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41. |  By: The Economist; Daniel Franklin; John Andrews Publisher: Profile Books Publication Date: 22-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Megachange: The world in 2050
In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still be rising. The population aged over sixty-five will have more than doubled, to more than 16 per cent; China’s GDP will be 80 per cent more than America’s; and the number of cars on India’s roads will have increased by 3,880 per cent. And, in 2050 it should be clear whether we are alone in the universe. What other megachanges can we expect - and what will their impact be? This comprehensive and compelling book will cover the most significant trends that are shaping the coming decades,...
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42. |  Europe’s Decline and Fall: The Struggle Against Global Irrelevance By: Richard Youngs Publisher: Profile Books Publication Date: 18-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Europe’s Decline and Fall: The Struggle Against Global Irrelevance
The European Union is in inexorable decline. The outlook is gloomy for the economy and nobody listens to European politicians. Any authority or power that it once had on the world stage is being lost, and its claims to the moral high ground in international affairs are increasingly shaky. But this lamentable state of affairs is neither inevitable nor irreversible. The emerging new world order offers opportunities for the EU, if it can only act systematically and develop a new cosmopolitan strategy based on principled and consistent support for universal values. Here is a bold analysis of...
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43. |  A Profile of the Steel Industry By: Peter Warrian Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 08-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Profile of the Steel Industry
Steel companies were at the birth of the modern business corporation. The first billion dollar corporation ever formed was U.S. Steel in 1901. By the mid-twentieth century the steel mill and the automobile plant were the two pillars upon which the twentieth century industrial economy rested. Given the scale of capital and operations, vertical integration was seen to be pivotal, from the raw materials of iron ore and coal on one end of the supply chain to the myriad of finished products on the other. By the end of the twentieth century, however, things had dramatically changed. Take a look...
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44. |  By: Christian Christian Gollier Publisher: Princeton University Press Publication Date: 11-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 29-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Pricing the Planet's Future
Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other policy debates, including, for example, the appropriate level of public debt, investment in public infrastructure, investment in education, and the level of funding for pension benefits and for...
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45. |  Trends and Effects of Technology Advancement in the Knowledge Society By: Miltiadis Lytras; Isabel Novo-Corti Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 28-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Trends and Effects of Technology Advancement in the Knowledge Society Technology has become a significant change agent in all aspects of our lives. We are more aware of the world, how we learn, travel, bank, and communicate. How we understand and evaluate these trends and effects of technology on Knowledge Society is very essential.Trends and Effects of Technology Advancement in the Knowledge Society brings together academicians, industry professionals, policymakers, politicians, and government officers to look at the impact of information technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today’s world: the state, business, society, and...
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46. |  By: Michael R. Czinkota Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 18-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 22-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: As the World Turns… We hear a lot about the growth of world trade, globalization, and imbalanced distribution of incomes. Yet, how does one understand all the issues, thoughts, and arguments? How does one develop a time frame and context for these issues? This book helps you to do so. Following on the heels of his successful book on opinions and insights (As I Was Saying…Observations on International Business and Trade Policy, Exports, Education, and the Future, March 2012), Michael Czinkota has invited us into his world again, to get a better perspective of issues, campaigns, and phenomena. Each article and the...
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47. |  Currencies After the Crash: The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based Currency System By: Sara Eisen Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 02-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 20-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Currencies After the Crash: The Uncertain Future of the Global Paper-Based Currency System
From the brightest minds in the field—a revealinglook at how countries use their currencies toachieve prosperity . . . and the coming repercussions Bloomberg Television’s Sara Eisen sheds light on the complex global financial system through this illuminating collection of essays. She hand selected the crème de la crème of authors from the world’s most prestigious academic institutions and esteemed professional organizations to share for the first time in print their observations and deductions on the topics that matter most to you and your future wealth, including: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN...
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48. |  Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy By: Anat Shenker-Osorio Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 25-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Don't Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy
After everything that’s happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common sense, even as their tired policies of budgetary sacrifice and corporate plunder both create and prolong economic disaster. Why does the electorate keep buying what they’re selling? According to political communications expert Anat Shenker-Osorio, it’s all about language—and not just theirs, but ours. In Don’t Buy It Shenker-Osorio diagnoses our economic discourse as stricken with faulty...
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49. |  The Main Street Moment: Fighting Back to Save the American Dream By: Gerald McEntee; Lee Saunders Publisher: Nation Books Publication Date: 12-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Main Street Moment: Fighting Back to Save the American Dream
In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision, politicians are targeting working Americans as never before. As American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald W. McEntee and Secretary-Treasurer Lee Saunders show, efforts to crush what’s left of the working middle class and the American Dream are supported by those willing to stop at nothing to enshrine profits for the few at the expense of the many. But these forces vastly underestimate the power of Americans—union and...
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50. |  By: Van Jones Publisher: Nation Books Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Rebuild the Dream
In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government—and reveals why he chose to resign his post as a special advisor to the Obama White House.
Jones puts his hard-won lessons to good use, proposing a powerful game plan to restore hope, fix our democracy and renew the American Dream. The American Dream means different things to people, but the center of gravity is always the same: an ordinary person—who was not born with great wealth, but...
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51. |  By: Chris Hedges Publisher: Nation Books Publication Date: 29-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Death of the Liberal Class
For decades the liberal class was a defense against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class— the press, universities, the labor movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions—have collapsed. In its absence, the poor, the working class, and even the middle class no longer have a champion. In this searing polemic Chris Hedges indicts liberal institutions, including his former employer, the New York Times, who have distorted their basic beliefs in order to support unfettered capitalism, the national security state, globalization, and staggering...
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52. |  Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class By: Bonnie Urciuoli Publisher: Westview Press Publication Date: 26-APR-1996 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class
Puerto Ricans in the United States, like other migrant minorities, face an array of linguistic judgments. They are told they don’t succeed because they don’t speak English. They are told their English is “impure” or “broken” because it has been “mixed” with Spanish. They are told that they sound inarticulate and that if they speak “correct” English, with no sign of Spanish influence—most particularly with no accent, they will get better jobs. In short, Puerto Ricans in the United States are told that the origins of their economic and social problems are linguistic and can be remedied...
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53. |  Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market By: Janine Wedel Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 15-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market
It can feel like we’re swimming in a sea of corruption. It’s unclear who exactly is in charge and what role they play. The same influential people seem to reappear time after time in different professional guises, pressing their own agendas in one venue after another. According to award-winning public policy scholar and anthropologist Janine Wedel, these are the powerful “shadow elite,” the main players in a vexing new system of power and influence. In this groundbreaking book, Wedel charts how this shadow elite, loyal only to their own, challenge both governments’ rules of...
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54. |  By: Peter Peter Fisk Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: People Planet Profit Social and environmental issues are more important than ever and consumers are committed to supporting change. 'Doing good' is no longer a peripheral activity but fundamental to every aspect of how we do business, every day, for everyone.
People, Planet, Profit is the first book to truly address business growth in the context of social and environmental concerns. It's a practical guide to new business opportunity, operational improvement and competitive advantage. Full of inspiring case studies, it looks at the challenges faced by key players such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Nike,...
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55. |  By: Clive Clive Humby Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 06-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Scoring Points, 2nd Edition Scoring Points tells the dramatic story of how Tesco Clubcard was conceived, launched and developed. Clive Humby and Terry Hunt, two major influences behind Tesco's spectacular transformation, and Tim Phillips, a leading business writer and broadcaster, bring us a compelling behind-the-scenes account of Clubcard: the successes, the failures and the lessons learnt.
The authors show how Tesco made customer loyalty marketing work, when almost every other loyalty programme failed, and illustrate the benefits for Tesco and its customers.
Scoring Points is one of the seminal marketing books of...
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56. |  By: Dan Dan Steinbock Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-JUN-2005 Insert Date: 03-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Mobile Revolution As more and more people use mobile handsets, a revolution is taking place in computing and telecommunications. Two extraordinary industries - the Internet and mobile communications-are converging. But this is just the beginning. As the third industry - consumer electronics - and the fourth - media and entertainment - join in, changes in consumer markets are inevitable, as evidenced by the explosive growth of mobile media, games and entertainment.
In The Mobile Revolution the senior executives of the world's leading mobile vendors, operators, service providers, software giants, chip kings,...
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57. |  Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods By: Tim Tim Phillips Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-MAR-2007 Insert Date: 03-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Knockoff: The Deadly Trade in Counterfeit Goods In this compelling account, Knockoff exposes the truth behind the fakes and uncovers the shocking consequences of dealing in counterfeit goods. Travelling across the globe, Tim Phillips shows that counterfeiting isn't a victimless crime; it is an illegal global industry undermining the world's economies.
Based on interviews with victims, investigators and the people who sell counterfeits, Knockoff reveals the link between what we see as "innocent" fakes and organized crime. Phillips describes in detail how the counterfeiters' criminal network costs jobs, cripples developing countries,...
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58. |  By: Peter Peter Lilley Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-MAY-2006 Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dirty Dealing, 3rd Edition Highly organised gangs, from the Italian Mafia to the Japanese Yakuza, infiltrate every corner of the globe: and money laundering is at the heart of their business. Dirty Dealing exposes the awesome scale and scope of global money laundering and its filtration into the world's legitimate business structures. Leading expert Peter Lilley reveals how the money is obtained, how it is "washed", and how organizations can detect and prevent money laundering.
Highly topical, this fully revised and updated edition provides thorough examination on the funding of terrorism. Packed with incredible...
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59. |  By: Donald Donald Kalff Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-NOV-2005 Insert Date: 02-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: An UnAmerican Business Enron, Worldcom, Arthur Anderson, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Citygroup - once the great icons of the US economy, worshipped at corporate alters world over, are now nothing more than an embarrassing memory. The universally accepted American enterprise model, which these and many other corporate giants have slavishly followed, has at last been called into question. Free market capitalism and globalism are not quite what they seem after all, as the decline of the US economy might testify. Donald Kalff passionately believes that the time is right for a sea-change in the way businesses operate...
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60. |  By: Anindita Basak Publisher: Pearson Education India Publication Date: 20-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 25-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Environmental Studies
This book covers the course requirements for Environmental Studies for undergraduate students of all disciplines. It aims to educate the readers about nature, ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, pollution, and the current challenges faced by environmentalists. It integrates the social impact associated with environmental issues through national and international case studies.
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