Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Commission on Life Sciences 
Fire and Smoke [PDF ebook] 
Understanding the Hazards

Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world»s foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize — winning economists R …

Neo-Industrial Organising explores an emerging area of importance in management and organisation studies, namely the trend towards a projectization of the economy as a whole and the inter- and intra- …

First Published in 2004. Environment, Growth and Development offers a unique analysis of sustainable economic growth and development and the implications for policy and planning at the local, nationa …

Recent years have witnessed radical changes in British economic policy. However, the recession of the early nineties has cast doubts about whether these were successful. The much heralded economic mi …

This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry was a natural monop …

The protection of intellectual property rights has become a major concern in recent years. The opportunities being seized, or lost, in areas such as computer software or biotechnology have captured m …

The gradual reduction in weekly working hours in the first half of the last century, which culminated in the widespread adoption of the »standard» working week by the 1960s, was grounded in a conce …

The properties of woven and knitted fabrics differ largely due to the path yarn follows in the fabric structure. This path determines the fabric’s physical properties, mechanical properties, and appe …

Addressing a number of »missing links» in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour …

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and innovation. This book brings together current thinking on this subject from g …