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Usable Pasts Traditions and Group Expressions in North America

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ISBN-10: 087421226X

ISBN-13: 9780874212266

Edition: 1997

Authors: Tad Tuleja

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List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 5/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Tad Tuleja, Miller Heiman, Inc's staff writer, has co-written five MHI books, including the original Strategic Selling (available from Kogan Page). Among his nearly 30 other books is Beyond the Bottom Line, a study of business ethics. From 1987 to 1991 he directed the School of Management writing programme at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has also completed a PhD in anthropology at the University of Austin.

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