“ruth taplin”

Assessing and managing risk is vitally important, and is increasingly studied, in a range of areas, including politics and international relations, finance and insurance, and innovation and valuing intangible assets such as patents and intellectual property. The degree to which innovation is encoura... More

As shown by the bursting of the dot.com bubble, intellectual property is easily misevaluated. Re-evaluating risk and understanding the true value of intellectual property is a major problem, particularly important for business practitioners, including business analysts and investors, venture capital... More

Outsourcing is an increasingly popular strategy deployed by a variety of institutions, including banks, multinational companies and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This book examines outsourcing in Japan, Europe and the United States from a broad standpoint, with particular emphasis on th... More

This book presents a comprehensive survey of the telecommunications industry in Japan. It covers the different sectors of the industry - including mobile, broadband and satellite - and considers key questions such as the structure and economics of the industry, government policy, and international r... More

Ruth Kinna draws on a variety of sources to explain the principle of the rejection of the state, the theory of revolution and the role of anarchism in history, from the Russian Revolution and Paris 1968, to the rise of the Worldwide anti-globalization movement.... More

The new collection from Ruth Rendell comprising of the bestselling short stories "The new Girl Friend", "The Coppper Peacock", "Blood Lines", and "Piranha To Scurfy". 'Murders sometimes seem an afterthought to Rendell's stories: the obvious way to closure but not really necessary to compel our atten... More

This handbook sets out a programme aimed at increasing children’s activeness in pre-primary schools. The highly structured programme provides a rather flexible frame of reference which teachers can modify and adapt to actual classroom conditions and day-to-day work with pre-primary children.... More