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A reference for the consumer movement, this book sets out information covering subjects like movement-related institutions in a historical framework. Leaders, activities, and impacts are covered, with particular attention given to the laws and regulations intended to protect consumers.

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As the prime force behind trade throughout the Western Hemisphere, the United States is emerging with two trade projects--the newly-signed North American Free Trade Agreement and the projected New American Community.

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Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom -- an achievement not to be let go of lightly. As Gideon Haigh shows in this engaging analysis for the lay reader, the industry has become a whetstone for various ideological axes, clouding the argument.

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The IRS is big, bad, and out of control as the recent scandal shows. Grover Norquist has been taking the IRS to task for years, he fights for and believes the IRS should leave us alone

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A provocative critique of America's cash money system and a powerful argument for replacing it with a cashless new system of federal electronic currency.

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Flexibility, specialization, and niche marketing helped the United States emerge as a global manufacturing leader between the Civil War and World War I. This book recasts the history of this vital episode in the development of American business, by considering the crucial impact of trades featuring specialty, not standardized, production.

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The rapid development of energy program evaluation has broad implications for the policy porcess and policy design. The authors have selected a variety of energy program evaluations from the hundreds that have been conducted over the past five years to illustrate this development in energy policy.

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This study examines the relationship between competition for energy resources and the propensity for conflict in the Caspian region. The book offers findings concerning the impact of energy wealth on the political life and economies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

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The result is a model of production based on the two universal factor inputsbroadly defined energy and broadly defined organization.

Once the model of production is developed, the book then tests an empirical model with data from U.S., German, and Japanese manufacturing.

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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America.

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The Middle Eastern and North African region (MENA) dominates world energy exports today and will likely do so for decades to come, even if world consumers make steady progress in conservation, renewable energy sources, and increases from gas, coal, and nuclear power.

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Energy Economics: Science, Policy, and Economic Applications explains various energy systems from an economics perspective. Specifically, the author uses the tools of economics to analyze the development of modern energy systems, the worlds reliance on fossil fuels, and the components of a transition to cleaner energy resources.

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What has happened in Latin America's energy sector since the early 1990s is a revolution. Here is invaluable information for energy economists, policy makers, government regulatory officials, oil company executives, and those interested in gaining an insight into the Latin American energy sector and its future.

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Contributors to this volume profile the energy situation in the developing countries, assess the role of energy policy in Third World development, and discuss the global energy situation in relation to these countries' consumption, production, trade, and resource endowment.

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The second of two works resulting from the author's extensive study of energy and the world economy, this book examines the international macroeconomic aspects of energy adjustment.

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Using the state of California as a model, Eric Smith explores how much the public understands about energy policy, what the public wants officials to do about our energy problems and how governments at various levels are likely to come to grips with energy shortages in the future.

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Offers a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's ""Geelong Advertiser"" in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns. This book identifies various press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived.

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Based on the authors' work with such companies as Hewlett-Packard, this is a practical programme for managers to use in creating a "change-friendly" environment. The programme is designed to foster the continuous innovation required by businesses in order to stay ahead in today's competitive world.

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An unyielding look at the current business environment of contemporary China for the business person considering entering the promising Chinese market.

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The bestselling guide for people looking to build new businesses around bright ideas, and for investors awake to the opportunities offered by new business-building. It is based on the analysis of over 6,000 business plans and detailed interviews with some of the most successful international entrepreneurs.

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The sixties were a decade of major reform in the guidance of industry in the socialist countries of Eastern Europe. In this comparative study of industrial management, the different directions taken by reform in the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, and Yugoslavia are examined against the pattern shown by Romania, a country in which no significa