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This publication is the third in a series of annual reports giving a comparative analysis of business regulations and their enforcement across 155 countries and over time. Comparable data indicators are given for 10 topics: starting a business, dealing with licences, hiring and firing workers, registering property, getting credit, investment protection, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and closing a business. These indicators are used to assess socio-economic outcomes including levels of unemployment and poverty, productivity, investment and corruption; and to identify which regulatory measures enhance business activity and those that work to constrain it. This is a co-publication of the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation.
Adrian Gibson has accomplished all the things her parents could have dreamed, a college degree, a career, and no kids; however, she has no one to share her success with. After finally moving on from a broken long distance relationship, a one time date turns into something more. But a shocking revelation about his past leaves her confused and forced to turn to an old childhood male friend, who recently returned to town and is very grown up, single, successful, and attractive. Valencia Hunter believes in living life to the fullest. Her motto is simply to indulge in whatever feels good at the time. Although she makes no apologies for her self indulgent lifestyle; she's forced to reevaluate her ...
We were supposed to be in a ‘postfeminist’ age. But recently we’ve seen a resurgence of feminist campaigning among women (and some men). There’s a new brand of feminism: young, social media savvy, militant. But there’s also a new kind of backlash, driven by so-called fundamentalists and by increasingly overt misogyny. This book takes an international perspective on the new feminist movements.
What happens when going from woman to woman leads to the one place you least expect? Amy Edwards is looking for love. From girl bars to shady chat rooms to women's sporting events, Amy's prowled them all like the fiercest of hunters. From a young, troubled go-go dancer, to an obsessive mail carrier, to a tweaked out tomboy, to a lusciously aggressive accountant with way more than numbers on her mind. But love has remained elusive. Until one day, there's no one. Suddenly Amy has to learn to be with the person she's been resisting all along. Herself. It's while on this inner journey that Amy finally notices Morresay, the quiet art teacher who's been smiling at her for weeks. Amy's world is shaken for good this time, proving once and for all that love is never elusive, as long as you love yourself.
This book analyses the dynamic relationship between art and subjective consciousness, following a phenomenological, pragmatist and enactive approach. It brings out a new approach to the role of the body in art, not as a speculative object or symbolic material but as the living source of the imaginary. It contains theoretical contributions and case studies taken from various artistic practices (visual art, theatre, literature and music), Western and Eastern, the latter concerning China, India and Japan. These contributions allow us to nourish the debate on embodied cognition and aesthetics, using theory–philosophy, art history, neuroscience–and the authors’ personal experience as artist...
This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature. This sweeping volume serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, focusing on Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Costa Rica, among other areas. The work encourages hands-on engagement with the popular culture in these places, making such suggestions as Brazilian films to rent or where to find Venezuelan music on the In...
Tenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 185 economies, Doing Business 2013 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, closing a business, and employing workers. The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2012, ranks economies on their overall “ease of doing business”, and analyzes reforms to business regulation – identifying which economies are strengthening their business environment the most. The Doing Business reports illustrate ...
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and ...
As a former adult film star, how do you rebuild a normal life when the world refuses to forget who you were? For Cristal Caprice, it seems impossible. It took nearly a decade for Cristal to escape the control of a sadistic tyrant named Mason, who refused to let her leave the sex industry alive. Three years later, Cristal re-emerges with a new identity in a new home, the small town of Thornwood. There, her new neighbors and friends know her only as Bianca Nubreze. Struggling to come to terms with her shameful past and adapt to a new life, Bianca isolates herself from the world and slowly sinks into a deep depression. As she teeters on the brink of suicide, Bianca finds acceptance and optimism...
Notarzt Dr. Winter ist eine großartige neue Arztserie, in der ganz nebenbei auch das kleinste medizinische Detail seriös recherchiert wurde. In der Klinik wird der Chefarzt der Unfallchirurgie mit den schwierigsten, aufregendsten Fällen konfrontiert, die einem Notarzt begegnen können. Im Leben des attraktiven jungen Arztes gibt es eigentlich nur ein Problem: Seine große Liebe bleibt ganz lange unerfüllt. Die Liebesgeschichte mit der charmanten, liebreizenden Hotelmanagerin Stefanie Wagner sorgt für manch urkomisches, erheiterndes Missverständnis zwischen diesem verhinderten Traumpaar. »Wenn Sven kommt, müsst ihr auf mich verzichten«, sagte Tamara Vollmer spitz. »Allmählich sollt...