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Industry & industrial studies
Paperback. * This is a major new work from one of the world s leading historians of print culture and the book. * Chartier shows that, in the early history of the book, the roles played by the printer and the typesetter were just as important as the role played by the author: they were often invisible but they were crucial. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745656021
- ISBN
- 9780745656021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.74
€ 25.74
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGBA; KNJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486496375
- ISBN
- 9780486496375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.83
€ 16.99
€ 12.83
paperback. In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. This work offers a glimpse into a Japanese boy's life at the time of the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and the Russo-Japanese (1904-5) wars. Series: Voices from Asia S. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; BGHA; HBTB; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520077607
- ISBN
- 9780520077607
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.80
€ 34.99
€ 25.80
"The Hikayat Banjar", a 17th-century native court chronicle from Southeast Borneo, characterizes the irresistibility of natural resource wealth to outsiders as 'the banana tree at the gate'. This title employs this phrase as a root metaphor to frame the history of resource relations between the indigenous people of Borneo and the world system. Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMNX; JHMC; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300153217
- ISBN
- 9780300153217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 97.03
€ 97.03
hardcover. The Italian banking system underwent major transformations during the 1990s. This book seeks to depict the effects of those changes on the Italian economy. Using credit rationing as an indicator of financial development, it also explores to what extent financial development serves as an incentive for an individual to start his or her own business. Editor(s): Silipo, Damiano Bruno. Num Pages: 243 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 77 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: GTB; KCZ; KFFK; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Physica Germany
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783790821116
- ISBN
- 9783790821116
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.94
€ 150.94
Paperback. The meteoric rise of "Killer Diller" Barry Diller has been a major player in the entertainment industry for more than thirty years. Always on the cutting edge, he revolutionized television with such groundbreaking concepts as the movie-of-the-week and the miniseries. Num Pages: 348 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KNTC; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471299486
- ISBN
- 9780471299486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.06
€ 27.99
€ 23.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 251 x 205 x 19. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780534507787
- ISBN
- 9780534507787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 273.54
€ 273.54
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781506308104
- ISBN
- 9781506308104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 131.10
€ 131.10
Hardcover. Sir Kenneth Bloomfield was the only Governor to serve on the Board of Governors of the BBC through the entire period from John Birt's accession to the Director Generalship to the choice of Greg Dyke to succeed him. This book offers his critical judgements on the Birt and Dyke regimes, the Hutton Inquiry, and events leading up to and following it. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JMC; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846311604
- ISBN
- 9781846311604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.82
€ 59.82
Hardback. This volume provides a history of the domination of the Big Four in the Chinese accounting industry, explaining why China was unable to keep the market for its own accounting firms. The book details how easy access to U.S. capital markets led to major accounting scandals, and a clash between U.S. and Chinese regulators. Series: Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KFC; KNST. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783504855
- ISBN
- 9781783504855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.55
€ 164.55
Paperback. Why do truckers accept these conditions and pay? Why can't they achieve what workers did in the past through collective action and union organization? This book looks at what has happened to blue-collar jobs since the trucking industry was deregulated. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNGR; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278127
- ISBN
- 9780520278127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.89
€ 33.99
€ 24.89
Hardback. Trucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, this book explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHBL; KCF; KNGR; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520278110
- ISBN
- 9780520278110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.05€ 72.45
€ 94.05
€ 72.45
Hardback. Documents the work of America's first major film company, Vitagraph, from its beginnings in the 1890s through its sale to Warner Bros. in 1925. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Bibliography: p124-133. - Includes index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; HBT; KNTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- New and Revised Edition
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810820302
- ISBN
- 9780810820302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.30
€ 147.30
Paperback. Confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, this book demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; KCF; KJV; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749695
- ISBN
- 9780804749695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.72
€ 42.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJC; KN; MQW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349123186
- ISBN
- 9781349123186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. Birmingham has been a key innovator in the gun trade since the seventeenth century and the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof house operates to this day. This book tells the story of the technology and history of gun making. Covering the period 1720 to 1950, it sees the mechanical engineering technology of the 'lock, stock and barrel' firearm change. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; HBTB; KNDM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 173 x 13. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752432373
- ISBN
- 9780752432373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.58
€ 24.99
€ 21.58
Hardback. Award-winning photographer Carol Peachee takes readers on an unforgettable tour of lost distilleries as well as facilities undergoing renewal. This beautiful book also includes spaces that well-known brands, including Maker's Mark, Woodford Reserve, Four Roses, and Buffalo Trace, have preserved as a homage to their rich histories. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; HBTK; KNDF; TDCT1; WBXD3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 23. Weight in Grams: 825.
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813165547
- ISBN
- 9780813165547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.15
€ 36.15
Hardback. This long-awaited study, the magnum opus of a leading railroad historian, describes the conception, construction, and early operation of the first narrow gauge railroads in northern California. It is lavishly illustrated by some 600 photographs and drawings, almost three-quarters of which have never before been published. Num Pages: 720 pages, 600 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KNGT; TBX; TRF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7747 x 5817 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735506
- ISBN
- 9780804735506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.88
€ 75.88
Paperback. Series: St Antony's Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349214723
- ISBN
- 9781349214723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 120.89
€ 120.89
Paperback. Find out how fashionable eighteenth-century York became the capital of chocolate. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; KNDF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 166 x 6. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445633466
- ISBN
- 9781445633466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.86
€ 20.99
€ 16.86