Download or read book Death of a Civil Servant written by Anton Chekhov and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Death of a Civil Servant', an administrative clerk accidentally sneezes on a hierarchical superior at the opera, which results in great embarrassment and hilarious and futile attempts at atonement. The other short stories included in this volume, 'A Calculated Marriage', 'The Culprit', 'The Exclamation Mark', 'The Speech-Maker', 'Who Is to Blame?' and 'A Defenceless Creature' are in the same absurdly comical vein.This short collection shows Chekhov in an amusing, playful light, poking fun at the greed, sycophancy and ignorance of his characters, with the moral detachment that also characterizes his major, serious works.
Download or read book The Civil Servant written by James Oliver Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Final Curve On a rainy Sunday night before the convening of the Georgia General Assembly, Henry Perkins, fired and disgraced former mail services director in the Office of Secretary of State, loses control of his car and plunges to his death. Ten years later three prominent legislators, former co-workers who had a hand in his dismissal, die in car accidents almost in a re-creation of his death. Is it mishap or murder? Marcus Norwood, the governor's ruthless chief of staff, has a terrible secret to hide. House Secretary, Renae Stewart, is harboring a strong desire for revenge. Representative Randy Joe Reynolds is a vicious racist who will risk everything to promote his twisted agenda and protect the legacy of his peach empire. Lena Lawrence is the seductive legislative aide, whose insatiable lust for love and power may drive her over the edge. The Final Curve is a compelling, suspenseful and fictional tale of love, lies and deception with a glimpse of government and history under the gold dome.
Download or read book Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Employees Compassionate Leave Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Manpower and Civil Service 90 2 on H R 13844 May 14 1968 written by United States. Congress. House. Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund written by Louisa Boldero and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Death of Public Integrity written by Robert Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century through the 1970s, several government reform movements succeeded in controlling traditional types of public corruption. But has this historic success led to a false sense of security among public management scholars and professionals? As this book argues, powerful special interests increasingly find effective ways to gain preferential treatment without violating traditional types of public corruption prohibitions. Although the post-Watergate good government reform movement sought to close this gap, the 1980s saw a backlash against public integrity regulation, as the electorate in the United States began to split into two sharply different camps driven by very different moral value imperatives. Taking a historical view from the ratification of the U.S. Constitution through to the Trump administration, The Death of Public Integrity details efforts by reformers to protect public confidence in the integrity of government at the local, state, and federal levels. Arguing that progressives and conservatives increasingly live in different moral worlds, author Robert Roberts demonstrates the ways in which it has become next to impossible to hold public officials accountable without agreement on what constitutes immoral conduct. This book is required reading for students of public administration, public policy, and political science, as well as those interested in public service ethics.
Download or read book Corridors of Death written by Ruth Dudley Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled "Reconciliation", Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Whitehall, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Jim Milton recognizes a potential ally in Clark's young Private Secretary, Robert Amiss. Milton soon learns from Amiss how Whitehall works: that it can be Machiavellian and potentially homicidal, that Sir Nicholas was obnoxious and widely loathed, that he had spent the weeks before his murder upsetting and antagonizing family and associates, and that his last morning on earth had been spent gleefully observing the success of his plan to embarrass his minister and his department publicly. And they still need to discover who wielded the blunt instrument. This is the first of Ruth Dudley Edwards' witty, iconoclastic but warm-hearted satires about the British Establishment
Download or read book Increasing Group Life Insurance Coverage for Federal Employees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Health Benefits and Life Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (90) S. 271.
Download or read book The Wandering Falcon written by Jamil Ahmad and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy known as Tor Baz—the black falcon —wanders between tribes. He meets men who fight under different flags, and women who risk everything if they break their society’s code of honour. Where has he come from, and where will destiny take him? Set in the decades before the rise of the Taliban, Jamil Ahmad’s stunning debut takes us to the essence of human life in the forbidden areas where the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan meet. Today the ‘tribal areas’ are often spoken about as a remote region, a hotbed of conspiracies, drone attacks and conflict. In The Wandering Falcon, this highly traditional, honour-bound culture is revealed from the inside for the first time. With rare tenderness and perception, Jamil Ahmad describes a world of custom and cruelty, of love and gentleness, of hardship and survival; a fragile, unforgiving world that is changing as modern forces make themselves known. With the fate-defying story of Tor Baz, he has written an unforgettable novel of insight, compassion and timeless wisdom. It is true, I am neither a Mahsud nor a Wazir. But I can tell you as little about who I am as I can about who I shall be. Think of Tor Baz as your hunting falcon. That should be enough.
Download or read book Application for Death Benefits written by United States. Office of Personnel Management and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Accidental Public Servant written by Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2013-05-19 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of Nigeria, told from the inside. After a successful career in the private sector, Nasir El-Rufai rose to the top ranks of Nigeria's political hierarchy, serving first as the privatization czar at the Bureau for Public Enterprises and then as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja under former President Olesegun Obasanjo. In this tell-all memoir, El-Rufai reflects on a life in public service to Nigeria, the enormous challenges faced by the country, and what can be done while calling on a new generation of leaders to take the country back from the brink of destruction. The shocking revelations disclosed by El-Rufai about the formation of the current leadership and the actions of prominent statesmen make this memoir required reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of power politics in Africa's most populous nation.
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Download or read book Death Throes of a Nation written by Charles Olatunde Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a professional and personal life in Nigeria from the 1940s to the 1960s. As a civil servant Lawson witnessed radical changes in Nigeria and offers an in-depth analysis of its tribal politics and history.
Download or read book The Civil Service Law written by William Harrison Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Civil Service Law: A Defense of Its Principles, With Corroborative, Evidence From the Works of Many Eminent American Statesmen The improvements in the revised edition of this work consist in an Appendix, a new Index, the addition of fresh matter to about thirty, pages of the Introduction and various chapters, and the correction of a few errors. The Appendix possesses much historical value, for it contains pertinent quotations from the works of many contemporary and recent statesmen not quoted in the body of the book. The warning of Storey and Washington (pages 225, 226) concern ing the dangers of party Spirit, should be read and heeded by every American. Parties, when they strive solely for principle, are the life of a nation; but when they strive solely for pelf, patronage, and power, they are its death. Even corrupt party leaders may destroy a republic; sometimes even ambitious leaders may do so. Did a nation ever make a narrower escape than did our own during the slaveholders' rebellion? Who but ambitious party leaders caused that rebellion? Some truthful words concerning the crime of buying and selling votes have been added to page 52. This evil cannot be too soon remedied. Voters should be educated up to a higher standard. The American who acknowledges any man as his political boss, at the polls or elsewhere, disgraces the name American. Independent voting and an educational test for voters are what is wanted. The man who can not both read and write the English language, should not be allowed to vote. This would supersede the necessity for the so-called Force Bill, for the rule would apply to blacks as well as whites. A few words concerning the crime of business men neglecting to vote would be an important supplement to page 52. The subject of civil service reform is still one of the greatest issues of the' day. The Christian Register (boston) truly says: We are yet on the threshold of this the most important reformation in American political history. Other newspapers have testified to the same effect, extracts from a few of which appear on page 240. There is much work yet to be done. But the outlook is hopeful. If civil service reformers are as vigilant in the future as they have been in the past, ultimate victory is assured. A people who have the intelligence to discover their mistakes and the courage to correct them, are capable of self-government; otherwise they are not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Death of A Government Clerk written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the intriguing world of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's "The Death of a Government Clerk." This incisive short story explores the life of a minor government official whose seemingly trivial mistake leads to a chain of events culminating in his unexpected demise. Chekhov’s narrative skillfully examines themes of bureaucratic absurdity, personal anxiety, and the often disproportionate consequences of minor errors. Chekhov, known for his sharp social commentary and psychological depth, presents a story that highlights the intersection of personal failings and institutional rigidity. The narrative reflects on the pressures and ironies of bureaucratic life and the ways in which small incidents can spiral into significant crises."The Death of a Government Clerk" is a thought-provoking read for those interested in Chekhov’s critique of bureaucracy and the human condition. Ideal for readers who appreciate stories that reveal the hidden complexities of everyday life and the impact of seemingly insignificant actions.
Download or read book THE ASPIRANT Memoirs of a Monk Turned Civil Servant written by Mathew Joseph and published by One Point Six Technologies Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1900 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you do not become what you once aspired to become, does it matter? ‘The Aspirant’ looks for an answer to this perennial question. It is the story of a young man who once wanted to become a Carmelite monk, but ended up becoming a monk of a different order - a civil servant. The disillusionment with the way monastic life was practiced, made him take this new direction. The journey ahead as a bureaucrat in CAG’s institution took the author to many places across the globe and caused him to meet several people – ordinary people with extraordinary stories – and those stories add extra layers to this memoir. And all through his life’s varied voyages, a part of him remained as a monk. ‘The Aspirant’ attempts to demystify two venerable institutions - the church and the bureaucracy - with a tinge of irreverence but without an iota of malice.
Download or read book Report of Civil Service Activities written by Flint (Mich.) Civil Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
