The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House

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The Victorian Society Book of the Victorian House
Kit Wedd
Manufacturer: Aurum Press Ltd
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1845132947

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For any proud owner of a Victorian house, this lavishly illustrated volume from Britain’s Victorian Society represents a unique and valuable resource.

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Photographic Tone Control
Norman Sanders
Manufacturer: Morgan & Morgan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0871001179

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Sensitometry and tone control for the working photographer: The application of the basics of sensitometry to the problem of development and exposure in black and white photography
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Manufacturer: Diogenes Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B000739N26

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This outstanding volume combines the perspectives of managers, sociologists, and scholars of business ethics in order to analyze the social role of business in society. The authors discuss the organizational dynamics and dimensions of corporate social policies and the ways in which organizational policies are interpreted and evaluated by outside groups. They also develop and apply an integrated conceptual model in a case study of the Community Reinvestment Act and present the responses of selected Boston area banks to the study. Instead of accepting the reductionism of perspectives and polarization along disiplinary lines that have characterized research in the field, the authors focus on the need to explore the role of business in the larger society from a variety of viewpoints within a unified conceptual model.

SUSTAINABILITY AND FINANCE: TEACHING THE REAL VALUE OF GOOD CORPORATE STEWARDSHIP.: An article from: Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis

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SUSTAINABILITY AND FINANCE: TEACHING THE REAL VALUE OF GOOD CORPORATE STEWARDSHIP.: An article from: Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis
Maurice D. Levi
Manufacturer: Journal of Business Administration
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, published by Journal of Business Administration on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 3492 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: SUSTAINABILITY AND FINANCE: TEACHING THE REAL VALUE OF GOOD CORPORATE STEWARDSHIP.
Author: Maurice D. Levi
Publication: Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: Journal of Business Administration
Page: 189

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Corporate Policy, Values and Social Responsibility

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Corporate Policy, Values and Social Responsibility
Anthony F. Buono; T. Nichols Lawrence
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORGFQM

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Corporate policy, values, and social responsibility
Anthony F Buono
Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers Inc.,U.S.
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Economic Principals : Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics
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Manufacturer: Free Press
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For nearly ten years, readers of the Sunday Boston Globe and newspapers around America have delighted in David Warsh's column, "Economic Principals." This collection shows why. Taken as a whole, Warsh's writings amount to a vast and colorful group portrait of the personalities who dominate modem economics -- from the luminaries to unknown soldiers to eccentrics who add sparkle to the tapestry.

Partly a history of controversies in economics, partly an essay on the evolution of the field, Economic Principals offers a glimpse of one of the most important stories of our time: the metamorphosis of a priestly class of moral philosophers into the mathematical mandarins of today, whose ideas are reshaping society even as they reveal its workings in ever more subtle detail.

Warsh first recounts the rise of the economic paradigm, deftly treating the rediscovery of Adam Smith and the centrality of markets. He then turns to the generation of economists for whom the Nobel Prize was created in 1969, the men who forged the modern field in a few years during and after World War II. Some, like Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman, are well known to the public; others, like Trygvie Haavelmo and George Dantzig, are less quickly recognized. But all have interesting stories which Warsh brings to light.

Tracing the high tech revolution to the current generation, he sketches younger scholars such as Jeffrey Sachs, Martin Feldstein, and others less popularly known, who rule the field today. Marking the most powerful applications of modern economics, Warsh explains how the ingenious "rocket scientists" of Wall Street are creating new markets and the business school wizards and leading corporate executives are reinventing the organization.

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Economic Principals : The Masters and Mavericks of Modern Economics
David Warsh
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O903EA

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Fashionable Resort Regions: Their Evolution and Transformation with Particular Reference to Bournemouth, Nice, Los Angeles and Wiesbaden.(Brief Article): An article from: The Geographical Journal
Robin Holmes
Manufacturer: Royal Geographical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00096MJTK
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Journal, published by Royal Geographical Society on July 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fashionable Resort Regions: Their Evolution and Transformation with Particular Reference to Bournemouth, Nice, Los Angeles and Wiesbaden.(Brief Article)
Author: Robin Holmes
Publication: The Geographical Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 1996
Publisher: Royal Geographical Society
Volume: v162 Issue: n2 Page: p230(1)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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Fashionable Resort Regions: Their Evolution and Transformation: With particular reference to Bournemouth, Nice, Los Angeles and Wiesbaden (Cabi Publishing)

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Fashionable Resort Regions: Their Evolution and Transformation: With particular reference to Bournemouth, Nice, Los Angeles and Wiesbaden (Cabi Publishing)
John V. N. Soane
Manufacturer: CABI
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0851988547

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The main purpose of this book is to demonstrate how in industrializing countries over the last 150 years, a particular type of maritime leisure resort was developed. Such resorts originally evolved to satisfy the new ethical values of the rising bourgeoisie and became a significant cultural influence in the adoption of a more amenity-oriented lifestyle for an increasing percentage of social classes. The author draws on detailed information from Bournemouth on the English South Coast, Nice in the South of France, and Los Angeles in the USA, and also discusses Wiesbaden, a German spa town, for comparative purposes. These developments subsequently had a direct bearing on the international town planning movement. They also created a wide variety of semi-skilled occupational opportunities and a post-industrial lifestyle that combined extensive leisure facilities with the development of professional service industries and infrastructures. The book makes a highly original contribution to the literature and will interest those concerned with the history of leisure and tourism, urban geography and planning.

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Hardbound. Early childhood specialists from Africa, Australasia, the Americas and Europe have contributed to this volume, bringing together research evidence about young children's lives and learning in their homes, communities and early years settings. The chapters include discussions of research concerning children's development and learning; policy and practice; and issues of research methodology and application in the early years field. The authors come from backgrounds ranging from psychology, sociology and social policy to linguistics, early education and health. With the world spot-light currently focusing on the earliest years of childhood, between birth and primary school, the book aims to provide practitioners, policy-makers and researchers with information and debate to assist their understanding of this important and exciting phase in children's lives.

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Following on from the first volume covering British Napoleonic Artillery, this volume concentrates on the heavy weapons of siege and coastal defences. This book covers the main equipments used; the 24 pounder siege gun and a variety of mortars. Mortars varied from 4- or 5-inch versions up to a13 inch calibre and were considered to be extremely effective because they used an exploding shell to destroy fortifications or personnel. Also covered in detail is the specialist bomb vessel, which was used to attack fortifications in a similar fashion; siege techniques; and the tactical use of siege and coastal artillery.

British Napoleonic Artillery 1793-1815 (1): Field Artillery (New Vanguard)

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The Royal Artillery

British Napoleonic Artillery 1793-1815 (1): Field Artillery (New Vanguard)
Chris Henry
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1841764760
Release Date: 2002-10-18

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This title is the first of two volumes examining the artillery equipment of the British forces during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, along with Wellington's campaigns in India. Throughout this period the British Army used both Foot and Horse artillery, principally using either the 9-pounder gun or the 5.5 inch field howitzer in the field. Also covered are the smaller field guns in the 3- and 6-pounder categories and the largest, the 12-pounder field gun. This title covers the design and development of the guns, the organisation of the troops and their operational histories.

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The Royal Artillery.......2003-06-29

This is an excellent effort on the British field artillery of the Napoleonic period. There is interesting and useful information throughout the book. The subject is covered quite thoroughly, and there are sections on, among others, organization, ammunition, tactics, drill, and the guns and limbers that were used to pull them. It is a ready reference work, but a few things could have been done to make it better.

There are no illustrations of British caissons, which would have been very helpful. The section on the Indian artillery, with one of the attendant color prints in the center of the booklet could have been left out. That was a very minor theater during the wars, and the space devoted to it could have been better used for material, such as Congreve's rockets, that would be more helpful for the period.

Further, there are only four data tables, which seriously hurts the overall presentation. Three of these were taken directly from Adye's indispensable Bombardier and Pocket Gunner, the other being done for the book. There is nothing, data wise, on ranges in table form which would have been useful and something that is a must for an artillery presentation.

The period illustrations which permeate the text are excellent and picture everything from guns in the field, to the use of an artillery gin, to showing the interior of the Royal Brass Foundry at Woolwich. The illustration of the 9-pounder field gun in the center color portion of the booklet has two errors: the axle and the trunnions are misidentified.

The illustrations of the 6-pounder gun team, the 5.5-inch howitzer and crew, and the gun tubes and gin are really excellent, especially as one of the howitzer drawings shows the chambered bore. The glossary at the end of the text is both useful and accurate and is a plus for the volume.

All in all this is a valuable booklet for British artillery and is recommended. It has a companion volume on British siege artillery of the period by the same author, which is actually the better of the two. It is highly recommended. Taken as a set, these two booklets should be owned by every historian and enthusiast interested in the artillery of the period. It is another 'arrow in the quiver' so to speak, and the information is solid and reliable, just like the guns that are described therein.

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