Roger LeRoy Miller Boeken

Comprehensive, authoritative, and student-friendly, longtime market-leader BUSINESS LAW: TEXT AND CASES delivers an ideal blend of classic "black letter law" and cutting-edge coverage of contemporary issues and cases. BUSINESS LAW continues to set the standard for excellence. The text offers a strong student orientation, making the law accessible, interesting, and relevant. The cases, content, and features of the thirteenth edition have been thoroughly updated to represent the latest developments in business law. Cases range from precedent-setting landmarks to important recent decisions. Ethical, global, and corporate themes are integrated throughout. In addition, numerous critical-thinking exercises challenge students to apply knowledge to real-world issues. It is no wonder that BUSINESS LAW is used by more colleges and universities than any other business law text.

Twenty-three chapters provide introductory material and discuss the dimensions of microeconomics; market structure, resource allocation, and regulation; productive factors, poverty, the environment, and interest groups; and global and cyber economics. The included CD-ROM is a software tutorial that helps the student to visualize data with shifting curves and dynamic graphical output, explore relationships between theory and real-world applications, and prepare for exams with customizable quizzes. This edition does not contain parts two through five. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Located in the Mid-Miami River valley of southwestern Ohio, Middletown was perfectly situated by five major railway lines and a canal, enabling it to play a leading role in the steel industry that flourished throughout much of the 20th century. This book recounts one hundred years of steel-making in Middletown, and defines the cooperative alliance between the city and the American Rolling Mill Company, which employed roughly half of the workers in the metropolitan area at its peak. George M. Verity incorporated his then-small company in Middletown on December 27, 1899. It rapidly grew into the country's largest employer, and was the first in the country to set up a separate research division. This foresight led to many improvements within the industry, and also resulted in the development of the first continuous rolling mill in 1924, considered by many to be one of the ten greatest industrial inventions of the 20th century. The relationship between the steel industry and the workers in Middletown was so harmonious that in 1958, the city earned the national award of an "All-America City."

This book addresses the challenges of managing risk in large-scale engineering projects such as infrastructure development, aerospace systems, and defense programs. It provides a framework for identifying, assessing, and managing risks, and includes case studies and practical guidance for project managers and executives.

West's American Government is a comprehensive study of American Government as it exists today. Extensive, thorough coverage of the three branches of federal government. Entire unit on state and local government. Economics is covered as part of governmental policy on the national, state, and local levels. Citizenship skills are reinforced in every chapter. Case studies in every chapter emphasize the day-to-day functions of our governmental process. Controversial, timely issues are discussed, using primary sources.