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The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration CampsDuring World War II, hundreds of thousands of prisoners were worked to death by the Nazis under a brutal system of slave labor in the concentration camps. By 1942, this vast network of slavery extended across all of German-occupied Europe, but the whole operation...
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A History of Small Business in AmericaFrom the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly revised and updated, A History of Small Business in America explores the central but ever-changing role played by small...
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Yankee Don't Go Home!: Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.S. political leaders, business executives, and ordinary citizens shaped modern Mexico by making industrial capitalism the key to upward mobility into the middle class, material prosperity, and a new form of democracy--consumer democracy. Julio...
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A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to enter...
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Seat Yourself: The Best of South Louisiana's Local Diners, Lunch Houses, and Roadside StopsLouisiana can be a complicated place, but the state's good food and friendly people are simple facts. Pairing these two indisputable truths, author Alex V. Cook takes readers to the many unsung diners, quirky low-fuss restaurants, and family-run establishments that serve up the very...
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Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist NationIn Confederate Political Economy, Michael Bonner suggests that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state -- a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government....
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The Holiday Makers: Magazines, Advertising, and Mass Tourism in Postwar AmericaIn mid-twentieth-century America, mass tourism became emblematic of the expanding horizons associated with an affluent, industrial society. Nowhere was the image of leisurely travel more visible than in the parade of glossy articles and advertisements that beckoned readers from the pages of popular magazines....
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Railroads in the Civil War: The Impact of Management on Victory and DefeatBy the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained...
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Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, EducatoHow Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law EnforcersAuthor: Ruth HubbardPublisher: Beacon PressPublished: 01/01/1999Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.73dISBN: 9780807004319Review Citation(s): Booklist 12/01/2000 pg. 685
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Index to the Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia, and to Slaveholders and Slaves, 1758-1786The first part of this work consists of an alphabetical list of tithables, or taxpayers, of Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the key counties of the Northern Neck. Covering the period from 1758, shortly after the county was formed, until 1786, entries are keyed...
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Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska TerritoryProstitution, 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...
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Banking in Oklahoma Before StatehoodThis lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion...
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Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1840-1865"By beginning where the standard works leave off and carrying the story up to its logical conclusion in 1865, this book fills a definite void in the history of the fur trade in the American West. Set in the upper Missouri country, which was...
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Wilderness Bonanza: The Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and OklahomaWithin the first half of the twentieth century the so-called Tri-State mining district of southwestern Missouri, southeastern Kansas, and northeastern Oklahoma experienced boom and bust. Comprising approximately 1,200 square miles, this area was once the world's leading producer of zinc and lead ores. With...
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Role Transitions in Organizational Life: An Identity-based PerspectiveIdentity-based approaches to understanding thoughts, feelings, and actions in organizations have produced, particularly in recent years, an array of rich insights that have broadened the domain of organizational behavior. This book brings these insights together in one complete source and uses them collectively to...
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Retire on Less Than You Think: The New York Times Guide to Planning Your Financial FutureThe bestselling, hands-on retirement guide from Fred Brock, thoroughly updated and expanded for in-depth advice on housing assets, health-care options, and more With Retire on Less Than You Think, Fred Brock challenged the conventional wisdom on the real costs of retirement-- and it struck...
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Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's MediaAn admirably researched and lucidly written investigation of the corporate takeover of the media--and what it means for Americans --that should serve as a wake-up call (Daniel Schorr, NPR) For the residents of Minot, North Dakota, Clear Channel Communications is synonymous with disaster. When...
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The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall StreetExcerpted in The New Yorker and hailed by the business press, The Predictors is destined to become a classic of its generation--an antic, subversive odyssey into a universe defined by the mystical convergence of physics and finance. How could a couple of rumpled physicists...
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Samurai Strategies: 42 Martial Secrets from Musashi's Book of Five Rings (the Samurai Way of Winning!)The Book of Five Rings by Musashi Myamoto provides valuable lessons for anyone facing challenging circumstances--from business, war, and sports to fields of art, love, and politics. Samurai Strategies has extracted the fundamentals of Musashi's martial tactics and explains them here in a context...
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Organizational Transformation: How to Achieve It, One Person at a TimeIt is estimated that approximately seventy percent of organizations fail in their attempts to implement transformative change. This book will help lessen that rate. Using real-world examples, Bruce J. Avolio maps four states of change that any organization must go through: identifying and recognizing,...
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