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This guide shows how markets work and how prospective clients think. It delivers business wisdom aimed at keeping clients by utilising the keys to modern marketing - price, brand, packaging and relationships.

History of a factory and a city including the role of Fort Wayne plant in World War II. Also a bit about the Decatur plant.

Contains information on the history of Decatur, also housing facilities, health and welfare, education, communications, civic and recreational aspects, labor market, industry, utility facilities, transporation facilities, and financial facilities.

"The energy industry has profoundly impacted our world. The Planet Human series breaks down the human impact on the environment over time and around the globe. Each title presents important high-interest natural science nonfiction content with global relevance"-- Provided by publisher.

"If, in the ancient world, it was guns and germs and steel that determined the fates of people and nations, in modern times it is electricity. No other form of power translates into affluence and influence like it. Though demand for it is growing exponentially, it remains one of the most difficult forms of energy to supply and to do so reliably. Storage is even harder. This paradox has shaped global politics, affected the outcome of wars, and underlies...

Revised and expanded: this classic guide to business leadership presents "an original and profound new view on how to run an organization" (Library Journal). Despite all the evidence calling for change, most organizations still rely on patriarchy and control as their core form of governance. The result is that they stifle initiative and spirit and alienate people from their work. In Stewardship, Peter Block calls for a dramatic shift in how we distribute...

Few challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050--at a time when climate change is making it increasingly difficult to successfully grow crops. In response, corporate and philanthropic leaders have called for major investments in industrial agriculture, including genetically modified seed technologies. Reporting from Africa, Mexico, India, and the United States, Timothy A. Wise's "Eating Tomorrow"...

A guide for the creative hobbyist who wants to take the next step and quit his or her day job to make a living from a creative passion. Suitable as a coaching handbook, it shows how to develop a business plan that will work and be sustainable.

When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy, careers derailed, reputations died, and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle...