Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: david storey

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  • TERRITORIES
    DAVID STOREY
    Territories are more than simply bounded spaces; they reflect the ways in which we think of geographic space. Territoriality, or laying claim to territory, can be seen as the spatial expression of power, with borders dividing those inside from those outside. The book provides an introduction to the concept of territory, the ways in which ideologies and social practices are mani...

    $1,480.00

  • THE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL FIRMS
    DAVID J. STOREY / KEVIN KEASEY / ROBERT WATSON / POORAN WYNARCZYK
    This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide jobs, whether they grow and why small firms fail. Guidance is given on how to spot the signs of impending failu...

    $700.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE SMALL BUSINESS SECTOR
    DAVID J. STOREY
    Originally published in 1994, this text analyses the key issues that influence the growth and development of small businesses. Looking at the concept in which they operate, the book outlines the factors that are dominant in the sector and explores the effects if has on the economy. Is the creation of small businesses the answer to unemployment? Has the lowering of interest rate...

    $1,100.00

  • ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW FIRM
    DAVID J. STOREY
    This book, originally published in 1982, review the resurrection of the small firm, partly by a multi-disciplined examination of the existing literature on small and new firms and partly by reporting the results of a study of firms new (in the early 1980s) to the North East of England. Part 1 deals with the role of small firms as sources of potential or actual competition, and ...

    $700.00

  • THE SMALL FIRM
    DAVID J. STOREY
    Originally published in 1983, this book reviews trends in the small-firm sector. The areas chosen cover the full spectrum of economic development. Part 1 deals with case studies from the USA, Japan, the UK, Australia, Germany and Sweden. In Part 2 Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Africa are surveyed. In all cases the authors review the variety of defini...

    $700.00

  • MANAGERIAL LABOUR MARKETS IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
    POORAN WYNARCZYK / ROBERT WATSON / DAVID J. STOREY / HELEN SHORT / KEVIN KEASEY
    Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly, this book, originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms. The volume concentrates on the following key managerial issues: In what respects do the managerial backgrounds and asp...

    $1,100.00

  • THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME THREE
    DAVID STOREY
    Three thought-provoking novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).   The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award an...

    $279.00

  • THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME TWO
    DAVID STOREY
    Three powerful novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).   The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was mad...

    $329.00

  • EDWARD
    DAVID STOREY
    An illustrated classic from the author of Saville and Flight into Camden Written before David Storey's 1976 Man Booker Prize–winning novel Saville, Edward tells the tale of a kindly and aging bishop who lives his life by just and holy standards—until one day he is surprised by the appearance of an old key, sitting in a curious box atop his study desk. Illustrated by the fine ha...

    $179.00

  • PRESENT TIMES
    DAVID STOREY
    From "the leading novelist of his generation" (the Daily Telegraph)—a story about marriage, family, and 1 man's 2nd chance At age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 years, his wife, Sheila, has been living with Maurice, a car dealer who owns a Rolls-...

    $119.00

  • A PRODIGAL CHILD
    DAVID STOREY
    A novel about family and class restrictions by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of This Sporting Life and Saville With 2 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs, the house at Spinney Moor Road is a real step-up for the Morley family. Arthur Morley is a farmer who frequently comes home drunk, and who often competes with his prudish, penny-pinching wife, Sarah, for the love of their b...

    $109.00

  • A SERIOUS MAN
    DAVID STOREY
    A successful playwright, painter, and novelist confronts his mortality and the past during a major life crisis in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey Richard Fenchurch has had a long and successful career as a playwright, painter, and novelist. But at age 65, he is coming apart at the seams. Fearing he will do something drastic if he remains alone, Fenchu...

    $119.00

  • AS IT HAPPENED
    DAVID STOREY
    A wry and deeply affecting novel about a man's ruminations on art and death by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of This Sporting Life Matthew Maddox is an art historian and professor emeritus at the Drayburgh School of Fine Art. Nearing 70, his 3 sons are grown and his ex-wife, Charlotte, has remarried. After a failed suicide attempt in front of a moving train, Maddox attend...

    $229.00

  • THIN-ICE SKATER
    DAVID STOREY
    A seventeen-year-old is sent to the country to live with his much-older half-brother and falls into an unexpected affair in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey The narrator of Storey's eleventh novel is an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who shares intimate details of his life in the form of memos written to himself. Born in Beverly Hills, California, Ric...

    $119.00

  • A TEMPORARY LIFE
    DAVID STOREY
    An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey Colin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so passionate and raw that he does not expect to ever understand them or feel at ease. But when his wife, Yvonne, fell sick, she would only...

    $119.00