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The Problem That Won't Go Away : Reforming U.S. Health Care Financing
Henry J. Aaron
Paperback - $51.95
In The Problem That Won't Go Away, economists, political scientists, sociologists, public opinion experts, and government staff recount the history of the Clinton health plan, present several alternative strategies the administration might have pursu ...
The Japanese Production System in the United States
Tetsuo Abo
Hardcover - $317.95
As Japanese automotive and electronics firms have expanded their operations into the United States, more attention has been focused on Japanese management and manufacturing. In Hybrid Factory a team of Japanese and American scholars explores the pote ...
Capturing the Commons : Devising Institutions to Manage the Maine Lobster Industry
James M. Acheson
Paperback - $41.95
One of the most pressing concerns of environmentalists and policy makers is the overexploitation of natural resources. Efforts to regulate such resources are too often undermined by the people whose livelihoods depend on their use. One of the great c ...
The Lobster Gangs of Maine
James M. Acheson
Paperback - $27.95
An anthropologist describes the working world of Maine lobstermen, focusing on the intricate personal network that sustains them.
Small Firms and Entrepreneurship : An East-West Perspective
Zoltan J. Acs
Hardcover - $233.95
This book analyzes the relative importance of small firms in developed Western nations and Eastern Europe, identifying their exact role and how this role has evolved over the past fifteen years. It reveals that there has been a consistent shift away ...
Dangerous Pursuits : Mergers and Acquisitions in the Age of Wall Street
Walter Adams
Paperback - $68.95
This is a reprint of a previously published work.It deals with the rules of th game of megamergers: the stategies, the legl maneuvers, the daring moves and counter-moves of corporate titans.
Change in the Construction Industry : An Account of the UK Construction Industry Reform Movement 1993-2003
David M. Adamson
Hardcover - $314.95
The UK construction industry is the sixth largest industry in the UK in terms of turnover. During the last decade, the industry has undergone an unprecedented period of self-examination, including input from most of the leaders of the major suppliers ...
Framing the Bride : Globalizing Beauty & Romance in Taiwan's
Bonnie Adrian
Paperback - $50.95
"Do not be misled by the title of this book. It is a study of Taiwan's bridal industry but it is also a fine ethnography of marriage in contemporary urban Taipei. With great subtlety, Bonnie Adrian shows us how much marriage in Taiwan has changed and ...
The End of Fashion : How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
Teri Agins
Paperback - $24.95
It's no longer elite French designers, but mainstream consumers who are dictating fashion trends, contends the author, a senior writer at the "Wall Street Journal". Agins traces the history of the fashion business and relates it to the cultural chang ...