While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.

Shares insight into factors that influence why various companies and products are successful or unsuccessful, analyzing the dynamic between quality and cost and how it influences consumer decisions as demonstrated by the examples of leading businesses.

Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer an argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries. They address one of the key issues--how can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? To answer this question, the authors put forward a radical and realistic new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries,...

This book is a collection of articles in which authors debate whether free trade boosts U.S. exports, whether protectionist manufacturing trade policies undermine American competitiveness, and whether free trade policies create a culture of crime and devastate impoverished countries.

When she learns that a vampire serial killer has been preying on the citizens of Las Vegas, vampire hunter Anita Blake tries to warn local authorities, only to discover that eleven people have already been taken down.

"The Transatlantic Trade in Africans (TTA) has no equal in the annals of modern history in terms of the scope and depth of suffering experienced by its victims, mostly at the hands of European traders and enslavers. Yet denial and silence continue to surround this human tragedy." "Hilary Beckles and Verene Shepherd two of the Caribbean's most distinguished historians make extensive use of the research by scholars from Europe. Africa and the Americas...

" The Politics of Fair Trade argues that fair trade is more than just labels on specialty coffee products. Nor is fair trade just protectionism in disguise. Rather, fair trade is opposition to unrestricted trade based on sincere concerns about environmental and labor conditions abroad. Fair traders are not trying to protect jobs or the economy at home, but do not want to see workers exploited and the environment degraded in their trading partners....

Accepting her boyfriend Phil's offer to ride the Arabian that his family is boarding, Stevie promises to provide the beautiful horse with the best of care and is alarmed by a mysterious allergy that it develops.