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Book SynopsisThe Dornier Do 17 was one of three Luftwaffe’s main bomber types early in the war. Designed as a passenger and mail plane, it ultimately proved true in the military version. Its last version, powered by Bramo 323 radial engines was the Do 17 Z. Based directly on Do 17 M airframe it had revised front fuselage section to improve the crew’s working conditions in the form of so-called „Waffenkopf” (armed head). A total of approximately 910 examples in several sub-variants, from Z-0 to Z-10 were built from early 1939 till mid-1940. These aircraft saw combat in Polish and French campaigns, Battle of Britain, Balkan operations, Russian campaign till 1942 and sporadically in the African campaign. The crews considered the Do 17 one of the most reliable aircraft and despite poor armor in their opinion it had good flight characteristics.Trade ReviewI am finding titles such as this of a real and practical benefit to me. This offering is a big plus for any modeller who has purchased any of the recent ICM Dornier aircraft offerings. * Armorama *This highly useful work from Kaegero shouldn't be missed…provides a host of great reference material. * Airfix Model World *

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Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Gambero Rosso's Top Italian Food & Beverage Experience features a selection of the best Italian food and beverage producers. This is the only guide in the sector classified according to product category to bring together over 1200 exceptional entities ready and willing to export a range of quality items. The guide includes a section on the best fresh fruit and vegetables, indicating the relative producer consortia and associations, making it an indispensable tool for foodies, but especially for industry players wanting to promote the best of 'Made in Italy', and for the 50,000 buyers who participate annually in Gambero Rosso's international events.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Baked goods; Beer; Charcuterie; Cheese; Chocolate; Coffee, tea, infusions; Condiments, salt, spices, herbs; Dried fruit; Extra virgin olive oil; Flours, pulses, cereals; Honey; Liqueurs, syrups, distillates; Mushrooms, truffles; Natural food; Pasta; Patisserie; Preserved fish; Preserves, jams; Rice; Vinegar; Water, beverages, fruit juices; Leading brands; Fresh fruit and vegetables.

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Book SynopsisThis fascinating book delves into the innovative and visually stimulating world of top Italian foods. As the renowned designer Ettore Sottsass once said, Eating necessarily involves a creative process. In this sense it lies within the realm of the design profession. Eighty well-known Italian food products from the nineteenth century to the present day have been chosen and placed in broad historical contexts. The book tells the story of all the design phases of each item from the initial conception of the idea to its shape, packaging, communication, and advertising. A range of visuals, including original projects drawings, posters, and magazine and television advertisements accompany informative text discussing the role of each brand and its impact on consumers personal habits. Featuring a broad selection of products, such as as Parmiggiano Reggiano cheese, Illy coffee, Panettone Motta, Cirio tomatoes, Barilla pasta, San Pellegrino water, and Nutella, this book is perfect for advertising professionals, graphic designers, brand managers, product designers, and anyone with an interest in Italian food and design.Trade Review"...an impeccably detailed visual celebration of Italian food..."—Design Observer"An accessible introduction to the design of Italian food branding, packaging, advertising, and marketing, covering all of the most iconic Italian foods, from Nutella to Illy coffee. This fascinating book delves into the innovative and visually stimulating world of top Italian foods. As the renowned designer Ettore Sottsass once said, “Eating necessarily involves a creative process. In this sense it lies within the realm of the design profession.” Eighty well-known Italian food products from the nineteenth century to the present day have been chosen and placed in broad historical contexts. The book tells the story of all the design phases of each item—from the initial conception of the idea to its shape, packaging, communication, and advertising. A range of visuals, including original projects drawings, posters, and magazine and television advertisements accompany informative text discussing the role of each brand and its impact on consumers’ personal habits. Featuring a broad selection of products, such as as Parmiggiano Reggiano cheese, Illy coffee, Panettone Motta, Cirio tomatoes, Barilla pasta, San Pellegrino water, and Nutella, this book is perfect for advertising professionals, graphic designers, brand managers, product designers, and anyone with an interest in Italian food and design"—GrainEdit.com

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Book Synopsis"Flicking through the book... you'll discover all manner of vintage cigarette holders, ranging from cheap promotional items given away by New York nightclubs to extravagant versions crafted by the likes of Tiffany, Fabergé, Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels." South China Morning Post The book offers an unprecedented look at cigarette holders through a selection of approximately 125 pieces from the collection of Carolyn Hsu-Balcer. Its introductory essay is both a social history of that world-changing leaf, tobacco, and a design history of its accoutrements. It examines the history of smoking from its pre-Columbian roots in the Americas through to the present-day worldwide e-cigarette craze, taking the reader on a journey from tobacco smoking as a sacred ritual, through the controversies of its worldwide spread, and the machine-rolled cigarette's role in the world wars and as a tool for European and American women's equality. Following the illustrated essay is a luxurious catalogue of newly commissioned photography that makes these diminutive objects pop off the pages with brilliant colour and form. The collection includes cigarette holders in their simplest incarnations - the disposable promotional holders given away at trendy New York nightclubs - to their most exquisite - the work of Fabergé, Cartier, Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels and other renowned jewellers of the late nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. Contents: Foreword by Carolyn Hsu-Balcer; Introduction; Chapter 1: Tobacco's Journey from the New World to the Old: Medicine and Pleasure; Chapter 2: The Rise of Cigarette Culture: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 3: Smoking, Sociability, and a New Modern Era: From the First World War to the Second; Chapter 4: The Cigarette Holder's Peak and Fall: A New Culture of Smoking; Catalog; Appendix: Materials Used in Cigarette Holders; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits.Trade ReviewThrough eye-catching new photography, readers will view not only the first cigarette holder ever made (in 1875) but also exquisite examples made by leading international jewelers... A TOKEN OF ELEGANCE: Cigarette Holders in Vogue is essential reading as well as an ideal illustrated book to give this holiday season. ArtFix Daily, October 8, 2015 Cigarette holders, while utilitarian in purpose, are often works of art, objects of beauty and even tools for communication according to this unprecedented look a these diminutive objects through approximately 135 pieces from the Hsu-Balcer collection. This lavishly illustrated book reveals for the first time the social history of tobacco combined with a design history of its accessories. The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles Two of the year's standout books about niche collections delve into antiques that protected smokers' hands from heat, smells and stains. The New York Times A social history and an illustrated catalog of rare examples of design, this is a beautiful and fanciful book that is a treat in the eyes for anyone interested in the place where art, design and function come together to form a perfect product. Antiques and The Arts Weekly This is truly an elegant book full of smokeless enjoyment. Maine Antique Digest Written by Martin Barnes Lorber and Rebecca McNamara, the finished product is a coffee table-style volume that includes stunning photography by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler. -- Barbara Miller Beem Antique Week, January 11, 2016Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Carolyn Hsu-Balcer; Introduction; Chapter 1: Tobacco's Journey from the New World to the Old: Medicine and Pleasure; Chapter 2: The Rise of Cigarette Culture: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Chapter 3: Smoking, Sociability, and a New Modern Era: From the First World War to the Second; Chapter 4: The Cigarette Holder's Peak and Fall: A New Culture of Smoking; Catalog; Appendix: Materials Used in Cigarette Holders; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits.

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Book SynopsisIn King Cotton in International Trade Meredith A. Taylor Black provides a comprehensive analysis of the WTO Cotton dispute and its significant jurisprudential and negotiating effect on disciplining and containing the negative effects of highly trade-distorting agricultural subsidies of developed countries. To that end, this work details the historic, economic, and political background leading up to Brazil’s challenge of the US cotton subsidies and the main findings of the five WTO reports that largely upheld that challenge. It explores the impacts of the successful challenge in terms of political and negotiating dynamics involving agriculture subsidies and other trade-related issues in the WTO while examining the effects on domestic agriculture subsidy reforms in the United States and the European Union. Finally, this volume sets forth the possible impacts of the Cotton challenge on the negotiating end-game of the Doha Development Round.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Abstract Introduction Part One: Economic and Political Backdrop of US-Upland Cotton Chapter 1 Global Trade of Upland Cotton 1. Cotton Trading, Supply and Demand Patterns 2. Unique Nature of Cotton as Non-Edible Commodity 3. US Cotton Production & Its Economic Relation to Total US Agriculture 4. Relative Importance of Cotton to Developing/African Countries 5. Cotton Cost Comparisons between US and Other Producers Chapter 2 Political Economy of Agricultural Subsidy Programs 1. History of US Cotton Subsidy Programs 2. US Cotton Subsidy Programs at Time of Brazil Challenge 3. Other Country Subsidy Programs (China, EU) 4. Political Power of US Cotton Lobby & US Legislative Process Chapter 3 WTO Political Environment Prior to US-Upland Cotton Case 1. Multilateral Agriculture Negotiations & the Formation of the WTO 2. Agricultural Reform Efforts Post-Uruguay Round 3. Role of African Cotton Producing Countries before Cotton Dispute 4. Role of Brazil before Cotton Dispute 5. Summary of Part One Part Two: Anatomy of the US-Upland Cotton Dispute and Its Jurisprudential Impact on Disciplining Agricultural Subsidies under WTO Rules Chapter 4 Origins of Brazil’s US-Upland Cotton 1. Brazil’s Strategic Goals & Relationship with EC Sugar Challenge 2. Strong Evidentiary Basis for Brazil’s Challenge 3. Legal and Economic Assistance to Brazil 4. Novel Legal Issues Chapter 5 WTO Dispute Settlement: Case Study on US-Upland Cotton 1. WTO Dispute Settlement Overview 2. Relevant WTO Agreements: AoA and SCM Agreements 3. Consultation 4. Original Panel Proceedings 5. Appellate Body Proceedings 6. Compliance Panel Proceedings under Article 21.5 7. Appellate Body Proceedings under Article 21.5 8. Arbitration Proceedings under Article 22.6 Chapter 6 US-Upland Cotton: Key Legal Findings as Precedent for Future WTO Dispute Challenges to Agricultural Subsidies & Lessons Learned from the Involvement of Least Developed Countries 1. Key Legal Findings 2. Lessons from the Involvement of Chad and Benin 3. Summary of Part Two Part Three: Relevance of the US-Upland Cotton Dispute on the WTO’s Legislative Mechanism, Agricultural Subsidy Programs of WTO Members at Domestic Level, and Sustainability of the World Trade Organization Chapter 7 Impact of US-Upland Cotton’s Legal Precedent on Negotiation Leverage within the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO 1. Brazil: Use of Litigation to Move Negotiations 2. The C-4, Cotton Initiative and the Creation of the Subcommittee on Cotton Chapter 8 Political Limits on Cotton Implementation in the United States 1. Reform in the US & Its Limitations 2. Brazil-US Memorandum of Understanding/June Framework Chapter 9 Effect of Non-Compliance by the US: Ethical and Systematic Considerations 1. Ethical Basis for the Cotton Findings and for Future Reform 2. US Threat to the Legitimacy and Sustainability of the WTO 3. Summary of Part Three Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the impact of inward investment on the competitiveness of indigenous firms, Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers draws on evidence from the UK and Italian manufacturing sectors to show how foreign presence may generate both virtuous and vicious circles of development according to a number of interrelated factors. These include the level of the foreign presence, its rate of increase, the technological disparities between foreign and indigenous firms and the political response. An examination of the productive and innovatory activities of US and Japanese firms in Europe is also provided to enlighten the differential role of European countries in the global operations of overseas multinationals.Table of Contents1. Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers: a Survey 2. Multinational Enterprises and Technological Spillovers: an Evolutionary Model 3. Manufacturing and Innovatory Activities of US and Japanese Multinationals in Europe 4. Foreign Multinationals and the British Economy: Technological Spillovers in the Manufacturing Industries 5. Foreign Presence in the Italian Industries: Characteristics and Consequences 6. Concluding Remarks: Towards a System View of Internationalization Processes

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Book SynopsisThis study follows the textile industry through periods of oil boom, structural adjustment and liberalization. The focus is on the successful institutionalization of the trade union based labour regime.'

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Book SynopsisThe report covers the dependencies between population growth and the Sustainable Development Goals, focusing on regions were population numbers are rising fast. The analysis elaborates on the social, economic and environmental implications of population growth. It highlights demographic trends and drivers of population change, namely fertility, mortality and international migration and describes the complex interaction between of population growth and poverty, hunger, health, education and human capital, gender equality, sustained economic growth and decent work. It further investigates the impact of population growth on the environment

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