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1. A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940
2. Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva
3. iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
4. Money and Power: The History of Business
5. Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic Histoy of Women in the United States (Revised Edition)
6. Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly's
7. Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It
8. The Death of Economics
9. Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might
10. Vernor's Ginger Ale (Images of America: Michigan)
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You Know It, They Know It, The World Knows It So Why Are We Still Keeping It a Secret? Somewhere deep inside us we all feel like we know everything there is to know. Articulating this is another matter, however, and articulating it without getting into arguments with each other is virtually impossible. Learning how to maximize the intuitive intelligence of six billion know-it-all's is the challenge Ilexa Yardley, author of Absolute Intelligence, has taken on with her work. [PRWEB Jun 20, 2005]
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A History of the Book in America: Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940
Authors: Carl F. Kaestle. Janice A. Radway. Hardcover, 640 pagesPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Publication Date: 2009-01-01 Reviews :
In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation, and use of print. Contributors to this volume explain that although mass production encouraged consolidation and standardization, readers increasingly adapted print to serve their own purposes, allowing for increased diversity in the midst of concentration and integration. Considering the book in larger social and cultural networks, essays address the rise of consumer culture, the extension of literacy and reading through schooling, the expansion of secondary and postsecondary education and the growth of the textbook industry, the growing influence of the professions and their dependence on print culture, and the history of relevant technology. As the essays here attest, the expansion of print culture between 1880 and 1940 enabled it to become part of Americans' everyday business, social, political, and religious lives. The contributors are Megan Benton, Paul S. Boyer, Una M. Cadegan, Phyllis Dain, James P. Danky, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Peter Jaszi, Carl F. Kaestle, Nicol‡s Kanellos, Richard L. Kaplan, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Elizabeth Long, Elizabeth McHenry, Sally M. Miller, Richard Ohmann, Janice A. Radway, Joan Shelley Rubin, Jonathan D. Sarna, Charles A. Seavey, Michael Schudson, William Vance Trollinger Jr., Richard L. Venezky, James L. W. West III, Wayne A. Wiegand, Michael Winship, and Martha Woodmansee....
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Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva
Authors: Patrick Dillon. Hardcover, 368 pagesPublisher: Justin, Charles & Co. Publication Date: 2003-02-25 Reviews :
"When a man is tired of London," said Samuel Johnson in 1750, "he is tired of life." The London of Johnson and Boswell, of Henry Fielding and William Hogarth, was bursting with energy, enterprise and risk. It was also deeply mired in one of direst drug epidemics the world has ever seen. Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva is a fascinating chronicle of a time when the social, economic, and political machinery of Britain was kept lubricated by this cheap, plentiful, and often deadly elixir. Brilliantly researched, with far reaching implications for the drug wars of our time, this is a fast-paced chronicle of the making, selling, and regulating of a powerful intoxicant, and of its disastrous effects on ordinary people....
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iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
Authors: Jeffrey S. Young. William L. Simon. Hardcover, 368 pagesPublisher: Wiley Publication Date: 2005-05-23 Edition: 1 Reviews :
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney’s Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs’s dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers....
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Money and Power: The History of Business
Authors: Howard Means. Paperback, 288 pagesPublisher: Wiley Publication Date: 2002-04-05 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Where there’s greed and ambition, you’ll find . . . Money & Power "The project reveals a sharp eye for details and even sharper personalities. . . .The book tells stories with colorful messages."
–Toronto Globe and Mail "Quite intriguing."
–ecompany "Money and Power offers essential insight into the forces that drive the West’s great economic engine."
–Executive Edge, Continental magazine "Refreshingly simple . . . intriguing tales."
–Business 2.0 "A gripping journey."
–PA Centre Daily Times "Means extracts some valuable lessons for today."
–Fort Worth Star-Telegram This companion book to CNBC’s acclaimed documentary Money and Power provides an expansive global view of the moguls and dynasties that have defined business in the last millennium. Deftly tracing the movement of trade, banking, industry, and commerce from East to West, from ancient times to modern, it offers important lessons that are of timeless value–and inspiration for the next generation of groundbreakers and visionaries of business....
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Race, Gender and Work: A Multi-Cultural Economic Histoy of Women in the United States (Revised Edition)
Authors: Teresa Amott. Julie Matthaei. Paperback, 441 pagesPublisher: South End Press Publication Date: 1999-07-01 Edition: Revised Reviews :
With new data from the '90s, this classic feminist book explores the intersecting effects of race and gender on women from diverse backgrounds....
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John Hancock Honors Margaret Bradshaw, CLU, at The American College The American College, the nations leading financial services educator, announced today that an academic office on its in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania campus has been named in honor of Margaret I. Bradshaw, CLU, by the John Hancock Life Insurance Company. John Hancock is honoring Bradshaw for her pioneering role in insurance and her years of exemplary service to the company. Bradshaw, who celebrated her 100th birthday this year, was one of the first women to ever earn the Charter
Putting People First: Future Worker Shortage Demands Change In Corporate Philosophy A drastic change is coming to Corporate America. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2011 the American workforce will experience the worst shortage of skilled workers in U.S. history. As the Baby Boomers retire over the next six years, our economy will lose an estimated 10 million skilled workers. This shortage will create an unprecedented need for organizations to attract and retain their high-performing and loyal employees. What sort of effect will these numbers have on
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Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly's
Authors: Brian Butko. Paperback, 112 pagesPublisher: Stackpole Books Publication Date: 2001-07 Reviews :
The Klondike bar is America's favourite ice cream novelty. This book traces its history and the rise and fall of its creator company, Isaly's Dairy, which evolved from one milk wagon to a dozen plants that supplied its 400 delis and dairies by the 1950s. The family company thrived on sound business practices and good customer relations and was known for its famous chipped ham and ice-cream novelties - the Skyscraper cone and the Klondike. The author shows how changing consumer habits weakened the family enterprise but led them to take the Klondike national. Filled with photographs and vintage advertisements....
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Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It
Authors: Ichak Adizes. Paperback, 384 pagesPublisher: The Adizes Institute Publication Date: 1990-02-07 Edition: 1 Reviews :
Now in paper--Adizes' fascinating work that likens corporations to living organisms. Exploring their developmental stages, Adizes focuses on normal/healthy problems that lead to growth, versus abnormal/pathological problems that, if left untreated, lead to a company's death....
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The Death of Economics
Authors: Paul Ormerod. Paperback, 240 pagesPublisher: Wiley Publication Date: 1997-08-19 Reviews :
"Important and ingenious . . . ought to be read by every educated person." —The Spectator. Renowned British economist Paul Ormerod explodes current economic theory to offer a radical new framework for understanding how human societies and economies really operate. His bold and impassioned arguments about how and why economics should be recast to reflect the current ills of Western society —including unemployment, crime, and poverty —are both persuasive and controversial. Integrating ideas from biology, physics, artificial intelligence, and the behavioral sciences, Ormerod's groundbreaking approach is sure to have far-reaching repercussions. "A clear, concise, and yet sophisticated history of economic thought that should be required reading for Economics 101 courses. The fundamental challenge is to view the economy more as an organism than a machine and place it in its larger political, social, and moral context." —The Washington Post "A vigorous, informed, and thoughtful critique of the dismal science." —Kirkus Reviews. "Crucial reading for the concerned citizen, which ought to mean all of us. . . . This book is very timely indeed." —The Observer "Economics has some battles to fight. . . . Unless economists improve their ability to analyze and prescribe in an intelligent way, and to provide a modicum of accuracy in their forecasts, the twentieth-century pseudoscience of economics will become a twenty-first-century museum piece." —Sunday Times (London). ...
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Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might
Authors: Mark Reutter. Paperback, 496 pagesPublisher: University of Illinois Press Publication Date: 2005-01-05 Edition: 2nd Reviews :
Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition marks the return of a classic and features 26 pages of photos, a new preface, and afterword....
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Vernor's Ginger Ale (Images of America: Michigan)
Authors: Keith Wunderlich. Paperback, 128 pagesPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Publication Date: 2008-04-09 Reviews :
Vernor’s Ginger Ale has sparkling fizz, a unique taste, and a history that goes back before Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hires, or Moxie. Upon returning from the Civil War in 1866, James Vernor opened a pharmacy in Detroit. He also opened a barrel of ginger ale extract he had created before the war. He discovered the four years of aging had mellowed the taste to perfection. A new “deliciously different” flavor had been created, and Vernor’s Ginger Ale was born. From a small drugstore in Detroit to a product enjoyed across America and Canada, Vernor’s is a success story. Vernor’s is the story of a small back-room product turned into a highly successful brand. At over 140 years old, Vernor’s is America’s oldest continuously produced soft drink. Vernor’s Ginger Ale takes readers on a journey from pharmacy to factory, from entrepreneur to franchised corporation....
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Learning From Others Mistakes Guarding Your Wealth is a nationally syndicated weekly personal finance column written by Jeffrey D. Voudrie, CFP. Mr. Voudrie is the President of Legacy Planning Group, a private wealth management firm that employs sophisticated proprietary strategies designed to protect and grow its clients' investments. Please visit our website, www.guardingyourwealth.com to read past articles in our archive. [PRWEB Aug 11, 2005]
'The Wardrobe Shrink', the London Image Expert, launches in San Francisco The Wardrobe Shrink, the London Image Expert, offers a unique 'Image Typology' that defines your image psychology, is now available in San Francisco. Discover your type and you discover your own 'blueprint' and how to realise a way of dress and lifestyle that reflects you.
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