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Overview: India has realised, later than many other nations, that in order to prosper in the new world economy it will need to successfully manage its knowledge assets. This book investigates the rise of entrepreneurship and knowledge management. It looks at the high tech sector, how it is at present and it‘s prospects for growth. It then goes onto analyse the effect that the knowledge economy will have on labour, business strategy and corporate restructuring and highlights the challenges that India will face, not least whether it can offer enough employment potential for 1 billion people.978-

Overview: Establishes a turnpike property for optimal control problems without convexity (concavity) assumptions.Contains optimal solutions for optimal control problems without convexity (concavity) assumptions.This book is devoted to the study of the turnpike phenomenon and describes the existence of solutions for a large variety of infinite horizon optimal control classes of problems. Chapter 1 provides introductory material on turnpike properties. Chapter 2 studies the turnpike phenomenon for discrete-time optimal control problems. The turnpike properties of autonomous problems with extende

Overview: Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing movement towards European unity cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about.978-1-349-37308-6978-0-230-61912-8

Overview: Presents a complete and updated information about the soils of Italy.The cutting edge state of the art about the soil information of Italy.Discusses issues on Italian soil resources: functions and thr.The Soils of Italy. is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years. Taking advantage of the authors’ large experience and of the most up-to-date  information and technology, this book treats the main soil types of Italy, their diffusion, their functions, ecological use, and the threats to which they are subjected during centuries of intensive management. It also de

Overview: Political economy analysis of the land rush in Africa.Detailed national case studies on countries heavily impacted by large scale land acquisitions.Provides up to date information, critical insights aThis volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African ‘land rush’, providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted.  The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts. In addition to the specific questions of

Overview: The ‘Land Question‘ occupied a central place in political and cultural debates in Britain for nearly two centuries. From parliamentary enclosure in the mid-eighteenth century to the fierce Labour party debate concerning the nationalization of land after World War Two, the fate of the land held the power to galvanize the attention of the nation.978-0-230-24847-2

Overview: 978-3-540-06133-5978-3-540-38333-8Series ISSN 0075-8434 Series E-ISSN 1617-9692

Overview: Presents up-to-date simulation approaches related to thermal effects in machining processes.Includes compensation strategies for turning, milling, drilling and grinding processes.Contains cutting-edge.This contributed volume contains the research results of the priority programme (PP) 1480 “.Modelling, Simulation and Compensation of Thermal Effects for Complex Machining Processes"., funded by the German Research Society (DFG). The topical focus of this programme is the simulation-based prediction and compensation of thermally induced workpiece deviations and subsurface damage effects

Overview: Comparing the ecological modernization capacity of Japan and Germany.Cognitive-Strategic Capabilities for Ecological Modernization.New articles in social sciences.Cognitive-strategic capabilities of a country are decisive for overcoming the strong path dependence in climate-related policies and to achieve ecological and economic modernization. This is the result of a unique comparison approach focusing on four highly intertwined policy areas (Automobiles, Nuclear Energy, Renewables and Rare Earth) in Japan and Germany. Both countries have in principle sufficient economic, technologic

Overview: Presents the life journey of the Mayo Clinic Catheterization Laboratory and its ultimate success in the field of cardiology.Offers insight on how to identify the clinical needs of patients and society.This book explores the history of the Mayo Clinic Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory from 1940 to present day. It examines the life and journey of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab and its ultimate success in implementing the vision of the Mayo philosophy of emphasizing collaboration between lab-based scientists and clinical health care professionals to bring innovation to the clinical pr

Overview: Serves as modern and concise introduction to the subject matter.Combines theory and observation throughout.Offers a self-contained and tutorial presentation.This book provides an overview of solar wind turbulence from both the theoretical and observational perspective. It argues that the interplanetary medium offers the best opportunity to directly study turbulent fluctuations in collisionless plasmas.  In fact, during expansion, the solar wind evolves towards a state characterized by large-amplitude fluctuations in all observed parameters, which resembles, at least at large scales,

Overview: The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine analyses the reasons for the abysmal economic performance of Ukraine during the 1990s. The main thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the development of value-added economic activities. These parasitic mechanisms already developed under Soviet rule (‘beating the system‘ by redistributing goods and services while disregarding formal rules) became a widespread practice.978-1-349-41844-2978-0-333-97802-3Series ISSN 2662-6675 Series E-ISSN 2662-6683

Overview: In Chapter 5, William Shughart also considers the part that politics played in banking legislation during the 1930s, but he looks at the banking legislation passed in the United States. Shughart draws par­ ticular attention to the provisions in the Banking Act of 1933 that required the separation of commercial and investment banking activ­ ities. Applying a public choice analysis, Shughart asks who gained from the provisions, and he concludes that the commercial banking industry, the investment banking industry, and the U. S. Treasury Department can all be said to have benefited in t

Overview: Explores the representation of disability in youth and children‘s dystopian literature.Analyses the way that a child‘s understanding of disability is shaped by the literature and film content.Discusse.This book takes up the task of mapping discursive shifts in the representation of disability in dystopian youth texts across four historical periods where major social, cultural and political shifts were occurring in the lives of many disabled people. By focusing on dystopian texts, which the author argues act as sites for challenging or reinforcing dominant belief systems and ways of b

Overview: Comprehensive and theoretical but still practical approach to asylum issues.Combines EU asylum procedures with human rights aspects.Multidisciplinary approachThis book is based on a conference on the future of the European asylum policy at Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After a challenge set by the Dutch State Secretary for Justice, Ms Nebahat Albayrak, the contributions to this book focus on human rights aspects of the European asylum policy and the way the EU Member States need to cooperate in the future in order to reach results. The authors are scholars, pol

Overview: Explains how public health policy has allowed obesity to get out of control.Highlights the complexity of the subject demanding a multilayered strategy.Written for everyone with an interest in weight c.The obesity epidemic reflects a failure to understand how meals are chosen. Government initiatives have failed, and most people are unable to control their weight. In this book, an internationally recognized expert on diet and behaviour, discusses the common misunderstandings that have created the epidemic, and suggests how obesity could be reduced..After dieting the body needs fewer ca

Overview: 978-1-349-18616-7

Overview: Consumer credit is an integral part of many western societies. This book provides a comprehensive view of how credit-granting institutions operate and discusses the relationship between the strategic objectives set by senior management and the operational strategies employed by credit professionals working at the coal face of credit provision.978-1-349-28480-1978-0-230-58250-7

Overview: 978-3-642-95797-0978-3-642-95796-3Series ISSN 2512-5281 Series E-ISSN 2512-529X

Overview: Offers a unique guide to the “big picture” of online education.Provides online students with valuable support, based on the experiences of fellow students, teachers, developers and researchers.Equips This book is the first comprehensive and integrated guide to online education. It systematically presents all aspects of the emerging “big picture” of online education, providing a broad range of information and insights from online experts, learners, teachers, developers and researchers..The book introduces readers to online education and reveals its potential for bringing about a parad