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Sid-Ahmed, Abdelkader. Development and resource-based industry: The case of the petroleum economies (a brief survey of recent studies). Vienna, Austria: OPEC Fund for International Development, 1990.

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Development, OPEC Fund for International. Development and resource-based industry: The case of the petroleum economies (a brief survey of recent studies). Vienna: OPEC Fund for International Development, 1990.

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Startup: A Silicon Valley adventure. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

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Kaplan, Jerry. Start up: A Silicon Valley adventure. London: Little, Brown, 1995.

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Storr, Merl. Latex and lingerie: Shopping for pleasure at Ann Summers. Oxford: Berg Pub., 2003.

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Suratiyah, Ken. Marginalisasi pekerja wanita di pedesaan: Studi kasus pada IRTP di Sulawesi Selatan. Yogyakarta: Pusat Penelitian Kependudukan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 1994.

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Susilastuti, Dewi Haryani. Feminisasi pasar tenaga kerja: Kasus industri kulit di Manding, Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta: Pusat Penelitian Kependudukan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 1994.

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Asyiek, Fauzia. Wanita, aktivitas ekonomi dan domestik: Kasus pekerja industri rumah tangga pangan di Sumatra Selatan. Yogyakarta: Pusat Penelitian Kependudukan, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 1994.

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Resource-based industrialization: Sowing the oil in eight developing countries. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1990.

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Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources and Netherlands Development Organisation Nepal, eds. Community based forest enterprises in Nepal: Case studies, lessons, and implications. Kathmandu: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources, 2002.

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Kemp, Ian J. Structured industrial practice studies: An approach to the integration of academic and work-based learning. Glasgow: Glasgow Polytechnic, 1992.

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Kemp, Ian J. Structured industrial practice studies: An approach to the integration of academic and work-based learning. Glasgow: Glasgow Polytechnic, 1992.

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The effects of drug regulation: A survey based on the European studies of drug regulation. Lancaster [Lancashire]: MTP Press, 1985.

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Bernsen, Jens. The Design-based enterprise =: La empresa basada en el Diseno = Den design-baserede virksomhed. Copenhagen: Danish Design Centre, 1988.

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Bernsen, Jens. The Design-based enterprise =: La empresa basada en el Diseno = Den design-baserede virksomhed. Copenhagen: Danish Design Centre, 1988.

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Relander, Sami. Towards approximate reasoning on new software product company success potential estimation: A design science based fuzzy logic expert system. [Helsinki]: Helsinki School of Economics, 2008.

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Serebryakov, Andrey. Ecological geology. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/971374.

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The textbook describes complex natural, geological, geographical, hydrogeological and lithological studies based on modern geological and ecological theories and forming the basis of environmental science. The theoretical views on the ecology of the geological environment are expanded. The tasks of ecological geology and geography, as well as ecological hydrogeology and ecological lithology are substantiated. Attention is paid to the history of geoecological research in the development of new territories. The influence of the tectonic formation of geological structures on the ecological situation of the Earth's lithosphere is studied. The ecological zoning of the lithosphere and hydrosphere is given. The ecological characteristics of sedimentary deposits, which are associated with minerals of important industrial and environmental importance, are given. The ecological properties of various types of mineral raw materials for their application in industry are considered. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. It is intended for bachelors studying the discipline "Ecological Geology" and Earth sciences, and will also be of interest to environmental specialists in the design and operation of industrial facilities, structures and deposits of natural raw materials.

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Miller, Tamira E. Lessons from the old school: European workforce development strategies for Oregon : a white paper based on a German Marshall Fund tour of European education & job training systems. Salem, Oregon: Trade & Economic Development Committee, 1990.

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Dwivedi, M. P. Health effects of the toxic gas leak from the Union Carbide Methyl Isocyanate Plant in Bhopal: Technical report on population based long term epidemiological studies, 1985-1994. Edited by Prabhakar A. K. Dr, Jain S. K. Prof, Sriramachari S, Indian Council of Medical Research., and Bhopal Gas Disaster Research Centre. New Delhi: Indian Council of Medical Research, 2001.

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Shambro, Joe. How to start a home-based recording studio business. Guilford, Conn: Globe Pequot Press, 2011.

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Nichols, Eve K. Expanding access to investigational therapies for HIV infection and AIDS: March 12-13, 1990, conference summary. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press, 1991.

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University, Sheffield Hallam, ed. A Z readers course: [a video-based training course for industry]. : additional case studies. Sheffield: Pavic, 1993.

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Kaplan, Jerry. Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Replica Books, 2002.

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Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996.

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Mugford, Miranda, and Luke Vale. Evidence Based Health Economics (Evidence-Based Medicine Workbks.). Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002.

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Mugford, Miranda, Luke Vale, and Cam Donaldson. Evidence-Based Health Economics. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2008.

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Business and the United Nations: Partners in sustainable development : industry and technology : based on case studies of technology transfer exhibited at the sixth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (20 April - 1 May 1998). New York: United Nations, 1999.

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Kumar M., Dileep. 50 short case studies in business management. UUM Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9789670474243.

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The Higher Education Institutions that run business management programs in Malaysia is under severe criticism from industry that the passing out management graduates do not have adequate practical exposure to the industry and lack of practical skills to deal industrial issues proactively as the catalyst of change.This indicates that the traditional management education curriculum, as presently constituted, may not be adequately preparing individuals for the challenges they experience as professional managers.To deal with this issue, many management institutes are adopting case study as a pedagogy, a hypothetical or actual business situation to formulate a recommended policy or decision based on the facts and figures provided, to induce practical exposure to the students by simulating case situations, which improve students analytical skills and decision-making skills.A case study in business management course is a rigorous analysis of an incident, situation, person, crisis or any such phenomenon or concept, in relation to industry, business or people in the organisations.It is well related to the management, process or methodology adopted by the organisation stressing analysis of chain of events for better change management in relation to business operation context. The case studies included in this book provides better perspective of various issues and situations in the business field.The cases are written from the field of Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Business Ethics, International Business, Strategic Management, Business Laws and General Management. These case studies are to be thoroughly analyzed by the faculty members before applying that into the classroom. It is expected that the faculty members should refer to the similar case scenarios at local and international levels to stimulate students to have better discussion on the multifaceted issues or situation. Instead of a direct entry into theoretical concepts, the author suggests that the faculty members distribute these cases well in advance and invite students to come for creative discussions and practical solutions.By preparing solutions to case studies, the students will be exposed to a variety of business operations, business process, management roles, and business situations.Thus the case studies can adequately integrate theoretical concepts effortlessly in realistic situations with better referential skills.The 50 cases included in this book can extremely be valuable in preparing students a career in industry by giving better chance to develop analytical and decision-making skills in the classroom that meet up the challenges of industry.

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Cam, Donaldson, Mugford Miranda, and Vale L, eds. Evidence-based health economics: From effectiveness to efficiency. London: BMJ, 2002.

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Cam, Donaldson, Mugford Miranda, and Vale L, eds. Evidence-based health economics: From effectiveness to efficiency in systematic review. London: BMJ, 2002.

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English, Brian. Market-Based Solutions for Poverty Reduction in India. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199476084.003.0009.

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The rapid increase in slum populations in India has far outpaced the impact of interventions to date. Market-based solutions have started gaining the attention of governments, international aid groups, NGOs and entrepreneurs as they look for new ways to scale up their impact and sustain their interventions. Thousands of new social enterprises that seek to provide social benefits, and sustain largely on business revenues, have sprung up in response. Their rapid proliferation has attracted the attention of impact investors looking to create the next microfinance industry. This chapter profiles two case studies of market-based solutions in India that provide some important lessons for others fostering similar initiatives.

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1953-, Lau K. K., ed. Component-based software development: Case studies. New Jersey: World Scientific, 2004.

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Lerstrom, Kirsten, and Jens Bernsen. The Design-Based Enterprise. Hyperion Books, 1988.

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Chen, T., L. Brandt, and D. Lorenc. Developing Multimedia Courseware for Computer-Based Training (Visual Technology). Mcgraw-Hill (Tx), 1996.

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Jens, Bernsen, Lerstrøm Kirsten, Design Council, IMPI/MINER (Firm), and Dansk Design Center, eds. The Design-based enterprise =: La empresa basada en el Diseno = Den design-baserede virksomhed. Copenhagen: Danish Design Centre, 1988.

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Werner, Ann. Digitally Mediated Identity in the Cases of Two Sámi Artists. Edited by Fabian Holt and Antti-Ville Kärjä. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190603908.013.21.

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This chapter explores identity issues in commercial streaming services, which have grown steadily in the 2010s to become the dominant form of music consumption in the Nordic countries, with about 60% of all Internet users in 2015. The chapter offers an alternative to the dominant trend in music industry studies by focusing not on the industry’s interests but instead on broader cultural issues. The chapter presents case studies of two female Sámi artists and their representations on Spotify, YouTube, MySpace, and artists’ websites, taking various aspects of the services into account, including the interface and the algorithm-based recommendations. Informed by feminist cultural studies, the argument is that the industry continues a history of reinforcing stereotypes of ethnicity, indigeneity, and femininity. Thus, commercial streaming is not only making music available to global audiences, it is also selling images of Otherness within an unequal capitalist global media system.

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Kelly, Gillian. Tyrone Power. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474452946.001.0001.

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One of the most popular actors of the Classical Hollywood period, Tyrone Power’s appeal was initially based around his outstanding beauty, his looks remaining key to his star persona throughout his 25-year career and almost 50 films, most of which were made at Twentieth Century-Fox, before his untimely death in 1958 at the age of 44. Although Power was one of Classical Hollywood’s major stars of the pre- and post-war years, he remains academically neglected. This book presents the first substantial academic study of Power and employs a range of approaches, including stardom and genre theory, to reappraise his career from various angles including gender, genre and image. Textual analysis coincides with discussions of Power’s multi-layered performances in a variety of genres while engaging with industry systems, specifically Twentieth Century-Fox, his home studio for almost two decades, and situates Power’s performances within the contexts of industry regulations, such as the Production Code, and industry technological advances, such as CinemaScope. A key historical figure of American cinema, Power’s significant career trajectory from pretty boy ‘pin-up’ in the 1930s to mature, virile action-adventure star at the close of his career demonstrates the natural progression of a ‘normal’ life and his ability to remain relevant across the decades. This book is part of a welcome new wave of scholarly studies on overlooked stars, such as Power, whose careers were initially based around their looks but who maintained a career as they aged.

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Moura, Luciano Raizer. A caminho da Indústria 4.0 – Fundamentos e orientações para a transformação digital na Indústria. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-336-7.

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The world is going through the 4th Industrial Revolution, with major changes in people's lives, in cities, in companies. The adoption of modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, Big Data and Analytics, among others, is redesigning the way of living, having fun, buying, studying and doing business. The world is increasingly digital and industries, which still produce products from the real world, such as food, clothing, furniture, electronics, machines, among others, need to modernize and undergo the digital transformation of their businesses. In this book, On the way to Industry 4.0, Professor Luciano Raizer presents the theme in a simple and direct way that allows the reader to understand what is, the importance, impacts, technologies and models of Industry 4.0. Based on his postdoctoral studies developed at Fraunhofer Institute, of Germany, Prof. Raizer presents the results of research with industries from Espírito Santo State making a comparative analysis with the German Industry in relation to the maturity in Industry 4.0. It also presents ways that companies can develop with guidelines to transition from the conventional model to Industry 4.0 model.

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Gibson, Nathan D. What’s International About International Country Music? Edited by Travis D. Stimeling. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190248178.013.20.

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Drawing attention to the increasing study of “international country music,” this chapter attempts to define this field as well as provide a classification system for analyzing the different ways “international” and “country music” have been paired. It challenges the assertion that country music remains a purely American art form by tracing the international roots, international reach, and international representation within American country music and by presenting three different country music case studies in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. These case studies illustrate how national identity and country music are linked in places outside of the United States and how international permutations are often reflections of local, lived experience. Ultimately, this chapter presents alternatively interpreted identity associations with class, gender, race, and politics that are distinctly separate from the Nashville-based American country music industry and that lead to a more complex, multicentered understanding of country music throughout the world.

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Pyle, Ian, Peter Hruschka, Michel Lissandre, and Ken Jackson. Real Time Systems: Investigating Industrial Practice (Wiley Series in Software Based Systems). John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1993.

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Ferlie, Ewan, Sue Dopson, Chris Bennett, Michael Fischer, Jean Ledger, and Gerry McGivern. The Politics of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777212.001.0001.

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While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations. This book explores the various management knowledges and associated texts apparent in English health care organizations, and considers how the local reception of these texts was influenced by the macro level political economy of public services reform evident during the period of the politics of austerity. The research outlined in this volume shows that very few evidence-based management texts are apparent within health care organizations, despite the influence of certain knowledge producers, such as national agencies, think tanks, management consultancies, and business schools in the industry. Bringing together the often disconnected academic literature on management knowledge and public policy, the volume addresses the ways in which preferred management knowledges and texts in these publicly funded settings are sensitive to the macro level political economy of public services reform, offering an empirically grounded critique of the evidence-based management movement.

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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. “A man didn’t make this film alone”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0006.

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Part 2 of chapter 4 contributes to the dialogue of part 1 by combining an industry-based textual analysis with the findings of the authors’ social audience study of Blue Is the Warmest Colour. This part puts into interdisciplinary dialogue the mutually constructed meanings of “risk,” “desire,” and “intimacy” presented by this real sex film, as read by the macro discourses of film reviewing, risk sociology, and feminist-psychoanalytical film studies outlined in the first three chapters. In doing this it also introduces analytical themes that are explored extensively in later chapters of the book: real sex versus simulated sex, multiple and performed authorship, and the pleasures of the gazes of scopophilia and ego-identity in one disciplinary paradigm, and of voluntary risk-taking and addiction in another.

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James, Scott, and Lucia Quaglia. The UK and Multi-level Financial Regulation. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828952.001.0001.

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The book examines the role of the United Kingdom (UK) in shaping post-crisis financial regulatory reform, and assesses the implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU). It develops a domestic political economy approach to examine how the interaction of three domestic groups—elected officials, financial regulators, and the financial industry—shaped UK preferences, strategy, and influence in international and EU-level regulatory negotiations. The framework is applied to five case studies: bank capital and liquidity requirements; bank recovery and resolution rules; bank structural reforms; hedge fund regulation; and the regulation of over-the-counter derivatives. We conclude by reflecting on the future of UK financial regulation after Brexit. The book argues that UK regulators pursued more stringent regulation when they had strong political support to resist financial industry lobbying. UK regulators promoted international harmonization of rules when this protected the competitiveness of industry or enabled cross-border externalities to be managed more effectively, but were often more resistant to new EU rules when these threatened UK interests. Consequently, the UK was more successful at shaping international standards by leveraging its market power, regulatory capacity, and alliance-building (with the US). But it often met with greater political resistance at the EU level, forcing it to use legal challenges to block reform or secure exemptions. The book concludes that political and regulatory pressure was pivotal in defining the UK’s ‘hard’ Brexit position, and so the future UK–EU relationship in finance will most likely be based on a framework of regulatory equivalence.

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Bulut, Ergin. A Precarious Game. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501746529.001.0001.

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This book is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that were researched for almost three years in a medium-sized studio in the United States loved making video games that millions play. Only some, however, can enjoy this dream job, which can be precarious and alienating for many others. That is, the passion of a predominantly white-male labor force relies on material inequalities involving the sacrificial labor of their families, unacknowledged work of precarious testers, and thousands of racialized and gendered workers in the Global South. The book explores the politics of doing what one loves. In the context of work, passion and love imply freedom, participation, and choice, but in fact they accelerate self-exploitation and can impose emotional toxicity on other workers by forcing them to work endless hours. The book argues that such ludic discourses in the game industry disguise the racialized and gendered inequalities on which a profitable transnational industry thrives. Within capitalism, work is not just an economic matter, and the political nature of employment and love can still be undemocratic even when based on mutual consent. As the book demonstrates, rather than considering work simply as a matter of economics based on trade-offs in the workplace, we should consider the question of work and love as one of democracy rooted in politics.

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Braysher, Mike. Managing Australia's Pest Animals. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486304448.

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Pest animals are but one of many factors that influence the desired outcome from managing natural resource based systems, whether for production or conservation purposes. Others include diseases, weeds, financial resources, weather and fire management. To be effective, an integrated and systematic approach is required, and the principles and strategic approach outlined in this book can also be used to plan and manage the damage due to other factors. Managing Australia's Pest Animals includes case studies of successful and unsuccessful pest management strategies and covers a range of topics, including the history of pest management, current best practice principles, and guidelines for planning and applying strategic pest management approaches to effectively reduce pest damage. This book is the first clear and comprehensive guide to best practice pest management in Australia and will benefit students and trainers of pest managers, landholders, people involved in natural resource management, and industry and government pest management staff.

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Williams, Erica Lorraine. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037931.003.0001.

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This book explores the cultural and sexual economies of tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia, known as the “Black Mecca” of Brazil, in order to make sense of how racism, eroticization, and commodification play out in the context of transnational tourism. More specifically, it examines sex tourism's so-called ambiguous entanglements as well as the specter of sex tourism. It also examines the meanings and implications of sex tourism for daily life, romantic relationships, and the transnational mobility of multiple actors in Bahia based on interviews, conducted between June 2005 and August 2008, with a broad range of people, including foreign tourists, tour guides, sex workers, and representatives of nongovernmental organizations. Finally, the book interrogates questions of globalization, political economy, and transnationalism by analyzing the racialized and sexualized dynamics of Salvador, the capital of Bahia, as well as the implications of the specter of sex tourism in the city. This introduction provides an overview of the tourism industry and tourism studies research as well as the book's arguments, theoretical frameworks, research methodologies, and chapters.

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Johnman, Lewis, and Hugh Murphy. Scott Lithgow. Liverpool University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780973893403.001.0001.

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This work studies the history of two major Scottish shipbuilding firms based on the River Clyde - Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company and Lithgows Limited. It traces each firm’s origin, success, decline, and collapse, and places the events into the historical context of maritime Britain. The aim is to enhance the academic understanding of the cause and effect of the decline of the British shipbuilding industry, delving beyond the factors of poor industrial relations, international market conditions, and entrepreneurial failure in search of further answers. As a private company, Lithgows Limited provides useful insights into company management outside of state control. The authors base their analysis on the catalogued volumes of Scotts and Lithgows records, though due to the large number of gaps in the data, they also conducted interviews with major players in each company from the post-war period. Public, business, and banking records also provide supplementary material. The book is separated into eight chapters, plus a concluding ninth, an appendix listing ships built by Scott Lithgow Limited between 1970-1987, and a select bibliography.

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Lora-Wainwright, Anna. Resigned Activism. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036320.001.0001.

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Pollution is one of the most pressing issues facing contemporary China and among the most prominent causes for unrest. Much of industry and mining takes place in rural areas, yet we know little about how rural communities affected by severe pollution make sense of it and the diverse form of activism they embrace. This book describes some of these engagements with pollution through three in-depth case studies based on the author’s fieldwork and an analysis of “cancer villages” examined in existing social science accounts. It challenges assumptions that villagers are ignorant about pollution or fully complicit with it and it looks beyond high-profile cases and beyond single strategies. It examines how villagers’ concerns and practices evolve over time and how pollution may become normalised. Through the concept of “resigned activism”, it advocates rethinking conventional approaches to activism to encompass less visible forms of engagement. It offers insights into the complex dynamics of popular contention, environmental movements and their situatedness within local and national political economies. Describing a likely widespread scenario across much of industrialised rural China, this book provides a window onto the staggering human costs of development and the deeply uneven distribution of costs and benefits. It portrays rural environmentalism and its limitations as prisms through which to study key issues surrounding contemporary Chinese culture and society, such as state responsibility, social justice, ambivalence towards development and modernisation and some of the new fault lines of inequality and social conflict which they generate.

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Adler, Paul S., and Terry A. Winograd, eds. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195075106.001.0001.

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As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools collects six essays that herald a fundamental shift in the way industry and researchers think about usability. In this new, broader definition, usability no longer means safeguarding against human error, but rather enabling human beings to learn, to use, and to adapt the equipment to satisfy better the demands and contingencies of their work. Following an introduction that develops some core concepts of usability, the subsequent chapters: -- describe the role of usability in guiding one of Xerox's largest strategic initiatives -- analyze a Monsanto chemical plant where a study of worker's conversational patterns contributed to the design of a more effective system of controls -- present an empirical study of equipment design practices in U.S. industry which contrasts technology-centered and skill-based design approaches -- summarize recent Scandinavian experiences with user participation in design, with specific reference to the DEMOS and UTOPIA projects -- analyze European experiences that suggest five key criteria for effective human-centered design of advanced manufacturing technology --offer an insightful discussion of the powerful, often hidden human and organizational resources that conventional design processes overlook. Today, three quarters of all advanced technology implementations in manufacturing fail to achieve their performance goals because of inadequate usability. By viewing the human being as a mechanistic system component, and not a particularly reliable one, the traditional "human factors" model of usability virtually ensures that the uniquely human qualities -- experience, adaptation, innovation -- will be neglected, and therefore that new technologies will realize little of their true potential. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools answers the need for better usability criteria and more effective design and usability assurance processes. In so doing, it leads the way to making a new, broader concept of usability central to design. Its chapters will be of interest to managers and professionals in computer systems, manufacturing engineering, industrial design, and human factors, as well as researchers in disciplines such as computer science, engineering, design studies, sociology, organizational behavior and human resource management, industrial relations, education, and business strategy.

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Miller, David, Claire Harkins, Matthias Schlögl, and Brendan Montague. Impact of Market Forces on Addictive Substances and Behaviours. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753261.001.0001.

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This book examines the ‘web of influence’ formed by industries which manufacture and sell ‘addictive’ products in the EU. The differences between alcohol, food, gambling, and tobacco as consumer products are obvious. However, we explore whether food, alcohol, and gambling industries are merely replicating tobacco tactics or innovating in corporate strategy. Using a new data set on corporate networks formed by the tobacco, alcohol, food, and gambling industries at the EU level, the book shows the interlocking connections between corporations, trade associations, and policy intermediaries, including lobbyists and think tanks. Quantitative data guide qualitative studies on the content of corporate strategy and the attempts of corporations to ‘capture’ policy and three crucial ancillary domains—science, civil society, and the news and promotional media. The effects of these three arenas on policy networks and outcomes are examined with a focus on new forms of policy partnership such as corporate social responsibility and partnership governance. Drawing on our structural data, we show the comprehensive engagement of industry with science-policy issues in the EU, the ways that corporations can dominate agendas and decision making, as well as the potential for popular pressures and public health agendas to be effective. The book concludes by asking what solutions might be possible to the evident public health challenges posed by the addictions web of influence. It proposes key evidence-based transparency and public health reforms that have the best chance of minimizing the burden of disease from addictions in the medium to long term.

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