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History
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 In "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930, Sarah A. Gordon uses home sewing to examine domestic labor, marketing practices, changing standards of femininity, and understandings of class, gender and race.
As industrialization made ready-made garments increasingly available, many women, out of necessity or choice, continued to make their own clothing. In doing so, women used a customary female skill both as a means of supporting traditional ideas and as a tool of personal agency. |
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Health
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 This publication seeks to set out the UN System’s analysis of the food safety situation in China, as part of the UN System’s contribution to China’s ongoing efforts in the area of food safety. Recently China has made great progress in recognizing and responding to its food safety challenges.
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Economics
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 The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) - Cambodia, People’s Republic of China (PRC), Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam, Yunnan Province of PRC, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of PRC - economies have grown impressively over the last decade and a half as many of them started the process of transition from centrally-planned to market-based systems and forged closer integration with external markets. Strong rates of economic growth have been fueled in part by increased trade orientation. Enhancing trade further is an important element of the development strategies of the GMS economies.
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Management
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 A BusinessWeek Book of the Year!
Why do some companies consistently win in the marketplace while others struggle from crisis to crisis? The answer, says Noel Tichy, is that winning companies possess a "Leadership Engine"—a proven system for creating dynamic leaders at every level. |
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Management
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 More Than 500,000 Copies Sold!
"Warren Bennis, who doesn't preach, but leads, has a great deal to say to any executive who, by being a 'manager,' has the responsibility to take on leadership as well." - Peter Drucker |
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Business
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 China has set for itself two formidable strategic goals: doubling 2000 GDP by 2010 and reducing energy intensity by 20% over the next five years. The next steps in power sector reforms should help to achieve these objectives.
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Business
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 Consumer Promotions: Enhancing Brand Equity and Profitable Growth
Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency Through a Streamlined, Closed-loop Process
Learn how to improve effectiveness and efficiency for consumer promotions with a streamlined, closed-loop process. |
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History
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 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Pre-Accession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
This study seeks to answer the question: if Tudor England was a patriarchal society, then how did two women—Mary and Elizabeth Tudor—consecutively succeed to the throne? In From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516–1558, J. L. McIntosh argues that Mary and Elizabeth established themselves as credible authority figures before their accessions by heading their own independent households. |
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