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  • The Twenty-First-Century Western

    New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

    by Douglas Brode, Shea T. Brode, Alan Lechusza Aquallo, Nicholas Blower, Henrik Bødker, Mark Brenden, John Bruni, Garret Castleberry, Lynnea Chapman King0, Jim Daems1, Ann Hetzel Gunkel2, John C. Hajduk3, Sue Matheson4, Jason McEntee5, Walter Metz6, Fran Pheasant-Kelly7, Natalie Rosiek8, David S. Silverman9, Sharon Smith0, Beth Jane Toren1, Rosanne Welch2, Nathan Wuertenberg3, Erik Heine4, Andrew Howe5 ...
    Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of aesthetic and thematic aspects explored in these films, including gender and race. As diverse contributors focus on the individual subgenres of the traditional Western (the gunfighter, the Cavalry vs. Native American conflict, the role of ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Southern Journeys

    Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South

    by Brooks Blevins, Margaret A. Shannon, Stephen W. Taylor, Alecia P Long, Ted Ownby III, Harvey Newman III, Daniel S. Pierce III, June Hall McCash III, J. Mark Souther III, Brenden C. Martin III, Anne Mitchell Whisnant III0, Major Richard D. Starnes2, Harvey H. Jackson III3 ...
    The first collection of its kind to examine tourism as a complicated and vital force in southern history, culture, and economicsAnyone who has seen Rock City, wandered the grounds of Graceland, hiked in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, or watched the mermaids swim at Weeki Wachee knows the southern United States offers visitors a rich variety of scenic, cultural, and leisure activities. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Competitive Advantage

    Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

    by Michael E. Porter ...
    Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Why Information Grows

    The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies

    by Cesar Hidalgo ...
    "Hidalgo has made a bold attempt to synthesize a large body of cutting-edge work into a readable, slender volume. This is the future of growth theory." -- Financial TimesWhat is economic growth? And why, historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and psychology. But according to MIT's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hidden America

    From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

    by Jeanne Marie Laskas ...
    An Oprah.com “Must-Read Book”Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals “enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant”* profiles of America's working class—the forgotten men and women who make our country run.Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Water Policy in Australia

    The Impact of Change and Uncertainty

    Edited by Lin Crase ...
    Series series Issues in Water Resource Policy
    In the last twenty years, policy makers in Australia have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. Consequently, the country has begun to focus on water resource management through legislative and institutional change attempting to allocate water in a more economically efficient and socially and environmentally acceptable manner.This book ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry

    by Charles Reagan Wilson ...
    Series Book 11 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced labor of enslaved blacks. After Reconstruction, the South became attractive to new industries ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Last Oasis

    Facing Water Scarcity

    by Sandra Postel ...
    For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Management of Water Quality and Irrigation Technologies

    Edited by Jose Albiac, Ariel Dinar ...
    This book is an outcome from the International Expo 'Water and Sustainable Development' held in Zaragoza (Spain) in 2008. Support from the Spanish Ministry of Environment, Caja Rioja, Government of Aragon, and the World Bank is acknowledged.'Few resources will play a more important role in shaping our economic future, or face more daunting challenges, than water. This internationally acclaimed ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Values of Bureaucracy

    Edited by Paul du Gay ...
    The end of bureaucracy has been anticipated many times throughout the history of management science, as well as in modern social and political theory. This book sets out to show why bureaucracy persists and what values it embodies and upholds. Thus the book seeks to show how and why bureaucratic forms of organization have played, and continue to play, a vital and productive role in ordering our ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Transmedia Storytelling and the New Era of Media Convergence in Higher Education

    by Stavroula Kalogeras ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Stories, whether they are fact or fiction, popular or not, are a proven method of pedagogy. In the age of media convergence and with the advancement of technology, stories have morphed into new forms; however, their core purpose remains the same, which is to pass on knowledge and information. The internet, with its inherent interactivity, and story, with its inherent capacity to engage, can lead ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Hybrid Factories in Latin America

    Japanese Management Transferred

    by Katsuo Yamazaki, Tetsuo Abo, JuhnWooseok Juhn ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on detailed case studies, this volume offers a bird's eye view of foreign investments in Latin America. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD