Learn IT - Books tags economy

The Management Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The Management Bible is the most comprehensive book on the topic of management available anywhere. It offers in-depth coverage of the entire range of essential topics for today’s managers and supervisors—from beginners to seasoned veterans—and includes practical, effective solutions for the everyday problems every manager...

Environment and Economy (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)

Routledge, 2020

Nothing is more important to our world than finding a more comfortable relationship between the economy and the environment. While issues such as species loss, nitrate pollution, water scarcity and climate change are now attracting the political attention they deserve, their origin in the way our economy is organized is less...

Materials for the Hydrogen Economy

CRC Press, 2007

Materials for the Hydrogen Economy describes the technical challenges and the current efforts in developing materials possessing the properties required for handling each stage of the hydrogen fuel chain. This book covers all seven of the current hydrogen production methods, as well as distribution, storage, and utilization technologies-fuel cells...

Web Design on a Shoestring

New Riders Publishing, 2003

With the struggling US economy, many businesses have had to implement steps to curb expenses and pinch pennies. One of the first areas to feel these cutbacks is the web site design and development group. Employees have been asked to fill roles previously held by other employees due to staff reductions. At the same time, these remaining...

Semantic Web Technologies and E-Business: Toward the Integrated Virtual Organization and Business Process Automation

IGI Global, 2007

The Semantic Web vision of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is comprised of four primary components: (1) expressing meaning, (2) knowledge representation, (3) ontology, and (4) agents. Expression of meaning is fundamental to the construction of the new “intelligent” Web. The current Web lacks mechanisms for expressing meaning and is...

Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy

MIT Press, 2009

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of...

Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications

Auerbach Publications, 2006

The concept of aware systems is one of the most exciting trends in computing today, fueled by recent developments in pervasive computing. This book introduces a new breed of computer applications that are termed "context-aware pervasive systems" and provides architectural blueprints for building context-aware behavior into...

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...

Going off the Rails: Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

In this thought-provoking work, writer and journalist John Plender explores the model of capitalism advocated by English-speaking countries and asks the following pertinent questions:

Why are developing countries financing the world's richest economy, instead of the other way round?

How have the markets come...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

W W Norton, 2008

In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In...

The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures

Profile Books Ltd, 2009

The Battle for Barrels demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the peak oil theory is mistaken. Duncan Clarke rebuts the arguments of peak oil’s adherents and discusses the issues they ignore—rising prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration, access to restricted world oil zones, changes in...

Developing B2B Social Communities: Keys to Growth, Innovation, and Customer Loyalty

Apress, 2013

Developing B2B Social Communities: Keys to Growth, Innovation, and Customer Loyalty explains why business-to-business companies need a robust online community strategy to survive and flourish in today’s changing economy and shows you how to design and execute your company’s strategy successfully.

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