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Alistair Grant
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Elephant Skull
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The Museum and the Factory
This book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Elkington & Co., the renowned industrial art and design manufacturer of the 19th century. The Birmingham-based company pioneered and patented the industrial art of electro-metallurgy to create original artworks, perfect replicas, and mass-reproduced luxury consumer goods that used electricity to "grow" metal into shape at a molecular level. This technological revolution created a profound legacy, which continues to influence the way modern material culture looks and operates today. Elkington's syntheses of science and art into industrial manufacturing proc...
Celebrating Moore
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Henry Moore's birth, this book features the most important and comprehensive single group of Moore's Drawings, graphics, and sculpture. More than 300 of Moore's acclaimed works are reproduced, along with fresh insights and personal anecdotes by colleagues. 290 color illustrations.
Archdeacon Grantly Walks Again
Alongside twelve verbal snapshots of Anthony Trollope’s Archdeacon Grantly and his fellow Barchester clergy, this book places twelve equally fictious modern counterparts. Human nature never changes. A fascinating and gripping read.
The Bosses
As we approach the year 2000 there is a growing interest in what the trends, challenges and shape of companies will be in the new millennium. People also want to know about the men in charge, the people who are going to matter in the 1990s and beyond. Who are the movers and shakers in Britain's key industries? players. Subjects include Sir Geoffrey Mulcahy of Kingfisher, Liam Strong of Sears, Gerry Robinson of Granada, Martin Taylor of Barclays, Ian Prosser of Bass, Peter Davis of Reed International and Iain Vallance of British Telecom. Each interview contains biographical and company information and explores how those powerful individuals see the future. It describes the changes taking place within their industry, the challenges and opportunities, and how these will be met.
The Food System
Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests. In wealthy nations those interests can range from corporate survival and maintaining profitability in a market with limited demand, to promoting a healthy diet and ensuring food safety. For the poor, the emphasis is all too often on simply getting enough to eat. As information technology and biotechnology are set to revolutionize the food system, it is essential to understand the broad context in which the different actors operate, so that all the world's people can enjoy a safe, secure, sufficient and sustainable food supply. This text provides an overview of today's dominant food system - one developed in and controlled by northern industrialized countries, and one that is becoming increasingly globalized.
The Internationalisation of Retailing
The large retail enterprise which does not think on an international basis faces marginalization by competitors building international operations. Here, management researchers in the areas of international retailing offer an insight into the mechanisms of the internationalization of retailing.
Environmental Science for Environmental Management
Environmental Science for Environmental Management has quickly established itself as the leading introduction to environmental science, demonstrating how a more environmental science can create an effective approach to environmental management on different spatial scales. Since publication of the first edition, environmentalism has become an increasing concern on the global political agenda. Following the Rio Conference and meetings on population, social justice, women, urban settlement and oceans, civil society has increasingly promoted the cause of a more radical agenda, ranging from rights to know, fair trade, social empowerment, social justice and civil rights for the oppressed, as well ...
Bryozoa
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