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Handmade to Sell Hello Craft's Guide to Owning, Running and Growing Your Crafty Biz
ISBN: PB: 9780307587107, GMC Group, Potter Craft, August 2012
176 pp., 21x14 cm, black&white illus.
Not for sale in selected countries! From setting up a booth at a craft fair to taking the perfect product photograph and launching an online shop, Handmade to Sell guides readers through the ins and outs of starting, running and maintaining a thriv...
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£14,99
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Advocacy Championing Ideas and Influencing Others
ISBN: PB: 9780300188134, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
When a group of people gather together to generate ideas for solving a problem or achieving a goal, sometimes the best ideas are passed over. Worse, a problematic suggestion with far less likelihood of success may be selected instead. Why would a gro...
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£19,99
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Great Leap Forward 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
ISBN: PB: 9780300188165, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 36 black&white illus.
This thoughtful re-examination of the history of U. S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that potential output grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and m...
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£24,00
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Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619-1623 An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets
ISBN: HB: 9780300146769, Yale University Press, July 2012
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
This book is an economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 1619-1623, the most serious German inflation before the hyperinflation following World War I, with a particular focus on how it affected people's lives and behaviour. The volume...
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£75,00
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Social Choice and Individual Values
ISBN: PB: 9780300179316, Yale University Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Originally published in 1951, "Social Choice and Individual Values" introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new preface by the author a...
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£23,00
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Clariant Clareant The Beginnings of a Specialty Chemicals Company
ISBN: HB: 9783593393742, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 62 halftones, 4 colour illus.
From its very beginning, the specialty chemicals group Clariant has been in a continual process of transformation. This, the first book-length study of the company, gives an insightful account of its historical foundations, starting with the successf...
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£32,00
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Crisis and Control Institutional Change in Financial Market Regulation
ISBN: PB: 9783593396712, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2012
299 pp., 21.6x14 cm
In reaction to the international financial crisis of 2007, a network of social scientists from seven countries analyzed the various changes in the regulation of financial markets, and this book presents their results. The articles published herein sh...
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£44,00
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Odd Couple International Trade and Labor Standards in History
ISBN: HB: 9780300158700, Yale University Press, June 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labour standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labour and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more a country can competitively partici...
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£57,00
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Solidarity in Strategy Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations
ISBN: PB: 9780226769578, ISBN: HB: 9780226769561, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables
Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually...
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£30,00
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£82,50
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Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone
Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...
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£73,50
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£102,00
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