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Peter Eckersley, Lisa Harris, Paul Jackson

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Routledge eBusiness

This comprehensive textbook considers all of the key business, management and technical issues of e-Business, examining and explaining how technologies can help organizations in both the public and private sectors conduct business in new ways.After addressing the changing nature of the e-Economy and the impact of the dot.com 'bubble' of the late 19

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Peter Murphy, Katarzyna Lakoma, Peter Eckersley, Russ Glennon

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Emerald Points

Contemporary reforms of the fire and rescue service result from two excoriating reports from the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee that demonstrated the inadequacy of contemporary policy, service delivery and public assurance for fire and rescue services in England.This book focuses on the key reforms proposed by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary in response to these reports and critically examines the new National Framework and the new external Inspecto...

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Peter Christoff, Robyn Eckersley

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Globalization

This book by two leading scholars offers the first systematic analysis of the relationship between globalization and the environment from the early Modern period to the present. Peter Christoff and Robyn Eckersley develop a broad conceptual framework for understanding the globalization of environmental problems and the highly uneven, often faltering, international political response. The authors develop linkages between economic globalization and environmental degradation and explore a ran...

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Jeremy Rifkin

A New York Times–bestselling account of the next great economic era, with a look into the individuals pioneering its implementation around the world.One of the most influential social thinkers of our time reveals how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create the new jobs of the twenty-first century and change the world.In The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin takes us on a journey into a new economic era where h...

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of cultures, developing friction as a metaphor for the diverse and conflicting ...

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Kent E. Calder, PhD - History

In this groundbreaking book Kent E. Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is emerging in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the erosion of longstanding geopolitical divisions. What Calder calls the New Silk Road—with a strengthening multi-faceted relationship between East Asia and the Middle East at its core—could eventually emerge as one of the world's most important multilateral configurations. Straddling the border between comparative politics and ...

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Robert R. Updegraff

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Masters of Marketing Secrets

Have you ever been struck by the painfully obvious?What passes for advertising these days seems to have forgotten what people are actually looking for.But it's right in front of their (and your) nose.The stories in this book were written apparently to tweak the noses of marketing as it existed in the early 1900's – but still has lessons all of use can learn from today.There are good reasons why people spend time and money avoiding al...

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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant resource sectors – agriculture, fisheries, forestry, mining and tourism –providing a rare in-depth view of the dynamics shaping social and environmental outcomes in these varied contexts....

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Anthony Heston

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Cryptocurrency Revolution

Would you like to have a new passive income stream that makes money while you sleep?Most people haven't realized the global economy shifting power that cryptocurrencies have, while smart investors have been following them closely for a while now.We've all heard about how Bitcoin shocked the world by skyrocketing in value over a short period of time.Making safe digital investments has never been so approachable.You don't have to be a financial expert and it d...

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M. Fraundorfer

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Political Science and International Studies (R0)

The author examines Brazil's emerging role as an important actor in various sectors of global governance. By exploring how Brazil's exercise of power developed over the last decade in the sectors of health, food security and bioenergy, this book sheds light on the power strategies of an emerging country from the global south.

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Gene Marshall

An examination of Social Awakenment, History-Long Vision, Holistic Social Understanding & Strategies of TransformationAs viewed by five United States Citizens in 2011 Lead author Gene Marshall with coauthors, Ben Ball, Marsha Buck, Ken Kreutziger, and Alan RichardThough vast changes are necessary, we believe humanity can find a vision and plan of action that is both satisfying and realistic. Our aim is to fertilize the fruitful imagination and courage it wi...

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Economics and Finance (R0)

Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy. This book takes stock of these developments, evaluating how much progress has actually been made and what remains to be done, what factors explain these recent advances and their limitations.