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                Geriatric Anesthesiology highlights both essential knowledge and recent breakthroughs of importance in the field. This completely ...
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                The number of follow-on acquisitions after the buyout of a company by a financial sponsor, so-called "buy and build strategies", ...
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                Most of the world’s population lives close to the coast and is highly dependent on coastal resources, which are being exploited ...
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                Global Design to Gain a Competitive Edge collects together papers from the 2008 International Conference on Advanced Design ...
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                This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Global E-Security, ICGeS 2008, held ...
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                offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...
Continue readingIn the early years of the 21st Century, as a result of many changes, it has become possible for the first time for tens of ...
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                What is the best configuration for a global production network? What are the different dynamics in low-cost vs. high-cost ...
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                At the same time, I was a junior Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble w- ried about a much more mundane problem: how to keep ...
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                This book innovative risk governance framework, the careful reviews it received from internationally recognized scientists, ...
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                Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups expands on this current ...
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