Infrastructure

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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In this corporate history of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Nannie M. Tilley recounts the story of Richard Joshua Reynolds and the vast R. J. Reynolds tobacco complex with precision and drama.Reynolds's rise in the tobacco industry began in 1891...

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn - studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs...

Examining innovative ways to address Africa's infrastructure deficit is at the heart of this analysis. Africa's infrastructure stock and quality is among the least developed in the world, a challenge that significantly hinders economic development. It is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894992230Author Thomas William LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Books for BusinessPublisher Books for BusinessWeight(grams) 626g

Road freight transport plays an indispensable role in international economic cooperation and foreign trade. For short and medium distances in particular, road freight transport constitutes a predominant share of overall traffic, but it also plays a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943235257Author Helga Zepp-LaroucheFormat HardbackImprint Eir News Service, Inc.Publisher Eir News Service, Inc.Weight(grams) 1152g

This study assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining and spreading the momentum in...

This book identifies reforms that can help manage environmental priority problems associated with transport's impacts on air quality, noise pollution, road safety, hazardous-materials transport, climate change, and urban sprawl. The policy options are...

There is currently a need for the international community to improve its understanding of the new role that China is playing in the development of Africa's infrastructure and its implications for Africa's development. This report seeks to contribute to...

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn - studies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the worst jobs and the worst conditions. But in When Good Jobs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820481081Author Kent LjungquistFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 450g

Not since Edward Mason's groundbreaking book, The Corporation in Modern Society has there been a broad survey of the contemporary large business corporation. This book fills that need. Carl Kaysen has assembled a group of experts who examine the many...

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,...

Traditionally, air transport infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was exclusively under government ownership and management. Starting in the late 1990s, several Latin American countries implemented innovative public-private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894992131Author Lisa KrizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Books for BusinessPublisher Books for BusinessWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674592865Author Professor Judith TendlerFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814252734Author Douglas KnerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can prevent their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy...

Disaster risk management is essential in the fight against poverty. Disasters can, in an instant, wipe out decades of hard-fought poverty reduction and development gains and push countless households into poverty. Disasters disproportionately affect the...

This report builds on the conclusions of the Green Infrastructure Finance: Leading Initiatives and Research report and lays out a simple and elegant way in which scarce public financing can leverage market interest in `greening' infrastructure,...

Virtually every country in the world faces the challenge of designing the regulatory and financial mechanisms that ensure cost-effective procurement of generation to supply electricity demand. Historically, procurement of generation has been...

This Handbook offers 'how to' ideas to help infrastructure practitioners identify good practice improvements in communication, starting with the World Bank's own expanding portfolio of dam projects. In-depth case studies prepared for this Handbook show...

Urbanization beyond Municipal Boundaries informs policy priorities to manage India's urbanisation. Incisive analysis of the patterns of India's urbanisation using geo-referenced data from various rounds of the population and economic census highlights...

In Iron Will: Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847--2006, Terry S. Reynolds and Virginia P. Dawson tell the story of Cleveland-Cliffs, the only surviving independent American iron mining company, now known as Cliffs Natural Resources...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806154022Author Lawrence M WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 458g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313203268Author James NorrisFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Masahiko Aoki and Ronald Dore have edited an authoritative account of the Japanese firm and the sources of its success, including contributions from some of the best, and best known, scholars in the field. The book represents an attempt to explain and...

This study examines the development and describes the advanced technology used for the construction and operation of the New Khanki Barrage in Punjab, Pakistan. It highlights the socioeconomic benefits of the project to communities.Among the notable...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781605209081Author Thomas William LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 730g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649530578Author Virginia KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Absolute Author Publishing HousePublisher Absolute Author Publishing...

Information technology (IT) use has generally been regarded as a positive phenomenon which always generates desirable outcomes. Recent years, however, have witnessed increasing negative consequences resulted from IT use. Emerging issues include...