Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: deakin

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  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    JEFFREY JOHN DEAKIN
    Human benefit from the organic chemistry of plants is incalculable in terms of health, food, comfort and security. Indeed, the future well-being of humanity rests in significant measure upon a responsible relationship with the plant kingdom in order to re-establish balance in the Earth’s natural environmental systems. In a highly readable volume, Organic Chemistry: Miracles fro...

    $1,320.00

  • SUSTAINABLE SMART CITY TRANSITIONS
    LUCA MORA, MARK DEAKIN, XIAOLING ZHANG, MICHAEL BATTY, MARTIN DE JONG, PAOLO SANTI AND FRANCESCO PAO
    This book enhances the reader’s understanding of the theoretical foundations, sociotechnical assemblage, and governance mechanisms of sustainable smart city transitions. Drawing on empirical evidence stemming from existing smart city research, the book begins by advancing a theory of sustainable smart city transitions, which forms bridges between smart city development studies ...

    $1,200.00

  • ORIGINS OF THE WELFARE STATE V1
    NICHOLAS DEAKIN
    First published in 2004. Consisting of both shorter pieces and reprints of entire books, this set restores to circulation a number of key texts from the debate about the future of welfare that took place in Britain following the depression. The collection covers the following areas: The period during which the country felt the full impact of the world depression. A number of so...

    $7,900.00

  • NATURAL PRODUCTS OF SILK ROAD PLANTS
    RAYMOND COOPER / JEFFREY JOHN DEAKIN
    The Silk Road, a complex network of trade routes linking China with the rest of the Eurasian continent by land and sea, fostered transformation of the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of diverse peoples. In Natural Products of Silk Road Plants there is a treasury of plants, many indigenous to countries along the trading routes of the Silk Road, that yielded medicines,...

    $1,360.00

  • LABOUR, FINANCE AND INEQUALITY
    SUZANNE J. KONZELMANN / SIMON DEAKIN / MARC FOVARGUE-DAVIES / FRANK WILKINSON
    Following the 2008 "global" financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncertainty produced a momentary return to "Keynesian" policies. But as soon as emergency stimuli – and bank bail-outs – appeared to stabilise the situation, there was a sharp reversal; and successive British governments and the financi...

    $1,200.00

  • METHODOLOGIES, MODELS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR RURAL AND URBAN LAND MANAGEMENT
    MARK DEAKIN
    Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such as data acquisition, data modelling, the legal instruments of land management ...

    $1,460.00

  • PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
    MARK DEAKIN
    Drawing upon a number of international property management projects, this book outlines the issues underlying the development of property management. Addressing key topics such as value for money, economy, efficiency and effectiveness, it focuses on corporate strategies and financial instruments of property management. It examines how managers are responsible for developing th...

    $1,460.00

  • HIGH-SPEED RAIL AND SUSTAINABILITY
    BLAS LUIS PÉREZ HENRÍQUEZ AND ELIZABETH DEAKIN
    High speed rail (HSR) is being touted as a strategic investment for connecting people across regions, while also fostering prosperity and smart urban growth. However, as its popularity increases, its implementation has become contentious with various parties contesting the validity of socioeconomic and environmental objectives put forward as justification for investment. High S...

    $1,320.00

  • BOTANICAL MIRACLES
    RAYMOND COOPER / JEFFREY JOHN DEAKIN
    As the shortcomings of purely synthetic approaches to biochemical discovery and development are becoming more apparent, a renaissance of interest in the chemistry of natural products as sources for new compounds is occurring. A unique approach to natural products chemistry, Botanical Miracles: Chemistry of Plants That Changed the World relates appl ...

    $1,260.00

  • LEARNING TO LEARN
    RUTH DEAKIN CRICK, CRISTINA STRINGHER AND KAI REN
    Learning to Learn provides a much needed overview and international guide to the field of learning to learn from a multidisciplinary lifelong and lifewide perspective. A wealth of research has been flourishing on this key educational goal in recent years. Internationally, it is considered to be one of the key competencies needed to compete in the global economy, but also a cruc...

    $1,280.00

  • CREATING SMART-ER CITIES
    MARK DEAKIN
    Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders, corporate strategists and growth management alliances, with the potential to lib...

    $820.00

  • SMART CITIES
    MARK DEAKIN
    Smart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM’s Smart Planet and CISCO’s Smart Cities and Communities programmes, their potential to deliver on global sustainable development targets have captured the public’s attention. However, despite this growing interest in the development of smart cities, little has as yet been published t...

    $1,320.00

  • CHANGING UNIVERSITY TEACHING
    EVANS, TERRY (DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION RESEARCH, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA)
    Behind the hype of the "virtual university" lies real change in the way practitioners approach university teaching. This book focuses on the changes to teaching both on and off campus that have either come from, or themselves influenced the development of educational technologies. ...

    $1,380.00

  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 3
    VREEKER, RON / DEAKIN, MARK / CURWELL, STEPHEN
    The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evalu...

    $1,760.00

  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 2
    DEAKIN, MARK / MITCHELL, GORDON / NIJKAMP, PETER / VREEKER, RON
    In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban dev...

    $1,760.00

  • SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION
    BRENDAN BURCHELL / SIMON DEAKIN / JONATHAN MICHIE / JILL RUBERY
    In recent years we have seen the predictions of our forebears that leisure time would increase as the years pass utterly confounded. It is a fact of life that in major cities across the world, transport systems are full to bursting with people on their way to and from work. As people have come to accept longer working hours as a way of life, a number of new issues have come int...

    $6,100.00

  • THE ENTERPRISE CULTURE AND THE INNER CITY
    NICHOLAS DEAKIN / JOHN EDWARDS
    Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, policy for inner city regeneration underwent a transformation from a reliance on central and local government activity and the use of public funds, to a much heavier dependence on private sector activities and private investment. In The Enterprise Culture and the Inner City, the authors offer a vigorous and critical investigation of gove...

    $1,380.00

  • COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TO WIDENING PARTICIPATION
    TARA WEBSTER-DEAKIN
    Collaborative Approaches to Widening Participation (WP) offers a much-needed look into how academic and professional university staff can work together to transform access and participation in higher education. Using original empirical research and applying practical guidance, it explores the challenges and opportunities of breaking down boundaries within universities, demonstr...

    $800.00

  • RESISTING THE LABEL
    DEAKIN, JO
    This book draws on ethnographic research across multiple European contexts to explore how young people navigate their complex positioning in society today. At a time when environmental disaster, health crises, economic instability, and ongoing conflicts compete for urgency in our collective concerns, young people find themselves simultaneously portrayed as symbols of societal p...

    $1,480.00

  • WALKING WELSH HISTORY
    REBECCA DEAKIN
    Explore the Welsh hills, uncovering Dylan Thomas's legacy, rebellion history, and a landscape filled with cultural and personal significance. Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the Welsh hills, where each step unveils a tapestry woven with history, culture, and personal connection. Traverse the poetic landscapes that inspired Dylan Thomas, wandering through the Uplands whe...

    $191.99

  • LEARNING POWER IN PRACTICE
    RUTH DEAKIN CRICK
    ′This book provides a variety of ideas for use in the classroom, based on practical applications of the conceptual understanding of learning power... ...[It] tells the reader about the "Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory" research programme (ELLI) and uses practical examples of how it can work in actual classes to explain its effectiveness. Its value for practitioners workin...

    $1,552.04

  • BASES DE DATOS
    DEAKIN
    Agotado

    $75.00