant is an inescapable book for anyone interested in Kant's Critical philosophy. It provides a concise and systematic recapitulation of Bolzano's insightful, trenchant criticisms of Kant, and provides a fresh window into historical developments …
View book details for Hochfrequenztechnik
Komponenten fur High-Speed- und Hochfrequenzschaltungen
Dieses Lehr- und Fachbuch vermittelt anschaulich die Grundlagen der HF-Technik und gibt konkrete Beschreibungen fur den Entwurf von Leitungen und linearer Komponenten in High-Speed- und HF-Schaltungen. Dem Leser wird vermittelt, wie diese Schaltungen synthetisiert, optimiert und modelliert werden. Mit Hilfe …
View book details for Marktforschung
Eine praxisorientierte Einfuhrung
Auf allen Hierarchieebenen werden in Unternehmen Entscheidungen auf Basis von Marktkenntnis und -erfahrung getroffen. Je besser und aktueller die (Markt-)Informationen sind, desto groer ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Mitarbeiter und Fuhrungskrafte die richtige Wahl treffen. Eine zunehmende Dynamik auf nahezu allen …
View book details for Drugs on the Dark Net
How Cryptomarkets are Transforming the Global Trade in Illicit Drugs
This study explores the rapidly expanding world of online illicit drug trading. Since the fall of the infamous Silk Road, a new generation of cryptomarkets can be found thriving on the dark net. Martin explores how these websites defy powerful …
This volume brings emerging research on religion and development into conversation with politics. Deploying innovative conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical research from across contemporary Asia, this collection makes an incisive contribution to the analysis of aid and development processes.
This study examines the impact of Buddhism on the political process of Asian countries in recent times. The intersection between Buddhism and politics; religious authority and political power is explored through the engagement of Buddhist monks and lay activists in …
View book details for Inventive Negotiation
Getting Beyond Yes
Negotiation is a core skill used in a variety of personal and commercial settings and can be the key to success. Inventive Negotiation demonstrates how to transform transaction-oriented competitive or integrative bargainers into inventive negotiators that focus on long-term commercial …
View book details for The Limits of Surveillance and Financial Market Failure
Lessons from the Euro-Area Crisis
This book examines the effectiveness of surveillance by international institutions for financial crisis prevention. It discusses issues relating to designing effective micro- and macro-prudential policies, their mixes and their coordination with monetary policies for achieving financial stability while promoting better …
We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and markets that is more suitable to understand the present world …
View book details for The Growth of Chinese Electronics Firms
Globalization and Organizations
The Growth of Chinese Electronics Firms outlines the way firms grow in China at an organizational level. Kimura uses China's electronics industry as a case study for measuring technology-fuelled growth and provides a way to understand diversified the growth process …
View book details for Marketing to the 90s Generation
Global Data on Society, Consumption, and Identity
Marketing to the 90s Generation is based on original research conducted by sociologists and psychologists on generational cohorts, how they come about, what defines them and what it means to society, its institutions and companies.
This book comprises the full selected Regular Lectures from the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012. ICME-12 brought together 4700 experts from …
View book details for The Nature of School Leadership
Global Practice Perspectives
This book explores school leadership through a cross-cultural comparative lens, drawing on data from 16 countries located on five continents. The book gives a voice to both primary and secondary school principals, who discuss the nature of their work and …
View book details for Our National River Ganga
Lifeline of Millions
There is a plethora of information available on the river Ganga in the form of books, blogs, articles, websites, videos. Unfortunately, most of the information about this famous river is in a scattered form and reproduced from unverified sources. This …
View book details for Creative Selves / Creative Cultures
Critical Autoethnography, Performance, and Pedagogy
This book addresses and demonstrates the importance of critical approaches to autoethnography, particularly the commitment that such approaches make to theorizing the personal and to creating work that embodies a social justice ethos. Arts-based and practice-led approaches to this work …
View book details for Extreme Media and American Politics
In Defense of Extremity
This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics? Taylor explores these questions, and how these media affect political knowledge, trust, efficacy, tolerance, policy attitudes, and political behaviors. Using experiments and data from …
This thesis describes the authors pioneering efforts in the conceptualization and implementation of combined platinum-based immuno-chemotherapeutics, which represent a significant paradigm shift from the conventional approach of directly targeting cancer. The work described has opened up a rich and largely …
View book details for Advances in Structural Engineering
Materials, Volume Three
The book presents research papers presented by academicians, researchers, and practicing structural engineers from India and abroad in the recently held Structural Engineering Convention (SEC) 2014 at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during 22 24 December 2014. The book is …
View book details for Advances in Variational and Hemivariational Inequalities
Theory, Numerical Analysis, and Applications
This volume is comprised of articles providing new results on variational and hemivariational inequalities with applications to Contact Mechanics unavailable from other sources. The book will be of particular interest to graduate students and young researchers in applied and pure …
This book provides insights into identifying and dealing with possible corporate tax risks. It also elaborates on how enterprises can avoid possible issuance of notices of violation, fines and default interest, and ensure reduced tax responsibility of enterprises and their …
This book focuses on the prophylactic potential of diet-derived factors in primary prevention of cancer. It is written by a group of highly reputed experts in the area of dietary agents and cancer chemoprevention. The translational potential of dietary factors …
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