Production and Operations Analysis

Production and Operations Analysis
Author: Steven Nahmias
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Total Pages: 789
Release: 2009
Genre: Production management
ISBN: 9780071263702

Production and Operations Analysis, 6/e by Steven Nahmias provides a survey of the analytical methods used to support the functions of production and operations management. This latest edition maintains the focus on continual process improvement while enhancing the technical content of the book. Both analytical methods centered on factory and service processes, as well as process issues across the supply chain, are included. As always, the text presents the most cutting-edge quantitative models used in operations in a clear, accessible manner. While the familiar structure and organization of the text remains the same as previous editions, the current edition includes several new topics aimed at enhancing the technical content of the book.

Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States

Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States
Author: Jonathan Fox
Publisher: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies University of Cali
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

The multiple pasts and futures of the Mexican nation can be seen in the faces of the tens of thousands of indigenous people who each year set out on their voyages to the north, as well as the many others who decide to settle in countless communities within the United States. To study indigenous Mexican migrants in the United States today requires a binational lens, taking into account basic changes in the way Mexican society is understood as the twenty-first century begins. This collection explores these migration processes and their social, cultural, and civic impacts in the United States and in Mexico. The studies come from diverse perspectives, but they share a concern with how sustained migration and the emergence of organizations of indigenous migrants influence social and community identity, both in the United States and in Mexico. These studies also focus on how the creation and re-creation of collective ethnic identities among indigenous migrants influences their economic, social, and political relationships in the United States. of California, Santa Cruz

The Uneasy Alliance

The Uneasy Alliance
Author: Kim B. Clark
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Management Challenges for the 21st Century
Author: Peter Drucker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136386319

Management Challenges in the 21st Century looks afresh at the future of management thinking and practice. The content revolves around two fundamental issues that are occuring simultaneously: changes in the world economy, and shifts in the practice of management. These developments, especially in developed countries are crucial in exploring and understanding the challenges of the future. This volume focuses on the key questions for all business: What are the new realities? What new policies are required of companies and executives in order to deal with these changes. Facing a whole swathe of issues head-on in his usual clear-sighted style, Drucker offers up a prescient and informed analysis that will help every executive to build a proactive strategy for the future.

Cracking the code

Cracking the code
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2017-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9231002333

This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.

Meeting at Grand Central

Meeting at Grand Central
Author: Lee Cronk
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691154953

"Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation."--Publisher's website.

A Genius Planet

A Genius Planet
Author: Ludger Hovestadt
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-07-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 3035614210

Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available sources of energy – especially photovoltaic solar, in combination with others – and networking this energy, much in the way that we have networked information, we can get beyond our current energy ‘crisis’ and resolve it. The world we then find ourselves in is not a world without problems – we will face new challenges on the way – but in terms of energy it is a world of plenty. Rooted in sound theory and based on technology that is available now, A Genius Planet offers an accessible but detailed and insightful perspective on how we can free ourselves from our dependency on natural resources and generate, trade, and use energy in ways that open up the genuine potential that we have at our disposal today.

The Electronic Disturbance

The Electronic Disturbance
Author: Critical Art Ensemble
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Short pieces and essays examining the changing rules of cultural and political resistance: The current technological revolution has created a new geography of power relationsas data, human beings confront an authoritarial impulse that thrives on absence. As a virtual geography of cognizance and action, resistance must assert itself in electronic space.

Deleuze and Contemporary Art

Deleuze and Contemporary Art
Author: Stephen Zepke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Deleuze and Contemporary Art maps the relations and resonances between the important and influential twentieth-century French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and F©♭lix Guattari and contemporary art practice.