Subject(s): Transportation -- Mathematical models | Choice of transportation -- Mathematical models | Trip generation -- Mathematical models Summary: "With this fourth edition, Modelling Transport has been fully updated and revised to retain its position as the market-leading text in the field of transport modelling. As with previous editio

Subject(s): Research libraries -- Aims and objectives | Academic libraries | Research libraries -- Technological innovations | Digital libraries | Multicultural education | Knowledge, Sociology of Summary: "This forward-looking new resource explores the future of research libraries, academic librarianship, and research collections. Editor B

Subject(s): Leadership Summary: "It is with great pleasure that I offer you my 100 Greatest Ideas on Effective Leadership. Please pluck as many fathers as you like from this collection and make them your own. I hope that they will enrich your personal effectiveness as a leader. This book takes a logical look at those issues which you have t

Subject(s): Food industry and trade | Food industry and trade -- Environmental aspects | Food consumption | Agricultural ecology Summary: "This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of "sustainability"-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes

Subject(s): Mass media policy -- China | Communication policy -- China | Communication -- Political aspects -- China | Communication in politics -- China Summary: "This book examines different dynamics such as marketisation, globalisation and new media technologies that have driven the transformation of China's media industry--one of th

Subject(s): Problem employees | Supervision of employees | Stress management Summary: "Save your organization by building the skills to deal with difficult people We all have to work with people we can't stand to be around. Our challenge is to find creative ways to handle these difficult people. In the fable Make Difficult People Disapp

Subject(s): Ethics, Evolutionary | Naturalism Summary: "Ethical naturalism is narrowly construed as the doctrine that there are moral properties and facts, at least some of which are natural properties and facts. Perhaps owing to its having faced, early on, intuitively forceful objections by eliminativists and non-naturalists, ethical natur

Subject(s): Aristotle | Time Summary: "Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book Tony Roark presents an interpretation of the definition that renders it not only non-circular

Subject(s): Asia -- History Summary: "A comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destiny. Tracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur Cotterell offers a compelling, lively, and readable account of one of the most culturally

Subject(s): Private universities and colleges -- Southeast Asia | Education, Higher -- Southeast Asia | Education and state -- Southeast Asia Summary: "Throughout SouthEast Asia, the balance between public and private higher education is changing. Caught between conflicting imperatives, of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balan