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Making Critical Sense of Immigrant Experience
A Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book showcases a critical sensemaking (CSM) study of how professional immigrants from Hong Kong to Canada make sense of their workplace experiences, and what this can tell us about why a substantial number leave in their first year in Canada. An analysis of the interviews demonstrates that immigrants’...
Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics
The IZA World of Labor Guide 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Evidence-based Policy Making in Labor Economics distills and condenses the best thinking and research on labor economic issues to enable decision-makers to make better informed policy decisions.
Written by well-known labor economists worldwide, research findings on key policy issues are presented...
by Mitesh S. Patel, Derek K. Juang, MD
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Finally, a book that answers the questions you have as you begin your clinical rotations. In the popular format of the Secrets Series, this book will help ease the transition from the classroom to the clinical wards. The popular Q&A format is an easy-to-use, didactic approach and covers all of...
Clean Energy
Hydrogen/Fuel Cells Laboratory Manual(with DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This manual is designed for the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the fuel cells. The turn of the century has seen a realization of moving towards clean energy due to a variety of considerations ranging from global warming, anxiety to living in a healthy atmosphere, depletion of fossil fuels, oil slick...
by S. P. Srivastava, Jenõ Hancsók
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Examines all stages of fuel production, from feedstocks to finished products
Exploring chemical structures and properties, this book sheds new light on the current science and technology of producing energy efficient and environmentally friendly fuels. Moreover, it explains the role of fuel-additives...
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Products, Structuring, and Analytical Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
An up-to-date look at the latest innovations in mortgage-backed securities
Since the last edition of Mortgage-Backed Securities was published over three years ago, much has changed in the structured credit market. Frank Fabozzi, Anand Bhattacharya, and William Berliner all have many years of...
Globalization and Agriculture
Redefining Unequal Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and...
Africans and Globalization
Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variously framed across disciplines, globalization has generally entailed non-milieu bound interactions, which...
Reproductive Technologies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
Over a decade ago the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies,...
The Manufacture of Sterile Pharmaceuticals and Liquid Medical Devices Using Blow-Fill-Seal Technology
Points to Consider
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This key document, produced by the BFS IOA, outlines important aspects on operation of BFS technology to ensure both compliance with cGMP regulations and the production of drug products of the appropriate quality, safety and efficacy. The Points to Consider document provides recommendations specific...
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2
Safety, quality and sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;
Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;
Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world
Power Electronics Handbook
Devices, Circuits and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...
Enterprise Resource Planning
Fundamentals of Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book introduces the fundamental principles of understanding business requirements to apply enterprise resource planning (ERP) in order to meet business needs. The book also helps readers understand the usage of ERP for monitoring and controlling business processes, while providing practical oriented...
Diamants - Tome 02
Les larmes du goulag
Language: French
Release Date: October 4, 2017
La suite des révélations sur le trouble passé du richissime Charles Van Berg...
Les diamants sont éternels. Certains ennuis aussi, semble-t-il, puisque Charles Van Berg, héritier de la World Mining Co, un richissime empire du diamant, vient d'être arrêté pour un crime de collaboration...