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14 produkter
14 produkter
Drugs and Empires
Essays in Modern Imperialism and Intoxication, c.1500 to c.1930
Inbunden, Engelska, 2007
1 203 kr
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Drugs and Empires introduces new research that re-evaluates the relationship between intoxicants and empires in the modern world. It re-examines controversies about such issues as the Asian opium trade or the sale of alcohol in Africa and addresses new areas of research, including the impact of imperial drugs profits on American history.
1 638 kr
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Europe's Economic Dilemma analyses the reasons why the European Union's growth rate has fallen during the last quarter of a century to little more than a third of its previous level.
1 638 kr
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This text analyzes the reasons why the European Union's growth rate has fallen to little more than a third of its previous level. The book concludes that the major reason has been politically-driven attempts to lock currencies together in inappropriate economic circumstances. These have led to deflation, unemployment and falling investment and competitiveness as EU Member States, without exchange rate flexibility, have found themselves unable to compete with Germany.
1 094 kr
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Managing the World Economy , while recognizing how much has been achieved since the start of the Industrial Revolution, challenges the view that much better results could have been attained.
Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism
The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India 1857-1900
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
1 094 kr
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This often gruelling text examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in 19th-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas in which the designs of the British were contested and confronted. Mills argues that power is everywhere and is behind every action; colonial power is therefore just another way to assert control over the less powerful. This social history draws on archives and documents based in Scotland, England and India.
2 182 kr
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This book describes the history, principles, methods and future developments in the field of quality auditing. Based in outline on the new international ISO quality auditing standards, the text addresses the reasons for and the practical application and implementation of these requirements. The role of quality auditing within the TQM approach is examined and a new way of looking at product audits and testing is presented. It should be viewed as a combined text and handbook on the practical approach to the total subject of quality auditing. The publication will be extremely useful to both existing quality audit management and personnel, together with students auditors and general management. This book should be of interest to quality assessors (auditors) - quality audit managers and personnel, quality managers in all organizations, quality consultants, quality professionals, and student "quality auditors".
2 180 kr
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This book calls for a radical reappraisal of economic policy in the UK. It argues that a much lower exchange rate is needed to re-establish sufficient manufacturing capacity to enable Britain to pay its way in the world. Mills makes the case for the removal of balance of payments constraints to achieve growth and avoid endless austerity.
664 kr
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First Published in 1995. Some thirty years have passed since the death of Noel Nouet. He was a revered teacher, historian, writer and talented woodblock artist who became the author's person friend during the 1950s in Japan. The original French edition of this book (1961) began with Noel Nouer's description of what he intended his book to be. He had no claims, he said, to have written a scholarly work. Rather he wanted 'to present a kind of emakimono, picture-scroll, of Tokyo' that would be 'pleasant to peruse?€?.
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This book calls for a radical reappraisal of economic policy in the UK. It argues that a much lower exchange rate is needed to re-establish sufficient manufacturing capacity to enable Britain to pay its way in the world. Mills makes the case for the removal of balance of payments constraints to achieve growth and avoid endless austerity.
1 094 kr
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While recognizing how much has been achieved since the start of the Industrial Revolution, this work challenges the view that much better results could not have been attained. It argues that faster economic growth and much better use of the available human talent could have meant, and should mean the future, achievable higher targets. The book goes on to argue that the reasons for the performance of the world economy over the last 200 years being well below the achievable optimum stem mainly from misconceptions about macroeconomic policy, which the book sets out to explain and correct.
535 kr
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A "biological clock" has now been inferred in so many and such diverse organisms and tissues that even a summary of the more interesting and important observations would be a tedious and encyclopaedic compila tion, whose bibliography would assume a daunting size. It would also be obsolescent on the day of publication. The new titles appearing in the monthly lists are scattered through many journals, but a new journal devoted exclusively to rhythm research published its first issue in May, 1970-the Journal of Interdisciplinary Cycle Research-and another, Chronobiology, appears in 1973. In this volume several authors have been asked to review separate aspects within their own fields of study, in the hope that thereby the reader might gain an idea of the many directions of active progress and be better placed to interrelate them than would be possible after a more exhaustive study of a limited part of the field. The outcome is a series of essays in which each contributor has exercised his individuality in ideas, style and presentation, and, at some points, in vocabulary, although the glossary includes a number of terms which have been fairly generally used.
1 587 kr
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No detailed description available for "The Arts".
2 182 kr
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There are as many views on audits and auditing auditing as there are people who have ever thought about the subject and the process. Any author writing about it is faced with some common problems, such as how to make a description of a technical process anything less than dry to read. How to deal with the general belief that anyone can conduct an audit without any specific training or experience. Auditing is often viewed as a waste of time, money and resources with little, if any, real value to an organization. It is seen as something of a judgemental process. People see themselves as being under scrutiny and examination and as very few of us enjoy such a process, audits are not generally welcomed at first. I cannot claim to have found solutions to these problems or to have come up with an easy five-minute way of understand ing the detailed points that make up this whole subject. As with any form of technical textbook, this work must not be viewed as a volume to be read in one sitting from cover to cover but used to dip into as and when required. Thankfully the practice of auditing, in real life has compensa tions for those involved. Those being audited, the auditees, if sensible, will be able to learn from what is hoped will be an objective and skilled overview of the areas and subjects being audited.