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The Road Less Traveled: A Memoir
Autobiography, Swiss Molecular Biologist, Animal Science, DNA Fingerprinting Professor Urs Kuhnlein is an accomplished molecular biologist, a celebrated mountaineer and nature lover, and a devoted member of an extended family that stretches from Switzerland to Canada and the United States. He graduated from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) and the University of Geneva in Switzerland and excelled academically, eventually becoming Emeritus Professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In this volume, he vividly recalls his summit experiences from the first on the Bietschhorn in the Canton of Wallis to Denali in Alaska. His colleagues, students, friends, family, and like-minded adventurers will recognize his keen interests in and rich insights into the diverse worlds captured in this memoir. Urs now lives on Fidalgo Island in the San Juans of Washington State.
My Life at the Bar and Beyond
A litigation lawyer for fifty years, Paterson describes some of his earlier cases, including those involving alleged brainwashing experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute funded by the CIA. He offers behind-the-scenes views of the fight against Bill 101, campaigning for the No Committee in the 1980 Quebec referendum, and the stand-off at Oka between Mohawks and the provincial police. Paterson also charts his involvement in establishing the McGill University Health Centre and the plans for a new major teaching hospital as well as directing the development and expansion of Bishop's University during his time as president and chancellor.
Routledge Library Editions: Small Business
Originally published between 1982 and 1996, and addressing issues of central importance to the competitiveness of firms and economies, the volumes in this set draw together research by leading academics in the area and provides a rigorous examination of key issues relating to employment in small businesses. They: Study both the growth and the barriers to growth of small firms Examine problems of rurality Investigate the variation in rates of new venture initiations across manufacturing industries Include a wide range of national case studies from Sweden, the Netherlands, the UK, Greece, Spain, Israel and Indonesia. Discuss marketing in the small business and the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy Reassess economic theories concerned with concentration and competition the relationship between small and large firms in an advanced capitalist economy Analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms
Accounting in Emerging Economies
Accounting research in emerging economies has grown over the years. This title includes articles that contribute to our understanding of how accounting functions in emerging economies.
Christianity Without the Cross
Grounded in primary source research, this boldly revisionist book examines the doctrine of salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism (United Pentecostal Church) from its origins through its several developmental stages. The gradual rise of a literal interpretation of Acts 2.38 eliminated a tradition of doctrinal diversity within Oneness thought which regarded salvation as occurring at repentance prior to water and Spirit baptism. With this development a main link to the wider stream of evangelical Christianity was severed. The "water and Spirit" theology resulted in a form of Christianity which does not necessarily require the cross in any meaningful sense for salvation. This study recovers the lo...
Food Aid and Human Security
Food aid is historically a major element of development aid to support longer-term development, and the primary response to help countries and peoples in crisis. This examination of food aid focuses in particular on institutional questions.
The Cooperative Business Movement, 1950 to the Present
The United Nations declared 2012 the year of cooperatives, emphasizing that there is an alternative to privately owned firms. While greed and mismanagement have caused world financial and economic crises, co-ops offer another type of business for economic activities that is less exposed to aggressive capitalism. This book provides a problem-oriented overview of the development of cooperatives over the last fifty years. The global study addresses the major challenges cooperatives face, such as the organizational innovations introduced to acquire necessary risk-capital and implement growth-related strategies, the wave of demutualization in developed nations and their ability to construct an original consumer politics. The contributors to this volume discuss the successes and failures of the cooperatives and ask whether they are an outdated model of enterprise. They document a wave of foundations of new co-ops, new forms of collaboration between them and a growing trend toward globalization.
Ibss: Economics: 1995
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