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Shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic of industrial
clusters, with a particular focus on clustering in the UK, and
brings together a chronological coverage of the phenomenon.
Emphasises how knowledge is generated and disseminated across a
cluster, and whether these processes stimulated innovation and
consequently longer-term sustainability. Of interest to
international researchers, academics, and students in the fields of
business and management history, innovation, industrialisation, and
clusters.
This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of
comparative politics or comparative government.
The authors discuss the main theories of the state, focusing
upon state stability and state performance. The ideas of scholars
such as Weber, Bryce, Finer, Lipset, Dahl and Lijphart are
addressed, and their analyses of the impact of a variety of factors
upon the state - including social structure, economic factors and
institutional conditions - are examined. The theories are then
formulated into a set of theoretical models that are tested by
means of data from 130 countries (all those countries with
populations larger than one million).
The authors present new findings concerning the sources of state
stability and state performance. They argue that both phenomena are
related to specific but different economic factors. In addition,
the book examines the impact of many other factors: social
heterogeneity, religion, political institutions, experience of
military government, state structure, ideology and political
leadership.
This is a major new work in the field of comparative politics
which will provide students with a guide to the literature as well
as a new approach to the subject.
Major Penelope Baldwin, accomplished pilot and tactician, could
have expected a bright future and stable military career until a
dubious flight mission over Al A'Zamiyah, Iraq results in the loss
of her left leg, and any opportunity for motherhood. As Penelope
struggles in recovery, her mother Evelyn struggles to secure their
financial future and cover mounting medical bills. Buying the lies
of disingenuous bankers and marketing shills, Evelyn places her
savings within the derivatives market, a bubble that (unbeknownst
to her) is on the verge of bursting. The collapse will destroy
what's left of her finances, along with the investments and
pensions of countless citizens. Within months, on a wintry night in
Georgia, a coked-up stock trader miscalculates a power turn in a
Porsche coupe, sending its right front wheel over the curb and
crashing into that which Penelope holds most dear. The stage is set
for a dedicated warrior, an American heroine, to turn her sights on
those greedy, callous men responsible for ripping away her future.
Baldwin, along with Tessa Montgomery (Senior Chief USMC), Cynthia
Washington (RN MSW), and six other highly competent women, all
similarly devastated by the avarice, arrogance, and indifference of
America's ruling elite, channel their grief and rage, and their
search for justice, to become a finely orchestrated and
well-financed band of predators. Several months later, several of
the most powerful of America's financial and political elite are
slaughtered in forty-storied monuments to their egos. Then a terror
-- a terror so primal that it rends the very fabric of everyday
life -- is released into the homes, limos, and private jets of
America's quasi-monarchical class. An invisible society of
professional predators is leading a lethal attack on the long
sacred relationship between money and politics. Two critical
questions are explicitly raised by the attackers: When the voice of
the few, the wealthy, the privileged is the sound of the money
essential for election, can the voice of the common citizen be
heard at all? Can an ethical government exist when the special
interests it's charged with policing have captured the political
system and the means of election through their vast wealth? How
will the country's people, political leaders, and top business
executives respond? Find out by reading Aftershock, a
heart-thumping fictional thriller by debut novelist Joe Lane.
Major Penelope Baldwin, accomplished pilot and tactician, could
have expected a bright future and stable military career until a
dubious flight mission over Al A'Zamiyah, Iraq results in the loss
of her left leg, and any opportunity for motherhood. As Penelope
struggles in recovery, her mother Evelyn struggles to secure their
financial future and cover mounting medical bills. Buying the lies
of disingenuous bankers and marketing shills, Evelyn places her
savings within the derivatives market, a bubble that (unbeknownst
to her) is on the verge of bursting. The collapse will destroy
what's left of her finances, along with the investments and
pensions of countless citizens. Within months, on a wintry night in
Georgia, a coked-up stock trader miscalculates a power turn in a
Porsche coupe, sending its right front wheel over the curb and
crashing into that which Penelope holds most dear. The stage is set
for a dedicated warrior, an American heroine, to turn her sights on
those greedy, callous men responsible for ripping away her future.
Baldwin, along with Tessa Montgomery (Senior Chief USMC), Cynthia
Washington (RN MSW), and six other highly competent women, all
similarly devastated by the avarice, arrogance, and indifference of
America's ruling elite, channel their grief and rage, and their
search for justice, to become a finely orchestrated and
well-financed band of predators. Several months later, several of
the most powerful of America's financial and political elite are
slaughtered in forty-storied monuments to their egos. Then a terror
-- a terror so primal that it rends the very fabric of everyday
life -- is released into the homes, limos, and private jets of
America's quasi-monarchical class. An invisible society of
professional predators is leading a lethal attack on the long
sacred relationship between money and politics. Two critical
questions are explicitly raised by the attackers: When the voice of
the few, the wealthy, the privileged is the sound of the money
essential for election, can the voice of the common citizen be
heard at all? Can an ethical government exist when the special
interests it's charged with policing have captured the political
system and the means of election through their vast wealth? How
will the country's people, political leaders, and top business
executives respond? Find out by reading Aftershock, a
heart-thumping fictional thriller by debut novelist Joe Lane.
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