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The Theory of Mixed Oligopoly
Privatization, Transboundary Activities, and Their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book outlines the core concept of the theory of mixed oligopoly and presents recent results that have arisen in a mixed oligopolistic market. The wave of privatization since the 1980s has taken the development of the theory of mixed oligopoly in several directions. Although the main concern of...
Planning World Cities
Globalization and Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
by Kenneth J. Lipartito, Joseph A. Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
As counsel for Pennzoil's successful effort to recover billions of dollars in damages from Texaco over the acquisition of Getty Oil Company, the Baker & Botts law firm of Houston, Texas, achieved wide public recognition in the 1980s. But among its peers in the legal and corporate worlds, Baker & Botts...
Militant Islam
A sociology of characteristics, causes and consequences
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences.
The...
Growing the Southwest Garden
Regional Ornamental Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Plant selection and garden style are deeply influenced by where we are gardening. To successfully grow a range of beautiful ornamental plants, every gardener has to know the specifics of the region’s climate, soil, and geography.
Growing the Southwest Garden, by New Mexico-based garden designer...
Growing the Midwest Garden
Regional Ornamental Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Plant selection and garden style are deeply influenced by where we are gardening. To successfully grow a range of beautiful ornamental plants, every gardener has to know the specifics of the region’s climate, soil, and geography.
Growing the Midwest Garden, by Edward Lyon, the director of...
by Huang Yukon; Magnoli Bocchi Alessandro
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
Reshaping Economic Geography in East Asia, a companion volume to the World Development Report 2009, brings together noted scholars to address the spatial distribution of economic growth in Asia. It reveals how the new economic geography is reshaping development objectives: from initiatives to foster...
Taiwan in the 21st Century
Aspects and Limitations of a Development Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Throughout the twentieth century Taiwan was viewed as a model - whether in terms of a model colony, a model China or a development model. This perception was based on the notion of Taiwan undergoing an economic miracle and political developments. Yet much of Taiwan’s history is unique and may not...
Transport and Logistics in a Globalizing World
A Focus on Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Globalization of the economy, fragmentation of the production process, increasing externalization of TNCs activities through their global value chains and the widespread adoption of Just-in-Time have increased the flows of raw materials, intermediate goods and finished products, with a direct effect...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Information and communication technologies have improved government practices and provided effective governance, processes, and services, which have influenced world governments to gather the resources needed to implement e-government projects in developing countries. E-Government Implementation and...
The Entrepreneurial University
Context and Institutional Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to "their" universities to stimulate regional development and to contribute to national competiveness. The challenge is clear and the question is pressing: How will...
by Marc Cogen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations provides an up-to-date and accessible reference to European intergovernmental organizations other than the European Union. The EU is so dominant that people often overlook the multitude of older and newer, smaller and larger intergovernmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic migration politics to oil and gas...
Integrated Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development
The Case of the European North-South Corridor Rotterdam-Genoa
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The challenge of growth in transport, especially in freight transport, and scarce resources in money, landscape and local opposition against new infrastructure investment require new solutions from transport policy. This book deals with these issues taking as an example the transport corridor...