Trans-European networks (TENs) are a key theme in the process of integration for the EU as it enters the next millennium. The book examines the development of TENs in 3 key sectors: energy & telecommunications, transport, noting key themes & issues.
"In recent years, lifelong learning has become one of the most prominent education policy goals. This book shows how international organizations have promoted this idea and disseminated the need for it to countries all over the world. As a consequence of their activity, lifelong…
Service-Oriented Applications and Architectures (SOAs) have captured the interest of industry as a way to support business-to-business interaction, and the SOA market grew by $4.9 billion in 2005. SOAs and in particular service-oriented computing (SOC) represent a promising appr…
Offering a collection of essays on labour law and women's work, this text explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, evaluating the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of le…