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      Dynasties: Fortunes and Misfortunes of the World’s Great Family Businesses

      David S. Landes

      From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations comes a fascinating look at the quality that distinguishes a third of todays Fortune 500…

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      The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some are So Poor

      David S. Landes

      Now in paperback: The acclaimed, bestselling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain…

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      Wealth And Poverty Of Nations

      David S. Landes

      An accessible work on the haves and have-nots.

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      Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Revised and Enlarged Edition

      David S. Landes

      This book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks is expanded here with a new preface and updated passages exploring findings about medieval and…

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      Promised Lands North and South

      This exciting new collection of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary scholarship brings together analyses of two dynamic and longstanding Jewish communities. From historical, sociological, literary, and other perspectives, contributing authors offer rich new…

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      The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

      David S. Landes (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      Second edition of David Landes’s history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe.

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      The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

      David S. Landes (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      Second edition of David Landes’s history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe.

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      The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present

      David S. Landes (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

      For over thirty years David Landes’s Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of the making of a modern, industrialised Europe. Now, in this updated edition, he takes the opportunity…

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      Favorites of Fortune: Technology, Growth, and Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution

      A galaxy of distinguished international economists and historians pit economic history against the shaky assumptions of the classical economic theory of natural growth.

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      The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times

      Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs - and their innovations - have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. This…

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      The Church and the Land: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and American Society, 1923-2007

      David S. Bovee

      Presents history of the Catholic rural life movement in the US since its beginning in the 1920s. This work tells the story of the men and women of the National…

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      Liming and agriculture in the central Pennines: The use of lime in land improvement from the late thirteenth century to c. 1900

      David S Johnson

      This book focuses on the historic use of lime as a soil additive, and sets liming in the context of agricultural land improvement alongside draining, paring, marling and the use…

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      In the Land of the Golden Plume: A Tale of Adventure

      David Lawson Johnstone

      Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

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      The Land Question of Griqualand West

      David Arnot, Francis H S Orpen

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      The Land Question of Griqualand West

      David Arnot, Francis H S Orpen

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

      This work is in the "public…

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      Managing Land Use Conflicts: Case Studies in Special Area Management

      D.J. Brower

      This work contains a series of case studies of the planning phenomenon that has become known as Special Area Management (SAM)–those areas so naturally valuable, so important for human use…

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      Invasions of the Land: The Transitions of Organisms from Aquatic to Terrestrial Life

      Malcolm S. Gordon,Everett C. Olson,David J. Chapman

      Describes how plants and animals made the transition from water to land, presenting integrated summaries of the evidence from both fossils and living organisms. The authors consider when various transitions…

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      Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People to 1900

      David Edwin, Jr. Harrell,Edwin S. Gaustad,John B. Boles,Sally Foreman Griffith,Randall M. Miller

      Introducing a New U.S. History Text That Takes Religion Seriously

      Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people – from the first contacts between Europeans…

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      Urban Spaces: Planning and Struggles for Land and Community

      Urban Spaces is an interdisciplinary reader focusing on community-based versus corporate-based political and ideological struggles over the utilization of urban land and spaces.

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      Unto a Good Land: A History of the American People from 1865

      David Edwin, Jr. Harrell,Edwin S. Gaustad,John B. Boles,Sally Foreman Griffith,Randall M. Miller

      Introducing a New U.S. History Text That Takes Religion Seriously

      Unto a Good Land offers a distinctive narrative history of the American people – from the first contacts between Europeans…

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