It seems common wisdom that in order for a business
to succeed internationally it should first have
reached a certain size, resource base, and a high
level of domestic market intensity. However, this
book provides in-depth acounts of seven innovative
micro-enterprises that chose to bypass these steps,
attaining remarkable overseas success despite severe
knowledge and resource constraints.

It demonstrates to managers how the most diminutive
of enterprise forms can penetrate the foreign market
through nurturing and leveraging key relationships in
their value chain. More importantly, the...

Now in paperback from London Times columnist Paul Pickering--the breathtaking story of a young pianist who travels through the Congo to meet a former mentor with whom he shares a dark past, falling in love with a Congolese army officer's wife along the way.

- A renowned writer: A seasoned journalist and novelist, Paul Pickering has traversed the globe for his stories. For The Leopard's Wife, he undertook an expedition down the Congo River, from Kisangani to Kinshasa, to craft a novel brimming with authenticity of a majestically beautiful country torn apart by civil war.

- A...

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of...