Authors:W. Seabrooke, P. Kent, Hebe Hwee-Hong How,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: real, estate, issues, approach, institutional, international
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-07-26
List price: $139.99
ISBN-10: 1405103086
ISBN-13: 9781405103084

Real estate activity across national boundaries (investment, development and asset management) is firmly established as a major component of global economic activity. International Real Estate provides the understanding of real estate strategies and transactions that cross national boundaries. International organizations lament the narrow perspective of professionals in the real estate field, which stems from training that takes a parochial rather than international view of the practices and processes of real estate markets. This book takes an explicitly international perspective to the decisi

Author: Hebe Verrest
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: urban, livelihoods, caribbean, activities, based, economic, home
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2007-12-12
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 9056294903
ISBN-13: 9789056294908

Poor urban households in the economic ’south’ deploy various livelihood activities. One of these is a Home-Based Economic Activity (HBEA), e.g. sales of home-made snacks or car maintenance. This study examines the prevalence, organisation and relevance of HBEAs in four neighbourhoods in the Caribbean cities Paramaribo (Suriname) and Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago). Recent economic developments in these countries diverge; Suriname recovers slowly from a crisis while Trinidad and Tobago’s economy is buoyant. These economic features together with local political developments

Authors:Sverker Sorlin, Hebe Vessuri,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: knowledge, higher, education, issues, power, society, economy, politics
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2007-01-15
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1403973040
ISBN-13: 9781403973047

A new collection in the IAU Issues in Higher Education Series that deals with the major tensions between education and science. Drawing on experiences from a range of countries and regions world-wide, the book demonstrates the need to find new avenues for the management of knowledge production to ensure that it can meet increasingly global goals and demands.

Author: Hwee-Yong Jang
Publisher: Llewellyn Publicatio
Keywords: changes, coming, earth, project, gaia
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0738710423
ISBN-13: 9780738710426

According to Hwee-Yong Jang, the world as we know it will undergo a profound transformation by 2012 ARE YOU READY? As part of a grand cosmic plan called the Gaia Project, the earth is already undergoing a purification process-marked by natural disasters, disease, war, and social chaos-that will ultimately end in our planet’s ascension to a new dimension. Jang’s prophetic proclamation-communicated to him through channeling, dreams, and energy reading-explains countless mysteries about the world, including: • The origins of the world and humankind • The collapse of Lemur

Authors:M. A. Mansur, Kiang-Hwee Tan,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: directions, civil, engineering, new, design, beams, openings, analysis, concrete
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-01-29
List price: $167.95
ISBN-10: 0849374359
ISBN-13: 9780849374357

This book compiles state-of-the-art information on the behavior, analysis, and design of concrete beams containing transverse openings.Discussions includethe need, effects, and classification of openings as well as the general requirements for fulfilling designpure bending, combined bending, and shear - illustrated with numerical examplestorsion alone or in combination with bending and shearlarge rectangular openings as well as opening size and location on beam behaviormethods for analyzing ultimate strength and serviceability requirementseffects of torsion in beamslarge openings in continuous

Authors:Stephanie Dennison, Song Hwee Lim,
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Keywords: politics, film, culture, identity, world, cinema, remapping
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-03-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 1904764622
ISBN-13: 9781904764625

Authors:Mao-Hong Yu, Guo-Wei Ma, Hong-Fu Qiang, Yong-Qiang Zh
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: plasticity, generalized
Number of Pages: 447
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 3540251278
ISBN-13: 9783540251279

Generalized Plasticity deals with the plasticity of materials and structures. It is an expansion of the "Unified Strength Theory to Plasticity Theory", leading to a unified treatment of metal plasticity and plasticity of geomaterials, generally. It includes the metal plasticity for Tresca materials, Huber-von-Mises materials and twin-shear materials and the geomaterial plasticity for Mohr-Coulomb materials, generalized twin-shear materials and the Unified Strength Theory.