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Monumental Designs: Infrastructure and the Culture of the Tennessee Valley Authority

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Atkinson (Author)Established by Congress as part of the New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) designated parts of seven southern states for economic rehabilitation through various means, including flood control, rural electrification, and social programs. The goal was to deploy federal resources to reshape the region through infrastructure--mainly a network of hydroelectric dams. To garner political and public support, TVA officials mobilized artis...

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

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Report copyright infringementby Paulina Bren (Author)First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens--the "smart cookies" who saw that making money, lots of it, might be within their grasp. Then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who were in for a rude awakening because an equal degree did not mean equal opportunity. But by the 1980s, as the market went into turbodrive, women were being plucked from elite campuses to feed the belly of a rapidly expanding beast, playi...

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Report copyright infringementby C. R. 1884 Fay (Author)The Augustan Age in Scotland was the half-century between the publication of Hume's Treatise on Human Nature and the death of Robert Burns in 1796. In this period Edinburgh was at her height as a cultural centre. This is a 1956 study of eminent Scot Adam Smith - author of The Wealth of Nations - and the Scotland in which he lived and wrote. It also examines the contribution which he and his fellow-countrymen made to the accomplishment of ...

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Report copyright infringementby Grace Rogers Cooper (Author)Delve into the fascinating history of a groundbreaking invention that revolutionized the world: the sewing machine. In "The Invention of the Sewing Machine," Grace Rogers Cooper meticulously chronicles the evolution of this transformative technology, from its earliest iterations to its widespread adoption during the Industrial Revolution. Explore the intricate mechanics and ingenious designs that propelled the sewing machine to the f...

The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France, 1814-48: Diplomacy, Morality and Economics

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Report copyright infringementby P. Kielstra (Author)Britain's rarely-examined, nineteenth-century diplomatic efforts for abolition took contemporary pre-eminence over most questions and almost sparked war with France in 1845. Kielstra examines the issue in Anglo-French relations: how conflicting moral, economic, and nationalist pressures and lobby groups affected domestic politics and high diplomacy. To preserve peace and their positions, statesmen had little margin for error as they framed p...

Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't

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Report copyright infringementby Robert G. Kaiser (Author)A Washington Post Notable BookAn eye-opening account of how Congress today really works--and how it doesn't-- Act of Congress focuses on two of the major players behind the sweeping financial reform bill enacted in response to the Great Crash of 2008: colorful, wisecracking congressman Barney Frank, and careful, insightful senator Christopher Dodd, both of whom met regularly with Robert G. Kaiser during the eighteen months they worked o...

Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South

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Report copyright infringementby Erin Stewart Mauldin (Author)How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent upon it? An innovative reconsideration of the Civil War's profound impact on southern history, Unredeemed Land traces the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century. Dixie's "King Cotton" required extensive land use ...

China's Leap Into the Information Age: Innovation and Organization in the Computer Industry

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Report copyright infringementby Qiwen Lu (Author)This book takes an inside look at the development of four large Chinese domestic computer enterprises from their inception to their establishment as multi-billion dollar businesses. It shows how and why indigenous Chinese high-tech firms gained technology capabilities and modern marketing know-how, and how they were able to compete directly with Western multinationals.Author BiographyQiwen Lu was Assistant Professor of Asian Business at the Eur...

Japan's Bubble, Deflation, and Long-term Stagnation

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Report copyright infringementby Koichi Hamada (Editor), Anil K. Kashyap (Editor), David E. Weinstein (Editor)Author BiographyKoichi Hamada is Tuntex Professor of Economics at Yale University and the auhor of The Political Economy of International Monetary Interdependence (MIT Press, 1985). Anil K Kashyap is Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance and Richard N. Rossett Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is the coauthor of Corporate Financing...

Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine: The 1927-1928 Colorado Coal Strike

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Report copyright infringementby Leigh Campbell-Hale (Author)Mining the American West Remembering Ludlow but Forgetting the Columbine examines the causes, context, and legacies of the 1927 Columbine Massacre in relation to the history of labor organizing and coal mining in both Colorado and the United States. While historians have written prolifically about the 1914 Ludlow Massacre, there has been a lack of attention to the violent event remembered now as the Columbine Massacre in which polic...

Feuds and State Formation, 1550-1700: The Backcountry of the Republic of Genoa

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Report copyright infringementby Osvaldo Raggio (Author)Back JacketThis book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry of the Republic of Genoa is a laboratory for gauging the weight and significance of two elements which, according to Charles Tilly and other scholars, have characteriz...

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Report copyright infringementby Prakash Kumar (Author)In the mid-1960s, India's 'green revolution' saw the embrace of more productive agricultural practices and high yielding variety seeds, bringing the country out of food scarcity. Although lauded as a success of the Cold War fight against hunger, the green revolution has also faced criticisms for causing ecological degradation and socio-economic inequality. This book contextualizes the 'green revolution' to show the contingencies and pitfal...

A Workman Is Worthy of His Meat: Food and Colonialism in the Gabon Estuary

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Rich (Author)In Libreville, the capital of the African nation of Gabon, the colonial past has evolved into a present indelibly marked by colonial rule and ongoing French influence. This is especially evident in areas as essential to life as food. In this complex, hybrid culinary culture of Libreville, croissants are as readily available as plantains. Yet this same culinary diversity is accompanied by high prices and a scarcity of locally made food that i...

The Navy and German Power Politics, 1862-1914

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Report copyright infringementby I. N. Lambi (Author)When originally published in 1984, and based on archival research, this book was the first fully documented discussion of German naval strategy and planning from 1862-1914 against France, Russia, Great Britain, the United States and Japan. The book is a complete study of the relationship of the navy to Prusso-German power politics both in terms of the complexity of the problems discussed and in the length of the period covered. It will be in...

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

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Report copyright infringementby Bronwen Everill (Author)A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge For centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix" African economies. From the abolition of slavery onward, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists, and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to...

The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China

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Report copyright infringementby Ruixue Jia (Author), Hongbin Li (Author), Claire Cousineau (Author)Combining personal narratives with decades of research, a vivid account of how the gaokao--China's high-stakes college admissions test--shapes that society and influences education debates in the United States. Each year, more than ten million students across China pin their hopes on the gaokao, the nationwide college entrance exam. Unlike in the United States, where standardized tests are just...

Devil in the Stack: Searching for the Soul of the New Machine

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Smith (Author)From internationally-bestselling author and journalist Andrew Smith, an immersive, alarming, sharp-eyed journey into the bizarre world of computer code, told through his sometimes painful, often amusing attempt to become a coder himself Throughout history, technological revolutions have been driven by the invention of machines. But today, the power of the technology transforming our world lies in an intangible and impenetrable cosmos of sof...

Daughters of Palestine: A Memoir in Five Generations

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Report copyright infringementby Leyla K. King (Author)From Palestine to Texas in 100 years, this epic family tale follows five generations of Christian women as their family's intimate dramas--full of hope, fear, grief, and joy-- play out against a backdrop of violence that would rip them from their homeland. Leyla King has been a keeper of family stories since long before she sat down across from her grandmother with a tiny cassette tape recorder. And in this beautifully crafted memoir, sh...

The Story of Witches: Witchcraft, Magic and the Occult

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Report copyright infringementby Willow Winsham (Author)Delve into the beguiling history of witches and uncover a fascinating world laden with myth, magic, and superstition. The Story of Witches offers tantalizing insight into the dark past and modern fascination with the occult in its many forms. Demonic and deviant or liberated and revered, witches have cast a compelling spell over the cultural zeitgeist for hundreds of years, often occupying a space at the forefront of art and culture. In t...

The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh - Paperback

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by Vincent Van Gogh (Author), Ronald de Leeuw (Editor), Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator)"If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh's letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini's autobiography and Delacroix's journal, this excellent edition dispels it." --The Times (London) "Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all." Few artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent Van Gogh's, and the selection incl...

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Report copyright infringementby Bjorn Hettne (Author)This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory. The book will present development as an 'essentially contested concept', that has meant a number of things at various...

Financing Cotton: British Industrial Growth and Decline, 1780-2000

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Report copyright infringementby Steven Toms (Author)The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy. This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry for the first time. Using a unique underlying data-set drawn from financial business records of over 100 cotton and textile-manufacturing firms based in Lancashire, and ranging from the lat...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Appelquist (Author)In Wisdom Is Not Enough: Reflections on Leadership and Teams, award-winning author Jeff Appelquist draws on his twenty-five years of real-world experience as a military officer, lawyer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur to share his hard-won and compelling insights into what makes great leaders and their teams tick. The book's forty chapters represent a compilation of articles that Jeff wrote as a columnist for his local business new...

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Report copyright infringementby Cheryl L. Baisden (Author)The last thing Charles F. Seabrook wanted to be was a farmer, yet with keen insight and a driving determination, he cultivated his father's small farm in Upper Deerfield into the largest vegetable farm and frozen vegetable processing operation in the world. Best known for its system of quick-freezing and packaging fresh vegetables, the Seabrook Farms Company was an innovator in farming technique and processing. But its fascinating past...

The Medici Bank: Its Organization, Management, Operations, And Decline

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Report copyright infringementby Raymond De Roover (Author), Thomas Cochran (Foreword by) Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: October 15, 2011

As Evil Does: Handbook on Humanity 1: Anatomy of a Killing Cult

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Report copyright infringementby Fred Harrison (Author)Governments are unable to combat the great economic and environmental crises of our age because they are denied access to the financial tools that would solve problems like housing boom/busts, poverty and unemployment. Agencies of the State are crippled by what author Fred Harrison calls a culture of cheating. That culture was incubated by the feudal aristocracy in the 16th century. The nobility of England executed a coup against the monar...

The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change

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Report copyright infringementby Ronald N. Johnson (Author), Gary D. Libecap (Author)The call to "reinvent government"-to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States-resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a...

Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory

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Report copyright infringementby Catherine Holder Spude (Author)Prostitution, gambling, and saloons were a vital, if not universally welcome, part of life in frontier boomtowns. In Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory, Catherine Holder Spude explores the rise and fall of these enterprises in Skagway, Alaska, between the gold rush of 1897 and the enactment of Prohibition in 1918. Her gritty account offers a case study in the clash between working-class men and middle-class w...

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Report copyright infringementby Galveston Commercial Association (Author)"The Port Of Galveston: Handbook Of Information...with Historical, Descriptive And Statistical Data On the Port's Commerce" offers a detailed snapshot of Galveston's significance as a vital port city. Compiled by the Galveston Commercial Association, this handbook provides historical context, descriptive accounts, and statistical data illuminating the port's commercial activities. Readers will gain insights into the oper...

A Framework for Military Decision Making Under Risks

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Report copyright infringementby US Air Force (Created by), James V. Schultz (Author)This is a study of the applicability of prospect theory to military decision making. Prospect theory posits that the decision maker's reference point determines the domain in which he makes a decision. If the domain is one of losses, the decision maker will tend to be risk seeking, if gains, then he will be risk averse. The author proposes that if prospect theory's propositions are correct, then it may be poss...

Minerals and Critical Materials Management

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Report copyright infringementby Eleanor Swent (Author), James K. Richardson (Author), Simon David Strauss (Author)Minerals and Critical Materials Management: Military and Government Administrator and Mining Executive, 1941-1987 presents an oral history transcript from 1986 featuring Eleanor Swent, James K Richardson, Simon David Strauss, and GÃ1/4nther Franz Joklik. This compilation offers insights into the management of minerals and critical materials, particularly within the context of mili...

Broken Supply Chains: How Financial Engineering Hollowed American Manufacturing and the Complex Journey to Resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Leimbach (Author)BROKEN SUPPLY CHAINS: How Financial Engineering Hollowed American Manufacturing and the Complex Journey to Resilience is a powerful exposé on the hidden mechanisms that have quietly dismantled America's industrial backbone. Far from a simple story of jobs lost to cheaper labor overseas, this book reveals a more insidious force: the rise of financial engineering and value extraction strategies that have gutted once-thriving manufacturing en...