Subject(s): Entrepreneurship | Economics Summary: 'This book addresses the central question in economic development: what institutions are conducive to productive entrepreneurship and wealth creation? By exploring the answer to this question from multiple perspectives, this volume is an invaluable resource both to scholars and policymakers

Subject(s): Effective teaching -- United States | School management and organization -- United States | Teacher morale -- United States | Motivation in education -- United States | School improvement programs -- United States | Education -- United States | Teaching -- United States Summary: Join the teaching revolution that's sweeping the U

Subject(s): Environmental policy -- International cooperation | Environmental protection -- International cooperation Summary: "As global environmental changes become increasingly evident and efforts to respond to these changes fall short of expectations, questions about the circumstances that generate environmental reforms become more pres

Subject(s): Businesspeople -- Biography | Business -- History Summary: Presents brief profiles of fifty influential people in business and industry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and discusses ten important business trends. Contents:Introduction -- Pioneers. Ray Kroc -- Thomas Edison -- John Jacob Astor -- Frederick Winslow T

Subject(s): Nationalism -- History | National characteristics -- Memory | Crises -- Psychological aspects History | Memory -- Social aspects History | Collective memory -- History | Political messianism -- History Summary: "THis is the first book to camparatively examine nations that emphasize images of their own defeat in their mythology a

Subject(s): Liberty -- Fiction | Dictatorship -- Fiction | Civil war -- Fiction Summary: The battle lines in this bitter rivalry are as old as civilization itself: On one side, an unlikely band of ordinary Americans ready to make their last stand in defense of self-rule, freedom, and liberty, and on the other, an elite cabal of self-styled tyra

Subject(s): Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Women private investigators -- Fiction -- California | Theft -- Fiction | Organized crime -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction Review: California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes ju

Subject(s): Drawing -- Technique | Space (Art) | Space (Architecture) Summary: The core idea for this project is to use operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design.

Subject(s): Emigration and immigration | Social policy Summary: In this comprehensive Handbook, an interdisciplinary team of distinguished scholars from the social sciences explores the connections between migration and social policy. They test conflicting claims as to the positive and negative effects of different types of migration against th

Subject(s): Sisters -- Fiction | Nurses -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Australia -- Fiction Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Schindlers List comes the epic, unforgettable story of two sisters whose lives are transformed by the cataclysm of the First World War. In 1915, Naomi and Sally Durance, two spirited Australian sister