Author: Albrecht Rothacher
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030740773
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin’s rule. The author, a former EU diplomat, presents a historical review of the Russian economy and 60 years of state-communist mismanagement, followed by oligarchic privatization. The book offers profound insights into Putin’s rule and the power mechanics of the state-dominated management of the Russian economy. It identifies and assesses the lack of rule of law, together with an arbitrary and often corrupt administration that systematically discourages entrepreneurship and the emergence of an independent middle class. Furthermore, the book discusses Russia’s budgetary policy, its dependence on the export of natural resources, state-owned enterprises and their privileges, and Russia’s external trade. This hard-hitting, substantial analysis debunks the myth of Russia’s economic might and is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the economic realities of the Eurasian continent, or considering doing business with Russia.
Putinomics
Author: Albrecht Rothacher
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030740773
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin’s rule. The author, a former EU diplomat, presents a historical review of the Russian economy and 60 years of state-communist mismanagement, followed by oligarchic privatization. The book offers profound insights into Putin’s rule and the power mechanics of the state-dominated management of the Russian economy. It identifies and assesses the lack of rule of law, together with an arbitrary and often corrupt administration that systematically discourages entrepreneurship and the emergence of an independent middle class. Furthermore, the book discusses Russia’s budgetary policy, its dependence on the export of natural resources, state-owned enterprises and their privileges, and Russia’s external trade. This hard-hitting, substantial analysis debunks the myth of Russia’s economic might and is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the economic realities of the Eurasian continent, or considering doing business with Russia.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030740773
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book sheds new light on the political economy of Russia under Putin’s rule. The author, a former EU diplomat, presents a historical review of the Russian economy and 60 years of state-communist mismanagement, followed by oligarchic privatization. The book offers profound insights into Putin’s rule and the power mechanics of the state-dominated management of the Russian economy. It identifies and assesses the lack of rule of law, together with an arbitrary and often corrupt administration that systematically discourages entrepreneurship and the emergence of an independent middle class. Furthermore, the book discusses Russia’s budgetary policy, its dependence on the export of natural resources, state-owned enterprises and their privileges, and Russia’s external trade. This hard-hitting, substantial analysis debunks the myth of Russia’s economic might and is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the economic realities of the Eurasian continent, or considering doing business with Russia.
Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates
Author: S. Fortescue
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230800742
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates contains a critical analysis of the claims made against oligarchs. In doing so, it presents a detailed analysis of the place of the oligarchs in both the metals sector and in the Russian political economy.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230800742
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates contains a critical analysis of the claims made against oligarchs. In doing so, it presents a detailed analysis of the place of the oligarchs in both the metals sector and in the Russian political economy.
Putin's Russia
Author: Anna Politkovskaya
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805079300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This devastating appraisal is a searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of Russian journalists" ("The New York Times").
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805079300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This devastating appraisal is a searing portrait of a country in disarray and of the man at its helm, from "the bravest of Russian journalists" ("The New York Times").
Air Navigation Radio Aids
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to air navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aids to air navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Rigby Literacy
Author:
Publisher: Rigby
ISBN: 9780763566777
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Lauren shows her mom she is ready for the responsibility of taking care of a real dog by pretending her shoe is a dog. Her mom becomes convinced by Lauren's hard work and gives her a dog.
Publisher: Rigby
ISBN: 9780763566777
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Lauren shows her mom she is ready for the responsibility of taking care of a real dog by pretending her shoe is a dog. Her mom becomes convinced by Lauren's hard work and gives her a dog.
Memories of the Space Age
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Arkham House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The "Cape Canaveral" stories, eight stories originally published between 1962 and 1985.
Publisher: Arkham House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The "Cape Canaveral" stories, eight stories originally published between 1962 and 1985.
Science Policy: Science policy in the Soviet Union
Vacation Goose Travel Guide Nizhniy Novgorod Russia
Author: Francis Morgan
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Vacation Goose Travel Guide Nizhniy Novgorod Russia is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 1 city attractions, top 50 city restaurants, top 9 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Nizhniy Novgorod adventure :)
Publisher: Soffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Vacation Goose Travel Guide Nizhniy Novgorod Russia is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Top 1 city attractions, top 50 city restaurants, top 9 hotels, and more than a dozen monthly weather statistics. This travel guide is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this pocket book be part of yet another fun Nizhniy Novgorod adventure :)
Man, Society, and Nature
Author: Priyatosh Banerjee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Flash Jim
Author: Kel Richards
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1460713257
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining about the need for an interpreter in the colonial court. Luckily, by 1811, that man was at hand. James Hardy Vaux - conman, pickpocket, absconder and thief, born into comfortable circumstances in England - was so drawn to a life of crime he was transported to Australia ... not once, but three times! Vaux's talents, glibness and audacity were extraordinary, and perceiving an opportunity to ingratiate himself with authorities during his second sentence, he set about writing a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, which was recognised for its uniqueness and taken back to England to be published. Kel Richards tells Vaux's story brilliantly, with the help of Vaux's own extraordinarily candid memoir of misdeeds - one of the first true-crime memoirs ever published. Kel's book combines two of his favourite subjects: the inventiveness, humour and origins of Australian English, and our history of fabulous, disreputable characters. With echoes of The Surgeon of Crowthorne as well as Oliver Twist, Flash Jim is a ripping read - especially for those who appreciate the power of words and the convict contribution to our idiom. PRAISE 'James Hardy Vaux was a con-man with a talent for words who wrote the first dictionary of Australian English. Kel Richards is a word-man with a talent for telling a stirring story about the con-man. In Flash Jim Kel Richards brings James Hardy Vaux to life as we haven't seen him before' - Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland 'An engaging tale from a great student of our language about one of the conmen who gave Australia its character - and its distinctive slang' - Andrew Bolt, broadcaster and columnist 'One of the strongest bonds binding the people of Australia together is the Australian language. We speak a dialect of English richer and more colourful than most. When we call someone a "hoon" or invite a friend to a "barbie" we know immediately what we're talking about - but we have to translate for overseas visitors. This powerful cultural bond was, as Kel explains, built on four foundations. And the most colourful of those four was convict slang. The role that it played, and still plays, in the Australian language, and the story of the man who first recorded it is - as we used to say - a "ripping yarn". It makes a page-turning story' - Alan Jones, broadcaster and columnist 'There's never been a more important time to truly understand our Australian history and this book is a great introduction to the richness of our language and a wonderful window onto the real life of colonial Australia from my favourite wordsmith, Kel Richards' - Peta Credlin, broadcaster and columnist
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1460713257
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates baffled and police confused. So comprehensible to us today, the flash language of criminals and convicts had marine officer Watkin Tench complaining about the need for an interpreter in the colonial court. Luckily, by 1811, that man was at hand. James Hardy Vaux - conman, pickpocket, absconder and thief, born into comfortable circumstances in England - was so drawn to a life of crime he was transported to Australia ... not once, but three times! Vaux's talents, glibness and audacity were extraordinary, and perceiving an opportunity to ingratiate himself with authorities during his second sentence, he set about writing a dictionary of the criminal slang of the colony, which was recognised for its uniqueness and taken back to England to be published. Kel Richards tells Vaux's story brilliantly, with the help of Vaux's own extraordinarily candid memoir of misdeeds - one of the first true-crime memoirs ever published. Kel's book combines two of his favourite subjects: the inventiveness, humour and origins of Australian English, and our history of fabulous, disreputable characters. With echoes of The Surgeon of Crowthorne as well as Oliver Twist, Flash Jim is a ripping read - especially for those who appreciate the power of words and the convict contribution to our idiom. PRAISE 'James Hardy Vaux was a con-man with a talent for words who wrote the first dictionary of Australian English. Kel Richards is a word-man with a talent for telling a stirring story about the con-man. In Flash Jim Kel Richards brings James Hardy Vaux to life as we haven't seen him before' - Emeritus Professor Roland Sussex, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland 'An engaging tale from a great student of our language about one of the conmen who gave Australia its character - and its distinctive slang' - Andrew Bolt, broadcaster and columnist 'One of the strongest bonds binding the people of Australia together is the Australian language. We speak a dialect of English richer and more colourful than most. When we call someone a "hoon" or invite a friend to a "barbie" we know immediately what we're talking about - but we have to translate for overseas visitors. This powerful cultural bond was, as Kel explains, built on four foundations. And the most colourful of those four was convict slang. The role that it played, and still plays, in the Australian language, and the story of the man who first recorded it is - as we used to say - a "ripping yarn". It makes a page-turning story' - Alan Jones, broadcaster and columnist 'There's never been a more important time to truly understand our Australian history and this book is a great introduction to the richness of our language and a wonderful window onto the real life of colonial Australia from my favourite wordsmith, Kel Richards' - Peta Credlin, broadcaster and columnist