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Developing the Competitive Advantage of Indigenous Construction Firms

Developing the Competitive Advantage of Indigenous Construction Firms

This book takes a pragmatic approach to develop the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms in the Global South using Ghana as a case study. It provides readers with two major practical insights. The first focuses on the theoretical underpinning of firms’ competitive advantage and develops a competitive advantage model for indigenous construction firms. This competitive advantage conceptual framework aids in explaining the main and sub-attributes underpinning the competitive advantage of indigenous construction firms as well as providing the basis for assessing a firm’s competitiveness. Secondly it highlights and addresses theoretical gaps in existing competitive advantage studies deemed essential for indigenous construction firms. Finally a detailed two-stage Delphi study in the Ghanaian construction industry is presented as a case study. The book is therefore of interest to researchers in construction management strategic management civil engineering business administration marketing entrepreneurial and economic studies. It is an essential manual for owners and managers of construction businesses. It is also useful for government departments and non-governmental agencies seeking innovative ways to develop the capacity of indigenous firms and/or contractors to make them more responsive to competitive bidding scenarios delivery of projects and satisfying the needs of the industry’s stakeholders. | Developing the Competitive Advantage of Indigenous Construction Firms

GBP 150.00
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Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

Taking a strategic imperative perspective this book introduces business leaders to a key differentiator that contributes to competitive advantage and financial sustainability: cultural competence. In a fast-changing and globalized world where organizations are being forced to rethink their strategies understanding present and future environmental social and economic challenges is fundamental to creating a resilient and value-creating business. Combining experience and reflection this book addresses concepts of organizational cultural competence as an internal differentiator and source of competitive advantage. Most organizations approach differentiation as an external feature of product and/or service delivery. Whereas these are open to imitation cultural competence as the internal DNA of an organization is much more difficult if not impossible to imitate. The authors bring to bear their years of experience in corporate roles and as entrepreneurs and academics sharing views and experiences based on research but also on primary examples meta-insights and real-world case studies. Senior leaders and consultants across industries as well as students of strategy and leadership development will value this serious and comprehensive guide that explains the importance of cultural competence as a strategic advantage in a global market. | Cultural Competence The Intrinsic Strategic Advantage

GBP 32.99
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Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

The management of organizational behavior is a critically important source of competitive advantage in today’s organizations. Managers must be able to capitalize on employees’ individual differences as jobs are designed teams are formed work is structured and change is facilitated. This textbook now in its third edition provides its readers with the knowledge required to succeed as managers under these circumstances. In this book John Wagner and John Hollenbeck make the key connection between theory and practice to help students excel as managers charged with the task of securing competitive advantage. They present students with a variety of helpful learning tools including: • Coverage of the full spectrum of organizational behavior topics • Managerial models that are based in many instances on hundreds of research studies and decades of management practice – not the latest fad • Completely new introductory mini-cases and updated examples throughout the text to help students contextualize organizational behavior theory and understand its application in today’s business world This ideal book for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of organizational behavior is written to motivate exceptional student performance and contribute to their lasting managerial success. Online resources including PowerPoint slides and test banks round out this essential resource for instructors and students of organizational behavior. | Organizational Behavior Securing Competitive Advantage

GBP 145.00
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The Medium Format Advantage

The Medium Format Advantage

Learn the advantages and capabilities of medium-format cameras and examine all aspects of medium-format operations including SLR twin lens panoramic rangefinder wide angle press and view cameras. Also explained and illustrated are lenses and their accessories motor drives films flashes filters slides and slide projectors and more. Includes black and white and color photographs and drawings to illustrate proper use of equipment and various techniques effects and possibilities that produce successful photographs with the best possible image quality. The medium format is truly the format in the middle. It combines many of the benefits of 35 mm photography with those of the large format making a medium format system an excellent choice for almost all types of photography from candid action with a hand-held camera to critical studio work from a tripod. Special chapters are devoted to these different applications and the type of equipment that most likely meets your photography needs. This book explains clearly the medium format's benefits advantages and disadvantages and provides a comparison of the medium format to other formats so you can decide whether it is right for you and your photography. | The Medium Format Advantage

GBP 175.00
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Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Fashion Management: Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage is a highly accessible book providing a unique look into the strategic drivers of the dynamic and ever-growing fashion industry. Derived from the knowledge gap in quality strategic fashion management literature this book blends theory with a variety of examples and uses 18 case studies to help bring to life contemporary topics faced by senior executives. The analysis is highly global in nature and aims to accelerate the strategic skills required to navigate the industry and contribute to a firm’s growth. Using copious examples from across the world this book provides in-depth discourse and progressive theoretical concepts and strategies which readers will be able to apply immediately to their studies or practices. The book is particularly suitable for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying fashion management or marketing as well as those on MBA and international business courses who wish to understand more about the fashion ecosystem. It is also designed to serve as an important reference for executives who are interested in conceptualising strategic issues that are pertinent to the industry. | Strategic Fashion Management Concepts Models and Strategies for Competitive Advantage

GBP 42.99
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Revival: Gaining Advantage from Open Borders (2001) An Active Space Approach to Regional Development

Revival: Gaining Advantage from Open Borders (2001) An Active Space Approach to Regional Development

This title was first published in 2001. The contributors to this book examine how changing political borders and disappearing obstacles in transport have led to diverging patterns of interaction between European regions with different outcomes. trajectories are identified and analyzed. | Revival: Gaining Advantage from Open Borders (2001) An Active Space Approach to Regional Development

GBP 4.99
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Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA) the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance. This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon its quantification and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes in relation to tactics and strategies fans referees travel situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football rugby cricket and Australian Football) indoor sports (basketball futsal handball water polo and volleyball) US professional sports individual sports racket sports combat sports minor sports disabled sports and the Olympic Games. This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students athletes coaches performance analysts sport psychologists sociologists sport scientists and sport journalists. | Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

GBP 36.99
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Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature examining Congress through the lens of sports. Across a set of broad and probing chapters this book offers insights into some of the historic and contemporary challenges that sports have presented to Congress along with highlighting the ways in which Congress has impacted the sports industry. The authors utilize a wide range of case studies to provide readers with a contemporary view of the interplay between Congress and sports at both amateur and professional levels. Perspectives are drawn from an interdisciplinary and cross-organizational roster of authors uniquely positioned to discuss various subjects. With real attention now being given to issues associated with sports and an increasing number of lawmakers using sports to push policy agendas and create legislative opportunities this book will be a vital resource for understanding the dynamic relationship between the two entities. Grounded in relevant literature and written in an accessible and engaging manner Congress and the Politics of Sports will be of great interest to both academic researchers and practitioners involved with US politics Congress and congressional studies public policy sports studies and sport history. | Congress and the Politics of Sports Homefield Advantage

GBP 130.00
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World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce establish or redefine their position. The volume is organized around three main issues: analyzing the way in which parents students and graduates in positions of social advantage use their assets and capitals in relation to educational strategies and how these are different for old and new and cultural and economic elites; studying how elite institutions have adapted their strategies to take into account changes in the social structure in policy and in their institutional environment and exploring the impact of these strategies on educational systems at the national and global levels; mapping the new global dynamics in elite education and how new forms of 'international education' and 'transnational cultural capital' as well as new global educational elite pathways shape elite students’ identities status and trajectories. Making use of a social and an institutional approach as well as a focus on practices and policies the volume draws on research conducted on secondary schools and on higher education. In addition the global contributions within the book allow for a comparison and contrast of situations in different countries. This results in a comprehensive picture of common processes and national differences concerning advantage and excellence and a thorough examination of the impact of globalization on the strategies identities and trajectories of elite groups and individuals alongside more general cultural and economic processes. | World Yearbook of Education 2015 Elites Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

GBP 51.99
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Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

Strategic Luxury Management is a case-rich and practical overview of how luxury creates value and why some firms are more successful than others. The focus of luxury study has traditionally centered on the clients’ drivers of consumption their perception of the brand and the way to effectively engage with them. Luxury is rarely however discussed from a strategic perspective: how luxury managers make complex decisions relative to their competitive environment. The book provides insight into the luxury industry and how companies face market complexity across three key areas. First the company itself determining what defines a luxury firm. Second the book offers a specific framework to assess creativity across management and not simply as an individual talent. Third the book considers the competitive landscape and the principles that allow companies to compete consistently and meaningfully. Each chapter includes pedagogical features to ensure comprehension including chapter objectives and self-study questions. With examples and case studies from international firms illustrating each chapter Strategic Luxury Management is essential reading for postgraduate MBA and executive education students studying luxury management luxury brand management luxury creativity and innovation and strategic management as well as reflective practitioners within the luxury industry. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides. | Strategic Luxury Management Value Creation and Creativity for Competitive Advantage

GBP 36.99
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Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

Establishing a difference is the lynchpin of marketing. It can be achieved in many ways. The results can be magical and powerful: such as increasing with little expense the price of a little regarded fish from £0. 15 a kilo to £1. 00. As with many other disciplines which have great value this potency has often resulted in the discussion of marketing being prey to increasing complexity. This frequently intimidates those marketing could help. Often it is due to the touting of supposedly new paradigms given plausibility by conveniently invented metrics and an emphasis on the rational and conscious over the emotional and unconscious despite the latter aspects appearing to be the basis for much choice. This imbalance has been highlighted by recent insights from psychology neurology and behavioural economics. Rather than simply embracing these advances the focus of marketing has been on additional layers of intricacy and a weighting of emphasis towards means of communication further distancing marketing from its base. This book aims to cut through to the pivotal role of differentiation illustrated by case histories and the advances in the related fields referred to particularly the work of psychologists such as Daniel Kahneman. Unlike much writing on marketing it has tried to follow Einstein’s advice to be as simple as possible but no simpler. | Making a Difference in Marketing The Foundation of Competitive Advantage

GBP 56.99
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International Strategy of Emerging Market Firms Absorbing Global Knowledge and Building Competitive Advantage

International Strategy of Emerging Market Firms Absorbing Global Knowledge and Building Competitive Advantage

Emerging economies are expected to be in the driver's seat of the global economy in the medium and long term. Large multinational corporations will account for much of this activity. In this textbook Andrei Panibratov explains how emerging market firms accumulate and exploit market knowledge to develop competitive advantages whilst operating globally. Chapters dedicated to the key emerging economies - Brazil Russia India and China (BRIC) - are enhanced by detailed case studies of large firms’ activities. The book is divided into four parts focusing on the following: An outline of the relevant terminology and the context of the international strategy of emerging market firms providing an introductory foundation for the whole book. A guide to the evolution of perspectives regarding international strategy designed to illustrate the changes and trends in the recent academic research on internationalization. A country-by-country illustration of the internationalization of BRIC economies and firms providing an overall picture of each country’s global integration outward investments and strategies. The concepts and practices behind the strategies employed by different firms. Written by an established international business scholar this book is essential reading for students of international strategy who wish to understand the importance of the emerging economies. | International Strategy of Emerging Market Firms Absorbing Global Knowledge and Building Competitive Advantage

GBP 160.00
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Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce their financials their customers and their partnerships but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting for their office furniture than their data. Infonomics is the theory study and discipline of asserting economic significance to information. It strives to apply both economic and asset management principles and practices to the valuation handling and deployment of information assets. This book specifically shows: CEOs and business leaders how to more fully wield information as a corporate asset CIOs how to improve the flow and accessibility of information CFOs how to help their organizations measure the actual and latent value in their information assets. More directly this book is for the burgeoning force of chief data officers (CDOs) and other information and analytics leaders in their valiant struggle to help their organizations become more infosavvy. Author Douglas Laney has spent years researching and developing Infonomics and advising organizations on the infinite opportunities to monetize manage and measure information. This book delivers a set of new ideas frameworks evidence and even approaches adapted from other disciplines on how to administer wield and understand the value of information. Infonomics can help organizations not only to better develop sell and market their offerings but to transform their organizations altogether. Doug Laney masterfully weaves together a collection of great examples with a solid framework to guide readers on how to gain competitive advantage through what he labels the unruly asset – data. The framework is comprehensive the advice practical and the success stories global and across industries and applications. Liz Rowe Chief Data Officer State of New Jersey A must read for anybody who wants to survive in a data centric world. Shaun Adams Head of Data Science Betterbathrooms. com Phenomenal! An absolute must read for data practitioners business leaders and technology strategists. Doug's lucid style has a set a new standard in providing intelligible material in the field of information economics. His passion and knowledge on the subject exudes thru his literature and inspires individuals like me. Ruchi Rajasekhar Principal Data Architect MISO Energy I highly recommend Infonomics to all aspiring analytics leaders. Doug Laney’s work gives readers a deeper understanding of how and why information should be monetized and managed as an enterprise asset. Laney’s assertion that accounting should recognize information as a capital asset is quite convincing and one I agree with. Infonomics enjoyably echoes that sentiment! Matt Green independent business analytics consultant Atlanta area If you care about the digital economy and you should read this book. Tanya Shuckhart Analyst Relations Lead IRI Worldwide | Infonomics How to Monetize Manage and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

GBP 22.99
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Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

Most books on the biotechnology industry focus on scientific and technological challenges ignoring the entrepreneurial and managerial complexities faced bio-entrepreneurs. The Business Models for Life Science Firms aims to fill this gap by offering managers in this rapid growth industry the tools needed to design and implement an effective business model customized for the unique needs of research intensive organizations. Onetti and Zucchella begin by unpacking the often-used ‘business model’ term examining key elements of business model conceptualization and offering a three tier approach with a clear separation between the business model and strategy: focus exploring the different activities carried out by the organization; locus evaluating where organizational activities are centered; and modus testing the execution of the organization’s activities. The business model thus defines the unique way in which a company delivers on its promise to its customers. The theory and applications adopt a global approach offering business cases from a variety of biotech companies around the world. | Business Modeling for Life Science and Biotech Companies Creating Value and Competitive Advantage with the Milestone Bridge

GBP 42.99
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Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive digital and globalized business landscape. An integrative framework ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’ is introduced which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities technology and innovation (recombination) internationalization and international markets (reach) and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved through an interaction of these four drivers against the backdrop of a globalized and digitized world. It is uniquely practical in its approach combining theoretical understanding with international case studies and real-life examples throughout each chapter including Apple IKEA and Microsoft. Unlocking Strategic Innovation is concise applied reading for postgraduate students studying international business corporate strategy innovation and digital strategy as well as academics in the field. It will also be important reading for practitioners looking to gain further understanding of how firms compete and flourish in a global and technology-driven environment. | Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

GBP 35.99
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AI and the Project Manager How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your World

AI and the Project Manager How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your World

Enabling project managers to adapt to the new technology of artificial intelligence this first comprehensive book on the topic discusses how AI will reinvent the project world and allow project managers to focus on people. Studies show that by 2030 80 percent of project management tasks such as data collection reporting and predictive analysis will be carried out by AI in a consistent and efficient manner. This book sets out to explore what this will mean for project managers around the world and equips them to embrace this technological advantage for greater project success. Filled with insights and examples from tech providers and project experts this book is an invaluable resource for PMO leaders change executives project managers programme managers and portfolio managers. Anyone who is part of the global community of change and project leadership needs to accept and understand the fast- approaching AI technology and this book shows how to use it to their advantage. | AI and the Project Manager How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence Will Change Your World

GBP 31.99
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The Industrial Future Of The Pacific Basin

The Industrial Future Of The Pacific Basin

The consequences of changing comparative advantage are transforming the economic landscapes of nations and regions around the globe. This book deals with the most significant economic factors in the rapidly changing Pacific Basin area. Part 1 considers the area’s changing patterns of industrial development and trade and examines the general implications of such changes for national industrial development policies. Part 2 consists of a set of case studies of national industrial policies in the context of factors affecting industrial structures; how applicable these policies are to other countries in the region is a central theme. Part 3 addresses the specific issues of foreign investment and domestic labor in relation to economic growth and industrial development in the Pacific Basin. Finally in Part 4 institutional arrangements are suggested that would facilitate economic growth while at the same time mitigating the serious negative consequences of changing economic advantage. Such negative consequences are to some extent pervasive and can destabilize social and political development and endanger formal and informal alliances; nevertheless the segment of humanity that has adequate food clothing and shelter is being permanently widened in the Pacific Basin. | The Industrial Future Of The Pacific Basin

GBP 27.99
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Sports Innovation Management

Sports Innovation Management

This book introduces readers to emerging issues of sport innovation. The book focuses on the role of innovation in the sports context and how we can leverage opportunities that arise from networks and optimize resources by identifying where they are most effective. It helps to identify the conditions and procedures that emergent business ventures need to be formed. The book is a useful reference for sports organizations athletes and government organizations promoting the use of innovation to generate competitive advantage in the global marketplace. | Sports Innovation Management

GBP 35.99
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Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

Rooted in strategic management research Business Model Innovation explores the concepts tools and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation globalization and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy. Updated with all-new cases this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals of business model innovation explores the novel ways in which an organization can generate deliver and monetize benefits to customers. | Business Model Innovation Concepts Analysis and Cases

GBP 77.99
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Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet

Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet

This book first published in 1999 reveals emerging trends in selecting acquiring and accessing electronic journals. This book stresses the need for librarians to understand copyright and contract laws the complexity of the Internet business environment and the need for constant training in order to take full advantage of electronic information. It offers proven methods collection development procedures and problem-solving techniques that keep up with the changes in collection librarianship and help librarians provide patrons with advanced and easy-to-use resources. | Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet

GBP 29.99
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State Politics In Contemporary India Crisis Or Continuity?

State Politics In Contemporary India Crisis Or Continuity?

This volume grew out of a panel on Indian state politics presented at the thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington D. C. on March 24 1984. Brass Kohli Manor and Wood gave papers and Church served as discussant; subsequently Blair who chaired the panel and Lele and Varkey generously offered to participate as well. All of the papers were revised and edited speedily in order to take advantage of Westview Press' rapid publication and distribution through the Replica Edition process. | State Politics In Contemporary India Crisis Or Continuity?

GBP 130.00
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Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence

Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards U.S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence

Contrary to popular misconceptions and public branding as dirty tricks covert action and counterintelligence can have considerable value. Democracies while wary of these instruments have benefited significantly from their use saving lives treasure and gaining strategic advantage. As liberal democracies confront the post-Cold War mix of rogue states and non-state actors such as criminals and terrorists and weapons of mass destruction and mass disruption these clandestine arts may prove to be important tools of statecraft and perhaps trump cards in the twenty-first century. Godson defines covert action as influencing events in other parts of the world without attribution and counterintelligence as identifying neutralizing and exploiting the secret activities of others. Together they provide the capability to resist manipulation and control others to advantage. Counterintelligence protects U. S. military technological and diplomatic secrets and turns adversary intelligence to U. S. advantage. Covert action enables the United States to weaken adversaries and to assist allies who may be hampered by open acknowledgment of foreign support. Drawing on contemporary and historical literature broad-ranging contacts with senior intelligence officials in many countries as well as his own research and experience as a longtime consultant to the U. S. government Godson traces the history of U. S. covert action and counterintelligence since 1945 showing that covert action works well when it is part of a well-coordinated policy and when policy makers are committed to succeeding in the long-term. Godson argues that the best counterintelligence is an offensive defense. His exposition of the essential theoretical foundations of both covert action and counterintelligence supported by historical examples lays out the ideal conditions for their use as well as demonstrating why they are so difficult to attain. This book will be of interest to students and general readers interested in political science national security foreign policy and military policy. | Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards U. S. Covert Action and Counterintelligence

GBP 145.00
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The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

In this book Thomas B. Cochran takes a critical look at the economic and environmental arguments which have been made in favour of an early introduction of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) as a central component of the United States electrical energy system. First published in 1974 Cochran presents LMFBR as having no environmental advantage over light water reactors and the high temperature gas reactor and seriously questions the economic advantages. This title should be a useful for students interested in environment and sustainability studies and it is a valuable resource for discussions of future energy strategy. | The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

GBP 36.99
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