Historians sometimes forget that history is conunu- ally being made and experienced before it is studied, interpreted, and read. These latter activiti...
Joseph Glarthaar's Forged in Battle is not the first excel- lent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War, but it uses mo...
It was once assumed that all living things could be divided into two fundamental and exhaustive categories. Multicellular plants and animals, as well ...
Excess inventory, a massive problem for many busi- nesses, has several causes, some of which are unavoidable. Overstocks may accumulate through produc...
According to a recent theory, Archean-age gold-quartz vein systems were formed over two billion years ago from magmatic fluids that originated from mo...
While there is no blueprint for transforming a largely government-controlled economy into a free one, the experience of the United Kingdom since 1979 ...
As the economic role of multinational, global corpora- tions expands, the international economic environment will be shaped increasingly not by govern...
In Forces of Production, David Noble examines the transformation of the machine-tool industry as the industry moved from reliance on skilled artisans ...
The sensation of pain cannot accurately be described as "located" at the point of an injury, or, for that matter, in any one place in the ne...
Traditionally, the first firm to commercialize a new technology has benefited from the unique opportunity to shape product definitions, forcing follow...