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Food in the Gilded Age

What Ordinary Americans Ate

by Robert Dirks ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits.This book delves ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits.This book delves
... Read more
The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

Edited by Robert Blackburn, Jarna Heinonen, Dirk De Clercq ...

The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Original contributions from the best international scholars map the development of Entrepreneurship as an academic field, explore its key current debates and research methods, and also consider its future directions.Part One: The People and the ... Read more

$147.99 CAD

The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Original contributions from the best international scholars map the development of Entrepreneurship as an academic field, explore its key current debates and research methods, and also consider its future directions.Part One: The People and the
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Handbook of Respiratory Protection

Safeguarding Against Current and Emerging Hazards

Edited by LeeAnn Racz, Dirk P. Yamamoto, Robert M. Eninger ...

Series series Environmental and Occupational Health Series
Respiratory protection includes devices and management techniques for keeping people safe from hazardous materials. This handbook presents the state-of-the-art in respiratory protection technology as well as best management practices for work centers. Included are topics relevant to industry, government, and healthcare that provide guidance and tools for ensuring the best possible protection for ... Read more

$371.99 CAD

Respiratory protection includes devices and management techniques for keeping people safe from hazardous materials. This handbook presents the state-of-the-art in respiratory protection technology as well as best management practices for work centers. Included are topics relevant to industry, government, and healthcare that provide guidance and tools for ensuring the best possible protection for
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Through the Fires

An American Business Story of Turbulence, Triumph and Giving Back

by Robert Owen Carr ...

Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

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4 hours 37 min

Through the Fires is a triumphant comeback story in life and business. Robert Carr reflects decades of struggle that took him to the brink of financial ruin at age fifty. Carr would later make a fortune in the card payments industry only to lose almost everything in 2009 after one of the most devastating data breaches ever. Carr's story is a vulnerable and honest depiction of holding on and ... Read more

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Through the Fires is a triumphant comeback story in life and business. Robert Carr reflects decades of struggle that took him to the brink of financial ruin at age fifty. Carr would later make a fortune in the card payments industry only to lose almost everything in 2009 after one of the most devastating data breaches ever. Carr's story is a vulnerable and honest depiction of holding on and
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Next Generation Roadmapping

Establishing Technology and Innovation Pathways Towards Sustainable Value

Edited by Tugrul U. Daim, Robert Phaal, Dirk Meissner, Clive Kerr ...

Series series Business and Management (R0)
Roadmapping is a structured visual approach for supporting strategic technology and innovation management, providing strategic navigational support (hence the “roadmap” metaphor) for technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, programme managers, executives, policy makers, other stakeholders involved in the formulation and implementation of strategy.This book brings together the latest developments ... Read more

$217.99 CAD

Roadmapping is a structured visual approach for supporting strategic technology and innovation management, providing strategic navigational support (hence the “roadmap” metaphor) for technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, programme managers, executives, policy makers, other stakeholders involved in the formulation and implementation of strategy.This book brings together the latest developments
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Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink, Max-Peter Menzel ...

Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development, the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters, how and why they decline, and how they shift into new fields and transform over time. Although recently new cluster life cycle approaches emerged, both ... Read more

$94.81 CAD

Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development, the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters, how and why they decline, and how they shift into new fields and transform over time. Although recently new cluster life cycle approaches emerged, both
... Read more
The Obama Presidency

Change and Continuity

Edited by Andrew Dowdle, Dirk C. van Raemdonck, Robert Maranto ...

At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. However, President Obama's first two years in office has led to some notable surprises. What accounts for the political stability and change demonstrated by the Obama administration? Which factors shaping a presidency are structural, which are personal, ... Read more

$101.68 CAD

At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. However, President Obama's first two years in office has led to some notable surprises. What accounts for the political stability and change demonstrated by the Obama administration? Which factors shaping a presidency are structural, which are personal,
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Population and family in the Low Countries II

Edited by H.G. Moors, Robert L. Cliquet, G. Dooghe, Dirk J. van de Kaa ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Since 1972 there has been a close contact through their publications between the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute at The Hague and the Population and Family Study Centre at Brussels. This co-operation has resulted in the joint publication of the journal Bevolking en Gezin (Population and Family) in the Dutch language. However, there has been a need for wider circulation of the ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

Since 1972 there has been a close contact through their publications between the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute at The Hague and the Population and Family Study Centre at Brussels. This co-operation has resulted in the joint publication of the journal Bevolking en Gezin (Population and Family) in the Dutch language. However, there has been a need for wider circulation of the
... Read more
Amazing Tales Volume 13

by Frederik Pohl et al. ...

Series series Classics To Go
Embark on an interstellar odyssey with "Amazing Tales Volume 13", a mesmerizing science fiction anthology meticulously curated by the illustrious Frederik Pohl. This collection is a galaxy-spanning treasure trove of narratives that invites sci-fi enthusiasts to traverse the vast and varied cosmos, where imagination knows no bounds. Prepare for a pulse-pounding escape with "Asteroid of the Damned" ... Read more

$3.12 CAD

Embark on an interstellar odyssey with "Amazing Tales Volume 13", a mesmerizing science fiction anthology meticulously curated by the illustrious Frederik Pohl. This collection is a galaxy-spanning treasure trove of narratives that invites sci-fi enthusiasts to traverse the vast and varied cosmos, where imagination knows no bounds. Prepare for a pulse-pounding escape with "Asteroid of the Damned"
... Read more
Population and Family in the Low Countries

Volume I

Edited by H.G. Moors, Robert L. Cliquet, G. Dooghe, Dirk J. van de Kaa ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
Since 1972 there has been a close contact through their pUblications between the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute at The Hague and the Population and Family Study Centre at Brussels. This co-operation has resulted in the joint pUblication of the journal BevoLking en Gezin (Population and Family) in the Dutch language. However, there has been a need for wider circulation of the ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

Since 1972 there has been a close contact through their pUblications between the Netherlands Interuniversity Demographic Institute at The Hague and the Population and Family Study Centre at Brussels. This co-operation has resulted in the joint pUblication of the journal BevoLking en Gezin (Population and Family) in the Dutch language. However, there has been a need for wider circulation of the
... Read more
Fractured Cities

Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America

by Doctor Elisabeth Leeds, Wil Pansters, Ralph Rozema, Doctor Dennis Rodgers, Professor Caroline Moser, Carlos Ivan Degregori, Roberto Briceno-Leon, Cathy McIlwaine ...

As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable.From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable.From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence,
... Read more
Chaos Reconsidered

The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

by Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Chaudoin, Susan Colbourn, Martin Conway, James Goldgeier, Richard H. Immerman, Robert Legvold, Anthony Dirk Moses, Sarah B. Snyder, Jennifer Spindel, James Stocker, John A. Thompson, Christy Thornton, Thomas Zeiler, F. Gregory Gause III, Randall Schweller, Dayna Barnes, Frank Ninkovich, William Hitchcock, Jonathan Monten, Elizabeth Economy, Matthew Evangelista, Lindsay Aqui, Audie Klotz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan DiCicco, William Glenn Gray, Samuel Zipp, Angela Stent, Michael Barnett, Deborah Avant, Emma Ashford, Ryan Irwin, Nicholas Mulder, Tanvi Madan, Kathryn Statler, Jason Ludwig, Rebecca Slayton, Nivi Manchada, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley, George N. Georgarakis, Robert Shapiro, Alessandro Brogi, Lawrence Freedman, Charles S. Maier ...

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

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The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against
... Read more

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