With billions of dollars generated annually, importing and exporting is a potentially lucrative arena for growth—and a bewildering tangle of rules and regulations. Packed with hundreds of cost-effective strategies, ready-to-use forms, and valuable checklists, the second edition of Mastering Import & Export Management explains how to efficiently—and legally—navigate the complex world of international trade. From the big picture of pinpointing the best markets to the nitty-gritty of packing ...

'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.'Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward.With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, fro...

Look beyond the borders and unlock your company’s potential from the East Coast to the West Coast, from the Deep South to the Great Lakes.According to the US Department of Commerce, more than $1.6 trillion in goods are exported annually to dozens of countries, while nearly $2.4 trillion are imported. What could your company’s share in that be?Filled with step-by-step instructions, cost-effective strategies, and ready-to-use forms, this book walks you throug...

If you think Orlando, Florida, is only about everything Disney, you're missing out. Orlando was once an open frontier where cattle were herded to market, fortunes were made and lost, and citrus was king. Its history is studded with tales of restless spirits who can't seem to let bygones be bygones. Take a stroll through downtown Orlando, with its century-old buildings that used to house hardware stores, funeral parlors, hospitals, grocery stores, newspaper offices, hotels, theaters, and fi...

Are you looking for a simple yet effective way to lose weight without feeling like you're on a diet? Then look no further! A Mind-Blowing Weight Loss Approach is the perfect book for you. This book is not just another diet book. Instead, it provides you with a comprehensive and holistic approach to weight loss. It covers nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle changes, ensuring that all your weight loss needs are met. The book starts by teaching you the fundamentals of weight loss. You will lea...

A must-read for senior executives navigating global uncertainty, this book delivers a powerful analysis of the trade disruptions triggered by Covid-19 and the broader economic consequences of tariffs. Drawing on deep expertise, the author presents actionable strategies for building resilient, forward-looking business models that can withstand future global shocks.Packed with insights on risk mitigation, cost control, and strategic contingency planning, this guide equips leaders wit...

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems introduces Spinoza into the contemporary discussion on free will and on moral problems surrounding this discussion. Traditional Western moral philosophy, for the most part, has been built on the assumption of free will as a special human capacity to freely choose actions without being determined in that choice. This idea draws increasing critique, fueled recently especially by the ever new findings of neuroscience. But how ca...

In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children’s consumer culture—and the commodification of childhood itself—by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children’s clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants, manufacturers, and advertisers of children’s clothing began to aim commercial messages at the child rather than the mother. Cook situates this fundamental shift in perspective within the broader trans...

Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumerThroughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and pains, through the material world so as to produce the “child” as a mo...

The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. In this single volume Spinoza offers the reader an unorthodox account of God, a novel version of the mind-body relation, a systematic theory of the emotions and a detailed prescription for human virtue and blessedness. Too controversial to be published during his lifetime, it was surreptitiously printed by Spinoza's friends after his death. Nowadays the Ethics is studied in university classes as an exemplary work o...

Kathleen returns to her hometown for the funeral of her father. As a child she was fascinated with four o'clocks. The mysterious flowers that her father warned "you can't never get rid of". As an adult she was envious of them. Tired of moving from place to place with her husband, she longed to take root and stay in one place. Most of all, she wanted to say "I'll be here next year".

FOR some time after the invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar (55 B.C.) no proper steps were taken by the Romans to reduce to submission the northern portion of the island. The civil war in Rome, which resulted in the establishment of a monarchy under Augustus, prevented the Romans from making further attempts upon Britain, for Augustus was unwilling to endanger the empire by extending its limits. At length, however, the Emperor Claudius, remembering the island, sent over an army which carri...