Business & economics / Industries

Current Issues in Convention and Exhibition Facility Development

by Robert R. Nelson

Increase tourism in your community by designing and expanding your local convention and exposition services!

This book provides you with solutions to the issues that can arise during the planning and production...

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing: "Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders"

by Jeremy Greenfield & James L. McQuivey

Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing - Interviews With 19 Innovative Ebook Business Leaders is Digital Book World's first ebook. In interviews with 19 innovative ebook business leaders, Digital Book...

Risky Business: Insurance Markets and Regulation

by Lawrence S. Powell

Today’s insurance regulation in the United States is at a crossroads: while some segments of the insurance industry are moving away from a state-based approach toward regulation, others favor a greater role...

Power Market Structure: Revisiting Policy Options

by Maria Vagliasindi & John Besant-Jones

The current distribution of power markets around intermediate structures between full integration and unbundling suggests that there has not been a linear path to reform in practice. Instead, many developing...

Seller Beware: How not to sell your business

by Denise Barnes

Denise Barnes was seven years old when she first realised she had a gift for selling. After a stellar career building her own business from the ground up Denise finally decided the time was ripe to enjoy her...

The Economics and Politics of High-Speed Rail: Lessons from Experiences Abroad

by Daniel Albalate & Germa Bel

The Economics and Politics of High Speed Rail: Lessons from Experiences Abroad, by Daniel Albalate and Germà Bel, introduces the main questions policy makers and scholars should examine when considering and...

Exploring the Social Impacts of Events

by Greg Richards, Marisa de Brito & Linda Wilks

Social impacts are increasingly used as one of the main justifications for staging and funding events, and yet there is very little empirical evidence on the extent to which these impacts are realised by different...

De-Convergence of Global Media Industries

by Dal Yong Jin

Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership...

Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables & Herbs for Market

by Keith Stewart

Keith Stewart addresses everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic vegetables and herbs, covering land, equipment, crop mix, growing techniques, irrigation, soil fertility, pests, greenhouses,...

Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Orchard Fruits

by Danny L. Barney

Danny Barney covers everything you need to know to successfully grow and market organic orchard fruits, from selecting the right site and cultivars to meeting organic standards and acquiring certifications;...

Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives

by Greg Richards

A unique chance to explore different aspects of place, heritage, and tourism

For many nations around the world, cultural tourism is not only a major industry but also a support for national identity and a means...

Broadband Economics: Lessons from Japan

by Takanori Ida

Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces...

Outdoor Recreation Management

by John Jenkins & John Pigram

It is now widely recognized that recreation is as important as work. This revealing book analyzes leisure and outdoor recreation in terms of both their management and their wider importance to society. Specifically,...

Transportation Economics

by Bart Jourquin, Piet Rietveld & Kerstin Westin

The performance of current transport systems is inadequate when viewed in terms of economic efficiency, sustainability and safety. Drawing together key an impressive list of contributors from the vast field...

Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity

by J. P. Floru

The world's economy is in crisis. Public spending has reached dizzying heights, national debts are crippling governments and economic growth is lacklustre or non-existent. It has been suggested that this is...

Public-Private Partnerships in the USA: Lessons to be Learned for the United Kingdom

by Tony Wall

Broadly, a Public-Private Partnership (or PPP) is any collaboration between the public and private sector, but research in the UK has tended to focus on those that have been used for major infrastructure projects,...

Eco-Innovation Management and Sustainability

by Bart Bossink

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between...

Modern Labour Economics

by Peter Sloane, Paul Latreille & Nigel O'Leary

Labour economics as a discipline has changed dramatically in recent years. Gone are the days of a "job for life". These days, firms and employees are part of a less regulated, more fluid, and more international...

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice

by Michael Boella & Steven Goss-Turner

Now in its ninth edition, Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice, is fully updated with new legal information, data, statistics and examples. Taking a 'process' approach,...

Low-Carbon Land Transport: Policy Handbook

by Daniel Bongardt, Felix Creutzig & Hanna Hüging

Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.

Based on wide ranging research, it shows how policies can be bundled successfully and worked into urban transport...