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  • Sold American

    Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945

    by Charles F. McGovern ...
    At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Beyond Exoticism

    Western Music and the World

    by Timothy D. Taylor, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Beyond Exoticism, Timothy D. Taylor considers how western cultures’ understandings of racial, ethnic, and cultural differences have been incorporated into music from early operas to contemporary television advertisements, arguing that the commonly used term “exoticism” glosses over such differences in many studies of western music. Beyond Exoticism encompasses a range of musical genres and ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • The Selling Sound

    The Rise of the Country Music Industry

    by Diane Pecknold, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country’s most obvious stylistic hallmarks, Diane Pecknold demonstrates that commercialism has been just as powerful a cultural narrative in its development. Listeners have ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • B Jenkins

    by Fred Moten, Charles McGovern, Josh Kun ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation, and the black radical aesthetic and political tradition. In Moten’s verse, the arts, scholarship, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Soul Covers

    Rhythm and Blues Remakes and the Struggle for Artistic Identity (Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Phoebe Snow)

    by Michael Awkward, Charles McGovern, Ronald Radano ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    Soul Covers is an engaging look at how three very different rhythm and blues performers—Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Phoebe Snow—used cover songs to negotiate questions of artistic, racial, and personal authenticity. Through close readings of song lyrics and the performers’ statements about their lives and work, the literary critic Michael Awkward traces how Franklin, Green, and Snow crafted ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Urban Policy Reconsidered

    Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities

    by Charles C. Euchner, Stephen J. McGovern ...
    In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia

    Expanding Capabilities for National Economic Development

    by Fahad F.H. Alanazi, Charles Harvey, Tom McGovern, Mairi Maclean ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
    Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia offers a comprehensive examination of the role of leadership development in expanding capabilities for national economic development, accelerating realization of the ambitious goals of Vision 2030, the country’s blueprint for socioeconomic transformation.Based on nine case studies of leading Saudi companies, this book explores how and why firms invest in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Contemporary Corporate Strategy

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    Edited by John Saee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
    With the onset of the third millennium, increasing numbers of corporations around the world have been undergoing cultural and mindset shift paradigms whilst developing corporate strategies that are increasingly attuned to the highly competitive and dynamic business realities arising from globalising national economies around the world. This research book represents an eclectic collection of latest ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Family Business and Family Business Consultation

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    by Florence Kaslow ...
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  • Environment, Health and Safety Governance and Leadership

    The Making of High Reliability Organizations

    by Waddah S. Ghanem Al Hashmi ...
    Environment, health and safety (EHS) management has become increasingly important in the past 10 years, especially within high risk and high reliability organizations. EHS is driven from the top of an organization, and whilst there has been much research on the subject of EHS leadership, there is very little on EHS governance and the director’s role in leading or influencing change in ... Read more

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  • Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

    Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Larry Smith, Abdulrahman Abouammoh ...
    Series series Education (R0)
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