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“tim a grice”

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  • Extracting Innovations

    Mining, Energy, and Technological Change in the Digital Age

    Edited by Martin J. Clifford, Robert K. Perrons, Saleem H. Ali, Tim A. Grice ...
    This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges. The socio-ecological fabric of innovation in the extractive industries is considered through an integrative approach that brings together engineers, natural scientists, and social scientists—academics and practitioners—giving an empirically ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society

    The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author describes how current trends will create an era when anything and everything is available for almost nothing.In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times–bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death—the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution

    by Klaus Schwab ...
    World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work.Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Solution Revolution

    How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems

    by William D. Eggers, Paul Macmillan ...
    Government Alone Can’t Solve Society’s Biggest ProblemsWorld hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It’s clear that in today’s era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock, we can no longer turn to government alone to tackle these and other towering social problems. What’s required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mathematical Corporation

    Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

    by Angela Zutavern, Josh Sullivan ...
    The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Standing on the Sun

    How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere

    by Christopher Meyer ...
    For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile, the emerging economies of the world--Brazil, India, China, and others--will surge forward.As these ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supply-Chain Survival in the Age of Globalization

    by James A. Pope ...
    The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era. The current challenge is surviving the challenge of global competition. Good supply chain management can be a valuable tool in winning this competition. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Disaster Management

    by Ross Prizzia ...
    This book makes the case that many climate related scientists have provided data that confirm that burning fossil fuels has increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which has had a major impact on climate change. Each of the six chapters provides many references and questions for review.The first chapter emphasizes worldwide awareness of the relationship between climate change and disasters ... Read more

    $13.16 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

    by Abhas K. Jha, Robin Bloch, Jessica Lamond ...
    Urban flooding is a significant challenge which today increasingly confronts the residents of the expanding cities and towns of developing countries, as well as policymakers and national, regional and local government officials. The Global Handbook presents the state-of-the art in urban flood risk management in a thorough and user-friendly way. It serves as a primer in integrated urban flood risk ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

    Edited by Andreas Georgoulias, Daniel Schodek, Spiro Pollalis, Stephen Ramos ...
    You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design, architecture, and landscape architecture review current sustainable large-scale projects, the ... Read more

    $229.48 CAD

  • Advances in Smart Cities

    Smarter People, Governance, and Solutions

    Edited by Arpan Kumar Kar, M P Gupta, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Yogesh K. Dwivedi ...
    This is an edited book based on the selected submissions made to the conference titled "International Conference in Smart Cities". The project provides an innovative and new approach to holistic management of cities physical, socio-economic, environmental, transportation and political assets across all domains, typically supported by ICT and open data. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

    The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

    Edited by Richard Hanley ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD