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The Tourists Gaze, The Cretans Glance
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 32.95As researchers bring their analytic skills to bear on contemporary archaeological tourism, they find that it is as much about the present as the past. Philip Duke’s study of tourists gazing at the remains of Bronze Age Crete highlights this nexus between past and present, between exotic and mundane. Using personal diaries, ethnographic interviews,... more...
Green IT
British Informatics Society Limited 2012; US$ 0.20New legislation, rising energy costs and increasing demand for green credentials have moved sustainable IT up the business agenda. This ebook looks at different aspects of green IT ? from sustainably managing IT assets, ethically recycling hardware or using IT to reduce carbon footprint ? and how to incorporate them in business strategy. more...
The Politics of Resource Extraction
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines. more...
The University in the Age of Globalization
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 100.00An informed discussion of the global education market, analysing the rankings system, and the determinants which help universities to advance. The authors examine possible improvements in the promotion and commercialization of university research, and the role of universities in the social and economic development of transition economies. more...
The Cinema Makers
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in south-eastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema events, writing about film and making films themselves. Drawing on a corpus of interviews with cinema activists in Germany, Austria and the... more...
Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 138.00The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors details... more...
Can We Still Trust the BBC?
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 16.99The scandals that have rocked the BBC have touched the corporation from top to bottom. As the revelations about Jimmy Savile unfold and shock the nation, people may reasonably ask what possible trust they can have in this incomparable national institution, once the embodiment of truth and moral excellence. This book asks a big question: can we still... more...
World Textile Industry
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 210.00This book analyzes the competitive forces which dominate this major sector, and traces how the nature of competition has evolved during the last two hundred years. Through an analysis of key factors, including demand, related and supporting industries, firm strategy, structure and national rivalry, chance and government policy, the author explains... more...
Case Studies on Chinese Enterprises
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 160.00This book is a collection of teaching cases on two Chinese companies, UFIDA and Founder. The cases describe the management practices of typical Chinese companies. UFIDA is a well-known company providing management software while Founder is a long-established high-tech company. The book aims at providing readers with original, first-hand materials,... more...
Imagining India
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableIndian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book about modern India. Nilekani gives us a fascinating new perspective for the twenty-first century, defying received and imported wisdom, and showing us what is really at stake in the world's largest democracy. He reveals why India's huge population has now become her... more...









