Search Results: Industry from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill, 1950. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/No Jacket. With Maps & Illustrations. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1950 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine with light rubs to corner tips. DJ/None. Maps to covers' verso. Book dealer stub to rear endpaper. History of the development & growth of major petroleum explorer and marketer Union Oil of California (Unocal), headquartered in El Segundo, CA. Formed 1890, and, since 2005 a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation. 280 pgs, w/archival photos, in 15 chapters followed by Chronology of Union Oil Field Discoveries. Fine copy less dust jacket.

R.B. Pamplin Corp, 1993. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. Text/NEW & Collectible. 1993 First Edition. First Thus. Boards/Fine. DJ/Fine, A memoir, a family history, a romance reaching far back in time to the Crusades, to the founding of the Georgia-Pacific Corporation, today, one of the world's largest manufacturers & distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products, and related chemicals. Text in 3 parts:I, Pamplin Family History; II, Robert B. Pampin, Senior; and, III, Robert B. Pamplin, Junior. Foreword by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

New York, NY: Pynson Printers, 1936. First Edition, Vol I, No 3 of 1936 . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/As New & Bright. Vintage 1936 Issue. Illustrated boards/NF w/trace shelfwear. Unique, collaborative, professional quarterly journal near a century past. Conceived 1929 & published through 1950, by Elmer Adler (1884 - 1962), founder of Pynson Printers, New York, NY. Anthology of signature essays assembled & published by Pynson. Articles on the art of printing & publishing, including styles, paper & typography. This issue, pgs numbered 323 - 480, features 13 essays: 1, The Launching of Bancrofts' "Native Races" (Oscar Lewis); 2, The St. Mary's City Press: A New Chronology of American Painting (Lawrence C. Wroth; 3, A Scot in America (Israel B. Kaplan); 4, Parson Weem's Washington Once More (A. Edward Newton); 5, The Collier-Cruishank Punch & Judy (Paul McPharlin); 6, The Unfamiliar Autocrat (Delancey Ferguson); 7, Mr. Maude… Read More

New York, NY: McGraw=Hill, 1978. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Taupe boards w/silver spine lettering/NF. DJ/NF w/rubs, nips, short closed tears and fading to spine. PO name on fEP. Systematic exposition on construction management drawing on the expertise of authors Kavanagh (planning, design, civil engineer), Muller (lawyer, construction administrator), and O'Brien (project management). Text in 3 parts: I, The Construction Process & the Construction Manager; II, The Construction Manager; and, III, Project Control by the Construction Manager. Fine copy.

Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1957. BOMC First Edition . Hardcover. NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. BOMC First Edition. Embossed, bi-color green boards/Fine. DJ/VG; sound w/short closed edge tears. A novel from Howard Swiggett (1891 - 1957), author of The Power and the Prize which MGM adapted to film. This is a post World War II story of big business, international intrigue & enduring marriage love. 366 pgs. Protagonist Stephen Lowry, formerly working with the Norwegian underground against the Nazis, returns home to join big business in New York as a "foreign specialist". The heroine is his lovely Estonian wife. The plot, full of the unexpected, is one of suspense. The title, "durable fire", bespeaks of Lowry's love for his wife (and her search for her missing family) that steadies him and sustains him as he joins the vast industrial & financial world.

New York. NY: McGraw Hill, 1947. First Edition, 2nd Impression . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/AS NEW & Bright; Vintage publication of 1947. Black linen boards/VG w/light surface wear & fading to spine. DJ/None. PO name to fEP. Companion volume to Fiscal Policy and Business Cycles. Author, Keynesian economist Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887 - 1975), professor of economics at Harvard, was a 1930s influential advisor to the government, helped create the Council of Economic Advisors, and the Social Security system. 340 pgs in 22 chapters followed by 5 appendices. Discourse on planning for full employment & maximum production towards societal stability.

New York, NY: A & W Pub, 1980. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Dark blue matte boards w/silver spine lettering/Fine. DJ/VG; price clipped w/closed tear to front edge of upper spine, light edge wear, & trace soiling/discoloration. Fascinating collection of manufacturing processes of things we consume, see daily, that we've not had time to investigate, but ought to. Some examples of the 40 some entries include: Asprins, beer, books and newspapers, shoes, glass, paints, plastics, linoleum ... Fine educational, reference/resource for all.

New York, NY: Simmons-Boardman, 1950. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/photo illustrations. Vintage 1950 First Edition, First Printing. Gilt embossed taupe linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/light edge rubs & fading to spine & small mark to upper front corner tip. DJ/None. Map to endpapers. PO name to fEP. History. San Jose born John Debo Galloway (1869 - 1943) is one of the great engineers that took part in the development of Western America. For this volume, Galloway taps on the early records of the Southern Pacific Railroad (successor to the Central Pacific Railroad) and those of the Union Pacific Railroad. 11 chapters: 1, The Pacific Railroad; 2, The Origin & Development of Railroads Prior to 1870; 3. Early Projects & the Pacific Railroad Surveys; 4, The Builders of the Central Pacific Railroad; 5, The Central Pacific Railroad Company; 6, Locating the Central Pacific Railroad; 7, Constructing the Central Pacific… Read More

New York, NY: Three Rivers Press/Crown Publishers, 1999. 1st Edition 11th Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. 1999, First Edition, 11th Printing. Softcover/Fine; w/trace shelfwear. Pointers on success in the workplace beyond pre-occupation on one's personal performance standard --- that is achieving "star status". Robert Kelly, professor of Carnegie Mellon Univ, argues star employees are made, not born, and success in the work place depends much on how one works with others. The 9 strategies highlighted include initiative, networking, self-management, perspective, follower-ship, team work, and leadership. 336 pgs, 17 chapters in 3 parts: Part I, The Productivity Secrets of the Star Performers; II, The Nine Work Strategies of the Star Performers; and III, Some Productive Last Words, followed by 2 appendices.

New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. 11th Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Green soft cover/NF w/small rub to lower back edge near spine. Classic guide to cost information in construction of landscape projects designed, or specified, by landscape architects. Text based on survey of labor and material costs for 1991. Cost estimate worksheet sample to rear. Fine copy.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/New. Red linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF. PO name to front cover verso. Revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1970. Case study of management practices of a large manufacturing firm in Taiwan and its supporting value system. 7 chapters: I, Economic Conditions; II, The Normative Basis of Action; III, Managerial Behavior & Management Patterns; IV, Commitment & Communications; V, Industrial Cliques; VI, Organizational Adaptbility; and, VII, Toward a Cultural Theory of Organizations, followed by appendices.

New York, NY: Dell Pub. Co, 1977. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Softcover/NF w/faint creasings to upper front corner. Thought-provoking, witty analysis of "herd mentality" in USA, where a good majority are convinced they function as true-blue "individualists". 1977 vintage examination of patterns of behavior in the 1970s --- findings still applicable today? Is there really "freedom of choice" in what we eat, how we travel , & why we "choose" to do what we do? Or, might "pseudo-choices" be the more correct term? Points to ponder.

London, UK: Oxford/Basil Blackwell, 1956. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Orange linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/price sticker to lower left front corner. Economic theory in fields of competition, full & under employment in reference to question of wages. 15 chapters in 3 parts: 1, Wages Under Perfect Competition; 2, Wages In The Actual World; and, 3, Wages And The Community.

Alburquerque, NM: Chambers & Campbell, 1963. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW, except for marginalia and bracketing of opening paragraph to page 1. Vintage 1963, First Edition, First Thus. Taupe linen boards/NF, showing trace discoloration. DJ/None. The above mentioned bracketed paragraph in question translates the Navajo greeting "Yah-tay sik'is" as "welcome friend" --- the marginalia gives a broader translation to be "welcome to our ..." with suffixes of boat, home, land, etc. Market analysis of the technical & economic feasibility of developing tourist & recreational facilities of Navajo Route 1 --- the envisioned project, at the point of this publication, was projected to require some ten years to complete. A historical document of dominant concerns of highway development in Arizona and New Mexico half century ago.