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The business of baseball stands in sharp contrast to the game's wholesome image as America's favorite pastime. Major league baseball is a deeply troubled industry, facing chronic problems that threaten its future: persistent labor tensions, competitive...

While other industries chase after the new and improved, bourbon makers celebrate traditions that hearken back to an authentic frontier craft. Distillers enshrine local history in their branding and time-tested recipes, and rightfully so. Kentucky's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640550100Author Paul FeldsteinFormat HardbackPage Count 708Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 1456g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781567937558Author Steph BernellFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Health Administration PressPublisher Health Administration PressWeight(grams) 485g

This book had its genesis in Alexandria, Egypt in March 2002 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, when the new library hosted a conference on Biotechnology and Sustainable Development: Voices of the South and North. Here, a group of modern scholars met to...

How do governments choose which industries to favor? If governments are largely motivated by the national economic interest, then industrial selection would be biased in favor of picking winners. If, on the other hand, governments are motivated by an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474329858Author Enrique BustamanteFormat PaperbackImprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa Editorial

Debunking numerous myths that have emerged about the world's resources of oil, this book argues that the use of U.S. military power to secure oil is not only needless and costly-in both lives and money-but also counterproductive to U.S. security...

In republican Colombia, salt became an important source of revenue not just to individuals, but to the state, which levied taxes on it and in some cases controlled and profited from its production. The salt trade consistently accounted for roughly ten...

This book is based on papers presented at the China Energy and Mineral Policies and Planning Conference held at the East-West Center. It discusses the energy and minerals development policies of China as well as the outlook for trade in technology,...

Forest policy involves a complex balance of governmental, social and industrial objectives in an environment where the forests and the institutions are also constantly changing. Across the various forestry jurisdictions there is a wide variety of policy...

A collection of essays from specialist scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries: As a tool for poverty reduction in economically underdeveloped regions, tourism has been at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367160920Author C Robert TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700633555Author Pamela Riney-KehrbergFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

This book examines the dangers of continuing government bailouts and offers alternative strategies designed to produce growth based on the vigor of the private sector with inflation under control. The expert authors show that it is indeed possible to...

The problems caused by the proposed enlargement of the EU to include the associated Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) are discussed. The two main agricultural issues raised by this are the relative competitiveness of CEEC agriculture and its...

China currently produces more crude steel than any other country in the world. This book, by an internationally acknowledged expert on the world steel industry, covers all aspects of the steel industry in China. It begins with an outline of the existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789242201Author Jean Vasile AndreiFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint CABIPublisher CABIWeight(grams) 451g

The history of iron ore discovery and mining near the shores of Lake Champlain is documented here.Book InformationISBN 9780925168559Author Patrick FarrellFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams)...

This book provides the administrator with a basic reference for assessing the stage of development of the seed program, identifying needs, developing plans, and taking actions necessary to build a successful seed program to help managers and leaders to...

Why did President Clinton's efforts to reform the financing of American health care fail? For years to come, politicians and scholars of public policy will revisit the debate over Clinton's health care plan. What did planners do right? And what did...

Measuring government effectiveness is essential to ensuring accountability, as is an informed public that is willing and able to hold elected officials and policy-makers accountable. There are various forms of measurement, including against prior...

Growth, Distribution, and Effective Demand presents original essays on a variety of topics in theoretical and applied economics. The book honors the work of Edward J. Nell and develops interconnected themes that run through the modern Post-Keynesian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815715078Author Linda R. CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm)...

In the wake of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, globalization has found itself increasingly under the microscope. An active international discussion is underway, and the ideological viewpoint that the reversal of globalization and a...

Every day throughout Britain, by road, by rail and by sea, there are large numbers of routine movements of radioactive cargo. Materials at all stages of the nuclear cycle, from uranium ore to nuclear waste, from nuclear warheads to radioactive isotopes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815709497Author Margaret M. BlairFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

When firms and people are located near each other in cities and in industrial clusters, they benefit in various ways, including by reducing the costs of exchanging goods and ideas. One might assume that these benefits would become less important as...

With the advent of Thatcherism in the UK and Reaganomics in the USA, 'industrial policy' had become something of a discredited notion in the 1980s. The emphasis had shifted to programmes of deregulation, de-nationalization, and tax reform. The essays in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815733034Author Joseph GrunwaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454g

Across the nation, construction projects large and small - from hospitals to schools to simple home improvements - are spiraling out of control. Delays and cost overruns have come to seem normal, even as they drain our wallets and send our blood pressure...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864487497Author Gavin MooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 480g

This book investigates the presence of Chinese and Indian companies in Europe and the impact that the current global financial crisis has had on their corporate behaviour and strategies. Have investments been cancelled or postponed? Has the crisis...

Fur trade scholarship has changed considerably in recent years. The tempo of research has quickened and the field has become more multidisciplinary, bringing together scholars in archaeology, economics, ethnohistory, geography, history, and anthropology...

First published in 1998, revised in 2021, this volume develops and tests an information-processing model of organization, within the context of the accession of a new generation of a production technology. The model conceptualizes organizations as...

During the early 1880s, a wave of peasant unrest swept the mountainous Huasteca region of northeastern Mexico. The rebels demanded political autonomy for their pueblos, protection for their churches, and restoration of the land, water, and foraging...

Oil stands alone among primary commodities in its potential for sending economic shock waves across the world. The value of oil production is one and a half times the world's total production of food grains; demand is unresponsive to price in the short...

Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years-through the earliest days of Mesopotamian...

This book analyses from a management perspective how the aviation industry can achieve a sustainability transformation in order to reach the Paris climate targets for 2050 and provides various strategic and operational recommendations in this regard. It...

Diamonds tell stories that are captivating and timeless. On the one hand, they are just stones, pieces of pure carbon with optical properties that make them glitter and sparkle like stars. On the other, they are mystical entities hypnotically drawing...