"Trade allows us to sell what we produce at home and purchase what we don't. It lowers prices and gives us greater variety and innovation. Yet understanding our place in the global trade network is rarely so simple, and today's workers are wary of being taken advantage of. Trade has become an easy excuse for struggling economies, a scapegoat for our failures to adapt to a changing world, and--for many Americans on both the right and the left--nothing...

This practical guide shows you how to write effecive business letters of every kind. You'll find more than 70 model letters, including letters of recommendation, in-house correspondence, news releases, promotional letters, orders of goods and services, and more. Also accounted for is today's technology with updated advice for making optimal use of word processing software, communicating effectively via e-mail and the Internet, and designing an effective...

"What makes an art gallery successful? How do galleries get their marketing right? Which customer group is the most attractive? In a unique research undertaking, Magnus Resch carefully analyzes the inner life of art galleries. Examples and case studies from leading galleries around the world give an insight into the art scene. The author's broad experience as a former gallery owner and founder of the world's leading art collector database Larry's...

"A propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, taking once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence and holding them up to the light. Black markets have always thrived in the shadows of society. Increasingly, these enterprises--drug dealing, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorist funding--have found their shadows online. Digital crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have...

This satire of Victorian society shows the trials and tribulations of young love, the pettiness of upper class life, the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface.

Every woman in the lowcountry knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, the only man she's ever loved, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling.--From publisher's description.

The author of Smoke in Mirrors and Soft Focus presents a sexy, irresistible story of two people searching for secrets-and finding each other . . . Cady Briggs is useful to Mack Easton. Her expertise in art and antiques helps his low-profile company, Lost and Found, find missing treasures for high-paying clients. But Cady knows that being useful to a client is one thing-and being used is another. So no matter how alluring she finds Mack, she plans...