The authors show how a common approach that emphasizes the three-way interaction among increasing returns, transportation costs, and the movement of productive factors can be applied to a wide range of issues in urban, regional, and international economics.Since 1990 there has been a renaissance of theoretical and empirical work on the spatial aspects of the economy—that is, where economic activity occurs and why. Using new tools—in particular, modeling techniques ...

Seven stories to span the Christmas holidays:A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn't feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit.The Marriage Manual: Christmas Eve. Two parents endeavour to construct their son’s Christmas present from a DIY kit and in the process fi...

All three series of the BBC sitcom about a couple who've split up, but can't quite call it quitsWhen two people have history, how can they ever be history? That's the question facing Molly and Doug, who are separating after 16 years of marriage. He's moving out (albeit a mere three streets away), and she's moving on (just as soon as she can get her wedding ring off) - only somehow, they can't seem to stay away from one another.Breaking up would be so much e...

The Rotting Tide of HistoryViking Dead: Northern Europe, 976 AD. Bjólf and the Viking crew of the ship Hrafn flee up an unknown river after a bitter battle, only to find themselves in a bleak land of pestilence, where the dead return as draugr to feed on the flesh of their kin. Terrible stories are told of a dark castle in a hidden fjord, and of black ships that come raiding with invincible draugr berserkers. And no sooner has Bjólf resolv...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 381 thru 385 - Four Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and one from 1895The Thing in the Trunk by Paul ErnstTrainee For Mars by Harry HarrisonAdam and No Eve by Alfred BesterA Moth by H. G. WellsHomesick by Lynn Venable

Step into the end of the world with Apocalyptic Sci-Fi, a massive 20+ hour audio collection of vintage science fiction stories that imagine collapse on every possible scale. Cities fall, civilizations crack, strange new survivors emerge, and humanity faces its darkest hours in tales that are haunting, gripping, and remarkably ahead of their time.This collection brings together an extraordinary lineup of classic authors, including E. M. Forster, Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Alfred B...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 181 thru 200 - Twenty Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1930s, 40s, 50s and 60sTime Enough at Last by Lynn VenableThe Deadly Dust by Murray LeinsterHappy Ending by Fredric Brown and Mack ReynoldsLiving Space by Isaac AsimovJokester by Isaac AsimovThe Machine Stops by E. M. ForsterBreakfast at Twilight by Philip K. DickThe Magnificent Possession by Isaac AsimovFlowering Evil by M...