Search Results: Business from Conover Books

High Point, North Carolina : Greine Investments, 2012. A very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Inscribed by the author on the ffep! Color illustrated wrapper with orange and brown lettering. 94 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! "ARE YOU READY TO MAKE MONEY - WITH YOUR MOUTH? Inside these pages, discover: 21 specific descriptions that show you exactly how to make money, Exactly what you can expect to be paid as a professional speaker in various settings, The fastest, easiest way to be prepared to speak at a moment's notice, and more!............" (SIGNED COPY).. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

U.S.A.: World Bank Publications, 2000. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased as well as the lower corner of the front of the wrapper; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Blue wrapper with white lettering. 152 informative and historical pages! "In the pre-reform period, agriculture was heavily subsidized in most Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs). Around 1989, most CEECs began to open up their markets, liberalize prices, and reduce subsidies. At the same time, the level of support provided to agriculture declined drastically. Since 1996, however, this trend has been reversed in most CEECs. To analyze the agricultural sector in CEECs, this report begins with a synthesis of the multi-country investigation. It presents estimates of various agricultural support indicators and an analysis of the impact of trade and price policy interventions. It also asks to what extent those adjustments… Read More

U.S.A.: Lynne Rienner Pub, 1990. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Gray cloth with red lettering on the spine and front board. 149 historical and informative pages! ""Agricultural Risk Management" provides a guide to the many facets of risk and risk management that are instrumental in understanding today's agricultural sector and agricultural policy choices. Part I explores what is known about the risks common to agricultural firms and how producers respond to them. The risk management tools available to agricultural producers, the aspects of those tools that influence their selection by producers and the effects of risk management strategies on the farm firm are examined in Part 2. Part 3 considers the effects of government policies on producers' risks and selection of risk management strategies. The possibility of… Read More

U.S.A.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. A very crisp and clean used copy; almost new and unread condition; gift quality! Blue and white wrapper with black and white lettering. 91 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! "How can a president balance the needs and demands of sometimes conflicting interests? What types of situations are the career makers and breakers, and how can a president be prepared? Balancing the Presidential Seesaw presents case studies of a variety of political and administrative challenges community college presidents face. Include presidents perspectives and advice..........". First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Bankers Publishing Company , 1934. Edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, pages are toning, overall a clean used first edition! Extremely rare and hard-to-find! Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front board. 334 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! Very very scarce and out-of-print! Wonderfully well-preserved! "The collection of letters brought together here releases valuable suggestions developed through intimate service contacts undertaken for the practical improvement of bank letters. No bank can fail to appreciate and desire to emulate its emphasis for greater care in diction; a closer weighing of judgment and psychological values; and improved skill in convincing clients, depositors and friends of the sincerity and benefits of a bank's spirit and service. The letters selected cover wide interests of the bank from the 'human' rather than from the… Read More

Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.: R D Garwood, 1990. Hint of edge wear to the dj, gently scuffed and scratched, corners are very lightly rubbed, gently shelf worn, overall a very crisp and clean first edition, gift quality! Very very rare! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 210 very clean, unmarked and uncreased, historical and informative pages! Extremely scarce and hard-to-find! "The bill of material is central to the workings of any company. Yet the bill of material is a controversial topic. Who owns the bill of material? Who's responsible for updating the bill? How should the bill be structured ---- do we have too many levels or too few? Should the structure of the bill change aws we move to a Just'In-Time environment? How accurate do the bills of material need to be? How can we handle Engineering Changes or new product introductions? Bills Of Material ---- Structured For Excellence gives you the hard information necessary to turn your bill of material into… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, light crease in the rear of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue and white illustrated wrapper with white lettering. 206 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "The welding trade as it is know today, when compared to other trade areas such as carpentry or bricklaying, is new, although the welding of metals, such as the blacksmiths practiced, was done long ago. It was not until World War I and the building of liberty ships about 70 years ago that the welding of metals was attempted on any large scale. The success of this endeavor has led to the present-day use of welding as a major method of fabrication throughout the world." ---- from the Preface.. First Edition / First… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some very light shelf wear, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue and white illustrated wrapper with white lettering. 206 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "The welding trade as it is know today, when compared to other trade areas such as carpentry or bricklaying, is new, although the welding of metals, such as the blacksmiths practiced, was done long ago. It was not until World War I and the building of liberty ships about 70 years ago that the welding of metals was attempted on any large scale. The success of this endeavor has led to the present-day use of welding as a major method of fabrication throughout the world." ---- from the Preface.. First Edition / First Printing. Spiral Bound. Very Good. 4to -… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some very light shelf wear, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue and white illustrated wrapper with white lettering. 206 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "The welding trade as it is know today, when compared to other trade areas such as carpentry or bricklaying, is new, although the welding of metals, such as the blacksmiths practiced, was done long ago. It was not until World War I and the building of liberty ships about 70 years ago that the welding of metals was attempted on any large scale. The success of this endeavor has led to the present-day use of welding as a major method of fabrication throughout the world." ---- from the Preface.. First Edition / First Printing. Spiral Bound. Very Good. 4to -… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue and white illustrated wrapper with white lettering. 206 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "The welding trade as it is know today, when compared to other trade areas such as carpentry or bricklaying, is new, although the welding of metals, such as the blacksmiths practiced, was done long ago. It was not until World War I and the building of liberty ships about 70 years ago that the welding of metals was attempted on any large scale. The success of this endeavor has led to the present-day use of welding as a major method of fabrication throughout the world." ---- from the Preface.. First Edition / First Printing. Spiral Bound. Very Good. 4to - over… Read More

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, light crease in the rear of the wrapper, overall a very crisp and clean used first edition! Very very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue and white illustrated wrapper with white lettering. 206 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print first edition! "The welding trade as it is know today, when compared to other trade areas such as carpentry or bricklaying, is new, although the welding of metals, such as the blacksmiths practiced, was done long ago. It was not until World War I and the building of liberty ships about 70 years ago that the welding of metals was attempted on any large scale. The success of this endeavor has led to the present-day use of welding as a major method of fabrication throughout the world." ---- from the Preface.. First Edition / First… Read More

Sun Lakes, Arizona, U.S.A.: Thomas Horton & Daughters, 1983. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; pages are toning; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used first edition! Brown wrapper with white lettering. 393 informative and historical pages! "This selection of articles, along with a famous interview, hardly constitutes a full-blown textbook. But the range of subjects is very wide ---- the philosophy of freedom and efficiency, the market and governmental workings of our mixed (and sometimes mixed-up) economy, the monetary and fiscal contexts within which we earn and distribute our daily bread, the international setting of our economic activity." ----- from the Introduction.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Academic Press, Inc., 1987. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some yellow highlighting throughout the book, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some light shelf wear, former owner's name in ink on the ffep, overall a nice used first edition! Blue cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine. 305 informative and educational pages! "The field of vocational psychology and career development can be said to have begun in 1909 with the publication of Frank Parsons' landmark book Choosing a Vocation, which introduced the 'matching men and jobs' approach to career choice. While vocational or career psychology as a field is, then, nearing 80 years old, interest in the vocational behavior of women is a much more recent phenomenon, dating only from the mid-1960s. Although a relatively new area, the study of the vocational psychology of women has grown impressively in the last 20 years. Scholars from a range of academic… Read More

Columbia, Missouri: E. W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1951. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, no dj, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, margin writing and underlining in pencil throughout the book, overall a nice used copy! Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front board and spine. 322 historical and informative pages! "This textbook on Chamber of Commerce administration will be more helpful to the student if he understands how it has been written. Many present-day Chamber executives have contributed manuscript material as contributing editors, while others, during the last quarter of a century, have unknowingly made valuable contributions through their work and experience. This textbook first was published by the National Institute in 1927 and completely revised in 1942." ---- from the Foreword.. Second Revised Edition. Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Interscience Publishers, Inc., 1955. Edge and corner wear to the dj, heavy tear in the upper portion (near the spine) of the rear of the dj and a small tear and crease in the base of the rear of the dj, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, lightly shelf worn, former owner's name in ink on the ffep, overall a clean used first edition! Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 782 unmarked and uncreased, historical and informative pages! "A source of information on the chemical technology of the cotton industry, of particular value for cotton textile men who need a refresher in chemistry and for chemists who are anxious to learn about cotton textiles.". First Edition. Blue Cloth. Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Vienna, Virginia, U.S.A.: National Contract Management Association, 1993. Hint of edge and corner wear, gently scuffed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy, almost new and unread condition! Gift Quality! 328 very fine, unmarked and uncreased pages! "The topics chosen for this year's National Education Seminar (NES) show the change in directions our profession is taking. The selection of commercial, environmental, and international contracting as subjects for this year's NES was based on two primary factors. First, both the NCMA general membership and the Council of Fellows highlighted these as topic areas for future seminars. Secondly, these topics provide coverage of significant areas of the Body of Knowledge, which have been previously unaddressed by past National Education Seminars."----from the Introduction. Trade Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.: South-Western Publishing Co., 2001. A very crisp and clean used copy, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! Purple illustrated wrappers with white and gold lettering. 619 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages nicely enhanced by full-color photographs and illustrations! "As the ads at fast-food giant McDonald's say, 'You deserve a break today.' And Contemporary Marketing 2002 is just the one you've been waiting for. It's a thoroughly updated softcover version of McGuffey Award-winning Contemporary Marketing ---- the world's Number One Principles of Marketing textbook. Not a cut-down edition, every chapter, every page from Contemporary Marketing 10e is included here. And much, much more.". Trade Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, 2014. A very crisp and clean SIGNED FIRST EDITION; almost new and unread conditioin; gift quality! Inscribed by the author on the ffep! Black boards with silver lettering on the spine. 249 very clean unmarked and uncreased educational and informative pages! "More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall-ridden suburbs of today. Ross finds that sprawl is much more than bad architecture and sloppy planning. Its roots are… Read More

Florence, Kentucky, U.S.A.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1991. A hint of edge wear to the dj, gently shelf worn, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Black boards with white lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 296 very clean unmarked and uncreased informative and educational pages! "Quality and productivity are only the price of admission for competing in the 90s. Victory increasingly depends on how quickly a company can develop new products. In today's world, months of delay often translate into millins of dollars of lost profits. And the pace will only increase. The stakes are high and the job is difficult. What can be done? This book provides a refreshingly practical answer to this question.". Black Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Farmingtn Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Full-color illustrated wrapper with black and white lettering. 116 informative and educational pages! "Presents articles both supporting and opposing issues related to tax breaks affecting the economy, including issues regarding estate taxes, energy conservation tax incentives, and corporate taxes.............". First Edition. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.