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Examining the UK's manufacturing sector, this book features
contributions from specialists in business, management, economics,
organizational behaviour and economic geography. Subjects covered
include: the nature of change in the management of manufacturing
organizations; the significance of manufacturing in the mature
economies of the 21st century; the impact of Japanese companies and
methods; the implications of de-industrialization; comparative
analysis of British, Japanese and American electronics
manufacturers; the regional political economy of manufacturing; the
changing nature of buyer-supplier relations; and the prospects for
manufacturing renewal in the UK. Detailed and topical, this book
should be of interest to business students, researchers and public
policy makers.
Examining the UK's manufacturing sector, this book features
contributions from specialists in business, management, economics,
organizational behaviour and economic geography. Subjects covered
include: the nature of change in the management of manufacturing
organizations; the significance of manufacturing in the mature
economies of the 21st century; the impact of Japanese companies and
methods; the implications of de-industrialization; comparative
analysis of British, Japanese and American electronics
manufacturers; the regional political economy of manufacturing; the
changing nature of buyer-supplier relations; and the prospects for
manufacturing renewal in the UK. Detailed and topical, this book
should be of interest to business students, researchers and public
policy makers.
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the
history of genomics across three different species and four
decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive
approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives
to map and sequence the genomes of various organisms, but also the
work of smaller-scale institutions engaged in the mapping and
sequencing of yeast, human and pig DNA. In doing so, the authors
expand the historiographical lens of genomics from a focus on
large-scale projects to other forms of organisation. They show how
practices such as genome mapping, sequence assembly and annotation
are as essential as DNA sequencing in the history of genomics, and
argue that existing depictions of genomics are too closely
associated with the Human Genome Project. Exploring the use of
genomic tools by biochemists, cell biologists, and medical and
agriculturally-oriented geneticists, this book portrays the history
of genomics as inseparably entangled with the day-to-day practices
and objectives of these communities. The authors also uncover often
forgotten actors such as the European Commission, a crucial funder
and forger of collaborative networks undertaking genomic projects.
In examining historical trajectories across species, communities
and projects, the book provides new insights on genomics, its
dramatic expansion during the late twentieth-century and its
developments in the twenty-first century. Offering the first
extensive critical examination of the nature and historicity of
reference genomes, this book demonstrates how their affordances and
limitations are shaped by the involvement or absence of particular
communities in their production.
This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of the
history of genomics across three different species and four
decades, from the 1980s to the recent past. It takes an inclusive
approach in order to capture not only the international initiatives
to map and sequence the genomes of various organisms, but also the
work of smaller-scale institutions engaged in the mapping and
sequencing of yeast, human and pig DNA. In doing so, the authors
expand the historiographical lens of genomics from a focus on
large-scale projects to other forms of organisation. They show how
practices such as genome mapping, sequence assembly and annotation
are as essential as DNA sequencing in the history of genomics, and
argue that existing depictions of genomics are too closely
associated with the Human Genome Project. Exploring the use of
genomic tools by biochemists, cell biologists, and medical and
agriculturally-oriented geneticists, this book portrays the history
of genomics as inseparably entangled with the day-to-day practices
and objectives of these communities. The authors also uncover often
forgotten actors such as the European Commission, a crucial funder
and forger of collaborative networks undertaking genomic projects.
In examining historical trajectories across species, communities
and projects, the book provides new insights on genomics, its
dramatic expansion during the late twentieth-century and its
developments in the twenty-first century. Offering the first
extensive critical examination of the nature and historicity of
reference genomes, this book demonstrates how their affordances and
limitations are shaped by the involvement or absence of particular
communities in their production.
C.R. Lama (1922-2002) was an important lama in the Khordong and
Changter lineages of the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism. A
scholar and also a yogi, he combined these two streams in his work
as Reader in Indo-Tibetan Studies at Visva Bharati University at
Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. He was a family man who was
actively engaged in the world around him. This book gathers
together Rinpoche's writings on a wide range of topics including
Nyingma Buddhist Philosophy, Tibetan cultural practices, his life
in Khordong Monastery in Tibet and his advice for Dharma
practitioners.
Title: A dissertation on the soil & agriculture of the British
Settlement of Penang, or Prince of Wales Island, ... including
Province Wellesley on the Malayan Peninsula, etc. With plates and a
map.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF
BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this
collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering
periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great
Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations
with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia.
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++++ British Library Low, James; 1836. 8 . IOL.1947.a.72
Radiant Aspiration offers a clear introduction to the Tibetan
Buddhist understanding of the nature of existence, exploring how to
free ourselves from all that limits us. It provides a translation
of a beautiful prayer which employs the symbolism of the ritual
offering of butterlamps, where light is seen as the basis of the
nonduality of all experience. The book contains the full ritual
text so that readers can engage in its practice if they so choose.
There is an extensive commentary focusing on the development of
wisdom and compassion making the traditional text fully relevant to
the modern reader.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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