Mark Hammond Bücher

The past decade has witnessed significant political turmoil in Latin America, from Brazil to Venezuela. To grasp these changes, consider the origins of your quinoa and lithium batteries. The 21st century began with optimism as left-leaning leaders implemented programs aimed at reducing poverty and reclaiming national wealth. However, by the late 2010s, many of these leaders began to fall from power. The decline of this ‘pink tide’ can be traced back to the region's resource-rich lands and exploitative extraction practices. Through a commodity-by-commodity analysis, Andy Robinson illustrates the connections between various resources and political events, such as how oxen relate to Jair Bolsonaro's rise, the role of quinoa in the unrest surrounding Evo Morales, and oil's influence on Venezuela's ongoing crisis. Beyond traditional resources like gold and bananas, Robinson highlights the significance of newer commodities, including coltan for smartphones and lithium for electric cars, in shaping Latin America's future. As the global energy transition drives mineral prices up, the region remains vulnerable to the fluctuations of commodity markets. This exploration reveals how the imperial exploitation of the past continues to affect Latin America today.

A practical guidebook for walking from Land's End to John o' Groats. The 1956km (1215 mile) long-distance route, known as the End to End Trail, follows paths and tracks rather than road, and takes to the hills whenever it can. The route is presented in 61 daily stages averaging just less than 32km (20 miles).

Guidebook to the John O' Groats Trail, a 235km long-distance walk from Inverness to John O' Groats in the far north of Scotland. The trail boasts stunning coastal scenery and fantastic cliff-top walking, while attractive towns and villages offer accommodation. It can be completed in around a fortnight.

Internationally celebrated ebusiness innovator, Bernard Liautaud, explains why the key to ebusiness success is knowing how to transform the vast reservoir of raw data found in every company into a corporate intelligence gold mine. This book focuses on the three main areas of ebusiness intelligence—intranets, extranets, and business-to-business ecommerce. He describes cutting-edge strategies for accessing, analyzing, and sharing corporate data both internally and externally with customers, partners, and suppliers. With the help of case studies from Lucent, Dow Chemical, Disney, Go Network, and other ebusiness giants, Liautaud explains the what, why, and how of ebusiness intelligence in the new information economy. Bernard Liautaud (Palo Alto, CA) is CEO of Business Objects, the world's leading provider of ebusiness solutions, and, according to Intelligent Enterprise magazine, one of the "12 Most Influential Companies in the Information Technology Industry." In 1996, five years after founding Business Objects, Liataud was named one of BusinessWeek's "Hottest Entrepreneurs of the Year."

Ce livre traite de l'une des questions les plus importantes pour le manager : comment extraire les informations les plus pertinentes du nombre sans cesse croissant de données dont dispose l'entreprise sur ses clients, ses prospects ou ses fournisseurs ? Comment ensuite les transformer en connaissance qui, partagée avec le plus grand nombre, deviendra un avantage concurrentiel source de profit ? En étudiant les trois domaines principaux de l'e-business intelligence - intranets, extranets et e-commerce Business to Business - Bernard Liautaud met en lumière les stratégies des entreprises les plus performantes dans l'accès, l'analyse et le partage des données. Maillon essentiel de la chaîne de valeur de toute entreprise désireuse de rester compétitive dans la Nouvelle Economie, l'e-business intelligence est la réponse la mieux adaptée aux questions fondamentales que se pose tout manager aujourd'hui.