Production category: 2784 books
Knowledge Generation and Technical Change
Institutional Innovation in Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism. Patent protection has been expanded in order...
Knowledge-Driven Developments in the Bioeconomy
Technological and Economic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing research in bioeconomy and encompasses both technological and economic strategies to master the transformation towards a knowledge- and bio-based production system. The volume combines different international perspectives with approaches of the various...
by Alp Ustundag, Emre Cevikcan
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive guide to Industry 4.0 applications, not only introducing implementation aspects but also proposing a conceptual framework with respect to the design principles. In addition, it discusses the effects of Industry 4.0, which are reflected in new business models and...
by A. (Ton) G. de Kok, Vincent C. S. Wiers
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Commercial advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems have been around for about 25 years and have seen widespread adoption in a variety of companies. The promises made by APS system implementations are high, and at the same time, APS projects are complex, costly, and carry a significant risk...
Dynamics in Logistics
Third International Conference, LDIC 2012 Bremen, Germany, February/March 2012 Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The volume comprises the proceedings of the third International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics LDIC 2012. The scope of the conference targeted the identification, analysis, and description of the dynamics of logistic processes and networks. The spectrum ranged from the modeling and planning of...
by Ata Allah Taleizadeh
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book examines the different motivational policies used for inventory management. In many competitive markets, sellers use motivational policies to encourage the customers to buy more and these kinds of strategies are used as competitive tools. This book brings together all the motivational policies...
Sustainability in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Policies and Practices for a World with Finite Resources
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This book provides a richly illustrated study of sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship. Specifically, it examines the ways in which governmental policies and practices modify the social conditions necessary to promote innovation in businesses and by so doing impact economic development....
by Joel Coen And Ethan Coen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Hail, Caesar! is the story of Eddie Mannix, tireless pursuer of the interests of fictional Capitol Pictures, circa 1951. He is the ultimate studio fixer and---since the studio is his world---the ultimate earthly one. There is no star scandal he cannot cover up, no studio misstep he cannot repair,...
by Jamie Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A low-budget breakout film that wowed critics and audiences on its initial release, Stranger Than Paradise would prove to be a seminal film in the new American independent cinema movement and establish its director, Jim Jarmusch, as a hip, cult auteur. Taking inspiration from 1960s underground filmmaking,...
Time in Television Narrative
Exploring Temporality in Twenty-First Century Programming
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that employ temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks...
Play Directing
Analysis, Communication, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Play Directing describes the various roles a director plays, from selection and analysis of the play, to working with actors and designers to bring the production to life.
Brecht on Performance
Messingkauf and Modelbooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Now available in Bloomsbury Revelations series, Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings about the craft of acting and realising texts for the stage. It crystallises and makes concrete many of the more theoretical aspects of his other writing...
by Steven Rivellino
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2004
Broadway is a commercial institution. It has nothing whatsoever to do with pretentious artistic notions. Its there for one purpose, and one purpose alone to make money. So begins the comments by the successful Broadway and television producer Alexander Cohen made just before his recent deathhis thoughts...
Greenscreen Made Easy
Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Designed to bring the necessary skills to the Indie or student filmmaker, "Greenscreen Made Easy" offers practical advice on how to create a screen, light subjects dynamically, and manipulate the camera to get the best possible production footage.