Search results for “[Subject: manufacturing]”

• Author(s): Vaclav Smil • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Industries - ManufacturingAn argument that America's economy needs a strong and innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates.“There's no au...

• Author(s): D. J. Williams • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringIntented as a primer' in manufacturing systems, this book concentrates primarily on the technology that is applied on the shop floor t...

• Author(s): Ralph E. Gomory | William J. Baumol • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralRalph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. In this boo...

• Author(s): William B. Bonvillian | Peter L. Singer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyHow to rethink innovation and revitalize America's declining manufacturing sector b...

• Author(s): Simon D. Beck • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General Ever wondered how many aircraft were converted into Japanese Zeroes and torpedo bombers for Tora! Tora! Tora!...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): S. Joshi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringWith the approach of the 21st century, and the current trends in manufacturing, the role of computer-controlled flexible manufacturing an int...

• Author(s): Evan Davis • Publisher: Abacus (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Abacus (UK) • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralWhat are countries famous for making? For Japan, the answer might be electronic goods. For Germany, automobiles. For France...

• Author(s): Eileen Appelbaum • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementMuch of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin e...

• Author(s): Suzanne Berger | Mit Task Force on Production in the Inno • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management ScienceHow America can rebuild its industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy.America is t...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): C. S. Syan • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial EngineeringBACKGROUND There is an increasing awareness that 'time to market' is the key competitive issue in the manufacturing industry today. The glo...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): Sharon Barcan Elswit • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish soc...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Denis Fred Simon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis work covers in depth the new patterns of manufacturing and technology transfer that are emerging as Japanese compa...

• Author(s): Joan Copjec • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Mind & BodyA collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by De...

• Author(s): Teri L. Caraway • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesDespite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely...

• Author(s): Edward Diener | Eunkook M. Suh • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the...

• Author(s): Frank E. Wrenick | Elaine V. Wrenick • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - General This comprehensive look at the heyday of automobile manufacturing in Ohio chronicles...

• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Development - Economic Development Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. Thi...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Maurizio Lazzarato • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAn analysis of how capitalism today produces subjectivity like any other “good,” and what would allow us to esc...

• Author(s): Nicholas J. Grant | William C. Giessen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetallurgyRapidly quenched metals are the subject of an increasing research effort, spurred on both by advancements in metal proces...

• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwo cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigi...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...