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An insight into the fall of one of Wall Street oldest companies by a Wall Street Journal staff reporter.

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Millions of people in the third world die from diseases that are rare in the first world. Vaccines offer hope for controlling these diseases and could improve health in poor countries. But developers have little incentive to undertake the costly research to develop vaccines. This book details how these legally binding commitments would work.

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This 1993 annual volume, edited by Michael Harris, represents the continuation of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. This 1993 volume contains a particularly interesting range of material covering a broad chronological and geographical span along with a valuable bibliography of new works in newspaper and periodical history.

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Spanning the period from 1700 through to the 1970s, this annual reflects a range of work on serial publication, addressed chronologically, geographically and theoretically. It demonstrates how serial publication followed the expansion of international trade and bound cultural elements together.

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Michelle McAlpin moves beyond the concerns of previous studies of famine (most of which focus on governmental procedures designed to alleviate it) and examines hitherto neglected problems, such as the quantitative evaluation of food grain shortages, the nature and extent of popular insurance mechanisms in famine-afflicted areas, and the effects of

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Sunk Costs and Market Structure bridges the gap between the new generation of game theoretic models that has dominated the industrial organization literature over the past ten years and the traditional empirical agenda of the subject as embodied in the structure-conduct-performance paradigm developed by Joe S. Bain and his successors.

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First published in 2011; this paperback edition with a new chapter published 2012.

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Willis' almost total textbook analysis of today's newspaper makes Surviving in the Newspaper Business precisely what it claims to be: `A how-to guide to newspaper management in the 1980s and beyond .

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From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat.

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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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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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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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In 1900, 28 percent of all cars were electric. By 1920 the electric car had all but vanished and gas-powered cars dominated the market. In this work, Schiffer explores how cultural factors, not technological ones, explain the rise of gas-guzzling cars.

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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.