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Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and...

Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers into several distinct areas and addresses the different approaches and the range...

EU Influence Beyond Conditionality: Turkey Plus/Minus the EU

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents an in-depth analysis of the role played by the EU accession process in Turkey’s democratic evolution and in the empowerment of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s. Often moving against the grain of consolidated analytical positions, the author finds that the accession process can have a critical...

Renewable Energy in the UK: Past, Present and Future (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

?This book offers a detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK, and of the battles that have been fought to achieve this, trawling through the often troubled history of government involvement.

The book examines how renewables became what...

Obtaining the Best from Regulation and Competition (Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy)

Springer, 2005

This book is the result of two Research Seminars at the Center for
Research in Regulated Industries‚ Rutgers—The State University of New
Jersey on October 24‚ 2003‚ and May 7‚ 2004. Twenty six previous
seminars in the same series resulted in Problems in Public Utility Economics
and Regulation...

Debian GNU/Linux Bible

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

If Debian GNU/Linux can do it, you can do it too … Whether you're a Linux newcomer looking for foolproof installation tips or a Debian GNU/ veteran who wants the scoop on the latest security enhancements, this authoritative guide delivers all the information you need to make the most of the Debian GNU/ "potato" release. From...

Advanced Language Practice

Macmillan Technical, 2004

The revised edition of this book is designed with a greater emphasis on text and collocation, in keeping with recent trends in the world of English as a Foreign Language. It also incorporates the many changes to the revised proficiency examination from December 2002, such as word formation and multiple word meaning. The book is also intended for...

Get Started in Computing

Macmillan Technical, 2010

Get Started in Computing is for anyone who wants to learn how to make good use of their PC. It doesn ’ t assume that you are a complete novice – there are very few of those left! You have probably used a PC a little – and can steer the mouse and use the keyboard (at least a bit).

You may have done a little...

Myths About Doing Business in China

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

China has always been a land of myth, mystery and exaggeration for the West.

Marco Polo came back to thirteenth-century Venice with tales of cities of a million people (unheard of in those days), unimaginable wealth, exotic food and strange customs. Eighteenth-century adventurers bought tales of rulers enlightened by the wise words of...

Standards Battles in Open Source Software: The Case of Firefox

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

The browser war between Firefox and Internet Explorer presents an intriguing case: how did Firefox manage to achieve a relatively significant market share in a ‘winner-takes-all’ industry? Why did Firefox manage to gain some market share while other competitors have failed? Is this because of the Open Source characteristics...

Inspectors and Enforcement at the Front Line of Government

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector. Government inspectors have a crucial role in enforcing rules and standards. The role of inspectors has changed. Their task is no longer to merely inspect and enforce, but also to educate, to negotiate, and to make compromises....

The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

In the late 1990s the American corporation forged ahead in gains in efficiency and earnings performance with strong reflections in stock price appreciation.However, the events of Enron and the bursting of the bubble of unlimited increases in the price of Internet, telecom and energy company shares have caused the authors of this book to take...

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