Pearce: 510 books

The chapters in this book provide detailed analyses of a range of issues that feed into an overview of the strategic development of the MNE over the past 40 years. This modeled as the evolution of the MNE from a multidomestic hierarchy to a network hierarchy to the contemporary strategic diversity...

The second edition of Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure continues to provide students with an introduction to the principles and practices of sustainability as they apply to the construction sector, including both buildings and infrastructure systems. As a textbook, it is aimed at students...

Blueprint 4 continues the theme of Blueprint 2 in looking at the opportunities for using market forces for environmental ends. It assesses a range of possible imaginative 'global bargains', which give all parties a self-interested incentive to improve the global environment. The book begins by reviewing...

Feeding Everyone No Matter What presents a scientific approach to the practicalities of planning for long-term interruption to food production. The primary historic solution developed over the last several decades is increased food storage. However, storing up enough food to feed everyone would...

Once you've got a web site up and running it is all too easy to sit back and relax. But how do you know you did a good job? How can you improve the site you have based on real user behaviour? Without getting feedback from your users, how will you find out how it's being used? Web traffic analysis...

What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography,...

What is it that makes tiny things to eat so appealing? There’s an Alice-in-Wonderland charm about teeny petits fours, delectable little sponge cakes, button-like macaroons in sugar-candy colours… and things you can just pop in your mouth and finish in a bite or two never leave you feeling too...

The book illustrates how God often uses the adversities and challenges of life to train, strengthen, and shape the facets of Christians for His work. “Consider it pure joy my brother whenever you face trials of many kind’s (James 1:2)” Are you enduring overwhelming trials, adversity or challenges,...

It began with an explosion in the station.Frank was there. He heard the shooting and saw the police giving chase. He was caught up in a gas attack that put him in hospital.But the government deny everything.They say it was an accident.Frank knows they’re lying.The question is why?As...

Familiar Here are stories of everyday life, as familiar as a piece of rope and ... as haunting as fear: Mike knows that he can't swing over the river on the knotted rope, but with everyone watching him, he has to try. ... as haunting as a stranger: Who is the frightened-looking girl...

Being new to a non-gay-friendly workplace is not easy for Cameron until he meets Mykel.  Mykel is straight, but he somehow knows or senses that Cameron is gay, and he takes him under his wing, so to speak.  Cameron cannot help but think of the endless possibilities of love and sex with...

This book is for the lighthearted bedtime reader of any age. The poems are some of several hundred written over many years. Some of the short stories are recent, others were written as long ago as the 1980s. Only in recent times did Richard and Roy discover they both liked to put their thoughts onto...

Another birthday together, the thirty-second for Justin and Kyle, is bitter-sweet for Justin.  This year marks yet another year gone by without Kyle knowing how much he has wanted him over the years and how much he loves him.  The two men have shared so much already, political careers,...

New to the suburbs, Cameron is thrilled to finally have his own home complete with an in-ground pool and large backyard.  The home needs some work, however, and Cameron lacks the “handyman gene.”  The neighbors seem friendly enough, but Cameron isn’t ready to share too much about...