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Unofficial and Deniable

By: John Gordon Davis

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Unofficial and Deniable

By: John Gordon Davis

The sins of the past come home to roost in the New South Africa in the action-packed new novel from a master of the international thriller.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008119341

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9780008119348

Talk to Me Tenderly, Tell Me Lies

By: John Gordon Davis

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Talk to Me Tenderly, Tell Me Lies

By: John Gordon Davis

An unforgettable tale of adventure and heartache in the unforgiving Australian Outback.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008119317

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9780008119317

Cape Of Storms

By: John Gordon Davis

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A marine biologist joins a whaler in the Antarctic. He falls in love with Victoria, a nurse on board, but an air of mystery surrounds her. In Cape Town startling facts emerge. The author depicts the brutality of whaling and human behaviour with undeniable insight in a thrilling novel packed with adventure, sexual frustration, and mystery.

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House of Stratus

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0755154088

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9780755154081

The Land God Made in Anger

By: John Gordon Davis

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The Land God Made in Anger

By: John Gordon Davis

A heart-stopping adventure ... A chilling Nazi legacy in today’s Southern Africa.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008119325

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9780008119324

Hold My Hand I'm Dying

By: John Gordon Davis

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Hold My Hand I'm Dying

By: John Gordon Davis

A compelling story, full of adventure, set against the move to freedom in Africa. In the face of opposition, hatred, violence and death, humanity and love are nonetheless maintained. Joseph Mahoney, the Colonial Commissioner in the Kariba Gorge, must deal with an undercurrent of violence and revenge, despite having significant personal problems.

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House of Stratus

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0755154096

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9780755154098

The Year of Dangerous Loving

By: John Gordon Davis

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The Year of Dangerous Loving

By: John Gordon Davis

An enthralling tale of courtroom drama, blackmail and high adventure in Hong Kong in the last year of British rule, from the bestselling author of Hold My Hand Iâe(tm)m Dying and Roots of Outrage. Al Hargreave, Hong Kongâe(tm)s Director of Public Prosecutions, is taking a break in nearby Macao to recover from the collapse of his marriage and to ponder his uncertain future under Chinese rule, when he meets Olga, a beautiful Russian. Could it be that Fate is offering him one final shot at happiness? But any dreams of a future together are quickly shattered as Olga is snatched away and Al is presented with an impossible dilemma. Either he commits professional suicide by intentionally losing a case against a Russian Mafia boss, or he abandons Olga to her brutal captors in Moscowâe¦ Drawing on his own experience as a lawyer in Hong Kong, acclaimed thriller writer John Gordon Davis has created a taut, action-packed tale set against the dramatic backdrop of a city preparing for political upheaval. âe~in the top echelon of international storytellersâe(tm) Sunday Times

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0006473059

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9780006473053

Roots of Outrage

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Roots of Outrage

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A panoramic novel filled with adventure, passion, a cast of unforgettable characters, and penetrating political insight.

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HarperCollins UK

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0008119295

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9780008119294

Taller Than Trees

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Taller Than Trees

By: John Gordon Davis

For years Dhlulamiti, a giant elephant, had been hunted. In his early days, he roamed the savannah as a killer, attacking every man in his path, but now wiser thoughts prevail. Then, he meets up with Jumbo McGuire, a hell-raising Irish hunter famed for the number of ‘kills’. As predators circle, the epic struggle between elephant and man begins.

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House of Stratus

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075515424X

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9780755154241

Cape Of Storms

By: John Gordon Davis

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Cape Of Storms

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House of Stratus

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0755154215

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Hold My Hand I'm Dying

By: John Gordon Davis

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Hold My Hand I'm Dying

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House of Stratus

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0755154223

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Collaborative Governance

Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times

By: John D. Donahue,Richard J. Zeckhauser

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Collaborative Governance

Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times

By: John D. Donahue,Richard J. Zeckhauser

How government can forge dynamic public-private partnerships All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. Collaborative Governance is the first book to offer solutions by demonstrating how government at every level can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. John Donahue and Richard Zeckhauser show how the public sector can harness private expertise to bolster productivity, capture information, and augment resources. The authors explain how private engagement in public missions—rightly structured and skillfully managed—is not so much an alternative to government as the way smart government ought to operate. The key is to carefully and strategically grant discretion to private entities, whether for-profit or nonprofit, in ways that simultaneously motivate and empower them to create public value. Drawing on a host of real-world examples-including charter schools, job training, and the resurrection of New York's Central Park—they show how, when, and why collaboration works, and also under what circumstances it doesn't. Collaborative Governance reveals how the collaborative approach can be used to tap the resourcefulness and entrepreneurship of the private sector, and improvise fresh, flexible solutions to today's most pressing public challenges.

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320

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Princeton University Press

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0691156301

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9780691156309

Advocacy

Championing Ideas and Influencing Others

By: John A. Daly

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Advocacy

Championing Ideas and Influencing Others

By: John A. Daly

When a group of people gather together to generate ideas for solving a problem or achieving a goal, sometimes the best ideas are passed over. Worse, a problematic suggestion with far less likelihood of success may be selected instead. Why would a group dismiss an option that would be more effective? Leadership and communications expert John Daly has a straightforward answer: it wasn't sold to them as well. If the best idea is yours, how can you increase the chances that it gains the support of the group? In "Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others," Daly explains in full detail how to transform ideas into practice. To be successful, leaders in every type of organization must find practical and action-oriented ways to market their ideas and achieve buy-in from the members of the group. Daly offers a comprehensive action guide that explains how to shape opinion, inspire action, and achieve results. Drawing on current research in the fields of persuasion, power relations, and behavior change, he discusses the complex factors involved in selling an idea--the context of the communication, the type of message being promoted, the nature and interests of the audience, the emotional tenor of the issues at stake, and much more. For the businessperson, politician, or any other member of a group who seeks the satisfaction of having his or her own idea take shape and become reality, this book is an essential guide.

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Yale University Press

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0300175078

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9780300175073

After Dickens

Reading, Adaptation and Performance

By: John Glavin

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After Dickens

Reading, Adaptation and Performance

By: John Glavin

After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile, relationship than has hitherto been noticed. In this context, Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance, one which would allow the author to perform without being seen or scrutinized. But Glavin also identifies a rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. The book as a whole, therefore, offers a reading of Dickens through an unusual alliance between literary criticism and theatrical performance.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139425889

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9781139425889

Actionable Media

Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop

By: John Tinnell

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Actionable Media

Digital Communication Beyond the Desktop

By: John Tinnell

In 1991, Mark Weiser and his team at Xerox PARC declared they were reinventing computers for the twenty-first century. The computer would become integrated into the fabric of everyday life; it would shift to the background rather than being itself an object of focus. The resulting rise of ubiquitous computing (smartphones, smartglasses, smart cities) have since thoroughly colonized our digital landscape. In Actionable Media, John Tinnell contends that there is an unsung rhetorical dimension to Weiser's legacy, which stretches far beyond recent iProducts. Taking up Weiser's motto, "Start from the arts and humanities," Tinnell develops a theoretical framework for understanding nascent initiatives--the Internet of things, wearable interfaces, augmented reality--in terms of their intellectual history, their relationship to earlier communication technologies, and their potential to become vibrant platforms for public culture and critical media production. It is clear that an ever-widening array of everyday spaces now double as venues for multimedia authorship. Writers, activists, and students, in cities and towns everywhere, are digitally augmenting physical environments. Audio walks embed narratives around local parks for pedestrians to encounter during a stroll; online forums are woven into urban infrastructure and suburban plazas to invigorate community politics. This new wave of digital communication, which Tinnell terms "actionable media," is presented through case studies of exemplar projects by leading artists, designers, and research-creation teams. Chapters alter notions of ubiquitous computing through concepts drawn from Bernard Stiegler, Gregory Ulmer, and Hannah Arendt; from comparative media analyses with writing systems such as cuneiform, urban signage, and GUI software; and from relevant stylistic insights gleaned from the open air arts practices of Augusto Boal, Claude Monet, and Janet Cardiff. Actionable Media challenges familiar claims about the combination of physical and digital spaces, beckoning contemporary media studies toward an alternative substrate of historical precursors, emerging forms, design philosophies, and rhetorical principles.

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Oxford University Press

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0190678070

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9780190678074

Who Cleans the Park?

Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

By: John Krinsky,Maud Simonet

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Who Cleans the Park?

Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

By: John Krinsky,Maud Simonet

Introduction -- The workers -- The work -- The workplace -- Public-private partnerships -- Institutional boundaries, accountability, and the integral state -- The politics of free labor: visibility and invisibility -- Valuing maintenance, valuing workers

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304

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University of Chicago Press

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022643558X

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9780226435589

Te Linde's Operative Gynecology

By: Howard W. Jones,John A. Rock

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Te Linde's Operative Gynecology

By: Howard W. Jones,John A. Rock

Te Linde’s Operative Gynecology has been the premier text in the field of gynecologic surgery for more than 60 years. This text covers all of the aspects of gynecologic surgery – from the most general topics of surgical ethics to instruction on detailed surgical procedures. General background/pathology for surgical problems is covered as are patient/treatment selection, step-by-step surgical techniques and post-operative concerns.

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3999

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496315219

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9781496315212

The Gawain-poet

By: John Anthony Burrow

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The Gawain-poet

By: John Anthony Burrow

This book presents a comprehensive account of what is known about the four poems commonly ascribed to the Gawain poet.

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746308787

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9780746308783

Bestsellers (Routledge Revivals)

Popular Fiction of the 1970s

By: John Sutherland

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Bestsellers (Routledge Revivals)

Popular Fiction of the 1970s

By: John Sutherland

First published in 1981, this book offers a study of British and American popular fiction in the 1970s, a decade in which the quest for the superseller came to dominate the lives of publishers on both sides of the Atlantic. Illustrated by examples of the lurid incidents that catapult so many books into the bestseller charts, this comprehensive study covers the work of Robbins, Hailey and Maclean, the 'bodice rippers', the disaster craze, horror, war stories and media tie-ins such as The Godfather, Jaws and Star Wars.

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Routledge

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1136830626

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9781136830624

The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)

By: Christopher Hibbert,Ben Weinreb,John Keay,Julia Keay

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The London Encyclopaedia (3rd Edition)

By: Christopher Hibbert,Ben Weinreb,John Keay,Julia Keay

‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced and supported by two large indexes – one for the 10,000 people mentioned in the text and one general – and is illustrated with over 500 drawings, prints and photographs. Everything of relevance to the history, culture, commerce and government of the capital is documented in this phenomenal book. From the very first settlements through to the skyline of today, The London Encyclopaedia comprehends all that is London. ‘Written in very accessible prose with a range of memorable quotations and affectionate jokes...a monumental achievement written with real love’ Financial Times

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Pan Macmillan

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0230738788

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9780230738782

Death and Eternal Life

By: John Hick

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Death and Eternal Life

By: John Hick

In this cross-cultural, interdisciplinary study, John Hick draws upon major world religions, as well as biology, psychology, parapsychology, anthropology, and philosophy, to explore the mystery of death. He argues that scientific and philosophical objections to the idea of survival after death can be challenged, and he claims that human inadequacy in facing suffering supports the basic religious argument for immortality.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664255094

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9780664255091

Information Orientation

The Link to Business Performance

By: Donald A. Marchand,William J. Kettinger,John D. Rollins

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Information Orientation

The Link to Business Performance

By: Donald A. Marchand,William J. Kettinger,John D. Rollins

This book presents the results of an international research project designed to evaluate how effectively people use information and IT to improve business performance. In particular it looks at three dimensions - information behavior and values; information management practices; and IT practices - and their relationship to business performance. The book combines a focus on business relevance with strong empirical research.

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Oxford University Press

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0199252211

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9780199252213

The Factory

The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1

By: John Fahey

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The Factory

The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate, Vol 1

By: John Fahey

The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time. 'This story has never been told, because in the secret world we could not, and cannot, share what we do all day, even with family and loved ones.' - from the foreword by Rachel Noble, Director-General, Australian Signals Directorate At the end of World War II, it was clear that the nation must never again find itself entering a major war without a national intelligence capability. The Factory tells the story of how Australia's talented signals intelligence amateurs took an ad hoc wartime organisation and made it a national agency that became a highly regarded member of the 'five eyes' signals intelligence system. Founded in 1947 as the Defence Signals Branch, the organisation built upon the foundations put in place by the interwar Royal Australian Navy and wartime signals intelligence agencies, particularly Central Bureau Brisbane, which comprised personnel from all five eyes nations. Today's Australian Signals Directorate continues the work of protecting the interests of the nation and its allies. This is the story of the people who did the everyday work of capturing and analysing foreign signals. It reveals how they approached the complexity of world politics and managed massive technological change, from the days of radio transmissions to high-capacity machine systems and computing during the Vietnam War.

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Allen & Unwin

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1761186191

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9781761186196

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