Economists have come a long way in understanding the economic growth process since Adam Smith. Economic growth research has not only had a great impact on policy making, it has also generated a large and diverse literature. Designed to facilitate teaching and research on economic growth, this book will help the scholar and student to navigate the literature on determinants of economic growth. The book's opening essay highlights the important theories and empirical findings, while the bibliography includes over 1,200 annotated entries. International in scope, the volume covers...

Dale, a soldier, has been wounded in every way possible. Body and soul forever tarnished by combat, he seeks a way to start over. Released on parole to a small Pennsylvanian town he's never heard of and isolated from those he knows, he throws himself into the job he's been given-and finds the way of life he has been fighting for all along.

When he meets Janet, the girl next door, everything he thought he knew begins to shift irretrievably out of focus. To the people of Somerset, she is a tragic and almost comical figure. No one believes that she was really abducted by aliens when she...