This book examines the four factors that challenge the fate of the European social model: globalization, monetary union, Eastern enlargement and digitalization. It then highlights where common EU policy can be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem, which was too often the case in the past.
A unique construction law text, describing all the routes to recovery of payment for work that are not to be found in the express words of the contract. It contains both legal scholarship and practical guidance, and will be a particularly valuable tool for those seeking payment in the face of oppressive contract conditions.
This book maps out how to design better transport. Engineers measure success by speed and efficiency – but these are not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We choose how to travel, influenced not only by speed and time but by habit, status, comfort, variety – and many other factors that engineering equations don’t capture at all.
This book reflects the author’s fifty years’ experience in international construction projects and the management and resolution of disputes. His primary goal is to help parties avoid unnecessary conflict – a theme that is clearly evident throughout this book.
The book introduces and promotes HR as a profession. It explains the options for gaining professional qualifications, and readers will acquire the tools to prepare job applications and perform effectively at interviews. They will also understand how to stay updated in order to take advantage of future job opportunities.
This revised, expanded second edition of Digital Transformation at Scale is a guide to building a digital institution. It explains how a growing band of reformers in businesses and governments around the world have helped their organizations pivot to this new way of working, and what lessons others can learn from their experience.
In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, Helen Holmes tackles precisely what’s going wrong in your workplace – and how you can improve your working week.
In an attempt to understand why we persistently fail to learn from catastrophic events, this book considers two questions. — Why don’t we learn? — What would it take to enable real systemic change? It concludes by offering an accessible model for systemic change as a framework to evoke reflection and enquiry.
Considering studying languages at university? Wondering whether a language degree will get you a good job, and what you might earn? Want to know what it’s actually like to study a language at degree level? This book tells you what you need to know.
First published as ‘Markets for Managers’, this book has proved to be a popular way for non-economists to understand and apply the key tools of economics in a business setting. Written in an engaging and informal way, whether you are a busy executive or simply an interested amateur this is your essential go-to guide.
This book, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of mathematics at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. It will enthuse the reader about thes subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Christian Wolmar argues that autonomous cars are the wrong solution to the wrong problem. Even if the many technical difficulties that stand in the way of achieving a driverless future can be surmounted, autonomous cars are not the best way to address the problems of congestion and pollution caused by our long obsession with the private car.
This book, aimed at students, parents and teachers, explains in practical terms the range and scope of Geography at university level and where it can lead in terms of careers or further study. It will both enthuse the reader about this vital subject and answer the crucial questions that a college prospectus does not.
Raising the Roof addresses the UK’s housing crisis, and one of the most centralised planning systems in the democratic world. The IEA’s 2018 Richard Koch Breakthrough Prize sought free-market solutions to this complex and divisive problem, including cutting and devolving tax, and reforms to allow cities to both densify and beautify.
Did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb? According to Matt Ridley, many others can lay claim to this breakthrough moment – it was bound to emerge sooner or later. Ridley contends that innovation is the most important unsolved problem in all of human society, and is too little understood and valued.
Ayn Rand: An Introduction illuminates Rand’s importance, detailing her understanding of reality and human nature, and explores the ongoing fascination with and debates about her conclusions on knowledge, morality, politics, economics, government, public issues, aesthetics and literature.
