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Barcelona
Barcelona; a fascinating city! But a city with a past that involves cycles of betrayal, conquest, oppression, struggle, expansion, industrialization, mass immigration and the triumphant survival of Catalan culture and language against the odds. In this absorbing and accessible history of the city since 1714, historian and museum curator Daniel Venteo offers visitors a means to deepen their experience of this Mediterranean jewel of a city, to get to know the context behind the places visited and the opportunity to truly understand what Barcelona is all about. The ideal companion to a visit to the city, each chapter gives readers an overview of a period of the city’s modern history, before going on to explore that era in depth. An easy to use index allows you to quickly look up the background to any building or monument you may come across while exploring, deepening your knowledge of this captivating metropolis.
A Guide to Barcelona's Passeig de Gràcia
The Passeig de Gràcia is a treasure house of Barcelona's architectural, artistic, commercial and cultural heritage; making it one of the most renowned avenues in the world. This guide aims to introduce you to the history of this famed avenue by identifying all of its emblematic buildings and singling out all of their artistic elements. It also reveals what is on offer culturally in the avenue's museums and art galleries, as well as outlining the leisure and festive activities that often fill its pavements. Of course, Passeig de Gràcia is also one of the best-known and most important commercial boulevards in the world. The guide examines all of the luxury brands you can browse through along its mile long length, as well as noting the wide range of gastronomical delights on offer. However, Passeig de Gràcia is, above all, a place for wandering along, discovering the latest tendencies in art, innovation, design and fashion; let it seduce you and discover the true cosmopolitan heart of the Catalan capital.
A practical approach to clinical arrhythmology
The book is devoted to clinical arrhythmology and is written in a practical and understandable manner, intended for young cardiologists who sometimes get lost in the complexities of the field and fail to organize their knowledge in an efficient way. With this goal in mind, a number of prestigious specialists in the field have collaborated in this joint venture, writing a number of concise, useful, and very interesting chapters that summarize many hours of work and professional dedication. The result is easy to read and easy to handle. Perhaps best of all, this is an opportunity for the reader to enjoy a very personal celebration of friendship and electrophysiology.
Digitalizing transport management
The digitalization of transport management is not an option; it’s a fact. It is a factor embedded in strategic approaches and processes within companies. But how can it be made agile and successful? Where should one start? And how can it be sustained over time? This book reveals the keys to digital transformation through three vital areas for companies where logistics is an essential part of their activity: operations management, freight rate management, and transport chain visibility. It presents tools with valuable functions to manage transport orders, plan routes, track shipments, or forecast demand —elements that provide agility, security, and sustainability in operational execution. Advanced systems for logistics are showcased, based on the integration of data management, process automation, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the use of IoT devices. This book takes us closer to a more differentiated future, where digital solutions enable predictive analyses to identify trends, patterns, and improvement opportunities, contributing to optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of supply chain management.
Lean Services. Certification Manual
We know that the services provided by any industry have increased costs between 30% and 80% due to different “wastes” in several of their processes. By leveraging Lean tools, Lean Service is designed to create a quicker and more efficient process that results in high-quality services and improved productivity. Some of the benefits are: • Significant improvement in the quality of the services provided by a company. • Significant reduction in the time spent on service activities. • Significant reduction in the cost of providing services. • Increased competitiveness and profitability. Luis Socconini is an industrial engineer, specialized in manufacturing. He coursed a Master’s Degree in Quality and Productivity at the ITESM Campus in Guadalajara. He studied Six Sigma at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and he has extensive experience in teaching and applying Lean Six Sigma. It is also founder, president and Master Black Belt of Lean Six Sigma Institute.
Barcelona
What have been the general ideas about the growth of Barcelona over the last fifty years? Why were they so controversial? Why is the Metro still the Cinderella of the Metropolitan system? Who extended the Cerdà plan to the River Besòs? The answer to these questions and many more can be found in this book which explains a century of urbanism in Barcelona, stressing two key periods: the years in which Barcelona was conceived as a capital city and the years in which it was converted into a metropolis. The book closes by raising current topics that have dominated discussion about the city from the turn of the 20th Century and which are crucial to its future. The architect and university lecturer Josep Parcerisa offers us the keys to understanding the city and its recent history. Throughout the book, the reader will find more 300 images that often speak for themselves. For the first time, the urbanism of the city is explained and can be visualised at the same time.
Lean Six Sigma Management System for Leaders
Henry Ford implemented the lean concept in the early 1900s, Toyota started TPS in the 1970’s, Motorola first initiated the Six Sigma journey, followed by GE and many others just years later. Still today, Lean Six Sigma remains the strongest continuous improvement methodology in order to achieve stable and lean processes and the number of defects in a single digit figure per million products produced or services provided. Over the last two decades we have studied why companies succeeded, while others failed in the journey of Lean Six Sigma. This book is the strong guide and compilation, of what needs to be done to successfully implement and benefit from a strong Lean Six Sigma - Management ...
Lean Manufacturing. Step by step
This is a practical, entertaining and didactic book for those who are starting out in Lean culture. The language used in the techniques and tools allows Lean Six Sigma management system to be understood easily and, in addition, establishes a methodology adaptable to any improvement process. From the detailed knowledge of the processes, Lean Manufacturing encourages innovation, discipline and the continuous search for excellence, through tools that improve the effectiveness of teams, delivery times and, on the whole, the capacity and competitiveness of companies. Step by step, this book enables you to discover and apply material control and production techniques that increase quality, improve communication and access to information and provide significant energy reductions. The Lean Manufacturing system offers a methodology for manufacturing and the management of organizations focused on continuous improvement, in line with the needs for efficiency and optimization of companies' resources.
Shipping and Commercial Case Law
250 leading cases of the High Courts of England and the European Court of Justice. This book contains summaries of 250 cases related to international trade and carriage of goods by sea. Each case is presented with an abstract of the factual background and the key findings of the court. All the cases relate to disputes decided by the High Courts of England or by the European Court of Justice, the knowledge of which is a must for any practitioner in this area. The issues referred to in the cases relate to contracts of carriage on bills of lading, waybills and charterparties, as well as to international trade instruments like sale contracts, letters of credit, performance bonds, indemnities and agency. There is also wide reference to ship arrests, limitation of liability, injunctions, choice of law, arbitration and jurisdiction. Full consideration is given to the Hague-Visby Rules, the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, the Sale of Goods Act, Incoterms and UCP for Documentary Credits. Albert Badia is a practicing solicitor in England and Wales. He has acted as Counsel in many disputes and has been appointed as arbitrator in commercial matters.
