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  • Industrial Heritage in Denmark

    Landscapes, Environments and Historical Archeology

    by Hanne Christensen, Morten Pedersen, Anna Storm, Caspar Jørgensen, Christensen, Rene Schroder Christensen ...
    In presenting 25 industrial sites of national significance in the context of changing techno-economic paradigms, this book considers the development of Danish industrial landscapes and built-up environments in the period 1840-1970. Three case studies of ports, sugar mills, and cement plants are also presented. The book concludes with two chapters that discuss perceptions and strategies for the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Internationalisation and Strategic Control

    An Industrial History

    by Morten Pedersen ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    This book is a study of the emergence of international business. It immerses itself in the topic of how companies can control income-generating assets in foreign countries, the key element often used to define a multinational enterprise, and propounds the notion that control of crucial dispositions by foreign companies can be achieved by other means than direct foreign investment – cash flow and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    culture and evolution of urban and regional planning in the Netherlands

    by Len de Klerk, Gerhard Dekker, Peter Paul Witsen, Hans van der Cammen ...
    Nederland is één van de meest dichtbevolkte landen ter wereld. Dan moet je verstandig omgaan met de beschikbare ruimte. Waar gaan we werken, waar wonen en waar vakantie houden? Wat bebouwen en wat blijft ongerept? Nergens ter wereld wordt daar zo grondig over nagedacht als in Nederland. Internationaal geldt Nederland als gidsland op het gebied van de ruimtelijke ordening. Vanwege deze positie, en ... Read more

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  • Cities for People

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    For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Volt Rush

    The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

    by Henry Sanderson ...
    'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we’ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the weekWe depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The South China Sea

    The Struggle for Power in Asia

    by Bill Hayton ...
    China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalist with extensive ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Rare Metals War

    the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies

    by Guillaume Pitron ...
    Translated by Bianca Jacobsohn ...
    The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals — but they are running out. And what will happen when they do?The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution, shortages, and cross-border tensions. Drawing on six years of research across a dozen ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Landscape Architecture

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Air Con

    The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming: Climategate Edition

    by Ian Wishart ...
    For the past twenty five years, climate change has dominated the news agenda and the political sector. As the media whip up a frenzy of public concern, politicians use that concern as a cover to seize more taxes, more power and much more control of the daily lives of the public.But what if you found out you'd effectively been conned?Air Con became the world's #1 bestselling book on climate change, ... Read more

    $9.68 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Flowscapes

    Designing infrastructure as landscape

    Edited by Van Der Hoeven Frank, Steffen Nijhuis, Jauslin Daniel ...
    Flowscapes explores concepts, methods and techniques for design-related research on landscape infrastructures. Their main objective is to engage environmental and societal issues by means of integrative and design oriented approaches. Through focusing on interdisciplinary design-related research of landscape infrastructures they provide important clues for the development of spatial armatures that ... Read more

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  • How to Be Danish

    A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark

    by Patrick Kingsley ...
    Part reportage, part travelogue, this is a fascinating introduction to contemporary Danish culture for anyone who wants to know more about the happiest nation in the world.Denmark is the country of the moment. The motherland of Borgen and The Killing, it’s the runaway champion of Eurovision, and home to Noma, the world’s most eccentric restaurant.But though we wear their sweaters and read their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Lee Kuan Yew Through The Eyes Of Chinese Scholars

    by Gungwu Wang, Chen Ning Yang, Ying-shih Yu ...
    Lee Kuan Yew through the Eyes of Chinese Scholars is a compilation of essays by highly-respected Chinese scholars in which they evaluate the life, work and philosophy of Lee Kuan Yew, founding Prime Minister of Singapore. Presenting a range of views from a uniquely Chinese/Asian perspective, this book provides valuable insights for those who wish to gain a fuller and deeper understanding of Lee ... Read more

    $14.29 USD