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Comeback
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 32.95In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's premier industry stumbled, fell, and picked itself up again. The story begins in 1982, when Honda started building cars in Marysville,... more...
I Invented the Modern Age
Scribner 2013; US$ 30.00From the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who ?writes with verve and a keen eye? ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T?the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new... more...
I Invented the Modern Age
Scribner 2013; Not AvailableFrom the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who ?writes with verve and a keen eye? ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T?the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new... more...
I Invented the Modern Age
Scribner 2013; Not AvailableFrom the acclaimed popular historian Richard Snow, who ?writes with verve and a keen eye? ( The New York Times Book Review ), comes a fresh and entertaining account of Henry Ford and his invention of the Model T?the ugly, cranky, invincible machine that defined twentieth-century America. Every century or so, our republic has been remade by a new... more...
The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries. Rather than blaming labour and management, as has frequently... more...
Henry Ford
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 19.99Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern... more...
Hybrid Factories in Latin America
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 100.00Explores 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. more...
The Multinational Motor Industry
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00This book analyses the multinational enterprise using the example of the world motor industry. It begins by examining the multinational enterprise in general, considering its nature, the economic theory of its behaviour and is effects on the nation state. It goes on to explore the growth and development of the multinational motor industry, and then... more...
Driven to Succeed
Dundurn 2012; US$ 32.99Hungarian-born Frank Hasenfratz fled his native land in 1956 after the revolution to free his nation from Soviet domination failed. He eventually settled in Guelph, Ontario, where he founded Linamar, now the second-largest maker of auto parts in Canada. This is Frank's story as well as that of the company he created. more...
Plunkett's Automobile Industry Almanac 2013
Plunkett Research, Ltd. 2012; US$ 349.99A key reference to the automobile industry, including trends and market research. Includes industry analysis, statistical tables and an industry glossary. Also provides in-depth, proprietary profiles of 400 leading companies in the industry, featuring addresses, phone numbers and executives. A tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence,... more...









