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Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career. Appealing to students and professionals alike, it will build your knowledge of financial management tools and enable you to relate their applications to real-life business scenarios. Focusing on the importance of proactive financial management, the book serves as a primer for students in landscape architecture, contracting, and management courses and entrepreneurs within the landscape industry preparing to use business principles in practice. Topics covered include: Financial management and accountability Budget development Profitable pricing and estimating Project management Creating a lean culture Personnel management and employee productivity Professional development Economic sustainability.

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Coleman has done a great service to the prestige of the academic community.... For once, an academic book has bucked the groupthink so pervasive in the ivory tower and has given us room to hope. Too bad...[some] will inevitably dismiss it as some 'originalist' fantasy. That will say more about them than it does about Coleman's skill as a historian or his attention to detail both of which are exemplary, as is his book. * The Abbeville Blog * Properly understanding the American constitutional founding is both vital and difficult. Professor Coleman has mastered the large and complex literature of the subject and given us a refreshing new perspective. It turns out that, after all, the role of the States was more important than we have been led to believe. -- Clyde N. Wilson, University of South Carolina Aaron N. Coleman's new book on the place of state sovereignty in the Founders' federal system makes clear again what everyone once knew: that `No taxation without representation' was a claim to government by the state legislatures whose power was primary when the Imperial Crisis began, and that the U.S. Constitution was sold as perpetuating that principle. Contrary to today's trendy teaching, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, and their fellow nationalists lost the battle over the Constitution in 1787-90, and today's system amounts to an inversion of what the Revolution was intended to establish. -- Kevin R. C. Gutzman, Western Connecticut State University, author of <i>James Madison and the Making of America</i> This groundbreaking book allows readers to understand the Founders' vision for the American Republic with greater accuracy and scrupulousness than previously available, and while the scholarship of myriad historians and political theorists are critiqued with great care, this study recovers the authentic basis for the political compact and the perpetuation of the regime. The book constitutes a significant accomplishment. -- H. Lee Cheek Jr., East Georgia State College Nathan Coleman treads new ground in the history of the United States under the Articles of Confederation. By purposefully avoiding the standard `nationalist' narrative of the Founding era, Coleman successfully challenges a number of long-held assumptions about the origin of American constitutionalism. He boldly explains deep disagreements among American local and national leaders-many long since forgotten or overshadowed by those we venerate today. In doing so, Coleman sheds new light on early commitments to states' rights, the purpose of political independence, the initial goals of the American union, and concerns about the sustainability of the Articles of Confederation. -- Carey M. Roberts, Liberty University

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Steven Cohan earned his Ph.D. at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His diverse professional career encompasses plant science research, entrepreneurship as an owner of a retail nursery, and executive management of botanical gardens. He is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, where he served as Program Director for the Landscape Management Program. His course instruction included Financial Applications for the Green Industry, Environmental Horticulture, Internship Seminar, and Green Roofs and Urban Sustainability Seminar.

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