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This exciting and unusual World War Two book contains the biographies of young men from the United States and Commonwealth Countries who flew through enemy infested skies in a civilian passenger plane known as the Hudson Bomber. The author portrays not only flyers but their families as they face the unfolding fates of their youngsters flying in Royal Air Force Coastal Command Squadrons. Much of the book is written from primary research material: personal diaries, log books, a large number of photographs and anxious letters home to parents and wives and friends. "Searching For The Hudson Bombers" rings loudly with authenticity of how World War Two impacted people at an intimate and personal l...
We ask much of our leaders and blame them for ay failure to order the world to our liking. Yet many of us are reluctant to engage, preferring to disparage leaders as a class apart, a quarrelsome lot and overpaid to boot-the useful butt of barbecue humour. Will we engage better with the next generation of leaders? Will they conduct a kinder, gentler national conversation? In this book, 36 Australian voices-both early achievers and the venerable from across the political and social landscape-offer fresh ideas and timeless wisdom for people entering public life. Whether you are a budding politician, advisor, lobbyist, advocate, local councillor, NGO leader, social activist, blogger, philanthrop...
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This book provides a concise guide to financial asset pricing theory. It explores the fundamental ideas underlying competitive financial asset pricing models with symmetric information. Using finite dimensional techniques, the book avoids sophisticated continuous time mathematics and exploits economic theory to clarify the essential structure of recent research in asset pricing models. This new edition introduces a number of new ideas and extensions, especially to multi-period analysis, that allow discussion of recent models appearing in the literature.
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"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as an addendum to vol. 26, no. 7.
1879/80 includes "Laws of the United States, and State of Illinois, relating to the Illinois & Michigan canal and the canal lands and lots, water power, etc., from March 30, 1822 to March 1, 1847," with special t. p. and separate paging.
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