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In this collection of essays, leading economic and communication scholars examine major policy issues confronting federal and state regulators in the telecommunications industry.

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This is a research and reference guide to the telecommunications industry in the United States, providing an account of legislative and policy changes up until the publication of the work. Contributions by scholars in telecommunications law and policy survey the post-1996 legislative field.

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This is a research and reference guide to the telecommunications industry in the United States, providing an account of legislative and policy changes up until the publication of the work. Contributions by scholars in telecommunications law and policy survey the post-1996 legislative field.

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The obrajes, or native textile manufactories, were primary agents of developing capitalism in colonial Mexico. Drawing on previously unknown or unexplored archival sources, Richard Salvucci uses standard economic theory and simple measurement to analyze the obraje and its inability to survive Mexico's integration into the world market after 1790.

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Textiles in Transition contributes a valuable new approach to the study of relocation and wage differentials in the U.S. textile industry during the period 1880-1930.

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A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make, this work shows writers precisely where they've gone wrong and how to get on the right track.

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This reference provides extended biographical profiles of 54 men and women who have shaped advertising from the 19th century to the present. Included are copywriters, key business people from major agencies, and people who contributed to advertising theory and psychology.

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The current edition includes a new chapter covering the impact of junk bonds and corporate governance in the 1980s and early 1990s, an age of restructuring and re-creation in giant corporations.

Taking a chronological approach, the volume opens with a chapter on American business during World War I.

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In the second part of his book, he debunks the main myths surrounding oil in our times, addressing whether we are indeed running out of oil, and the real impact of Islamic radicalism on oil-rich regions. We are facing neither a problem of oil scarcity, nor an upcoming oil blackmail by forces hostile to the West.

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Provides a history of the American grocery store. This study traces the evolution of all-purpose retail outlets, starting with public market-places, and city and small-town general stores. It continues with the advent of mass distribution, supermarkets, co-ops, hypermarkets and wholesale clubs.

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A consideration of the emergence of the columnist and at who the leading columnists have been from the Civil War era to the present. In total, 780 columnists and their work are examined chronologically within several categories: early (1800s) humor, column poets, syndicated political, other syndicated, local, and minority.

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This book examines the U.S. pulp and paper industry between 1900 and 1940, the period when pulp and paper production relocated from the North to the South and the West.

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This book presents a detailed industry-by-industry analysis of output and investment in American manufacturing.

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Examines the Baltimore Afro-American from its founding in 1892 to the dawn of the Civil Rights Era in 1950.

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"Examines the complex relationships between governments, industries and audiences, offering insight into negotiations within particular industries, nations and regions, where music policy remains at the forefront of wider creative industries policy"--

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Hailed as highly recommended by Millimeter and a must by Television/Radio Age, The Broadcast Communications Dictionary is a unique guide to the technical, slang, and commonly-used words that broadcast communicators and engineers use in English-speaking countries everywhere.

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Reveals the hidden costs behind food and drink which include unfair and dangerous labour practices, fertiliser runoff and pesticide poisoning, transportation pollution, excess packaging, animal suffering, marketing and advertising onslaughts, as well as skyrocketing health costs due to diet-related illness such as obesity and diabetes.

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A wide-ranging, original and challenging introduction to leisure industries, offering broad coverage of tourism, sports, events and media, and taking into account changes leading up to and throughout the 21st century, both for leisure providers and leisure consumers.

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Contains more than 150 essay entries that illuminate the regions, grapes, history, wine styles, business elements, events, people, companies, issues, and more that are crucial to the wine industry. This encyclopedia shows how production, distribution and sales segments work together to bring wine to the public.

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Using interviews of Nazi officials and German publishers, as well as printed and manuscript sources, Mr. Hale tells how the Nazi party developed its own insignificant party press into mass circulation newspapers, and how it forced the transfer of ownership of important papers to camouflaged holding companies controlled by the party's central publis