A business terminology study guide can assist one by ensuring he or she has the basics of the subject memorized. It's not enough to simply have a solid grasp of the methodology used in a business course. One needs to use a study guide in order to fully master the technical language used within it. ...
A business statistics study guide will help students by laying out the specifics points within the subject. It provides the solid information to memorize and test oneself against, without the general filler found within a classroom discussion. This allows one to pick up any remaining information that he or she might have missed from the statistics lectures. ...
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to ten ma ...
From his galvanizing exposés in <i>Ramparts</i> magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first career-spanning collection of writings by this key figure of American journalism, <i>Ransoming Pagan Babies</i> ranges an astonishing thematic sweep: Joseph Mitchell-esque portraits of old San Francisco and it ...
Despite the significance of tourism to the economic, social and environmental structures of Latin America, little has been documented in the English-language literature about tourism in this region. Filling that void, this book focuses exclusively on tourism development and planning, and the impact this has on a wide number of Latin American countries. It covers experiences, challenges, successful and unsuccessful stories, specific case ...
For the past several decades, politicians and economists thought that high levels of inequality were good for the economy. But because America’s middle class is now so weak, the US economy suffers from the kinds of problems that plague less-developed countries. As <I>Hollowed Out</I> explains, to have strong, sustainable growth, the economy needs to work for everyone and expand from the middle out. This new thinking has the potential ...
Starting in the 1990s, San Francisco launched a series of bold but relatively unknown public policy experiments to improve wages and benefits for thousands of local workers. Since then, scholars have documented the effects of those policies on compensation, productivity, job creation, and health coverage. Opponents predicted a range of negative impacts, but the evidence tells a decidedly different tale. This book brings together that evidence fo ...
For all business students worldwide, there can be two different ways to approach the business industry. The first is through targeted national business which is conducted inside the country you reside in, and the second is the international aspect of business. In order to succeed in either one, making sure you learn the language used to express yourself to other business men will separate you from other less qualified candidates that could have ...
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, <I>Hard Work </I>explores historical perspectives, examines social and political policies, and brings us inside today's unions, providing an excellent introduction to labor in America. <br />&l ...