Bøger af Geoffrey Wood

A deal gone bad, possibly deadly, can Pete uncover the truth in time to save his missing friend? In a tumultuous year, Pete Gregg's life takes an unexpected turn when he reconnects with his old friend, Neal Calder, in Montreal. With a failing marriage and a divorce looming, Pete seizes the opportunity to join Neal in Vancouver, where he's become a successful promoter in the volatile stock market. However, their reunion takes a dark twist as Pete delves into a web of scams and organized crime, with Neal's life hanging in the balance. Pete must navigate a treacherous world where business and gang activities collide, racing against time to rescue his friend from the shadows. Set against the real-life backdrop of the notorious Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) during the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the VSE became a hub of fraudulent, unethical and illegal activities, Pacific Rain will take you on a gripping, suspenseful journey through the streets of Vancouver and its North Shore.

The Palgrave Handbook of Zero-Carbon Energy Systems and Energy Transitions provides a comprehensive and authoritative source of information, analysis and recommendations on the multi- and inter-disciplinary subject of zero carbon energy systems. The Handbook will advance thinking and research underlying the on-going energy transition by; covering a wide range of energy technologies and sources (e.g. fossil fuels, renewables, low carbon energy) including investigating the potential of new and alternative technologies and fuel sources and looking at the power, heating/cooling and transport sectors; Looking at varied legal jurisdictions and governance approaches including developing and developed countries and investigating potential new approaches to achieving a zero carbon energy system; Providing a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches from a range of disciplines; Inclusion of a global range of case studies from Africa, Arctic, Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas (Central, North and South) and the Pacific, from the international, national, sub-national to city/community level.

This book explores IHRM practices in the contexts of high uncertainties. It encompasses situations of financial crisis, political and civil uncertainty, environmental collapse and recession.The chapters were originally published as special issue of The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. This book also explores the capacity of trade unions to affect political policies to ensure greater accountability and fairness. It looks at the nature and extent of which internal representative democracy actually operates within trade unions themselves.

Presents the many different dimensions to national corporate governance regimes, encompassing the legal, the political, the economic, and the social behaviour. While there is much debate within the literature as to which is the most important aspect of each, this monograph provides a basis to evaluate this burgeoning literature.

Trade Unions and Democracy explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy