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Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art MarketModern viewers take for granted the pictorial conventions present in easel paintings and engraved prints of such subjects as landscapes or peasants. These generic subjects and their representational conventions, however, have their own origins and early histories. In sixteenth-century Antwerp, painting and the emerging...
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A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early AmericaIn the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks as well as family portraits and books. How did that new world of goods, represented by Victorian parlors filled with overstuffed...
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Local Flavor: Restaurants That Shaped Chicago's NeighborhoodsThe neighborhoods that make up Chicago's rich cultural landscape have been defined by the restaurants that anchor them. In Local Flavor, the popular food writer Jean Iversen chronicles eight beloved local eateries, from Chinatown on the South Side to Rogers Park in the far...
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How to Grow a Backbone: 10 Strategies for Gaining Power and Influence at WorkTo succeed in business today, an individual must be smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. In short, he or she needs a good, old-fashioned backbone. In How to Grow a Backbone, Susan Marshall, a top business consultant and former executive, outlines skills that readers...
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Lessons from the Sandbox: Using the 13 Gifts of Childhood to Rediscover the Keys to Business SuccessShows how insights gained from children can help companies grow, innovate, improve the bottom line, and make magic with customers, employees, and shareholders.Author: Alan S. GregermanPublisher: McGraw-HillPublished: 06/01/2000Pages: 270Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 5.00h x 7.90w x 0.80dISBN: 9780809224388Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 04/24/2000 pg. 73This...
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But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the WorldAn environmental economist argues for market-based incentives and initiatives to guide our response to the growing climate change crisisYou are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally--eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius--the planet doesn't...
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Clash of ExtremesClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends that economics, more than any other factor, moved the country to war in 1861. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary...
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As China Goes, So Goes the WorldIn this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly...
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Case Studies in Forensic Accounting and Fraud AuditingThe Forensic and Investigative Accounting Casebook is a collection of Problem-Based Learning cases designed to reinforce principles taught in forensic accounting/auditing courses throughout the United States. Each case: (1) lays out the basic principles and parameters of analysis to be applied in uncovering and...
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Building a Housewife's Paradise: Gender, Politics, and American Grocery Stores in the Twentieth CenturySupermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that Americans feed themselves. In her examination of the history of food distribution in the United States, Deutsch demonstrates the important roles that...
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The Rise of Modern Business: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan, and ChinaThe Rise of Modern Business compares and analyzes the development of business and business institutions in several countries from the preindustrial era to the present. Paying close attention to connections between business development and political, social, and cultural changes, Blackford addresses both manufacturing and...
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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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