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Free Stuff for Baby!
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 12.95Every parent knows having a new bundle of joy can cost a bundle . . . up to $5,000 in the first year alone! Now, Free Stuff for Baby! offers parents and parents-to-be quick, easy access to hundreds of free products, with no obligation to buy anything. A new baby can create a significant financial strain on a family. Free Stuff for Baby! is bursting... more...
Companies Don't Succeed - People Do!
Thorogood Publishing 2000; US$ 22.59This text features 100 positive and practical ideas that canbe put to work immediately to build a stronger, fitter and more profitable business. It includes such topics as: be passionate about business; the customer is not always right; and close the customer service department. more...
Gerald Ratner
Wiley 2008; US$ 37.50In 1991 Gerald Ratner was booked to make what should have been an everyday speech at the Institute of Directors. Should have been. When the words "total crap" come out of his mouth in connection with a decanter and glasses set sold by his company, H. Samuel, it all turned out slightly different. The Rise and Fall...And Rise Again tells the full story,... more...
Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95Co-operative recycling practices have been increasingly used as a strategy to contest both the waste problem and urban poverty. By examining experiences from Brazil and other Latin American countries, this book examines what can be done to improve the environment and livelihoods for those involved in waste recycling. more...
Unfreedom and Waged Work
SAGE India 2009; US$ 34.95Unfreedom and Waged Work: Labour in Indias Manufacturing Industry provides an update on the debates relating to the work and welfare of industrial labour in India. Concentrating on factory workers in Indias organized manufacturing industry, the study analyses, on the basis of official statistics as well as field survey data, the poor status... more...
Zara and Her Sisters
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 42.00Zara is the best known Spanish brand at an international level, and is listed among the hundred most valuable companies in the world. This insightful new book reveals the secrets behind Zara's success and examines the steps that its creator, Amancio Ortega, took to make Zara the global market leader in fashion. more...
In Search of Land and Housing in the New South Africa
World Bank Publications 2008; US$ 9.99This study outlines the difficulties poor communities face in accessing peri-urban land in South Africa that could have implications and lessons for similar communities in other countries facing spatial segregation issues. The study focused on one community, composed largely of laid-off farm workers that wanted to buy their own farm in a peri-urban... more...
Paper Products Physics and Technology
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 224.00The production of forestry products is based on a complex chain of knowledge in which the biological material wood with all its natural variability is converted into a variety of fiber-based products, each one with its detailed and specific quality requirements. This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology... more...
Tiger Economies Under Threat
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 14.99Southeast Asian tiger economies feel threatened by competition from other countries and worry that their growth momentum might be flagging. Even though their growth rates are above the average for the world and for developing countries, they fall short of yesterdays economic performance. The underlying worry is that they presage the beginning... more...
Beauty Imagined
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 20.99The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Est--eacute--;e Lauder, L'Or--eacute--;al, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us.This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty... more...









