Christmas time is exciting and filled with anticipation and often stress. Will we get what we want? Will we be able to find just the right gift for everyone? Many get caught up in the gift giving and tend to forget the real meaning of the holiday.

Author John McCallum s How the Lord Sent Christmas offers an imaginative, poetic retelling of the Christmas story in a fresh way that will surprise and delight children and adults. Besides being a reminder of why we really celebrate Christmas, some readers may find it a nonthreatening way to share the Christmas story with their...

The US twin deficit, Western European economic integration, Eastern Europe's transition towards a market economy, the debt burden of the Less Developed Countries, the growing and deepening discrimination against the rest of the world by new homogeneous areas such as the North America free trade area, the new Europe, and Japan are the issues at the heart of global disequilibrium in the world economy. This book brings together leading economists to analyse these issues and further the debate on the need for sound economic policies to avoid a crash on a global scale.