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Excerpt from Our Government Local, State, and National The subject-matter herewith presented partially repte sents the plan pursued by the authors as teachers of civil government for a number of years in high school, academy, and normal school. It has been found that a study of the methods by which the affairs of government are conducted gives constant interest to the work, and, consequently, the practical side of government has been emphasiz...

This book explores the notion of a technological system and more specifically the distinction between modern and traditional technological systems. Using highly disaggregated data for a range of sectors and developing countries we have applied this distinction to micro - as well as macro-economic policy issues. By identifying distinct systems of technology in a multisectoral model of the economy we have been able to quantify certain aspects of...

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ISBN: 978 1 84747 005 8 Published: 2006 Pages: 90 Alan James is Chipmunka's local Big Issue seller. Chipmunka CEO Jason Pegler met Alan in November 2005 on his pitch in Moorgate, London. Jason was so impressed with Alan witticisms and strength of character that he encouraged him to write about his experiences - 'Ten Years After, Fourty-Four Years Before' is the result. Following a nervous breakdown, Alan became homeless and started selli...

Una ragazza madre assunta per benevolenza come cameriera a Martingale, aristocratica dimora dei Maxie, di cui forse diventerà padrona dopo il matrimonio con il facoltosissimo erede. Uno scrittore, un famoso giallista, le cui macabre fantasie letterarie prendono purtroppo forma concreta. Un altro celebre scrittore rifugiatosi nella piccola oasi dorata di Combe Island, al largo della Cornovaglia, località esclusiva frequentata da uomini illustri...

This book provides a critical analysis of the employment of intelligence-led policing (ILP) strategies. It aims to convey a better understanding of some of the realities of the police investigative and criminal intelligence worlds, and to examine what the story of intelligence-led policing tells us about policing and the police organization.

C'è aria tesa ai vertici di polizia dell'innominata città in cui Bill James ambienta i suoi polizieschi sociologici. Si discute se e come infiltrare nelle cosche della droga una giovane agente. Lo scontro è tra due politiche opposte: il Capo, l'insicuro e paranoico Lane, vorrebbe passare all'attacco, mentre il cinico e ambizioso Assistente Capo Iles, è per il compromesso che ha garantito la pace nelle strade. Sotto sotto c'è molto di più. Lane...

Seguendo le inchieste di Colin Harpur e Desmond Iles - gli umani troppo umani eroi della serie ideata da Bill James a rappresentare il lato oscuro dell'Inghilterra in età post-thatcheriana -ci rendiamo conto che tutto questo movimento ansioso, questi dialoghi spezzati e aggressivi, questa avidità diffusa che sembra non riuscire mai a placare una sete disperata, questi eccessi selvaggi hanno un unico fine. In questo romanzo il "detective è mort...

In this riveting true crime account, acclaimed author P. D. James, the "Queen of the English mystery novel" (Newsweek) joins forces with historian T. A. Critchley to re-create the Radcliffe Highway murders, a series of vicious crimes committed in 1811 ... The scene is the London Docks near Wapping Old Stairs, a sinister neighborhood where pirates were often hanged. The first victims were two hardworking shopkeepers, along with their baby and s...

Book Thirteen" is the darkly comic debut prose novel of established comic book scriptwriter, Jamie Delano and published under his pen-name, A. William James. The Old Writer is losing the plot. Struggling to complete the long-overdue thirteenth and final volume of his cult 'Leepus' series of bizarre detective novels, he is exhaustingly distracted by the anarchic reality of his family life. Rude Jude, Jilted John, Vile Viola, ASBO Angie...

In 1985, a conference entitled Comment n'aimerais-je pas l'Angleterre! Victor Hugo et la Grande-Bretagne was organised in Manchester to celebrate the Victor Hugo centenary, as the second in a series of Vinaver Colloquia. The papers presented at it and published here explore many aspects of Victor Hugo's relationship with England (and vice-versa). A number of previously unpublished documents are included in this volume, which makes it vital rea...

Postbellum economic change in the United States required an efficient system by which capital could be transferred to areas where it was relatively scarce. In assessing the structure that evolved to meet this need, John James provides a new and convincing explanation of the forces underlying the integration of separate and local money markets to form a national market. To understand the role of financial markets during the period, the author e...

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In Virginia City and its Comstock Lode, miners worked one of the richest deposits of gold and silver ever found. Many places claim that title, but the precious metals retrieved between 1859 and 1880, with an equivalent value today in the billions of dollars, played an unprecedented role in industrial history. With cutting-edge technology, Comstock engineers shaped mining throughout the world for the next 50 years. Virginia City's wealth propel...

A unique, Christian, read aloud book designed to enable parents and grandparents to easily share Biblical wisdom with the children in their lives. Don't read it once and put it on the shelf. Take the book further. Each purchase comes with the ability to download free resources, which will enable you to impress God's word into the minds and hearts of the children you love.

La guerra alla guerra non sarà una gita della domenica o una scampagnata", scrisse nel 1910 William James (1842-1910), uno dei più importanti filosofi americani. Che fare, allora? La risposta è in questi suoi scritti, proposti in traduzione al lettore italiano. Trovare un "equivalente morale della guerra" con cui convogliare l'aggressività e il bisogno di azione e sacrificio verso scopi pacifici e socialmente utili può sembrare una posizione i...

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