Michael S. Sander's memoir of his year spent in a tiny French village was absolutely charming. Though Sanders started out to write about life in a French restaurant, the book is actually about the villagers themselves.Centered around the city's main business, a restaurant in an old schoolhouse (Le ...
There are few shipbuilding firms left in the United States, and Navy contracts are sometimes the only way they can stay in business. Even so, the Navy has refined its procurement procedures to transfer most of the risk to the shipbuilder. The Navy will supply the basic specifications, but the “yard”...