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Shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. This book concludes that the driving force of our history is not technology, politics, or culture, but large, bureaucratic organizations. It features various vignettes and offers insights presaging a different historical genre.

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Alabama has the largest industrial work force in the South. As a consequence, it also has the most significant labor movement in the region, a movement created in the face of an unusual combination of obstacles, yet, as this book shows, by the 1970s organized labor had established itself as a major economic and political force in Alabama.

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Overwhelmed by a proliferation of foreign aid programs, the U.S. government is attempting to reorganize itself in order to manage them more effectively.

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Francis I's ties with the Ottoman Empire marked the birth of court-sponsored Orientalism in France. Under Louis XIV, French society was transformed by cross-cultural contacts with the Ottomans, India, Persia, China, Siam and America. This book highlights France's use of the exotic and analyzes French discourse about Islam and the 'Orient'.

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After World War II the political leaders of the United States and Western Europe were determined to end the imperial commercial rivalries that had contributed to World War I and World War II.

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Sets out the sorry story of HIH's failure, the Royal Commission which followed, and the spending sprees HIH's directors embarked on. This book takes in the developments since Adler's guilty plea, and the consequent sentencing of Adler and Williams.

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This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of public ownership in the United States, arguing that it is more widespread, popular, and efficient than is commonly understood. -- .

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Combining the narrative and trade union emphasis of traditional labor history with the focus on culture and the labor process characteristic of contemporary labor history, the book offers an illuminating reinterpretation of the history of the U.S. labor movement from the colonial period onward.

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Indonesia has the fourth largest total population and the largest Muslim population of any nation on earth. Indonesia's transition to democracy, thus, is critically important at a time when the West's relationship with much of the Muslim world is problematic and the push for greater democracy worldwide is a U.

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The story of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is exciting--full of struggle, determination, crisis, and heroic endeavor. The history of Air Products will be of value to everyone interested in the industrial gas and chemical industries, business history, entrepreneurial history, and American studies.

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Too many companies have let their sales people devolve into an order-taking, customer farming team where the focus is on following up on inbound leads or just trying to upsell current customers. Outbounding shows them how to power up the sales function with proven strategies that deliver breakthrough results.

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In a book businesswomen can rally around and use as a manual, an expert in female board representation shows what it takes to get nominated to a corporate board and become a productive and respected member.

This book blazes a trail.

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In a book businesswomen can rally around and use as a manual, an expert in female board representation shows what it takes to get nominated to a corporate board and become a productive and respected member.

This book blazes a trail.

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This is a practial how-to guide to planning and concluding overseas acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, and similar ventures. The author begins with a description of the planning process including strategic vs. He then discusses external issues such as currency, trade protectionism, and political and government intervention.

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Provides a window for understanding the disintegrative forces that stymied Gorbachev's reforms and eventually defeated him, undermining the country he sought to preserve. This book documents the incredibly complex legacies that Russia and the other new post-Soviet states face as they see to integrate themselves into the global economy.

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Coming from a strict Muslim background - her parents and her brother were all born in Pakistan before emigrating to the United Kingdom - she has had to work hard to throw off the stereotypical image young Muslim women have and to prove herself in twenty-first century Britain.

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This volume brings together business, government and academic representatives from the United States, Pacific and Asian nations to address issues of regional economic cooperation in the Pacific Basin.

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Part II continues to analyze the changing patterns of the relational networks along Asia's Pacific parimeters as integral parts of the ongoing restructuring of the capitalist world-economy, while Part III examines the individual trajectories of two Asian giants--India and China.

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