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A New Industrial Future?

3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

By: Thomas Birtchnell,John Urry

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A New Industrial Future?

3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

By: Thomas Birtchnell,John Urry

A New Industrial Future? examines whether a further industrial revolution is taking place around the world. In this compelling book Birtchnell and Urry examine such a new possible future involving the mass adoption of 3D printing. The locating of 3D printers in homes, offices, stores and workshops would disrupt existing systems and pose novel challenges for incumbents. The book drawing upon expert interviews, scenario workshops and various case studies assesses the potential future of global manufacturing, freight transport, world trade and land use. It offers the first book-length social scientific analysis of the character and impacts of a new system of manufacturing that is in formation. The book will be of interest to urban planners, policy makers, social scientists, futurologists, economists, as well as general readers by offering inquiry on this future upheaval in the means of production.

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1317691539

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Information Infrastructures in India

The Long View

By: Pradip Ninan Thomas,Thomas

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Information Infrastructures in India

The Long View

By: Pradip Ninan Thomas,Thomas

This book explores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information infrastructures in contemporary India. This volume highlights the roles played by private and public sector entities in shaping information infrastructures in India, the political economy of growth in this sector and the challenges faced by the State in regulating information platforms that are also information infrastructures. It includes separate chapters on oceanic cable infrastructures that account for more than 90 per cent of data traffic between India and the rest of the world and the political economy of India's satellite program. Taking the 'long view', it argues that the provisionings of information infrastructures are by no means straight forward, that they are always expressions that are shaped by internal and external contestations, by ideological ends and business imperatives, the needs of consumers/citizens and the State, that there is a politics of infrastructure that needs to be accounted for, and that there always are winners and losers in large infrastructural projects such as Digital India.

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Oxford University Press

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0192857738

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Equity and Trusts in Australia

By: Michael Bryan,Vicki Vann,Susan Barkehall Thomas

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Equity and Trusts in Australia

By: Michael Bryan,Vicki Vann,Susan Barkehall Thomas

Incorporating recent case law developments, the second edition of Equity and Trusts in Australia provides undergraduate and Juris Doctor students with a current and accessible introduction to Australian equitable and trust law. Expanding upon first edition content, the text includes greater depth of topic discussion, explanation of key theories and terminology, while demonstrating how these are applied in practice. Chapters including Fiduciary Obligations, Resulting Trusts and Constructive Trusts have been reworked to strengthen the text's coverage of all facets of equity and trusts law. Equity and Trusts in Australia, second edition links key doctrines to their wider relationship with the law, making it a fundamental text for students embarking on this area of study for the first time.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108293743

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Equity and Trusts in Australia

By: Michael Bryan,Vicki Vann,Susan Barkehall Thomas

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Equity and Trusts in Australia

By: Michael Bryan,Vicki Vann,Susan Barkehall Thomas

Equity and Trusts in Australia offers an accessible introduction to the principles of Australian equity and trusts law for students, linking key doctrines to their wider relationship with the law. The text covers foundational topics of equity and trusts law, including the nature of equity, fiduciary relationships and trust structures. This edition has been revised to include recent landmark decisions and a new chapter on termination and variation of trusts. Each chapter concludes with a guide to the online resources, which encourage students to extend their knowledge of the content through further reading, practice problems and discussion topics. Written by a team of experienced authors, Equity and Trusts in Australia is an ideal text for students undertaking this area of study for the first time. A Sourcebook on Equity and Trusts in Australia is also available and provides cases and primary legal materials to accompany Equity and Trusts in Australia.

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1009232355

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The Transnationalized Social Question

Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-first Century

By: Thomas Faist

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The Transnationalized Social Question

Migration and the Politics of Social Inequalities in the Twenty-first Century

By: Thomas Faist

The social question is back. Yet today's social question is not primarily between labour and capital, as it was in the nineteenth century and throughout much of the twentieth. The contemporary social question is located at the interstices between the global South and the global North. It finds its expression in movements of people, seeking a better life or fleeing unsustainable social, political, economic, and ecological conditions. It is transnationalized not only because migrants and their significant others entertain ties across the borders of national states, staying in touch with family and friends, receiving or sending financial remittances in transnational social spaces. Also of importance are cross--border recruitment schemes for workers and the cross-border diffusion of norms appealed to in the case of migration--for example, the social right to decent work as a human right. Moreover, migration can become an issue of inclusion or exclusion in fields important to life chances in the emigration, transit, or immigration states--a transnationalization of national states. And, as in the nineteenth century, political conflicts arise, constituting the social question as a public concern. In earlier periods class differences dominated conflicts. While class has always been criss-crossed by manifold heterogeneities, not least of all cultural ones around ethnicity, religion, and language, it is these latter heterogeneities that have sharpened in situations of immigration and emigration over the past decades. Casting a wide net in terms of conceptual and empirical scope, this book tackles both the social structure and the politics of social inequalities. It sets a comprehensive agenda for research which also includes the public role of social scientists in dealing with the transnationalized social question.

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0199249016

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Catalyzing Innovations For A Sustainable Future: Bite-sized Commentaries And Resource Materials

By: Thomas Menkhoff

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Catalyzing Innovations For A Sustainable Future: Bite-sized Commentaries And Resource Materials

By: Thomas Menkhoff

This book competently demonstrates the full potential of effective innovation governance and outlines what Innovation Leaders need to know and do in order to make innovation work.'Howard THOMASProfessor Emeritus of Strategic Management and Management EducationSingapore Management University (SMU)What is innovation and what does it take to make it work? How can innovation management and governance help to create and capture new value towards a sustainable future?This reader contains several 'op-eds' (op-ed = short for 'opposite the editorial page') on innovation management and urban sustainability matters written between 2012 and 2021 for Singapore-based print media aimed at providing interested readers with deeper insights into key enablers of effective innovation governance at corporate levels. The bite-sized commentaries on innovation matters are loosely structured with regards to Leadership & Strategy, People & Organisational Culture, Innovation Processes, Knowledge & Learning as well as Innovation Governance. Besides three case studies of innovation award winners (Singapore Airlines; National Library Board Singapore; Qian Hu Corporation Ltd.), the book also entails reflections about the 'smart city' strategies of Singapore, Berlin (Germany) and Barcelona (Spain) aimed at enhancing sustainability and liveability.This resource book is essential reading for anyone interested in acquiring innovation management and governance know how — from graduate students and advanced undergraduates to innovation practitioners in business and society as well as start-up founders and municipal leaders.

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World Scientific

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9811238936

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Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup

Research, Theory, and Practice

By: Thomas B. Holman

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Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup

Research, Theory, and Practice

By: Thomas B. Holman

This book should be of interest to scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners alike. Scholars, researchers, and students of personal relationship development will recognize in this book the first serious attempt in over 40 years to do a large-scale, longitudinal study of premarital factors that predict premarital breakup and marital quality; they should also appreciate our attempt to develop a theoretical rationale for predicted paths and to test those paths with the best available statistical tools. Practitioners-while generally not as interested in the intricacies of the statistical results-will find much that is useful to them as they help individuals and couples make decisions about their intimate relationships, their readiness for marriage, and how to increase the probability for marital success. Teachers, family life educators, premarital counselors, and clergy will find helpful our “principles for practice,” particularly as described in Chapter 9, as they teach and counsel couples in any premarital situation. My interest in the development of relationships from premarital to marital probably began when I got married in 1972 and started to notice all of the characteristics my wife and I brought from our respective families and how our “new beginning” as a married couple was in many ways the continuation of our premarital relationship, only more refined and more intense. My professional interest began when I did my doctoral dissertation in 198 1 on premarital predictors of early marital satisfaction (the results of that study are reported in Chapter 8).

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0306471868

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9780306471865

Thomas on Powers

By: Geraint Thomas

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Thomas on Powers

By: Geraint Thomas

Highly regarded, and cited in a number of judgments, Thomas on Powers is concerned with the general principles and doctrines governing or affecting the creation, exercise, and operation of powers in private law, and provides a discursive, intellectual analysis of the principles underlying the problems commonly encountered by practitioners. The first edition of Thomas on Powers was published in 1998 as part of Sweet & Maxwell's Property and Conveyancing Library. This new edition both updates the original work and expands the scope of the book significantly to include coverage of offshore trusts and current trusts issues such as fiduciary powers, protectors, and "shams". Thomas on Powers provides extensive coverage of recent statutes dealing with trustee delegation; developments to the law relating to pension schemes; and cases relating to the rule in Hastings-Bass, which has had a series of contentious recent decisions. This edition includes expanded discussion of case law from Commonwealth countries and focuses more on the numerous judgments from offshore jurisdictions, some of which raise novel questions and issues. The book also includes an increased emphasis on the specific legislation of offshore trusts, where practical problems centred around the creation and exercise of trustee powers have become very important. This edition covers the problematic interaction of powers of revocation and sham trusts; the scope and effects of powers of amendment; the powers and role of protectors of offshore trusts; and the powers of directors of companies; and the relationship between fiduciary powers in private law and powers exercised by public bodies.

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OUP Oxford

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0191634581

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Business Law

By: Nickolas James,Timothy Thomas

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Business Law

By: Nickolas James,Timothy Thomas

Business Law, 5th Edition (James et al.) is written for business students to provide a clear and accessible introduction to the legal system. Business law courses are the first exposure to law for many business students and the first time they are obliged to think deeply about the discipline. This updated edition presents business law in a practical context rather than the doctrinal context that many major legal publishers use. The Business Law interactive e-text features a range of instructional media content designed to provide students with an engaging learning experience. This includes practitioner videos from Herbert Smith Freehills, animated work problems and questions with immediate feedback. This new edition is a unique resource that can form the basis of a blended learning solution for lecturers.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0730369277

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Shadow Trades

The Dark Side of Global Business

By: Amos Owen Thomas

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Shadow Trades

The Dark Side of Global Business

By: Amos Owen Thomas

Alongside burgeoning global business, which asserts its legality, ethics and social responsibility, there exists a dark side of shadow trades manifesting various shades of legitimacy. Not only do the latter’s corrupt practices, dubious supply chains and other illicit operations run in tandem with global business, these borderless trades intersect with economic structures and contribute to systems adopted by corporations, endorsed by neoliberal capitalism, that are often condoned by governments and unwittingly sustained by consumers. In a very real sense, all of us may be implicated in shadow trades through our work, consumption and citizenship. Even before we can begin to confront and constrain shadow trades, their business models first need to be identified and analysed in all their networked complexity, interconnectivity with global business and embeddedness within the world economy. Numerous hard questions need to be raised around enabling circumstances and responsibilities of stakeholders, as well as the winners and losers resulting from business globalisation and socio-economic inequities within and between countries. Providing background, evidence and analysis on select exemplars of shadow trades, this book provides graduate students of business, plus scholars in the social sciences, together with practitioners and policymakers, consumer groups and civil society, with an indispensable resource for critical engagement. Only through knowledge gained by research and advocacy for transparency can we begin to shed light on this dark side of global business, enabling all of us to grapple with activism against and collaborative action towards undermining all shadow trades. Amos Owen Thomas was a Docent / Reader in Marketing and International Business at Stockholm University until his recent retirement

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SAGE

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1529752329

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Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies

By: Jay C Thomas

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Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies

By: Jay C Thomas

This three-volume handbook describes the core competency areas in providing psychological services relevant to practitioners as well as clinical researchers. It covers assessment and conceptualization of cases, the application of evidence-based methods, supervision, consultation, cross-cultural factors, and ethics.

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0387097562

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Social Psychology

By: Thomas Heinzen,Wind Goodfriend

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Social Psychology

By: Thomas Heinzen,Wind Goodfriend

This award-winning text invites students to discover social psychology’s relevance to their lives. Authors Thomas Heinzen and Wind Goodfriend capture student interest by weaving stories drawn from their own personal experiences with compelling examples from everyday life, all carefully placed in historical context. Social psychology is presented as an evolving, science-driven conversation; chapters build on core questions central to scientific inquiry, while a methods-in-context approach cultivates psychological literacy. The Second Edition has been thoroughly updated with new pop culture examples, additional diversity coverage, recent controversies related to the Zimbardo and Milgram studies, and over a hundred new citations from the latest research. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Learn more. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video on false memories. Assignable Self-Assessments Assignable and interactive self-assessments (available with SAGE Vantage) help students experience social psychology in a deeper, more memorable way that reinforces learning. LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more. Also of Interest Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology, Second Edition, also by Heinzen and Goodfriend, uses brief, entertaining real-world stories to illustrate the historical context and evolution of major theories within the field of social psychology. Bundle Case Studies for Teaching Social Psychology, Second Edition with Social Psychology, Second Edition for even more savings.

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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1544393504

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Indovation

Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India

By: T. Birtchnell

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Indovation

Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India

By: T. Birtchnell

How should we understand the many reports that poverty is the mother of innovation in India? What has the role of austerity been in the development of India's knowledge economy? In this critical study of Indian innovation, or 'Indovation', Thomas Birtchnell explores how the complex mobilities of 'globals' with stakes in India have transformed discourses and imaginaries about innovation in the region. He adopts a critical eye to the notion of Indovation by focusing on the various circuits of globals where India's knowledge economy is concentrated: expertise, entrepreneurship and community. Birtchnell traces the various discourses and counter-discourses around an Indian way of working and illustrates how differences in the international dimensions of austerity allow India's knowledge economy to prosper.

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113702741X

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Abnormal Psychology

By: Thomas F. Oltmanns,Robert E. Emery

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Abnormal Psychology

By: Thomas F. Oltmanns,Robert E. Emery

Centring on abnormal psychology, this edition features new coverage of eating disorders, multi-cultural concerns, substance abuse and addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder. It also includes a major study on suicide and case studies.

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0137281978

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A New Industrial Future?

3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

By: Thomas Birtchnell,John Urry

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A New Industrial Future?

3D Printing and the Reconfiguring of Production, Distribution, and Consumption

By: Thomas Birtchnell,John Urry

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3D Printing for Development in the Global South

The 3D4D Challenge

By: T. Birtchnell,William Hoyle

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3D Printing for Development in the Global South

The 3D4D Challenge

By: T. Birtchnell,William Hoyle

Birtchnell and Hoyle explore how printers, designs, materials and infrastructures all need to be 'just right' in order for meaningful social change to happen with appropriate scale. The 3D4D Challenge suggests 3D printing could reach scale in the Global South, even perhaps having the same impact as the mobile phone or microfinance in development.

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A New Industrial Future?

A New Industrial Future?

Information Infrastructures in India

Information Infrastructures in India

Equity and Trusts in Australia

Equity and Trusts in Australia

Equity and Trusts in Australia

Equity and Trusts in Australia

The Transnationalized Social Question

The Transnationalized Social Question

Catalyzing Innovations For A Sustainable Future: Bite-sized Commentaries And Resource Materials

Catalyzing Innovations For A Sustainable Future: Bite-sized Commentaries And Resource Materials

Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup

Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup

Thomas on Powers

Thomas on Powers

Business Law

Business Law

Shadow Trades

Shadow Trades

Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies

Handbook of Clinical Psychology Competencies

Social Psychology

Social Psychology

Indovation

Indovation

Abnormal Psychology

Abnormal Psychology

A New Industrial Future?

A New Industrial Future?

3D Printing for Development in the Global South

3D Printing for Development in the Global South

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