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China’s Domestic and International Migration Development (International Talent Development in China)

Springer, 2019

This book offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of China’s domestic and international migration. Restructuring economic development requires large numbers of educated and skilled talents, but this effort comes at a time when the size of China’s domestic workforce is shrinking. In response, both national and regional...

Optimization and Applications: 9th International Conference, OPTIMA 2018, Petrovac, Montenegro, October 1–5, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science)

Springer, 2019

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2018, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, in October 2018. The 35 revised full papers and the one short paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers are organized in...

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge Literature Companions)

Routledge, 2018

The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How...

Globalization: A Basic Text

John Wiley & Sons, 2015

Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of Globalization: A Basic Text presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.

Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in...

Public Libraries in the Smart City

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Far from heralding their demise, digital technologies have lead to a dramatic transformation of the public library. Around the world, libraries have reinvented themselves as networked hubs, community centres, innovation labs, and makerspaces. Coupling striking architectural design with attention to ambience and comfort, libraries have...

Applications in Engineering, Life and Social Sciences (De Gruyter Reference)

De Gruyter, 2019

Fractional Calculus (FC) has originated in 1695, nearly at the same time as conventional calculus. However, FC attracted limited attention and remained a pure mathematical exercise in spite of the original contributions of important mathematicians, physicists and engineers. FC had a rapid development during the last few decades, both in...

Employment and Re-Industrialisation in Post Soeharto Indonesia (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book studies the challenges for Indonesia, once a miracle economy, as it faces premature deindustrialisation, rising inequality and domestic and external factors impacting its export-oriented industrialization. Since the fall of Soeharto, Indonesia has undergone a far-reaching systemic transition from centralised and autocratic governance...

Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World?the world’s first “global economy”?from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions...

Basic Theory (De Gruyter Reference)

De Gruyter, 2019

Fractional calculus (FC) originated in 1695, nearly at the same time as conventional calculus. However, FC attracted limited attention and remained a pure mathematical exercise, in spite of the contributions of important mathematicians, physicists and engineers. FC had a rapid development during the last few decades, both in...

Economic Miracles in the European Economies

Springer, 2019

This book undertakes a theoretical and econometric analysis of intense economic growth in selected European countries during the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty first. Focusing on the accelerated economic growth that occurred in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey, this book investigates the...

From Good to Bad Bankers: Lessons Learned from a 50-Year Career in Banking

Springer, 2019

Bankers are administrators of other people’s money, and they are responsible both to their depositors and to other stakeholders. Human nature being what it is, however, they sometimes fall prey to overweening ambition, coming to see themselves as the rightful beneficiaries of the moneys entrusted to them. This can...

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

Princeton Press, 2019

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by...

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