In the beauty and violence of backwoods Tennessee, Chance of Rain is a story of vengeance and the struggle for goodness. With the murder of a young Wildlife Officer, Chance of Rain follows two veteran game wardens, both bound for retribution. One, the Chief Wildlife Officer for the state, Ethan Stewart, demotes himself and transfers into the murdered officer's vacant position. The second, the wildlife officer from the adjoining county, is an ex-Navy SEAL named W.B. Langford, who has a more direct plan of action. And when these two forces combine, backwoods law enforcement takes on new...

Presents papers which grapple with some of the most important developments and challenges in International Business, both for the firms who must fashion strategy within a rapidly changing world economic order and researchers who seek to explain the nature of these shifts and how firms respond.

The latest edition of this international edited book series, based on the formation and growth problems of High Technology Small Firms (HTSF), contains the best papers presented at the 2011 and 2013 conferences, both held at Manchester Business School. This volume remains true to the initial mission of the HTSF Conference, established in 1993, to advance our knowledge of high-technology entrepreneurship and to advocate the need for more and better designed policy to promote such entrepreneurship. The need is as great as ever it was, not least given the continued economic stagnation of the...