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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910451354103321"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The historical evolution of world-systems [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Christopher Chase-Dunn and E.N. Anderson"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-281-36868-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786611368685"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-4039-8052-7"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed. 2005.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (228 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"The evolutionary processes in world politics series"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"306/.09"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Social evolution"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Social history"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Social change - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; About the Authors; Preface; One: The Rise and Fall of Great Powers; Two: Eurasian C-Wave Crises in the First Millennium B.C.; Three: From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Political-Economic Declines, and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200 B.C.-700 B.C.; Four: Power is in the Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores; Five: Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems Since the Bronze Age"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Six: Lamb, Rice, and Hegemonic Decline: The Mongol Empire in the Fourteenth CenturySeven: The Rise of European Hegemony: The Political Economy of South Asia and Europe Compared, A.D. 1200-A.D. 1500; Eight: Contentious Peasants, Paternalist State, and Arrested Capitalism in China's Long Eighteenth Century; Nine: Space, Matter, and Technology in Globalization of the Past and Future; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The rise and decline of great powers remains a fascinating topic of vigorous debate. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods. The book advances understanding of the regularities in the dynamics of empire and the expansion of political, social and economic interaction networks, from the Bronze Age forward. The "]
[{"$nulls":4},"authors analyze the expansion and contraction of cross-cultural trade networks and systems of competing and allying political groupings. In premodern times, theses ranged from small local trading networks (even the very small ones of hunting-gathering peoples) to the vast Mongol world-system. Within such systems, there is usually one, or a very few, hegemonic powers. How they achieve dominance and how transitions lead to systems change are important topics, particularly at a time when the United States' position is in flux. The chapters in this book review several recent approaches and present a wealth of new findings."]
[null,"2.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910783602703321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Cain Clive Thomas."]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Building down barriers : a guide to construction best practice / / live Thomas Cain"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; New York : , : Spon Press, , 2003"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-134-43928-8"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-134-43929-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-138-16087-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-280-07129-X"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-39828-9"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (152 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"624/.0068"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Construction industry - Management"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Construction industry - Quality control"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-136) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Book Cover; Title; Contents; About the author; The six goals of construction best practice; Introduction; Seventy years of customer demand for improvement; The international demand for improvement; The three UK best practice standards and their six goals; The virtual firm; Motivating and leading radical improvement; Becoming a best practice client; Integrating the design and construction team; Ensuring the delight of the end users; Selecting the independent experts; The benefits of best practice and the risk of ignoring change; Further reading; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","With rapid changes in procurement processes and increasing pressure for improvement, cohesion and efficiency, practitioners need to be aware of industry-wide generally acknowledged best practice. The recent Latham and Egan reports in the UK have spurred further intitiatives from the demand side of the industry to speed the pace of reform. This text examines those new initiatives, clearly explaining and comparing them with each other and with similar initiatives from other countries such as the USA or Singapore, and painting a vivid picture of the future of the construction industry under the e"]