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Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography
Edited by Daniel R. Montello
This comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Protection of Traditional Knowledge on Genetic Resources
Frantzeska Papadopoulou
Traditional knowledge protection methods are becoming increasingly out-dated in the face of modern challenges. Focusing on the protection of traditional knowledge and related genetic resources, this book is the first of its kind to amalg...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation, Economic Development and Policy
Jan Fagerberg
This authoritative and enlightening book focuses on fundamental questions such as what is innovation, who is it relevant for, what are the effects, and what is the role of (innovation) policy in supporting innovation-diffusion? The first...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Structuring Public–Private Research Partnerships for Success
Gordon Rausser, Holly Amedon, Reid Stevens
As funding for universities and governmental research units has declined, these institutions have turned to the private sector to augment their research and development budgets. This book presents a framework for structuring public-priva...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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The Social Enterprise Zoo
Edited by Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A.M. Searing, Cassady V. Brewer
The Social Enterprise Zoo employs the metaphor of the zoo to gain a more comprehensive understanding of social enterprise – especially the diversity of its forms; the various ways it is organized in different socio-political environments...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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A Research Agenda for Cities
Edited by John R. Short
This book provides a critical assessment of key areas of urban scholarship. In twelve stimulating chapters, expert contributors examine a range of important pressing topics from sustainability and gentrification to feminist interventions...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Handbook of Research on Gender and Leadership
Edited by Susan R. Madsen
Although some progress has been made in recent decades in getting women into top positions in government, business and education, there are on-going, persisting challenges with efforts to improve the opportunities for women in leadership...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Handbook on Participatory Governance
Edited by Hubert Heinelt
This Handbook concentrates on democracy beyond the traditional governmental structures to explore the full scope of participatory governance. It argues that it is a political task to turn the shift from government to governance into part...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Climate Change and the UN Security Council
Edited by Shirley V. Scott, Charlotte Ku
In this forward-looking book, the authors consider how the United Nations Security Council could assist in addressing the global security challenges brought about by climate change. Contributing authors contemplate how the UNSC could pre...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Utilities, Second Edition
David E. McNabb
A thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the util...eBook:Find out more$58.36
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Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation
Edited by Gry A. Alsos, Ulla Hytti, Elisabet Ljunggren
Innovation is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth creating prosperous nations and enabling technological development within industries and sectors This Handbook contributes to the field of innovation by providing a wide ra...eBook:Find out more$54.36
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The Logic of Chinese Politics
Sabrina C.Y. Luk, Peter W. Preston
Europe and China have a long intermingled history reaching back to the earliest phases of the shift to the modern world. In the twenty-first century Europe and China are rediscovering their interlinked histories and reestablishing relati...eBook:Find out more$39.16