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This is the second installment of a series that grew out of the December 1991 Workshop on Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The issues employ cultural stu
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In this book contemporary perspectives are introduced within each major management function. It is organized around a traditional management approach - planning, organizing, leadership and control. Em
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As they reminisce about their childhood, thirteen interviewees chronicle life in Texas and other parts of the West during the early part of the twentieth century
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