Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: American Success -- 1. The Players -- 2. Television: A Parting of the Ways -- 3. The Pay Media: A Shower of Money -- 4. Controlling the Release Sequence -- 5. Rising American Dominance -- 6. What Has Hollywood Done with...

Intro -- About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. When Two Tribes Were One -- 2. Pioneers -- 3. Mastodons to Motorways -- 4. Who Owns the Roads? -- 5. Speed -- 6. Width -- 7. Hardtop History -- 8. "What the Bicyclist Did for Roads" --...

This paper characterizes economically optimal investments into Africa's road network in partial and general equilibrium - based on a detailed topography of the network, road construction costs, frictions in cross-border trading, and economic geography. Drawing from data on 144 million...

This paper characterizes economically optimal investments into Africa's road network in partial and general equilibrium - based on a detailed topography of the network, road construction costs, frictions in cross-border trading, and economic geography. Drawing from data on 144 million...

The contribution deals with issues of taxation of truck traffic in the Czech Republic and European Union countries. The article discusses the current need for the introduction of environmental features aiming at the mitigation of harmful substances emitted into the atmosphere to the system of...