Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Sub-prime Lending Enters the Financial Vocabulary -- The Global Extension -- Commercial Property Market Context -- Past UK Experience -- A Worldwide Phenomenon -- Commercial...

Intro -- INSIDE REAL ESTATE -- Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Mastering property -- The real estate game -- 1 Who can you trust? -- 2 The modern real estate firm -- 3 Will real estate agents have their Uber moment? -- Redefining the agent's role --...

This book examines the institutions and mechanisms for settlement of individual labour disputes in various countries. The number of individual disputes arising from day-to-day workers' grievances or complaints continues to grow in many parts of the world. The chapters in this book cover...

This is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime...

In the nineteenth century, railways were viewed as a symbol of progress and confidence in technological modernity. In the twenty-first century, the frustrations of gridlocked traffic, record-high gas prices, and the looming fears of climate change have transformed the railway system once again...

Intro -- Preface -- Technology Policy in the Process of Change: Changing Paradigms in Research and Technology Policy? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Traditional Motives for Public R&T Policy -- 3 From Material Technology to Technological Practice -- 4 The Crisis of Growth-oriented R&T Policy -- 5 The...

This book tells the largely unknown history of the Hancock family of Marlborough. It shows how members of one unique family were responsible for creating the earliest form of mechanized transport in the world, the foundation of the UK rubber industry, and the beginnings of the global information...

Drawing on historical, legal, literary, ethnographic and archaeological evidence, this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the use, acquisition and perception of whales in the medieval Norse North Atlantic world.

The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. A collection of essays from economic historians, geographers, geomorphologists, archaeologists, and place-name scholars, this study...

This e-book examines education, training and learning in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) operating in both industrially developed and developing countries. It also includes articles on entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial knowledge creation. The articles within cover topics...