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The Water Crisis in Yemen
Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Since the 1970s Yemen has undergone rapid social and economic change. But the creation of the modern state has come at a cost, and the country has fallen into a severe water crisis. Groundwater is being extracted at such a rate that parts of the rural economy could disappear within a generation. In...
Positioned
Strategic Workforce Planning That Gets the Right Person in the Right Job
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Shortages and downtime are deadly for businesses. So what strategies are other organizations using to solve their workplace challenges? Positioned captures the best workforce planning practices from leading organizations such as Boeing, HP, the US Intelligence Community, and others in the private...
Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East
Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet...
After the Imperial Turn
Thinking with and through the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains...
by Peter Ward Fay
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century...
by Professor Stephen Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.
Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the...
Latin America
Development and Conflict since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Bringing the story up-to-date, this expanded new edition takes into account recent developments including Argentina's 2001 debt default and the 2002 presidential election in Brazil. Latin America provides an introduction to the economic and political history of the region in the last half century.
Beginning...
The Liar's Ball
The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World's Toughest Tycoons
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Inside the world of the real Great Gatsby of New York real estate
Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real estate world, and Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world. Watch as Harry makes the gutsy bid for midtown Manhattan's...
Beyond Rust
Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native...
Options and Options Trading
A Simplified Course That Takes You from Coin Tosses to Black-Scholes
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
An introduction to the complex world of options that every investor can use
Too many books on options trading make the mistake of assuming that readers can already tell a delta from a sigma summation. Options and Options Trading breaks the code that envelops the often-foreign language of options,...
If You're So Clever Why Aren't You Rich
Intellectual Property 10 Ways to Take Your Genius To The Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Make money from your business idea, inventions, products and brands.By making the right decisions at the right times you can turn your ideas into gold. This is a business book about all aspects of trade marks, copyright, employee fraud, protecting your inventions and technology and why it is so important...
by Hilary Stokes PhD, Kim Ward PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
•Why are some people more successful than others?•Are there really secrets to success?•Is your brain actually wired for success?You have a personal success blueprint deeply conditioned in your subconscious mind. It is this blueprint that determines your level of success in all areas of...
How Maps Change Things
A Conversation About the Maps We Choose and the World We Want
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
March 5th 2012 marks the 500th birthday of map-maker Gerhard Kremer, aka Mercator. There are many wishing the Flemish map maker well! From blogs to books the man who has shaped for many our world view is celebrated as often as vilified. Four centuries later, Arno Peters created what many see as a fair...
Peaceful Path
Building Garden Cities and New Towns
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard's visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto for social reform via the creation of Garden Cities, it proposed a new way of providing cheap and healthy homes, workplaces and green spaces in balance...