The 1970s marked the end of the years in which the United States was the guarantor of a free world trade order, while Western Europe made efforts to catch up with the economic superpower. In this book, Dr La Barca explains how the trade environment and trade policies in the United States and in...

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Foreword -- 2 Sex (and Sublimity) -- 3 Money (and Materiality) -- 4 Health (and Healing) -- 5 Politics (and Power) -- 6 Sport (and Shadowplay) -- 7 Race (and Reason) -- 8 Entertainment (and Edification) -- 9 Soul (and Spirituality) -- 10 Afterword.

Cover -- International Auditing Standards in the United States -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 International Auditing: A History and Introduction -- Introduction -- Brief History of International Auditing -- What is an Audit? -- Objectives of an Audit -- Key Components of...

Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the special nature of an art museum, a national museum, or a science museum, but 'house museum' nearly always requires...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Current Economy -- 1 Regulating -- 2 Representing -- 3 Optimizing -- 4 Protesting -- Epilogue: Techno-Economics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S --...

Cover -- Retail Supply Chain Management -- Contents -- Preface -- Authors -- Section I THE RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN -- 1 Defining the Retail Supply Chain -- 1.1 More Than Stores -- 1.2 Defining Supply Chain and Supply Chain Management -- 1.3 The Importance of Customer Segments -- 1.4 Adding Value...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I The context -- 1 What we learned from the right-to-work study -- 2 Socioeconomic structures of the Trump and Clinton sets of states -- 3 Life and death in America -- Part II The findings -- 4 Mortality rates of...

In recent years the definition of an economic transfer-a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity-has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the...