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How to Build a Modern Tontine
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning expert Dr. Milevsky proposes the modern tontine as a solution. With the goal of guiding professionals and retirees in more efficient decumulation, the book demonstrates how …
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- 1
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- 9783031009280
- Collation
- XXI, 156
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- -
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- 368.32 HOW M
Quality management and accounting in service industries : a new model of qual…
The process of globalisation in world markets and the growing number of enterprises competing with one another in terms of the products and services they offer, naturally leads to the improved efficiency of management systems. Efficiency is required in order for these entities to maintain competitiveness. To assess the efficiency of their management systems, enterprises use quality cost calcula…
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- edision 3
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- 9781000610833
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- -
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- -
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- 354.68. QUA p
Making sense of work through collaborative storytelling : building narratives…
Collective sense making starts with individual stories. Stories influence how we construct our sense of self in relation to others and our social environment, especially within the world of work The stories we tell ourselves at work, particularly during times of change, impact our relationships and the collaboration with those who are engaged in the same work activities. Stories that we take…
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- 11
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- 978-3-030-89446-7
- Collation
- xix; 119p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 658.406 MAK P
The Political Regulation Wave : A Case of How Local Incentives Systematically…
Why has there been uneven success in reducing air pollution even in the same locality over time? This book offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives can affect bureaucratic regulation. Using empirical evidence, it examines and compares the control of different air pollutants in China-an autocracy-and, to a lesser extent, Mexico-a democracy. Making use of new data, appr…
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- -
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- 9781009103664
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- xviii, 164 p ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.7392 POL
Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe : theory, models and practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional an…
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- 10
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- 9780429324529
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- ix, 326p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338 SOC n
Museum object lessons for the digital age
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of colle…
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- -
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- 9781787352810
- Collation
- XV, 141 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 069.5 GEI m
Impact of climate change on agricultural and natural ecosystems
This book illustrates the main results deriving from fourteen studies, dealing with the impact of climate change on different agricultural and natural ecosystems, carried out within the Impact of Climate change On agricultural and Natural Ecosystems (ICONE) project funded by the ALFA Programme of the European Commission. During this project, a common methodology on several Global Change-related…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788884539212
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- 244 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 551 MAR i
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783747528
- Collation
- xxxiii, 696p,: ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 334 JOH
Control problems for conservation laws with traffic applications
Conservation and balance laws on networks have been the subject of much research interest given their wide range of applications to real-world processes, particularly traffic flow. This open access monograph is the first to investigate different types of control problems for conservation laws that arise in the modeling of vehicular traffic. Four types of control problems are discussed - bound…
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- 1st
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- 9783030930158
- Collation
- xvii, 227p, ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 512.94 CON c
Decolonising blue spaces in the anthropocene: freshwater management in Aotear…
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis – the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waipā River– to the settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for Indi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030610715
- Collation
- xii, 494p. : ill
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
- Call Number
- 363.700993 MEG d
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