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  • Food in the Gilded Age

    What Ordinary Americans Ate

    by Robert Dirks ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
    The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits.This book delves ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Chicago Food Encyclopedia

    by Maureen Abood, Ann Kathleen Barnds, Daniel Block, Anthony F Buccini, Ellie Carlson, John Carruthers, Julie Chernoff, Cynthia Clampitt, J Peter Clark, Kelsey Coday, Amy Dahlstrom, Bill Daley, Jim Dewan, Robert Dirks, Charla Draper, Megan E Edwards, Monica Eng, Peter Engler, Joshua Evans, Janet Rausa Fuller, Robert Gardner, Michael Gebert, Erik S. Gellman, Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn, Rebecca S Graff, Rita Gutekanst, David Hammond, Eleanor Hanson, Judy Hevrdejs, Judith Dunbar Hines, Dave Hoekstra, Mary LaPlante, Margaret LaPort, Robert Launay, Jennifer Lewis, George Macht, Janine MacLachlan, Sarah Muirhead, Josh Noel, Jennifer Olvera, Clara Orban, Stefan Osdene, Sarahlynn Pablo, Deborah Pankey, Donna Battle Pierce, Penny Pollack, Jack H. Prost, Tia Rains, Chandra Ram, Joan Reardon, Jonathan Rees, Barbara Revsine, Elizabeth D Richter, Mike Rossmeier, Geraldine Rounds, Joseph Schwieterman, Amanda Scotese, Richard Shepro, Alan Solomon, Ellen F. Steinberg, Kay Stepkin, Michael Stern, Jane Stern, Bill St. John, Mike Sula, Arlene Swartzman, Richard S Tan, Andres Torres, Mary Valentin, Lauren Viera, Kimberly Voss, Scott J Warner, Rebecca Wheeler, Philip Wojciak, Leah A Zeldes ...
    Series series Heartland Foodways
    The Chicago Food Encyclopedia is a far-ranging portrait of an American culinary paradise. Hundreds of entries deliver all of the visionary restauranteurs, Michelin superstars, beloved haunts, and food companies of today and yesterday. More than 100 sumptuous images include thirty full-color photographs that transport readers to dining rooms and food stands across the city. Throughout, a roster of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fractured Cities

    Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America

    by Doctor Elisabeth Leeds, Wil Pansters, Ralph Rozema, Doctor Dennis Rodgers, Professor Caroline Moser, Carlos Ivan Degregori, Roberto Briceno-Leon, Cathy McIlwaine ...
    As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable.From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    Through the Fires

    An American Business Story of Turbulence, Triumph and Giving Back

    by Robert Owen Carr ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 37 min

    Through the Fires is a triumphant comeback story in life and business. Robert Carr reflects decades of struggle that took him to the brink of financial ruin at age fifty. Carr would later make a fortune in the card payments industry only to lose almost everything in 2009 after one of the most devastating data breaches ever. Carr's story is a vulnerable and honest depiction of holding on and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Chaos Reconsidered

    The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

    by Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Chaudoin, Susan Colbourn, Martin Conway, James Goldgeier, Richard H. Immerman, Robert Legvold, Anthony Dirk Moses, Sarah B. Snyder, Jennifer Spindel, James Stocker, John A. Thompson, Christy Thornton, Thomas Zeiler, F. Gregory Gause III, Randall Schweller, Dayna Barnes, Frank Ninkovich, William Hitchcock, Jonathan Monten, Elizabeth Economy, Matthew Evangelista, Lindsay Aqui, Audie Klotz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan DiCicco, William Glenn Gray, Samuel Zipp, Angela Stent, Michael Barnett, Deborah Avant, Emma Ashford, Ryan Irwin, Nicholas Mulder, Tanvi Madan, Kathryn Statler, Jason Ludwig, Rebecca Slayton, Nivi Manchada, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley, George N. Georgarakis, Robert Shapiro, Alessandro Brogi, Lawrence Freedman, Charles S. Maier ...
    The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement

    A Biocultural Perspective

    by Jon Entine, Bernd Heinrich, Clifford Geertz, Robert Scott, Greg Downey, Vilma Charlton, Dirk Lund Christensen, Loren Cordain, Søren Damkjaer, Joe Friel, Rachael Irving, Kerrie P. Lewis, Peter G. Mewett, Andy Miah, Timothy Noakes, Yannis P. Pitsiladis ...
    The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Chaos Reconsidered

    The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics

    by Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Chaudoin, Susan Colbourn, Martin Conway, James Goldgeier, Richard H. Immerman, Robert Legvold, Anthony Dirk Moses, Sarah B. Snyder, Jennifer Spindel, James Stocker, John A. Thompson, Christy Thornton, Thomas Zeiler, F. Gregory Gause III, Randall Schweller, Dayna Barnes, Frank Ninkovich, William Hitchcock, Jonathan Monten, Elizabeth Economy, Matthew Evangelista, Lindsay Aqui, Audie Klotz, Joshua Busby, Jonathan DiCicco, William Glenn Gray, Samuel Zipp, Angela Stent, Michael Barnett, Deborah Avant, Emma Ashford, Ryan Irwin, Nicholas Mulder, Tanvi Madan, Kathryn Statler, Jason Ludwig, Rebecca Slayton, Nivi Manchada, Helen V. Milner, Dustin Tingley, George N. Georgarakis, Robert Shapiro, Alessandro Brogi, Lawrence Freedman, Charles S. Maier ...
    The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Andrews' Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas,E-Book

    Andrews' Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas,E-Book

    by Robert G. Micheletti, William D. James, Dirk M. Elston, Patrick J. McMahon ...
    More than 3,000 outstanding images of both common and rare skin diseases make Andrews' Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas, 2nd Edition, your one-stop resource for superb visual guidance in this challenging area. Designed as both a superior standalone atlas and a pictorial companion to Andrews' Disease of the Skin, the Clinical Atlas clearly depicts a wide spectrum of skin diseases in all skin ... Read more

    $177.99 USD

  • The Obama Presidency

    Change and Continuity

    Edited by Andrew Dowdle, Dirk C. van Raemdonck, Robert Maranto ...
    At his inauguration, President Barack Obama was seemingly poised to become America's strongest and most influential president since Ronald Reagan. However, President Obama's first two years in office has led to some notable surprises. What accounts for the political stability and change demonstrated by the Obama administration? Which factors shaping a presidency are structural, which are personal, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship

    Edited by Robert Blackburn, Jarna Heinonen, Dirk De Clercq ...
    The SAGE Handbook of Small Business and Entrepreneurship offers state-of-the-art chapters on all aspects of this rapidly-evolving discipline. Original contributions from the best international scholars map the development of Entrepreneurship as an academic field, explore its key current debates and research methods, and also consider its future directions.Part One: The People and the ... Read more

    $118.99 USD

  • Next Generation Roadmapping

    Establishing Technology and Innovation Pathways Towards Sustainable Value

    Edited by Tugrul U. Daim, Robert Phaal, Dirk Meissner, Clive Kerr ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Roadmapping is a structured visual approach for supporting strategic technology and innovation management, providing strategic navigational support (hence the “roadmap” metaphor) for technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, programme managers, executives, policy makers, other stakeholders involved in the formulation and implementation of strategy.This book brings together the latest developments ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Broadening Our Knowledge on Cluster Evolution

    Edited by Dirk Fornahl, Robert Hassink, Max-Peter Menzel ...
    Although clusters are regarded as important elements in economic development, the strong focus in the literature on the way clusters function is contrasted with a disregard for their evolutionary development: how clusters actually become clusters, how and why they decline, and how they shift into new fields and transform over time. Although recently new cluster life cycle approaches emerged, both ... Read more

    $68.99 USD