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  • Coping With Rapid Growth In Rural Communities

    This book integrates the most current research findings on the economic, demographic, fiscal, and social consequences of rapid growth in rural communities and offers strategies that can be used to mitigate the often disruptive impact of that growth. While working extensively with government officials and citizens in rural communities, Drs. Weber and Howell became aware of the need for a ... Read more

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  • Mastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation, + Web-Based Software

    The TraderEx Course

    Series Book 428 - Wiley Trading
    An interactive guide to successfully trading in today's marketsMastering the Art of Equity Trading Through Simulation is a guidebook to interactive computer trading simulation designed to provide participants with hands-on experience in making tactical decisions and implementing them in different market environments-from continuous order drive markets to call auction markets, and from dealer ... Read more

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  • Rural Wealth Creation

    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    This book investigates the role of wealth in achieving sustainable rural economic development. The authors define wealth as all assets net of liabilities that can contribute to well-being, and they provide examples of many forms of capital – physical, financial, human, natural, social, and others. They propose a conceptual framework for rural wealth creation that considers how multiple forms of ... Read more

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  • As They See 'Em

    A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Named One of the Best Baseball Books Ever Written by EsquireAn insider’s look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America’s favorite pastime is conducted in a manner that is clean, crisp, and true.Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are ... Read more

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  • Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action

    An Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market ... Read more

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  • Life Is a Wheel

    Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Life Is a Wheel chronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).During the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for The New York Times, bicycled across the country, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded. Life Is a Wheel is ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    As They See 'Em

    A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires

    by Bruce Weber ...
    Narrated by Charley Steiner ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 28 min

    Millions of American baseball fans know, with absolute certainty, that umpires are simply overpaid galoots who are doing an easy job badly. Millions of American baseball fans are wrong. As They See 'Em is an insider's look at the largely unknown world of professional umpires, the small group of men (and the very occasional woman) who make sure America's favorite pastime is conducted in a manner ... Read more

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  • Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind

    Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn

    Peter Mitchell, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his chemiosmotic theory, was a highly original scientist who revolutionized our understanding of cellular metabolism and bioenergetics. This is the only full biography of Mitchell, and it should be of considerable interest to biophysicists, biochemists, and physicians and researchers focusing on metabolism, as well as historians of ... Read more

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  • Advances on information Technologies in the Financial Services industry

    A Special Issue of the journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

    The financial services industry is changing under the stimulus of advances in information technology (IT), telecommunications, and the Internet. Technological innovations and growing customer demand and sophistication have led to the emergence of new electronic financial markets, organizational forms for financial services firms, products, and product delivery capabilities. This special issue ... Read more

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  • Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics

    Human-Nature, Rural-Urban Interdependencies

    Most land in the United States is in rural areas, as are the sources of most of its fresh water and almost all its other natural resources. One of the first books to approach resource economics and rural studies as fundamentally interconnected areas of study, Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics integrates the work of 18 leading scholars in resource economics, rural economics, rural sociology ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The End of Arrogance

    America in the Global Competition of Ideas

    Free-market capitalism, hegemony, Western culture, peace, and democracy—the ideas that shaped world politics in the twentieth century and underpinned American foreign policy—have lost a good deal of their strength. Authority is now more contested and power more diffuse. Hegemony (benign or otherwise) is no longer a choice, not for the United States, for China, or for anyone else.Steven Weber and ... Read more

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