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Benevolent Barons: American Worker-centered Industrialists 1850-1910
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Product Description: American business has always had deep roots in community. For over a century, the country looked to philanthropic industrialists to finance hospitals, parks, libraries, civic programs, community welfare and disaster aid. Worker-centered capitalists saw the workplace as an extension of the community and poured millions into schools, job training and adult education...read more
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9780786494941 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 17, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: American business has always had deep roots in community.

The 100 Most Important American Financial Crises: An Encyclopedia of the Lowest Points in American Economic History
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By Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
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9781440830112 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 9, 2014, cover price $89.00

The Fall of an American Rome: De-industrialization of the American Dream
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Product Description: This is the story of the de-industrialization of America, written by a Business professor with a background in steel company management who grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and loved its manufacturing environment. The book is based on the facts and aims to avoid any partisan political viewpoint which is not as difficult as it may seem, since both U...read more
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9781628940619 | Algora Pub, March 15, 2014, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This is the story of the de-industrialization of America, written by a Business professor with a background in steel company management who grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and loved its manufacturing environment.

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9781628940602 | Algora Pub, March 15, 2014, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: This is the story of the de-industrialization of America, written by a Business professor with a background in steel company management who grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and loved its manufacturing environment.

Rubber: An American Industrial History
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Product Description: The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details, many of the great rubber barons--Charles Goodyear, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, F.A. Seiberling--found themselves or their companies in bankruptcy courts...read more
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9780786469987 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 27, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies.

The Green Vision of Henry Ford and George Washington Carver: Two Collaborators in the Cause of Clean Industry
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Product Description: Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. This book details their paths to "green" manufacturing and the start of the chemurgic movement in America. It covers a number of little known projects such as their efforts to use ethanol as a national fuel, the use of soybeans for plastic production, and the use of waterpower for factories...read more
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9780786469826 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 11, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Henry Ford and George Washington Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision.

The Carnegie Boys: The Lieutenants of Andrew Carnegie That Changed America
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Product Description: In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles...read more
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9780786464555 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 30, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In the 1890s, the Carnegie Veterans Association began as a group of boyhood friends and older Andrew Carnegie steel partners united to share business ideas, but it evolved into a powerful secretive network in American business circles.

The 100 Most Significant Events in American Business: An Encyclopedia
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By Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
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9780313398629 | Greenwood Pub Group, May 4, 2012, cover price $98.00

Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker
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Product Description: Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and an art collector. Both practical and creative, Libbey forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine...read more
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9780786463350, titled "Edward Drummond Libbey, American Glassmaker: A Biography of the American Glassmaker" | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 17, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and an art collector.

Glass in Northwest Ohio
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Product Description: The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio. Within five years, over 100 glass companies had moved into the region for free gas and railroad connections to the western markets. Unfortunately the gas ran out in just a few years, and many glass companies moved on, but those that stayed changed the nature of the glass industry forever...read more
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9780738551111 | Arcadia Pub, February 28, 2007, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: The discovery of natural gas around Findlay in 1886 started an industrial rush in northwest Ohio.

Michael Owens And the Glass Industry
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By Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
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9781589803855 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, January 30, 2007, cover price $29.95

George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius
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By Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
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9780875865072 | Algora Pub, November 30, 2006, cover price $32.95

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9780875865065 | Algora Pub, November 30, 2006, cover price $32.95

De Metallica Perita (On Practical Metallurgy)
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Product Description: Metallurgy and metallurgical engineering have defined man, the toolmaker, from the earliest days of civilization. This book focuses on the science of metallurgy for the craftsman, trades, beginning engineer, engineer-in-training, hobbyist, blacksmith, and technician...read more
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9780741433596 | Infinity Pub, July 21, 2006, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Metallurgy and metallurgical engineering have defined man, the toolmaker, from the earliest days of civilization.

William Mckinley: Apostle of Protectionism
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Product Description: This biography, focused on McKinley's unusual view of protectionism, a labor-business alliance, and American exceptionalism, offers striking parallels to today as the US struggles to define its international role and to determine the best blend of free trade, protectionism, and immigration...read more
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9780875865775 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This biography, focused on McKinley s unusual view of protectionism, a labor-business alliance, and American exceptionalism, offers striking parallels to today as the US struggles to define its international role and to determine the best blend of free trade, protectionism, and immigration.

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9780875865768 | Algora Pub, June 30, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This biography, focused on McKinley's unusual view of protectionism, a labor-business alliance, and American exceptionalism, offers striking parallels to today as the US struggles to define its international role and to determine the best blend of free trade, protectionism, and immigration.

The Metallurgic Age: The Victorian Flowering of Invention And Industrial Science
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'In many ways the mind of the Victorian age was absorbed by invention and innovation. A passion for technology and learning resulted in a period not only of discovery but of practical application of the sciences. This volume examines this age of invention and the evolution of fields such as metallurgy, automotive engineering, aerodynamics and industrial arts'--Provided by publisher.
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9780786423262 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 30, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: 'In many ways the mind of the Victorian age was absorbed by invention and innovation.

Iconic Lessons in Operations Management
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Product Description: The processes of globalization, outsourcing, downsizing, lean manufacturing, and imports are both old and predictable. The challenge of this global market has resulted in cries for a political solution such as tariffs and trade restrictions, but this is a short-term fix...read more
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9780741428936 | Infinity Pub, December 30, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The processes of globalization, outsourcing, downsizing, lean manufacturing, and imports are both old and predictable.

The Spiritual Robinsonades of Literature: The Spirituality of Aloneness And Brokenness
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Product Description: In the world of the 1700s, great novels played the role of self-help, moral and religious books. That role, while overlooked, is still important today. The Robinsonade is a classical plot outline, which began with the novel Robinson Crusoe...read more
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9781413732689 | Publishamerica Inc, April 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In the world of the 1700s, great novels played the role of self-help, moral and religious books.

St. Benedict's Rule For Business Success
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St. Benedict’s Rule is one of a handful of documents, such as the Magna Carta and U.S. Constitution, that make up the foundation of Western civilization. Benedict’s Rule is an organizational blueprint for success and Benedict’s original organization is the oldest in the world (over 1500 years). The beauty of The Rule is its organizational genius, which has wide application beyond monastic groups.
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9781557532541 | Purdue Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: St.

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9781557533937 | Purdue Univ Pr, March 30, 2005, cover price $14.95

The Boys of Braddock: Andrew Carnegie and the Men Who Changed Industrial History
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Product Description: The great steel-making town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, traces its history to the bloody defeat of General Edward Braddock in the early days of the French and Indian War. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Braddock happened to be the hometown of so
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9780788425165 | Heritage Books, December 31, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The great steel-making town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, traces its history to the bloody defeat of General Edward Braddock in the early days of the French and Indian War.

La Regla De San Benito Aplicada a La Empresa Actual: Los Origenes Del Trabajo En Equipo Y De La Excelencia Organizacional
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9789683813039, titled "La regla de San Benito aplicada a la empresa actual / San Benito's Rule Applied to the Current Company: Los Origenes Del Trabajo En Equipo Y De La Excelencia Organizacional" | Panorama Editorial S.A. De C.V., July 1, 2004, cover price $6.95

In Search of the Lost Grail of Middle Management: The Renaissance of Middle Managers
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Product Description: In most management books, middle management is treated as a right of passage to CEO. Today's managers are educated, trained, and inspired from the CEO's perspective. The career and art of middle management is lost in the pursuit of one's ambition for the top spot...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780761825517 | Univ Pr of Amer, January 1, 2004, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: In most management books, middle management is treated as a right of passage to CEO.

Saintly Lessons and Divine Concepts for Business
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Product Description: The saints, for centuries, have been studied for their exemplary model lives for Christians. Their many miracles have fascinated people in the middle ages as they do today. What has been overlooked are the administrative and organizational "miracles" they performed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781560728450 | Nova Science Pub Inc, August 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The saints, for centuries, have been studied for their exemplary model lives for Christians.

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