Oxford University Press

Fiercely fought elections co-existed with a desire for patriotic unity in the Civil War North, creating a tension that was exploited by the dominant Republican party. This book explores the implications of this kind of politics for popular political participation, the construction of nationalism, and ultimately for Union victory....

There are thousands of mergers every year and, by some estimates, two-thirds of        them either fail or fall far short of expectations. How can leaders keep their        merger from becoming a head-on collision?In The Human Side of M&A, Dennis        Carey and Dayton Ogden argue that most failed mergers looked good on paper--they        made...

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The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. It explores such topics as the history of ecology, radical science studies and radical ecology, the need for greater theoretical sophistication in ecocriticism, the dubious legacy of Thoreau, and the contradictions of current nature writing....