The ultimate aim of this resource is stated in an introductory essay written by contributor Gerald W. Fry: "It is our hope that this set will enhance both economic and geographic literacy critically needed in an increasingly interconnected world." The editors and contributors attempt to accomplish this by presenting a series of accessible articles that methodically analyze the economic structures and financial climates of 198 countries and territories.
Countries are arranged in alphabetical order within four regional volumes. The country entries have two goals: to present a clear picture of current economic conditions and to provide statistical data that will allow for comparative interpretations. Within entries, information is divided into 14 standardized subdivisions, among them a country overview; an overview of the economy; a section on politics, government, and taxation; and a section on infrastructure, power and communications. Subsequent sections treat economic sectors, agriculture, industry, services, international trade, money, poverty and wealth, working conditions, the country's history and economic development (in time-line format), and future trends. A fifteenth subdivision looks at the economies of any dependencies, colonies, or territories. A country-specific bibliography of print and electronic sources completes each entry.

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This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but can become either depending on the activities with which they interact. Meyer documents the ways in which different kinds of weather throughout history have represented hazards and resources not only for such exposed outdoor pursuits as agriculture, warfare, transportation, construction, and recreation, but for other realms of life ranging from manufacturing to migration to human health. He points out that while the weather and climate by themselves have never determined the course of human events, their significance as been continuously altered for better and for worse by the evolution of American life.

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Includes biographies of each person who has served in the Continental Congress or the U.S. Congress from 1774-2004. Includes over 12,000 brief biographies. Also lists the members of each Congress from the first Congress to the 108th Congress. The 108th Congress ended on January 3, 2005. The Biographical Directory has evolved to reflect the changing face of Congress, in which more than 12,000 individuals have served during the past two centuries. Since the country achieved its independence in 1776, our national legislatures have balanced tradition with the necessity of adapting to new circumstances. The role and procedures of Congress remain the same—to serve as the central lawmaking body of the national government. Many of its practices trace roots back to the British Parliament and beyond.

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Richard Middleton - The Bells of Victory. The Pitt –Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Y ears' War, 1757–1762 (1985).jpg

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‘Our Bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victory’, wrote Horace Walpole after receiving news of Wolfe’s victory at Quebec in October 1759. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years’ War have emphasized the contribution of the Elder Pitt to the success of Britain in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, India and the Far East.

The Bells of Victory argues that such a view is misguided and that, far from exercising single-handed control, Pitt’s influence was necessarily circumscribed. The margin between military success and failure was extremely small, and the British authorities worked within constraints imposed by constitutional propriety and political expediency. Effective government action was the result of teamwork by many individuals in the diverse fields of diplomacy, politics, finance, the army, navy, ordnance and commissariat.

Contents

Preface;
Abbreviations;
Introduction: the outbreak of War and formation of the ministry;
1. A crisis of confidence;
2. A new start;
3. The broadening effort;
4. The threat of invasion;
5. The bells of victory;
6. Consolidation;
7. A new king;
8. War with Spain: conclusion;
Appendix;
Bibliography;
Index.

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Essays on approximately 150 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats, covering their history, acculturation and assimilation, family and community dynamics, language and religion.

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Timothy R. Mahoney - River Towns in the Great West , The Structure of Provincial Urbanization in the American Midwest, 1820-1870 (1990).jpg

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Between 1820 and the Civil War, the upper Mississippi valley was at the center of national and international attention. At the edge of the northern frontier, this area, known as "The Great West," was the destination of hundreds of thousands of immigrants from the East and from northern Europe. This book analyzes the development, maturation, growth, and sudden decline of the distinctive regional urban-economic system that developed in this area. Drawing from a variety of methods used in historical geography, economic history, systems analysis, and social and urban history, the author analyzes how early settlement patterns were affected by experience, climate, and geography, and, in turn, shaped the initial patterns of economic, urban, and transportation development. As the systems developed, towns became more functionally differentiated and several towns emerged as the more important competitors for regional hinterland control. The center of the analysis focuses on the efforts of these river towns to respond to a variety of settlement, economic, and transport network forces that worked in favor of the regional entrepots of Chicago and St. Louis.

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Richard H. K. Vietor - Energy policy in America si nce 1945. A study of business–government relations (1984).jpg

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In the political economy of energy, World War II was a significant watershed: It accelerated the transition from dependence on coal to petroleum and natural gas. At the same time, mobilization provided an unprecedented experience in the management of energy markets by a forced partnership of business and government. Vietor covers American policy from 1945 to 1980.

For readers convinced that big business contrived the energy crisis of the 1970s, this story will be disappointing, but enlightening. For those committed to theories of regulatory capture or public interest reform it should be frustrating. More than a history of government policy making, this book provides us with an innovative and insightful approach to the study of business-government relations in modern America. For managers, bureaucrats, and anyone interested in seeing a more effective national industrial policy, this history should put the relationship of business and government in a critical new perspective.

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Destination chérie de l'Amérique du Nord, la Floride accueille chaque année des dizaines de millions de visiteurs attirés par son doux climat et son incroyable diversité. Le guide Ulysse Floride, le plus complet publié en français, démontre la richesse extraordinaire de ce paradis du sud des Etats-Unis : Miami et son élégant quartier Art déco, le fameux parc des Everglades, les rues chargées d'histoire de St. Augustine, les parcs thématiques de la région d'Orlando, les splendides Keys et leur ambiance unique, les trésors architecturaux de Palm Beach, les navettes spatiales de Cape Canaveral, les étonnants musées de St. Petersburg et, bien sûr, le sable doux de Fort Lauderdale, Daytona Beach, Fort Myers et tant d'autres plages magnifiques. La description de tous les attraits, cotés selon un système d'étoiles, ainsi qu'une section thématique en début d'ouvrage pour vous aider à personnaliser votre séjour. Une sélection des meilleurs hôtels et restaurants, pour tous les budgets, dans toutes les régions. Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les activités de plein air. Plus de 60 cartes régionales et plans de ville pour vous aider à façonner l'itinéraire qui vous convient.

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Film Marketing is the first book to consolidate existing literature into a well informed and academically sound textbook. The book focuses on the film industry as a whole, which incorporates popular (mainstream) fiction films (usually) in English, non English language fiction films, documentary films and art house films. In doing so, it is firmly embedded in the global film industry.

Although the film industry is global, it is dominated by the Hollywood major studios, and as such, discussion of the Hollywood film industry will be highlighted. But, unlike other film marketing books on the market, this book also highlights other successful film industries, such as Korea, Nigeria and India, as well as looking at examples of film marketing practices from a range of other countries which provide interesting case studies from Denmark, France, the UK and Hong Kong.

Film Marketing offers the student a unique combination of theory and practice and written in accessible student-friendly manner, presents an appealing and must-have text for anyone studying film. The book includes full pedagogical features and additional lecture resources, available at www.textbooks.elsevier.com allowing for easy use by both lecturer and student.

To access the Teaching Support Materials, click on the Instructor Manual tab at the top right of this page.

* The only book dedicated to marketing in the rapidly growing film industry, from a marketing perspective
* The first book to include global examples such as Korea, Nigeria, India, Denmark, France, the UK and Hong Kong, as well as Hollywood
* The first book to combine theory and practice with a student-friendly use of pedagogy and providing additional lecturer resources, available at www.textbooks.elsevier.com including PowerPoint slides, exercises and further reading

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Robert Kagan - Of Paradise and Power, America and Europe in the New World Order (2004).jpg

At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, forces both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Europe, he argues, has moved beyond power into a self-contained world of laws, rules, and negotiation, while America operates in a “Hobbesian” world where rules and laws are unreliable and military force is often necessary.

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George Orwel - Black Gold, The New Frontier in Oil for Investors (2006).jpg

Analyze how the falling production and rising demand of oil has enabled savvy companies and investment banks to cash in with Black Gold. You'll find investment suggestions -- from ETFs and energy futures to hedge funds -- that will allow you to reap substantial profits from current and future situations as well as short human-interest stories that illustrate every issue discussed. You'll also find a timeframe for the peak of oil production -- one that is more realistic and gaining acceptance with both scientists and economists. Drawing on historical background, current issues, and expectations of the energy road ahead, Black Gold offers information you'll appreciate and understand so you can make the most of a market poised to grow exponentially in the years ahead.

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Robert Grafstein - A Bridge Too Far, Commonalities and Differences between China and the United Stat es (2009).jpg

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Bringing Chinese scholars and political advisors and practitioners together with scholars who study China and the United States from a Western political scientific perspective, this book uncovers genuine areas of overlap between the politics of the two nations. Important topics covered include China's democratic prospects and the rise of local village elections, the role of interest groups, Chinese political and legal reforms and developments regarding intellectual property rights and environmental regulation, Western and Chinese political philosophy, and Sino-American foreign policy interactions.

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Robert Grafstein - A Bridge Too Far, Commonalities and Differences between China and the United Stat es (2009).pdf

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Mark Newman - Getting Right With God, Southern Bap tists and Desegregation. 1945-1995 (2001).jpg

Focusing on the eleven states of the old Confederacy, this work examines the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a tumultuous period of change in the United States. The author not only offers an in-depth analysis of Baptist institutions from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and state conventions to colleges and churches, but also probes beyond these by examining the response of pastors and lay people to changing race relations. The SBC long held that legal segregation was in line with biblical teachings, but after the Supreme Court's 1954 "Brown vs Board of Education" decision in favour of desegregating public institutions, some Southern Baptists found an inconsistency in their basic beliefs. Newman identifies three major blocs of Baptist opinion about race relations: a hard-line segregationist minority that believed God had ordained slavery in the Bible; a more moderate majority that accepted the prevailing social order of racial segregation; and a progressive group of lay people, pastors and denominational leaders who criticized and ultimately rejected discrimination as contrary to biblical teachings. According to Newman, the efforts of the progressives to appeal to Baptists' primary commitments and the demise of de jure segregation caused many moderate and then hard-line segregationists to gradually relinquish their views, leading to the 1995 apology by the Southern Baptist Convention for its complicity in slavery and racism. Comparing Southern Baptists to other major white denominations, Newman concludes that lay Baptists differed little from other white southerners in their response to segregation.

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Mark Newman - Getting Right With God, Southern Bap tists and Desegregation. 1945-1995 (2001).pdf

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Alyn Shipton - Groovin' High, The Life of Dizzy Gi llespie (2001).jpg

British author and BBC radio host Alyn Shipton's biography on the world-renowned puffy-cheeked trumpeter/composer/bandleader John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie is the most comprehensive to date. It's an excellent follow-up to Gillespie's 1980 memoir, To Be or Not to Bop, and it contains new interviews with many of his associates, including pianist Dave Brubeck, author John Chilton, and bassist Milt Hinton. In addition to detailing Gillespie's South Carolina origins and his mid-1940s co-creations of bebop and Latin jazz (with drummer Kenny Clarke, saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Mario Bauza), the author penetrates his fun-loving, goatee-sporting, beret-wearing, and generally zany façade. "This was bizarre behavior indeed," writes Shipton, "but part of a pattern that led more than one commentator to the conclusion that Dizzy was 'crazy like a fox,' a shrewd operator who meticulously filed away in his mind any shred of fact or information that might come in handy some day." Shipton reveals him to be a man who sometimes angered and alienated his fellow musicians, as evidenced by trumpeter's infamous spitball affair with Cab Calloway; his fathering of a daughter by a white woman out of wedlock in 1958, and his spiritual quest for world brotherhood as a member of the Islam-based Baha'i faith. Shipton's portrait of Gillespie in his final years in the late '80s and '90s as the leader of his multiracial United Nation Orchestra is that of an elder statesman, cultural ambassador, and musical innovator. "With his death," Shipton writes, "the world lost a man who had revolutionized jazz, gave it a set of principles on which it could develop musically, and shown by example how to create within those principles at the highest level."

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David J. Lonsdale - The Nature of War in the Infor mation Age, Clausewitzian Future (2004).jpg

Using a range of contexts, the book sets out to look at whether the classical Clausewitzian theory of the nature of war will retain its validity in this new age. The analysis covers the character of the future battlespace, the function of command, and the much-hyped concept of Strategic Information Warfare. Finally, the book broadens its perspective to examine the nature of 'Information Power' and its implications for geopolitics. Through an assessment of both historical and contemporary case studies (including the events following September 11 and the recent war in Iraq), the author concludes that although the future will see many changes to the conduct of warfare, the nature of war, as given theoretical form by Clausewitz, will remain essentially unchanged.

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Boston : berceau des Etat-Unis au regard tourné vers l'avenir. Des quartiers à l'échelle humaine, des rues étroites et sinueuses au charme européen, une architecture inspirée et audacieuse, une vitalité universitaire sans pareille... La métropole de la Nouvelle-Angleterre est un incontournable. Avec le guide Ulysse Boston, revivez plus de 375 ans d'une histoire riche et mouvementée, flânez dans le Boston Common, le plus vieux jardin public d'Amérique, et dans l'agréable quartier de Beacon Hill. Parcourez les élégantes avenues de Back Bay, les rues du North End, où naquit la ville, et celles du South End, ce quartier populaire multiethnique. Découvrez le visage maritime de Boston le long du Waterfront ou de la Charles River. Sans oublier Cambridge, avec sa prestigieuse université Harvard, ainsi que Lexington, Concord et Salem. Vous trouverez dans ce guide : Une suggestion de circuits et une description détaillée des attraits, cotés selon un système d'étoiles, ainsi qu'une nouvelle section thématique pour mieux organiser votre temps et mieux choisir. Une impressionnante sélection d'hôtels, de restaurants, de sorties et de boutiques, de tous les styles et pour toutes les bourses. Un portrait historique, social et culturel étoffé, ainsi que de nombreux encadrés pour mieux comprendre la ville. De nombreuses cartes précises pour vous permettre de vous repérer en un clin d'œil.

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