Nebraska Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

By Susanne Fröhlich

The definitive collection of Nebraska's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Nebraska residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762746831
• ISBN13: 9780762746835
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Relatively good read with M & A process nicely laid out but several weak areas

Overall, this is a good book where the M & A process is nicely laid out and with critical decisions clearly explained. The part on why you should go away from a deal is valuable as it is always forgotten in other M & A books. There are several weak areas nonetheless in this book. The link with strategy is a bit simplistic: "organic growth is not enough, you have to acquire to really grow... and we have the data backing this...

Excellent M & A Book

Mergers and acquisitions (M & A) are often essential to a company's growth and viability. However, a staggering 70 percent of mergers fail, often with devastating consequences for all concerned. For executives contemplating a deal, Mastering the Merger is filled with excellent, actionable advice. It is written in a tight, compelling way that business leaders will find quite useful. Mastering the Merger focuses on the...

Packed with Knowledge!

The odds are overwhelmingly against merger success - academic studies say 70% of mergers fail. Yet the biggest, most successful companies in the world grew through mergers and acquisitions. Building a global corporation from organic growth alone is nearly impossible. In this excellent discussion of merger basics, authors David Harding and Sam Rovit point out some facts that most academic analyses of mergers ignore. They show...