Authors:Jean-Noel Kapferer, Vincent Bastie,
Publisher: Kogan Page
Keywords: luxury, brands, build, rules, strategy, marketing
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0749454776
ISBN-13: 9780749454777

Luxury is in fashion and is now to be found in almost every retail, manufacturing and service sector. New terms like "mass-luxury," "new luxury" and "hyper luxury" attempt to qualify luxury. But if everything is luxury then surely the term itself has no meaning! There is confusion today about what really makes a luxury product, a luxury brand or a luxury company. The Luxury Strategy analyses in depth the essence of luxury, highlights its managerial implications and rationalizes the highly original methods - often very far from the usual marketing strategies - used to transform small family bus

Authors:Vincent P. Drnevich, Ronald J. Ebelhar, Vincent P. D
Publisher: ASTM International
Keywords: technical, publication, stp, special, astm, geotechnical, testing, dynamic
Number of Pages: 427
Published: 1994-08
List price: $61.00
ISBN-10: 0803118775
ISBN-13: 9780803118775

Authors:Benjamin Bajer, Vincent Das, Vincent Queneville,
Publisher: Estem
Keywords: internat, prã©paration, dossiers, nã©phrologie, urologie
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2002-10-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 2843711819
ISBN-13: 9782843711817

Authors:Kau-Fui Vincent Wong, Kaufui Vincent Wong,
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: series, engineering, mechanical, engineers, thermodynamics
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-06-21
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 0849302323
ISBN-13: 9780849302329

Aspiring engineers have long needed a text that prepares them to use thermodynamics in professional practice. Thermodynamics instructors need a concise textbook written for a one-semester undergraduate course-a text that foregoes clutter and unnecessary details but furnishes the essential facts and methods.Thermodynamics for Engineers fills both those needs. Paying special attention to the learning process, the author has developed a unique, practical guide to classical thermodynamics. His approach is remarkably cohesive. For example, he develops the same example through his presentation of th

Author: Vincent Du
Publisher: Pennwell Book
Keywords: fireground, survival, safety
Number of Pages: 377
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 0912212233
ISBN-13: 9780912212234

Learn from one of the leading authorities on how to identify hazards and avoid them. Dunn discusses the 15 most common hazards faced by firefighters, including cellar fires, collapse, peaked roofs, wildfires, interior operations, ladder operations, forcible entry, and others.

Author: Vincent Ooi
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: empirical, linguistics, textbooks, edinburgh, corpus, lexicography, computer
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 074860815X
ISBN-13: 9780748608157

This book introduces the reader to the changing notions of the lexicon and dictionary-making, using a convergence of perspectives from computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational lexicography/lexicology. The main issues include: the relation between lexicon and corpus; corpus-based lexical modelling of language; the computational storage of the lexicon. From this, the book constructs and applies a framework for lexicon-building to a case study. It also stresses the importance of the Internet and World Wide Web for dictionary research and study.

Author: Bev Vincent
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: magnum, opus, king, stephen, tower, exploring, road
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-09-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0451213041
ISBN-13: 9780451213044

In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning’s poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," as well as J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone. With the full cooperation of Stephen King himself, The Road to the Dark Tower examines the epic journey of the author to complete a story that threatened to overwhelm him. In this indispensable companion, Bev Vincent presen