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The Security Council

A Study in Adolescence

By: Richard Hiscocks

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The Security Council

A Study in Adolescence

By: Richard Hiscocks

The book deals extensively with the main international crises and problems since the second World War. The Council's past record is spotted with success and failure. It extends from the origins of the Cold War to Viet nam, from the Cuban missile crisis to the Suez, from Nothern Ireland to Bangladesh. This is the explosive modern history of a broken world with ominous implications.

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392

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Simon and Schuster

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0029147603

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9780029147603

Day Gone By

By: Richard Adams

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Day Gone By

By: Richard Adams

Richard Adams, author of 'Watership Down' and described recently as a legend of literature, was born in Newbury in 1920 as the replacement for a baby brother who died in the great influenza epidemic of 1917-19. His mother was well over 40 at the time of his birth, and his was a solitary childhood spent in a large garden. Here he explains how his days spent watching bird, beetles and wild creatures around his home engendered in him a lifelong love of nature. His years at prep and public school, at Oxford and in the army are all vividly described, and their influence on the recurrent themes in his writing of battle, leadership, friendship, bullying, solitude and longing made plain.

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505

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eBook Partnership

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1783015705

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9781783015702

Bitter Legacy

Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II

By: Richard C. Lukas

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Bitter Legacy

Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II

By: Richard C. Lukas

In this most timely book, Richard C. Lukas offers the historical perspective that any reader, scholar, or layman needs to grasp the political turmoil in Poland in the decades after World War II. Bitter Legacy is the first major analysis of Polish-American relations from the Potsdam Conference through the Polish elections of 1947, the critical period during which Poland became a satellite in the Russian sphere. Drawing on an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, a number of which have never been used by scholars before, Lukas shows in detail why and how American policy was never able to reverse the process, begun at the Yalta Conference, that transformed Poland into a communist state. In a clear and unambiguous style, he deftly combines two traditions in the writing of diplomatic history—one that stresses intergovernmental relations and one that emphasizes domestic concerns and pressures. The result is a revealing book that adds significantly to our understanding of Polish-American relations and of domestic history in Poland and the United States during this important Cold War phase. It will appeal not only to scholars but also to all those with an interest in Poland's history. Bitter Legacy is a sequel to Lukas's earlier volume, The Strange Allies, which has been acclaimed as the best treatment in English of United States-Polish relations during World War II. If offers the same impeccable scholarship and balanced interpretation that characterized Lukas's earlier study.

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258

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318911X

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9780813189116

George J. Klein

The Great Inventor

By: Richard I. Bourgeois-Doyle,National Research Council Canada,National Research Council Canada. Monograph Publishing Program

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George J. Klein

The Great Inventor

By: Richard I. Bourgeois-Doyle,National Research Council Canada,National Research Council Canada. Monograph Publishing Program

This book is the official biography of George J. Klein, a design engineer who spent 40 years at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and was considered "the most productive inventor in Canada in the 20th Century". The book recounts Klein's family history and personal life.

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316

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NRC Research Press

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0660193221

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9780660193229

Adventures in the Trade Wind

By: Richard Dey

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Adventures in the Trade Wind

By: Richard Dey

This is at once the biography of an Englishman who became the pioneering charterboat skipper of an American yacht, and a history of the charterboat business in the islands. Morris Nicholson’s story reflects a time now all but vanished in the islands, beginning when they were neglected colonial outposts and a single yacht meant income for the islanders. In no other book is there an account of how skippered yachts, bareboats, and headboats came to sail the Caribbean Sea and became an economic sector. However it is Nicholson’s story—and his stories of others—that drives the narrative and fills it with human interest.

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345

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462821634

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9781462821631

A History of British Surnames

By: Richard Mckinley

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A History of British Surnames

By: Richard Mckinley

Aiming to avoid technical terminology, Richard McKinley provides an introduction to the history of hereditary surnames in Britain from their first appearance to the present day. Devoting a chapter to each of the main categories of name, he enables readers to set the facts they discover about their own ancestry, family history and surnames into the context of general surname development. The author deals with those names that originate in England, Wales and Scotland; and since these tend to have their own distinct histories, he discusses developments in each of the three countries separately, wherever appropriate. The book uses the study of surnames to illuminate social history and draws attention to the complex patterns of population mobility that have always characterized British Society. It also describes regional and class differences in surnames, some features of which survive to our own time.

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239

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Routledge

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1317901452

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9781317901457

Power and Dysfunction

The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940

By: Richard Egan

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Power and Dysfunction

The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940

By: Richard Egan

In 1883, the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction – its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focused on a legislative agenda that sought policies to control, segregate and expel Aboriginal people. Over time it acquired extraordinary powers to control Aboriginal movement, remove children from their communities and send them into domestic service, collect wages and hold them in trust, withhold rations, expel individuals from stations and reserves, authorise medical inspections, and prevent any Aboriginal person from leaving the state. Power and Dysfunction explores this Board and uncovers who were the major drivers of these policies, who were its most influential people, and how this body came to wield so much power. Paradoxically, despite its considerable influence, through its bravado, structural dysfunction, flawed policies and general indifference, it failed to manage core aspects of Aboriginal policy. In the 1930s, when the Board was finally challenged by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups seeking its abolition, it had become moribund, paranoid and secretive as it railed against all detractors. When it was finally disbanded in 1940, its 57-year legacy had touched every Aboriginal community in New South Wales with lasting consequences that still resonate today.

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390

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ANU Press

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1760464732

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9781760464738

Comparative Economic Systems

Transition and Capitalist Alternatives

By: Richard L. Carson

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Comparative Economic Systems

Transition and Capitalist Alternatives

By: Richard L. Carson

This updated examination of transitional economies such as Russia and China, draws on the experiences of other East European transforming economies. It profiles the Japanese and Swedish economies as examples of capitalist systems, and draws on the experiences of other Asian economies.

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M.E. Sharpe

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0765640139

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9780765640130

Alliance

By: Richard J. Barnet

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Alliance

By: Richard J. Barnet

Includes material on Konrad Adenauer, Douglas MacArthur in Japan, Dean Acheson, Jean Monnet, Marshall Plan, John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt, detente, Henry Kissinger, trilateralism, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671541846

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9780671541842

Strategy Genius

40 Insights From the Science of Strategic Thinking

By: Richard A D Jones

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Strategy Genius

40 Insights From the Science of Strategic Thinking

By: Richard A D Jones

The fast-track MBA in strategy Imagine having instant access to the world's smartest thinking on strategy - and being shown exactly what to do to guarantee that you get your own strategy right, every time. Strategy Genius makes it easy to apply what researchers know about strategic thinking to the real world. 40 chapters based on hundreds of cutting-edge business and psychology research projects reveal what works and what doesn't work in strategy. Each of the 40 chapters is a mini-masterclass in strategic thinking, explaining the research and showing you how to apply it for yourself. In business, conventional wisdom often says one thing while research says another. Strategy Genius cuts through the noise to bring you proven research and techniques for applying it that will simply make you a better strategist. Quick to read and intensely practical, this book will bring a little strategy genius into your day. 'Strategy is one of those topics that many people talk about without having much idea what they mean. Richard Jones is one of the exceptions. A very good book; I recommend it strongly' Peter Hiscocks, CEO Judge Business School Executive Education, University of Cambridge 'Genius conflated into something you can understand. A bit like Richard, really' Michael Wilson, Director of Business and Economics Editor, Arise Global Networks

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John Murray Business

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1473605393

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9781473605398

What on Earth Can Go Wrong

Tales from the Risk Business

By: Richard Fenning

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What on Earth Can Go Wrong

Tales from the Risk Business

By: Richard Fenning

Richard Fenning has spent three decades advising multinational companies on volatile geopolitics and severe security crises. He was CEO of the British firm Control Risks for 14 years. His career coincided with the glory years of globalization, the rise of China, the tumult of the Middle East wars, a new vicious form of terrorism, the transforming impact of digital technology, and America's retreat from leadership. Offering him a rare insight into what happens when people and organizations come under enormous stress, it dispelled any illusions that the world is ordered, predictable, or fair. But amid the chaos and upheaval, he also found humanity and humor. In a whirlwind tour that takes us from the battlefields of Iraq to the back streets of Bogotà, from the steamy Niger delta to the chill of Putin's Moscow, he looks back with wit and insight on the people and places he has got to know, while also offering some timely thoughts about the relationship between risk and danger in a terrifyingly changeable world.

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Eye Books (US&CA)

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1785632450

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Delphi Collected Works of Richard Marsh (Illustrated)

By: Richard Marsh,Richard Bernard Heldman

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Delphi Collected Works of Richard Marsh (Illustrated)

By: Richard Marsh,Richard Bernard Heldman

Richard Marsh, best-selling author of the late 19th century and Edwardian period, is best known for his supernatural novel ‘The Beetle’, which initially outsold Bram Stoker's ‘Dracula’. Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of novels and short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humour; recently the rediscovered works of this ‘lost author’ have attracted increased attention. Presenting the largest collection of Marsh’s works ever compiled, this comprehensive eBook features numerous illustrations, rare novels and tales and concise introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Marsh’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 26 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare horror and thriller novels and tales * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels THAT MASTER OF OURS DAINTREE THE DEVIL’S DIAMOND THE MYSTERY OF PHILIP BENNION’S DEATH THE CRIME AND THE CRIMINAL THE DUKE AND THE DAMSEL THE BEETLE: A MYSTERY TOM OSSINGTON’S GHOST THE DATCHET DIAMONDS THE WOMAN WITH ONE HAND AND MR ELY’S ENGAGEMENT THE CHASE OF THE RUBY THE GODDESS: A DEMON A HERO OF ROMANCE A SECOND COMING ADA VERNHAM, ACTRESS THE JOSS: A REVERSION THE TWICKENHAM PEERAGE THE MAGNETIC GIRL MISS ARNOTT’S MARRIAGE A DUEL A SPOILER OF MEN THE CONFESSIONS OF A YOUNG LADY A WOMAN PERFECTED THE COWARD BEHIND THE CURTAIN VIOLET FORSTER’S LOVER THE MASTER OF DECEPTION The Shorter Fiction FRIVOLITIES THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN AMUSEMENT ONLY BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DAYLIGHT UNDER ONE FLAG JUDITH LEE: SOME PAGES FROM HER LIFE SAM BRIGGS: HIS BOOK THE ADVENTURES OF JUDITH LEE SAM BRIGGS V.C. The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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Delphi Classics

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1786560593

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9781786560599

Travels with Tooy

History, Memory, and the African American Imagination

By: Richard Price

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Travels with Tooy

History, Memory, and the African American Imagination

By: Richard Price

Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, Travels with Tooy recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals. Included on the itinerary for this hallucinatory expedition: forays into the eighteenth century to talk with slaves newly arrived from Africa; leaps into the midst of battles against colonial armies; close encounters with double agents and femme fatale forest spirits; and trips underwater to speak to the comely sea gods who control the world’s money supply. This enchanting book draws on Price’s long-term ethnographic and archival research, but above all on Tooy’s teachings, songs, stories, and secret languages to explore how Africans in the Americas have created marvelous new worlds of the imagination.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226680576

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9780226680576

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The Security Council

The Security Council

Day Gone By

Day Gone By

Bitter Legacy

Bitter Legacy

George J. Klein

George J. Klein

Adventures in the Trade Wind

Adventures in the Trade Wind

A History of British Surnames

A History of British Surnames

Power and Dysfunction

Power and Dysfunction

Comparative Economic Systems

Comparative Economic Systems

Alliance

Alliance

Strategy Genius

Strategy Genius

What on Earth Can Go Wrong

What on Earth Can Go Wrong

Delphi Collected Works of Richard Marsh (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Richard Marsh (Illustrated)

Travels with Tooy

Travels with Tooy

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