“…That is the backdrop for this thought-provoking book, emerging from a Baruch College Conference on equity market structure in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and featuring contributions from an acclaimed panel of international scholars, policymakers, regulators, and industry leaders. …”

“…One of the unique features of the work is the interactive approach used, giving readers the ability to construct their own Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receivers. …”

“…While stability, trust, equal access to resources and the social integration of disadvantaged members of society enhance well-being, poverty, social exclusion, congestion in cities, HIV/AIDS and global warming pose threats to both modern and traditional lifestyles. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….- 3. Partnerships in Global Governance: The Growth of a Procedural Norm Without Substance? …”

“…It requires micro-level analysis of government agencies, service delivery departments and stakeholders on one hand and its national and global policy level connections on the other. The implementation studies relate to the new initiatives which governments across the region have undertaken to reach out to the MDG targets agreed upon in 2000. …”

“…Increasingly, global humanitarian efforts are focusing on improving the lives of children. …”

“…Unfortunately, bee populations are faced with many threats, and evidence of a massive global pollination crisis is steadily growing. As a result, there is a need to understand and, ideally, predict how bees respond to pollution disturbance, to the changes over landscape gradients, and how their responses can vary in different habitats, which are influenced to different degrees by human activities.Modeling approaches are useful to simulate the behavior of whole popula…”

“…This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis.Its objective is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new Southern European emigration and examines these migrants’ socio-economic integration in Northern European destination countries. …”

“…This book offers a devastating look at deeply flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments and the global consulting industry. It examines major river basin development underway in the semi-arid borderlands of Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan and its disastrous human rights consequences for a half-million indigenous people. …”

“…In addition to analyzing America's battered global reputation, these writers propose ways the United States and other countries can build better relations through greater understanding and respect…”

“…The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World archaeology--a royal Aztec dog burial, the monumental horse tombs of Central Asia, and the ceremonial macaw cages of ancient Mexico among them. …”

“…These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sikora, Johnney Berg and Erich Oerke -- The impact of global and regional markets on agricultural transformation in Southern Africa./ Ferdi Meyer, Tracy Davids and Nick Vink -- Soil fertility - maintenance and nutrient management for agricultural transformation / Bernard Vanlauwe, Pauline Chivenge and Shamie Zingore -- The Role of Seed Systems Development in African Agricultural Transformation / Joseph D. …”

“…Moving from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance, the scientific treatise, and beyond, Ecological Form demonstrates how nineteenth-century thinkers conceptualized the circuits of extraction and violence linking Britain to its global network. Yet the book’s most pressing argument is that this past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present…”

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“…Buildings account for more than one-third of the global final energy consumption and CO2 emissions. …”

“…Modern cryptography is the lifeboat of a secure infrastructure. From global economies and governments, to meeting everyday consumer needs, cryptography is ubiquitous, and used in search, design, data, artificial intelligence, and other fields of information technology and communications. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Ethos of Inclusion, Purpose, and Agency -- Virtual and Global Teams -- The Employer Value Proposition -- The Transformation of Every Company in Every Industry -- Bigger Data -- Hypergrowth Expectations -- Customers First -- Chapter 3 The New Essential Core: Upstanding Character -- Having a disengaged character is the same as having no character. -- Is Your Character Online or Offline? …”