Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john connell

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  • THE END OF TRADITION
    JOHN CONNELL
    First published in 1978, The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages, the Horsleys and Clandons, close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. Towards the end of the last century, a period of rapid change began in rural England as a new way of life centred on the nearby towns and cities replaced a traditional rural village life. Estates w...

    $840.00

  • THE FUTURE OF WORK IN ASIA AND BEYOND
    ALAN R. NANKERVIS / JULIA CONNELL / JOHN BURGESS
    The Future of Work in Asia and Beyond presents the findings and associated implications arising from a collaborative research study conducted on the potential impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR – or Industry 4.0) on the labour markets, occupations and associated future workforce competencies and skills across ten countries. The 4IR concerns the digital transformati...

    $1,200.00

  • AIR TRANSPORT IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    JOHN F. O'CONNELL / GEORGE WILLIAMS
    Airlines are buffeted by fluctuating political and economic landscapes, ever-changing competition, technology developments, globalization, increasing deregulation and evolving customer requirements. As a consequence all sectors of the air transport industry are in a constant state of flux. The principle aim of this book is to review current trends in the airline industry and i...

    $1,480.00

  • MUSIC FESTIVALS AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA
    CHRIS GIBSON / JOHN CONNELL
    Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other groups seek to use festivals both to promote tourism and to stimulate rural development. However, most studies of festivals have tended to focus almost exclusively on the cultural...

    $1,460.00

  • RURAL REVIVAL?
    JOHN CONNELL / PHIL MCMANUS
    How, if possible, to re-populate declining rural and regional areas? Examining this crucial and complex issue in relation to Australia, this book explores how a particular organization, 'Country Week', has emerged and developed as one means of stimulating the repopulation of declining or stagnating areas. While this is a problem shared by many other developed countries in Europ...

    $1,460.00

  • RURAL CHANGE IN AUSTRALIA
    JOHN CONNELL
    New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia. They range from ageing populations, youth out-migration, immigration policies (that seek to place skilled migrants in rural Australia), tree changers, agricultural restructuring and new relationships with indigenous populations. Challenges also exist around the 'pat...

    $1,460.00

  • ALATURKA: STYLE IN TURKISH MUSIC (1923–1938)
    JOHN MORGAN O'CONNELL
    The early-Republican era (1923-1938) was a major period of musical and cultural change in Turkey. Alaturka: Style in Turkish Music is a study of the significance of style in Turkish music and, in particular, the polemical debate about an eastern style of Turkish music (called, alaturka) that developed during this rich and complicated era of Turkish history. Representing more th...

    $1,600.00

  • THE GLOBAL HEALTH CARE CHAIN
    JOHN CONNELL
    For more than a quarter of a century there has been significant international migration of skilled health workers, but in the last decades, with critical changes in both sending and receiving countries, few parts of the world are now unaffected by the consequences of the migration of health workers, either as sources, destinations or sometimes both. The book takes the understan...

    $1,320.00

  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA
    JOHN CONNELL
    Papua New Guinea is the first book to explore the economic development of this socially complex, rapidly changing nation. Subjects discussed include: * rapid economic growth and political conflict * civil war on the island of Bougainville * population growth and urbanisation * mining: gold, copper and environmental conflicts * uneven development and social divisions. ...

    $860.00

  • SOUND TRACKS
    JOHN CONNELL / CHRIS GIBSON
    Sound Tracks is the first comprehensive book on the new geography of popular music, examining the complex links between places, music and cultural identities. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on local, national and global scenes, from the 'Mersey' and 'Icelandic' sounds to 'world music', and explores the diverse meanings of music in a range of regional contexts. In ...

    $2,000.00

  • WRITING ACROSS WORLDS
    JOHN CONNELL
    International migration has long been a dominant feature of world literature from both post-industrial and developing countries. The increasing demands of the global economic system and continued political instability in many of the world's region have highlighted this shifting map of the world's peoples. Yet, political concern for the larger scale economic and social impact of...

    $1,600.00

  • URBANISATION IN THE ISLAND PACIFIC
    JOHN CONNELL / JOHN LEA
    Managing rapid urban growth presents a significant challenge in the small independent countries of the Pacific Islands. Although they originated in colonial times, the towns and cities are now distinctively post-colonial, with economies, environments and social structures that reflect unique island characteristics. This transformation has stimulated new concerns, such as the ca...

    $1,320.00

  • GLOBALISATION AND WORK IN ASIA
    BURGESS, JOHN / CONNELL, JULIA
    This book reviews employment conditions in Asian countries. This is the hub of the strongest growth area in the world economy and while attention has focussed on job growth and industrial transformation, there has been very little attention on employment characteristics and employment conditions. In particular, the book addresses the issue of whether globalisation, taken to mea...

    $1,717.00

  • THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY – A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW
    JOHN FRANKIE O'CONNELL
    In recent years, airlines have faced unprecedented financial and operational uncertainties, not only in the wake of COVID-19 but across the industry. Their responses provide valuable lessons for the future – for airlines, for related industries, and for all sectors that find unexpected upheaval suddenly in their path. As a truly global business, the airline industry offers coun...

    $1,840.00

  • THE FARMER'S SON
    JOHN CONNELL
    For fans of The Shepherd’s Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son’s return home to his family’s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the...

    $309.99