Business & Economics
Explore the best business and economics books, including top entrepreneur reads, finance essentials, and foundational texts. Browse our online bookstore for bestsellers and highly recommended books in business and economics.
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Voices from the Back StairsHistoric house museums--one of the most prevalent types of history museums in the country--have long depicted the owners of the house and their families, but representing the servants has introduced a unique set of challenges. While museum professionals have increasingly incorporated women, immigrants, African...
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The Monetary ConservativeOne of the twentieth century's most prescient critics of the role of the U.S. dollar in the global economy, Jacques Rueff (1896-1978) was also one of Europe's foremost free-market thinkers, a proponent of the gold standard, and a major expert on the perils of...
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Plough Quarterly No. 21 - Beyond CapitalismIs there a better way than capitalism? A much-cited recent poll found that more young Americans have a positive view of socialism than of capitalism. There's a sense of newly opened possibilities: Might this be the moment for a mass movement of solidarity to...
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The Eight Essential Steps to Conflict Resolution: Preseverving Relationships at Work, at Home, and in the CommunityProblems that just won't go away can be settled through methods developed by one of America's leading experts in conflict resolution. In clear language, Weeks shows readers how to turn conflict into lasting partnerships and ensure a fruitful outcome.Author: Dudley WeeksPublisher: TarcherperigeePublished: 01/04/1994Pages: 304Binding...
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Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary DrinkThe history and cultural impact of seltzer and its connection to Jewish identity, hipster culture, comedy and health."Of the thousands of books written about seltzer water, this is by far my favorite--especially the part that's about me." --Mel Brooks" . . .a sparkling take...
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity ManagementThis pocket guide will expose the business opportunity that underpins the support of diversity in today's organizations. Learn how to improve workplace productivity by bridging organization goals with diversity imperatives in areas like recruitment, retention, team building, and service.Author: Edward E. HubbardPublisher: HRD PressPublished:...
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The Manager's Pocket Guide to Systems Thinking and learningThis Managers Pocket Guide introduces thinking systems concepts and then takes the reader through a series of concepts and practical tools for applying system thinking to: Getting results, learning, managment processes, change and strategic processes.Author: Stephen G. HainesPublisher: Human Resource Development PressPublished: 03/01/2000Pages: 238Binding...
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Casino Accounting and Financial Management: Second EditionIn this work, author E. Malcolm Greenlees provides detailed information about the role of state governments in the regulation of gaming. He also discusses the dominance of slot machines as the major revenue source in most casinos; he provides information about changes in the...
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High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New YorkIn 1901 Buffalo was the national symbol of the country's optimism, pride, and braggadocio. Toward the close of the century, it epitomizes the sense of economic and demographic crisis prevalent in American industrial cities.High Hopes analyzes and interprets the historical forces--external and internal-- that...
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Minnesota Eats Out: An Illustrated History"Let's eat out "Minnesotans have always loved to, in the opulent dining rooms of fancy hotels, in piney resort halls, or in standard around-the-corner caf s, where the food is hot and plentiful. And the best of these eateries inspire cherished memories of fabulous...
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Steel Remembered: Photos from the LTV Steel CollectionA photographic showcase of the heyday of the steel industry Published in cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society In the first half of the twentieth century, the steel industry was the major heavy industry in the U.S. and the bellwether of regional economic might....
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Experimenting with Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural PerspectiveQuestions about the origins of human cooperation have long puzzled and divided scientists. Social norms that foster fair-minded behavior, altruism and collective action undergird the foundations of large-scale human societies, but we know little about how these norms develop or spread, or why the...
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Advances in Behavioral Finance: Volume 1Modern financial markets offer the real world's best approximation to the idealized price auction market envisioned in economic theory. Nevertheless, as the increasingly exquisite and detailed financial data demonstrate, financial markets often fail to behave as they should if trading were truly dominated by...
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Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main StreetPrivate equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs? The...
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The Head Game: High-Efficiency Analytic Decision Making and the Art of Solving Complex Problems QuicklyWe've all been there: faced with a major decision, yet overwhelmed by the very data that is supposed to help us. It's an all-too-common struggle in the digital age, when Google searches produce a million results in a split second and software programs provide...
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A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and PoliciesA Prosperous Way Down (2001), the last book by Howard T. and Elisabeth C. Odum, has shaped politics and planning as nations, states, and localities begin the search for ways to adapt to a future with vastly increased competition for energy.A Prosperous Way Down...
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Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right: Rebuilding a Middle-Class Democracy by Enhancing Worker VoiceAmerican society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded--in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth....
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Greece 2015: There was an alternative2015 was a landmark in the history of Greece, Europe and the Left. This book can be used as a guide for readers who are not ready to content themselves either with the mainstream narrative, or with former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis's version in...
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Growth Company: Dow Chemical's First CenturyAs the focus of protest against a hated war in Vietnam it became one of the best-known company names in America almost overnight during the 1960s. Dow makes napalm, napalm kills babies, chanted student protesters on hundreds of campuses during that war. Dow shalt...
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The Australian PubA fresh and dynamic journey through one of Australia's most-loved institutions, this intoxicating history explores the pub from its colonial origins along the waterfronts and roadways used by travelers to the boutique bars of contemporary cosmopolitanism. This account traces the essential role of the...
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