Author: Catherine Evans
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1911586556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Meet the Newells, a big family of good lookers and hard grafters. From their sleepy working class backwater, the siblings break into Oxford academia, London’s high life, the glossy world of magazine publishing and the stratospheric riches of New York’s hedge funds. Then there’s Paddy, the wrong’un in their midst, who prefers life’s dark underbelly. As things fall apart around his sister Bea, is Paddy behind it all? And why does matriarch Edie turn a blind eye to her son’s malevolence? Will she stand by and watch while he wrecks the lives of her other children? Just how much is she willing to sacrifice to protect her son?
The Wrong'un
Author: Catherine Evans
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1911586556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Meet the Newells, a big family of good lookers and hard grafters. From their sleepy working class backwater, the siblings break into Oxford academia, London’s high life, the glossy world of magazine publishing and the stratospheric riches of New York’s hedge funds. Then there’s Paddy, the wrong’un in their midst, who prefers life’s dark underbelly. As things fall apart around his sister Bea, is Paddy behind it all? And why does matriarch Edie turn a blind eye to her son’s malevolence? Will she stand by and watch while he wrecks the lives of her other children? Just how much is she willing to sacrifice to protect her son?
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1911586556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Meet the Newells, a big family of good lookers and hard grafters. From their sleepy working class backwater, the siblings break into Oxford academia, London’s high life, the glossy world of magazine publishing and the stratospheric riches of New York’s hedge funds. Then there’s Paddy, the wrong’un in their midst, who prefers life’s dark underbelly. As things fall apart around his sister Bea, is Paddy behind it all? And why does matriarch Edie turn a blind eye to her son’s malevolence? Will she stand by and watch while he wrecks the lives of her other children? Just how much is she willing to sacrifice to protect her son?
What's Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
Author: Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509507477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the “next generation” of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it? In this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization’s inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN’s many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN’s institutional ills might be “cured.” Weiss’s remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509507477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century’s world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today’s UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold War nor the aftermath of 9/11 has led to the “next generation” of multilateral institutions. But what exactly is wrong with the UN that makes it incapable of confronting contemporary global challenges and, more importantly, can we fix it? In this revised and updated third edition of his popular text, leading scholar of global governance Thomas G. Weiss takes a diagnose-and-cure approach to the world organization’s inherent difficulties. In the first half of the book, he considers: the problems of international leadership and decision making in a world of self-interested states; the diplomatic complications caused by the artificial divisions between the industrialized North and the global South; the structural problems of managing the UN’s many overlapping jurisdictions, agencies, and bodies; and the challenges of bureaucracy and leadership. The second half shows how to mitigate these maladies and points the way to a world in which the UN’s institutional ills might be “cured.” Weiss’s remedies are not based on pious hopes of a miracle cure for the UN, but rather on specific and encouraging examples that could be replicated. With considered optimism and in contrast to received wisdom, he contends that substantial change is both plausible and possible.
Neuestes vollständiges Wörterbuch der englischen und deutschen Sprache mit Berücksichtigung des amerikanischen Idioms ...
Author: William Odell Elwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
A Complete Dictionary of the English and German Languages Containing All the Words in General Use
Author: Nicolaus Napoleon Wilhelm Meissner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
German and English
Author: Felix Flügel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
A complete dictionary of the English and German and English languages
A New Pocket Dictionary of the English and German Languages
Author: J. E. Wessely
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
One Step Forward Two Steps Back
Author: D.F. Block
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1470957396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
It had been a long day; the phone hadn't stopped ringing since it was turned on at Ten 'o clock this morning, it was now just after eleven at night and I was tired. As I pulled into the large empty car park on this cold wet night there in the far corner sat a metallic blue XR3i. The headlights flashed once and I cruised over to where it was parked, Dave sat on the rear parcel shelf staring vacantly out of the window. I drew up alongside the car and its driver's window went down automatically, I dropped my window slightly."Yer gonna have to get in the motor, I aint passing fuck all through the window!" I wound my window back up and waited. There were a few stragglers waiting so time was of the essence. The passenger door of my car opened slowly and then shut quietly, a young girl sat on the passenger seat wearing a blue pair of pyjamas and a green towelling dressing gown.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1470957396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
It had been a long day; the phone hadn't stopped ringing since it was turned on at Ten 'o clock this morning, it was now just after eleven at night and I was tired. As I pulled into the large empty car park on this cold wet night there in the far corner sat a metallic blue XR3i. The headlights flashed once and I cruised over to where it was parked, Dave sat on the rear parcel shelf staring vacantly out of the window. I drew up alongside the car and its driver's window went down automatically, I dropped my window slightly."Yer gonna have to get in the motor, I aint passing fuck all through the window!" I wound my window back up and waited. There were a few stragglers waiting so time was of the essence. The passenger door of my car opened slowly and then shut quietly, a young girl sat on the passenger seat wearing a blue pair of pyjamas and a green towelling dressing gown.
Wrong'un
Author: Keith A. Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781976942792
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The follow-up to the bestselling supernatural adventure, Who Sent Clement? Sir Charles Huxley, a former government minister, kept a dark secret -- a secret he should have taken to the grave when he died in 1999. His son, William, now lives an uneventful life in his father's shadow. A middle-aged bachelor, all he has to worry about is his seemingly pointless job as a backbench Westminster politician, and his lonely existence -- or, so he thought.One evening, William has a chance encounter which sets off an escalating series of sinister events, culminating in a damning revelation about his father's past. That revelation drags William into the darkest of blackmail plots.With his blackmailer having cunningly closed every exit, William is trapped, and faces personal and financial ruin. That is until an odd job man working at his local bar steps forward and offers help. With no alternative, William is forced to join his peculiar saviour on a desperate mission to stop his blackmailer, and unearth the shattering truth about the wrong'un."A twisty, page-turning plot laced with humour and skilful characterisation. Incredibly, at the end of the book I actually shed real tears for the protagonist...a politician! For that feat alone, I cannot praise the author enough." "What the author excels at is writing stories that put unexceptional people into fantasy situations, with enough realism to make you not only suspend disbelief, but also really care about the outcome of the protagonist."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781976942792
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The follow-up to the bestselling supernatural adventure, Who Sent Clement? Sir Charles Huxley, a former government minister, kept a dark secret -- a secret he should have taken to the grave when he died in 1999. His son, William, now lives an uneventful life in his father's shadow. A middle-aged bachelor, all he has to worry about is his seemingly pointless job as a backbench Westminster politician, and his lonely existence -- or, so he thought.One evening, William has a chance encounter which sets off an escalating series of sinister events, culminating in a damning revelation about his father's past. That revelation drags William into the darkest of blackmail plots.With his blackmailer having cunningly closed every exit, William is trapped, and faces personal and financial ruin. That is until an odd job man working at his local bar steps forward and offers help. With no alternative, William is forced to join his peculiar saviour on a desperate mission to stop his blackmailer, and unearth the shattering truth about the wrong'un."A twisty, page-turning plot laced with humour and skilful characterisation. Incredibly, at the end of the book I actually shed real tears for the protagonist...a politician! For that feat alone, I cannot praise the author enough." "What the author excels at is writing stories that put unexceptional people into fantasy situations, with enough realism to make you not only suspend disbelief, but also really care about the outcome of the protagonist."