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This Texas Traditions Series reprint takes us back to the Lone Star State during the Cold War at the beginning of the 1960s. The postwar generation is in a frenzy of high living and profligate spending. Big Texas oil is still subsidized by a federal depletion allowance and cattle still account for much of the state’s wealth. But these longtime mainstays of Texas finance are giving way to transistors and computers. A new millionaire class is growing up around business mergers and electronic technology. The characters in Shrake’s novel are caught in this brave new world in one way or another. Some are the princes of prosperity; others are victims of it. This is a world of lobbyists, merger...
Although one perspective depicts young consumers as vulnerable and passive in the marketplace system, our knowledge of this consumer group will be inadequate if limited to this contention. Their roles and relevance in family consumption activities are becoming increasingly profound. Available evidence shows that they cannot be ignored in the marketplace dynamics as they consume goods and services in their households and are involved in various other active roles in their household consumption including making decisions where applicable. Hence, the landscape of young consumer behaviour is changing. Young Consumer Behaviour: A Research Companion focusses on exploring the behaviour of young con...
An examination of the life of Mary Grannan, whose radio shows, including Just Mary and Maggie Muggins, shaped the legacy of childrens programming on CBC.
He's the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands . . . Dominic Caruso, nephew to president Jack Ryan and operative for top secret intelligence agency The Campus, is working in India when a terrorist hit takes out his trainer. Caruso only just survives - barely intact. Back in Washington, they discover a mole has been leaking US secrets. Soon he is on the tail of Ethan Ross - a man who thinks he's too smart to ever get caught. But Ross has many more secrets on a micro-drive and when he decides to run, it's not just Caruso and the FBI on his trail. The Russians and a few angry terrorist groups will do anything to get to Ross - and the vital information he carries. So it's up to Caruso to get to Ross first... Support and Defend is a thrilling adventure you won't be able to put down. Praise for Tom Clancy: 'There's hardly another thriller writer alive who can fuel an adrenaline surge the way Clancy can' Daily Mail 'Exhilarating. No other novelist is giving so full a picture of modern conflict' Sunday Times
Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action and remarkable individuals. In Tom Clancy Support and Defend, covert agent Dominic Caruso faces the deadliest challenge of his career. Dominic Caruso. Nephew of President Jack Ryan. FBI agent. And operator for the top secret U.S. intelligence agency known as The Campus. Already scarred by the death of his brother, Caruso is further devastated when he is unable to save a friend and his family from a terrorist attack. Ethan Ross was a mid-level staffer for the National Security Council. Now he’s a wanted fugitive on the run with a microdrive that contains enough information to destroy American intelligence efforts around the world. The CIA is desperate to get the drive back before it’s captured by the Russians or one of the various terrorist groups also vying for it. Only Caruso stands in their way—but can he succeed without the aid of his Campus colleagues?
This volume (no. 31 of the Publications of the Harleian Society) and the previous volume (no. 30 of the Publications of the Harleian Society) contain marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury between 1679 and 1694. Vol. 23 of the Publications of the Harleian Society includes a selection of marriage licences issued by the Vicar-General between 1660 and 1679. The editor of v. 23 omitted "persons evidently of the very humblest rank". Volumes 33 and 34 contain the marriage licences from 1660 to 1679 which were omitted.