July 2011
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
11h 32m
English
book
Forecasting and Management of Technology, Second Edition
by Thomas W. Mason, Alan Thomas Roper, Alan L. Porter, Jerry Banks, Scott W. Cunningham, Frederick A. Rossini
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