This Research Handbook explores the latest frontiers in services trade by drawing on insights from empirical economics, law and global political economy. The world's foremost experts take stock of the learning done to date in services trade, explore policy questions bedeviling analysts and direct attention to a host of issues, old and new, confronting those interested in the service economy and its rising salience in cross-border exchange. The Research Handbook's 22 chapters shed analytical light on a subject matter whose substantive remit continues to be shaped by rapid evolutions in technology, data gathering, market structures, consumer preferences, approaches to regulation and ongoing shifts in the frontier between the market and the state. Expert contributors explore the subject through a multidisciplinary lens, offering a comprehensive overview of lessons learned over two decades of GATS jurisprudence. The book further chronicles the rising stakes and involvement of developing countries in global services trade, notably their growing insertion in global value chains, as well as the latest advances and remaining challenges in the statistical measurement of trade in services. Academics and experts in the policy research community will find value in this book, as will officials in governmental and international organization circles as well as representatives of service sector industry associations. Contributors include: A. Berry, T. Bohn, T. Broude, M. Burri, R. Chanda, P. Delimatsis, G. Gari, B. Hoekman, G.C. Hufbauer, M. Krajewski, R. Lanz, E. Leroux, J. Magdeleine, A. Maurer, P. Mavroidis, M. Mayakeshi, S. Miroudot, M. Molinuevo, S. Moses, N. Mulder, M. Roy, S. Saez, P. Sauve, B. Shepherd, A. Shingal, S. Stephenson, D. Taglioni, L. Tuthill, E. van de Marel, C. Van Grasstek, N. Ward, J. Wilson

Trade in services is an increasingly important part of global trade and, as such, figures prominently in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations. In this volume of essays, academics, negotiators and experts from various international organizations explore the achievements of such negotiations, together with the challenges and opportunities which arise and the motivations that come into play in such negotiations. The contributions highlight issues in important services sectors, such as distribution, energy, finance, telecommunications, air transport and the postal and audiovisual sectors, as well as areas such as cross-border trade and government procurement. Case studies look into the experiences of specific countries. The focus on sector analysis and country experiences sheds light on the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services at the beginning of the twenty-first century, making this an indispensable guide to ongoing and future international negotiations on this topic.

Trade in services is an increasingly important part of global trade and, as such, figures prominently in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations. In this volume of essays, academics, negotiators and experts from various international organizations explore the achievements of such negotiations, together with the challenges and opportunities which arise and the motivations that come into play in such negotiations. The contributions highlight issues in important services sectors, such as distribution, energy, finance, telecommunications, air transport and the postal and audiovisual sectors, as well as areas such as cross-border trade and government procurement. Case studies look into the experiences of specific countries. The focus on sector analysis and country experiences sheds light on the state of services liberalization and the regulation of international trade in services at the beginning of the twenty-first century, making this an indispensable guide to ongoing and future international negotiations on this topic.

The year is 1987. America is clawing its way out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Washington pursues illegal and unpopular wars in Central America. In the wealthy desert playground of Palm Springs, storefronts that once catered to the rich sit empty and shuttered. Crowds of bored rich teenagers in designer clothing entertain themselves with expensive cars and cheap drugs, while those less fortunate haunt darkened street corners, offering themselves for sale. This is the country to which war correspondent Peter Brandt returns. Physically and mentally scarred by the horrors he's covered, Peter comes home to bury his ex-wife, TV reporter Robin Anderson, only to discover she had been brutally murdered. With the local police unwilling to investigate her death, Peter sets out with retired cop Matt Banyon to expose Robin's killer. They uncover a shadowy world of anti-communists, drug smugglers, and corrupt politicians, and lay bare old wounds-including Peter's deep guilt over his failed marriage. In a final, cliff-hanging struggle, Peter faces his own fears-and death in a dark and empty place.

A collection of previously published and new short stories by author Martin Roy Hill. In the title story, "Duty," a Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII. In "Something Far Away," a former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past. A Navy investigator faces a different kind of ghost aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier in "Destroyer Turns." "Brandenberg's Diaries" tells the story of a retired spy's last mission during Glasnost. A group of soldiers faces the curse of war over several generations in "The Stragglers." And in "The Use of Innocence," a Vietnam vet contemplates a younger generation eager for another war.

Killers lurk beneath the waves of the western Pacific Ocean. The USS Encinitas, the first attack submarine crewed by both men and women, stalks the Crescent Moon, a renegade Iranian sub armed with nuclear-tipped missiles. But another predator hides aboard the American sub, a murderer who has already left a trail of dead women behind on shore. While the crew of the Encinitas plays a deadly game of hide-and-seek with the Crescent Moon, NCIS agent Linus Schag must discover the killer's identity before his - or her - blood lust leads to the submarine's total destruction.

Take a trip with the TIMEless curatorial team in time through space through this exhibition catalog. Interactive architecture is more than cinema, more than architecture- it is architectural new media. The exhibit features over 100 works from award winning designers, architects, filmmakers, artists and musicians, including ten commissioned interactive installations. Design critic and planner Sam Hall Kaplan adds that at last architecture is shown in a new and exciting perspective, as a place in time: "it is really the way we experience architecture, temporal and temporary." The curators express that " the questions are more important than the answers; we explore immersive environments and connect them to the 20th century lineage of architecture and film. "Participating artist F. Myles Sciotto describes the exhibit as "highlighting projects that blur the threshold of spatial and temporal constructions." Film has influenced architecture since the dawn of the modern era. The creative process for entertainment as well as spaces for life and work share common ground. Perhaps film influences the profession of architecture through its speculative spaces which are removed from the constraints of reality. These instances serve as inspiration in the creation of the architecture of tomorrow. Participants Alan Abdulkader Allison Newmeyer, Urbana, Illinois Amy Shea Aaron LeGandre, Phoenix, Arizona Benjamin Ball Ben Brooksby, Provo, Utah Jakob + Mcfarlane, Paris, France Canon Design, Andrew King Studio with Angela Silver, Ontario Canada Candas Sisman, Istanbul Turkey Carlos Barbosa, Miami, Florida Che-Wei Wang, New York, New York Clara Lee Christian Pongratz, Lubbock, Texas. Coy Howard, Los Angeles, California Craig Hodgetts, Los Angeles, California Daniel Herren, Bern, Switzerland David Pandam Hertz, Los Angeles, California Dimitri Kim, Los Angeles, California Dorsey Dunn, Los Angeles, California Dr. Michael Arbib, Los Angeles, California F. Myles Sciotto, Los Angeles, California Jason Lee Bruns, Los Angeles, California Jay Malloy, Los Angeles, California Jeff Gauthier, Claremont, California Jeff Hall, Los Angeles, California Joanna Cheung + Gabriel Noguez, Santa Monica, California Johannas Knoops, New York New York Joseph Kaufman, New York Joseph Rosa, Ann Arbor, Michagin Katharine O'Malley Ken Saylor, New York, New York Jimmy Luu Kyle von Hasseln, Los Angeles, California Kenny McNett, Santa Monica, California Manuel Colon-Amador Marcos Novak, Los Angeles, California Martha Howe, Santa Monica, California Martin Roy Mervel, Los Angeles, California Matei Denes Foxlin (Michael A. Fox), Pamona, California Michele Saee, Paris, Los Anegles, Bejing Naomi Scully, Los Angeles, California Patti Oleon, San Fransisco, California Ralph Spencer Steenblik, Vienna, Austria Robert Ivanov, New York, New York Robert Trempe, Philadelphia, Pennsilvania Roberto Prado, Santa Monica, California Robin Nanney & Christopher Norman, Los Angeles, California Scott Chambliss Sevak Petrosian, Burbank, Califonia Shamsul Kamal Akmal Stephen Mitchell Steve Curcuru Steven Suchman, Santa Monica Stewart Hicks, Urbana, Illinois Syd Mead, Pasadena, California Taiki Sugita Tim Durfee, Pasadena, California Toby Corbett Curators Ralph Spencer Steenblik Martin Roy Mervel AIA Catalog Editor Naomi Scully Curatorial Team Naomi Scully Tiffany Shaw Collings Chris Martin Adriana McElwain Henry Dominguez Taylor J. Hayes Luis Orozco Alison Pinsler Christian Contreras

Beginning with the piece that made Mark Twain famous--"The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"--and ending with his fanciful "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper," this treasure trove of an anthology, an abridgment of the 1888 original, collects twenty of Twain's own pieces, in addition to tall tales, fables, and satires by forty-three of Twain's contemporaries, including Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Artemus Ward, and Bret Harte.