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In this follow-up to Balls and Strikes: The Money Game in Professional Baseball (Praeger, 1990), Jennings examines the state of professional baseball's labor relations during a nearly 25 year period, focusing on the background and the outcome of the 1994 baseball strike.

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The first study in English on the subject, this volume explores the challenges facing Switzerland as the European Community (EC) moves toward the 1992 goal of a Europe without economic borders.

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This book explores the new economy in essays by scholars and researchers from around the world who look at local, regional, national, and transnational patterns that might be successfully employed elsewhere.

The volume begins with a section devoted to regional economic development, learning networks, and systems of innovations.

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and supermarket tabloids, spanning the eras of Northcliffe, Pulitzer, Hearst, and Murdoch.

This is a unique compilation of 819 English-language monographs, journal articles, theses, and conference paperseach briefly summarizedcommenting on the phenomenon of sensationalism in journalism.

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This book covers the intellectual and political life of Tadeusz Kowalik within the context of modern Polish history. Kowalik was part of a group of left-wing intellectuals, the Polish School; he participated in events such as the shipyard strikes in 1980 before becoming a vehement opponent of Poland's neoliberal transformation to capitalism.

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A role model for late industrializing countries, Taiwan provides unique and interesting development lessons for third world countries.

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Revealing a powerful economic motive behind Taiwan's 1990 application for GATT membership, CHO questions those who interpreted it solely as a political move designed to break that island nation's diplomatic isolation.

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Writing from an interdisciplinary perspective that is both theoretical and practical, Brian Semkow analyses and discusses the scope and direction financial and capital market reform has taken in Taiwan, and its implications for existing and newly emerging financial institutions.

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A near-fatal bicycle accident has given Lende ("If You Lived Here, I'd Know Your Name") a few more reasons to consider matters both spiritual and temporal. Her idea of spirituality is rooted in community, and here she explores faith and forgiveness, loss and devotion, and distinctly Alaskan adventures.

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The author also uses domestic examples (Harvard's endowment, the California's state employees' retirement fund) to propose how the United States could create a sovereign wealth fund, speculating that such a fund could solve the looming Social Security funds shortfall.

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A fast-paced and entertaining collection of stories featuring Australia's favourite PI, Cliff Hardy.

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The step-by-step guide to the most pressing management problem of our time, by the coauthor of the bestseller The Wisdom of Teams.

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Since the early 1990s, federal transportation laws have slowly started to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between older and newer communities.

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Early in the 19th century the work of American newspaper journalists was intertwined with the work of politicians.

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Examines how journalism became a professional occupation separate from politics.

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They're relying on reduced HR departments and in-house managers and staff to make critical staffing decisions. In particular, Talent Balancing will help entrepreneurs and managers without formal recruitment training navigate organizational politics, analyze current and future staffing needs, and execute a successful plan.

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Are you struggling to find the talent you need in today's ever-changing workforce landscape Talent Connections is a step-by-step guide for plugging into the business-changing tools available to employers of all sizes.

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Reviews changes in the structure of US and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors analyse the effects of these changes in regulation on telephone rates in both the local and long-distance markets. They use their results to suggest how regulation should be structured to allow competition to replace monopoly.

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Deborah Tannen confirms that what is true in the bedroom is also true in the boardroom ... men and women speak different languages' Observer
Reissued to coincide with her new book The Argument Culture.

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What can you do with a boss who bullies, a spouse who yells, or a friend who frequently bursts into tears In his breakthrough new book Talking to Crazy, psychiatrist Mark Goulston says the key to handling irrational people and turning threats into allies is to learn to lean into the crazy---to empathize with it!