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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big

How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill — and focused on greatness instead.It’s an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great …

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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

The tenth-anniversary edition of the definitive account of the Enron scandal, updated with a new chapter The Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s. Countless books and articles were written about it, but only The Smartest Guys in the Room holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative. For this tenth anniversary …

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Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Global History, Volume II

The 15TH EDITION of GARDNER’S ART THROUGH THE AGES: A GLOBAL HISTORY, VOLUME II provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully-illustrated tour of the world’s great artistic traditions! Easy to read and understand, the fifteenth edition of the most widely-read art history book in the English language continues to evolve, providing a rich cultural backdrop for each of the …

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The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript

The American artist and naturalist Titian Ramsay Peale II (1799–1885) had a passion for butterflies, and throughout his long life he wrote and illustrated an ambitious and comprehensive manuscript. The book, along with a companion volume on caterpillars, was never published, and it resides today in the Rare Book Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in …

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Art History, Vol. 2, 5th Edition

The most student-friendly, contextual, and inclusive survey is now personalized, digital, and mobile for today’s students.   Art History 5th edition continues to balance formal analysis with contextual art history in order to engage a diverse student audience.  Authors Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren- both scholars as well as teachers- share …

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Gardner’s Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume I (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

GARDNER’S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE, Fourteenth Edition, provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world’s great artistic traditions! Easy to read and understand, the fourteenth edition of the most widely-read art history book in the English language continues to evolve, providing a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and …

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Art: A Brief History (6th Edition)

NOTE: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyArtsLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyArtsLab, search for ISBN-10: 0134127137 / ISBN-13: 9780134127132. That package includes ISBN-10: 0133843750 / ISBN-13: 9780133843750 and ISBN-10: 0133847896 / ISBN-13: 9780133847895. MyArtsLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. …

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History of Modern Art (Paperback) (7th Edition)

A Comprehensive Overview — available in digital and print formats   History of Modern Art is a visual comprehensive overview of the modern art field. It traces the trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. The seventh edition …

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Gardner’s Art through the Ages: A Global History, Vol. 1, 14th Edition

The 14TH EDITION of GARDNER’S ART THROUGH THE AGES provides you with a comprehensive, beautifully-illustrated tour of the world’s great artistic traditions! Easy to read and understand, the fourteenth edition of the most widely-read art history book in the English language continues to evolve, providing a rich cultural backdrop for each of the covered periods and geographical locations, …

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