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Ecology

Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification

Auld Graeme

ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Biography & Memoires

Business & Economics

Helena Rubinstein Beauty is Power

Klein Mason

ISBN: HB: 9780300195569, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) broke free from the constraints of her 19th-century, small-town Polish Jewish background to become a cosmetics industry giant and household name. She produced and marketed the means for ordinary women to transform themse...

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Business & Economics

Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

Sabin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300198973, Yale University Press, November 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the la...

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Business & Economics

Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior

Colarelli Stephen M., Arvey Richard D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226127156, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 4 line drawings

In recent years, evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics have emerged as prominent theoretical perspectives within the social sciences. Yet despite broad levels of commonality between the disciplines – including an emphasis on adaptation, evo...

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Business & Economics

Human Capital in History The American Record

Boustan Leah Platt, Frydman Carola, Margo Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226163895, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2014
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 61 line drawings, 49 tables

America's expansion to one of the richest nations in the world was partly due to a steady increase in labor productivity, which in turn depends upon the invention and deployment of new technologies and on investments in both human and physical capita...

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Business & Economics

Sport

Top Performance in Business and Sports Maximum Energy for Professionals and Athletes

Wienecke Elmar

ISBN: PB: 9781782550556, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, September 2014
224 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 36 colour and black&white illus.

More and more people nowadays feel stressed out. In many cases this even leads to burnout. They feel empty, they cannot go on anymore, they are without motivation, power, and joy. Over the past ten years, the number of people suffering from this stat...

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Business & Economics

Citizen's Share Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century

Blasi Joseph R., Freeman Richard B., Kruse Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209334, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the largest study of profit-sharing and employee ownership in years, Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse investigated dozens of large- and medium-sized companies across all sectors of the United States' economy. The ten-year e...

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Business & Economics

Foundations of Macroecology Classic Papers with Commentaries

Smith Felisa A., Gittleman John L., Brown James H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226115474, ISBN: HB: 9780226115337, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
824 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, 1 halftone, 252 line drawings, 90 tables

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ec...

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Business & Economics

Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress

Jorgenson Dale W., Landefeld J. Steven, Schreyer Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780226121338, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2014
808 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 80 line drawings, 121 tables

Since the Great Depression, researchers and statisticians have recognized the need for more extensive methods for measuring economic growth and sustainability. The recent recession renewed commitments to closing long-standing gaps in economic measure...

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