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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days "If your opponent has only two possible options, you can be sure that he will take the third." A tough, resourceful master of his trade, British Intelligence agent Nick Stone has just been given a chilling ultimatum: find a missing agent who appears to have defected or lose the guardianship of his beloved nine-year-old daughter. In Stone's mind, there is no choice. The "runner" is Sarah Greenwood, U.K. liaison with the Counterterrorism Center, a cell set up by the CIA to warn against potential terrorist attacks. Steel-willed, beautiful, cunning, Sarah is also Nick's former lover, the only woman who has ever been allowed under his rough, impenetrable guard. "It's not only what you see. Sometimes what isn't there is just as important as what is." Relying on his keen instincts and cool logic, Nick tracks Sarah to the mountainous backwoods of North Carolina. There, in a remote cabin, she conspires with two Middle Eastern men. Then Nick's mission takes a decidedly dark turn when he receives a T104--an order to kill Sarah without a trace. But nothing is what it seems, as Nick and Sarah themselves become hunted, racing deeper into a dark, deadly conspiracy that will change the course of world events--and the lives of millions. With seventeen years of active service in the elite SAS force, Andy McNab writes from his own harrowing experiences. As compelling and relentless as a fast-burning fuse, Crisis Four hurtles us into a breathtaking plot of nonstop action and suspense. Packed with authentic procedural details, it is a thriller so gritty and real that you won't know where fact ends and fiction begins. "From the Hardcover edition." Features Summary Ex-SAS trooper Nick Stone is extremely highly trained. Clever, ruthless and very effective, it is no surprise that he is hired by British Intelligence... Author Andy McNab Publisher Corgi Books Release date 20110512 Pages 554 ISBN 0-552-16354-6 ISBN 13 978-0-552-16354-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Martin Clem Publisher Next Century Publishing Release date 20170110 ISBN 1-68102-251-6 ISBN 13 978-1-68102-251-2

 Blackout The Eskom Crisis - James-Brent Styan - Jonathan Ball - 2015 - Paperback. In 1998 the South African government was warned that the country was running out of electricity. Despite the warnings, the decision was taken not to invest in new power stations. Had the warnings been heeded, South Africa could have had a new power station up and running by 2006 and load shedding may never have happened. Instead, in 2007, as predicted, South Africa ran out of electricity.   Eight years later, the crisis has deepened and despite assurances to the contrary by government leadership, it has the potential to become the biggest post-apartheid crisis in South Africa. By 2015 load shedding cost the South African economy an estimated R2 billion per day. Is the situation getting better or worse? Are the interventions working or is a blackout inevitable? What can be done and what do future scenarios look like? Blackout: The Eskom Crisis provides a look at what’s happening to one of the greatest power utilities in the world, the greatest on the African continent. It deals with everything from load shedding to blackouts and unpacks the issues raging around candlelight dinners in households across South Africa today. 

Paperback. English. The Institute for Democracy in South Africa. 2010. 416pp. In good condition. The ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe has led to an unprecedented exodus of over a million desperate people from all strata of Zimbabwean society. The Zimbabwean diaspora is now truly global in extent. Yet rather than turning their backs on Zimbabwe, most maintain very close links with the country, returning often and remitting billions of dollars each year. Zimbabwe's Exodus. Crisis, Migration, Survival is written by leading migration scholars many from the Zimbabwean diaspora. The book explores the relationship between Zimbabwe's economic and political crisis and migration as a survival strategy. The book includes personal stories of ordinary Zimbabweans living and working in other countries, who describe the hostility and xenophobia they often experience.

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 7-10 working days once ordered) This collection of essays extends the conversation on communication ethics and crisis communication to offer practical wisdom for meeting the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. In multiple contexts ranging from the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and family to the political and public, moments of crisis call us to respond from within particular standpoints that shape our understanding and our response to crisis as we grapple with contested notions of "the good" in our shared life together. Format:Paperback Pages:196

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days Fallout: Free speech and the economic crisis From the United States to Europe, the economic crisis has posed new threats to free expression, from restrictions on reporting and demonstrations to the rise of extremism. Is a decline in trust and a climate of self-censorship dominating the political, cultural and media landscape? Plus: the Russian media, lessons from the Arab Spring and the future of the internet. Features Summary Fallout: Free speech and the economic crisis Author Miren Gutierrez Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Release date 20130305 Pages 120 ISBN 1-4462-7361-X ISBN 13 978-1-4462-7361-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II - and no one has reported on this crisis in more depth or breadth than the Guardian's migration correspondent, Patrick Kingsley. Throughout 2015, Kingsley traveled to 17 countries along the migrant trail, meeting hundreds of refugees making epic odysseys across deserts, seas and mountains to reach the holy grail of Europe. This is Kingsley's unparalleled account of who these voyagers are. It's about why they keep coming, and how they do it. It's about the smugglers who help them on their way, and the coastguards who rescue them at the other end. The volunteers that feed them, the hoteliers that house them, and the border guards trying to keep them out. And the politicians looking the other way. The New Odyssey is a work of original, bold reporting written with a perfect mix of compassion and authority by the journalist who knows the subject better than any other. Features Summary Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of World War II. The author, Guardian's migration correspondent, has reported on this crisis in depth... Author Patrick Kingsley Publisher Guardian Faber Publishing Release date 20160615 Pages 350 ISBN 1-78335-105-5 ISBN 13 978-1-78335-105-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Sometimes popular music registers our concerns and anxieties more lucidly than we realise. This is evident in the case of an ideal of childhood innocence in rapid decay in recent decades.So claims Down with Childhood, as it takes in psychedelia's preoccupation with rebirth and inner-children, the fascination with juvenilia amidst an ebbing UK rave scene and dozens of nursery rhyme hip-hop choruses spawned by a hit Jay-Z tune.As it examines the often complex sets of meanings to which the occasional presence of children in pop songs attests, the book pauses at Musical Youth's 'Pass the Dutchie' and other one-hit teen wonders, the career paths of child stars including Michael Jackson and Britney Spears, radical experiments in free jazz, and Black Panther influenced children's soul groups.In the process, a novel argument begins to emerge relating the often remarked crisis of childhood to changing experiences of work and play and ultimately, to an ongoing capitalist crisis that underlies them. Features Summary A study of the ways in which childhood, and societal anxieties about children, are reflected in popular music and culture Author Paul Rekret Publisher Repeater Books Release date 20170815 Pages 320 ISBN 1-910924-49-0 ISBN 13 978-1-910924-49-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Presenting a compelling theme that "violence is not always rational, but it is always relational" Cram calls us to stop overlooking the crisis of bullying, asks us to reach out to both the bullies and those being bullied, and gives us tools to help our children understand healthy relationships and break the cycle of dysfunction. Features Summary Presenting a compelling theme that "violence is not always rational, but it is always relational," Cram calls us to stop overlooking the crisis of bullying and reach out to both the bullies and those being bullied... Author Ronald Hugh Cram Publisher Chalice Press Release date 20090101 Pages 144 ISBN 0-8272-0234-2 ISBN 13 978-0-8272-0234-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author David M Potter Publisher HarperPerennial Release date 19770401 Pages 672 ISBN 0-06-131929-5 ISBN 13 978-0-06-131929-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author Charles R. Bambach Publisher Cornell University Press Release date 19950710 Pages 304 ISBN 0-8014-8260-7 ISBN 13 978-0-8014-8260-1

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 7-10 working days once ordered) Written in celebration of Frantz Fanon's 70th birthday, this text analyzes the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological philosopher of human sciences and liberation. Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization has philosophically stymied the project of liberation. He explores: the problems of historical salvation; the dynamics of oppression; the motivation behind contemporary European obstruction of the advancement of a racially just world; the forms of anonymity that pervade racist theorizing; and the reasons behind nonviolent transition to post-colonialism. Drawing on Fanon's existential phenomenology, his philosophical anthropology and his theories of violence, Gordon extends his analysis to the relationship between tragic literature and anti-colonial literature. Format:Paperback Pages:152

(This title is available on demand: expected date of dispatch will be 4-7 working days once ordered) This acclaimed account by author of the bestselling author of Irrationailty of his own manic depression remains unique in its honesty and perception. As an eminent psychologist who suffered a severe mental breaskdown. Stuart Sutherland was ideally placed to provide an original and insightful description of his illness and often bizarre consequences. In the second part of Breakdown, Sutherland describes and assesses the various forms of therapy and drug treatments available to sufferers of manic depression and analyses the origins of mental illness. Essentail reading for anyone affected by or interested in mental illness. Format:Paperback Pages:308

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 10 - 17 working days Features Author J D Vance Publisher Harper Release date 20160628 Pages 272 ISBN 0-06-230054-7 ISBN 13 978-0-06-230054-6

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why do conventional policy solutions produce only wider income disparity and inequality? We now live in a new world in which we enjoy the highest living standard in history, acquiring ever more goods and services as necessary luxuries. Yet current policies only serve to expand public debt and exacerbate socio-economic inequality. In Too much stuff, Yamamura suggests the only way for capitalism and democracy to thrive is to increase investment to meet societal needs and argues that this will help reduce the growing wealth gap which threatens global democracy. With convincing evidence from across the Western world, this bold book challenges the economic orthodoxy and offers practical steps forward that we can all support. Features Summary We now enjoy the highest living standard in history yet spend more of our income on pointless luxury. Instead, we should tax more in order to invest much more in societal needs... Author Kozo Yamamura Publisher Policy Press Release date 20180301 Pages 224 ISBN 1-4473-3569-4 ISBN 13 978-1-4473-3569-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of affordable homes are being pulled down, replaced by luxury apartments aimed at foreign investors. In this ideological war, housing is no longer considered a public good. Instead, only market solutions are considered - and these respond to the needs of global capital, rather than the needs of ordinary people. In politically uncertain times, the housing crisis has become a key driver creating and fuelling the inequalities of a divided nation. Anna Minton cuts through the complexities, jargon and spin to give a clear-sighted account of how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it. Features Summary The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground Control London is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK... Author Anna Minton Publisher Penguin Books Release date 20170518 Pages 160 ISBN 0-14-198499-6 ISBN 13 978-0-14-198499-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it, with thoughtfulness, insight and humour.`You wake one day and everything is wrong. It's as though you went out one warm evening - an evening fizzing with delicious potential, so ripe and sticky-sweet you can taste it on the air - for just one drink... and woke up two days later in a skip. Except you're not in a skip, you're in an estate car, on the way to an out-of-town shopping mall to buy a balance bike, a roof rack and some stackable storage boxes.'Miranda Sawyer's midlife crisis began when she was 44. It wasn't a traditional one. She didn't run off with a Pilates teacher, or blow thousands on a trip to find herself. From the outside, all remained the same. Work, kids, marriage, mortgage, blah. Days, weeks and months whizzed past as she struggled with feeling - knowing - that she was over halfway through her life. It seemed only yesterday that she was 29, out and about.Out of Time is not a self-help book. It's an exploration of this sudden crisis, this jolt. It looks at how our tastes, and our bodies, change as we get older. It considers the unexpected new pleasures that the second half of life can offer, from learning to code to taking up running (slowly). Speaking to musicians and artists, friends and colleagues, Miranda asks how they too have confronted midlife, and the lessons, if any, that they've learned along the way. Features Summary From the hugely respected journalist Miranda Sawyer, a very modern look at the midlife crisis - delving into the truth, and lies, of the experience and how to survive it... Author Miranda Sawyer Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20160630 Pages 272 ISBN 0-00-752107-3 ISBN 13 978-0-00-752107-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Half a dozen years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck Haiti, the island nation remains in crisis, but the international community no longer seems interested. This immersive and engrossing book, based on five years of research and scores of interviews translated from Haitian Kreyol, gives voice to the continuing struggle of Haitian people to reconstruct their nation from the devastation of the earthquake, and from many decades of political and economic disaster. The earthquake killed more than 200,000, rendered more than a million and a half homeless, and wiped out what little infrastructure existed in the country. But prior to the quake, half the country was illiterate and two-thirds of Haitians lived in poverty. This book makes clear the long genesis of the ongoing crisis and illuminates the depths of the continuing problems, and does so through some of the most marginal and least-heard people in the world. An interview with a restavek--a child sent by poor parents to work as an unpaid servant in a wealthier household--is an example. A recent study determined a figure of 173,000 restaveks--about 8 percent of the population of children. Features Summary Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisis Author Evan Lyon (Author), Peter Orner (Author), Edwidge Danticat (Foreword by) Publisher Verso Books Release date 20170523 Pages 336 ISBN 1-78478-682-9 ISBN 13 978-1-78478-682-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Although there is widespread acknowledgment that the mainstream media is in crisis - a crisis underscored as much by declining authority as declining circulation and viewership - no one has explained the intellectual and moral causes of this crisis. This work provides a fast-paced anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. James Bowman has written for the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Criterion and other publications. He was the American editor of the Times Literary Supplement and is currently a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute. Features Summary Presents an anatomy of the mainstream media self-generated demise. This book looks behind the headlines to examine media's governing myths. It shows how the media's embrace of a spurious notion of objectivity... Author James Bowman Publisher Encounter Books,USA Release date 20080201 Pages 133 ISBN 1-59403-212-2 ISBN 13 978-1-59403-212-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The recent economic crisis has had severe and negative impacts on the EU over the last decade. This book focuses on a neglected dimension by examining European political entrepreneurship in times of economic crisis with particular emphasis on EU member-states, institutions and policies. Governance and Political Entrepreneurship in Europe examines the role that the political entrepreneur can play in promoting entrepreneurship and growth. The book includes an actor and a structure perspective by focussing on politicians and institutions within the public sector that use innovative approaches to encourage businesses with a goal of growth and employment. This exemplary book is a useful tool for entrepreneurship and political science scholars wishing to gain a better understanding of the ways in which political bodies can impact economic development. EU politicians and public servants would also benefit from reading this timely book as it offers key information on how they can help to promote growth. Features Summary This book focuses on a neglected dimension by examining European political entrepreneurship in times of economic crisis with particular emphasis on EU member-states... Author Charlie Karlsson (Editor), Charlotte Silander (Editor), Daniel Silander (Editor) Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Release date 20180629 Pages 304 ISBN 1-78811-275-X ISBN 13 978-1-78811-275-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis. Few could have imagined that the uprising against the longstanding regime of Mu'ammar Al-Gaddafi would expose a polity deeply fractured by internal divisions. Fewer still could have predicted the intractability of the conflicts that emerged in the wake of this revolution. Jacob Mundy's Libya is the first book to explain the political, security, and humanitarian crises that have engulfed Libya - Africa's largest oil-exporting country - since the Arab Spring of 2011. Examining the roots of the anti-Gaddafi revolution and the failures that resulted in the country's descent into chaos, Mundy identifies new centers of power that coalesced in the wake of the regime's collapse. The more these rival coalitions vied for political authority and control over Libya's vast oil wealth, the more they reached out to external actors who were playing their own "great game" in Libya and across the region. In the face of such a multifaceted crisis, the future looks grim as the international community seems unable to bring peace to this divided and conflict-ridden nation. Features Summary Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new safe haven for transnational terrorist organizations and the epicenter of the Mediterranean refugee crisis... Author Jacob Mundy Publisher Polity Press Release date 20180830 Pages 256 ISBN 1-5095-1873-8 ISBN 13 978-1-5095-1873-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. This timely book deftly uses this crisis as an opportunity to explore the notion of precariousness or vulnerability in employment relationships. Arguing that the idea of vulnerability has been under-theorised in the labour law literature, Lisa Rodgers illustrates how this extends to the design of regulation for precarious work. The book's logical structure situates vulnerability in its developmental context before moving on to examine the goals of the regulation of labour law for vulnerability, its current status in the law and case studies of vulnerability such as temporary agency work and domestic work. These threads are astutely drawn together to show the need for a shift in focus towards workers as `vulnerable subjects' in all their complexity in order to better inform labour law policy and practice more generally. Constructively critical, Labour Law, Vulnerability and the Regulation of Precarious Work will prove invaluable to students and scholars of labour and employment law at local, EU and international levels. With its challenge to orthodox thinking and proposals for the improvement of the regulation of labour law, labour law institutions will also find this book of great interest and value. Features Summary The shifting nature of employment practice towards the use of more precarious work forms has caused a crisis in classical labour law and engendered a new wave of regulation. Author Lisa Rodgers Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Release date 20160325 Pages 264 ISBN 1-78471-574-3 ISBN 13 978-1-78471-574-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days A part of DC Universe: Rebirth! Half-man, half-machine and longtime member of the Justice League, Cyborg faces his faces a fatal systems crash over his latest indentity crisis: Is he truly more dead than alive? Vic Stone is about to get a real-life 404 error when his father doesn't recognize him and cybernetic implants that saved his life seem to be stripping away the last bits of his humanity. Will Cyborg's human side win out? Or will he find out he's really just a machine who thinks he's a man? Features Summary Half-man, half-machine and longtime member of the Justice League, Cyborg faces a fatal systems crash over his indentity crisis: Is he truly more dead than alive? Author John Semper Publisher DC Comics Release date 20170327 ISBN 1-4012-6792-0 ISBN 13 978-1-4012-6792-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days Prepare for success in management today with this brief, streamlined approach from leading management author Ricky Griffin. FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT, 7E, International Edition offers a strong theoretical and functional framework clearly organized around the functions of management with a concise presentation that offers the flexibility to add cases, exercises or projects. The book's proven balance of theory and practice incorporates numerous, engaging learning features to help readers develop and strengthen today's most important management skills. Opening vignettes immediately emphasize the relevance of each chapter's content, while skill applications and new cases keep readers focused and actively engaged. New features reflect today's emerging management challenges, including the economic crisis and energy crisis. With FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT, 7E, International readers quickly find themselves equipped with the confidence of a management professional. Features Summary Provides your students with theoretical and functional framework they need for success in management, this title gives you the flexibility to integrate your own cases... Author Ricky Griffin Publisher South-Western College Publishing Release date 20130215 Pages 512 ISBN 1-133-62753-6 ISBN 13 978-1-133-62753-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days Global warming and the overuse of available traditional fuels have created an environmental crisis. In, Colorado, however, scientists in the windy Rocky Mountains have found alternative fuel sources that could provide a solution. What are these new sources of energy? How can they be used in everyday life? Features Summary Global warming and the overuse of available traditional fuels have created an environmental crisis. In, Colorado, however, scientists in the windy Rocky Mountains have found alternative fuel sources that could provide a solution... Author Rob Waring (Author), National Geographic (Author) Publisher Heinle Release date 20090507 Pages 24 ISBN 1-4240-1236-8 ISBN 13 978-1-4240-1236-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days 'Dr DiNicolantonio takes us away from hype and hyperbole to a place of rationality as it relates to salt. This extensively researched text lets us finally erase the guilt all of us felt when catering to our desire for this important mineral.' David Perlmutter, MD, bestselling author of Grain Brain and The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan A leading cardiovascular research scientist upends the low-salt myth, proving that salt may be one solution to - rather than a cause of - the chronic disease crisis.We've all heard the recommendation: no more than a teaspoon of salt a day for a healthy heart. But there's one big problem with this: the majority of us don't need to watch our salt. For most, salt protects against a host of aliments, including internal starvation, insulin resistance, diabetes and heart disease - not to mention, it tastes great. Dr DiNicolantonio reveals the eye-opening story, a never-been-told, century-spanning drama of competing egos and interests, of how salt became unfairly demonised. (The real culprit? Another white crystal - sugar).Sure to change the conversation about this historically treasured substance, The Salt Fix elegantly weaves research into a fascinating new understanding of salt's essential role in your health and what happens when you aren't getting enough.Dr DiNicolantonio shows how eating the right amount of this essential mineral will help you beat sugar cravings, achieve weight loss, improve athletic performance, increase fertility and thrive with a healthy heart. Finally, he offers a transformative six-step programme for re-calibrating your innate salt thermostat so that you can simply listen to your cravings to achieve your ideal salt intake. Features Summary A leading cardiovascular research scientist upends the low-salt myth, proving that salt may be one solution to - rather than a cause of - the chronic disease crisis. Author James Dinicolantonio Publisher Piatkus Books Release date 20170606 Pages 272 ISBN 0-349-41738-5 ISBN 13 978-0-349-41738-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 13 working days Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it has fought against and strongly opposes? What can the experience of the Syriza government tell us about the prospects for the Left in the twenty-first century? In this engaging and provocative book, Costas Douzinas uses his position as an 'accidental politician', unexpectedly propelled from academia into the world of Greek politics as a Syriza MP, to answer these urgent questions. He examines the challenges facing Syriza since its ascent to power in 2015 and draws out the theoretical and political lessons from one of the boldest and most difficult experiments in governing from the Left in an age of neoliberalism and austerity. Features Summary Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. Author Costas Douzinas Publisher Polity Press Release date 20170701 Pages 180 ISBN 1-5095-1158-X ISBN 13 978-1-5095-1158-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 15 working days America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the USSR acted out the world's rising tensions in its island nations. Meanwhile the leaders of these nations - the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raul; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture - had ambitions of their own. Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life. The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, and then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been. Red Heatis an authoritative and eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today. Features Summary Four Rebels, Three Caribbean Nations, the Kennedys, and the Battle for Power -- a compelling history of the Cold War in the Caribbean Author Alex von Tunzelmann Publisher Simon & Schuster Release date 20120329 Pages 528 ISBN 1-84739-459-0 ISBN 13 978-1-84739-459-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days Teaching other kids how to be funny is the toughest gig that Jamie Grimm has ever had, and with the highest stakes. If he fails, his school library will be shut down for good! Even though he has a national contest trophy and a TV show under his belt, Jamie Grimm isn't one to sit back and relax. When his school has a major funding crisis, Jamie hits on a bright idea to save the day — a comedy class for the other students. Little does he know that making jokes and teaching jokes are two very different things... and he's only good at one of them. With the fate of his school's library on his shoulders, Jamie has to dig deep to see if he has what it takes to succeed at his most difficult challenge yet. Features Summary Teaching other kids how to be funny is the toughest gig that Jamie Grimm has ever had, and with the highest stakes. When his school has a major funding crisis... Author James Patterson Publisher Arrow (Young) Release date 20180105 Pages 336 ISBN 1-78475-402-1 ISBN 13 978-1-78475-402-0