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Cross-border investments and cooperative business ventures are driving the global economy on an unprecedented scale. Business professionals and policy makers must be aware of the potential of trading blocs as a competitive weapon given the rising importance of multinational trade. …
View book details for High Performance Teams
How to Make Them Work
A popular maxim states that the only constant in business today is change. Whether the result of growth opportunities, new competition, technological advances or other internal and external factors, every business enterprise must manage change. Since the 1980s, companies have …
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The Politics of Guarding Russia's Rulers
The evolution of elite personal protection unitsalso known as close protection unitswithin the former Soviet Union is one of the least examined, yet crucial political developments in this region. Due to the often-violent environment in which the political leaders of …
View book details for The Presidents of American Fiction
Fashioning the U.S. Political Imagination
The Presidents of American Fiction brings together American literature, history, and political science to explore the most influential fictionalized accounts of the presidency from the early 19th century to the time of Trump. Of late, popular understandings of the presidency …
View book details for Chess and the Art of Negotiation
Ancient Rules for Modern Combat
Negotiations and other business maneuvers are like chess: every move generates a plethora of potential next moves. In Chess and the Art of Negotiation, a world-renowned chess master and a CEO of a global company join forces and apply the …
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Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970
An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in …
A comprehensive guide for all sizes of libraries, this book guides you through the entire process of effectively redesigning your library's websitefrom evaluating your current site and understanding user needs, to creating a budget, through to launching and maintaining your …
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Famous Unsolved Mysteries, Crimes, and Disappearances in America
This book explicitly chronicles 40 cases of unsolved murders and disappearances over a period of more than 160 years, tracing the evolution of criminal investigation and forensic techniques.Murders and other violent crimes often leave an indelible mark on society. The …
View book details for Race and Identity in Hispanic America
The White, the Black, and the Brown
This book offers a historical and comparative overview of the evolution of racial classifications in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean.The Hispanicization of America is precipitating a paradigm shift in racial thinking in which race is no longer …
View book details for Religious Myths and Visions of America
How Minority Faiths Redefined America's World Role
At the heart of American studies is the idea of America itself. Here, Buck looks at the religious significance of America by examining those religions that have attached some kind of spiritual meaning to America. The author explores how American …
View book details for Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes
A Bio-Critical Sourcebook
Gay and lesbian themes in Latin American literature have been largely ignored. This reference fills this gap by providing more than a hundred alphabetically arranged entries for Latin American authors who have treated gay or lesbian material in their works. …
Ed Kuepper's history as a rock pioneer with The Saints and Laughing Clowns means that his albums of the early 1990s represent a remapping of the singer-songwriter concept. His classic Honey Steel's Gold shares a looseness with blues and folk …
Throughout his life and perhaps even more since his death in 1981 at the age of 36, Bob Marley's music has demonstrated a unique ability to combine with almost any cultural setting, no matter how different the elements might at …
View book details for Parenting the Millennial Generation
Guiding Our Children Born between 1982 and 2000
They have strong valuesfaith, family, tolerance, intelligence, and altruism among them. But, contrary to what one might guess, these people are not America's sage elders. This is the Millennial Generation. Born between 1982 and 2000, the oldest among them today …
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Stopping Russian Backlash
Yeltsin is certainly not the Sakharov of the Democratic Movement. Russian people sarcastically call his burning the Parliament an October Revolution of 1993. In Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it …
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How to Administer an Estate Under a Will
You have been named the executor of a will by a friend or family member. Are you prepared to meet the challenge and do you know how to avoid personal liability? Thousands of individuals each year face the daunting and …
View book details for Pop Culture Arab World!
Media, Arts, and Lifestyle
The first book to explore how Arab pop culture has succeeded in helping forge a pan-Arab identity, where Arab nationalism has failed.Pop Culture Arab World! is the first volume to explore the full scope of Arab cultural life since World …
View book details for Working as a Data Librarian
A Practical Guide
Many librarians' job responsibilities increasingly require them to understand and handle data. Learn how to be an effective data librarianeven if you never expected to need data skills.The field of data librarianship is rapidly growing, and some librarians may feel …
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The Influence of Likud
A former CIA analyst looks at nearly three decades of U.S. Middle East policy to examine the pervasive and too-often disastrous influence of Israel's right wing Likud party.In this revelatory volume, Stephen Pelletiere, the CIA's Iraq analyst in the 1980s, …
View book details for Organizing Information in School Libraries
Basic Principles and New Rules
Covering both classification and cataloging principles as well as procedures relevant to school libraries, this book provides a teaching kit for a course on this critical subject that includes content and practice exercises.A valuable resource for instructors in LIS programs …
View book details for Violence in Popular Culture
American and Global Perspectives
A comprehensive resource, this book reviews current and historical examples of violence in film, television, radio, music, music videos, video games, and novels.Despite decades of attention and various attempts to enact legislation that limits violence in American popular culture, it …
View book details for So Much, So Fast, So Little Time
Coming to Terms with Rapid Change and Its Consequences
This book examines the extraordinary changes that technology brings and how these affect all of us and our familiesat home, at school, and at our work placeswith profound consequences for society.Twenty-first-century technology opens up fabulous opportunities, but also changes how …
This book presents an extensive history of women in the civil rights movement that highlights ordinary women's experiences in their local communities and the impacts of their activism upon American women and society.From the suffrage movement to the antiwar protests …
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From Normandy to Berchtesgaden
This book chronicles the experience of the World War II paratroopers from their earliest days in training to final days of the war spent at Berchtesgaden. Relying heavily on memoirs, letters, and personal interviews with soldiers, this work highlights the …
View book details for Global Security WatchTurkey
A Reference Handbook
There are a number of factors that elevate Turkey's status in the international arena and make it an important regional actor. As a longstanding member of the western world, a candidate country to the European Union, a staunch ally of …
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