Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces

one fifth of the world's population. The GDP of China is now over 10 times larger than what it was in 1980, when the previously closed country began opening its doors to international commerce. Chinese people and culture are spreading more than ever, and in turn Chinese people are eagerly looking abroad to Korea, Japan, Australia, Europe, and the USA - absorbing and learning from foreign culture and business know-how. China is now known as "the factory…

SETTLEMENT The early history of the Celts is murky, but it is thought that they originated somewhere in the eastern part of central Europe around the 2nd millennium BC and began to migrate across the continent, arriving in France some time in the 7th century BC. In the 3rd century a group of Celtic Gauls called the Parisii settled on the site of present-day Paris. Centuries of conflict between the Gauls and Romans ended in 52 BC, with the latter taking control of the territory.…

and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. Very Short Introductions available…

TEXT 1 Building science A significant achievement of the first industrial age was the emergence of building science, particularly the elastic theory of structures. With it, mathematical models could be used to predict structural performance with considerable accuracy, provided there was adequate quality control of the materials used. Although some elements of the elastic theory, such as the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler’s theory of column buckling (1757), were worked out…

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/FDIS 26000 TMB/WG/SR Voting begins on: 2010-07-12 Voting terminates on: 2010-09-12 Guidance on social responsibility Lignes directrices relatives à la responsabilité sociétale Please see the administrative notes on page iii RECIPIENTS OF THIS DRAFT ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT, WITH THEIR COMMENTS, NOTIFICATION OF ANY RELEVANT PATENT RIGHTS OF WHICH THEY ARE AWARE AND TO PROVIDE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION. IN ADDITION TO THEIR EVALUATION AS BEING…

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ilustração de miolo: Augusto Cardoso Cover and illustration of contents: Augusto Cardoso Revisão: Ronaldo Alves Mousinho Revision: Ronaldo Alves Mousinho Projeto gráfico, impressão e acabamento? Graphic design, printing and finishing? Fonte de pesquisa: Literatura: De Homero à Contemporaneidade – Enfoques histórico, teórico e prático, 2002, de Ronaldo Alves Mousinho, chancelado pelo FAC, Editora Ideal – 2002, Brasília-DF. Source of research: Literature: From Homer to the…

Background: In 1603, after decades of civil warfare, the Tokugawa shogunate (a military-led, dynastic government) ushered in a long period of relative political stability and isolation from foreign influence. For more than two centuries this policy enabled Japan to enjoy a flowering of its indigenous culture. Japan opened its ports after signing the Treaty of Kanagawa with the US in 1854 and began to intensively modernize and industrialize. During the late 19th and early 20th…

about it, pundits talk about it, executives routecopiesof it around the organization, and its vocabulary becomes familiar to managers everywhere -sometimes to the point where they don't even associate the words with the original article. Most important, of course, managers change how they do business because the ideas in the piece helped them see issues in a new light. "Marketing Myopia" is the quintessential big hit HBR piece. In it,Theodore Levitt, who was then a lecturer in business…

FREAKONOMICS A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner CONTENTS AN EXPLANATORY NOTE In which the origins of this book are clarified. vi INTRODUCTION: The Hidden Side of Everything 3 In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work. Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong . . . How…