Category: Business, Management and Economics
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A Bond Scheme for Common Agricultural Policy Reform
Original price was: $130.00.$104.00Current price is: $104.00.Add to cartThe Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is at an impasse. While it is said that existing policies are not tenable, all recent reform plans have been condemned as unacceptable. However, a “bond scheme”, as part of reform that pays more attention to society’s aspirations for the environment and rural development, offers a way forward. This book …
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Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy
Original price was: $239.00.$191.20Current price is: $191.20.Add to cartThe primary theme of this book is to investigate the macroeconomic significance of the “cloud” of technological spillovers that surrounds advanced industrial production: In what ways do technological innovations spread and contribute to economic growth? What policies can be developed to maximize the economic potential of innovations? These themes are particularly timely in the context …
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Advances in Databases and Information Systems
Original price was: $129.00.$103.20Current price is: $103.20.Add to cartThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2006. The book presents 29 high-quality papers selected in a rigorous reviewing process. The papers address a wide range of hot research issues and are organized in topical sections on: XML databases and semantic web, …
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Agricultural Biotechnology in International Development
Original price was: $210.00.$168.00Current price is: $168.00.Add to cartObtaining world food security and food self-reliance for the developing nations is a complex and difficult task, but with increased research and education, agricultural production in developing countries can be improved. Biotechnology applications, integrated into traditional systems, hold much promise in this respect. Realizing the positive impact of biotechnology will depend upon the ability of …
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Commercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production
Original price was: $399.00.$319.20Current price is: $319.20.Add to cartCommercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production is the 5th edition of a highly successful book first authored by Dr. Mack O. North in 1972, updated in 1978 and 1984. The 4th edition was co-authored with Donald D. Bell in 1990. The book has achieved international success as a reference for students and commercial poultry and …
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Designing Capable and Reliable Products
Original price was: $104.00.$83.20Current price is: $83.20.Add to cartDesigning Capable and Reliable Products offers an introduction to the importance of capability, quality and reliability in product development. It introduces the concept of capable design, focusing on producing designs that meet quality standards and also looks at linking component manufacture and its process capability with failure rates. It provides an introduction to reliable design, …
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Digital Journalism
Original price was: $173.00.$138.40Current price is: $138.40.Add to cartHow can we make sense of the ongoing technological changes affecting journalism and journalists today? Will the new digital generation break down barriers for journalism or will things just stay the same?These and other pertinent questions will be asked and explored throughout this exciting new book that looks at the changing dynamics of journalism in …
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Environmental Contaminants
Original price was: $125.00.$100.00Current price is: $100.00.Add to cartEnvironmental Contaminants serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis …
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Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control
Original price was: $182.05.$145.64Current price is: $145.64.Add to cartThis book describes the environmental problems associated with agriculture, particularly the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and the disposal of animal waste. These have become major policy issues in many countries, with the main polluting effect being on water quality. As with other types of pollution, significant reductions in agriculture’s contribution to water pollution …
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Financial Management (Hardcover)
Original price was: $25.00.$20.00Current price is: $20.00.Add to cartThe book contains an Introduction, Study of Financial Statements, Fund Flow and Cash Flow, Fixed Capital Analysis, Capital Structure and Dividend Policy, Working Capital Analysis, Inventory Management, Cash Management Analysis and Foreign Exchange Orientation. The book provides text with illustrations, which will help students of the subject understand the management of the available financial sources of the business.
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Geobiology: Objectives, Concepts, Perspectives
Original price was: $143.00.$114.40Current price is: $114.40.Add to cartGeobiology is an exciting and rapidly developing research discipline that opens new perspectives in understanding Earth as a system. To determine and to exploit its possibilities, this promising scientific field will benefit from a discussion of its definition as a research discipline, its objectives, and its methodological approaches. Such a spirited discussion is the goal …
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Globalization, Institutions and Governance
Original price was: $64.00.$51.20Current price is: $51.20.Add to cartThe study of international relations now goes well beyond state-to-state politics and even regional politics. Technological forces are working their effects on the world as a whole, bringing state and non-state actors into contact with one another. Globalization, Institutions and Governance provides students with a sophisticated and engaging exploration of the often differing impacts of …
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Group Supervision: A Guide to Creative Practice
Original price was: $138.00.$110.40Current price is: $110.40.Add to cartAmong the plethora of supervision books, Group Supervision is the only one dedicated to working in groups. The strength of group supervision is that it can provide a supportive environment in which practitioners freely share and learn from their own and others experience. The Second Edition of this popular text features up-to-date research findings on …
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Handbook of Transport and the Environment
Original price was: $314.99.$251.99Current price is: $251.99.Add to cartAs one of the most challenging issues facing the transport sector, the need for this handbook devoted to the environmental impacts of transport is clear. It gives full treatment to all aspects of the subject such as: environmental concepts, both physical and economic – key environmental concerns: global warming, air quality, noise, safety, amenity, and …