Author:
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289308786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aliens
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
People Weekly Yearbook 2000
Author: Eric Levin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013851
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Looks at celebrities who have made news during 1998, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, and Jennifer Lopez.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781883013851
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Looks at celebrities who have made news during 1998, including John F. Kennedy Jr., Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, and Jennifer Lopez.
Formula 1 - 2002 World Championship Yearbook
Author: Giorgio Stirano
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780896586079
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is the world's best-selling Formula 1 yearbook: a magnificently produced photographic review of the entire World Championship season, combined with detailed reports and analyses of each of the seventeen Grand Prix races around the world. For each race a two-page spread shows the starting line-up, a detailed account of the race and the result, a description of the circuit, the weather conditions on the day of the race, and the particular issues and talking points that dominated discussion at the time. Other chapters focus on the key issues of the season, lavishly illustrated with photographs. One chapter is devoted to the return of Formula 1 to the USA, and a brief account of its history there. Finally, the book contains an editorial by Giorgio Stirano devoted to the story of technical development of tires and suspension, as well as a 120-page portfolio of glorious color photographs covering the entire season, and 16 pages of superb cutaway section drawings of the main competing cars. No follower of Formula 1 should be without this definitive record of a memorable World Championship season! Superb photography, complete race summaries, inside stories, and technical cut-away drawings of the cars. The world's best-selling racing annual devoted exclusively to Formula 1. For racing enthusiasts.
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 9780896586079
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This is the world's best-selling Formula 1 yearbook: a magnificently produced photographic review of the entire World Championship season, combined with detailed reports and analyses of each of the seventeen Grand Prix races around the world. For each race a two-page spread shows the starting line-up, a detailed account of the race and the result, a description of the circuit, the weather conditions on the day of the race, and the particular issues and talking points that dominated discussion at the time. Other chapters focus on the key issues of the season, lavishly illustrated with photographs. One chapter is devoted to the return of Formula 1 to the USA, and a brief account of its history there. Finally, the book contains an editorial by Giorgio Stirano devoted to the story of technical development of tires and suspension, as well as a 120-page portfolio of glorious color photographs covering the entire season, and 16 pages of superb cutaway section drawings of the main competing cars. No follower of Formula 1 should be without this definitive record of a memorable World Championship season! Superb photography, complete race summaries, inside stories, and technical cut-away drawings of the cars. The world's best-selling racing annual devoted exclusively to Formula 1. For racing enthusiasts.
Minerals Yearbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
The Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575071049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The latest in the highly-successful series of Discworld diaries, featuring extensive original material by Terry Pratchett. The Thieves¿ Guild celebrates its 21st anniversary with its first Yearbook, featuring an address from Lord Vetinari himself, who encouraged the setting-up of the Guild to avoid the random, unfair and disorganised crime which, until his ascent to power, plagued the great city of Ankh-Morpork. Now crime is legal, organised and run to an annual budget and everyone is happy ¿ well, almost everyone: woe betide the unlicensed thief, highwayman or slipperlegger who tries to do business without Guild approval! Stunningly illustrated, as in previous years, by Paul Kidby.
Publisher: Gollancz
ISBN: 9780575071049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The latest in the highly-successful series of Discworld diaries, featuring extensive original material by Terry Pratchett. The Thieves¿ Guild celebrates its 21st anniversary with its first Yearbook, featuring an address from Lord Vetinari himself, who encouraged the setting-up of the Guild to avoid the random, unfair and disorganised crime which, until his ascent to power, plagued the great city of Ankh-Morpork. Now crime is legal, organised and run to an annual budget and everyone is happy ¿ well, almost everyone: woe betide the unlicensed thief, highwayman or slipperlegger who tries to do business without Guild approval! Stunningly illustrated, as in previous years, by Paul Kidby.
Achieving the Objectives 2003
Author:
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289308786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher: Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN: 9789289308786
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Low-Carbon Consumption in China: Residential Behavior, Corporate Practices and Policy Implication
Author: Zhaohua Wang
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981152792X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book explores China’s low-carbon consumption in the context of residential behaviour, corporate practices and policy Implication. It first calculates the carbon and ecological footprints of residential consumption, including both direct and indirect emissions, before discussing Chinese residential behavioural aspects and determinants of electricity saving, low-carbon transportation, low-carbon product purchasing, and e-waste recycling. The authors then investigate the relationship between industrial growth and carbon emissions, using the example of the iron and steel industry to examine the motivation for energy intensive industries to reduce carbon emissions. They also consider energy efficiency and inter-company collaboration on carbon emission reduction. Lastly, the book describes the major low-carbon policies in China and their impact, economic cost and public acceptance.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981152792X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book explores China’s low-carbon consumption in the context of residential behaviour, corporate practices and policy Implication. It first calculates the carbon and ecological footprints of residential consumption, including both direct and indirect emissions, before discussing Chinese residential behavioural aspects and determinants of electricity saving, low-carbon transportation, low-carbon product purchasing, and e-waste recycling. The authors then investigate the relationship between industrial growth and carbon emissions, using the example of the iron and steel industry to examine the motivation for energy intensive industries to reduce carbon emissions. They also consider energy efficiency and inter-company collaboration on carbon emission reduction. Lastly, the book describes the major low-carbon policies in China and their impact, economic cost and public acceptance.
Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences
Author: Karen F. Greif
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262262940
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In recent years, advances in biological science and technology have outpaced policymakers' attempts to deal with them. Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences examines the ways in which the federal government uses scientific information in reaching policy decisions, providing case studies of the interactions between science and government on different biomedical, biological, and environmental issues. These case studies document a broad range of complex issues in science policy—from the Human Genome Project to tobacco regulation—and provide an accessible overview of both the science behind the issues and the policy-making process. The cases illustrate the different ways in which science and politics intersect in policy decisions, as well as the different forms policy itself may take—including not only regulatory action but the lack of regulation. Among the topics examined are public and private research funding, as seen in gene patenting; reluctance to regulate even when a product has been proven unhealthy, as in the case of tobacco; a comparison of U.S. and international policy responses to genetically modified organisms; and the competing interests at play in air pollution policy. Each chapter includes shorter side essays on related topics (for example, essays on issues raised by the SARS epidemic accompany the detailed case study of the public health response to the anthrax-laced mail received in the weeks after 9/11). This clear and readable introduction to controversial issues in the biological sciences will be a valuable resource for students of science policy and bioethics and for professionals in industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations who need background on emerging issues in the biological sciences.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262262940
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In recent years, advances in biological science and technology have outpaced policymakers' attempts to deal with them. Current Controversies in the Biological Sciences examines the ways in which the federal government uses scientific information in reaching policy decisions, providing case studies of the interactions between science and government on different biomedical, biological, and environmental issues. These case studies document a broad range of complex issues in science policy—from the Human Genome Project to tobacco regulation—and provide an accessible overview of both the science behind the issues and the policy-making process. The cases illustrate the different ways in which science and politics intersect in policy decisions, as well as the different forms policy itself may take—including not only regulatory action but the lack of regulation. Among the topics examined are public and private research funding, as seen in gene patenting; reluctance to regulate even when a product has been proven unhealthy, as in the case of tobacco; a comparison of U.S. and international policy responses to genetically modified organisms; and the competing interests at play in air pollution policy. Each chapter includes shorter side essays on related topics (for example, essays on issues raised by the SARS epidemic accompany the detailed case study of the public health response to the anthrax-laced mail received in the weeks after 9/11). This clear and readable introduction to controversial issues in the biological sciences will be a valuable resource for students of science policy and bioethics and for professionals in industry, government, and nongovernmental organizations who need background on emerging issues in the biological sciences.
Economic Development and Inequality in China
Author: Hong Yu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136885080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China’s remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdong is one of the key industrial centres and economic powerhouses in China and as a pioneer province, instigating economic reform as China opened up to the world, it offers an ideal focus upon which to question and enrich the Western theories of economic geography and regional disparity. Based on field research, analysis of geographic characteristics and regression models, this book illustrates how Guangdong’s impressive development record has been marred by its rising regional disparity, investigates the main causes of this disparity, and draws conclusions regarding the lessons China can learn from it. Economic Development and Inequality in China will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese economics, Chinese regional studies, economic geography and China Studies. Hong Yu is a Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in the field of regional economy. He is the author of a chapter on China’s two delta regions in the book "China and The Global Economic Crisis".
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136885080
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The conventional belief that all regions have equally benefited from China’s remarkable development over the last three decades is subjected to criticism in this book as Hong Yu systematically analyses the issue of regional inequality during the post-1978 period using the case of Guangdong. Guangdong is one of the key industrial centres and economic powerhouses in China and as a pioneer province, instigating economic reform as China opened up to the world, it offers an ideal focus upon which to question and enrich the Western theories of economic geography and regional disparity. Based on field research, analysis of geographic characteristics and regression models, this book illustrates how Guangdong’s impressive development record has been marred by its rising regional disparity, investigates the main causes of this disparity, and draws conclusions regarding the lessons China can learn from it. Economic Development and Inequality in China will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese economics, Chinese regional studies, economic geography and China Studies. Hong Yu is a Visiting Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His research interests lie in the field of regional economy. He is the author of a chapter on China’s two delta regions in the book "China and The Global Economic Crisis".
Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China
Author: Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317934288
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime’s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how thinking about public sector reform has shifted in recent decades from a quantitative emphasis on 'small government', which involved the reduction in size of what was perceived as a bloated bureaucracy, to an emphasis on the quality of governance, which may result in an increase in public sector personnel. The book shows how, although Western ideas about public sector reform have had an impact, Chinese government continues to be best characterized as 'state capitalism', with the large state-owned enterprises continuing to play an important – and increasing – role in the economy and in business. However, state-owned enterprises no longer provide care for large numbers of people from the cradle to the grave – finding an alternative, efficient way of delivering basic welfare and health care is the big challenge facing China’s public sector.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317934288
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime’s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how thinking about public sector reform has shifted in recent decades from a quantitative emphasis on 'small government', which involved the reduction in size of what was perceived as a bloated bureaucracy, to an emphasis on the quality of governance, which may result in an increase in public sector personnel. The book shows how, although Western ideas about public sector reform have had an impact, Chinese government continues to be best characterized as 'state capitalism', with the large state-owned enterprises continuing to play an important – and increasing – role in the economy and in business. However, state-owned enterprises no longer provide care for large numbers of people from the cradle to the grave – finding an alternative, efficient way of delivering basic welfare and health care is the big challenge facing China’s public sector.