Blunders of Our Governments, Paperback

The surprise bestseller of Christmas 2013 is now fully updated for the mass-market. Anthony King is Millennium Professor of British Government at t...

Reducere. One, two, three . . . Wait, who am I missing? The Blunder kids' head count somehow keeps falling short in this funny and familiar tale. It's not ev...

En route, his car sideswiped a kangaroo, leaving it sprawled across the road. Tarra got out of his car and, assuming the kangaroo was dead, decided...

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The humorous moments that arise from children's earnest attempts to master the English language, from spelling errors to grammatical faux-pas.

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Another year, another set of exams and another round of well-meaning students to provide us with our textbook mix of wisdom and wisecracks. Burstin...

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Hyper-active Governance is a new way of thinking about governing that gets beyond simplistic debates about whether the state is more or less powerf...

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A professional military historian analyses the most spectacular cock-ups in military history.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Saul Dav...

This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandest...

DescriptionCo-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa i...

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Reducere. Boasting equal parts scholarship and style, All Governments Lie is a highly readable, groundbreaking, and timely look at I. F. Stone -- one of Amer...

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A distinctive new account why governments loom so large in market societies. Avner Offer explains how finance limits firms to short-term enterprise...

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Provides guidance for national and local policymakers on the management of their assets in support of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. ...

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This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandest...

Reducere. This is a true and accurate account of treasonous conduct by the British and American governments: An account of how their citizens are deceived by...

Reducere. How governments, telecom and electric power utilities suppress the truth about the known hazards of electro-magnetic field (EMF) radiation.

Local Governments' Financial Vulnerability presents a conceptual framework developed to examine how vulnerable local finances were before and in th...

Reducere. "Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Readi...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Sarah F. AnziaIllustration(s): 20 line drawings, 34 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date...

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Reducere. From the Crusades to the modern age of chemical warfare and smart bombs, history is littered with truly disastrous military campaigns. How to Lose ...

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