The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstrate why leadership, institutions and entrepreneurship can - and indeed do - play a crucial enhancing role as key elements in the process of regional endogenous growth. The so-called 'new growth theory' emphasizes endogenous processes. While some of the literature refers to leadership and institutional factors, there has been little analysis of the explicit roles these factors play in the growth and development of cities and regions. This book remedies that gap, beginning with a brief overview of the evolution of the 'new growth theory' in regional economic development, in which the emphasis is on endogenous factors. The book then discusses leadership and institutional factors in that context, creating a new path for understanding regional economic development processes. Multiple case studies from different parts of the world illustrate the theoretical concepts. Students and scholars in regional development, planning and public policy will find this volume invaluable.

Low-budget Uruguayan horror. Filmed entirely on a hand-held camera, supposedly in an uninterrupted single take, the film follows a father (Abel Tripaldi) and daughter (Florencia Colucci) who move to a remote house to escape the dark secrets of their past. But no sooner do they arrive than a sequence of mysterious and disturbing noises and events begins to unfold, driving the pair to the brink of madness and beyond.

Con ejemplos claros de mitologia, de atencion clinica y de observacion de fenomenos culturales, la autora aborda el tema de la terapia familiar con una lectura de facil comprension, que ciertamente agradara a los interesados en el area de la psicoterapia, a los educadores y al publico en general. Trabajando con conflictos personales y familiares, Paula Boechat logra hacer un puente entre la practica clinica y el saber teorico. Un libro envolvente que nos lleva al mundo de los simbolos, de los mitos y de los arquetipos.

My book deals on the relationship of mythology to psychology, mainly with the the psychology of C.G. Jung, the collective unconscious and the archetypes. Gods are considered expressions of basic human needs and features, and mythology can describe in a clear way the manifestations of the unconscious. The book was originally published in Portuguese, in Brazil, and quickly sold out two editions. The book is been published now in a Spanish translation.