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By The Economist Group

By Vicki Lewis Thompson

Small-town woman Trudy Baxter is able to tackle long island urban. She's searching for pleasure, adventure...and great intercourse! She desires to event each little thing--and all kinds of man--the urban has to supply. Her first target--sexy Wall highway hunk Linc Faulkner. purely, as soon as she will get Linc into her mattress, she's reluctant to allow him go.... Linc Faulkner hasn't ever met anyone like Trudy. She's so lively, so attractive, so rattling uninhibited! She's his each delusion within the flesh. simply, Linc understands he is simply the 1st guy on Trudy's sexual want checklist. So what else can he do yet persuade her that he might be anyman she'll ever want--and the one guy she'll ever need....

By Calvin E. Shenk

By Zeb Cook, Steven Schend, Leon Phillips, Wolfgang Baur, Chris Pramas

Woodland demons, heavenly dragons, shapeshifting foxes, and hungry ghosts thirsty for revenge-all stalk forth from the legends of Asia! shock gamers with bell spirits, bat-ninjas, demonic oni, the chinese language Phoenix, and the mythical Monkey King! those all-new monsters thrive in each surroundings from bamboo forests to samurai castles, from raging oceans to mist-enshrouded mountains, and from the depths of Hell to the concord of Heaven. Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts comprises greater than 50 fully-illustrated monsters from the legends of Japan, China, Burma, Vietnam, and Malaysia, delivered to lifestyles via such well known artists as rk put up, Quinton Hoover, Michael Phillipi, Tony DiTerlizzi and Toren "MacBin" Atkinson. Authors contain ex-Dragon editor and TSR dressmaker Wolfgang Baur, Dragon Fist dressmaker Chris Pramas, Greyhawk guru Erik Mona, and Forgotten geographical regions stalwart Steven E. Schend. The e-book additionally boasts a distinct advent and featured monster by way of unique Oriental Adventures fashion designer David "Zeb" prepare dinner! A needs to for any DM, Jade Dragons and Hungry Ghosts we could gamers tangle with the beasts from the east. Your Asian adventures commence the following.

By Kayla Janz

By Leonid Dobychin

Writing within the occasions Literary complement in 1994, Russian author Victor Erofeyev proclaimed Leonid Dobychin "one of the most heroes of twentieth-century Russian literature." imprecise for a few years, Dobychin is now celebrated as a modernist grasp. His brief tales are black-humored slices of existence from the early days of the Soviet Union--subtle and tightly built miniatures associated via habitual issues and whole of ironic juxtaposition, context, allusion, and elegance. For Dobychin early Soviet society was once an absurdist wonderland.

By Indraneil Das

By A. Leo Oppenheim, Erica Reiner, Robert D. Biggs

By Carlos Alberto Primo Braga, Carsten Fink, Claudia Paz Sepúlveda

Over the process background, diverse felony tools for shielding highbrow estate have emerged. those tools range of their material, volume of security, and box of software, reflecting society's goal to stability the pursuits of creators and shoppers for various forms of highbrow works. those criminal tools are only one of many items that shape a countrywide procedure of highbrow estate security. additionally the most important to the system's total effectiveness are the associations administering those tools, the mechanisms on hand for implementing IPRs, and the principles in regards to the remedy of non-nationals. to deal with the various matters relating IPRs, this paper defines what they're and makes an attempt to judge the connection among the security of highbrow estate and fiscal task in constructing international locations. It additionally summarizes the industrial results of IPRs by way of production and diffusion of data and data; and industry constitution and costs. additionally, it discusses the reformation of IPRs regimes and makes ideas for his or her management and enforcement. This paper consolidates the various examine from the 'World improvement record 1998/1999: wisdom for improvement' and a few contributions made at an Internet-moderated convention carried out through the Bank's TechNet application. it is going to be of curiosity to governments, traders, and overseas corporations.

By Mamadou Dia