The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway's Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author

When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the

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When Pat rents a room in Edinburgh, she acquires some interesting neighbors--including a pushy Stockbridge mother and her talented, sax-playing, five-year-old son. Her job at an art gallery hardly keeps her busy until she suspects one painting in the collection may be an undiscovered work by a Scottish master.

What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? This question haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Collela, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident that claims the lives of nine other people off the coast of Maine. Julia, a 40-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, Julia begins to explore the...

La publicación congrega a reconocidos abogados de Perú que son especialistas vinculados al Derecho de las Obligaciones. Los temas desarrollados por los autores del libro cuentan con una posición propia respecto a las modalidades, efectos e inejecución del Derecho de las Obligaciones, lo cual enriquece a esta obra, dividida en tres partes, por las distintas perspectivas sobre temas puntuales del ámbito profesional y académico. La primera parte...

As CEO of Beanstalk, a leading, New York City-based global brand licensing agency and part of the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), author Michael Stone has worked with companies as diverse as HGTV, the Ford Motor Company, the Coca-Cola Company and AT&T to create highly ambitious and successful strategic licensing and brand extension programs for Beanstalk's clients. At an increasing pace over the past decade, all types of organizations with strong brands...

El presente libro describe los antecedentes y las perspectivas actuales del derecho de consumo en relación con el comercio electrónico, como fenómeno global de transacciones e inversiones y la protección de los consumidores que se ven inmiscuidos en dicho escenario, determinando las figuras centrales, sus antecedentes, características e implicaciones jurídicas en Colombia.

Ethiopian Airlines was founded in 1945 by the Ethiopian government with the assistance of Western Airlines. With a fleet of war-surplus Dakotas, the airline took to the sky. At first, only domestic and regional destinations were served, forcing the airline to build makeshift airstrips. However, in 1957, Douglas DC-6s and a Lockheed Constellation were obtained and flights to Europe commenced. In the 1960s, Ethiopian entered the jet age with the purchase...

British Midland Airways existed under different identities for over 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying training school into a scheduled transatlantic airline operating wide-bodied Airbus aircraft. With the prime routes dominated by British Airways and its predecessors, it had to diversify, and one product of this was its "instant-airline" concept, which saw its Boeing 707 aircraft flying in the liveries of many African and Middle Eastern...

Esta obra analiza la figura del contratante débil en las relaciones jurídicas contemporáneas. Para ello se estudiaron tres relaciones jurídicas que las autoras han elegido arbitrariamente en el marco de la contratación y desarrollo tecnológico, a saber: el contrato de consumo -de manera especial, en las denominadas operaciones de autofinanciamiento comercial-, el contrato laboral y el impacto de la Revolución 4.0, y, por último, la figura...

Poised for takeoff on that hot morning in April 2005, the Airbus A380 had the purposeful, powerful presence of a giant predatory bird. With its enormous gulled wings, imperiously tall tail, and broad, domed forepeak, it looked ready to take on the world. And along the way, it has had plenty of supporters-and critics. No civil airliner since the supersonic Concorde has aroused such emotion, such fascination, and such cause célèbre. To a confident...