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Book The Meddler

    Book Details:
  • Author : C. M. Edward
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-10-29
  • ISBN : 0595140645
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Meddler written by C. M. Edward and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Cobbington's high profile job with The Jockey Club of South Africa draws him into a web of deceit and complicity, pitting him against a man who will induce the ultimate destruction of his comfortable, affluent life. Anton Medli is the man who becomes David's perfidious and relentless nemesis. The unctuous Corsican is a man for whom thoroughbred racing is both a business and a pleasure and whose only philosophy is money. Known in racing circles as The Meddler, he engineers not only the demolition of David's quiet gentlemanly existence, but eventually the lives of both his brother, Kit, and their influential and wealthy father. The action shifts from the dusty highveldt of Johannesburg, to the wild, blond savannah of Kenya and, finally, to the neon smeared metropolis of Hong Kong. The choices that the two brothers make, whether recklessly, blindly or judiciously are irrevocable and David becomes trapped in a moral maze when both he and his brother step beyond the boundaries of the law. The denouement comes as a shocking and thought-provoking twist in this riveting story of a doomed family, whose integrity and tenets are shattered by the provocations of Anton Medli and his cohorts.

Book The Meddler

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1743
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 102 pages

Download or read book The Meddler written by and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Meddlers

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  • Author : Jamie Martin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 0674275772
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Meddlers written by Jamie Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined by empire to one of nation states enmeshed in the world economy.” —Adam Tooze, Columbia University A pioneering history traces the origins of global economic governance—and the political conflicts it generates—to the aftermath of World War I. International economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund and World Bank exert incredible influence over the domestic policies of many states. These institutions date from the end of World War II and amassed power during the neoliberal era of the late twentieth century. But as Jamie Martin shows, if we want to understand their deeper origins and the ideas and dynamics that shaped their controversial powers, we must turn back to the explosive political struggles that attended the birth of global economic governance in the early twentieth century. The Meddlers tells the story of the first international institutions to govern the world economy, including the League of Nations and Bank for International Settlements, created after World War I. These institutions endowed civil servants, bankers, and colonial authorities from Europe and the United States with extraordinary powers: to enforce austerity, coordinate the policies of independent central banks, oversee development programs, and regulate commodity prices. In a highly unequal world, they faced a new political challenge: was it possible to reach into sovereign states and empires to intervene in domestic economic policies without generating a backlash? Martin follows the intense political conflicts provoked by the earliest international efforts to govern capitalism—from Weimar Germany to the Balkans, Nationalist China to colonial Malaya, and the Chilean desert to Wall Street. The Meddlers shows how the fraught problems of sovereignty and democracy posed by institutions like the IMF are not unique to late twentieth-century globalization, but instead first emerged during an earlier period of imperial competition, world war, and economic crisis.

Book The Meddlers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jamie Martin
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 0674976541
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Meddlers written by Jamie Martin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War I and its aftermath. The Meddlers explores the intense political struggles about sovereignty and self-governance provoked by the first attempts to govern global capitalism.

Book Our Deseret Home

Download or read book Our Deseret Home written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theories of Consciousness

Download or read book Theories of Consciousness written by William Seager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent strides in neuroscience and psychology that have deepened understanding of the brain, consciousness remains one of the greatest philosophical and scientific puzzles. The second edition of Theories of Consciousness: An Introduction and Assessment provides a fresh and up-to-date introduction to a variety of approaches to consciousness, and contributes to the current lively debate about the nature of consciousness and whether a scientific understanding of it is possible. After an initial overview of the status and prospects of physicalism in the face of the problem of consciousness, William Seager explores key themes from Descartes - the founder of the modern problem of consciousness. He then turns to the most important theories of consciousness: identity theories and the generation problem higher-order thought theories of consciousness self-representational theories of consciousness Daniel Dennett’s theory of consciousness attention-based theories of consciousness representational theories of consciousness conscious intentionality panpsychism neutral monism. Thoroughly revised and expanded throughout, this second edition includes new chapters on animal consciousness, reflexive consciousness, combinatorial forms of panpsychism and neutral monism, as well as a significant new chapter on physicalism, emergence and consciousness. The book’s broad scope, depth of coverage and focus on key philosophical positions and arguments make it an indispensable text for those teaching or studying philosophy of mind and psychology. It is also an excellent resource for those working in related fields such as cognitive science and the neuroscience of consciousness.

Book No Expiration Dates

Download or read book No Expiration Dates written by Weisman Leon Weisman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cancer: It's a word that was previously whispered, but now it's frequently the lead-in to the evening news. There are ribbons, walk-a-thons, plays, and documentaries on the subject. In No Expiration Dates, author Leon Weisman presents an inspirational cancer guide with a fresh approach. Based on personal experience, Weisman offers a useful combination of practical advice, philosophical questions, and humorous observations- with a touch of personal memoir. No Expiration Dates presents insights into the many challenges and questions a cancer diagnosis brings for both the patients and their families. Weisman's unique use of literary quotes helps to emphasize the message that a devastating illness is not only survivable but can enlighten previously held perceptions about life. A blueprint for survival, No Expiration Dates discusses the surreal nature of hospital stays, the fabric of doctor-patient relationships, and the world of chemotherapy. This non-medical guide provides an understanding of the coping mechanisms necessary to meet the emotional and social challenges of a cancer diagnosis. This memoir of discovery and hope helps develop positive paths to the goals of life extension and recovery.

Book Wolf s Blood

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  • Author : Jane Lindskold
  • Publisher : Tor Books
  • Release : 2008-01-02
  • ISBN : 1429989912
  • Pages : 736 pages

Download or read book Wolf s Blood written by Jane Lindskold and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in the wild by intelligent, language-using wolves, in her teens Firekeeper was abducted back into the lands of men, where her upbringing as a wolf helped her survive the deadly intrigues of human beings. One of the first things she learned in Hawk Haven was that magic was a thing to be feared and despised. Long ago, all the human kingdoms were ruled by powerful sorcerers. Then a plague came and the sorcerers died. Nobody misses them. Much was lost—but still, nobody misses them. Yet as Firekeeper has travelled and grown wiser in the ways of human beings, she's learned that the true story was more complex. In coming to the country of the Liglim, she, Derian Carter, and Blind Seer discovered that magic is still working in the world, and that it isn't always the evil they'd been warned against. But it also turned out that the old plague specifically targeted magic users. And when Firekeeper and her friends learned to open the gates between worlds, the plague came back with them. Firekeeper, Blind Seer, and Derian Carter survived the plague: not unchanged, but still themselves. Now Firekeeper is determined to learn the nature of the plague--and if she can, to end it forever. What happens next will be the culmination of the remarkable fantasy epic that began with Through Wolf's Eyes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Tracking Prehistoric Migrations

Download or read book Tracking Prehistoric Migrations written by Jeffery J. Clark and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph takes a fresh look at migration in light of the recent resurgence of interest in this topic within archaeology. The author develops a reliable approach for detecting and assessing the impact of migration based on conceptions of style in anthropology. From numerous ethnoarchaeological and ethnohistoric case studies, material culture attributes are isolated that tend to be associated only with the groups that produce them. Clark uses this approach to evaluate Puebloan migration into the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona during the early Classic period (A.D. 1200-1325), focusing on a community that had been developing with substantial Hohokam influence prior to this interval. He identifies Puebloan enclaves in the indigenous settlements based on culturally specific differences in the organization of domestic space and in technological styles reflected in wall construction and utilitarian ceramic manufacture. Puebloan migration was initially limited in scale, resulting in the co-residence of migrants and local groups within a single community. Once this co-residence settlement pattern is reconstructed, relations between the two groups are examined and the short-term and long-term impacts of migration are assessed. The early Classic period is associated with the appearance of the Salado horizon in the Tonto Basin. The results of this research suggest that migration and co-residence was common throughout the basins and valleys in the region defined by the Salado horizon, although each local sequence relates a unique story. The methodological and theoretical implications of Clark's work extend well beyond the Salado and the Southwest and apply to any situation in which the scale and impact of prehistoric migration are contested.

Book The Final Mission

Download or read book The Final Mission written by Steve Brezenoff and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Amelia and the young engineer Greeny stowed away to join what was supposed to be a simple scavenging job. But after an accident strands their ship, a group of hostile aliens boards the vessel. Now the only crew members left alive are Amelia and Greeny. The two must sneak around the wrecked ship, make repairs, and escape-before they run out of air, and before they're discovered by the deadly invaders.

Book A Treasury of the Theatre Volume II

Download or read book A Treasury of the Theatre Volume II written by Henrik Ibsen, Robert Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monitors and Meddlers

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  • Author : Sarah Sunn Bush
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2022-08-11
  • ISBN : 1009204319
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Monitors and Meddlers written by Sarah Sunn Bush and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates how foreign actors influence citizens' trust in elections, and cases where outside intervention has enhanced or undermined election integrity.

Book American Poland China Record

Download or read book American Poland China Record written by American Poland-China Record Association and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Callahan Chronicals

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  • Author : Spider Robinson
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780812539370
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book The Callahan Chronicals written by Spider Robinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-10-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books in the legendary Callahan's Crosstime Saloon series.

Book The National Poland China Record

Download or read book The National Poland China Record written by National Poland-China Record Company and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Swineherd

Download or read book American Swineherd written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: