Development category: 15312 books
by Adam Szirmai
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This non-technical introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation in developing...
Does Culture Matter in Competence Management?
Transforming Barriers to Enablers
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This research has implications for both industrial and academic readers. The industrial readers will find interesting to see what and how cross-cultural organizations adopt the findings in their own competence development processes. Not all the factors identified in this research are critical influence...
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Global Governance Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
This book draws on the expertise of faculty and colleagues at the Balsillie School of International Affairs to both locate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a contribution to the development of global government and to examine the political-institutional and financial challenges posed by...
Deliberation and Development
Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015
Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond...
Latecomer Development
Innovation and Knowledge for Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The most important issue for development centres on the debate about the centrality of knowledge, technology and innovation to the process of economic development. While this much is broadly agreed, what is at issue is the precise mechanics of overcoming economic development challenges in different...
by Jeremie Bouchet
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Design, build, and maintain a powerful, secure, and complete extension for Magento 2, the world's favorite e-commerce platform
About This Book
Deploy a complete real-world extension step by step
Construct your extension with the best and most up-to-date development methods
Learn about team working...
Culture, Institutions, and Development
New Insights Into an Old Debate
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Does culture matter? This question has taken on added significance since fundamentalist revivalism has recently gained ground in different parts of the world. The old controversy between Max Weber and Karl Marx, which centres around the extent to which cultural factors such as social norms and values...
by Elad Elrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Write free, open-source, cross-platform, dynamic JavaScript applications that can run anywhere using the MEAN stack - MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js.
With this book Mac developers will get the tools needed to set up, write code once, and be able to deploy code on any device. You...
Leadership for the Future Sustainable Development of Business and Education
2017 Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK) and International Research Centre (IRC) “Scientific Cooperation” International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
This proceedings volume examines leadership from the perspectives of business, economics, social sciences, cross-cultural management, and education as a means to establish a future of sustainable development. Featuring contributions from the 2017 Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK)...
How Lives Change
Palanpur, India, and Development Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Development economics is about understanding how and why lives change. How Lives Change: Palanpur, India, and Development Economics studies a single village in a crucially important country to illuminate the drivers of these changes, why some people do better or worse than others, and what influences...
Gastronomy and Local Development
The Quality of Products, Places and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Gastronomy, particularly gourmet tourism, is widely acknowledged as having a powerful impact on local development. Public policies have developed in response to research, highlighting gastronomy as key in a successful tourism economy.
However, research thus far has not fully explored the underlying...
by Sourabh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Master the art of implementing microservices in your production environment with ease
About This Book
Build, deploy, and test microservices from scratch with ease
Design and implement sample projects using domain-driven design
Confidently resolve the issues faced during development and deployment
Who...
by Neil Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This is the Second Edition of iOS 8 App Development Essentials. This edition has been fully updated for Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3.
Beginning with the basics, this book provides an outline of the steps necessary to set up an iOS development environment. An introduction to the architecture of...
by Jeff McWherter, Scott Gowell
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Create applications for all major smartphone platforms
Creating applications for the myriad versions and varieties of mobile phone platforms on the market can be daunting to even the most seasoned developer. This authoritative guide is written in such as way that it takes your existing skills...