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Production. Planning, Control and Integration

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This text is oriented towards advanced industrial engineering students and MBA programmes that have a course focusing on production. Included in the coverage is the evolution of production systems, problem solving, forecasting, aggregate planning, inventory, materials requirements planning, scheduling, project management and integrated production planning and control.

Cod: 9780071158435

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Structuration

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Structuration
provides an introduction to this central debate in social theory and helps to explain the historical processes producing the structures that shape human social life. Few would dispute that social reality is produced by creative human agents operating in pre-existing structural contexts, but social theorists are divided over how structure and agencies are related. John Parker contrasts the views of Bourdieu and Giddens, who uphold duality (identity), with those of the post structurationists, Archer and Mouzelis, who defend dualism (non-identity). The context and logic of the duality arguments are examined, but it is suggested that Gidden’s structuration theory is outdated, and emphasis is placed on making accessible the positive suggestions of the post-srtucturationist duelist in relation to actual historical cases. The debate about structuration has important consequences for the way we explain the production and transformation of social structures such as institutions and rules, cultural traditions, patterns of regular behavior, and distributions of power and inequality. Students and researchers across the social sciences will find this o be a clear and accessible guide to a concept at the heart of social theory.

Cod: 9780335203949

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Institutional Ownership and Multinational Firms: Relationships to Social and Environmental Performance

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This study represents a rare empirical test of the assertions of critics of multinational corporations (MNCs), who argue that firm-level social and environmental performance suffers as MNCs grow increasingly mobile and subject to the short-term financial demands of institutional investors. Such critics argue that ‘footloose’ and ‘stateless’ MNCs have not only divorced themselves from a particular sense of responsibility to their home countries, but have also fallen increasingly under the sway of the ‘myopic’ demands of institutional investors.
Using multiple regression analysis, the study considered the impact of various levels of multinationality and institutional ownership on the social and environmental performance of US-based manufacturing companies. Based on this empirical analysis, the radical critique of MNCs was not supported. Rather, the level of multinationality of firms was positively associated with social and environmental performance in the home country. This is a far cry from the demonized view of MNCs proffered by the critics. These findings suggest the possibility that MNCs may even have a positive influence on the development of a global economy that is consistent with the values and intent of vision of sustainable development. Ultimately, the study suggest that at a minimum, more attention should be paid to utilizing talents and competencies of MNCs in support of furthering positive social and environmental agendas.

Cod: 9780815333555

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Kinematics and Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems

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Three main disciplines in the area of multibody systems are covered: kinematics, dynamics, and control, as pertaining to systems that can be modelled as coupling or rigid bodies. The treatment is intended to give a state of the art of the topics discussed.

Cod: 9783211827314

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Bonsai: Nature in Miniature

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The art of bonsai, together with that of ikebana or Japanese flower-arrangement, originated in Japan and is now admired throughout the world. Among the lovers and admirers of bonsai are many who find infinite pleasure in growing their own bonsai? The satisfaction of creating with their own hands the beauty of nature in miniature. Although there are several publications on bonsai, very few books have been published for beginners.

This book is designed to equip those who wish to embark upon growing their own bonsai with the knowledge and skills to do so. To this end, we have included as many photographs and illustrations as possible in the hope of giving the reader a complete and comprehensive explanation of the pleasurable and rewarding art of bonsai growing.

You will find outlined in this book every step, from the basics of how to choose a tree, what fertilizer to use and when to water, to the more skilled techniques such as wiring the branches of your tree into the desired shape. This book will be a practical help and welcome companion to all those who desire to grow bonsai, emphasizing both the growing techniques and the pleasures to be gained from viewing your plant as a work of art.

Bonsai changes with the seasons, so will give the grower enjoyment throughout the year-a pleasure that cannot be obtained from growing flowers in the garden. And, as it grows older, the more your bonsai will come to exhibit the beauty of its full-sized counterpart in nature. This is the pleasure that the authors wish to share with as many people as possible

Cod: 9784889960600

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Pete the Cat and his Magic Sunglasses: A Groovy Preschool Story of Positive Thinking and Early Reading

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Autore: Dean James,Dean Kimberly,Dean James
Editore: HarperCollinsChildren’sBooks
Collana: -

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Fourth Wing: Rebecca Yarros: 1

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Autore: Rebecca Yarros
Editore: Little, Brown Book Group
Collana: The Empyrean, 1

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Brave new world: The classic work of dystopian fiction about control, conformity, and the cost of happiness

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Autore: Huxley Aldous,Huxley Aldous
Editore: Random UK
Collana: Vintage Classics

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My Hero Academia, Vol. 40

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Autore: Horikoshi Kohei
Editore: VIZ Media LLC
Collana: My Hero Academia, 40

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Conversation avec Amélie Nothomb

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Autore: Vey François,Fottorino Eric,Nothomb Amélie
Editore: Autrement
Collana: Zadig-Autrement

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