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NAFTA has been described by one expert as being a partial customs
union. It is, in any case, a special kind of free trade area
because it consists of two highly developed economies and one large
third world economy. In this book, the contributors examine the
specific interests of the three member countries, Canada, Mexico,
and the United States in the creation of NAFTA. They also assess
the influence of this trade area on their economics. Looking to the
future, doubts are expressed about the feasibility of using NAFTA
(a hope expressed by the USA) as a stepping stone in the creation
of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. Instead, the contributors see
the consolidation of MERCOSUR in Latin America and the creation of
a new Trans-Atlantic Market - as proposed by Sir Leon Brittan - as
more likely developments.
Originally published in 1979, The Investment Behaviour of British
Life Insurance Companies provides a critical analysis of the
investment policy of the life insurance industry for the period of
1962-76, and attempts to construct an econometric model of the
investment behaviour. It looks at the portfolio composition of life
funds and their position in the markets for securities in terms of
their gross purchases and sales and net acquisitions. It also
considers the principles on which life offices appear to operate
the principles on which life offices appear to operate in respect
of investing their 'reserves' to meet future contingent
liabilities. This book will appeal to those working in the field of
economic and business.
Originally published in 1979, The Investment Behaviour of British
Life Insurance Companies provides a critical analysis of the
investment policy of the life insurance industry for the period of
1962-76, and attempts to construct an econometric model of the
investment behaviour. It looks at the portfolio composition of life
funds and their position in the markets for securities in terms of
their gross purchases and sales and net acquisitions. It also
considers the principles on which life offices appear to operate
the principles on which life offices appear to operate in respect
of investing their 'reserves' to meet future contingent
liabilities. This book will appeal to those working in the field of
economic and business.
NAFTA has been described by one expert as being a partial customs
union. It is, in any case, a special kind of free trade area
because it consists of two highly developed economies and one large
third world economy. In this book, the contributors examine the
specific interests of the three member countries, Canada, Mexico,
and the United States in the creation of NAFTA. They also assess
the influence of this trade area on their economics. Looking to the
future, doubts are expressed about the feasibility of using NAFTA
(a hope expressed by the USA) as a stepping stone in the creation
of a Free Trade Area of the Americas. Instead, the contributors see
the consolidation of MERCOSUR in Latin America and the creation of
a new Trans-Atlantic Market - as proposed by Sir Leon Brittan - as
more likely developments.
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A tale about the second American civil war, alternative energy and
demonic possession, WINDFALL is part political thriller, part love
story, and part paranormal epic. To all appearances, Seth Tatton is
a middle-of-the-pack attorney just keeping his head above water.
But he has a side job, killing people for shadowy cabal of
politicians, billionaires and military leaders. With each
assignment, he learns more about their plot and their aims, and he
grows more intrigued. Even in his secret life, things are not what
they seem, because there's something inside of Seth. And it has big
plans for him, plans that it and others like it have nursed for
centuries. But when Seth is assigned to watch a troubled young
woman, all of those plans fall into question. A semi-finalist for
the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, WINDFALL is the latest novel
from Pushcart-Prize nominated poet, and author of The Last Bad Job
and Another Broken Wizard, Colin Dodds.
Lynn and Marv are childhood friends, now in their late twenties,
one a struggling musician, the other a salesman. One night, far
from home, alcohol, recklessness and coincidence reunite them with
Caroline, the longtime object of their desires. Married into a
wealthy Chicago family and unhappy, she begins an affair with Marv.
A few weeks later, when Caroline is arrested and charged with
murdering her husband and infant son, the unwelcome mystery pursues
the friends through their searches for love, stabs at success,
self-destructive lapses and leads one of them to his death. "The
novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats.
Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets... Marv and
Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their
abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it's
tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually
self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better
instincts... makes the characters more endearing." -Kirkus Reviews
Lynn and Marv, now in their late twenties, are beginning to
question the choices they've made. One is a struggling musician,
the other a salesman. One night, far from home, alcohol,
irresponsibility and coincidence reunite them with Caroline, the
longtime object of their desires. Married into a wealthy Chicago
family and unhappy, she begins an affair with Marv. A few weeks
later, she's arrested and charged with murdering her husband and
infant son. As her trial nears, the unwelcome mystery pursues the
friends through their searches for love, stabs at success,
self-destructive lapses and leads one of them to his death. Praise
for Colin Dodds' Another Broken Wizard "Dodds gets Worcester and
shows it in all of its glories and cracks...He runs through the
streets of the city and nearby towns and takes the reader with
him...Dodds is a master of writing the town life and capturing all
of the said and unsaid. His characters are so full of waiting, of
pain, and of hope that never reaches past the next day." -Worcester
Pulse Magazine "Masterfully written with all the grit and grisly
humor of returning to one's dingy blue collar hometown, Another
Broken Wizard is the compelling, tightly-woven story of a couple of
30-year old boyhood chums who don't grow up until it's too late."
-Boston Literary Magazine "It kept me nostalgic for something that
isn't my story, isn't my town, and I got really emotionally
involved. I may have shed a tear at the beautifully foreshadowed
climax, and I do not cry easily Seriously. Give it a read." -
Illiterarty.com "Another Broken Wizard is a terrific coming-of-age
tale that rings utterly true. Dodds has a gift for conveying the
sounds of his people and their world. He can make highway hypnosis
as fascinating as a gang brawl. And he has a natural radar for
locating the perfect detail to evoke the sense of what it feels
like to be caught between the past and the future, between loyalty
and logic, and between the security of the known and the impulse to
evolve. Though I came of age in the primordial mists, it somehow
felt like he was giving me a tour of my own past. Another Broken
Wizard is compulsively readable. I'll be giving this book to some
of my friends." - Jack O'Connell, author of The Resurrectionist,
and Box Nine "Dodds has written a fine novel. He has a voice wholly
his own, and he captures the elemental good and bad in the American
male. Joe's recklessness and gang feud creates a looming peril that
keeps the reader on edge." -Kevin Kosar, author of Whiskey: A
Global History
Heaven Unbuilt is the sum of roughly ten years of Dodds' work as a
poet. The poems wander the hallucinatory frontiers of experience to
the dangerous, unlikely moments of insight for which readers had
feared themselves too decent, too well liked and too cautious.
Heaven Unbuilt encompasses Spill-O's fitful travels toward grace,
poems from songs for the band Adultogram, then down the streets of
Brooklyn, over the mountains and across the deserts of the American
West, through casinos and churches, to a long interlude in a bar,
through grief and into the slow, sometimes reluctant submission to
love. It's a book of poems that does something that no book of
poems has done in a while.
Jim Monaghan really didn't want to go back to Worcester. But his
father's open-heart surgery and Jim's sudden unemployment forced
his hand. Making daily trips from the hospital to his father's
empty apartment, Jim seeks out his childhood best friend, Joe
Rousseau. But Joe has problems-a feud with a local gang. And Joe's
plan to resolve the matter only makes things worse. Tending to his
father and embarking on an ICU romance in the day, Jim tries to
help his friend. He follows Joe into Worcester nights defined by
drugs, guns and fistfights. As the danger escalates, Jim makes a
painful choice to save his friend, and then has to live with the
consequences. Another Broken Wizard is a book about straddling
childhood and adulthood, straddling a fading industrial home town
and the information-economy world of our attenuated aspirations,
straddling the love for a friend and self preservation. It is an
evocative portrait of Worcester, Massachusetts-both its place in
the 21st century and its past. "Dodds gets Worcester and shows it
in all of its glories and cracks...He runs through the streets of
the city and nearby towns and takes the reader with him...Dodds is
a master of writing the town life and capturing all of the said and
unsaid. His characters are so full of waiting, of pain, and of hope
that never reaches past the next day." -Worcester Pulse Magazine
"Masterfully written with all the grit and grisly humor of
returning to one's dingy blue collar hometown, Another Broken
Wizard is the compelling, tightly-woven story of a couple of
30-year old boyhood chums who don't grow up until it's too late."
-Boston Literary Magazine "It kept me nostalgic for something that
isn't my story, isn't my town, and I got really emotionally
involved. I may have shed a tear at the beautifully foreshadowed
climax, and I do not cry easily Seriously. Give it a read." -
Illiterarty.com "Another Broken Wizard is a terrific coming-of-age
tale that rings utterly true. Dodds has a gift for conveying the
sounds of his people and their world. He can make highway hypnosis
as fascinating as a gang brawl. And he has a natural radar for
locating the perfect detail to evoke the sense of what it feels
like to be caught between the past and the future, between loyalty
and logic, and between the security of the known and the impulse to
evolve. Though I came of age in the primordial mists, it somehow
felt like he was giving me a tour of my own past. Another Broken
Wizard is compulsively readable. I'll be giving this book to some
of my friends." - Jack O'Connell, author of The Resurrectionist,
and Box Nine "Dodds has written a fine novel. He has a voice wholly
his own, and he captures the elemental good and bad in the American
male. Joe's recklessness and gang feud creates a looming peril that
keeps the reader on edge." -Kevin Kosar, author of Whiskey: A
Global History
The Last Bad Job is the story of a reporter on a hell of an
assignment: Five months on a New Mexico desert compound to cover
the next Jonestown. For one reporter, it could be a career-maker.
But when a cult member close to him drowns herself, he decides to
run for it, and sets unimaginable events into motion. What ensues
is a dark and comic journey through sex, drugs, cults, suicide, the
apocalypse, and what comes after it. Available for the first time
from the author of the widely acclaimed novels Another Broken
Wizard and What Smiled at Him comes The Last Bad Job-a book the
late Norman Mailer touted as showing "something that very few
writers have; a species of inner talent that owes very little to
other people." Praise for Colin Dodds' What Smiled at Him: "The
novel has an angry edge to it, recalling the spirit of the Beats.
Many of the peripheral characters speak like prophets... Marv and
Lynn are just as self-aware as their supporting cast, and their
abundance of wisdom sometimes stretches believability; it's
tempered, however, by the flaw of their continually
self-destructive behavior. Watching them ignore their better
instincts... makes the characters more endearing." -Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Dodds' Another Broken Wizard "Dodds gets Worcester and
shows it in all of its glories and cracks...He runs through the
streets of the city and nearby towns and takes the reader with
him...Dodds is a master of writing the town life and capturing all
of the said and unsaid. His characters are so full of waiting, of
pain, and of hope that never reaches past the next day." -Worcester
Pulse Magazine "Masterfully written with all the grit and grisly
humor of returning to one's dingy blue collar hometown, Another
Broken Wizard is the compelling, tightly-woven story of a couple of
30-year old boyhood chums who don't grow up until it's too late."
-Boston Literary Magazine "It kept me nostalgic for something that
isn't my story, isn't my town, and I got really emotionally
involved. I may have shed a tear at the beautifully foreshadowed
climax, and I do not cry easily Seriously. Give it a read." -
Illiterarty.com "Another Broken Wizard is a terrific coming-of-age
tale that rings utterly true. Dodds has a gift for conveying the
sounds of his people and their world. He can make highway hypnosis
as fascinating as a gang brawl. And he has a natural radar for
locating the perfect detail to evoke the sense of what it feels
like to be caught between the past and the future, between loyalty
and logic, and between the security of the known and the impulse to
evolve. Though I came of age in the primordial mists, it somehow
felt like he was giving me a tour of my own past. Another Broken
Wizard is compulsively readable. I'll be giving this book to some
of my friends." - Jack O'Connell, author of The Resurrectionist,
and Box Nine "Dodds has written a fine novel. He has a voice wholly
his own, and he captures the elemental good and bad in the American
male. Joe's recklessness and gang feud creates a looming peril that
keeps the reader on edge." -Kevin Kosar, author of Whiskey: A
Global History
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