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First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist.…
This sixth volume contains the work of Lewis Melville, one of the most productive biographers and critics of Thackeray at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Pearson’s helpful introduction not only provides additional information on the biographer himself, but also analyses the text and tracks its development over time. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century literature.Social Enterprise and the Third Sector: Changing European Landscapes in a Comparative Perspective
By Victor Pestoff, Lars Hulgård, Jacques Defourny. 2014
The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are rapidly attracting increased attention in academic spheres and from policy-makers, as…
well as field workers who are setting up new initiatives or reshaping their organizations. These concepts are perceived as defining innovative and dynamic responses to major global challenges in today’s societies. The debate about social enterprise is now world-wide, with lively exchanges between American and European scholars. However, the research and landscapes still differ significantly in different regions, and diversity also exists within specific regions such as Europe. This book presents the most comprehensive set of contributions reflecting the European-wide debate, but with frequent connections to developments in other parts of the world. This book is a result of work carried out by members of the EMES International Research Network, which is a pioneer in this field. Social Enterprise and the Third Sector will appeal to all researchers who focus on the third sector, social economy and social enterprise, to MBA and postgraduate students, as well as to intellectual social enterprise leaders and practitioners. It will soon become a key reference for all those who want to explore the full richness of these concepts and follow this important academic debate.Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management #20)
By Paul Joyce, Anne Drumaux. 2014
Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic management practices…
at various levels of government and public service in European countries. It shows that strategic management is much more than a management tool imported from the private sector - it has become a key element of public management reforms, and European governments at all levels are developing ‘strategic state’ characteristics. Written by leading European experts on strategic management in the public sector and in government, this book presents evaluations and analysis based on empirical investigations. The book covers strategic management at different levels of government, explore the roles of different players, and incorporate theory and practice, with opening and concluding chapters by the editors that provide an overview of strategic management in the public services and a cross-societal discussion of practices, reforms, and lessons. It reflects not only developments in strategic management practices in the European public sector, but also the increasing importance of strategic capabilities for the modernization of public governance. This book is ideal for students in postgraduate management courses (MPA, MSc, or MBA) in Europe and elsewhere.The subnational dimension of infrastructure has emerged as one of the greatest challenges in contemporary public finance policy and management.…
Ensuring the efficient provision of infrastructure represents a challenge for all countries irrespective of their level of centralization or decentralization. This book proposes an innovative approach for the strengthening of decentralized public investment and infrastructure management. Decentralization and Infrastructure in the Global Economy: From Gaps to Solutions covers the most important aspects of infrastructure investment in a decentralized setting. It discusses infrastructure gaps and the quality of subnational spending; how functional responsibilities, financing and equalization can be designed; sector-specific arrangements in high expenditure areas, such as health, education and roads; key steps of the public investment cycle and management; and analyses the political economy and corruption challenges that typically accompany decentralized infrastructure projects. This book challenges some of the well-accepted principles of intergovernmental fiscal relations and will be useful to researchers and practitioners of public finance policy and management.Fault Lines After COVID-19: Global Economic Challenges and Opportunities
By Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega, Már Gudmundsson. 2023
This book explores the central economic and political issues defining the modern world. With contributions from a number of world…
renowned economists, a range of topical debates are discussed in an accessible and practical manner. The topics discussed include the current economic and political backdrop, global economic shifts, challenges within central banking and financial integration, the international monetary and financial system, and geopolitical tensions. Particular attention is given to the transition to a low carbon economy, the perils of public debt, the post-COVID-19 recovery, and the conflict in Ukraine.This book aims to envisage the economic challenges and opportunities that will be faced in the years to come. It will be relevant to students, researchers, and policymakers interested in economic policy and the political economy.Chapter-No.17 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues…
that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management. Management reform is an essential precondition to the successful implementation of many new techniques. Only when a managerial capacity exists willing to take advantage of the opportunities created by such technical developments, is it beneficial to pursue them. The benefits of PFM/IC flow from an improved quality of management.Despite enormous efforts, reform of public financial management and internal control (PFM/IC) in developing and transition economy countries has not been particularly successful in improving the quality of public service delivery and the use of public resources. This book outlines why this is and suggests a new approach. The analysis set out in this book is particularly relevant especially given limited national budgets and squeezed international aid budgets. These management changes include to the political/official relationships, to management structures, to budgetary and accounting arrangements and to the relationships between, particularly, the ministry of finance and other ministries. They require the delegation of operational management, developments in financial management and in accountability arrangements and a reconsideration of personnel policies, penalty and sanction arrangements. Managerial training for the civil service will be a key requirement. Reform may impact upon traditional cultural practices. These changes are all inter-related and should be coordinated.The Political Economy: Readings in the Politics and Economics of American Public Policy (American Politics And Political Economy Ser.)
By Joel Rogers, Thomas Ferguson. 1984
The Political Economy is ideally suited as a supplementary text for courses in American government and politics, policy studies, business-government relations,…
and economic issues and policy making. It integrates selections from the very finest new and classical works of political and economic analysis, by distinguished scholars, into a comprehensive overview of the American political system.My Own Two Feet: A Memoir
By Beverly Cleary. 1995
Told in her own words, My Own Two Feet is Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary’s second heartfelt and relatable memoir.The New…
Yorker called Beverly Cleary's first volume of memoirs, A Girl From Yamhill, "a warm, honest book, as interesting as any novel."Now the creator of the classic children's stories millions grew up with continues her own fascinating story. Here is Beverly Cleary, from college years to the publication of her first book. It is a fascinating look at her life and a writing career that spans three generations, continuing to capture the hearts and imaginations of children of all ages throughout the world.Beverly Cleary's books have sold more than 85 million copies and have been translated into twenty-nine different languages, which speaks to the worldwide reach and love of her stories. She was honored with a Newbery Honor for Ramona and Her Father and a second one for Ramona Quimby, Age 8. She received the John Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw, which was inspired by letters she’d received from children. Her autobiographies, A Girl from Yamhill and My Own Two Feet, are a wonderful way to get to know more about this most beloved children's book author.A Strange Life: Selected Essays of Louisa May Alcott
By Louisa May Alcott. 2023
Collected together for the very first time, witty and wide-ranging essays from the celebrated author of Little Women.Louisa May Alcott…
(1832–1888) is, of course, best known as the author of Little Women (1868). But she was also a noted essayist who wrote on a wide range of subjects, including her father&’s failed utopian commune, the benefits of an unmarried life, and her experience as a young woman sent to work in service to alleviate her family&’s poverty. Her first literary success was a contemporary close-up account of the American Civil War, brilliantly depicted in Hospital Sketches, which was drawn from her own experience of serving as an army nurse near the nation&’s capital. As with her famous novel, Alcott writes these essays with clear observation, unforgettable scenes, and one of the sharpest wits in American literature.Blending gentle satire with reportage and emotive autobiography, Alcott&’s exquisite essays are as exceptional as the novels she is known for. Published together for the first time, this delightful selection shows us another side to one of our most celebrated writers.This Hill, This Valley: A Memoir
By Hal Borland. 1957
A memoir of a year immersed in nature on a New England farm, by the national bestselling author of The…
Dog Who Came to Stay. After a nearly fatal bout of appendicitis, Hal Borland decided to leave the city behind and move with his wife to a farmhouse in rural Connecticut. Their new home on one hundred acres inspired Borland to return to nature. In this masterpiece of American nature writing, he describes such wonders as the peace of a sky full of stars, the breathless beauty of blossoming plants, the way rain swishes as it hits a river, and the invigorating renewal brought by the changing seasons. The delights of nature as Borland observes them seem boundless, and his sense of awe is contagious.Mistral, una vida: Solo me halla quien me ama
By Elizabeth Horan. 2023
Horan revisa exhaustiva y críticamente los primeros treinta años de vida de una de las poetas esenciales de la lengua…
castellana. Mistral. Solo me halla quien me ama revisa exhaustiva y críticamente los primeros treinta años de vida de una de las poetas esenciales de la lengua castellana. Elizabeth Horan, reconocida especialista mundial en la poeta, reconstruye los pasos de la Premio Nobel en base a años de estudio y a la lúcida revisión del archivo mistraliano, donde una impresionante correspondencia le permite apreciar las errancias, dolores y pasiones de la poeta, pero sobre todo su carácter sinigual. Porque Mistral en estas páginas se revela ante todo como una férrea voluntad, como alguien que supo moverse con astucia y firmeza en un mundo adverso para llegar a ser quien se propuso. Su infancia en Elqui, sus afectos y alianzas clave, sus años como profesora en distintas ciudades de Chile, su relación íntima con Laura Rodig, su temprano contacto con Neruda y otros destacados escritores y políticos chilenos y sus vínculos con Argentina son expuestos con detalle en este libro -primera parte de un proyecto colosal pensado en tres tomos- hasta el momento en que la poeta abandona el país rumbo a México en 1922. Son los entrañables años de formación de una figura intelectual irreductible y siempre asombrosa.Escribir un silencio
By Claudia Piñeiro. 2023
Los textos de no ficción de Claudia Piñeiro reunidos por primera vez en libro. «Sospecho que lo que escribo nace…
del silencio. Porque así fue desde mi niñez, del silencio a la escritura. De la resistencia a hablar, al placer de construir un texto». Admirada por miles de lectores en todo el mundo, Claudia Piñeiro es, además de una prolífica y premiada escritora de ficciones (novelas, cuentos, guiones de series y de películas, obras de teatro), una delicada observadora de la realidad. Este libro reúne por primera vez los numerosos textos publicados a lo largo de los años en distintos medios: escritos personales y autobiográficos que hablan de la infancia, la familia, las amigas, los maestros, la maternidad, así como aquellas intervenciones más políticas, como el ya célebre discurso en la Cámara de Diputados a favor de la Ley de Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo o los textos de apertura de ferias del libro como las de Buenos Aires o Rosario, reflexiones sobre la propia escritura, sobre escritores y escritoras que la marcaron, la pandemia o los viajes a festivales literarios. Escribir un silencio nos permite un acercamiento distinto, íntimo, a una de las escritoras más queridas de nuestro país, una referente en temas como el feminismo, los derechos de los escritores y la desobediencia como postura ética y vital. Un libro generoso y único en la trayectoria de nuestra autora más emblemática. La crítica dijo: «La adoro. Claudia se ha convertido en la gran referente de los derechos de las mujeres, con un compromiso y una claridad y una valentía y dedicación maravillosas».Mercedes Morán «Una historia que captura debates y puntos ciegos en torno a los femicidios, la muerte y la maternidad y […] un libro que dialoga con los feminismos pero también problematiza sus zonas difusas».Julieta Grosso , Télam sobre El tiempo de las moscas «La novela negra del año [...] Lo tiene todo. Apuesta literaria, crítica social, grandes temas».Juan Carlos Galindo , Babelia - El País sobre Catedrales «Breve y elegante [...] una lacerante crónica sobre la relación madre e hija, la humillación de la burocracia, la responsabilidad en el cuidado de los otros y las imposiciones del dogma religioso en las mujeres».The New York Times sobre Elena sabe «Sus libros suelen proporcionarnos muy fecundos cruces entre niveles narrativos diferentes: en Las maldiciones está la ficción política pero también un nivel absolutamente íntimo que tiene que ver con la paternidad».Eduardo Sacheri «Las viudas de los jueves es una novela ágil y un análisis implacable de un microcosmos social en acelerado proceso de decadencia».José SaramagoDiary of an Invasion: The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
By Andrey Kurkov. 2022
'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an…
ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remarkable record of a brilliant writer at the forefront of a 21st-century war. Andrey Kurkov has been a consistent satirical commentator on his adopted country of Ukraine. His most recent work, Grey Bees, is a dark foreshadowing of the devastation in the eastern part of Ukraine in which only two villagers remain in a village bombed to smithereens. The author has lived in Kyiv and in the remote countryside of Ukraine throughout the Russian invasion. He has also been able to fly to European capitals where he has been working to raise money for charities and to address crowded halls. Kurkov has been asked to write for every English newspaper, as also to be interviewed all over Europe. He has become an important voice for his people.Kurkov sees every video and every posted message, and he spends the sleepless nights of continuous bombardment of his city delivering the truth about this invasion to the world.Seven Troop
By Andy McNab. 2008
INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF BRAVO TWO ZERO IN HIS EXPLOSIVE TRUE STORY“A gripping account of special forces at work…
. . . a tremendous adventure story.”–Daily Telegraph“The best account yet of the SAS in action.”–Sunday TimesFrom the SAS soldier who invented the modern military memoir comes a storming battering ram of thrill-packed, unforgettable drama.Never-before-revealed covert operations and heartbreaking human stories combine to create a new classic and a book that takes us back to where it all began… SEVEN TROOP is Andy McNab’s gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable band of brothers – from the day, freshly badged, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, when he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life. The things they saw and did during that time would take them all to breaking point – and some beyond – in the years that followed. He who dares doesn’t always win…___________________________________________________________________"Paying tribute to the soldiers he served with for 10 years, he tells the poignant story of five brave men of whom, tragically, he is the only one still alive." - News of the World"Brutal, touching, and humorous, this book recounts McNab’s time in the SAS’s Air Troop. It made me realise that he can fight as well as write. Treading in the footsteps of Sassoon, Brooke and Owen he pretty much founded the genre of the modern military memoir." Professor Kevin Dutton, University of Oxford_______________________________________________________What people are saying about SEVEN TROOP:????? "From the heart of a true warrior"????? "Seven Troop is yet another well written account of SAS actions on a much more personal scale, literally "a day in the life" thereof."????? "What he does differently in this book compared to his two others is describe the costs of being SAS. How he and others react to the deaths of their friends when they are killed on operations, the political decision making of the higher ups that override tactical common sense, being a small cog in a big machine and ultimately not being very valued by SAS headquarters."The Sea Hunters 2
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2023
The thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other…
marvels that changed history.For decades, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles - both human and natural - but the results, and the stories behind them, have been dramatic.Here Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo provide an extraordinary narrative of their true seagoing - and land - adventures, including:- Their searches for the famous ghost ship Mary Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1874 with no one on board- The Carpathia, the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors and was itself lost to U-boats six years later- And L'Oiseau Blanc, the aeroplane that almost beat The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic before disappearing in the Maine woods.All these, plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat, and even a dirigible, are tantalising targets as Cussler proves again that truth can be "at least as fun, and sometimes stranger, than fiction" (Men's Journal).The Sea Hunters 2
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2023
The thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other…
marvels that changed history.For decades, Clive Cussler's real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, has scoured rivers and seas in search of lost ships of historic significance. His teams have been inundated by tidal waves and beset by obstacles - both human and natural - but the results, and the stories behind them, have been dramatic.Here Cussler and colleague Craig Dirgo provide an extraordinary narrative of their true seagoing - and land - adventures, including:- Their searches for the famous ghost ship Mary Celeste, found floating off the Azores in 1874 with no one on board- The Carpathia, the ship that rescued the Titanic survivors and was itself lost to U-boats six years later- And L'Oiseau Blanc, the aeroplane that almost beat The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic before disappearing in the Maine woods.All these, plus steamboats, ironclads, a seventeenth-century flagship, a certain famous PT boat, and even a dirigible, are tantalising targets as Cussler proves again that truth can be "at least as fun, and sometimes stranger, than fiction" (Men's Journal).The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens
By Helena Kelly. 1840
A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known…
novels.This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death. Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. Many of the supposed formative events in his life—such as the twelve-year-old Dickens going to work in a blacking factory—may not have been quite as honestly-related as we have been led to believe. And, in many respects, who can blame him? Dickens's celebrity was on a scale almost unimaginable to any author writing today, with the possible exception of J. K. Rowling, and, like many people who become suddenly famous, he soon realized what a mixed blessing it was.Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprún
By Soledad Maura. 2016
Nueva edición de la biografía definitiva de Jorge Semprún, un personaje de leyenda que atravesó el siglo XX español y…
europeo en primera línea, revisada y con un nuevo prólogo de Paul Preston. La vida de Jorge Semprún es prácticamente la historia de Europa en el siglo XX, y quizá sea el español que más se acerque a «los desarraigados viajeros del siglo», como Tony Judt describió a los intelectuales. Sin duda, junto a Picasso y García Lorca, es el español del siglo XX con mayor proyección y relevancia internacional. En esta absorbente biografía Soledad Fox sigue la increíble trayectoria de Semprún, desde su nacimiento en 1923, en una familia de la alta burguesía madrileña; el trauma de la guerra civil y el exilio; el paso por el maquis y la deportación a Buchenwald; la militancia comunista; su reinvención como escritor y guionista tras la tumultuosa salida del PCE; y su paso por el Ministerio de Cultura español en el gobierno de Felipe González. Fox ha invertido cinco años y una impecable labor de investigación en archivos de Francia y España y más de cincuenta entrevistas para conseguir la excelente biografía que un personaje como Semprún merece. La crítica ha dicho: «Jorge Semprún fue uno de estos héores discretos gracias a los cuales el mundo en que vivimos no está peor de lo que está y queda siempre margen para la esperanza.» Mario Vargas Llosa «Un testigo excepcional del siglo XX.»César Antonio MolinaSeven Troop
By Andy McNab. 2008
INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF BRAVO TWO ZERO IN HIS EXPLOSIVE TRUE STORY“A gripping account of special forces at work…
. . . a tremendous adventure story.”–Daily Telegraph“The best account yet of the SAS in action.”–Sunday TimesFrom the SAS soldier who invented the modern military memoir comes a storming battering ram of thrill-packed, unforgettable drama.Never-before-revealed covert operations and heartbreaking human stories combine to create a new classic and a book that takes us back to where it all began… SEVEN TROOP is Andy McNab’s gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable band of brothers – from the day, freshly badged, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, when he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life. The things they saw and did during that time would take them all to breaking point – and some beyond – in the years that followed. He who dares doesn’t always win…___________________________________________________________________"Paying tribute to the soldiers he served with for 10 years, he tells the poignant story of five brave men of whom, tragically, he is the only one still alive." - News of the World"Brutal, touching, and humorous, this book recounts McNab’s time in the SAS’s Air Troop. It made me realise that he can fight as well as write. Treading in the footsteps of Sassoon, Brooke and Owen he pretty much founded the genre of the modern military memoir." Professor Kevin Dutton, University of Oxford_______________________________________________________What people are saying about SEVEN TROOP:????? "From the heart of a true warrior"????? "Seven Troop is yet another well written account of SAS actions on a much more personal scale, literally "a day in the life" thereof."????? "What he does differently in this book compared to his two others is describe the costs of being SAS. How he and others react to the deaths of their friends when they are killed on operations, the political decision making of the higher ups that override tactical common sense, being a small cog in a big machine and ultimately not being very valued by SAS headquarters."Beirut 2020: The Collapse of a Civilization, a Journal
By Charif Majdalani. 2020
'The author's home town is falling apart. Lebanon's capital [...] has morphed into a symbol of devastation and hatred and…
madness. Majdalani is a survivor who still finds in himself the elegance to smile and hope' Amin Maalouf, Prix Goncourt winner'It is rare to capture the moment when it first occurs, in real time, with these seemingly humble details that describe the instant in all its depth' Alexandra Schwartzbrod, Libération'A short narrative that strikes straight at the heart' Gaëtane Morin, Le ParisienWhen Charif Majdalani begins to walk the streets of his city, and to write down what he sees, the first hints of unrest within a vibrant culture creep to the fore. Majdalani's reportage through the months of 2020 bears witness to the ways in which an ancient civilization slowly, then rapidly, descends into the abyss: corruption and vice infect the corridors of power; currency plummets into freefall, rats scurry between piles of rotting rubbish that grow higher along the pavements. Born from the rancour of existential pestilence, violence erupts and Beirut's citizens find themselves in high-voltage stand-offs with law enforcement.Then, the unexpected, Beirut collapses under the explosive force of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate. The blast kills hundreds and injures thousands. But through the rubble and the sirens, a people finds its strength to survive and its heart to unite. The city becomes the metaphor for each of our cultural capitals throughout the world.