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Exploring almost fifty years of writing about television - in novels, cartoons, journalism, advertising, and critical books and articles - Cecelia Tichi defines the role of television in the American consciousness.We all talk about the "tube" or "box," as if television were simply another appliance ... More

From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Cecelia Tichi exposes the histor... More

From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages--one in the early 1900s, another in the final years of the twentieth century--mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. The compelling na... More

For this editor, the starting point for 'Readin' Country Music' was an 8:00 A.M. panel session on country music at the 1992 meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. One of the last, wrap-up sessions on the program, the country music pa... More

The bestselling author of "The Leadership Engine" shows how great companies and their leaders develop business knowledge into "teachable points of view, " and how they, in turn, learn from the employees they are teaching. 5 CDs.The bestselling author of "The Leadership Engine" shows how great leader... More

Hailed as the "unofficial GE leadership handbook," this bestseller is a detailed look at how Jack Welch was able to take a venerable and successful old line corporation and transform it into a 21st-century dynamo of innovation.Acknowledged as the outstanding business leader of the late twentieth cen... More

This is a new audio recording of the revised trade paperback edition, including a new Introduction and a chapter about Jack Welch's latest activities at General Electric. This is the first serious study of Welch's management principles, underscoring the enduring power of his six basic ideas. 5 CDs.T... More

Im Bereich der Konjunkturforschung stehen einer F}lle neuer theoretischer Erkl{rungsans{tze, neuer statistischer und ]konometrischer Methoden und neuer empirischer Erkenntnisse - wenn auch auf h]chstem Abstraktionsniveau -eine analytische Schw{che im Anwendungsbereich und ein {ngstlicher Attentismus... More