Brian H. Roberts

Dallas Gordon and the Prospector 1 crew race to Mars to stake EPSILON's claim to the Red Planet's unlimited mineral wealth. But they are not alone. Unscrupulous rivals conspire to stop them and secure Mars' wealth for themselves-by any means necessary. The year is 2035. The first human-crewed mission races to Mars to mine Rare Earth Elements - vital components of everything electronic. EPSILON, the world's leading autonomous vehicle maker, will be the first to plant a human--and their corporate--footprint on Martian soil. EPSILON's crewless missions have established a base on Mars to enable Mission Commander Dallas Gordon and his 5-person crew to mine the untapped lucrative riches waiting there. Back on Earth, Flight Operations Director Ann Waters monitors Prospector 1's progress but discovers the craft is a million miles off course. The cause? Sabotage by an ex-employee-turned-hacker contracted to end both the mission and the crew's lives. Gordon manages to get back on course, only to crash-land on Mars. The team struggles to traverse the rugged Martian terrain to reach Prospector Base before they run out of oxygen. Separated by over 200 million miles, can Ann and Dallas uncover the technological and robotic traps set by the hacker on Mars?

Debut Novel of the EPSILON Sci-Fi Thriller Series

Crimson Lucre

Roger R. Stough

Robert J. Stimson

Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels. In planning for cities and regions, both large and small, economic development issues now tend to be integrated into strategic planning processes. For at least the last 50 years, scholars from various disciplines have theorised about the nature of regional economic development, developing a range of models seeking to explain the process of regional economic development, and why it is that regions vary so much in their economic structure and performance and how these aspects of a region can change dramatically over time. Regional scientists in particular have developed a comprehensive tool-kit of methodologies to measure and monitor regional economic characteristics such as industry sectors, employment, income, value of production, investment, and the like, using both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, and focusing on both static and dynamic analysis. The 'father of regional science', Walter lsard, was the first to put together a comprehensive volume on techniques of regional analysis (Isard 1960), and since then a huge literature has emerged, including the many titles in the series published by Springer in which this book is published.

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