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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
As a stoned teenager, Jon Willing thought he and his buddies had the perfect plan for stealing a fortune in drug money. Twenty-five years later, Jon's marriage is on the rocks, his kids are virtual strangers, and the recession has taken his job and decimated his finances. Worst of all, when he finds Augie murdered in Vegas, he knows the past has risen from its grave to grab him by the throat.The battle that ensues will send Jon skittering across a...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"The father of Open Innovation is back, this time with his most expansive, most significant book yet. Open Innovation described a new paradigm for the management of industrial innovation in the 21st century: How useful industrial knowledge today is widely distributed around the world and firms must open up to work with external partners to commercialize internal innovations, and allow unused internal ideas to be taken to market by others externally....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 330 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of financial crashes in the United States offers concise explanations of little-understood principles about consumer debt that were at the core of each recession, recounting lending practices and schemes that triggered large-scale crashes and controversies.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly. But history shows us that, ultimately, shocks this severe profoundly alter the character of society.
Don Peck’s Pinched,...
Don Peck’s Pinched,...
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
A guide to understanding and responding to business uncertainty in the twenty-first century Managing uncertainty has become a new business imperative. Technological discontinuities, regulatory upheavals, geopolitical shocks, abrupt shifts in consumer tastes or behavior, and many other factors have emerged or intensified in recent years and together conspire to undermine even the most carefully constructed business strategies. Managing Uncertainty:...
20) The courtyard
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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