Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Miner's Lamp -- Cymyru -- 2. A Welsh Coal Miner -- 3. The First Loco to Run on Rails -- 4. Two Miners' Sons -- 5. The Paths of Blind Horses -- Carbon County -- 6. The Rattle of Dead Men's Skin -- 7. Zeph and Maud -- 8. The Castle Gate -- 9. The Striking...

Security practitioners must be able to build cost-effective security programs while also complying with government regulations. Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard lays out these regulations in simple terms and explains how to use control frameworks to...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editors' Introduction -- Authors' Preface -- CHAPTER 1. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Lowell Manufacturing Company, 1828-1852 -- CHAPTER 2. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: The Connecticut Companies, 1825-1854 -- CHAPTER 3. PIONEERING AN INDUSTRY: Three Younger Companies,...

We provide evidence on the differences in the effective tax rate by firm size, highlighting that effective tax rates tend to follow a bump-shaped curve, increasing from micro to small firms and then decreasing for medium to large firms. Our analysis, based on microdata from several EU countries,...

Weekly lotteries determine which politicians ask the UK Prime Minister a question in front of a male-dominated, packed, and noisy chamber. Women are 12% less likely to submit questions than same-cohort men, and this gap does not close with lottery-induced experience asking a question, or with...