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Williams Wax floor polish is good, very good, so good in fact that nobody else can quite work out how he does it, especially as the formula resists all known forms of analysis. Old Mr Williams is equally as mysterious, ancient and reclusive, living entirely within the confines of his factory in England. Try as they might, the competition cannot glean the secret of Williams formula, even though they will and do stop at nothing to steal it. Out of work and single, Matthew Frosts world has collapsed but just as he reaches the bottom of the pit of despair, he succeeds in getting a job at Williams Wax. Little does he know that this is the start of an incredible journey and that his appointment is not all that it seems. Even as he starts his new job, a strange signal arrives on Earth from the depths of space, attracting the attention of a shadowy secret agency in America and causing them to drag Jim Hauser, one of their oldest operatives out of retirement. What is the connection between the signal from space and the amazing truth behind Williams and his Wonder Wax? Can Matt Frost and Jim Hauser unravel the mystery in time to save the planet? Colin Litten-Browns latest book, Williams Wonder Wax, is a science-fiction thriller set in the strange world of household product development and drawing from his years of personal experience inventing floor polishes, carpet shampoos and air fresheners. For more information visit www.colinlittenbrown.com.

The "informal" economy--economic activity and income outside government regulation, taxation, and observation--is, by its very nature, difficult to quantify. Colin C. Williams provides an authoritative introduction to the topic, explaining what the informal economy is (and what it isn't) and how it can best be measured.

Black and white edition without illustrations. A full-colour edition, illustrated with photographs and paintings is available on Amazon.Colin and Jackie from Northern England, were in their early sixties and had just witnessed the demise of two respective parents to care homes, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Determined to squeeze some excitement into the autumn of their years, they embark on an 'adventure before dementia'. With no experience of sailing whatsoever, they are on a steep learning curve with the ambition of buying their own boat and sailing around their adopted holiday island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean. Inspiring, informative, funny and heart-warming, this tale will be of interest to all adventurers and travelers, and to all sailors, arm-chair or otherwise; from wannabe dreamers and sailing novices to salty seadogs. The story of their circumnavigation of Hispaniola provides an insight into conditions in Haiti, as well as a detailed and cautionary tale of cruising East and West, along the Southern and Northern coasts of the Dominican Republic. In addition, there are descriptions of their extended stays in Santiago de Cuba and Port Antonio, Jamaica and two very different crossings of both the dreaded Mona Passage and the Windward Passage.Colin's wry sense of humor captured all of this in his day to day journals. From the trials and tribulations of fixing boats in exotic locations to hair raising encounters on the high seas, the book often reads like a liturgy of disasters and incompetence, and of incidents and accidents that eventually lead them from novices to navigators, and finally, from sailors to seadogs.Colin, a lifelong musician, song-writer and artist, wrote songs inspired by his sailing antics. These lyrics introduce some of the chapters and, along with Colin's journals, form the basis of the book. Jackie's narration fills in the gaps and introduces a flow to their story. In part one,' Novices to Navigators', Colin and Jackie take you with them on a nightmare journey as they are rescued by a Motor Tanker in the Jamaican Channel. The back-story to each chapter tells of the challenges they faced from being dreamers in the UK, to boat-owners in the Caribbean.Part two, 'Landlubbers to Liveaboards', chronicles the sometimes-hilarious uphill struggle to get their boat shipshape and learn to sail her. It features some of the many characters they met in Salinas, Puerto Rico, the delays and disasters they faced, and an eventful 'shake-down' sail to the Virgin Islands, forced upon them by the need to avoid overstaying their welcome in US territory.In part three, 'Sailors to Seadogs', join Colin and Jackie on their two-year sailing odyssey. Experience the places they visited, the bureaucracy they met and the challenges of 'fixing boats in exotic locations'. Live through some life-threatening drama on the high seas as well as musician, Colin's struggle to come to terms with his life-changing hearing loss through the onset of Meniere's disease which eventually ended their extraordinary adventure.

"How many businesses start-ups conduct some or all of their trade 'off-the-books'? And how many enterprises continue to do some of their work off-the-books once they are more established? What should be done about them? Should governments adopt ever more punitive measures to eradicate them? Or should we recognise this hidden enterprise culture and attempt to harness it? If so, how can this be done? What measures can be taken to ensure that businesses start-up in a proper manner? And what can be done to help those enterprises and entrepreneurs currently working off-the-books to legitimise their businesses? The aim of this book is to advance a new way of answering these questions. Drawing inspiration from institutional theory, informal sector entrepreneurship is explained as resulting from the asymmetry between the codified laws and regulations of a society's formal institutions and the norms, values and beliefs that comprise a society's informal institutions. The argument is that if the norms, values and beliefs of entrepreneurs (i.e., their individual morality) were wholly aligned with the codified laws and regulations (i.e., state morality), there would be no informal sector entrepreneurship. However, because the individual morality of entrepreneurs differs from state morality, such as due to their lack of trust in government and the rule of law, the result is the prevalence of informal sector entrepreneurship. The greater the degree of institutional asymmetry, the higher is the propensity to engage in informal sector entrepreneurship. This book provides evidence to show that this is the case both at the individual- and country-level and then discusses how this can be overcome. ."--Provided by publisher.

The year is 1979, and the United States has made the final reparations payment to Nazi Germany by granting the Third Reich full sovereignty over the Virgin Islands. Although their forces have been withdrawn from the West Coast, the enforcement of the terms of the Allies' surrender to Imperial Japan will continue to stunt the economic growth of the remaining democracies-the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand-until 1999. These are the realities of life that the postwar generation has accepted because it has no other choice. Then one morning in May it all beings to change.Lured by a brief article in The Washington Post, Dr. Ted Mattox, a thirty-nine year old college professor, willingly risks his life in the hope that he might have the chance to alter history. His entire scholarly career has been consumed with trying to discover the fate of Klause von Richter, an eccentric Austrian physicist, who claimed to have conquered time travel. The plans for the Time Tunnel vanished in the possession of a British agent, Katherine Bowen, the night von Richter died in the summer of 1939.In a bizarre turn of events, Dr. Mattox rescues the lovely spy as she leaves her time and enters his. Determined to change the future they form a partnership to outwit a host of Nazi agents and assassins. They fall in love, and yet they are willing to hazard their own happiness to fashion a hopefully better world.

Colin and Jackie from Northern England, were in their early sixties and had just witnessed the demise of two respective parents to care homes, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Determined to squeeze some excitement into the autumn of their years, they embark on an 'adventure before dementia'. With no experience of sailing whatsoever, they are on a steep learning curve with the ambition of buying their own boat and sailing around their adopted holiday island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean. Inspiring, informative, funny and heart-warming, this tale will be of interest to all adventurers and travelers, and to all sailors, arm-chair or otherwise; from wannabe dreamers and sailing novices to salty seadogs. The story of their circumnavigation of Hispaniola provides an insight into conditions in Haiti, as well as a detailed and cautionary tale of cruising East and West, along the Southern and Northern coasts of the Dominican Republic. In addition, there are descriptions of their extended stays in Santiago de Cuba and Port Antonio, Jamaica and two very different crossings of both the dreaded Mona Passage and the Windward Passage.Colin's wry sense of humor captured all of this in his day to day journals. From the trials and tribulations of fixing boats in exotic locations to hair raising encounters on the high seas, the book often reads like a liturgy of disasters and incompetence, and of incidents and accidents that eventually lead them from novices to navigators, and finally, from sailors to seadogs.Colin, a lifelong musician, song-writer and artist, wrote songs inspired by his sailing antics. These lyrics introduce some of the chapters and, along with Colin's journals, form the basis of the book. Jackie's narration fills in the gaps and introduces a flow to their story. In part one,' Novices to Navigators', Colin and Jackie take you with them on a nightmare journey as they are rescued by a Motor Tanker in the Jamaican Channel. The back-story to each chapter tells of the challenges they faced from being dreamers in the UK, to boat-owners in the Caribbean.Part two, 'Landlubbers to Liveaboards', chronicles the sometimes-hilarious uphill struggle to get their boat shipshape and learn to sail her. It features some of the many characters they met in Salinas, Puerto Rico, the delays and disasters they faced, and an eventful 'shake-down' sail to the Virgin Islands, forced upon them by the need to avoid overstaying their welcome in US territory.In part three, 'Sailors to Seadogs', join Colin and Jackie on their two-year sailing odyssey. Experience the places they visited, the bureaucracy they met and the challenges of 'fixing boats in exotic locations'. Live through some life-threatening drama on the high seas as well as musician, Colin's struggle to come to terms with his life-changing hearing loss through the onset of Meniere's disease which eventually ended their extraordinary adventure.

Colin and Jackie from Northern England, were in their early sixties and had just witnessed the demise of two respective parents to care homes, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Determined to squeeze some excitement into the autumn of their years, they embark on an 'adventure before dementia'. With no experience of sailing whatsoever, they are on a steep learning curve with the ambition of buying their own boat and sailing around their adopted holiday island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean. Inspiring, informative, funny and heart-warming, this tale will be of interest to all adventurers and travelers, and to all sailors, arm-chair or otherwise; from wannabe dreamers and sailing novices to salty seadogs. The story of their circumnavigation of Hispaniola provides an insight into conditions in Haiti, as well as a detailed and cautionary tale of cruising East and West, along the Southern and Northern coasts of the Dominican Republic. In addition, there are descriptions of their extended stays in Santiago de Cuba and Port Antonio, Jamaica and two very different crossings of both the dreaded Mona Passage and the Windward Passage.Colin's wry sense of humor captured all of this in his day to day journals. From the trials and tribulations of fixing boats in exotic locations to hair raising encounters on the high seas, the book often reads like a liturgy of disasters and incompetence, and of incidents and accidents that eventually lead them from novices to navigators, and finally, from sailors to seadogs.Colin, a lifelong musician, song-writer and artist, wrote songs inspired by his sailing antics. These lyrics introduce some of the chapters and, along with Colin's journals, form the basis of the book. Jackie's narration fills in the gaps and introduces a flow to their story. In part one,' Novices to Navigators', Colin and Jackie take you with them on a nightmare journey as they are rescued by a Motor Tanker in the Jamaican Channel. The back-story to each chapter tells of the challenges they faced from being dreamers in the UK, to boat-owners in the Caribbean. Part two, 'Landlubbers to Liveaboards', chronicles the sometimes-hilarious uphill struggle to get their boat shipshape and learn to sail her. It features some of the many characters they met in Salinas, Puerto Rico, the delays and disasters they faced, and an eventful 'shake-down' sail to the Virgin Islands, forced upon them by the need to avoid overstaying their welcome in US territory.In part three, 'Sailors to Seadogs', join Colin and Jackie on their two-year sailing odyssey. Experience the places they visited, the bureaucracy they met and the challenges of 'fixing boats in exotic locations'. Live through some life-threatening drama on the high seas as well as musician, Colin's struggle to come to terms with his life-changing hearing loss through the onset of Meniere's disease which eventually ended their extraordinary adventure.

Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research, this book shows that the economies that operate across post-Soviet spaces are far from the textbook idea of a market economy and focuses on entrepreneurship, education and corruption.