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An examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Using three samples of local newspapers from across the country, this book analyzes all coverage over a two-year period - every news story, editorial, opinion column, letter, and list.

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Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. This book puts contemporary thinking about networks and economic activity into context. It develops a general framework within which this body of research can be located.

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The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society. This new paperback edition will be fully updated to include details of Blacks high-profile trial for corporate fraud, sure to claim international attention.

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'The basic theme of the work is an important one for operational research, namely the influence of constraints rather than objectives in policy formulation.'JOURNAL OF THE OPERATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY

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Constructing Capitalism describes Australia's transformation from an immense and isolated gaol in 1788 to a liberal capitalist economy by the time of Federation.

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Presents a graphic picture of the construction industry from an insider's point of view.

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Investigates how British newspapers use language to discursively construct different types of risks to life: terror attacks, earthquakes, road accidents, and heart attacks.

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Rather than let toxic situations leave her depressed, Olivia Ross found a way to fight back. Now, she wants to share the lessons she learned with other young professionals.

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A new edition of a very practical business book on going it alone as a freelance consultant.

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This book addresses wide-ranging topics which are fundamental to our understanding of the current economic crisis.

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Changing consumer choices have built microchip factories where cotton fields used to be and have doomed cities from New Bedford to Detroit, while the impact of these choices on jobs and tax revenues has stimulated the creation of models of consumer behavior. Even finely tuned econometric models, however, have not served well as guides for policy ch

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A reference work offering a representative sample of the British magazine market, providing detailed profiles of 50 magazines ranging from "The Lady", "Spectator" and "Punch", to "Prima", "New Statesman and Society" and "Private Eye". It includes a concise history and subject categorisation.

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This book analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and discipline workers through posting online reviews. Through examining reviewer communities, the author analyzes the ways in which our need for collective purpose is increasingly transformed into profit production under modern capitalism.

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This book analyzes online consumer management, a practice in which customers monitor, report on, and discipline workers through posting online reviews. Through examining reviewer communities, the author analyzes the ways in which our need for collective purpose is increasingly transformed into profit production under modern capitalism.

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This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.

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The assumption of American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of 'reform and openness' will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. It analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment liberalization on Chinese labor politics.

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Synthesizing elements from linguistics, philosophy, and the histories of science and spirituality, Dr. Eggert opens the door to new ways of thinking, perceiving, valuing, inquiring, and acting for leaders of entrepreneurial organizations.

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The backmatter includes a number of appendices that allow the reader to pursue biographies of business leaders according to industry, company, location of business operations, and birthplace, along with listings of black and women business leaders.

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This work analyzes the dramatic developments now underway in many parts of the world and outlines a trend toward economic and political synthesis or convergence.

This work will be of interest to scholars and students of comparative economic systems, political economy, comparative politics, and international economic relations.