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  • Achieving a Productive Aging Society - Ingram

    Achieving a Productive Aging Society

    Many older people, indeed the majority, have many years of relatively good health after the usual retirement age. Contrary to widely accepted stereotypes, evidence indicates that those who wish to use their skills and abilities for productive contributions may encounter significant barriers. Bass, Caro,...
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  • Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re) Production - Ingram

    Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking Science Fiction Film in the Age of Electronic (Re) Production

    Brooks Landon's book is wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and near state-of-the-art. It concerns science fiction film and, toward the end, almost becomes SF in its provocative speculations on the future of such film. His study is really two books in one. The first part argues that...
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  • Afl Attitudes Toward Production, 1900-1932. (Revised) - Ingram

    Afl Attitudes Toward Production, 1900-1932. (Revised)

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  • Anatomy of Industrial Decline: Productivity, Investment, and Location in U.S. Manufacturing - Ingram

    Anatomy of Industrial Decline: Productivity, Investment, and Location in U.S. Manufacturing

    This book presents a detailed industry-by-industry analysis of output and investment in American manufacturing. With imports soaring and the international indebtedness of the United States increasing, manufacturing has been the sector of the economy most threatened by outside pressures. In a growing number of...
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  • At the Point of Production: The Local History of the I.W.W - Ingram

    At the Point of Production: The Local History of the I.W.W

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  • Body/Politics: Studies in Reproduction, Production, and (Re)Construction - Ingram

    Body/Politics: Studies in Reproduction, Production, and (Re)Construction

    Negotiating the terrain between techno-optimism and eco-pessimism, this work establishes the political connections between technologies of the body, property, and the environment. Specific technologies of the body, such as surrogacy and in vitro fertilization, are examined in relation to their political and legal constructions....
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  • British and American Manufacturing Productivity: A Comparison and Interpretation (Revised) - Ingram

    British and American Manufacturing Productivity: A Comparison and Interpretation (Revised)

    This study is a comparison of postwar productivity data for 34 British and American manufacturing industries. It examines statistical relationships between observed productivity differences and other variables, interpreting the relative influence of these factors on productivity.
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  • By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers - Ingram

    By Design: Interviews with Film Production Designers

    In By Design, twenty prominent feature film production designers talk about their careers, their relationships with Hollywood directors, and how they formulated and executed the technical and aesthetic designs of their film projects. The interviews explore production design techniques and the total process of...
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  • Certainty as a Social Metaphor: The Social and Historical Production of Certainty in China and the West - Ingram

    Certainty as a Social Metaphor: The Social and Historical Production of Certainty in China and the West

    This volume combines philosophy, the social theory of knowledge, and historical analysis to present a comprehensive study of the idea of certainty as defined in the Western and Chinese intellectual traditions. Philosophical ideas such as certainty are the products of deeply layered socio-historical constructions....
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  • Clarifying McLuhan: An Assessment of Process and Product - Ingram

    Clarifying McLuhan: An Assessment of Process and Product

    At the time of Marshall McLuhan's death in 1980, his was a major voice in our understanding on media and society. And yet, few analyses of his impact have been written. In clarifying McLuhan, Neill provides a critical, yet sympathetic assessment of McLuhan's work...
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  • Classic Failures in Product Marketing: Marketing Principles Violations and How to Avoid Them - Ingram

    Classic Failures in Product Marketing: Marketing Principles Violations and How to Avoid Them

    Written especially for current and aspiring marketing managers and executives, this book discusses the avoidable marketing failure. Hendon argues that many so-called product failures could have been avoided and that certain error patterns continually recur in many marketing situations. He exposes these patterns through...
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  • Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development Industry - Ingram

    Creating Breakthrough Ideas: The Collaboration of Anthropologists and Designers in the Product Development Industry

    Research, design, and development firms are actively recruiting anthropologists and other social scientists, as ethnographic research becomes more central to the creation of appropriate new products, services, and marketing strategies for U.S. and global markets. To be successful designers, professionals must learn new processes,...
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  • David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook - Ingram

    David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook

    The most complete record of a contemporary American dramatist available, David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook is the result of ten years' research by a widely published drama and theatre scholar and a university bibliographic specialist. Presenting a complete overview of all reviews...
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  • Decision Criteria for New Product Acceptance and Success: The Role of Trade Buyers - Ingram

    Decision Criteria for New Product Acceptance and Success: The Role of Trade Buyers

    Despite the rapid surge of new product introductions into the grocery product distribution system, relatively little is known about the process and acceptance criteria of trade buyers. In this work, Edward McLaughlin and Vithala Rao examine the crucial role played by trade buyers, and...
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  • Dominican Sugar Plantations: Production and Foreign Labor Integration - Ingram

    Dominican Sugar Plantations: Production and Foreign Labor Integration

    Primarily focusing on the organization of production and labor use practices in the Caribbean's second largest sugar industry, this work's historical, macroeconomic, political, and sociocultural components depict the reality of today's Dominican sugar economy. The Dominican Republic has been radically altered by its internationally...
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  • Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production, and Distribution Systems - Ingram

    Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production, and Distribution Systems

    Presents the first comprehensive survey of the entire field of resource allocation, production, and distribution, proposing an economic logistics that joins the elements of the supply process together into large analytic structures.
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  • Economic Organization and Settlement Hierarchies: Ceramic Production and Exchange Among the Hohokam - Ingram

    Economic Organization and Settlement Hierarchies: Ceramic Production and Exchange Among the Hohokam

    The economic organization of two Hohokam communities, Marana and Los Robles, is studied here by examining the production and distribution of ceramics. The author looks at the degree of integration or interaction among residents of a single community, the relationship of community inhabitants with...
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  • Educating for Excellence: Improving Quality and Productivity in the 90's - Ingram

    Educating for Excellence: Improving Quality and Productivity in the 90's

    The United States is in a time of business turmoil, experiencing intense competition from other countries, an increasing national debt, a lack of ethical standards, and the loss of traditionally strong markets to foreign companies. In this book, J.H.U. Brown and Jacqueline Comola point...
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  • Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook - Ingram

    Edward Albee: A Research and Production Sourcebook

    This volume documents the life and works of the acclaimed playwright, Edward Albee. His first four plays were all produced Off Broadway from 1960-1961, creating buzz that he was an up-and-coming avant-garde playwright. But his most notable accomplishment came a year later with his...
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  • Energy in Latin America: Production, Consumption, and Future Growth - Ingram

    Energy in Latin America: Production, Consumption, and Future Growth

    What has happened in Latin America's energy sector since the early 1990s is a revolution. Roles of state energy companies, private investment, and foreign capital are rapidly changing. This comprehensive study from the East-West Center presents an in-depth analysis and realistic forecast of Latin...
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  • Experimenting with the Consumer: The Mass Testing of Risky Products on the American Public - Ingram

    Experimenting with the Consumer: The Mass Testing of Risky Products on the American Public

    Experimenting With The Consumer exposes the hazards of the mass-market experimentation in which every American consumer and worker is unwittingly tapped for product risk data by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators. Vioxx, Heparin, Avandia, Paxil, fen-phen, estrogens, silicone implants, pacemakers, formaldehyde in FEMA trailers, 60...
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  • Famine in East Africa: Food Production and Food Policies - Ingram

    Famine in East Africa: Food Production and Food Policies

    Efforts to commercialize agriculture in peasant societies through investments in technology and various pricing strategies have failed to create the food surpluses needed to forestall famine and support industrialization in East Africa. Seavoy explores this problem, basing his study on the case of Tanzania,...
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  • Foreign Plaintiffs in Products Liability Actions: The Defense of Forum Non Conveniens - Ingram

    Foreign Plaintiffs in Products Liability Actions: The Defense of Forum Non Conveniens

    This book is directed at practical applications and case law support for invoking forum non conveniens. It begins with a basic discussion of the evolution of the doctrine. The balance of the book is devoted to applying appropriate case law to a variety of...
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  • Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages - Ingram

    Gay History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Men Since the Middle Ages

    The book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject...
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  • Health Care Finance: Economic Incentives and Productivity Enhancement - Ingram

    Health Care Finance: Economic Incentives and Productivity Enhancement

    This book is a thorough, balanced, and insightful study of what is happening and what should be happening in health care financing. Americans want unlimited access to the best care at affordable prices. Fiscal pressures in American health care point in all different directions,...
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  • History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production and Entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde - Ingram

    History and Hunger in West Africa: Food Production and Entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

    As Africa entered the 1990s, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission on Africa declared the continent incapable of feeding at least one-fifth of its peoples. Africa is the only region in the world where per capita food production is actually declining....
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  • Human Productivity Enhancement: Organizations, Personnel, and Decision Making, Volume 2 - Ingram

    Human Productivity Enhancement: Organizations, Personnel, and Decision Making, Volume 2

    This book addresses work performance research undertaken to enhance individual and group productivity. Comprehensive in scope, it includes an unprecedented consolidation of theory, methodology, and application of human performance outcomes and research findings. It explores the relationship between human productivity and performance from a...
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  • Human Productivity Enhancement: Training and Human Factors in Systems Design, Volume I - Ingram

    Human Productivity Enhancement: Training and Human Factors in Systems Design, Volume I

    This book offers psychologists and those who are involved with systems design an overview of changing technology and guidelines for using new techniques in the design and development of systems in the workplace. The first part of the book concerns productivity and cognitive assessment....
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  • Information Technology, Corporate Productivity, and the New Economy - Ingram

    Information Technology, Corporate Productivity, and the New Economy

    The authors bring a dual perspective--that of a practicing consultant and that of a professor of economics--to the complex strategic questions facing managers and corporate leaders who want their firms to get the most out of their investments in information technology. The information economy...
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  • Labor Productivity Control: New Approaches for Industrial Engineers and Managers - Ingram

    Labor Productivity Control: New Approaches for Industrial Engineers and Managers

    This management guide to labor productivity represents the author's experience of more than 40 years in the engineering field. Based on his work in over 100 plants and a dozen major corporations, John Martin presents his own personal approach to the specifics of labor...
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  • Maintenance Standardization for Capital Assets: A Cost-Productivity Approach - Ingram

    Maintenance Standardization for Capital Assets: A Cost-Productivity Approach

    Although maintaining assets is now recognized as a significant engineering function, attention has usually been focused, particularly in the developing countries, on the acquisition of assets. Maintenance Standardization for Capital Assets explores maintenance management systems, stressing the need for manufacturers and maintenance engineers to...
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  • Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process - Ingram

    Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process

    Part of Praeger's Media and Society Series, this contributed volume is the only collection of essays on television authorship. It includes work of some of the most prominent scholars in television studies. Rather than assigning one author to individual television texts, the contributors probe...
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  • Malnourished Children of the Rural Poor: The Web of Food, Health, Education, Fertility, and Agricultural Production - Ingram

    Malnourished Children of the Rural Poor: The Web of Food, Health, Education, Fertility, and Agricultural Production

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  • Managing Human Productivity: People Are Your Best Investment - Ingram

    Managing Human Productivity: People Are Your Best Investment

    This comprehensive text focuses on the transition underway in the fields of personnel and labor relations and guides the reader into the new era of human resources management. The book examines some current issues and topics that are producing solid results--results that make people...
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  • Managing Knowledge Workers: Unleashing Innovation and Productivity - Ingram

    Managing Knowledge Workers: Unleashing Innovation and Productivity

    With the emergence of a powerful new breed of organization--the knowledge organization--comes a bold new challenge to the old ways of managing people. Workers with special cutting-edge knowledge and the ability to transform it into marketable goods and services can not be managed the...
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  • Marketer's Guide to Selling Products Abroad - Ingram

    Marketer's Guide to Selling Products Abroad

    Intended for executives in small- to medium-sized companies just beginning to contemplate an export program, this book tells when and how to export and takes the reader through documentation, product servicing, advertising, distribution agreements, patents, trademarks, political risks, and foreign trade shows. The book...
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  • Marketing Channel Management: People, Products, Programs, and Markets - Ingram

    Marketing Channel Management: People, Products, Programs, and Markets

    This text is designed to give the reader an understanding of market structures, product and market management, advertising, product promotion, pricing strategies, as well as competitive analysis, forecasting, and business planning. It leads the student to an understanding of what comprises the channel structure...
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  • Measuring and Improving Organizational Productivity: A Practical Guide - Ingram

    Measuring and Improving Organizational Productivity: A Practical Guide

    Productivity has become a national priority. Its effects are being felt on all levels--national, industrial, and individual. An organization must be able to measure productivity before effectively improving it. This volume is the first practical guide for developing productivity measurement systems. It describes the...
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  • Media Education and the (Re)Production of Culture - Ingram

    Media Education and the (Re)Production of Culture

    This book analyzes and critiques media education in the university and offers tools for developing a more critical direction. Media education should not be regarded as a job-track, but as an area of inquiry that integrates theory and practice. Media literacy and especially an...
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  • Modern Products Liability Law. - Ingram

    Modern Products Liability Law.

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  • Motivating Strategies for Performance and Productivity: A Guide to Human Resource Development - Ingram

    Motivating Strategies for Performance and Productivity: A Guide to Human Resource Development

    This book reviews current theories on how to improve employee performance and shows how to adapt these strategies to specific work situations. The authors have chosen 10 currently popular performance-enhancing strategies for study, ranging from behavior modification techniques to team-based and employee participation approaches....
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  • Motivation and Productivity in Public Sector Human Service Organizations - Ingram

    Motivation and Productivity in Public Sector Human Service Organizations

    Public sector human service organizations have unique problems of employee motivation and productivity, both on the professional and direct service levels. Martin examines these problems in detail and offers practical solutions based on his own extensive personal experience in the field. Written for professional,...
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  • Organizational Capital: The Path to Higher Productivity and Well-Being - Ingram

    Organizational Capital: The Path to Higher Productivity and Well-Being

    Tomer integrates economic analysis with behavioral and humanistic perspectives into a discussion of a new economic concept: organizational capital. The volume fills an important void in the economic literature and provides additional insights into how internal organizational structures and relationships affect economic as well...
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  • Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940-1990 - Ingram

    Out of Thin Air: A History of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 1940-1990

    The story of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., is exciting--full of struggle, determination, crisis, and heroic endeavor. Air Products grew out of the vision and drive of one individual, Leonard Pool. In the course of fifty years, Pool's precarious project has become a major,...
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  • Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production - Ingram

    Pear Stories: Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative Production

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  • Peripheral Weapon?: The Production and Employment of British Tanks in the First World War - Ingram

    Peripheral Weapon?: The Production and Employment of British Tanks in the First World War

    The tank was arguably the most important technological innovation that developed during World War I; however, without the support of the British Army and the allocation of important wartime resources, it would have remained merely a peripheral weapon. For far too long, the depiction...
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  • Personalities and Products: A Historical Perspective on Advertising in America - Ingram

    Personalities and Products: A Historical Perspective on Advertising in America

    Profiling such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, P. T. Barnum, John Wanamaker, and Harley Procter, this book examines the contributions that several prominent individuals have made to advertising in America. The work opens with a discussion of Colonial advertising and the printers, such as Benjamin...
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  • Petroleum Economics: Issues and Strategies of Oil and Natural Gas Production - Ingram

    Petroleum Economics: Issues and Strategies of Oil and Natural Gas Production

    The petroleum industry is arguably the most influential and important industry in the world. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the economics of oil and natural gas extraction and production along with a detailed discussion of pricing, taxing, and markets of these most...
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  • Practical Techniques of Business Forecasting: Fundamentals and Applications for Marketing Production, and Financial Managers - Ingram

    Practical Techniques of Business Forecasting: Fundamentals and Applications for Marketing Production, and Financial Managers

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  • Product Life Cycles and Product Management - Ingram

    Product Life Cycles and Product Management

    This book provides--for the first time in a single source--a complete--and systematic treatment of the varying perspectives and dimensions of product management. Onkvisit and Shaw focus on product management and decision making within a product life cycle context, integrating theory, applications, and managerial implications...
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