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Hardback. Life sciences have huge controversial social implications. This title discusses topics and theories like the relationship between ethics, professional ethics and business ethics, the public responsibility of researchers and communicating, organizing, teaching and discussing ethical issues. Editor(s): Korthals, Michiel; Bogers, Robert J. (Frontis-Wageningen International Nucleus for Strategic Expertise). Series: Wageningen UR Frontis Series. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJG; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402031786
- ISBN
- 9781402031786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.03
€ 185.03
Hardback. Advises how to mobilize support in order to make forest policy relevant. This book gives an introduction in the methodology of social sciences. It is a guideline for all those who are interested in the use and protection of the forest. It shows how to identify political options for solving issues of the forest. Translator(s): Paschen, R. von. Num Pages: 323 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCN; LNKJ; TVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 647.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 323
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402034787
- ISBN
- 9781402034787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 233.66
€ 233.66
Paperback. Develops a supporting structure for sustainable development, following a natural set of steps to reach an established goal. This book provides the tools to navigate this "Road to a Better Future" by explaining concepts, giving ideas, proposing methods, and suggesting actions. Num Pages: 444 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402035579
- ISBN
- 9781402035579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 197.05
€ 197.05
Environmental Security and Environmental Management, the Role of Risk ...
. Ed(S): Morel, Benoit; Linkov, Igor
Paperback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workhop on The Role of Risk Assessment in Environmental Security and Emergency Preparedness in the Mediterranean Region, held in Eilat, Israel, April 15-18, 2004 Editor(s): Morel, Benoit; Linkov, Igor. Series: NATO Security Through Science Series C (Closed):. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KC; RN; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402038921
- ISBN
- 9781402038921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 184.60
€ 184.60
Hardback. The global trend toward self-governing schools (SGS) liberates school heads from bureaucratic shackles, making them leaders in their own right. This book offers a prescription for professional development in school leadership. Num Pages: 322 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNK; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402049286
- ISBN
- 9781402049286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.09
€ 182.09
Hardback. Suitable for management schools as well as other higher education institutions seeking the means to increase the relevance and quality of their professional education programs, this book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. It explores how PBL can make knowledge about management locally relevant. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNM; JNU; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 675.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402057557
- ISBN
- 9781402057557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.23
€ 187.23
Hardback. Undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. This book analyzes the reforms in the German research system from an integrated perspective of law, economics and social sciences. Editor(s): Jansen, Dorothea. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; GTN; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 561.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402058301
- ISBN
- 9781402058301
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.82
€ 119.82
Hardcover. By bringing together leading experts on quality assurance in higher education from seven countries (from Europe, the USA and South Africa), this title intends to go several steps further than most publications on the same subject. Editor(s): Westerheijden, Don F.; Stensaker, Bjorn; Rosa, Maria Joao. Series: Higher Education Dynamics. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNK; JNM; KJMQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402060113
- ISBN
- 9781402060113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.10
€ 124.10
Assessment of Hydrogen Energy for Sustainable Development
. Ed(S): Sheffield, John W.; Sheffield, Cigde...
hardcover. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Assessment of Hydrogen Energy for Sustainable Development: Energy & Environmental Security, Istanbul, Turkey, 7-10 August 2006 Editor(s): Sheffield, John W.; Sheffield, Cigdem. Series: NATO Security Through Science Series C (Closed):. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KC; TRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402064401
- ISBN
- 9781402064401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 238.15
€ 238.15
Hardback. Provides the foundations for an additional perspective on optimal currency area theory (OCA). This title promotes the idea that banking and market imperfections are effectively two sides of the same coin. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QFE; 3JJPR; KCLF; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1170.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402070099
- ISBN
- 9781402070099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.55
€ 123.55
Statistical Models and Control Charts for High Quality Processes
Xie, Min; Goh, Thong Ngee; Kuralmani, Vellais...
hardcover. Presents techniques of using control charts for high-quality processes, some findings and applications of statistical control chart techniques for ZD processes are also presented. This work discusses a technique based on counting of the cumulative conforming (CCC) items between two nonconforming ones. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJT; TGPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- 2002nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402070747
- ISBN
- 9781402070747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.21
€ 186.21
Hardback. Examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on subnational resource mobilization capacity, and on macroeconomic stability, in four African countries. This book focuses on the capacity of local communities in Africa for autonomous development and self-governance. Num Pages: 143 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFDB; 1HFDF; 1HFDH; 1HFDM; KCB; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 143
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402071188
- ISBN
- 9781402071188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.07
€ 122.07
Hardback. A marketing manual devoted to: the aeronautics sector: parts suppliers, aircraft manufacturers, and airlines, the space sector: suppliers, integrators, and service providers. It presents the marketing from basic concepts such as segmentation, positioning and the marketing plan, to the product policy, pricing, distribution and communication. Num Pages: 536 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV7; KNGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 38. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402071515
- ISBN
- 9781402071515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 242.57
€ 242.57
Hardback. Regards organizations as the real information systems in which technologies have a useful role to play. This book covers such issues as: fundamental concepts including information, data, message, communication, knowledge, organization, system and so on. Editor(s): Liu, Kecheng; Clarke, Rodney J. (Dept. of Information Systems, Wollongong University, Australia); Andersen, Peter Bogh; Stamper, Ronald K.; Abou-Zeid, El-Sayed (Dept. of Decision Sciences and MIS, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada). Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJM; KJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 647.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402071898
- ISBN
- 9781402071898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.46
€ 120.46
Hardback. Provides an exposition of the no-arbitrage theory for asset pricing in financial engineering in the framework of a discrete time approach. Useful as a textbook on financial asset pricing, this book is also useful for practitioners in financial and related industries, as well as to students in MBA or programs in finance and financial engineering. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 765.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402072437
- ISBN
- 9781402072437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.05
€ 121.05
Hardback. Presents an abstract discussion of social science, in a period when science in all forms is under attack, does little to inform the debate on its role and progress. This book undertakes the novel approach of reviewing the journal literature on six different topics by each of the five social sciences. Num Pages: 464 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402073212
- ISBN
- 9781402073212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.99
€ 127.99
Hardback. Focuses on exploring the progress towards an integrated solution for the product creation process based on feature technology. This work encompasses significant phases of the product creation process, from conceptual design to recycling, including the following topics: Life-phases modelling; Knowledge based engineering; and more. Editor(s): Soenen, R.; Olling, G. Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV6; UGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402073274
- ISBN
- 9781402073274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.33
€ 120.33
Hardback. Do constitutions matter? Are constitutions simply symbols of the political times at which they were adopted, or do they systematically affect the course of public policy? This work aims to address these and other questions using a blend of theory, history, and statistical analysis. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DNS; JPHV; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 537.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402074325
- ISBN
- 9781402074325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Hardback. A comprehensive guide that includes the theory and practice of global supply chain management. It includes the theory and history of global supply chain management to provide an understanding of the intricacies involved. It is useful for students of logistics, transportation, and supply chain management students. Num Pages: 455 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJMV5; KJMV8. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 876.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402074530
- ISBN
- 9781402074530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 353.86
€ 353.86
Hardback. Based on the proceedings of a one-day conference on Market Quality, held at the Zicklin School of Business on April 30, 2002. This book addresses such questions as: How should market quality be defined, measured, monitored and improved? What is the evidence about the current state of our markets? How effective have recent innovations been? Editor(s): Schwartz, Robert A.; Byrne, John Aidan; Colaninno, Antoinette. Series: Zicklin School of Business Financial Markets Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402075100
- ISBN
- 9781402075100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.72
€ 184.72
Hardback. Explains the interrelationships between the decision support, decision modelling, and information systems. This book focuses on the interdisciplinary decision support framework, in which mathematical programming (optimization) is taken as the inference engine. It includes a selection of invited contributions from internationally-known researchers. Series: Operations Research/Computer Science Interface S. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPQ; KJMD; KJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 719.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402075605
- ISBN
- 9781402075605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.88
€ 187.88
Differential Games in Marketing (International Series in Quantitative ...
Jørgensen, Steffen, Zaccour, Georges
Hardcover. Game theory has proven useful to represent and conceptualize problems of conflict and cooperation in a formal way, and to predict the outcome of such situations. This book deals with differential games in advertising, pricing, and marketing channels, as well as with marketing-production and pricing-advertising interfaces. Series: International Series in Quantitative Marketing. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402076138
- ISBN
- 9781402076138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.22
€ 184.22
Processes and Foundations for Virtual Organizations
. Ed(S): Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.; Afsarmanes...
Hardback. Contains selected articles from PRO-VE'03, the Fourth Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Lugano, Switzerland in October 2003. This fourth edition includes a set of papers revealing the progress and achievements in the main focus areas. Editor(s): Camarinha-Matos, Luis M.; Afsarmanesh, Hamideh. Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Num Pages: 572 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJ; UT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 978.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 572
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402076381
- ISBN
- 9781402076381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.64
€ 129.64
Hardback. Covers perspectives such as concurrent engineering in product and process design, the tools needed to deal with people, relationships and networks, enterprise networking in Europe. This book also tackles the following e-manufacturing issues: advanced logistics, mechatronics, manufacturing systems integration and supporting technologies. Editor(s): Ferreira, Joao Jose Pinto (Universidade do Porto, INESC, Potugal). Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJE; KJMV5; KND; UDB; UT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 597.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402076541
- ISBN
- 9781402076541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.47
€ 124.47