Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day. Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on an ever-increasing scale, putting ourselves into dept with the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, and other Middle Eastern nations. With their windfall profits, they continue to buy American assets. China's booming economy and abundance of cheap...

A female investment banker starts up a visionary airline, taking on Wall Street, the airline industry, and an international terrorist syndicate in this electrifying thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance
The bed is so comfortable that Elizabeth Sterling sleeps through her alarm, high above the Pacific, reveling in the comforts of the most luxurious airliner ever built. It’s the flagship of the...

44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 1

The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy—just ask his mother.  
Welcome to 44 Scotland Street, home to some of Edinburgh's most colorful characters. There's Pat, a twenty-year-old who has recently moved

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La publicación congrega a reconocidos abogados de Perú que son especialistas vinculados al Derecho de las Obligaciones. Los temas desarrollados por los autores del libro cuentan con una posición propia respecto a las modalidades, efectos e inejecución del Derecho de las Obligaciones, lo cual enriquece a esta obra, dividida en tres partes, por las distintas perspectivas sobre temas puntuales del ámbito profesional y académico. La primera parte...

Este volumen recoge un conjunto de trabajos, en su mayor parte inéditos empresariales o publicados en fuentes de muy difícil acceso, que estudian el tratamiento jurídico de las redes, y constituyen piezas clave del derecho de redes empresariales. Los trabajos aquí recopilados fueron presentados en varios simposios y convenios internacionales celebrados en la Universidad de Valencia en los últimos años. Se trata de un conjunto de elaboraciones...

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Simple text and photographs engage young readers in learning about going on an airplane for the first time.

Comprehensive history of how a swampland at the estuary of the river Shannon was transformed into a vital link for transatlantic aviation. We trace developments from the golden age of the Flying-boats to the TWA Clippers all the way to modern jumbo jets. There are also sections on the initiatives in tourism and industrial development which depended on the airport, and on the historical events in which it featured.

"Swissair 1-1-1 is declaring Pan Pan Pan. We have smoke in the cockpit." Seventeen minutes after the co-pilot's distress call, the Geneva-bound jet crashed into the Atlantic off Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia just over an hour after leaving New York on September 2, 1998, killing all 229 people on board. Acclaimed journalist Stephen Kimber tells the moving story of the crash and its far-reaching human consequences. Kimber introduces us to a wide variety...

En la actualidad, el derecho minero en Colombia presenta una serie de desafíos debido principalmente a cuatro razones: en primer lugar, al crecimiento exponencial de solicitudes y de concesiones mineras en los últimos años que han desbordado la capacidad de las instituciones públicas, en segundo lugar, a la derogatoria y suspensión de normas que han generado inseguridad jurídica y desconfianza en los inversionistas extranjeros, en tercer lugar,...