46 unsorted boxes in a damp basement contained the “archives” of one of Australia’s least orthodox media institutions. Amazingly, from those daunting vestiges, Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo wove a compelling book about 2SER and its colourful people. Also a window onto the world outside as it changes.
Hard copy, hot metal and the power of the written word
Welcomed by Phillip Adams as an important Australian memoir full of insight and humour, this is also a story about growing up. It’s the personal journey of a 16-year-old boy starting work in ‘the golden age of journalism’ when reporters worked with hard copy and hot metal and endured a mixture of instruction and reprimand....
Healthcare Marketing: Creating a Culture of Excellence introduces healthcare professionals to comprehensive strategies for enhancing the patient experience and fostering excellence within healthcare organizations. The text focuses on combining marketing concepts with management principles, ensuring that patient satisfaction is incorporated ......
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Throughout the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day ""sustainability."" Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren traces the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the ......
Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920
Throughout the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day ""sustainability."" Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren traces the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the ......
The Opium Factory of Ghazipur has a history all its own. Like most other colonial enterprises, it was developed to further colonial mercantile and imperial interests. Ghazipore, as it was known in British India, was the headquarters of the Benaras opium agency, which included almost the whole of the then-United Provinces. Directed and driven by ......
Productivity and Reliability-Based Maintenance Management, Second Edition is intended to provide a strong yet practical foundation for understanding the concepts and practices of total productive maintenance (TPM) management-a proactive asset and resource management strategy that is based on enhancing equipment reliability and overall enterprise ......
From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous throughout the "Soviet empire" tobacco factory "Java", which was founded before the 1917 Revolution, stood in Moscow, there is a luxury residential complex. Tobacco companies all over the world are ......
The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions ......
