Beetles by Robert Sabuda

Beetles by Robert Sabuda

This definitive book offers the first full study of the development of the European Union's air-transport policy. Crucial to both globalization and regional integration, commercial aviation, along with other transport industries, provides the logistics for business activities, political life, and contact between cultures. Paradoxically, however, the airline industry was one of the last to be liberalized in the process of European integration, and the creation of a single market in air transport was attended by sharp political disputes, unreconstructed nationalism, and persistent foot-dragging. Exploring the long struggle to create a Europe of the air through both regulatory change and airline strategizing, Martin Staniland examines the political bargains that have shaped a highly fragmented industry and its regulation. He argues that, rather than focusing on directives and regulations issuing from Brussels, students of integration should examine the ways in which the contentious interaction between leaders of an industry and relevant politicians and officials creates distinctive market orders. Such market orders enable firms to minimize the risks inherent in business, while allowing regulators to pursue the mandates of their organizations and to realize their notions of public interest. Economic integration is therefore an often-painful struggle to create a market order defined both by regulatory jurisdiction and by competition among firms. An invaluable case-study in industrial policy, this book will be essential reading for students of aviation, as well as for scholars interested in regulatory change and European integration.

From as far back as Matthew Reinhart can remember, art always took center stage. Despite moving several times throughout childhood, his sketchbook was always nearby, a constant friend wherever his family roamed. An avid comic, fantasy, and science-fiction fanatic, Reinhart has created a huge array of pop culture pop-ups like his bestselling blockbusters Star Wars: A Galactic Pop-Up Adventure, Frozen: A Pop-Up Adventure, Lego Pop-Up, and many more. He is also the creator of the Pop Magic series, an innovative line of interactive preschool books including What's Up, Fire Truck? and Colors: My First Pop-Up! He lives in San Francisco. Toby Leigh is an award-winning illustrator and artist with an eye for the peculiar. He is a regular contributor to publications such as the Guardian, the Times, the Independent, Esquire, Empire, and Time Out. He lives in London.

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ISBN 13	9780786805570
ISBN 10	0786805579
Title	Beetles
Author	Robert Sabuda
Series	Young Naturalist's Pop-Up Handbooks
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Hyperion Books
Year published	2001-10-01
Number of pages	14
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.