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Comparative Social Policy provides students with an introduction to cross-national social policy research, conveying the fascinating and challenging issues involved in conducting research of this kind. The book examines the theoretical, conceptual and methodological approaches, discusses prevailing concepts and reflects on methodological difficulties.

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For undergraduate courses in services marketing. As economies across the world continue to transition toward services, skills in marketing and managing services have never been more important. Essentials of Services Marketing, 4e, captures the reality of today’s world, incorporates recent academic and managerial thinking, and illustrates cutting-edge service concepts. Designed to provide a crisp introduction to key topics in the field, this book places marketing issues within a broader general management context and shows the relationships between the marketing, operations, IT, and human resources functions in service firms.

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This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed the challenging objects that motivated and shaped Galileo's thinking and closely followed the knowledge reorganization engendered by theses challenges. It has thus turned out, for example, that the problem of reducing the properties of pendulum motion to the laws governing naturally accelerated motion on inclined planes was the mainspring for the formation of Galileo's comprehensive theory of naturally accelerated motion.

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Soluciones rápidas de reparaciones en ruta de la bicicleta.Completar el recorrido: ese es el objetivo de muchos ciclistas. En un trayecto largo suele ocurrir que el siguiente taller nos quede bastante lejos. Qué hacer cuando surge una avería en nuestra bicicleta?Esta guía muestra numerosos consejos e imágenes para que el ciclista pueda resolver por sí mismo la mayoría de los problemas sin más que tener a mano una multiherramienta, ya se trate de una cámara sin aire, una fisura en la cadena o la rotura de radios, manillar o cuadro.

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