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Public-private partnerships have been widely promoted in the international development community as solutions to severe infrastructure problems in low-income countries since the 1990s. This book summarizes the growing body of evidence on the actual performance of PPPs and develops a more realistic perspective on their practical value.

This book addresses the question of when (if ever) and why (if at all) it is justifiable for a polity to prepare for war by militarizing. In doing so it highlights the ways in which a civilian population compromises its own security in maintaining a permanent military establishment, and explores the moral and social costs of militarization.

Die Südtiroler Leibgerichte - das besondere Kochbuch aus Großmutters Küche. Die bekannte und beliebte Sammlung Südtiroler Köstlichkeiten von Hanna Perwanger, die erstmals 1967 erschien und bis heute unzählige Male über den Ladentisch wanderte, erhält nach über 50 Jahren ein neues und erweitertes Outfit mit stimmungsvoller Fotografie. Schon mehrmals wurde die Originalausgabe neu verlegt und das ursprüngliche Kontingent an Gerichten um Rezepte d...

Studies the role that etymologies and etymological thinking have played in the works of English language poets including Seamus Heaney, R. F. Langley, J. H. Prynne, Geoffrey Hill, and Paul Muldoon.

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Diabetes and Retinopathy brings together the multifaceted information about the research and clinical application from academic, clinical, bioengineering and bioinformatics perspectives. The editors bring together a stellar cast of authors to pull together this diverse and interesting field. Academic researchers, bioengineers, new investigators and students interested in diabetes and retinopathy need an authoritative reference to bring this mu...

It's summer time and son Theo is away at camp. Feeling frisky and free, and tired of living vicariously through nighttime erotic novels, Penelope can begin Phase 2 of her post-divorce life. First on the agenda is a date with the mysterious Fitzwilliam Darcy, who lives in a mansion with his snobbish cat, Algernon, and spends his spare time painting massive nude portraits. Nothing in her bedtime reading of Tycoon's Dare has prepared Penelope for...

First published in 1977. Nigel Young traces the New Left Movement¿s growth and crisis mainly in Britain and America, where it reached its greater strength, but attention is also paid to parallel developments in similar movements elsewhere.

First published in 1988. This is a grass-roots study of a key period in the building of Labour¿s political and industrial base. It is a study of how unions and Labour were organised and motivated to seize their moments of destiny ¿ and of how a new political industrial movement was limited by the common-sense of the age in which it was born.

First published in 1986. This study examines both labor¿s and management¿s political activities in the state of Massachusetts. The primary aim of this study is to trace the evolution of public policy in the United States in the broad area of labor-management relations. This title will be of interest to students of political and labor history.

First published in 1990. In What¿s Left?, Swindells and Jardine analyse the difficulties the Left had including women in its account of class, to clarify general problems in British Left thought. It will be fascinating reading for students of cultural studies, history, politics and women¿s studies.

First published in 1988. The years 1945-51 were crucial to the Labour Party and the Left in Britain. This elegantly written book traces the gradual and painful disillusionment of the Labour Left with the Attlee governments and analyses the alternative, more militant, programme which the Labour Left devised.

First published in 1995. This volume offers a comparative perspective on labour relations and political change in eastern Europe within a common theoretical and empirical framework. Its coverage includes Bulgaria, and Czech and Slovak republics, Hungary, Poland, and Russia.

First published in 1984. This volume brings together many of the foremost French and North American specialists on the French working class movement. Although they differ substantially in their theoretical and ideological orientation, they share a left perspective.

First published in 1960. This title is a study of one of the most controversial alliances in British political history. Drawing extensively on previously unpublished material and on discussions with past members of the Labour Movement, the author creates a survey of what the partnership really amounted to.

New Towns: The Rise Fall and Rebirth offers a new perspective on the New Towns Record and uses case-studies to address the myths and realities of the programme.

First published in 1992. The collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe has led to a widespread view that socialism is a dead, or at least dying, force. Labour¿s Utopias argues that this assumption is based on the popular conception that socialism¿s various traditions are simply different means to a common end.

First published in 1979. The report of the Labour Party Defence Study Group, which met from early 1975 to mid-1977, represents a unique attempt to portray defence policy in the context of disarmament and the need to restructure and control the institutions of defence ¿ in particular the defence industry.

First published in 1939. This book provides a balanced picture of Trade Unionism as it was in the 1930s, both in general and in each of the principal industries and services. The study opens with a brief outline of Trade Union history, before examining Trade Unions in various industries, including mining, transport, and the postal service.

First published in 1985. The essays in this book pull together the diverse strands of research to give a comprehensive picture of the Labour Party, which strived to carve out for itself a niche within an existing political framework.