Yeti sightings are a dime a dozen. Outsmarting a spouse - now that's priceless! Here are the adventures of cryptozoologist Tork Darwyn and his wife Tara as they discover unknown creatures, visit lost civilisations and fight for the remote control.
Two teen musicians deal with mystery, romance, adventure, and drama as they take their act south in this continuing manga series. Simon and Monty head to the South, thinking they can make a fortune playing country music in Nashville. They find plenty to write about, of course, in the sordid world they encounter. First, a love triangle with the singer of an all-girl band sets the boys at each other’s throats. Next, their seductive band manager seems to do whatever it takes to rekindle her career. And as Monty’s father heads for jail, the boys’ problems are just beginning . . .
Mystery, romance, and danger await two teen musicians as they take their act west in this continuing manga adventure series. Go West, young men! Simon and Monty have gotten some kicks on the way, perhaps even on Route 66, but in the end, all roads lead to San Francisco. The boys head to California to learn more about Monty’s family in the hopes that it will shed some light on their current situation—and maybe even help clear Jake McBride’s name. But with Yamada and Kyle hot on their heels, things look pretty dire. It’s hard to be mellow when a loony recording industry exec and his bad-girl sidekick are out to kill you.
Accused of murder, two teen musicians are on the run to survive and clear their names in this manga adventure series opener. Two runaway boys form the ultimate band on the run in order to let music save their souls! The popular Monty and down-on-his-luck Simon cross paths when they collaborate on a song for a wedding between members of their respective families. But when an explosion kills the wedding party, the boys’ lives are irrevocably changed. Charged with murder, the boys are forced to go on the lam, and to make matters worse, the real killers are after them, too! But using their talent as musicians, Monty and Simon flee to the seedy world of broken-down bars in the Midwest, where they must survive life on the wild side while trying to clear their names.
Two teen musicians deal with mystery, romance, adventure, and drama as they take their act south in this continuing manga series. Simon and Monty head to the South, thinking they can make a fortune playing country music in Nashville. They find plenty to write about, of course, in the sordid world they encounter. First, a love triangle with the singer of an all-girl band sets the boys at each other’s throats. Next, their seductive band manager seems to do whatever it takes to rekindle her career. And as Monty’s father heads for jail, the boys’ problems are just beginning . . .
Mystery, romance, and danger await two teen musicians as they take their act west in this continuing manga adventure series. Go West, young men! Simon and Monty have gotten some kicks on the way, perhaps even on Route 66, but in the end, all roads lead to San Francisco. The boys head to California to learn more about Monty’s family in the hopes that it will shed some light on their current situation—and maybe even help clear Jake McBride’s name. But with Yamada and Kyle hot on their heels, things look pretty dire. It’s hard to be mellow when a loony recording industry exec and his bad-girl sidekick are out to kill you.
Inspired by Allan Gotlieb's capacity to reshape diplomacy for the times, the contributors to this volume grapple with the challenges of a digital age where information is everywhere and confidentiality is almost nowhere. With an introductory essay by reknowned political scholar, writer and commentator, Janice Gross Stein, the work is divided into four sections: Diplomacy with the United States in the Era of Wikileaks; The Professional Diplomat on Facebook; Personal Diplomacy on the Age of Twitter and Where is Headquarters?
This action adventure story proves once and for all that the secret of cloning arose from an ancient civilization, passing through the hands of Moses, Jesus, the mysterious man known as Shakespeare and even John F. Kennedy before falling into the possession of a splinter group of the Freemasons. Hidden ciphers lead to a trail of treachery, murder and deceit that infected the superpower governments of the Cold War, corrupted pious religious leaders and spawned a scientific and academic Mafia that jealously guarded our society's most terrible secret.
Economics for Today 6e simplifies the array of confusing economic analyses and presents a straightforward and balanced approach that effectively teaches the application of basic economics principles. Only essential material is included in the book and key concepts are explained in clear and simple terms. Written in an engaging and user-friendly manner, the book is designed for non-majors (although can also be used in these courses) with a continued focus on ethics in economics, sustainability and environmental economics, housing stress, development, health, happiness and debt crises. Economics for Today 6e is also available in MindTap, a personalised eLearning solution. MindTap provides interactive graph builders, online tests, video content and access to Aplia to build student confidence and give you a clear picture of their progress.
Investment is the engine of growth. In consequence, the social welfare of the populace depends on the expectations of uncertain profitability as understood by the agents of a wealthy few who decide upon levels of investment. As private wealth is intimately tied to the investment process, the importance of wealth concentration goes far beyond considerations of equity. In recent years, private economic power has become increasingly concentrated as more of the population has become dependent upon an elite pursuing private ends. In this context, this book examines the role of capital accumulation in various historical contexts. Over seventy years ago, Michal Kalecki derived the mathematical relationship between government deficits, the external trade account and free cash—defined as the gross profit over and above that portion ploughed back into new investment. Since then, the free cash literature has remained largely within an industrial organizational context where free cash theory has helped to explain mergers. In contrast, this book, revisits Kalecki’s free cash construction at the macro and global level and explores the various causes and effects of free cash on the economy. As part of this examination, the author highlights the historical uses of free cash in imperialist adventures, mergers and speculative endeavours. In addition to developing a new relative valuation measure of capital accumulation, he also utilizes a neo-Kaleckian model to help explain the U.S. slowdown in investment since the late 1960s, the increasing inequality of wealth and income and the recent speculative episodes associated with the spillage of free cash. Finally, based on these models the book argues for heightened taxes on the wealthy and an increased role for government investment in health care and energy. Free Cash, Capital Accumulation and Inequality offers an explanation as to how wealth and income inequalities have fashioned, and been fashioned by, various historical episodes right up to the present. It will be of great interest to those studying and researching in the field of economic analysis.
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