Electronic Books

Total Books: 1501 - 1520 /1562

Transport, Trade and Economic Growth — Coupled or Decoupled?

Over the past decade, the transport industry has been the target of growing criticism over its role in the pollution of the ...

Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007

The ITB Convention Market Trends & Innovations has developed into a center of excellence and a driving force for the global ...

Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2008

This book offers insight into important trends in the global travel and tourism industry and analyzes developments in the ...

Trends in Business and Economic Ethics

A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing ...

Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management

With the rapid development of information and network technologies and market requirements, new challenges in supply chain ...

Trust within Organizations of the New Economy

Marco Tulio Zanini examines the effects of different industry-specific institutional framework constraints on the level of ...

Two Minds

intuition is warm and fuzzy, qualitative, not measurable. Economics, on the other hand, is quantitative, and if it is not ...

Uncertainty and Risk

We all feel that our world is fundamentally uncertain. But less unanimity emerges as to what we mean by "uncertainty" and ...

Understanding Biology Using Peptides

Understanding Biology Using Peptides: Proceedings of the 19th American Peptide Symposium highlights many of the recent developments ...

Understanding Competitive Advantage

This book is about competitive advantage and how it is created at the company level. Our theoretical starting point is that ...

Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

This book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and ...

Une politique mondiale pour Nourrir le monde

Edgard Pisani, whose work in favor of French and European agriculture as well as of development is known, brought together ...

United States and European Union Auditor Independence Regulation

There is a difference in the communication and safeguarding effects of a regulation, depending on the precision of its wording. ...

Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

The book focuses in-depth at the most significant event in transportation planning--the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1962; ...

Usability and Internationalization. Global and Local User Interfaces

The papers cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use ...

Usability and Internationalization. HCI and Culture

These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing ...

Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care

Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care takes a fresh and contemporay look at the growing interest ...

Utility Maximization, Choice and Preference

The utility maximization paradigm forms the basis of many economic, psychological, cognitive and behavioral models. Since ...

Vacation Queueing Models

A classical queueing model consists of three parts - arrival process, service process, and queue discipline. However, a vacation ...

Validation of Risk Management Models for Financial Institutions : Theory and Practice / David Lynch, Iftekhar Hasan, Akhtar Siddique

Covers all of the major risk areas that a financial institution is exposed to and uses models for, including market risk, ...

Total Books: 1501 - 1520 /1562