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Jonathan Garlock's Guide to the Local Assemblies of the Knights of Labor makes accessible a great deal of information necessary for understanding and evaluating the history and impact of this organization.

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A guide to the ideas of leading management thinkers. It includes ten entries which range from classic gurus such as Henry Gantt and the Gilbreth time-and-motion pioneers to the thinkers influencing 21st-century business, including Clayton Christensen, master of innovation theory, and Karen Stephenson with her insights into human networks.

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This unprecedented collection combines economic, political, and intellectual history in its analysis of economic liberalism in Latin America. The contributors consider the social bases of economic liberalism in the region and their relation to imperialism and to economic dependency.

Outlines the history of the gunpowder industry.

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Tells the story of how the market for temporary professionals operates from the perspective of the contractors who do the work, the managers who employ them, the permanent employees who work beside them, and the staffing agencies who broker deals. This book illustrates how the reality of flexibility often differs substantially from its promise.

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Debunks the idea that the US can free itself from foreign energy and why it will be importing oil, natural gas, coal, gasoline, uranium and other energy commodities for decades to come. This book exposes the ethanol scam for what it is: one of the longest-running robberies of taxpayers in US history.

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This is the Spanish language version of Toward Free Trade in America . In the past 15 years, the nations of the Western Hemisphere have staged a remarkable revolution in the way they trade with their neighbors.

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More important, by reminding citizens of the democratic principle that leaders may be moral menaces as well as moral exemplars, Hail to the CEO will help protect freedom.

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Charles Swindoll brings his sensible and straightforward style to offer a deeply spiritual approach to the role of leader. Whatever the context, secular or ministerial, he demonstrates how to size up a task, organize and motivate a team, and respond to inevitable obstacles.

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Originally published: New York: American Council on Education: Macmillan Pub. Co., c1989, in series: American Council on Education/Macmillan series in higher education.

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The role of human resources is no longer limited to hiring, managing compensation, and ensuring compliance. Learn the skills HR professionals need to become key partners in leading their organizations.

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These conceptual foundations and their applications to cost accounting practices form the basis of this handbook, which offers both accounting students and professionals a comprehensive review and interpretation of cost accounting techniques and theories.

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Aims to provide a comprehensive approach to management and supervision that contributes to individual, team, and organisation-wide success. Featuring diagnostic tools, checklists, and an appendix with case studies, this handbook is useful as a resource for managers and supervisors in various types of organizations.

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Following the analyses of specific disaster-types, the book considers the utility of all-hazard programs, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Integrated Emergency Management System and documents the status of present emergency management efforts in the United States.

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Written for the professional money manager, the corporate treasurer, the financial planner and consultant, as well as the serious private investor, this book illustrates the dynamics of contemporary financial markets.

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This comprehensive handbook features work on organizational communication research, authored by the leading scholars in the field. What theoretical propositions have evolved from the past two decades of research in organizational communication

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This is the first practical step-by-step guide to strategic planning specifically written for managers of all types of nonprofit organizations, large and small.

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Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border maquiladora industry that came to identify the U.S.-Mexico border economy in the aftermath of the Border ...

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The first graphology book written specifically for human resources professionals, this volume is designed to help those involved in the selection of new employees find out how handwriting analysis can help them learn more about the people they plan to hire and promote.

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Offers a link between happiness and economics - and between happiness and democracy. This book demonstrates how micro- and macro-economic conditions in the form of income, unemployment, and inflation affect happiness. It shows that the more developed the democratic institutions and the degree of local autonomy, the more satisfied people are.