If an EU industrial policy can be said to exist, its contours may be found in the complex and evolving concept of State aid. Because approaching any State aid issue can be fraught with multiple and sometimes conflicting interpretations, an in-depth analysis of the rationales, initiatives, and regulations that constitute the State aid system is much needed. In response to this need, this book provides a fine-grained clarifying context through which recent reforms, policy shifts, and judicia...

The Arabs created one of the world's finest breeds of saddle horses, the Arabian, and they have long possessed an immense store of knowledge regarding the care, training, and breeding of this splendid horse. In the nineteenth century, General Melchior Joseph Eugene Daumas had access to their knowledge even though, as he pointed out, "it requires a great deal of patience and tact for a Christian to obtain from the Mohammedans even the most insignificant of details . . ." General Daumas was, be...

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Murder, damnation and redemption, life and love, are played out against the backdrop of a country united in war."Girl from JakesCannon" is the exciting, unpredictable saga of a girl from the backwoods of Virginia, unknowingly hunted for a fortune she doesn't know she has by gangsters she has never heard of and how she affects all whom she encounters . . . even those who would kill her.