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Summary of Putin Country
by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis Preview: Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain,...
Streetwise Independent Consulting
Your Comprehensive Guide to Building Your Own Consulting Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Building the Skyline
The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...
DK Ess Mgs:Doing Bus in China
Culture, Travel, Negotiating, Etiquette, Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Doing Business in China will tell you everything you need to know about brokering deals in the world’s fastest-growing economy. Part of the best-selling Essential Managers series, this book will carry the same livery on the jacket, but will have a completely modern, updated design. New books in...
by Michael Shuman, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Michael Shuman's lecture to the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires points to the shift that is occurring from a global economy...
Everything in Its Place
Entrepreneurship and the Strategic Management of Cities, Regions, and States
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse. Places have a strong and vigorous concern with and stake in generating a stronger economic performance. This concern spans a broad spectrum of constituents and interests, including business, labor, non-profit organizations,...
Airline Economics
An Empirical Analysis of Market Structure and Competition in the US Airline Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms. Examining a cross-section of US airline city pairs, Tabacco proposes for the first time that the industry can be understood...
DK Essential Managers: Doing Business In South America
Culture, Relationships, Negotiating, Etiquette, Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
South America is an emerging market, and this book tells you all you need to know for business success in this part of the world, from etiquette to trends. Keep a step ahead of the curve with Essential Managers: Doing Business in South America.
by Abraham Mathebe
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
A fascinating read, this book will give readers an insight and a clearer understanding of the bases of what prompted the author to write this critique on South African mining and its true operational reflections. As a mining employee for eight years, he has firsthand experience about what people are dealing with and shares his thoughts on how these issues can be resolved.
Derailed by Bankruptcy
Life after the Reading Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
What happened when the US government stopped investing in railroads and started investing in highways and air travel? By the late 1970s, six major eastern railroads had declared bankruptcy. Although he didn’t like trains, Howard H. Lewis became the primary lawyer for the Reading Railroad during...
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell Tower
Urgent, timely and compelling, Municipal Dreams brilliantly brings the national story of housing to life.
In this landmark reappraisal of council housing, historian John Boughton presents an alternative history...
Herbert Has Lots For a Buck
How 12 Small Prairie Towns Reinvented Themselves for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
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Canada in the twenty-first century is a place of growth and expansion. Cities like Vancouver and Toronto have become word class destinations for business and tourism. Meanwhile, smaller, less prominent communities face changes of different sorts, as residents depart for the opportunities...
Frameworks for Policy Analysis
Merging Text and Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of...
by R. H. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The Birmingham canals truly got underway following an advertisement in Birmingham's Aris's Gazette of 26 January 1767. The plan was to take a waterway from Wolverhampton to Birmingham with a branch to Lord Dudley's coal mines near Wednesbury, and this canal network continued to grow extensively until...