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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - These Pocket Books Enriched Classics editions feature concise Introductions that give important background information; a chronology of the author's life and career; a timeline of significant events that provide the book's historical context; an outline of key themes and plot points; and detailed commentary and explanatory notes. Reissue.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Along with the text of the play. this volume presents notes and essays to enhance reader understanding of the play and its author.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a Hannah Wolfe mystery.In Fatlands, private investigator Hannah Wolfe, who's independent though not invincible, idealistic but definitely not naive, has taken on one of the less glamorous jobs in the security worldchaperoning teenage rebel Mattie Shepherd around London. But Mattie's father is paying Hannah lots of moneymore than the job is worth, it seems. Or perhaps not. The girl's father is on the Animal Liberation Front's hit list. But why When violence explodes, tearing the family apart, this is what Hannah must discover. Her obsession with the truth nearly kills her, wrecking her private life and dragging her into a vortex of lies and betrayal.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter's groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America.Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter's 'diamond,' a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of 'clusters,' or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy.Even before publication of the book, Porter's theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -An exploration of competitive advantage in the individual firm. An ideal complement to Porter's 'Competitive Strategy'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 557 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Free of self-pity and pretension and bursting with meaning, this memoir of a resilient girl who went from 'homeless to Harvard' is a masterwork of the genre.