12 year old Jack Crawford is the only person who can save his Dad. But Jack is trapped thousands of miles away in a remote Scottish boarding school with nobody to help him except a bunch of spoiled, rich, resentful misfits who hate each other as much as him.With time running out, Jack must find a way to forge trust and belief between his classmates and somehow train these misfits into a crack team of whip-smart code breakers, robotic engineers and daring escapologists.Faced...

The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies.In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or production efficiencies, but rarely as locations for innovation. Today, however, R&D facilities and other indicators of multinational-linked innovation are becoming more common in emerging economies. In this book, Patrick Egan investigates patterns ...

With fourteen horror stories set during the decade of flannel shirts and neon dolphin Trapper Keepers, Ahh! That's What I Call Horror features a PHAT (pretty horrific and terrifying) collection of totally rad horror and weird fiction authors exploring the darker side of what many consider a time of relative peace and prosperity. With Communism falling and Clear Channel rising, the horror of the 1990s requires peeling back layers of safe, sanitized media to reveal the nightmares waiting ben...