Collapse- book is about a history topic about how societies choose to fail or survive. The main characters are historical people and unknown kings of Mayan cities or Easter Island villages. Jared Diamond tells the story of the Viking explorer Erik the Red, who discovered Greeland and Vinland (Terranova, in Canada). Another character is captain Olafsson, a norse sailor who wrote the last news about Greenland in 1410. Another main character is Christopher Columbus, who arrived at Hispaniola in 1492
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Chapter 14 Energy Energy is considered to be the lifeline of economic development. For a developing economy with a high population growth rate, it is important to keep a balance between energy supply and emerging needs. If corrective measures are not effectively anticipated significant constraints start emerging for development activities. The rise in global energy demand has raised questions regarding energy security and increased the focus on diversification, generation and efficient allocation
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Southern Cross University ePublications@SCU Theses 2004 The contribution of business/management education, to small enterprise solvency Peter Ellis Southern Cross University, PeterEllis@YSP.com.au Suggested Citation Ellis, P 2004, 'The contribution of business/management education, to small enterprise solvency', DBA thesis, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW. Copyright P Ellis 2004 For further information about this thesis Peter Ellis can be contacted at peterellis@ysp.com.au
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Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Dissertations Graduate College 8-1-2012 Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A StateCorporate Environmental Crime Analysis of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Elizabeth A. Bradshaw Western Michigan University, brads2ea@cmich.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Bradshaw, Elizabeth A., "Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A State-Corporate Environmental Crime Analysis of the 2010
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La Meta de Eliyahu Goldratt. www.FreeLibros.me 1 Son las siete y media de la mañana. Sumido en mis pensamientos, conduzco mecánicamente mi Buick, camino de la fábrica. Nada más cruzar la verja de entrada, la visión del rutilante Mercedes rojo, aparcado en el sitio reservado para mi coche, me devuelve bruscamente a la realidad, a una realidad ajena al silencio sosegado de la mañana, alejada del ritmo sereno con el que, uno tras otro, se han ido sucediendo mis pensamientos, hasta hace
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ANNUAL REPORT 2010 -11 TECHNO_LOGICAL TECHNO_LOGICAL In many ways, satisfying the Indian customer is probably much more challenging than satisfying a customer in another market. The country has an obsession for fuel efficiency, when it comes to choosing automobiles (and rightly so, since about three-fourths of India’s crude oil requirement is imported). Extracting more mechanical energy for the car from every drop of fuel is a designer’s challenge. But it is vital for the consumer, the
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