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The book analyzes how manufacturing firms bring new and improved products and production processes to the market. It examines sources of innovative ideas and technologies, the role of R&D, activity, the use of patent protection and other government policies, and the effect of innovation on employment and various performance indicators such as profitability and export performance. It reveals how these processes differ between small and large fi...

This innovative study by a premier scholar of the Middle Ages brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion an unusually provocative, comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine, the Prose Salernit...

The CliffsNotes study guide on Homer's Odyssey supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Odyssey. Reading a l...

This book makes use of vivid primary documents to provide a fascinating portrait of Paris in the year 1200: a key moment in its history, when the modern French capital was being born.

This book makes use of vivid primary documents to provide a fascinating portrait of Paris in the year 1200: a key moment in its history, when the modern French capital was being born.

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This study of innovation - its intensity, the sources used for knowledge creation, and its impacts - is based on a comprehensive survey of innovation of Canadian manufacturing firms. Attention is paid to the different actors in the system, who both compete with and complement one another. The study investigates how innovation regimes differ across size of firm and across industries. Owing to the high degree of foreign investment in Canada, spe...

As the slow food movement meets fast food nation and eating locally collides with on-demand arugula, our food habits are shifting: writers and artists examine and imagine these changes, from the idea of a farm in a skyscraper to a map of fruit that falls on public property, from the genealogy of an organic bento box to a tale of chop suey and egg rolls.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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This book picks up the dialogue where Kroeber and Kluckhohn left off in their classic 1952 collection and analysis of definitions of culture. As a resource for personal and academic libraries, this volume provides an updated listing of over 300 definitio

This volume provides a formal discussion of culture as well as offering a wide variety of culture definitions. It will interest scholars and students of interpretations of culture.

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A lavish volume of photos and essays featuring the wild beauty of the Coast Mountains.

Excerpt from A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn: With Notices of His Father and Brothers, and Some Account of Other Denisons Who Settled in America in the Colony Times This genealogical record is not complete, it is seldom or never possible to make such a record complete. It is sent forth with the h e that it will be acceptable to the living members of the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books pub...

Excerpt from Constitutions, General Regulations, Forms, Etc of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the State of New York: Revised and Amended August 28, 1900, A. Dep, 2900 We, the several Councils now hailing from and constituting the jurisdiction of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the State of New York, for the purpose of promoting harmony and brotherly love, advancing our Order, diffusing Masonic instruction, a...

Excerpt from Interview Between President Lincoln and Col. John B. Baldwin: April 4th, 1861, Statements Evidence I regret very much that circumstances beyond my control have prevented an earlier notice from me of the testimony given before the Reconstruction Committee by John F. Lewis, John M. Botts and myself in relation to my interview with President Lincoln on the 4th of April, 1861. I regarded it as just to all parties to await the public...

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