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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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(Hardback)

The Assault on Labor details the 1986 strike against Trans World Airlines (TWA) by the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA), a predominantly female labor force of over 6000 members who garnered respect throughout the labor movement for their solidarity and determination in a three year struggle to return its workers to the line.

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The Assault on Labor details the 1986 strike against Trans World Airlines (TWA) by the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA), a predominantly female labor force of over 6000 members who garnered respect throughout the labor movement for their solidarity and determination in a three year struggle to return its workers to the line.

(Hardback)

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

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A PublicAffairs Reports Paperback Original A meticulously reported expose uncovers exactly how the drug industry boosts sales and bilks consumers in the most lucrative prescription drug market in the world

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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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(Paperback)

As the Internet revolution continues to unfold and transform telecommunications, pressure is building for faster, less expensive, and more widely accessible broadband service. This new book analyzes the markets and policy issues underlying the broadband dilemma.

(Hardback, 3rd Revised edition)

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.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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

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(Hardback)

This study explores the implications of the American policy of containment of Iran, which is preventing Caspian countries from developing their energy resources because they cannot export through Iran. Peimani suggests that this could lead to exclusion of American oil companies from the region.

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This text provides a unique examination of The Christian Science Monitor, a highly respected, venerable news publication that has survived over a century of changes and challenges.

The Christian Science Monitor is one of the world's leading journalistic publications, having won multiple Pulitzer prizes for its reporting.

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"Using extensive examples of films and filmmakers from French and Japanese cinemas, this book tracks the longstanding and multiple cultural, aesthetic and stylistic links that are found in films from the two countries"--

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This book is about the nature of publishing: its processes, history and technologies. The goal of the book is to provide a theoretical, historical, and philosophical conception of publishing that would help teachers who are beginning to work in computer-supported environments.

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This book is about the nature of publishing: its processes, history and technologies. The goal of the book is to provide a theoretical, historical, and philosophical conception of publishing that would help teachers who are beginning to work in computer-supported environments.

(Hardback)

Originally a military and scientific computational tool of a small number of government, scientific, and corporate elites in the late 1940s, the computer has evolved significantly in less than 70 years to become a revolutionary technology and the basis for one the largest industries in America.