Download or read book Cabals and Cartels written by Rajib Upadhya and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If it were fiction, Nepal's saga would be labelled post-apocalyptic.For much of its recent history, the West romanticized Nepal as some La La Land; an abode to shiny, happy people holding hands.All that changed beginning in 1996 when a violent "Maoist" insurgency swept the country. The world was astonished to learn that grave social injustices and deep economic inequities belied the ubiquitous Nepali smile. A nascent, "democratic" polity failed to deliver and it chose to fight a deadly war of attrition instead.Nepal descended into deeper chaos when the heir apparent to the 240-year old Nepali crown gunned his family down - including the reigning king - prompting the world to write the nation off as yet another "failed state".But twenty years and as many governments later, Nepal surprised everyone again. It resurfaced as the world's youngest, secular republic. Democracy prevailed where none would have expected it to.In Cabals and Cartels, Rajib Upadhya takes us on a roller-coaster ride, rich in insight and innuendo, meshing extraordinary personal and professional experiences with an elegant historical narrative. His book is as much a celebration of the Nepali spirit that has weathered more than its fair share of trauma, as it is a cautionary tale of broken promises and foregone opportunities; of a political class bedevilled by its own worst instincts; of duplicitous friendships; and of grim economic prospects pinned down in its potentials by collusion and graft.Upadhya's canvass is wide: from politics and democracy to governance, institutions, foreign aid and development; from contemporary history and anthropology to conflict and peace; from economic reforms to social mobility; and from the promise of competitive federalism to the pitfalls of a creeping complacency that threatens to trap Nepal in the past. Upadhya makes the compelling case for a fundamental reset, befitting Nepali aspirations of their new and progressive constitutional compact. But he also questions the will of the Nepali establishment to transcend deep rooted socio-political and economic prejudices.Cabals and Cartels is a story of foreboding. Equally, it is a soulful plea for reflection and change.
Download or read book The International Tin Cartel written by John Hillman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together two areas of inquiry, the history of tin and its role in producing countries and the history of cartelization as a solution to the inherent difficulties of primary commodity markets.
Download or read book Cabals and Cartels written by Rajib Upadhya and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vertigo written by Marvin Bell and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."—Harvard Review "One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."—Booklist "Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell's 'Dead Man' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."—Publishers Weekly Marvin Bell is one of America's great poets, and his legacy includes the invention of a startling poetic form called the "Dead Man" poems. The Dead Man is alive and dead at once: not a persona, but an overarching consciousness, embedded in poetics and philosophy. Vertigo is the latest from the Dead Man—a brilliant, enigmatic, wise, and wild book. The dead man stands still, waiting for the boomerang to—you know. He hears the words of philosophers ricochet among chasms and disappear in the far away. His scent goes forth, his old skin, hair and nails, and he spits, too. He leans forward to look backward, and the ancient world reappears. It is the beginning, when mountains, canyons and seas were new, before the moon had eyes, before paper, before belief. Anything he says now are souvenirs of the future… Marvin Bell has published seventeen books of poetry and has received numerous honors, including the Lamont Award and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was the first State Poet of Iowa. He lives in Iowa and Washington.
Download or read book Incarnate written by Marvin Bell and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Man, Marvin Bell’s brilliant poetic invention, is an overarching consciousness, alive and dead at once, defeating time. Mystical and anonymous, The Dead Man offers searing insight into the joys, as well as the catastrophes, of fluctuating cultural and political moments. Incarnate draws from all of Bell’s previous collections where The Dead Man appeared, and adds an abundant cache of new poems that resonate with “the dark matter and sticky stuff” of life. As David St. John writes in his introduction, “No voice in our poetry has spoken with more eloquence and wisdom of the daily spiritual, political and psychological erosion in our lives; no poet has gathered our American experience with a more capacious tenderness—all the while naming and celebrating our persistent hopes and enduring human desires....Remarkable for its eclectic and culturally diverse vision, Incarnate embodies a vivid world of poetic reflection unlike anything else in American poetry.”
Download or read book The Last Trumpet Project written by Kevin Macardry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-04 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a time of breathtaking Singularity technology. A time when most human beings spend the majority of their lives in the alternate worlds of the cyberverse, the global mesh of full-immersion virtual realities. Traditional social and political structures are breaking down under the enormous weight of absolute creative freedom and terrestrial immortality. The invention of a device for resurrecting the dead is the catalyst which catapults the world into a struggle that will determine the shape of the future, the fate of government and religion, and even the nature of life itself. Virtual adventure and meatspace drama. Intrigue and suspense. Romance and bullet ballet. High ideals and low cunning. War of weapons, war of values. A brilliantly imagined technological backdrop. Vivid, vibrant characters. And something to make you think on almost every page.
Download or read book Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal written by Jeevan R. Sharma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Economy of Social Change and Development in Nepal is an accessible contemporary political economic analysis of social change in Nepal. It considers whether and how Nepal's political economy might have been transformed since the 1950s while situating these changes in Nepal's modern history and its location in the global economic system. It assembles and builds on the scholarship on Nepal from a multidisciplinary and synoptic perspective. Focusing on local discourses, experiences and expectations of transformations, it draws our attention to how powerful historical processes are experienced and negotiated in Nepal and assess how these may, at the same time, produce ideas of equality, human rights and citizenship while also generating new forms of precarity.
Download or read book Modern Applications of Austrian Thought written by Jürgen G. Backhaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. In contrast, the purpose of this book is to show that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics. Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus, this comprehensive volume includes Austrian analysis of: health economics labour economics taxation business cycle theory property rights. Contributors include Roger Koppl, Bart Nooteboom, Larry Moss, Dick Wagner and Gerrit Meijer, and this significant book will prove invaluable to students of economics and will make interesting reading for applied economists in any area of application.
Download or read book Flycatcher written by Tony Kryzanowski and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the 1980s, and secret agent Thomas Kuperthorne has spent the past four years hiding from contract killers in the Middle East while posing as “freelance foreign correspondent Tom Maddox” and spying for the Five Eyes Alliance - a powerful international intelligence agency. Now he is needed back home. That's because Canadian Minister of Defense Alphonse Roy has resigned his position without warning to run for the leadership of the largest separatist party in Quebec, though not before stealing the access code to NATO’s wideband global satcom network out from under the government's nose. He intends to use his possession of the code to blackmail the Canadian Federation to allow Quebec to separate without firing a shot, all the while intending to install himself as the first president of a sovereign Quebec. While the rest of Canada has no intention of bending to Roy’s demands, the possibility of Roy offering to sell the access code on the black market to the highest bidder provides the Alliance with a unique and dangerous opportunity to turn the tables and use the code as bait to attract representatives of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations to Canadian shores where they can be captured. The Canadian Military and the Five Eyes Alliance intend to be ready and to do exactly that. As a member of the press, “Tom Maddox” is tasked with infiltrating Roy’s leadership campaign to discover his nefarious plans for the stolen code, and provide much-needed intel to help the Alliance make unprecedented strides to bring down some of most dangerous regimes, cabals and cartels on the global landscape. But he can't do it alone. Much to his chagrin, his superiors have also enlisted Crimson Sumner, a beautiful and well-known Canadian actress (and periodic love interest), hoping to leverage her feminine wiles and celebrity status in a classic 'honeypot' infiltration operation, and gain better access to Roy and his inner circle beyond what any member of the media could accomplish working on their own. It’s a dangerous game and only becomes worse when a cabal based in East Africa, the Brown Mambas, enters the picture as a potential buyer of the stolen code. With their reputation as merciless traffickers of illegal arms and human lives, Thomas will have to decide what truly matters to him: justice and keeping Canada united, while saving thousands of innocent women from sex slavery or protecting the life of the woman he loves.
Download or read book Wild About Books written by Michael Wilding and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild About Books – essays on books and writing, about reading them and writing them, and publishing them and collecting them and preserving them in libraries. Essays about the shared experience of literature, the art and craft of writing, the pleasures of reading, the survival of five hundred years of print culture, together with reflections and suggestions on creative writing, on what to do, and how to do it, and on what I’ve done, and why I wrote this book and how I wrote that one, together with anecdotes from other writers’ experiences, from writers in person, and from the books they have written. ‘What strikes one first … is Wilding’s keen sense of literary integrity … an ironic, witty, highly educated, and in its indirect way, passionate authorial persona who has believed in literature as a life of principle, has seen many of the bases of that belief assaulted by abstruse theory, trendy anti-realism, and sinecure-seeking cynicism, and yet still in the face of everything, is able to make the affirming act through the agency of fiction … No one in English writes better fiction about the process of writing than Wilding.’ – Don Graham, Antipodes ‘A career that is remarkable for how prolific and innovative it has been in so many areas, whether Wilding was working as a short story writer, novelist, critic, editor, commentator, anthologist, or publisher. Few Australian writers have successfully ventured so much and for so long. Moreover, a surprising coherence exists among this variety. Wilding’s work is driven by his political radicalism, which seems as much to do with a probing, sometimes acrid, intelligence, as sentiment.’ – Peter Pierce, Dictionary of Literary Biography
Download or read book The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought written by William Outhwaite and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern social thought ranges widely from the social sciences to philosophy, political theories and doctrines, cultural ideas and movements, and the influence of the natural sciences. Provides an authoritative overview of the main themes of social thought. Long essays and entries give full coverage to each topic. Covers major currents of thought, philosophical and cultural trends, and the individual social sciences from anthropology to welfare economics. New edition updates about 200 entries and includes new entries, suggestions for further reading, and a bibliography of all sources cited within the text.
Download or read book Locusts Hollywood and the Valley of Ashes Individualism Versus Collectivism written by David Sinclair and published by Magus Books. This book was released on with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are the cheated, they are the crushed, they are the cursed. They pray for the Day of the Locust when the Swarm will deliver them. The sirens are sounding. The locusts are coming. Where will you hide? The world is full of the cheated. That's why the world is about to blow up. Nearly everyone belongs to the cheated. Who's doing the cheating? It's the 1%. Why do the 99% endure it? They always have. That's the great mystery. Get out of the way of the Swarm. No one gets out of this alive. When the Swarm arrives, judgment is delivered and the sentence carried out. The locusts are heading to Hollywood to destroy it. That's where the myths are created that keep the 1% in power. That's the laboratory of fraud, the factory of illusions. The locusts will turn it into a Valley of Ashes. Tinseltown will be set on fire. They're gonna burn it down. Shall we all cheer? Locusts start off as individuals before they join the collective. That's when they become powerful, an unstoppable force of nature. Hollywood is the home of liberalism, but is it liberal at all? Isn't it devoted to a narcissistic, super-rich cabal trying to get inside everyone's heads and convert them to the strange religion of celebrity worship? The Beatles said they were more famous than Jesus Christ. Celebrities have displaced the old gods and become the new gods, just as the Olympians pushed the Titans off Mount Olympus and became the new rulers of the world. Come inside and explore the strangest of worlds – the one where you join with the locusts to devour Tinseltown, and, with hope in your heart and a smile on your face, march through the Valley of Ashes.
Download or read book Esoteric Hollywood written by Jay Dyer and published by TrineDay. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel town’s biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populated titles. After years of scholarly research, Jay Dyer has compiled his most read essays, combining philosophy, comparative religion, symbolism and geopolitics and their connections to film. Readers will watch movies with new eyes, able to decipher on their own, as the secret meanings of cinema are unveiled.
Download or read book Study of Monopoly Power written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inflation Worse than Vampires Zombies or the Plague written by Sill and published by B. Robert Sill. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inflation favors the debtor. The biggest debtor in the world is the US government and thus it is also the biggest beneficiary of inflation. If we stop and think about it, if it affects everyone equally then why bother? The answer is, it doesn’t affect everyone equally- its purpose is obviously to help out someone while someone else gets hurt. Notwithstanding which country suffers, inflation hurts the elderly, savers and anyone on a fixed income. The good guys. To hear government wonks blabber, there is no inflation. Really? Have you checked out the price of a car, meat, housing (again!), health care, education, the legal system, a dental visit, etc. Just what is the government basing a no inflation assumption on? Let's see, I can't afford to drive a car, can't afford to eat, can't go to the doctors, can't get any education and can't afford a place to live. Gee, I’m sure glad we have no inflation. Any more of this no inflation and I’ll be priced right out of my knickers. Karl Marx (1841) remarked that paper money has the same credibility that the imagined gods have. Bring paper money into a country where this use of paper is unknown, and everyone will laugh at your subjective imagination.
Download or read book Who Killed Richard Oland written by Janice Middleton and published by Formac Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of murder, money, scandal and family tensions. Richard Oland, once co-owner of Moosehead Breweries, was brutally murdered in his office in downtown Saint John, New Brunswick in the early evening of July 6th, 2011. His killer sprayed blood everywhere as he smashed Richard Oland’s head with dozens of blows. It had all the characteristics of an organized crime hit, designed to kill one and warn others. His murder remains unsolved and unexplained. The Saint John city police have no suspects. Individuals who could explain the murder have disappeared, pleaded bad memories or gone silent. Saint John, and the rest of Canada, were witnesses to two murder trials where Dennis Oland, Richard’s son, stood accused of the murder. In this book, Janice Middleton sets out the obvious and clear evidence that Dennis could not have been the murderer. Even so, Dennis was convicted by a jury in his first trial, likely because everyone in the city knew of a motive that was never mentioned in court: Richard had had an affair with his son's wife. The Oland family got Dennis acquitted, but his acquittal left questions unanswered: who killed Richard Oland? And why was he targeted? Janice Middleton pieces together the tangled story of Saint John’s most dysfunctional citizens. She points to people who might have wanted Richard Oland dead, shadowy investors who arrived in Saint John to finance the re-opening of the local sugar refinery. The deal went sour, the investors lost millions, and they disappeared from sight. This is a compelling account of how someone got away with murdering a rich, powerful, sleazy leading citizen of Saint John.
Download or read book Study of Monopoly Power written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 2466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 14
