Author: Margery Forester
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 2006-09-12
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 071715761X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins. First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access to personal and family material. Michael Collins: The Lost Leader has been praised by authorities such as Robert Kee and Maurice Manning and remains compulsive reading even today.
Author: R. Heppner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-04
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1137350709
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Lost Leaders presents the personal stories of women who achieved success in corporate leadership, but have chosen to abandon their careers, providing a fascinating glimpse of the culture that exists in the contemporary corporation.
Author: Edward Phillips Oppenheim
Publisher: Copp Clark Company
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
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Author: Dorothea Townshend
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One December evening, in the year 1648, the little town of Farnham showed unusual signs of life. Troopers were dismounting and leading their horses away to their stables, or were lounging at the doors of the houses where they were quartered, and a crowd of curious country folk and villagers gathered to stare at them, and even to put questions to the more affable-looking of the steel-coated soldiers.The press was greatest round the entrance of a house of the better class that stood back from the street with all the dignity that a flagged forecourt and a couple of high brick gate-pillars could lend it.There the sentries, who were stationed at the door, had some ado to keep back the curious throng, and many a sturdy country farmer shouldered his way into the house in the wake of his squire to catch a glimpse of his king, the ill-fated King Charles, who was to rest that night at Farnham on his last journey from the prison at Hurst Castle to the scaffold at Whitehall.
Author: Mick Imlah
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of the poems in Mick Imlah's collection take on the most over-worn of Scottish myths as their apparent starting points: Saint Columba and the medieval wizard Michael Scot; the Wallace and the Bruce; Queen Mary and John Knox; the Bonnie Prince; and more.
Author: John Haydn Baker
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780838640388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book will be of interest to students of English literature - particularly those working on Bloomian influence theory, Wordsworth, or Browning - as well as to more senior scholars working on poetry of the Romantic and Victorian periods. The work will also interest those working on the deeply ambiguous figure of the later Browning - simultaneously the most popular poet in the country after Tennyson and one of the most uncompromisingly complex - and his vexed relationship with the reading public."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-28
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0429536526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president on 10 May 1994, South Africa enjoyed an unprecedented global standing. Much of the international community, particularly Western states, saw the new South Africa as well equipped to play a dynamic and dominant role on the continent; promoting conflict resolution, economic development, and acting as a standard-bearer for democracy and human rights.Yet, throughout the presidencies of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, South Africa has failed to deliver on this early promise. Its continental primacy has been circumscribed by its own reluctance to lead, combined with widespread African hostility to its economic expansion, antipathy towards its democratic ideals and scepticism about its suitability as Africas global representative. With an onerous domestic agenda, as it continues to tackle the profound socio-economic legacies of apartheid, and with its military power also on the wane, South Africa must now adapt to an emerging multipolarity on the continent. This transition which may produce a new concert of African powers working in constructive collaboration or lead to fragmentation, discord and gridlock is likely to determine Africas prospects for decades to come.This Adelphi book squarely challenges the received wisdom that South Africa is a dominant power in Africa. It explores the countrys complex and difficult relationship with the rest of the continent in the post-apartheid era and examines the ways in which the country has struggled to translate its economic, military and diplomatic weight into tangible foreign policy successes and enduring influence on the ground. The conclusions of this book will be valuable to academics, policymakers, journalists, and business leaders seeking to understand the evolution and trajectory of South African policy in Africa.