Product Description: This study analyses the shift in the relationship between large and smaller firms from confrontation and conflict, to cooperation and mutual assistance. It charts the pace of the adaption of Japanese style buyer-supplier relations in North American and Western European organizations...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes the business, geography and politics of shopkeeping in Milan between 1886 and 1922. The author studies the trades, techniques, tax structure and topography of the Milanese retail sector, addresses questions relating to petit bourgeois identity, and explains why shopkeepers were to be found on the political right in the years that led up to the Fascist takeover...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern problem' viewed through a Northern prism. These scholars suggest that the South was not a 'backward' region, but a combination of regions in which different social and economic patterns had evolved in response to the prevailing conditions within the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Doctor and Romana land on one of the inner ships stuck in a terrible traffic jam near the space city known as G-Lock. Here people take part in themed death experiences. The Doctor's task is to defeat a creature called the Repulsion.

Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.

Product Description: There is a gala opening for a new exhibition at the Tate Modern - "The Tomorrow Windows." The concept behind the exhibition is simple - anyone can look through a Tomorrow Window and see into the future. Of course, the future is malleable, and so the future you see will change as you formulate your plans...read more

Introduces the history of the field of bioethics and presents the moral and ethical arguments for and against the cloning of animals and humans, the use of stem cells in research, and the creation of genetically modified foods.

Based on research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the status of state enterprise reform in China. It considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978.

An edition of Shakespeare's tragedy, including discussion of its plot, themes, characters, language, production, and author.

Product Description: The Fox News Commentator and Catholic Priest Explores the Central Question for Hard Times: Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer?

In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the Modern Corporation explains how and why large companies have changed their organisational structures and philosophies, focusing in particular on how these changes affect the careers of middle managers. Based on in-depth interviews with over two hundred middle and senior managers working in large corporations in the USA, UK and Japan, it shows how the working lives of managers have been subjected to major disruption, involving work intensification and reduced opportunities for career progression. Furthermore, it argues that such widespread overwork and poor treatment of highly skilled and highly motivated staff has created a major international problem that must be addressed. The book presents a range of solutions to this important problem, suggesting that there are possibilities for saner, less brutal organisational environments.

Product Description: "Inviting, accessible and personal. . . . A reminder of an overlooked truth: faith leads to joy." —James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) EverythingFox News analyst Father Jonathan Morris challenges the wisdom espoused by New Age self-help experts with the time-tested counsel found in the Bible...read more

Wales has one of the highest concentrations of Japanese manufacturing investment in Europe, with the recent arrival of a Toyota engine plant at Deeside and a Sony television plant at Pencoed. It provides a case study for examining the economic and social impact of this new investment, which is often perceived as being very different from existing foreign investment. This study evaluates this case study, looking at the attraction of Japanese capital to Wales, its impact on the Welsh economy, upon employment, management practice, industrial relations, the community, and upon the Japanese themselves. Finally, the book also considers the future prospects for Japanese investment in Wales, and the likely effects. Jonathon Morris has also published "Japan and the Global Economy" (1991), and "Wales in the 1990s" (1991). Max Munday is the author of "Japanese Manufacturing Investment in Wales since 1972" (1990). Barry Wilkinson's publications include "The Japanisation of British Industry" (1988).

Product Description: Violent, volcanic Hephastos is home to a colony of artists, all striving to create the universes greatest works of art. But in pursuit of their goal, artistic collaboration has been taken too far.

Product Description: With over one hundred illustrations and more than two hundred notes cross-referencing to over forty reference works on Stonehenge, the expanded second edition of Stonehenge: solving the Neolithic Universe describes a new interpretation of Stonehenge based the idea that it is an accumulation of knowledge about the cosmos...read more

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