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This comprehensive Research Handbook provides insights into
entrepreneurship across a range of country contexts, migration
corridors and national policies to provide a collection of
conceptual, empirical and policy-focused findings addressing
transnational diaspora entrepreneurship. Chapters illustrate the
phenomenon, considering what it is, how it works and how it is
regulated. Contributions from top scholars in the field underline
the view that transnational diaspora entrepreneurship is a
socio-cultural as well as an economic phenomenon of increasing
worldwide relevance in shifting economic, technological and
political landscapes. Conceptual and methodological developments
are presented from multiple perspectives, embedding unique country-
and- context-based empirical research. Split into four key thematic
sections, this Research Handbook first provides readers with an
overview of the topic, before delving into country-specific case
studies, migration corridors and their impacts, and then finally
exploring the policy implications. Entrepreneurship scholars and
students—particularly those with a focus on global
entrepreneurship, diasporas, migration and international
entrepreneurship—will find this a timely and important read. It
will also be of value to administrators of entrepreneurial and
migration programs, business developers, investment and startup
agencies, diaspora organisations, NGOs and think-tanks.
Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term:
it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract.
Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk
emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated
inland and became essential to the financial management of an
inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and
anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk
developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial
institutions-insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed
securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities
markets-while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart
of risk's rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free
individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a
Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one's own
personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto
a series of new financial institutions, which together have only
recently acquired the name "financial services industry." Levy
traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded
in the new economic reality created by the American financial
system. Amid the nineteenth-century's waning faith in God's
providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated
challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust
chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortuneis one of the first
books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized
times and risk-defined lives.
Treen is a lavishly illustrated book which concentrates on pieces
related to eating and drinking and celebrates the range and
richness of the turner's art from 1600 to 1900. It covers a wide
range of objects for everyday and ceremonial use; goblets to
nutcrackers, platters to lemon squeezers, mortars to salts, wassail
bowls to egg cups. It discusses the work of the 'jobbing' village
turner or 'bodger', the skilled craftsman's workshop and the grand
Court turner producing complex rose engine turning. It illustrates
pieces only to be found in museums and examples you can find today
in your local antiques market or fair. Information is given on
where treen may be seen and found and there is practical advice on
pitfalls for the collector, dating and cleaning, as well as a
chapter dealing with surfaces and patina and one asking for
readers' help in identifying the purpose of some curious objects.
This volume will appeal not only to new collectors seeking guidance
and inspiration and antique dealers who may come across treen, but
also to experts who can compare the objects in their own
collections with those illustrated in this veritable feast of
treen.
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other
high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the
proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on
both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in
historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history,
law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy
provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put
today's corporate policy debates in proper context. From the
nation's founding to the present, Americans have regarded
corporations with ambivalence-embracing their potential to
revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their
capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although
corporations were originally created to give businesses and other
associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they
were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded
flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range
of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and
American law, the historical shift from special charters to general
incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this
shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation
in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution
of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since
corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing
variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy
groups. Ironically, in today's global economy the decline of large,
vertically integrated corporations-the type of corporation that
past reform movements fought so hard to regulate-poses some of the
newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.
Bestselling authors Jonathan Levi and Emma French use their
unrivalled access to the secret world of police protection officers
as they tell the dramatic and astonishing stories of bravery, and
the decisions that can change lives in a heartbeat. With the
constant threats now posed by gangs, drugs turf wars and terrorism,
the world of police protection has changed almost beyond
recognition. But the story of these incredible officers is also the
story of Britain's most dramatic and traumatic news events. In
Bodyguard: The Real Story we meet individuals with first-hand
recollection of these indelible events with powerful stories to
tell.
"All children with autism have ways of dropping into their own
world, leaving us behind for a minute, and hour, a day."
This is the essence of autism: a disorder that is, at its heart,
about interaction. Many of the symptoms associated with autism come
from either a lack of paying attention to other people or a lack of
interest in joining in with the rest of the world.
Because this is the case, it is important that when you work with
your child, you are addressing the core issue of autism: your
child, for one reason or another, is not spending enough time in
our interactive world.
What You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism gives you
the best techniques you can do right now to work with your child
and draw him or her back into our interactive world.
The ten techniques in the book are not just explained in detail,
they are also illustrated by true stories of Mr. Levy's work with
children with autism (and their parents).
Topics include:
Don't React: How you respond to your child's behaviors can make all
the difference. Learn why most people are ineffective in
discouraging their child's 'problem' behaviors and how you can do
it differently.
Make Eye Contact a Priority: Understand why eye contact is vital to
your child's development and easy steps you can take to help your
child to look more.
Join with the Stims: A different and powerful approach to your
child's self stimulating and repetitious behaviors.
Respond Differently to Crying: Most of us give children great
reasons to cry and act unhappy. Learn to teach your child a more
effective way to communicate with you and the rest of the world.
Give Your Child as much Control asPossible: Most children with
autism are told "No" much of the time by their parents, teachers,
and family members. Make interacting with people more attractive to
your child by allowing him to do more of what he wants and moving
against him less.
Focus on Your Attitude: A hidden factor in your child's development
is how you feel as you work with her. Learn why this is the case
and how to feel better, more of the time.
Work One-On-One in a Non-Distracting Room: Why school isn't the
best place for your child to develop and grow. Understand the three
main factors in a successful educational environment.
Be Dynamic with Your Child: Enthusiasm matters to your child's
growth. Learn the three tools you can use to demonstrate energy,
excitement, and enthusiasm.
Get More Language: There are three categories of language ability,
which does your child fit into? Master techniques that will enable
your child to improve her speech, whatever her current level.
Make Sure Food Isn't Part of the Problem: An explanation of dairy
and wheat intolerances, and why sugar isn't helping your child.
Also, how to introduce new foods so he actually eats them.
When parents feel their world spinning out of control, What You
Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism puts the power back
in their hands to work with--and help--their child.
The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller 'There is time and then there is
Broadmoor time.' Broadmoor. Few place names in the world have such
chilling resonance. For over 150 years, it has contained the UK's
most violent, dangerous and psychopathic. Since opening as an
asylum for the criminally insane in 1863 it has housed the
perpetrators of many of the most shocking crimes in history;
including Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, serial killers Peter
Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper), John Straffen and Kenneth
Erskine, armed robber Charles Bronson, gangster Ronnie Kray, and
cannibal Peter Bryan. The truth about what goes on behind the
Victorian walls of the high security hospital has largely remained
a mystery, but now with unprecedented access TV journalist Jonathan
Levi and cultural historian Emma French paint a vivid picture of
life at Broadmoor, after nearly a decade observing and speaking to
those on the inside. Including interviews with the staff, its
experts and the patients themselves, Inside Broadmoor is the most
comprehensive study of the institution to-date. Published at the
dawn of a new era for the hospital, this is the full story of
Broadmoor's past, present and future and a dark but enlightening
journey into the minds of Britain's most dangerous and how they are
treated.
Pub_AbstractText : This thesis proposes an alternative governance
structure for east central Europe - the Intermarium. The
Intermarium is based on the development of a supplementary federal
structure capable of controlling factionalism and nationalism
utilizing concepts from James Madison's Tenth Federalist. In
particular, James Madison's approach to mitigating and preventing
the formation of dangerous factions is found to be compatible with
preexisting notions of federalism in east central Europe and offers
a potential regional political solution that merits further study.
In reaching the above proposal, the concepts of Wilsonian national
self -determination, Pan European federalism, functionalism and
historical east central European variants of federalism are
explored along with their leading personalities. At the author's
request over 100 previously unknown documents were declassified by
a variety of intelligence agencies including the CIA, Army
Counterintelligence, and FBI. In addition, three lengthy interviews
were conducted with former American intelligence agent, William
Gowen, who in 1947 and 1948 investigated and worked with several of
the organizations and individuals profiled. The tragic history of
east central Europe in the 20th Century consisted of bloody ethnic
conflict, foreign invasion, and occupation with the lingering
effects still evident today. While there is persuasive authority to
suggest that the future for east central Europe is one of
harmonious relations, liberal democracy and economic prosperity
other forecasts predict decades yet of bloody conflict as the
Russian Federation and its borderlands resolve rivalries fueled by
national self-determination andirredentism. By developing a federal
alternative to the European Union to be know popularly as the
Intermarium, east central Europe might effectively pool its
resources and meet the foreign relations and security challenges
unique to the region rather than relying upon far away Brussels in
the event of a crisis. Regional federation as exemplified by east
central Europe's unique heritage may prove to be just the bridging
mechanism needed to accelerate the goal of Pan Europe or provide a
safe harbor from conflict in the event of the EU's inability to
address future crises.
Hatton Garden... straight from the horse's mouth, as told to the
factual producer on ITV's new HATTON GARDEN drama series. For this
team of old-school career criminals, The Hatton Garden Heist was
supposed to be one last job, the fortune that would sort their
retirement for good. The plan was to smash in and grab tens of
millions of pounds from beneath the world-famous gold-and-jewellery
district, and get away to live in luxury. But somewhere it all went
wrong. Now, for the first time ever, we hear what happened from the
gang behind bars. Based on exclusive interviews and featuring
shocking revelations from their associates, this explosive and
gripping read includes fresh information and evidence from unheard
sources. This is the full story of one of the most audacious crimes
in British history.
Although children's plays of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries are rarely anthologized or even mentioned in reference
books or histories of theatre, theatre historian and playwright
Jonathan Levy found an embarrassment of riches when he set about
developing this collection. Applying several criteria, which are
noted in his preface, he found himself especially captivated by
plays presenting scenes of real life and in which the dialogue
sounds like the real talk of boys and girls of the period. Most of
the plays remain interesting as plays to be read and perhaps
produced, not just as historical curiosities. Included are plays
representative of five major genres, which Levy identifies in his
analytical introduction: Dramatic Proverbs and other moral tales;
History Plays, including sacred and secular history; Sentimental
Comedies; Fairy Tales and Eastern Tales; and Familiar Dialogues.
Included among the playwrights are Charles Stearns (1753-1826), a
Harvard graduate and tutor and prominent minister, and Maria
Edgeworth (1767-1849), an English writer known also for her Irish
novels for adults and her writings on education. Each of the ten
plays is prefaced by a biographical sketch on the playwright and
critical notes on the play. Illustrations from some of the original
publications are reprinted.
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