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This book provides an overview of evolving patterns of trade partnership with historical perspective. It presents changing requirements of industry competitiveness and explains the vital relationships between trade partnerships and industry competitiveness. As well, it further examines the interactive relationships between trade partnerships and industry competitiveness. In recent years, with decreasing strategic alliances among nations and le...

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Paul Park is one of modern fiction's major innovators. With exotic settings and characters truly alien and disturbingly normal, his novels and stories explore the shifting interface between traditional narrative and luminous dream, all in the service of a deeper humanism. "Climate Change, " original to this volume, is an intimate and erotic take on a global environmental crisis. "A Resistance to Theory" chronicles the passionate (and bloody) c...

Larry Gross is one of the most influential figures in the history of media studies. In this collection of original essays, his former students reflect on his groundbreaking contributions to three major developments: the emergence of visual studies as a distinct field of media theory and research, the analysis of media fiction as a symbol of power structures and a perpetuator of social inequalities, and the growing scholarly attention to the re...

Larry Gross is one of the most influential figures in the history of media studies. In this collection of original essays, his former students reflect on his groundbreaking contributions to three major developments: the emergence of visual studies as a distinct field of media theory and research, the analysis of media fiction as a symbol of power structures and a perpetuator of social inequalities, and the growing scholarly attention to the re...

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Providing an insider 's perspective on strategic and operational practices for company growth, this book examines how Asian global firms and small and medium venture firms have accomplished rapid catch-up with leading firms in North America and Europe and established their global competitive advantage. The authors include extensive case studies and reveal the organizational processes of strategy formulation and implementation. Written for thos...

A triumph of contemporary fantasy, this magical tale is the story of a teenager who is at the fulcrum of a deadly political battle between conjurers in an alternate world.

Literary science fiction at its finest, a novel of three alternate histories, from the Civil War to the future.In All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume A Princess of Roumania fantasy, with an extraordinary, intense, compressed SF novel in three parts, each set in its own alternate-history universe. The sections are all rooted in Virginia and the Battle of the Crater,...

After the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, many researches and studies found internal and external impacts and came to a general agreement that investors' panic behavior made South Korea to be a part of the crisis. There are general ideas about why and how investors started to panic. This thesis focuses on specific events that triggered investors' panic behavior. The conclusion shows that investors started panic and withdraw their funds from So...

Der Autor stellt dar, in welchem Verhältnis das Königtum JHWHs zum menschlichen Königtum in seinen unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen steht. Er diskutiert die Positionierung des Königtums Gottes zu den fremden Herrschern und zu den Königen Israels in Jes 1-39. Nur in diesem sogenannten protojesajanischen Teil begegnen sich alle zentralen Aktanten: JHWH als göttlicher König, die Fremdkönige und die Könige Israels. Ab Jes 40 ändert sich diese Konste...

In All Those Vanished Engines, Paul Park returns to science fiction after a decade spent on the impressive four-volume A Princess of Roumania fantasy, with an extraordinary, intense, compressed SF novel in three parts, each set in its own alternate-history universe. The sections are all rooted in Virginia and the Battle of the Crater, and are also grounded in the real history of the Park family, from differing points of view. They are all gorg...

If Lions Could Speak is the first collection from Paul Park, acclaimed author of The Starbridge Chronicles, Coelestis, and The Gospel of Corax. Subtle, stylish, at once forthrightly simple and ingeniously complex, the pieces gathered here are compelling and penetrating explorations of cultural difference and psychological crisis, regret and reconciliation. It is a marvelous literary labyrinth, a realm of memory palaces, eerie doppelgangers, te...

If Lions Could Speak is the first collection from Paul Park, acclaimed author of The Starbridge Chronicles, Coelestis, and The Gospel of Corax. Subtle, stylish, at once forthrightly simple and ingeniously complex, the pieces gathered here are compelling and penetrating explorations of cultural difference and psychological crisis, regret and reconciliation. It is a marvelous literary labyrinth, a realm of memory palaces, eerie doppelgangers, te...

In 1996 Paul Park published The Gospel of Corax, a highly acclaimed rendering of a theosophist legend, describing Jesus of Nazareth's journey to the Indian subcontinent and Tibet. In Three Marys, his new novel, Park returns to first-century Palestine to recreate with penetrating insight the historical community of Jesus, and to follow the first tangled strands of Christianity after his death. Here is Jesus's world as it very likely was, confus...

In 1996 Paul Park published The Gospel of Corax, a highly acclaimed rendering of a theosophist legend, describing Jesus of Nazareth's journey to the Indian subcontinent and Tibet. In Three Marys, his new novel, Park returns to first-century Palestine to recreate with penetrating insight the historical community of Jesus, and to follow the first tangled strands of Christianity after his death. Here is Jesus's world as it very likely was, confus...