“…Migration was not just relegated to city folk, but likewise was the reality for rural dwellers, and we gain a better understanding of how sending and receiving states and shipping companies worked together to regulate migration and shape populations. …”

“…Six entertaining (and hair-raising) chapters cover real problems that people have encountered with bidding, payment, shipping, packaging, dealing with other eBayers, and coping with the eBay system. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- SECTION 2 Global Trends and Challenges in Management -- Chapter 7 Aredefinition of determinants defining the potential for further development and management of modern global maritime containerized shipping after the Covid-19 pandemic -- Chapter 8 Last chance tourism in the light of challenges for sustainable management -- Chapter 9 Foreign direct investment and economic growth: Asystematic literature review -- Chapter 10 Trust in Artificial Intelligence and the 5.0 leadership -- Chapter 11 Agile marketing at R&D organizations -- Chapter 12 Determinants of the effectiveness of virtual teams management -- Chapter 13 Energy policy instruments supporting the development of energy communities -- Chapter 14 Female leaders in times of (post) COVID -- Chapter 15 The extent to which Saudi business schools meet the standards of the global sustainability tracking and evaluation system “STARS” case study: Princess Noura bint Abdul Rahman University -- Chapter 16 Foreign direct investment and competitiveness in the 21st century: Asystematic literature review -- Chapter 17 Investment in human capital and economic growth -- Chapter 18 Managing civil servants sustainability competencies– conclusion for global challenges -- Chapter 19 An analysis of skill growth through project-based learning activities -- SECTION 3 Corporate Social Responsibility and Regional Case Studies Management -- Chapter 20 The actual level of European enterprises’ involvement in the implementation of CSR postulates - acase study from the region of Silesian Voivodeship Poland…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rapid Growth but Limited Poverty Reduction -- 8: Burkina Faso: Shipping around the Malthusian Trap -- 9: Mozambique: Off-track or Temporarily Sidelined? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Departures and arrivals in touring Pacific cultures / Hawai'i: prelude to a journey / Darkness and light in black and white: travelling mission imagery from the New Hebrides / Tourism / The cruise ship / Pitcairn and the Bounty story / Guys like Gaugain / Statued (stat you?) …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…""A Christian warning of sin""""A Mater Ecclesia""; ""3 THE PROBLEM OF THE NAME""; ""Sheela-na-gig: the sculpture""; ""Sheela na gigg: the dance""; ""Sheelanagig: the ship""; ""A new look at the name""; ""â€?Sheelagh (i.e. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian / From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker's Scholarly Contributions / Word -- Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus' / About Peter the Great's Ship Predestinatsiia / Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community / Catherine's Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities / A Proletarian Encyclopédie / Image -- The Parsuna of Gavrila Fetiev: Can a Picture Speak? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 13: Magnetic Inrush Current in Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Power TransformersChapter 14: Eddy Current and Stray Loss Calculations of Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Power Transformer; Chapter 15: Design Considerations-Inside/Outside Windings for a Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Power Transformer; Chapter 16: Special Tests Consideration for a Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Power Transformer; Chapter 17: Safety Protection and Shipping and Dispatch for Distributed Photovoltaic Grid Transformers; Appendix A; Suggested Reading; Appendix B; Back Cover…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Grider -- Animating utopia : aesthetic instability and the revolutionary gaze in the film adaptation of Watership Down / Lisa Mullen -- 'Whenever they catch you, they will kill you' : human-animal conflict in 1970s British children's cinema / Noel Brown -- They watered ship down : eco-doom and ecopedagogy in adaptations of Watership Down and The animals of Farthing Wood / Hollie Adams -- Watership Down under : when rabbits came to Australia / Dan Torre and Lienors Torre -- 'English pastoral melodies' : the traditions and connotations of Angela Morley's musical score for Watership Down / Paul Mazey -- 'I know now. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PEST analysis of international interlibrary loanSWOT analysis of international interlibrary loan; Summary; Bibliography and further reading; 4 An overview of current practices; Introduction; The requesting process; Locating a lender; National, international and local catalogs; The shipping process; Fees and payments; Statistics; Issues and challenges; Summary; Useful resources; References; 5 Case studies in global resource sharing; Introduction; Participation in global resource sharing - survey responses; References; 6 Selected case studies; Introduction; Argentina; Australia; Canada; China…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Healthcare System -- Extraordinary Service Is Delivered by its Creators -- The Application -- The Phoenix Dog Piss Theory -- Big Companies Are Like Big Ships--Slow to Move and Slow to Change -- Systemize the Routine; Humanize the Exception -- You Can Turn Angry Customers into Raving Fans Simply by Solving Their Problems -- The Single Egg Organization -- The Single Egg Organization -- Federal Express Creates FedEx Services -- Larson-Juhl Combines Sales and Service Locally -- Bell Sports Sets Up Separate Companies -- The Hierarchy of Horrors -- The Seven Dynamics of Change -- Dynamics of Change Exercise -- How to Deal with the Dynamics of Change…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Grider -- Animating utopia : aesthetic instability and the revolutionary gaze in the film adaptation of Watership Down / Lisa Mullen -- 'Whenever they catch you, they will kill you' : human-animal conflict in 1970s British children's cinema / Noel Brown -- They watered ship down : eco-doom and ecopedagogy in adaptations of Watership Down and The animals of Farthing Wood / Hollie Adams -- Watership Down under : when rabbits came to Australia / Dan Torre and Lienors Torre -- 'English pastoral melodies' : the traditions and connotations of Angela Morley's musical score for Watership Down / Paul Mazey -- 'I know now. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beyond exceptionalism -- traces of slavery and the slave trade in early modern Germany, 1650-1850 / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Sarah Lentz, and Josef Köstlbauer -- Germany and the early modern Atlantic world : economic involvement and historiography / Klaus Weber -- Violence, social status, and blackness in early modern Germany : the case of the black trumpeter Christian Real (ca. 1643-after 1674) / Arne Spohr -- Slavery and skin : the Native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722-1734 / Craig Koslofsky -- "I have no shortage of Moors" : mission, representation, and the elusive semantics of slavery in eighteenth-century Moravian sources / Josef Köstlbauer -- Slavery and the law in eighteenth-century Germany / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt -- From slave purchases to child redemption : a comparison of aristocratic and middle-class recruiting practices for "exotic" staff in Habsburg Austria / Walter Sauer -- Black Hamburg : people of Asian and African descent navigating a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century job market / Annika Bärwald -- Invisible products of slavery : American medicinals and dyestuffs in the Holy Roman Empire / Jutta Wimmler -- An Augsburg pastor's vews on Africans, the slave trade, and slavery : Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Conversations about man (1804) / Mark Häberlein -- "We do not need any slaves, we use oxen and horses" : children's letters from Moravian communities in Central Europe to slaves' children in Suriname (1829) / Jessica Cronshagen -- "No German ship conducts slave trade!" The public controversy about German participation in the slave trade in the 1840s / Sarah Lentz…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part One: Global Dynamics and the Tools of Complexity Science; Chapter 1: Global Dynamics and the Tools of Complexity Science; Reference; Part Two: Trade and Economic Development; Chapter 2: The Global Trade System and Its Evolution; 2.1 The Evolution of the Shipping and Ports' System; 2.2 Analyses of the Cargo Ship Network; 2.3 A Complex Adaptive Systems (CASs) Perspective; 2.4 Conclusions: The Benefits of a Systems Perspective; References; Appendix…”

“…Thanks to approaches such as continuous integration and continuous delivery, companies that once introduced new products every six months are now shipping software several times a day. Reaching the market quickly is vital today, but rapid updates are impractical unless they provide genuine customer value. …”

“…Discover how to: Install and work with core components and tools Create tables and index structures Manipulate and retrieve data Secure, manage, back up, and recover databases Apply techniques for building high-performing applications Use clustering, database mirroring, and log shipping…”

“…Although the book is written for managers, I recommend it for everyone from the executive suite to the shipping floor because they all have to work together to master the supply chain. …”

“…ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is now available and shipping with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4. A new update to Microsoft's Model-View-Controller technologies, MVC 2 enables developers to build dynamic, data-driven Web sites. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Understanding strategic sourcing -- Establishing ethics -- Exploring certifications and standards -- Chapter 14 Circular Materials, Products, and Packaging -- Redesigning Materials and Products: The Transition from Linear to Circular -- "Less bad" does not equal "good" -- Planning for material reincarnation -- How To Keep Materials In Use Forever -- Why things break -- From planned obsolescence to planned permanence -- Shipping Global versus Producing Local -- Building a regional economy: A shipping substitute -- You've got to be shipping me -- Permanent packaging -- Part 4 Redesigning the Future to be Circular -- Chapter 15 The Circular Economy of Food Production -- Examining the Two Ways of Producing Food -- Investigating the Hidden Costs of Agriculture -- Food waste: Expending money, time, and resources unnecessarily -- Environmental degeneration: Damaging the planet with increasing speed -- Permaculture to the Rescue -- Following nature's lead: Permaculture design principles -- Taking a look at permaculture management zones -- Chapter 16 Circularity for Design -- Redesigning Design -- Understanding circular design -- Designing out waste -- Keeping products and materials in use -- Regenerating natural systems -- Recognizing the Problems Designers Face -- We're being overtaken by trash -- We're running out of materials -- We're choking on carbon -- Creating a Framework for Circular Design -- Applying the ReSOLVE framework to buildings -- Layers of useful life -- Putting the pieces together -- Chapter 17 Circular Economy for Builders, Makers, and Manufacturers -- Assessing a Building's Lifecycle -- Defining construction and demolition debris -- Gauging the economic opportunities of C&amp -- D waste -- Measuring C&amp -- D waste impact -- Defining lifecycle impacts -- Identifying human health hazards and promoting transparency…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- 01 Upcycling into Art -- Andy Barrett: Carton Marquetry -- Cardboard Box Office: The Family Movie Life -- James Grashow: Cardboard Till Death -- 02 Redefining the Everyday -- Chris Gilmour: Cultural Weight and Cardboard -- Don Lucho/Luis Valdes: El Puesto de Don Lucho -- Evol: Visions of the Working Class -- Kiel Johnson: The City and the Lens -- 03 From Mundane to Luxurious -- Ann Weber: Woven -- Jillian Salik: Becoming Baroque -- Jözef Sumichrast: As Fine as Velvet -- Lacy Barry: Trompe L'Oeil Luxury -- 04 Larger than Life -- Joseph DeLappe: From Second Life to Three Dimensions -- Laurence Vallières: Monkeying Around -- Mykl Wells: The Wow Factor -- Taro Hattori: Cardboard and Conceptual Lightness -- 05 Sweet Sweet Fantasy -- Dosshaus: A Beautiful World in Black and White -- Muffinhead: The Living Sculpture -- Wayne White: Puppet Land -- 06 The Technical and the Abstract -- Daniel Agdag: Industrial Imaginings Under the Bell Jar -- Maika'i Tubbs: Pulp Fiction -- Mark Langan: Delicate Corrugation -- 07 Diys by Artists -- Sailing Ship: Beau Stanton -- Geometric Wall Storage: Ian Kuali'i -- Stacked Table: James Heffron -- Polygon Sculpture: Jud Bergeron -- Cardboard Balloon with Bow: Lacy Barry -- Stenciled Wrapping Paper: Logan Hicks -- Pineapple Grenade: James Cerasani -- Cardboard Fish: Rebecca Paul and Jeronimo Zancaner -- Multi-Use Geodesic Dome: Robin Redd -- Index -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Also Available -- Dedication -- Copyright…”