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Combating Global Poverty

Investing in the Governance and Growth Nexus

By: Conor M. Savoy

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Combating Global Poverty

Investing in the Governance and Growth Nexus

By: Conor M. Savoy

Although funding for governance and economic growth is a part of U.S. foreign aid, it remains a relatively low priority in spite of rhetorical pronouncements to the contrary. There is significant reason, however, to reverse this trend and return to a focus on governance to ensure broad-based economic growth across the developing world. In particular, the rise of emerging economies that can increasingly contribute to their own development means the United States could reduce its focus on basic human needs and toward the growth and governance nexus. This will require a shift in how the United States programs its people, time, and money in delivering foreign assistance.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442228040

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9781442228047

Call to Kill

By: Billy Billingham,Conor Woodman

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Call to Kill

By: Billy Billingham,Conor Woodman

International bestseller: First in the gripping military action series by the special forces veteran and star of SAS: Who Dares Wins. A country in turmoil. A rescue mission gone wrong. A hero on unlike any other fighting to save a broken world . . . Matt ‘Mace’ Mason is deployed on a deniable SAS mission in war-torn Yemen when he becomes embroiled in a hostage rescue that goes terribly wrong. Pulling at the strings of the local political scene is not only the warlord destined to become Mace’s nemesis, Gen. Ruak Shahlai, but hard-bitten American arms dealer Erica Atkins, who controls a whole international network to her advantage. Mace has to work, unwillingly at first, with female CIA agent and Islamic scholar Redford. Together they must prevent an attack that would spark a regional war and create the largest environmental disaster the world has ever seen. From a seventeen-year SAS veteran who operated in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other global hotspots, served as a bodyguard to major celebrities, and appears on the British series SAS: Who Dares Wins, “this special forces thriller is bang on target” (The Sun). “From the dramatic opening sequence to the powerful, emotional ending, Billy Billingham’s debut, Call to Kill, never fails to deliver. . . . Captivating insight into the clandestine world of secret operations [and] a wonderfully engaging protagonist.” —Adam Hamdy, The Sunday Times–bestselling author of Black 13

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Open Road Media

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1504077202

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9781504077200

A Hunt in Winter

A Joe Swallow Mystery

By: Conor Brady

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A Hunt in Winter

A Joe Swallow Mystery

By: Conor Brady

In Dublin, newly promoted detective inspector Joe Swallow’s life looks to be taking a turn for the better. In addition to his promotion, he’s settled into a comfortable arrangement with his landlady and paramour, Maria Walsh. That is, until his newfound peace is chaotically uprooted when a series of violent attacks against women lead to an outbreak of panic and fear. Things on the homefront are about to change in an unexpected way. In London, Charles Stewart Parnell tirelessly pursues the Irish cause for Home Rule. While the British are eager to discredit the Irish parliamentary leader and quash the growing movement towards independence, Swallow’s conflicted loyalties pull him in different directions. As he continues his hunt for a terrifying killer, Swallow has no choice but to traverse this volatile political scene in A Hunt in Winter, Conor Brady’s thrilling third Joe Swallow mystery.

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374

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Crooked Lane Books

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1683313968

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9781683313960

Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court

By: Conor McCarthy

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Reparations and Victim Support in the International Criminal Court

By: Conor McCarthy

Explores the ICC's regime of victim redress, including both its reparations regime and the work of the ICC Trust Fund.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107013879

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9781107013872

Moscow, December 25, 1991

The Last Day of the Soviet Union

By: Conor O'Clery

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Moscow, December 25, 1991

The Last Day of the Soviet Union

By: Conor O'Clery

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by hardline communists, shook Gorbachev's authority and was a triumph for Yeltsin. But it took four months of intrigue and double-dealing before the Soviet Union collapsed and the day arrived when Yeltsin could hustle Gorbachev out of the Kremlin, and move in as ruler of Russia. Conor O'Clery has written a unique and truly suspenseful thriller of the day the Soviet Union died. The internal power plays, the shifting alliances, the betrayals, the mysterious three colonels carrying the briefcase with the nuclear codes, and the jockeying to exploit the future are worthy of John Le Carr' or Alan Furst. The Cold War's last act was a magnificent dark drama played out in the shadows of the Kremlin.

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PublicAffairs

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1610390121

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9781610390125

On Fantasy Island

Britain, Europe, and Human Rights

By: Conor Gearty

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On Fantasy Island

Britain, Europe, and Human Rights

By: Conor Gearty

In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UK's relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With the decision now taken to leave the EU, the future of the Human Rights Act and the UK's relations to the European Convention on Human Rights remains uncertain. Conor Gearty, one of the country's leading experts on human rights, here dissects the myths and fantasies that drive English exceptionalism over Europe, and shape the case for repealing the Human Rights Act. He presents a passionate case for keeping the existing legal framework for protecting human rights and our relationship with the European Convention. Analysing the reform agenda from the perspective of British law, history, politics, and culture, he lays bare the misunderstandings of the human rights system that have driven the debate so far. Structured in three parts, the book first exposes the myths that drive the anti-Human Rights Act argument. Second, Gearty outlines how the Act operates in practice and what its impact really is on the ground. Third, he looks to the future and the kind of Britain we want to live in, and how, for all its modesty, the survival or otherwise of the Human Rights Act will play a pivotal part in that future.

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Oxford University Press

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0191091634

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9780191091636

A Little Circle of Kindred Minds

Joyce in Paris

By: Conor Fennell

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A Little Circle of Kindred Minds

Joyce in Paris

By: Conor Fennell

This book looks at James Joyce's relationship with his friends in Paris: the hard-drinking Robert McAlmon, the gentle James Stephens, the artist Arthur Power, Padraic and Mary Colum, Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett.

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Green Lamp Editions

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1907694986

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9781907694981

Panic Stations at Ski Stations

Riding the Great Climbs in the Tour de France

By: Conor MacNamara

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Panic Stations at Ski Stations

Riding the Great Climbs in the Tour de France

By: Conor MacNamara

Conor MacNamara rode more than fifty of the greatest climbs in the Tour de France to try and conquer his fear of heights. In the end, Conor suffered a breakdown and discovered that he suffered from a panic disorder and required treatment. This book documents Conor’s experiences in detail.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1528951670

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9781528951678

Rugby, Soccer and Irish Society

1921-1990

By: Conor Murray

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Rugby, Soccer and Irish Society

1921-1990

By: Conor Murray

This book is the first academic all-island history of either rugby union or association football, two of the three most popular male sporting pastimes in Ireland, across the seven decades that followed the political partition of that country between 1920 and 1922. It moves beyond the occasionally simplistic explanations of the development of Irish sport that have focused on political and sectarian divisions, and goes deeper into the social, cultural and geographical dynamics of the island of Ireland to explain why certain people have played certain games in certain places. Drawing on historical and archival sources as well as cutting-edge geographical information systems, the book brings to life the spatial trends in each game’s administrative development and geographical distribution, that have not normally been a feature of many previous histories of Irish sport. The book also examines first-and-second-hand accounts of athletes and administrators involved in rugby and football during that period, to explore what it meant to represent a province or country at these crucial moments in Irish history and compares the Irish experience of both sports with experiences in other comparable countries. Shining important new light on the interactions between Irish rugby and football and the political, social, economic and cultural trends of Ireland in the twentieth century, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport, Ireland or the UK.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040044212

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9781040044216

Finding W. H. Hudson

The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds

By: Conor Mark Jameson

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Finding W. H. Hudson

The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds

By: Conor Mark Jameson

An imposing, life-size oil painting dominates the main meeting room at the RSPB’s base in the heart of England: ‘the man above the fireplace’ – always present, rarely mentioned. Curious about the person in the portrait, the author began a quest to rediscover William Henry Hudson (1841–1922). It became a mission of restoration: stitching back together the faded tapestry of Hudson’s life, re-colouring it in places and adding new threads from the testaments of his closest friends. This book traces the unassuming field naturalist’s path through a dramatic and turbulent era: from Hudson’s journey to Britain from Argentina in 1874 to the unveiling by the prime minister of a monument and bird sanctuary in his honour 50 years later, in the heart of Hyde Park – a place where the young immigrant had, for a time, slept rough. At its core, this extraordinary story reveals Hudson’s deep influence on the creation of his beloved Bird Society by its founding women, and the rise of the conservation movement. It reveals the strange magnetism of this mysterious man from the Pampas – unschooled, battle-scarred and once penniless – that made his achievements possible, and left such a profound impression on those who knew him. By the end of his life, Hudson had Hollywood studios bidding for his work. He was a household name through his luminous and seminal nature writing, and the Bird Society had at last reached the climax of a 30-year campaign, working to create the first global alliance of bird protectionists. A century after Hudson’s death, this is a long-overdue tribute to perhaps our most significant – and most neglected – writer-naturalist and wildlife campaigner.

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Pelagic Publishing Ltd

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1784273295

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9781784273293

Rethinking Taxes and Development: Incorporating Political Economy Considerations in DRM Strategies

By: Erol K. Yayboke,Conor Savoy,Christopher Metzger

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Rethinking Taxes and Development: Incorporating Political Economy Considerations in DRM Strategies

By: Erol K. Yayboke,Conor Savoy,Christopher Metzger

This report from the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development looks at the domestic resource mobilization (DRM) reforms in developing countries through a political economy lens. As countries mobilize more resources to fund their governments and services, they can think more strategically about transitioning from a reliance on foreign aid to more mutually beneficial relationships with foreign countries. There are structural challenges to mobilizing domestic resources that long have been the focus of DRM efforts; however, addressing the political economy and structural challenges will be critical in the face of increased need and plateauing levels of foreign aid. It is critical that development approaches create the foundational capabilities and systems necessary to capitalize on political windows of opportunity.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442281170

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Taxes and Development

The Promise of Domestic Resource Mobilization

By: Conor M. Savoy

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Taxes and Development

The Promise of Domestic Resource Mobilization

By: Conor M. Savoy

There is real promise for developing economies in the mobilization of their own domestic resources. For example, in 2010, tax revenue on the Africa continent was eight times larger than the foreign assistance received. And as aid levels from wealthy nations continue to be uncertain, countries have an impetus to finance their own development in order to deliver responsible, transparent public services—all of which require a strong tax base from the formal sector. The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation, launched in 2011 at Busan, relies heavily on this principle of domestic resource mobilization as a means of country ownership. How we leverage the expertise of donor governments in partnership with local governments in implementing this agenda is key to its success.

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1442240482

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Travellers Dublin

By: Conor Caffrey

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Travellers Dublin

By: Conor Caffrey

Travellers Dublin" offers a picture of this "fair city" that makes the reader yearn to visit and find out more. Famous for its architecture, enviable list of acclaimed writers and artists, as well as its history, Dublin offers a lot more than a pint of Guinness to its many visitors. Readers can choose from eight suggested walks, including ......

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Thomas Cook

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184157693X

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9781841576930

Combating Global Poverty

Investing in the Governance and Growth Nexus

By: Conor M. Savoy

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Combating Global Poverty

Investing in the Governance and Growth Nexus

By: Conor M. Savoy

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Reforming and Reorganizing U. S. Foreign Assistance

Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness

By: Jeanne Shaheen,Todd Young

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Reforming and Reorganizing U. S. Foreign Assistance

Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness

By: Jeanne Shaheen,Todd Young

This is the final report of the bipartisan CSIS Task Force on Reforming and Reorganizing U.S. Foreign Assistance, co-chaired by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Senator Todd Young (R-IN).

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