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International Logistics Supply Chain Outsourcing
Kogan Page 2007; US$ 80.00A guide to the use of outsourcing logistics and supply chain operations. It includes a review of the market, an assessment of the major providers, a description of the main services available and a consideration of the key drivers for outsourcing. It examines the detailed framework for the selection of a suitable service provider. more...
Growing Older in Europe
McGraw-Hill Education 2004; US$ 252.00Provides a comprehensive picture of quality of life in old age in five very different European Union countries. This book covers important issues concerning quality in later life, including physical and mental health, the environments of ageing, employment and income, family and support networks and participation and social integration. more...
Understanding Quality of Life in Old Age
McGraw-Hill Education 2005; US$ 242.00What constitutes quality of life for older people? How can quality of life be measured? How might policy makers improve quality of life for older people? This book considers key findings from Growing Older research programme and presents them in a thematic format. It discusses topics such as environment, family, bereavement, identity, and more. more...
Hans Von Bulow
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 29.99Hans von Bulow is a key figure in 19th century music whose career path was as broad as it was successful. Music history's first virtuoso orchestral conductor, Bulow created the model for the profession-both in musical brilliance and in domineering personality-which still holds forth today. He was an eminent and renowned concert pianist, a respected... more...
Franz Liszt, Volume 2
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 39.95The second volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker... more...
Franz Liszt, Volume 1
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 39.95Franz Liszt--child prodigy, virtuoso pianist, co-founder with Chopin and Schumann of the Romantic movement in music--has been the subject of literally hundreds of biographies, but it is only in the last few decades that the importance of Liszt the composer, as opposed to Liszt the Romantic hero, has been recognized. This new perspective has created... more...
Franz Liszt, Volume 3
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 50.00The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt. "You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books "A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker... more...
Quality of Life in Old Age
Springer 2007; US$ 149.99This volume brings together leading researchers on quality of life in old age to focus on one of the most important issues in both gerontology and quality of life studies. Quality of life is a holistic construct and assessed from many different perspectives and by many disciplines. Moreover, the concept of quality of life can be applied to practically... more...
Fighting poverty, inequality and injustice
The Policy Press 2011; US$ 36.50This important book brings together many of the leading contributors in the field and provides a compelling manifesto for change in social justice. more...
East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition
The Policy Press 2005; US$ 39.95This book puts the spotlight on the Chinese and South-East Asian welfare systems, providing an up-to-date assessment of their character and development. In particular it examines the underlying assumptions of these systems and how the processes of globalisation are impacting on them. As well as specific country case studies, there is a valuable comparative... more...









