Filter by
Supply Chain Design and Management for Emerging Markets
This book focuses on supply chain management in emerging markets. The authors present issues relating to supply chain development covering countries such as Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Turkey, Egypt and South Africa and focuses on the challenges faced when the supply chain is designed and maintained. Such challenges derive from issues to do with risk, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-05765-1
- Collation
- XIV, 357
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Tourism and Travel during the Cold War : Negotiating Tourist Experiences acro…
The Iron Curtain was not an impenetrable divide, and contacts between East and West took place regularly and on various levels throughout the Cold War. This book explores how the European tourist industry transcended the ideological fault lines and the communist states attracted an ever-increasing number of Western tourists. Based on extensive original research, it examines the ramifications of…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429577116
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Sustainable Energy for All Innovation, technology and pro-poor green transfor…
Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Sustainable Development Goal 3 : Health and Well-being of Ageing in Hong Kong
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to develop a better and sustainable future for the world and the goals are part of an action plan to address poverty, hunger, health, gender equity and various pressing world issues. One of these goals looks at health and wellness. Ageing populations have become a crucial issue worldwide and this short monograph explores ageing and how the consequences o…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000544282,
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia
The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the concomitant promise to enable more precise diagnosis and treatment of disease and illness, based upon an individual’s unique genetic makeup.In this book, my goal is to contribute to a growing body of literature on personalized medicine by tracing and analyzing how this field has bl…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781134989126
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities
Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities. While the levels of socio-economic segregation in European cities are still modest compared to some parts of the world, the poor are increasingly concentrating spatially within capital cities across Europe. An overlooked area of research, this book o…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Model and Practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications.The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000367157
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
A Variational Approach to Lyapunov Type Inequalities: From ODEs to PDEs
This book highlights the current state of Lyapunov-type inequalities through a detailed analysis. Aimed toward researchers and students working in differential equations and those interested in the applications of stability theory and resonant systems, the book begins with an overview Lyapunov’s original results and moves forward to include prevalent results obtained in the past ten years. De…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-25289-6
- Collation
- XVIII, 120
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Mathematics
- Call Number
- 515.4 CAN v
A User’s Guide to Network Analysis in R
Presenting a comprehensive resource for the mastery of network analysis in R, the goal of Network Analysis with R is to introduce modern network analysis techniques in R to social, physical, and health scientists. The mathematical foundations of network analysis are emphasized in an accessible way and readers are guided through the basic steps of network studies: network conceptualization, data…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-23883-8
- Collation
- XII, 238
- Series Title
- Use R!
- Call Number
- 519.5 LUK u
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Finance Studies
There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular intensity since the 2007–2008 crisis which prompted new analyses of the workings of financial markets and how “scandals of Wall Street” might have huge societal ramifications. The sociologically inclined landsc…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781351627160
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 650
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography