Havens in a Storm

Havens in a Storm
Title Havens in a Storm PDF eBook
Author J. C. Sharman
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 305
Release 2018-10-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1501732900

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Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has attempted to impose common tax regulations on more than three dozen small states. In a fascinating book based on fieldwork and interviews in twenty-two countries in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, and islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, J. C. Sharman shows how the struggle was decided in favor of the tax havens, which eventually avoided common regulation. No other book on tax havens is based on such extensive fieldwork, and no other author has had access to so many of the key decision makers who played roles in the conflict between onshore and offshore Sharman suggests that microstates succeeded in their struggle with great powers because of their astute deployment of reputation and effective rhetorical self-positioning. In effect, they persuaded a transnational audience that the OECD was being untrue to its own values by engaging in a hypocritical, bullying exercise inimical to free competition.

The Storm of Heaven

The Storm of Heaven
Title The Storm of Heaven PDF eBook
Author Thomas Harlan
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 932
Release 2002-07-14
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780812590111

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The great three-sided war continues: Rome against Persia against the tribes of the desert now commanded by Mohammed of Mekkah. But there is hope for the West. Prince Maxian, horrified at being the cause of so many deaths, has come to realize that the Oath need not be broken; it can be changed by a skilled sorcerer. (July)

Haven from the Storm

Haven from the Storm
Title Haven from the Storm PDF eBook
Author Sarah Dosher
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Pages 300
Release 2013-03-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781482772821

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"If you're going to make me cry, at least be there to wipe away the tears..." Most were asleep in their beds the night Lily Grace's entire world was ripped apart leaving only darkness and torment in its place. The only remaining person she depended on abandoned her without a second thought...or so that's what Lily's believed for the past four years. Dean Haven has returned for one reason, to win Lily's love again. He broke her heart once because of the demons that haunt him, can his desire for Lily keep him from succumbing to those demons again? Dean has no idea what awaits him when he tries to fight his way back into Lily's life. Everything he remembers has changed, including Lily. Is love enough when you're forced to weather the storms life has blown your way?

Waiting Out the Storm

Waiting Out the Storm
Title Waiting Out the Storm PDF eBook
Author JoAnn Early Macken
Publisher Candlewick Press
Pages 33
Release 2010
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 076363378X

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A mother reassures her child about the wind, lightning, and thunder when a storm passes through.

Harbinger of the Storm

Harbinger of the Storm
Title Harbinger of the Storm PDF eBook
Author Aliette de Bodard
Publisher Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Pages 384
Release 2016-01-05
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1625671636

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The second book in the critically acclaimed Obsidian and Blood trilogy: The year is Two House, and the Emperor of the Mexica has just died. The protections he afforded the Empire are crumbling, and the way lies wide open to the flesh-eating star-demons--and to the return of their creator, a malevolent goddess only held in check by the War God's power. The council should convene to choose a new Emperor, but they are too busy plotting against each other. And then someone starts summoning star-demons within the palace, to kill councilmen... Acatl, High Priest of the Dead, must find the culprit before everything is torn apart. REVIEWS: ‘Political intrigue and rivalry among a complex pantheon of divinities drive this well-paced murder mystery set at the height of the Aztec Empire in the late 15th century. De Bodard reintroduces the series hero Acatl, high priest of the dead, immediately following the death of the Tenochtitlan leader. One of the council members in charge of choosing a successor has been brutally murdered in what looks like an attempt to influence the decision. But the deaths continue and the political situation grows more complex, while the empire looks to be increasingly at risk of invasion by malignant powers. Acatl must go face-to-face with the most powerful god in his world and put the good of the empire above his antipathy for is rivals to achieve the uneasy succession. De Bodard incorporates historical fact with great ease and manages the rare feat of explaining complex culture and political system without lecturing or boring the reader.’ —Publishers Weekly ‘Another thing that intrigues me here is the whole fact that historically we know that the real empire died out mysteriously and completely and as such there is always that thought in the back of my mind that the author could choose to bring about the end of days. That highlighted sense of possible doom is something that is missing from too many novels. The way the story is told in this book is very impressive, the plot is both mature and seductive, twisting and turning like a weather vane in a force 9 gale while the action is both bloodthirsty and imaginative. The world building is fantastic and we get to learn even more of this rich culture and the many gods and creatures of the dark. I really can’t fault this book at all and recommend it to one and all but if you haven’t yet read Servant of the Underworld I suggest that you get them both and read them in order, you won’t be disappointed.’ —SF Book Reviews ‘Bodard’s writing is polished and striking, as she convincingly fills in the colorful elements of the Aztec culture–even if those colors tend to be of blood and bile as well as flowers and hummingbirds... beautiful, grimy, breathtaking, and morbid. 5*’ —Examiner ‘Aliette de Bodard has done it again. Harbinger of the Storm is an action packed Aztec mystery opera with magic, interventions from the gods and more twists and turns than the first book. It even has a love story with amusing snippets here and there... The story is self contained and can be enjoyed standalone, but you will not want to miss out on the first. I wish it was 2012 already even if the world is going under while I read the final Obsidian & Blood.’ —Cybermage

Safe Haven

Safe Haven
Title Safe Haven PDF eBook
Author Mark Spitznagel
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 247
Release 2023-10-10
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1394214855

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What is a safe haven? What role should they play in an investment portfolio? Do we use them only to seek shelter until the passing of financial storms? Or are they something more? Contrary to everything we know from modern financial theory, can higher returns actually come as a result of lowering risk? In Safe Haven, hedge fund manager Mark Spitznagel—one of the top practitioners of safe haven investing and portfolio risk mitigation in the world—answers these questions and more. Investors who heed the message in this book will never look at risk mitigation the same way again.

Storm on the Desert

Storm on the Desert
Title Storm on the Desert PDF eBook
Author Carolyn Lesser
Publisher HMH Books For Young Readers
Pages 42
Release 1997
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN

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Describes the animal and plant life in a desert in the American Southwest and the effects of a short but violent thunderstorm.