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Product Description: What follows in the pages ahead is the competitive advantage you have been searching for. Let's take a few things as assumptions. You already have a great product. Clearly, in today's competitive business environment, there is no substitute for excellence of product, executive leadership and staffing, as well as providing top-notch customer care...read more
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9781484921999 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 10, 2013, cover price $9.97 | About this edition: What follows in the pages ahead is the competitive advantage you have been searching for.
By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets. After the Revolution, ironmakers supplied the materials necessary to the building of American industry, pushing the fuel efficiency and productivity of their furnaces far ahead of their European rivals. In American Iron, 1607-1900, Robert B. Gordon draws on recent archaeological findings as well as archival research to present an ambitious, comprehensive survey of iron technology in America from the colonial period to the industry's demise at about the turn of the twentieth century. Closely examining the techniques--the "hows"--of ironmaking in its various forms, Gordon offers new interpretations of labor, innovation, and product quality in ironmaking, along with references to the industry's environmental consequences. He establishes the high level of skills required to ensure efficient and safe operation of furnaces and to improve the quality of iron product. By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others. (view table of contents)
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9780801851810 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $58.00 | About this edition: By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselves felt in world markets.
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9780801868160 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 22, 2001), cover price $26.00
Product Description: This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195128185 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, December 14, 2000, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut.
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9780195058857 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 20, 1994, cover price $65.00
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9780195111415 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 6, 1997, cover price $83.00
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9780674898189 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 11, 1987, cover price $71.50 | About this edition: Quantitative Modeling of Resource Exhaustion
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9780070077218 | 4th edition (McGraw-Hill College, March 1, 1977), cover price $137.05
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9780867270587 | Ohio Biological Survey, June 1, 1973, cover price $10.00
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