There is a growing literature examining the decline in labor market status experienced by lesser-educated men in the past half century. Despite workplace advances in automation and rising real wages for most workers during much of this period, lesser-educated men have experienced declining employment rates and real wages, along with declining marriage rates.
The papers aim to contribute to a better understanding of problems and solutions of geotechnical nature, as well as to a more adequate management of natural resources. Case studies are included to better disseminate the success and failure of Geotechnical Engineering practice.
This illustrated history paper is one of a kind, as it is the first time that the history of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology is presented in English and embedded in a wider historical context.
In the aerospace field, hypersonic flight plays a fundamental role. Some sixty years after the experimental flights of the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, sustained hypervelocity travel is still the next frontier in high-speed transportation.
As a former senior air safety investigator and current assistant professor, I have dedicated my career to understanding and improving air safety. In this book, "Air Safety Investigation: The Journey", I draw on my years of experience investigating airplane accidents and incidents in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of air safety investigation.
As Qatar’s aspirations of becoming a key location for international dispute settlement and international trade grow, so too does the importance of understanding private law in Qatar and the Gulf states. In this innovative book, Ilias Bantekas and Ahmed Al-Ahmed provide an original, English-language treatise on the contract law of Qatar. Using an abundance of case law, the autho…
Through the colorful world of Berlin’s grand hotels, this book charts a new history of German liberalism and explores the changing relationships among big business, society, and politics. Behind imposing facades, managers and workers were often the pictures of orderly and harmonious service, despite living in sometimes uncomfortable proximity. Then, during World War I, class te…
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital a…
University governance is an essential but complex phenomenon, even in countries where institutional-level governance has a long and strong tradition. After the dissolution of the USSR, each of the fifteen former Soviet countries developed their own University governance system and this groundbreaking book explores how these countries evolved from the “common start†…
Recent public debate on common ownership by institutional investors has brought awareness to one of the many intersections between the corporate and antitrust worlds. But the interplay between these two fields dates back to the dawn of US antitrust. This volume shines a light on the often underplayed and misunderstood connections between antitrust and corporate law and finance. It offers a mu…