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  • A Leader and a Laggard

    Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario

    by Roy George ...
    Series series Heritage
    Advanced countries in all parts of the world are concerned with the geographical unevenness of their development. Canada's preoccupation is with the Atlantic provinces, and for years government departments and agencies have tried to improve the region's economy. However, the evidence suggests that the economic gap between the Atlantic provinces and the rest of Canada has remained remarkably ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    by Charles Montgomery ...
    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Assumptions Economists Make

    by Jonathan Schlefer ...
    Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news—so why are their explanations at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with this contradiction, Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Vital Little Plans

    The Short Works of Jane Jacobs

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activistNo one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.Vital Little Plans is an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • After Piketty

    Edited by Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum ...
    Are Thomas Piketty’s analyses of inequality on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas he pushed to the forefront of global conversation? In After Piketty, a cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty, in what is sure to be a much-debated book in its own right. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Re-Forming Capitalism

    Institutional Change in the German Political Economy

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Wolfgang Streeck has written extensively on comparative political economy and institutional theory. In this book he addresses some of the key issues in this field: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Asian Economy

    Spearheading the Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis

    by Dilip Das ...
    The global financial crisis of 2007-09, and the Great Recession that it engendered, were both a challenge and an opportunity for Asia. The region not only remained unharmed by the global financial crisis initially but also recovered the fastest. In addition, it was also the principal driver of the global recovery.This book analyzes the impact of the global financial crisis and the Great Recession ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Gift of Success and Happiness

    Transforming Your Life Through Business Process Principles

    by Chip Sawicki, Vernon Roberts ...
    The Gift of Success and Happiness offers a set of simple systems-based on the world’s most reliable business principles-that empowers readers to meet and overcome challenges posed by money, work, relationships, and other factors, most of which impede our success and impinge on our happiness. Based on two decades of lessons, Chip Sawicki has learned as a senior executive, parent, and community ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Traffic Data Collection and its Standardization

    Edited by Jaume Barceló, Masao Kuwahara ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    A nice night of October 2007, in Beijing, during the XV World Conference on ITS a number of colleagues met informally for a dinner party that spontaneously became a vivid discussion on the importance of traffic data for all types of p- poses. Researchers can hardly do any progress in modeling, developing, and te- ing theories without suitable data, and what practitioners can do in real life is ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • New Activities For Cultural Heritage

    Proceedings of the International Conference Heritagebot 2017

    Edited by Marco Ceccarelli, Giuseppe Recinto, Michela Cigola ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is the Proceedings of the International Workshop Heritagebot 2017 that was held in Cassino, Italy in September 2017. The papers cover a wide range of disciplines connected with Cultural Heritage, from humanistic fields up to engineering designs through legal aspects and financial/economical studies, treating aspects of theory, design, practice and applications.Topics addressed during the ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • The Search for a Unified Korea

    Political and Economic Implications

    by Eui-Gak Hwang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    North Korea’s brinkmanship diplomacy has continued to disturb the world with its seemingly reckless missile testing, as the country’s leader, Kim Jong-Il, is rumored to be terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. North Korea appears to be in a state of serious internal crisis not only because its dictatorial system, albeit skillful and ruthless leadership, is inherently unstable, if not skillful and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Innovations in European Rural Landscapes

    Edited by Hubert Wiggering, Hans-Peter Ende, Andrea Knierim, Marina Pintar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rural regions in Europe are evolving under powerful boundary conditions such as globalisation, socio-cultural transformations and climate change, which in turn increases natural hazards. The regional land use and the evolvement of landscapes is increasingly shaped trends and drivers like infrastructural, energy or housing needs, globalised agricultural markets, and consumption habits. To face ... Read more

    $89.99 USD