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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Smart Energy Policy: An Economist's RX for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure EnergyWhile everyone wants energy that is clean, cheap, and secure, these goals often conflict: traditional fossil fuels tend to be cheaper than alternative fuels, but they are hardly clean or (in the case of oil) secure. This timely book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of...
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On Classical EconomicsA reexamination of classical economic theory and methods, by a senior economist of international stature Thomas Sowell's many writings on the history of economic thought have appeared in a number of scholarly journals and books, and these writings have been praised, reprinted, and translated...
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Crunch!: A History of the Great American Potato ChipFrom Cranberry Pie to Point Bock Beer Cake, from Roast Mallard to Friday Fish Fry, from Latvian peppercakes to Wild Rice with Italian Sausage, this cookbook is bursting with the flavor of Wisconsin's varied cultures and communities. These nearly 100 recipes were demonstrated during...
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Cafe Indiana: A Guide to Indianaas Down-Home CafesWhat happens to the writing of dance history when issues of sexuality and sexual identity are made central? What happens to queer theory, and to other theoretical constructs of gender and sexuality, when a dancing body takes center stage? Dancing Desires asks these questions,...
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Cafe Wisconsin: A Guide to Wisconsin's Down-Home CafesCafe Wisconsin returns in a new, updated version that provides a sure-bet guide to Wisconsin's best small town, home-cooking cafes. For this second edition, author Joanne Raetz Stuttgen traveled more than 12,000 miles in six months, revisiting old business districts and main streets in...
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Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey CoastThe Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been...
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The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean PortGaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the...
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The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed...
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Peasant Cooperation and Capitalist Expansion in Central PeruThis book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists. The area studied--the Mantaro Valley of central Peru--is one of the most densely populated and...
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Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political EconomyFrom its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally,...
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Mexican Women in American Factories: Free Trade and Exploitation on the BorderPrior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a "win-win" proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products and...
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Oil in Texas: The Gusher Age, 1895-1945As the twentieth century began, oil in Texas was easy to find, but the quantities were too small to attract industrial capital and production. Then, on January 10, 1901, the Spindletop gusher blew in. Over the next fifty years, oil transformed Texas, creating a...
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Oil, Banks, and Politics: The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917-1924Mexico was second only to the United States as the world's largest oil producer in the years following the Mexican Revolution. As the revolutionary government became institutionalized, it sought to assure its control of Mexico's oil resources through the Constitution of 1917, which returned...
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House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Luby's CafeteriasViolet Crown Award, Writers League of Texas, 2007 Citation, San Antonio Conservation Society, 2009Scarred by the deaths of his mother and sisters and the failure of his father's business, a young man dreamed of making enough money to retire early and retreat into the...
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The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860Denied its true place in history, the pre-Civil War black press was a forward looking, socially responsible press. Through her analysis of the content of black newspapers and magazines from the 1830s to the 1860s, Hutton not only presents a prism through which to...
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The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial JusticeThis groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary...
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IQ and the Wealth of NationsLynn and Vanhanen test the hypothesis on the causal relationship between the average national intelligence (IQ) and the gap between rich and poor countries by empirical evidence. Based on an extensive survey of national IQ tests, the results of their work challenge the previous...
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checker: Checker Drawing JournalChecker Drawing Journal. Stylish sleek and sure to be a conversation starterAuthor: Michael Huhn, MichaelPublisher: BlurbPublished: 10/02/2019Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.07lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.05dISBN: 9780464167150This title is not returnable
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Streamline: Your Path to Government Efficiency Starts HereA Streamline Instruction Manual is now available. It is a low cost method to teach lean to your employees and complete an in-house project. The Streamline Instruction Manual uses the business novel Streamline as reference material. "A Useful training tool for teams that want...
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Lead Any Team to Win: Master the Essential Mindset to Motivate, Set Priorities, and Build Your Own DynastyOne of the ten best leadership books so far this year. -- Bloomberg Following up the popular peak performance book Organize Tomorrow Today, a new plan to motivate, set priorities and lead any team to optimal achievement Watch a triumphant speech after a sports...
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