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Advanced Manufacturing. An ICT and Systems Perspective
CRC Press 2007; US$ 119.95A competitive manufacturing industry is essential for the prosperity of Europe, especially in the face of accelerating deindustrialisation. This book provides a vision of manufacturing, analysed from a system-management viewpoint and with a focus on ICT-related matters. more...
Advances in Specialty Papers
iSmithers Rapra Publishing 2006; US$ 460.00The paper industry generally defines specialty papers as products that are given unique characteristics in their manufacture, converting or processing and that have properties suitable for specific purposes. Specialty papers are generally perceived to be higher added-value products, although their supply, demand and utility are relatively small compared... more...
Adventures in the West
Dundurn 2008; US$ 12.99The previously unpublished manuscript of Henry Halpin: long-time associate of the fur trade and Canada's Native Peoples, employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, and Indian agent from 1885 to 1901. more...
The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion
Bloomsbury Publishing 2009; US$ 27.49Fashion is bound up with promoting the 'new', concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized... more...
The Aesthetic Economy of Fashion
Bloomsbury Publishing 2009; US$ 71.50Fashion is bound up with promoting the new, concerned with constantly changing aesthetics. The favoured styles or looks of a season arise out of the work of a vast range of different actors who collectively produce, select, distribute and promote the new ideals, before moving on to next season. How, then, are fashionable commodities stabilized... more...
African Manufacturing Firm
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 210.00The African manufacturing sector continues to face many problems as it struggles to progress from its presently underdeveloped state. If the countries that make up Africa are ever to raise the living standards of the vast majority of its population to a more acceptable level, then the economic growth that would result from an enlarged and improved... more...
The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 44.95This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, we find many new consumer industries employing a women's... more...
America's Covert Warriors
Potomac Books Inc. 2010; US$ 17.95A cogent analysis of the failings and potential of private military contractors more...
American Investment in British Manufacturing Industry
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 99.95This classic work, first published in 1958, is a seminal text in international business history. This new, substantially updated and revised edition is being published on the fortieth anniversary of the first edition. Features of the revised edition include: * a new introduction * a new concluding chapter * amendments and additions to the original... more...









