An ordinary life unfolds as not so ordinary, and has readers asking, ‘What happens next?’Writing with candour and wry humour Audrey reflects on her early years in Kenya lived during the Mau Mau uprising, her return to England after her father’s death, and careers in horticulture and then nursing in various countries....

As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism...

Get up to speed on Scala, the JVM language that offers all the benefits of a modern object model, functional programming, and an advanced type system....

Learn how to be more productive with Scala, a new multi-paradigm language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that integrates features of both object-oriented and functional programming. With this book, you\'ll discover why Scala is ideal for highly scalable, component-based applications that support concurrency and distribution....

Why should the student of engineering study management? Engineering skills alone do not meet real world requirements; they have to be supplemented by management training....

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This textbook provides a short, challenging and informative overview of the major intellectual debates within the field of political economy over the last decade. Each chapter provides a state of the art review of a key area written by a distinguished expert in the field....

Globalization and Its Critics challenges the claim that globalization is a clearly understood phenomena whose effects are well known and easily accounted for....

This book offers an urgent commentary on the experience of Caribbean development in the postcolonial era, a critical discussion of the current crisis of globalization in the region....

Customer Relationship Management is a holistic strategic approach to managing customer relationships to increase shareholder value, and this major Handbook of CRM gives complete coverage of the key concepts in this vital field....