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Floriana Cerniglia and Francesco Saraceno

"The third installment of the 'European Public Investment Outlook' series is an important and timely publication that draws together recent analyses to recommend significant increases in public investment in green ventures. Compelling data from key economists affiliated with international organizations like the International Monetary Fund, European Investment Bank and the European Commission, as well as academic departments and policy institutes are a clarion call for green investment to boost the economy and put the planet on a sustainable path. Like its predecessors, the book presents the issues in a lucid and navigable manner. Part I explores the EU's current levels of green public investment, as well as the challenges ahead in achieving net zero carbon emissions after years of decreasing funding and the obstacles presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The public investment trends of France, Germany, Italy and Spain are systematically evaluated, as well as the REPowerEU policy - accelerated in Spring 2022 - to move away from Russia's supply of fossil fuels. Part II focuses on the investment needed for green transition; the important economic and fiscal effects and benefits this would bring; and the reality of what is required before 2030 to achieve the EU's carbon-neutral targets by 2050. Greening Europe is essential reading for economists, environmentalists, and policymakers. It should also be of interest to anyone who wants to understand the cost implications of the 'carbon-neutral' policies that governments have promised, and the urgent need to change our approach towards energy usage."--Publisher's website.

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Joseph J. Ori

Commercial real estate isn't an easy industry to navigate. The rules and expectations change depending on whether you're in management or investing--and whether you deal with office space, shopping centers, or senior housing. Joseph J. Ori has spent the past thirty-five years in commercial real estate. During this time, he's amassed a compendium of directives and commandments to help navigate the industry's twisting paths and unexpected turns. Switching skillfully between the serious and the comical, Ori shares his fifty commandments in order to shed light on a complex industry. Ori backs up each commandment with thorough explanations, analysis, and examples when warranted, all presented in an easy-to-read format. Whether you're a shrewd veteran of commercial real estate or a fresh-faced college graduate just entering the industry, this book offers guidance and advice for the many challenges and rewards you'll encounter.

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Karen S. Fredricks

Microsoft Office Live is a service that allows individuals, small businesses, and organizations to create Web sites, share documents, and have a shared storage area on the Web Explains how to create a Web site; share documents, contact lists, project plans, and calendars; send or receive e-mails using Live Mail; and allow customers, employees, and vendors access to data based on specific security restrictions Discusses establishing security levels, sharing documents, defining and managing projects, tracking company assets, using the Contact Manager, using marketing campaigns, and working with client workspaces Office Live services can be used independently but they also integrate well with Microsoft Office programs used regularly by more than 400 million people around the world, including Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Small Business Edition

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Martin Kenney, Richard Florida

"How can it be that Japanese "transplant" manufacturers are succeeding on U.S. soil, where American companies have failed? Beyond Mass Production provides the first inside look at the Japanese automobile, steel, and rubber companies that are transforming America's industrial heartland. It takes the reader inside the factories, unveiling the methods and techniques Japanese companies use to produce world-class products in America with American workers." "The key, the authors argue, lies in the whole new model of organizing work and production that first emerged in Japan and is now being transferred to the United States. This new system harnesses the intellectual capabilities of all workers, from the Research and Development laboratory to the factory floor, as a source of innovation and productivity improvement. It results in a powerful integration of intellectual and physical labor that will forever transform the way work is done." "Based upon more than five years of detailed research including field studies of dozens of factories, hundreds of personal interviews, and comprehensive surveys of industrial sectors, this book offers compelling evidence of the emergence and transfer of the new system in both the traditional and heavy industries and in the new industries of high-technology age." "Beyond Mass Production offers a powerful and realistic theory of the new face of capitalism as a synthesis of intellectual and physical labor - a melding of innovation and production. In doing so, the authors go far beyond the existing theories of "post-industrialism," "post-fordism," and "flexibility."" "With a wealth of new data, maps, and straightforward examples of the kinds of changes taking place, this book provides an important new perspective for all those interested in Japanese business, industrial competitiveness, foreign direct investment, new work practices, industrial relations, and regional change."--BOOK JACKET.