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Loner James Malloy is a ferry captain-or used to be, until he was
unceremoniously fired and replaced by a girl named Courtney Farris.
Now, instead of piloting Brenton Island's daily lifeline to the
glitzy docks of Newport, Rhode Island, James spends his days
beached, bitter, and bored. When he discovers a private golf course
staked out across wilderness sacred to his dying best friend, a
Narragansett Indian, James is determined to stop such
"improvements." But despite Brenton's nickname as "Cooperation
Island," he's used to working solo. To keep rocky bluffs, historic
trees, and ocean shoreline open to all, he'll have to learn to
cooperate with other islanders-including Captain Courtney, who
might just morph from irritant to irresistible once James learns a
secret that's been kept from him for years. This salt-sprayed
fourth novel by 2004 Olympic Sailor Carol Newman Cronin celebrates
wilderness and water, open space and open-mindedness, and the
redemptive power of neighborly cooperation.
Oliver returns! The character we came to love in "Oliver's
Surprise" finds himself on Cape Cod aboard his grandfather's boat,
the beloved "Surprise" as a major hurricane threatens to make
landfall. In 1954, Hurricane Carol's wrath was felt from the
Carolinas to Maine, and in Boston, she blew down the spire of the
historic Old North Church. Her destruction was so complete that the
name will never again be used; Carol was the first Atlantic
hurricane name in history to be retired. Once again, young readers
see New England coastal history through the eyes of our intrepid
Oliver, now a seasoned time traveler. As Carol starts to bear down
on the sandy coastline, Oliver must face his own fears and
uncertainties while contending with a renegade aunt and another
time traveler who refuses to let go of modern niceties.
Longing to feel closer to his favorite grandfather, Oliver skips
school on a sparkling September afternoon and hides out on a tired
schooner. When he wakes up on the ways of his grandfather's
boatyard and realizes he's been transported back to 1938, he must
decide what to do before the dangerous hurricane he'd been studying
in school hits. While the main character is a 12 year old boy,
Oliver's story, and the story of a powerful weather event that
still reverberates along the east coast, is more than appropriate
for an adult audience. Written by a 2004 Olympian in sailing, this
charming story includes 8 original illustrations, a glossary of
nautical terms and a short history of the Great Hurricane of 1938
that devastated the eastern seaboard. The revised edition includes
more photographs, maps, a History of Coastal Schooners and is
accompanied by a new Teacher's Guide.
Longing to feel closer to his favorite grandfather, Oliver skips
school on a sparkling September afternoon and hides out on a tired
schooner. When he wakes up on the ways of his grandfather's
boatyard and realizes he's been transported back to 1938, he must
decide what to do before the dangerous hurricane he'd been studying
in school hits. While the main character is a 12 year old boy,
Oliver's story, and the story of a powerful weather event that
still reverberates along the east coast, is more than appropriate
for an adult audience. Written by an Olympic medalist on the 2004
USA sailing team, this charming story includes 8 original
illustrations, a glossary of nautical terms and a short history of
the Great Hurricane of 1938 that devastated the eastern seaboard.
September 2008 marks the 70th anniversary of the storm.
"The role of industry in low income countries is important.
Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction.
All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of
industry. Africa doesn't have enough industry to reach the
Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty
reduction. Africa's share of global manufacturing has fallen from
about three percent in 1970 to less than two percent in 2010. Why
is there so little industry in Africa? Made in Africa: Learning to
Compete in Industry outlines a new industrialization strategy to
help Africa compete in global markets. This book draws on case
study and qualitative research from Africa and emerging Asia to
understand what drives firm-level productivity in low income
countries. The results show that while traditional concerns such as
infrastructure, skills, and the regulatory environment are
important, they alone will not be sufficient for Africa to
industrialize. The book also addresses how industrialization
strategies will need to adapt to the region's growing resource
abundance. "
Now in its third edition, Conceptual Statistics for Beginners
emphasizes and facilitates the conceptual understanding of
statistics and statistical concepts for the purpose of reading and
accurately interpreting research literature. The last two chapters
of the book introduce two new concepts. The first concept is type
VI error, which is the inconsistency between the statistical
procedure and the research question. The final chapter introduces
the importance of the concept of "Replicability" vs. statistical
significance and effect size.
This new edition emphasizes and facilitates the conceptual
understanding of statistics and statistical concepts for the
purpose of reading and accurately interpreting research literature.
The use of hand calculators is deemphasized. Instead, computer
example setups are supplied for SPSS and SAS.
While it is possible for economies to grow based on abundant land
or natural resources, more often structural change-the shift of
resources from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors-is the
key driver of economic growth. Structural transformation is vital
for Africa. The region's much-lauded growth turnaround since 1995
has been the result of making fewer economic policy mistakes,
robust commodity prices, and new discoveries of natural resources.
At the same time, Africa's economic structure has changed very
little. Primary commodities and natural resources still account for
the bulk of the region's exports. Industry is most often the
leading driver of structural transformation. Africa's experience
with industrialization over the past thirty years has been
disappointing. In 2010, sub-Saharan Africa's average share of
manufacturing value added in GDP was ten per cent, unchanged from
the 1970s. Actually, the share of medium- and high-tech goods in
manufacturing production has been falling since the mid-1990s. Per
capita manufactured exports are less than ten per cent of the
developing country average. Consequently, Africa's industrial
transformation has yet to take place. This book presents results of
comparative country-based research that sought to answer a
seemingly simple but puzzling question: why is there so little
industry in Africa? It brings together detailed country case
studies of industrial policies and industrialization outcomes in
eleven countries, conducted by teams of national researchers in
partnership with international experts on industrial development.
It provides the reader with the most comprehensive description and
analysis available to date of the contemporary industrialization
experience in low-income Africa. This is an open access title
available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is
free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF
download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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