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Housing in Southeast Asian Capital Cities
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) 2005; US$ 16.50The author presents some of the wider debates on housing and development while focusing on the major Southeast Asian capital cities: Jakarta, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Metro Manila. All of these have expanded enormously in terms of population and size, all have enormous problems ranging from provision of clean water and sustainable housing for the... more...
The Transforming Public Library Technology Infrastructure
ALA Editions 2011; US$ 34.00This issue of Library Technology Reports brings together longitudinal data, key issues, trends, and best practices that will provide library staff with tools for planning, advocacy, and service enhancements. more...
Sustaining Key Skills in the UK Military Aircraft Industry
RAND Corporation 2010; US$ 9.95This monograph reports on RAND Europe?s support to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence?s Fixed Wing Sector Strategy Board towards development of a strategy and sustainment plan for the military fixed wing sector. more...
Corporations and Cultural Industries
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 89.99Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation , by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, fills an important neglected area in communication and media studies through its sustained, theoretically-grounded, and empirically rich analysis of three of the most important global media conglomerates of our time: Time Warner, Bertelsmann,... more...
Going for Gold
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 27.00A Fortune 500 company as a pioneer of current gold-mining technology Jack H. Morris details how Newmont Mining revolutionized the gold mining industry and remains today the second largest gold miner in the world. He asserts that Newmont is the link between early gold mining and today’s technology-driven industry. We learn how the company’s... more...
Airport Economics in Latin America and the Caribbean
World Bank Publications 2011; US$ 19.99Traditionally, air transport infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) was exclusively under government ownership and management. Starting in the late 1990s, several Latin American countries implemented innovative public-private partnerships (PPP) that transferred the financing and management of air transport sector infrastructure to... more...
Developing Public Private Partnerships in Liberia
World Bank Publications 2012; US$ 14.99Liberia is making great strides to recover from its recent era of conflict and reestablish itself as a global competitor. Central to Liberias economic growth is its rich endowment of natural resource such as iron ore and rubber. Liberias natural resources have defined, in large part, the countrys engagement with the private sector.... more...
Leading Apple With Steve Jobs
Wiley 2012; US$ 22.00A former Senior VP of Apple shares how Steve Jobs motivated people to do the best work of their lives Jay Elliot was hired personally by Steve Jobs, just in time to accompany him on the last of his historic visits to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, the visits that changed the course of computing. As Senior VP of Apple, Jay served as Steve's right-hand... more...
Inside Steve's Brain
Atlantic Books Ltd 2010; US$ 10.19It is hard to believe that the same man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and '80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and put digital music on the map in the 2000s (with the iPod and iTunes). Inside Steve's Brain cuts through the cult of personality that surrounds Jobs to unearth the secrets that underlie... more...
Nazi Steel
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 29.95This study explores an exemplary instance of the close interaction between private and official interests in planning and executing the programs of the Nazi government, namely the acquisition in 1941 of the Rombach steel works by the German industrialist Friedrich Flick. The industrial concern headed by Flick was among the largest and most influential... more...









