[nice clean tight copy with no significant wear; jacket has a couple of tiny edge-tears, shallow chipping at top of spine, teensy-weensy chip at bottom of rear panel]. Miriam Beard (1901-1983), described by one scholar as "the maverick daughter of Progressive reformers Charles and Mary Beard," apparently wrote just two books in her life: "Realism in Romantic Japan" (1930) and this one, jacket-blurbed as "an attempt in a new direction -- the biography of a type, instead of an individual." A dense and ambitious work, it sought "to present an assemblage of facts about the development of the bus... View More...
(no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean copy, a couple of bumped corners but otherwise as new]. (tables) Chapter titles: An Economic Environment That Encourages Mergers; The Deregulation of the U.S. Power Industry; The Strategies and Causes of U.S. Utilities Mergers; The U.S. Antitrust Environment for Utility Mergers; Merging Natural Gas and Electricity to Produce Power More Effectively; Nuclear Power; Winners and Losers; The Global Spread of U.S. Utilities; The Globalization of Energy and Utilities. Selected bibliography; index. [Number of index entries for Enron: 27.] View More...
[nice clean copy, book virtually as new with no discernible wear; jacket shows only very minor surface wear, slight wrinkling at bottom of rear flap]. "The topics [of the essays] cover issues of deep social concern, encompassing the jobs and wages of college graduates, discrimination and inner-city youth, homelessness, unionism, and the differences between U.S. labor market institutions and those of other developed countries, including Japan. A thoughtful introduction to each essay reveals the human side of research on these controversial issues. With chapters that range from broad over... View More...
[nice-looking book, tight and clean with no discernible wear; jacket shows very light edgewear, minor scuffing to spine]. (B&W photographs) "The story of the American tall building, its development, its history, its mission -- a big story underlying the advance of business and industry and the growth of cities." (++) View More...
