Infrastructure

Seeking innovative answers to global sustainability challenges has become an urgent need with the onslaught of environmental and ecological degradation that surrounds us today. More than ever, there is a need to carve new ways for citizens and different...

Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh...

Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at...

This practical guide is written for organisations that are implementing a business continuity management system and certification in line with ISO 22301. The development of a BCMS requires commitment, time, resourcefulness and management support. This...

This volume introduces the notion of Thinking Infrastructures to explore a broad range of phenomena that structure attention, shape decision-making, and guide cognition: Thinking Infrastructures configure entities (via tracing, tagging), organise...

North American Guild of Beer Writer Award Recipient Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. In the golden age of light, bland and cheap beers, John...

Can the stories of bananas, whales, sea birds, and otters teach us to reconsider the seaport as a place of ecological violence, tied to oil, capital, and trade? San Pedro Bay, which contains the contiguous Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, is a...

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today. The challenge for businesses today is to mitigate this risk through creating resilient supply chains. Addressing this need, Supply Chain Risk...

The tale of the Bechtel family dynasty is a classic American business story. It begins with Warren A. Bechtel, who led a consortium that constructed the Hoover Dam. From that auspicious start, the family and its eponymous company would go on to "build...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, 2012 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award) in Business, Finance & Management, presented by...

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care,...

From Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, and Cornelius Vanderbilt to Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates, with Madam C.J. Walker, Martha Stewart, Jay-Z, and many more in-between, An Illustrated Business History of the United States is a sweeping,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956527421Author Ida M TarbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Olahauski BooksPublisher Olahauski BooksWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

On 16 May 1930, Gilbert LaBine discovered pitchblende near the shores of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories. This is the story of Eldorado and the mine whose discovery marked the beginning of Canada's uranium industry. Robert Bothwell tells...

Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features, but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728449517Author Margaret J GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lerner Publications (Tm)Publisher Lerner Publications (Tm)Weight(grams)...

An up-close account of how Nigerians' self-reliance in the absence of reliable government services enables official dysfunction to strengthen state powerWhen Nigerians say that every household is its own local government, what they mean is that the...

This latest edition addresses rape and sexual assaults from all clinical, pathological, medical, and legal aspects. The book focuses on the victim and covers contemporary issues in sexual violence, investigative aspects of rape and sexual assault,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905472062Author Bramwell G. RuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crucible BooksPublisher Crucible Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950863778Author Bhopi DhallFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint ForbesbooksPublisher Forbesbooks

Most great figures in American culture and history reveal great contradictions, but none more so than Henry Ford. Vincent Curcio's compact, lively biography offers new insight on the man who not only founded Ford Motor Company and Henry Ford Company...

Combining ancient craftsmanship with modern technology and marketing innovations, Japan's Kikkoman Corporation has quietly become a $2 billion market leader. This book tells the fascinating story of how Kikkoman changed the course of international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616403980Author Ida M TarbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 922Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1324gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254189Author Thomas HeinrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Questions about land control have invigorated thinkers in agrarian studies and economic history since the nineteenth century. 'Exclusion', 'alienation', 'expropriation', 'dispossession', and 'violence' animate histories of land use, property rights, and...

This fascinating, detailed book provides a sweeping survey of the hats produced by the company whose name is synonymous with cowboys and the Wild West. Surprisingly, though, the John B. Stetson Company was based in Philadelphia and produced all manner of...

Author Francis Bradford, a former Hall-Scott engineer, provides valuable resources and insight not available to any other Hall-Scott researcher. Well-illustrated with numerous photos, drawings, and memos, this fascinating book will be of interest to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542883Author Huub DijstelbloemFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780796130044Author Isaac MalgasFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Isaac MalgasPublisher Isaac MalgasWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment. Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe...

The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy and what began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies long considered 'miracles' respond? How...

From the Chrysler Six of 1924, to the front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s, to the minivan, Chrysler boasts an impressive list of technological ""firsts."" But even though the company has catered well to a variety of consumers, it has come to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399902601Author Andre CanelhasFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint NetzPublisher NetzWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977412010Author Samuel CharapFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint RAND CorporationPublisher RAND Corporation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977410641Author Benjamin M MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Homeland Security Operational Analysis CenterPublisher Homeland Security...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783742943Author Ingo WalterFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616403997Author Ida M TarbellFormat HardbackPage Count 922Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1497g

This publication explains how the 11 member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program can build safer and more competitive transport corridors for people and goods.It gives an overview of each country's road network and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781460288269Author Dharmen DhaliahFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196933708Author Rayan MuskFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint UnknownPublisher Unknown