Women Entrepreneurs and the Global Environment for Growth provides wide-ranging insights on the challenges that women entrepreneurs face growing their businesses and how these may be addressed. This volume is rooted in research and considers growth challenges, provoking thought and enriching the current literature on gender and entrepreneurship

This book explores the evolution of these regions in the United States. The author critically examines how they evolved as knowledge-based economies, how they leveraged entrepreneurship and innovation, and ultimately how they employed public policy to support economic growth.

The Norwegian archive, library and Museum autthority and the National Library have invited outstanding Norwegians to offer their perspectives

Profiles ten women with careers in different areas of environmental science, including a botanist, an animal naturalist, a biologist, and an entomologist, and explains their duties and how they prepared for and got their positions.

An Ethnography of the Hermit Kingdom will interest art-, social-, and diplomatic-historians; anthropologists; linguists; students of Korean culture; and all those who appreciate the aesthetic quality of these objects, and the stories they tell. This ethnographic catalogue of historic Korean objects includes chapters that cover a wide range of pre-industrial material and intellectual resources

Recounts the story of a naturally occurring resource - oil, that has been utilized in parts of the Middle East for approximately 40,000 years. The British Museum, Musee du Louvre and other institutions have contributed to this book by providing historical details and illustrations

This book presents the history of creation and architectural photo documents of the building of the National Assembly of Wales, which is a legislative body established in Wales in the process of gradual decentralization of power in the United Kingdom. The building of the National Assembly is located in the capital of Wales, Cardiff

This book of hauntingly beautiful Native American portraits reflects the tragic history of the Cheyenne, Sioux, Pawnee, Cherokee, and other groups whose leaders traveled to Washington in the mid-nineteenth-century to negotiate treaties with the US government. The images form the core of the Smithsonian's extensive collection of Native American photographs and of important collections in many other major museums around the world

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres