century  (9.636 Angebote unter 28.405.511 Artikeln)

This book combines elements of economic and business history to study business ethics from the nineteenth century to today. It concentrates on American and British business history, delving into is...

Significant progress has doubtlessly been made in the field of cere bral protection compared to earlier centuries, as recently reviewed by Elisabeth Frost (6). She cites the recommendations for tre...

Jacek Soszy?ski is Professor of History at the University of Warsaw. His field of expertise is medieval historiography and the history of ideas during the Middle Ages. Agnieszka Chamera-Nowak is As...

This volume critically analyzes the convergence of technology, business practices, public policies, political ideologies, and societal values for improving business performance at the global-local ...

Biomedical research in the first decade of the 21st century has been marked by a rapidly growing interest in epigenetics. The reasons for this are numerous, but primarily it stems from the mounting...

Combining statistical analyses and personal interviews, this book examines the phenomenon of adult children in the United States who have returned to living with their parents in the family home. I...

In customer-driven pricing mechanisms, sellers delegate (some) control over the final transaction price to their customers. While take-it-or-leave-it posted prices have been the norm in most market...

The Galton-Watson branching process has its roots in the problem of extinction of family names which was given a precise formulation by F. Galton as problem 4001 in the Educational Times (17, 1873)...

This volume explores how Gibraltarian Britishness was constructed over the course of the twentieth century. Today most Gibraltarians are fiercely proud of their Britishness, sometimes even describi...

This is the last manuscript of Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz, dictated during the final years of her life. If not only contains a brilliant historical survey of alchemy since Egyptian times, but above...

From Surge to Downturn and Beyond

Global Theory from Within and Without is a critical examination of the concept of globalization. There are in sociological theory many definitions of globalization. Sociological theory constructs a...

Vom World Trade Center Transportation Hub bis zum Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro: Diese aktualisierte Monografie zeigt Calatravas komplettes Werk einschließlich der jüngsten Projekte. Mit det...

The book illustrates in detail many tropical lichens recently collected in Bahia state in Brazil. This includes isotypes of most species that were described from this state in the present century. ...

convenes a dialogue between one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, the philosophical fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, and one of the most important writers and producers of the tw...