This work shows how companies can avoid commoditization by delivering superior customer value. It provides an account of what a company must do and how to go about doing it in each critical area. It utilizes numerous vignettes and mini-cases drawn from several large and medium-sized companies to illustrate its points and shows the application of ......
The Harvest Story depicts the life of rural American threshermen. This collection of first-person narratives chronicles the eyewitness accounts of people who threshed grain with steam engines. The book selects anecdotes from over 50 volumes of material published in The Iron-Men Album Magazine from 1946 until 2001 and arranges them in a coherent ......
This book explains state and federal regulations in a waythat makes sense and can save its users time and money, Whitford says. It givessmall business owners a place to start and tells them how to comply with theregulations. Usually businesses must hire a consultant or lawyer to be surethey are in compliance with safety, environmental and other ......
This book presents a number of strategic management concepts and the circumstances in which they apply in a format and language understandable to both business and non-business readers. The authors - academics and military men - cite examples throughout military history, including quotes, stories, and diagrams, that teach important lessons for ......
The Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present
This volume contains three sections of essays which examine the role of commemoration and public celebrations in the creation of a national identity in Habsburg lands. It also seeks to engage historians of culture and of nationalism in other geographic fields as well as colleagues who work on Habsburg Central Europe, but write about nationalism ......
Harry Spring kept detailed diaries throughout most of his life. Harry died in 1974, but through his diaries he lives to tell us about his experiences. His diary for the time from November 28, 1917 to August 19, 1918 were lost during the fighting in the Argonne Forest, but in 1974, just before he died, he wrote some supplementary notes of what he ......
This collection of personal critical essays employs a formal study of literature as framework for the consideration of universal issues, including grief management, death, and acceptance of and benefit from traumatic change. * The book makes clear Brackett's belief that no reasonable explanation exists for the necessity some scholars see in ......
The term anamorphosis, from the greek ana (again) and morphe (shape), designates a variety of perspective experiments that can be traced back to the artistic developments of the 1500's and 1600's. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. Images shift in front of the eyes of ......
The Austrian Experience of Nation-building in a Modern Society
The Ambivalence of Identity examines nation-building in Austria and uses the Austrian experience to explore the conceptual foundations of nationhood. Traditionally, Hapsburg, Austria, has provided the background for these works. In the course of this study it should become clear that Republican Austria is as valuable in understanding national ......
