1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910825874303321

Autore

Mitchell Harold

Titolo

Living large : the world of Harold Mitchell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlton, Victoria : , : Melbourne University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-522-85943-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

302.230994

Soggetti

Mass media - Australia

Businessmen - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part I -- 1 Growing up amid the sawmills -- 2 Getting started -- 3 Going it alone -- 4 The business of business -- 5 Eat drink man woman: The struggle to leave behind cigarettes, alcohol and fatty food, save a marriage and maybe a life -- Part II -- 6 The big fella -- 7 How to lose everything-and get it back -- 8 How to deal with Jeff Kennett and come away without too many bruises -- 9 How to survive the dot-com bust -- 10 The Murdochs -- 11 How to survive a media feud -- Part III -- 12 How to give away 10 million -- 13 Stage left: Life in the arts 14 Bugs and the Blues15 How to do an epic lunch -- 16 Lighting up a room: Getting to know Xanana and Kirsty Sword Gusmão -- 17 People I've met -- Part IV -- 18 The media: Where it's come from and where it's going -- 19 A toolkit for young entrepreneurs -- 20 The greatest juggle of all: Work/life balance -- 21 How to walk away gracefully: Succession -- 22 Love and marriage -- Epilogue -- Tributes -- Index -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

When Harold was sixteen, he secured a job at a Melbourne advertising agency just by virtue of having travelled the furthest for the interview. Living Large traces Mitchell's journey as media buyer inside several agencies to his brave decision to start in 1976 his own media-buying operation, a radical and, to the established agencies, highly unpopular move. Mitchell went on to become Australia's biggest media buyer. His business journey led to close friendships with the two Kerrys, Packer



and Stokes, and a long relationship with the Packer family. His passion for the arts saw him experience so.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910674008103321

Autore

Negro Valdecantos Vicente

Titolo

Offshore Wind Farms

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

ISBN

3-03928-563-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The coastal zone is the host to many human activities, which have significantly increased in the last decades. However, sea level rise and more frequent storm events severely affect beaches and coastal structures, with negative consequences and dramatic impacts on coastal communities. These aspects add to typical coastal problems, like flooding and beach erosion, which already leading to large economic losses and human fatalities. Modeling is thus fundamental for an exhaustive understanding of the nearshore region in the present and future environment. Innovative tools and technologies may help to better understand coastal processes in terms of hydrodynamics, sediment transport, bed morphology, and their interaction with coastal structures. This book collects several contributions focusing on nearshore dynamics, and span among several time and spatial scales using both physical and numerical approaches. The aim is to describe the most recent advances in coastal dynamics.