Search Results: Economics from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Doubleday, 1989. 1st Edition First Thus. Hardcover. New/New. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Thus. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace edge rubs. An American? History 101 of America all should know. 1001 entries, not meant to be definitive, but richly entertaining & broadening. Deliberatively selective in subject matter, portrait of the making of America. A dictionary of miscellanea like the Boston Tea Party (of course!), who "Dude President" Chester A. Arthur was, when Clarence Birdseye popularized frozen vegetables, and that the song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was born from the1930s' Great Depression years. 207 pgs, w/archival photos, assembled by historian Arthur Garraty (1920 - 2007), in 8 parts: I, Politics; II, Ideas; III, People; IV, What'ses; V, Presidents, Pro & Con; VI, Literature & Music; VII, Military Matters; and VIII, Matters Economic & Otherwise.

Mexico, D. F.: Siglo Ventiuno Editores, 1979. Primera edicion . Printed Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 7 1/8" Tall. The author is a graduate of the Universidad de Havana, and did postgaduate work at Brunel University. At the time of publication he was a professor at UNAM. "Los dos pemsiamentos que precedan este trabajo no son casuales ni una mera referencia intellectual. Constituyeron dos grandes angustias, las cuales me poseyeron a lo largo de mi investigacion. La primera de ellas ... planteaba un problema: ?como aprisonar un proceso social e historico tan complejo en el breve espaco de un studio?, ?como definir lo especifico de la reproduccion del capital social de nuestra economia;... La segunda, mas que un problema teorico fue el reto de desmistificar una revolucion ni interrumpida ni perenne, sino una revolucion que liquido sus possibilidades hitoricas (democraticas y antiimperialistas), quanto mas se articulo la acumulacion del capital al proceso de transnacionalizacion y de… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P Tarcher, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Demographics. Psychologist, gerantologist Ken Dychtwald (1950 -) and freelance writer Joe Flower focus on the 76 million aging baby boomers, and the tidal "age wave" that will wash over America as they reach their senior years. Predictable changes such as rising numbers in the 85-plus group & a preponderance of single (usually widowed) women, for example, may well see the standard child-centered nuclear family change to a predominantly adult-centered extended families, a rise in the popularity of older women marrying younger men, and a society that is less youth oriented. A provocative book Assesses the implications of an aging population in American society with ensuing, unique social, financial, political, medical, economic, educational, and personal consequences.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Text/NEW, Bright & Collectible. Stated First Edition. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Internat'l Economics/Politics. Study of foreign political power in American Government even as we now focus on Russian intervention via the internet. Exposition of Japan's influence on American policies via lobbyists. In depth study of Japanese influence in American political & economic life in specific, and, a case study of role of lobbyists by various parties, be they domestic or foreign, socio-economic or political. Now a classic study when lobbyists reigned supreme.

New York, NY: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF; showing light wear & faint discoloration. PO name on fEP. A dynamic study of the role of agriculture in the role of Japan's economic development. 13 chapters in 2 parts: 1, The Land System; 2, Agricultural Servants; 3, Labor Services; 4, Small Holdings; 5, The Organization of Political Power; 6, The Growth of the Market; 7, Agricultural Technology; 8, The Transformation of Labor; The Transformations of Nago; 10, The Decline of the Cooperative Group; 11, New Class Relations; 12, Political Conflict in the Village; and, 13, Agrarian Change & Modern Japan.

Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1962. Printed Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 1/2" Tall. The major parts to the book, which is number 38 in the publisher's series Frankfurter Geographische Hefte. Part A. is Einleitung; Part B. is Grundlagen und Voraussetzungen der heutigen Agrarlandschaft, and contains Naturliche Grundlagen, and Anthropogene Voraussetzungen; Part C. -- Die Heutige Agrarlandschaft -- contains Die Formelemente; Die formale Struktur; Die Organisation; Die funktionale Struktur; and Die Funktionen. 185 pages, with tables, figures, Anhang, and Literatur; 19 maps are contained in a flap on rear coveR. Covers show scant shelf-use; name of prior owner inked on front endpaper/title page; text is clean and strong.

New York: Asia Publishing House, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB. UNCIRCULATED. No loand pocket. Text/NEW & Bright. Black linen boards/VG. DJ/None. A publication supervised by the International Cooperative Alliance. "The present publication grew out of two conferences which were organized by the ICA Education Centre for South-East Asia and which had as their main theme the problems of agricultural cooperative credit." There are 10 contributions, in addition to Mr. Singh's Agricultural Cooperative Credit in Asia. 184 + viii pages + three unnumbered, including Contents, Contributors, and Annexure.

Chicago, IL: AICPA/Commerce Clearing House, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Collectible - Fine/None as Issued. 2 VOLUME SET. Physical condition of both volumes: Text/BRAND NEW. Pale green soft covers/NF. Volume 1 covers: 1, U.S. Auditing Standards; and, 2, & Attestation Standards. Volume 2 contents are: 1, Accounting & Review Services; 2, Code of Professional Conduct; 3, Bylaws; 4, International Accounting; 5, International Auditing; 6, Consulting Services; 7, Quality Control; 8, Quality Review; and, 9, Tax Practice.

Stuttgart Berlin Köln Mainz: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 1970. Soft Cover/Library Boards. Very Good/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. Blue library boards to softcover/NF. General economic policies and economic performance. A free market [Keynesian] analysis of the strengths and defects of state planned economies. 234 pages, with Anmerkungen, Literaturverzeichnis, and Sachwortregister/Namenregister.

San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Jerry Mander, Co-Chairman of the International Forum on Globilization. Collected papers analyzing the economic, social, political, and ecological consequences of unbridled economic globalization which is increasingly dominated by large corporations at the expense of separate truly democratic and independently sustainable political entities.

New York, NY: Wiley-Interscience/John Wiley, 1989. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. New/Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1989 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed red linen boards/Fine. DJ/Fine w/trace shelfwear. Textbook for researchers, teachers & students. Highly regarded treatment of theory & practice of mathematical modeling for economics, social sciences, biology, computer science disciplines. Focus on system-theoretic concepts such as self-organization, adaptation, reslliance, surprise & uncertainty, and the mathematical structures needed to incorporate these interests into formal systems. 493 pgs in 9 chapters: 1, The Ways of Modeling: Natural Systems & Formal Mathematical Representations; 2, Pattern & the Emergence of Living Forms: Cellular Automata & Discrete Dynamics; 3, The Analytical Engine: A Newtonian View of Brains, Minds & Mechanisms; 4, Catastrophes & Life: The Singularities of Ecological & Natural Resource Systems; 5, Order in… Read More

Madrid, Spain: Javier Morata, 1933. Primera edicion . Library Boards. TZQX/No Jacket. 7 3/8"; 18.73cm. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW, showing discoloration. Blue linen library boards/NF. Texas native-son Samuel Guy Inman (1877 - 1965), a peripatetic, bi-lingual author, eductor, missionary, diplomatic observer, and proponent of the "Good Neighbor" policy, chose his topics well. Among the 12 chapters in this 1930s book are some that, with a little updating, could be printed today: Se puede salvar nuestra civilizacion? (Cap. II); Algunos experimentos sociales en Hispanoamerica (Cap. VI); El nuevo orden internacional (Cap. VIII); and Los Estados Unidos y el nuevo orden economico (Cap. X). The book reflects the thinking, which the author helped formulate, of the Roosevelt years in regard to Spanish America. 340 pages. Stated First Edition.

Madrid, Spain: Centro de Investigaciones Sociologicas, 1980. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED COPY. no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW. Softcover/NF. "Reúno en este libro una selección de trabajos spreciados en revistas cientificas europeas y americanas en esta década que estamos finalizando ... Los temas de estos ensayos -- crisis de la sociología modernizadora, dependencia, militarismo -- son los que han dominado el quehacer cientifico de estos años, pero a estas alturas tal vez al lector no pase inadvertida la intención crítica con que fueron escritos." 7 chapters in 3 parts: Part I, Presencia de la Historia, II, Subdesarrollo y Dependencia; and, III, Los Militares, followed by Fuentes.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Archival Phootos; Maps, Graphs & Figures By Theodore R. Miller. Text/NEW & Bright. Vintage 1955, Stated First Edition. Gilt embossed blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/Good; tired w/edge rubs & loss to upper spine edge. Upper text block dyed red. In depth review of the final decade of the 1890's & the first 5 decades of the 20th century (1897 through 1952). Coverage of some 60 historical years (World War I, the Great Depression, & World War II) in American history. Author, historian & educator, Arthur Stanley Link (1920 - 1998) was hailed as the leading authority on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. 734 pgs w/separately paginated Index. Volume illustrated w/archival photos, maps & charts, in 29 chapters, 3 parts: Part I, The Progressive Generation (1897-1914; II, An Era of War, Prosperity & Depression (1914-1933); and III, The Democratic Era (1933-1953). Fine copy in tired dustjacket.

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1939. First Edition . Hardcover. New/No Jacket. Lloy Sanford (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Beige linen boards/Fine w/gilt title framed in black to backstrap. DJ/None. Textbook & reference. Text covers all native mammal families of North America, from Panama to the Artic Barrens, and their place in relationship to human economics.. 18 chapters: I, The Ancestry of Mammals; II, Classification; III, Some characters of Mammals & Their Uses; IV, Adaptations; V, Food; VI, Storage; VII, Reproduction & Early Life; VIII, The Home of Mammals; IX, Hibernation; X, Migration; XI, Mammal Populations; XII, Behavior; XIII, Distribution; XIV, Useful Mammals; XV, Injurious Mammals; XVI, Game Mammals; XVII, Fur-bearing Mammals; and XVIII, Predatory Mammals.

New York, NY: Harper Torch/The Academic Library, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace edge wear. First published 1957, Harvard Univ Press; this is a paperback reprint of 1962. A business and economic history. 10 chapters in two parts. Part I: Chapter 1, Business as an American Institution; 2, Fundamentals of Business Change; 3, Patterns of Capital & Industry; 4, The Implication of Big Business; and, 5, The Era of the Bankers. Part II: Chapter 6, Business in Stagnation & Boom; 7, A New Business Environment; 8, Business & the Public; 9, American Business; and, Cultural Change & Challenge. A study of changing forms and styles of business in relationship to industrial and technological change, and the variable of government intervention which Cochran dates from Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation of 1932.

Hannover: Edition Zeitgeschen - Fackeltrager-Verlag, 1977. Printed Coated Cardstock. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 1/16" Tall. The two main sections in this thorough book on Eastern European labor practices are Mitbestimmung und Selbstverwaltung als Ziele gesellschaftlicher und okonomischer Reformen, and Mitbestimmung und Selbstverwaltung in sozialistischen Landern. Chapters in the first part are: Begriffliche Grundlagen; Begrundungen fur Mitbestimmung und Selbstverwaltung (Gramatzki); Ebenen der Mitbestimmung und Selbstverwaltung (Leman); and Mitbestimmung in kapitalischen Landern (Gramatzki). Chapters in the second part are: Die zentralistchen Systeme der UdSSR und DDR (Gramatzki), and chapters on Yugoslavia (Leman), Poland (Gramatzki), Czechoslovakia (Leman), Hungary (Gramatzki), and Roumania and Bulgaria (Gramatzki). Data, judged by the bibliographic references, are current through 1975. 176 pages, with Inhalt, Vorwort, Abkurzungverzeichnis, Transskriptionsverzeichnis, and Literaturverzeichnis.… Read More

Buenos Aires/Argentina: Editorial Paidos, 1972. First Edition, First Thus . Library Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy; no loan pocket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Black linen library boards/NF. Volume 4 in the Coleccion Historia Argentina edited by historian Tulio Halperin Donghi (1926 - 2014). " .... [E]ntre 1852 y 1874 coexisten elementos que posemos llamar tradicionales con otros que tienden a modificarlos drasticamente, interdependencia que el analisis de cerca constata aunque no siempre pueda ponderar exactamente. Sin embargo, el estudio de cada etapa en particular ofrece la oportunidad de senelar concordancias y defasajes que, a su turno, permiten la necesaria sintesis. La que habra de ocuparnos se inicia en 1852, luego de la caida de Rosas en Caseros." [Introduccion] 140 pages, with illustration (four in color), Bibliografia, and 2 Indices.Strong copy

Oxford, UK: Oxford Univ Press, 1988. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. EX-LIB. Research center copy; min library markings. Text/check marks to contents & fold to fEP, else As New. Black linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/None. Third volume in a triology examining global arms trade between industrialized societies and Third World countries. Anthology of 14 papers grouped into 4 parts: I, Controversies; II, Supplier Control; III, Recipient Control; and, IV, Integratin Approaches, concluding with Assessment. Strong copy.

New Delhi, India: Abhinav Publications, 1976. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge wear. Essays from the Symposium on Development Aims and Socio-Cultural Values in Asia, Bangkok, 1975. The session was sponsored by UNESCO and UNADI (United Nations Asian Development Institute). The 9 papers are: 1, The Issues (R.C. Malhotra); 2, The Task (V. Mshvenieradze); 3, The Symposium (Ralf Pieris); 4, Erring Modernization: The Dilemma of Developing Societies (S.H. Alatas); 5, Social & Cultural Factors in Development (S.C. Dube); 6, The Search for Alternative Futures (Ralph Pieris); 7, The Social Scientist & the Challenges of Development (Ahmad Ashraf); 8, Confrontation & Consensus: A Review of the Debate (Yogesh Atal); and, 9, The Acheivements (S.C. Dube).