Beginning of BusinessFord's Inspiration: The Steam-Powered Road EngineClocks: The Inspiration for the Synchronized Moving Assembly LineHorses as a Wasteful Source of TransportationFord on Nyet Engineers and Other Wet BlanketsHow Reciprocating Motion Eliminates WasteMaterial Selection in Design...

The idea of reliving youth is a common fantasy, but who among us is actually courageous enough to try it? After surviving a deadly cancer against tremendous odds, college president Roger H. Martin did just that?he enrolled at St. John's College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland, as...

Die vorliegende Studie stellt die Ergebnisse eines gelungenen Kooperationsprojektes zwischen der Bayerischen Motorenwerke AG München und dem Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Freien Universität Berlin vor. Vor dem Hintergrund des sich konstituierenden EG-Binnenmarktes in 1992 und einem...

Durch aktuelle Veränderungen der bildungspolitischen und wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen stehen deutsche Hochschulen vor einer Vielzahl von neuen Herausforderungen. Die Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtes vom 26. Januar 2005 ermöglicht den Universitäten (abhängig von den...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Environmental Topics for Non-Majors -- Ecological Economics as an Interdisciplinary Course Taught to Master's Students of Environmental Protection -- Political Dimensions of Environmental Problems -- Environmental...

"University endowment managers have generally outperformed the market benchmarks. However, their knowledge has not been well documented in any book. This book fills that gap and should be of significant help to all those who want to learn from extensive interviews with a number of endowment...