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This book will interest clinicians who have wondered what professional practice would be like in the corporate setting and want to learn more about the psychological and organizational dynamics that 'drive' executive behavior. More

In the 1990s, labour productivity growth accelerated in the United States, yet slowed down in other industrialised countries, reversing a three decade long tendency of convergence. More

…conventional wisdom, public ownership of industry in post-war Britain led, invariably, to under-performance. Strikingly, he also finds that the state-owned industries were narrowing their productivity gap with their US counterparts at a significantly faster rate than the private sector industries. More

Theo S. Eicher and Thomas Strobel present an industry-level account of the recent changes in German productivity growth and compare the trends to Europe and the US. The specific focus is on how differential investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) affected the economic… More

This major new books offers a comparative survey of management, labour and productivity politics in Twentieth century Europe. The authors offer detailed assessments of industrial and political campaigns to raise productivity growth in Britain, Germany and Sweden during this century. More

European academics have been at the centre of ongoing higher education reforms, as changes in university governance and funding have led to changes in academic work and life. Discussing the academic profession, and most importantly, its increasing stratification across Europe, Changing European… More

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Miller: Product Liability and Safety Encyclopaedia provides a complete guide to the legislation affecting manufacturers, retailers and importers of goods who may be dealing in manufactured products as diverse as adhesives, food and drugs, soft toys and pesticides. More

An accessible introduction to the design of Italian food branding, packaging, advertising, and marketing, covering all of the most iconic Italian foods, from Nutella to Illy coffee. More

A classic of Russian avant-garde writing, focusing on the Productivist art movement of the 1920s More

A classic of Russian avant-garde writing, focusing on the Productivist art movement of the 1920s More

"The unfettered marketplace, in which uncertainty rules and the admonition caveat emptor ('let the buyer beware') dictates each consumer decision, has today virtually disappeared. Consumers have become the focus of intensive economic... More

Provides an overview of the European market, including its development, its areas, and the products. This report offers an analysis of: the investment case for structured products; pricing structured products, marketing structured products as well as regulatory and risk issues. More

A thorough and systematic analysis of oil and gas production contracts, applicable world-wide, with practical, clause-by-clause guidance from some of the top practitioners in the energy industry. Together with Oil and Gas Exploration Contracts, this book completes the suite of upstream oil and gas… More

Consists of director Efros' articles about Chekhov and The Seagull, his diaries, interviews and conversations, and the original rehearsal records. More

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This work documents a selection of items from the "Millennium Products" chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. The products exemplify futuristic or radically simple solutions to everyday needs. More

What's Queer about Europe focuses on those queer types of artistic, political or theoretical exchanges that take place in the presence of the idea of Europe. This book is not about queer communities in Europe but about how Queer Theory helps us initiate counter-intuitive encounters for imagining… More

This new book is a detailed survey and a anew perspective on the development of Luftwaffe aircraft from 1935-1945. Special emphasis has been placed on details of weaponry, equipment and other areas that have up to now been inadequately covered. Many readers will therefore be rewarded with new… More

Globalisation is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labour supply chain. This book shows us how globalisation has affected women engaged in garment work. It raises the question of what it means to be a woman in a globalised… More

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A unique study of Stalinist cinema and its role in the production of history. More

This is an economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption acitivities in households in the counties of Kent and Cornwall. More

Articulations of Capital offers an accessible, grounded, yet theoretically-sophisticated account of the geographies of global production networks, value chains, and regional development in post-socialist Eastern and Central Europe. More

This first volume, of a three-volume set, covers the history, development and production history of the Tiger tank variants from the idea's conception to the end of Tiger I production. This includes details on the development series known as the D.W., VK 30.01(H), VK 30.01(P), VK 36.01(H), VK… More

Investigates the entire Italian operatic tradition, approaching opera not only as a distinctive musical genre but also as a form of extravagant theatre and as a complex social phenomenon. This text traces the social, economic and artistic history of the production of opera from its origins. More

The third edition of Financial Advice and Financial Products explains the impact of the Financial Services Act 2012, and the role of the Financial Conduct Authority. Now in hardback, this is the leading work for all those advising on financial services professional negligence claims. More

…film, food, popular music, sports, masculinity, youth subcultures, and the politics of consumption, Making Italian America explores consumer culture in Italian American history and life, the role of consumption in the production of ethnic identities, and the commodification of cultural difference. More

Examines how productions of Shakespeare's plays subverted or strengthened the official government doctrines of late Socialist Hungary. This study claims that the unprecedented success of the so-called problem plays between 1964 and 1989 was due to the relevance of the issues they touch upon, such as… More

This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, arguing that scottish Renaissance manuscript culture was far more colourful than is generally understood. More

This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, arguing that scottish Renaissance manuscript culture was far more colourful than is generally understood. More

Herzfeld argues that "modern" bureaucratically regulated societies are no more "rational" or less "symbolic" than the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. He suggests that we cannot understand national bureaucracies divorced from local-level ideas about chance, personal character,… More

The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) is the principal federal agency supporting applied research, training, and development to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities. NIDRR's mission is to generate new knowledge and promote its effective use in… More

A report on patterns of consumption of non-branded alcohol in six countries: Brazil, India, Mexico, Russia, Tanzania and Zambia. Local consultants, investigators interviewed families in each country on the subject of their drinking habits over a 30-day period, giving specific attention to their… More

During the seventeenth century, Dutch portraits were actively commissioned by corporate groups and by individuals from a range of economic and social classes. Ann Jensen Adams examines four portrait genres - individuals, the family, history portraits, and civic guards. More

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This is a study of one of the most widely read publications of 19th century Britain, the London Journal. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. More

This new volume covers development from the VK 45.02(P), VK 45.03(H) to the modifications under design for the Tiger II at the end of the war. All of this illustrated with scale drawings by Hilary L. Doyle combined with drawings, sketches, and photographs depicting external modifications is well as… More

The Junkers Ju 388 was a high-altitude aircraft developed from the Ju 88. In its bomber and reconnaissance versions it would elude enemy fighters by flying high, while as a heavy fighter and night-fighter it was to intercept the Boeing B-29 and the feared DeHavilland Mosquito. In developing this… More

This book is a complete history of the Italian Model 1891Carcano rifle and variants that served as Italy's standard service rifle in World War I and World War II. It describes each major component of the weapon, as well as addressing the development of each variant in detail. One section of the book… More

Quoygrew - a settlement of farmers and fishers on the island of Westray in Orkney - was continuously occupied from the tenth century until 1937. More

The history of an entrepreneurial family whose work influenced followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Gothic Revivalism, Art Needlework and Aestheticism More

Moscow Art Theatre is recognized as having more impact on modern theatre, than any other company. This facsimile edition of a Russian journal documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the MAT. More

This book gathers the best work on manuscript books in England made during this crucial but neglected period. A wide-ranging and innovative series of essays, this volume is a major contribution to the history of the book from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print. More

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This text brings together specialists from industry and from the academic world to address the challenge to European car manufacturers from Japanese competition. It suggests practical improvements to vocational qualification schemes and presents a united educational policy framework. More

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In the early 1970s, London's National Theatre, led by Sir Laurence Olivier, launched an infamous avant garde production of The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria. Concerned that his classical approach would clash with the ""enfant terrible"" director, Victor Garcia, Olivier enlisted stage manager… More

This book explores the connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities during the period 1840-1930, focusing principally on London, New York and Toronto. It discusses both the cultural experience of modernity and the material modernization of cities, as well as the gendered… More

The development of toys in late nineteenth century Germany represents a valuable tool for understanding the influence of consumerism on Wilhelmine society. Through the lenses of producers, distributors, retailers, consumers and pedagogues, this work explores how this industry helped to lead the way… More

This text aims to review critically the characteristics of international port privatization together with the economic theory of privatization, to apply an econmetric technique for efficiency measurement to container ports in Korea and the UK, and to assess the policy implications of the results. More

How universities in Europe and North America are run like factories and how this affects academic workers More

Presents a series of case studies focusing on the identity and activities of individuals associated with crafts and industries in the Middle Age. More

Excavations have uncovered important new evidence of the second century AD Roman pottery industry, with up to eight kilns and a probable potters' workshop recorded on the west side of a major tributary of the Walbrook stream. More

Approaches the topic of classical music in the GDR from an interdisciplinary perspective, questioning the assumption that classical music functioned purely as an ideological support for the state. More

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…Caucasus is an important centre of origin and diversity of many species and varieties that are the basis for global food production. This book contains 500 photos and documented information on selected species that hold potential to adapt to the production systems of the twenty-first century. More

…Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, More

The twenty case-studies in Neighbours and Successors of Rome throw light on the diversity of patterns of glass production, circulation and consumption among societies in Europe and the Near East in the middle and later first millennium AD. More