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1. The Product Wheel Handbook

   Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations

   By Peter L. King, Jennifer S. King

   The product wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, therefore minimizing changeover costs and freeing up useful capacity. This book describes this proven technique for dealing with all of the issues related to multiple product situations. It walks the...

   To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Productivity Press
2. Housing Boom and Bust

   Owner Occupation, Government Regulation and the Credit Crunch

   By Peter King

   Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions. Over the past thirty years, the culture of property ownership has become so ingrained that policy makers, bankers and households have taken for granted that housing is a good investment and forgotten about the bust. Explaining how the...

   Published January 31st 2010 by Routledge
3. Lean for the Process Industries

   Dealing with Complexity

   By Peter L. King

   Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production, Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While, a number of innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries over the last two decades, most of those pioneering efforts were...

   Published May 25th 2009 by Productivity Press
4. Understanding Housing Finance

   Meeting Needs and Making Choices, 2nd Edition

   By Peter King, Peter King

   One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy. By taking a political economy approach, Peter King's Understanding Housing Finance makes the basic principles of the subject accessible, without...

   Published January 5th 2009 by Routledge
5. Private Dwelling

   Contemplating the Use of Housing

   By Peter King

   Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

   Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy but also how we choose to share our dwelling. The book discusses the manner in which we talk about our housing,...

   Published August 18th 2004 by Routledge
6. Understanding Housing Finance

   Meeting Needs and Making Choices

   By Peter King

   Understanding Housing Finance offers a distinctive introduction to the subject. Instead of discussing housing finance in accounting or economic terms, this book considers housing finance politically. It is finance that makes housing consumption, housing management and housing development possible....

   Published August 22nd 2001 by Routledge
7. Antioxidants in Diabetes Management

   Edited by Peter Rosen, Hans J. Tritschler, Glenn A. King, Angelo Azzi

   Series: Oxidative Stress and Disease

   This volume summarizes current understanding of the pathogenic role of oxidative stress in the onset and progression of diabetes and its complications, and presents results of studies aimed at regulating oxidatively induced complications through the use of antioxidants. Examines the presence of...

   Published February 17th 2000 by CRC Press
8. Housing, Individuals and the State

   The Morality of Government Intervention

   By Peter King

   Can the state solve housing problems or does it create them? This book explores the question by combining a detailed critique of contemporary housing policy with a philisophical analysis of the role of the state and individuals. Examining the state's role as controller and funder of housing, the...

   Published September 30th 1998 by Routledge
9. The Challenge of English in the National Curriculum

   Edited by Peter King, Robert Protherough

   The Challenge of English in the National Curriculum considers how particular aspects of a national curriculum can be reconciled with the best practice of the English teaching tradition. The authors are all practising teachers who look at the lessons of the past as well as their hopes for the future...

   Published July 12th 1995 by Routledge
10. Business Cultures in Europe

    2nd Edition

    By William Brierley, Colin Gordon, Kevin Bruton, Peter King

    Major changes which have occurred since this book was first published have been included in this edition. In particular, the chapter on Germany has been substantially revised and now includes a separate section on easter Germany. The other five countries covered in the book have also witnessed...

    Published May 12th 1993 by Routledge