London 1982. Adult literacy student Vince gets more of an education than he bargained for; there's a thief in his class, the racist BLP party is recruiting and he befriends two Argentinean refugees just as war erupts in the Falklands. The tensions spill over into violence and murder. When Vince becomes a target he has to use his improving literacy to survive in Thatcher's Britain.

Calling for the transformation of undergraduate education, Thomas and Harney argue that the liberal arts should be integrated into the traditional management curriculum to blend technical and analytic acumen with creativity, critical thinking, and ethical intelligence. In describing their vision for a new liberal management education, the authors demonstrate how a holistic pedagogy that does not sacrifice one wealth of learning for another instead encourages participation and integration t...

Pour la première fois, voici la vie détraquée du milliardaire Jeffrey Epstein, confident de Bill Clinton, qui a piégé, pendant 20 ans, pour le compte des services israéliens, des milliers de députés, sénateurs, hommes d'affaires, journalistes, stars de cinéma, scientifiques de renom, recteurs et doyens d'universités, premiers ministres, princes et princesses (dont le prince Andrew), et même des présidents avec son réseau de prostitution de jeunes filles. De son ascension en tant que profes...

This is the second of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th anniversary of EFMD. Drawing on interviews conducted with leaders in the world of management education, the first volume took a retrospective view, focusing on the evolution of management education and providing the context that led management education to where it stands today. It also synthesized respondents' views on the strengths and weaknesses of the field, the challenges it faces, as well as lessons learned and not learn...

Questions about the status, identity and legitimacy of business schools in the modern university system continue to stimulate debate amongst deans, educational policy makers and commentators. In this book, three world experts share their critical insights on management education and new business school models in the USA, Europe and Asia, on designing the business school of the future, and how to make it work. They look at how the business school is changing and focus in particular on emerg...

Inclusive growth ensures the benefits of a growing economy extend to all segments of society. Unleashing people’s economic potential starts with connecting them to the vital networks that power the modern economy. Implementing inclusive growth is a means of democratizing productivity and it is essential to reduce the widening gap between the wealthy and the poor in both developed and developing economies.This book arose out of a research partnership between the Mastercard Center fo...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of one of the most significant success stories of the development of an entrepreneurial university in recent times as well as its role within society and the economy. Written by leading business school Dean and scholar, Howard Thomas, and Alex Wilson and Michelle Lee, the book tracks the genesis of the idea of a third local university in Singapore to its fruition as Singapore Management University (SMU). It provides important insight and lessons f...

Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance, comrades for the coming travails.So assisted—ably and otherwise—by his vampiric brother, Horst, and by the kind...

To save her kingdom from dark sorcery, a captive queen must bargain with the most dangerous barbarian in the world.The King of Vendhya has been assassinated by a sinister curse, leaving his sister, the Devi Yasmina, desperate for vengeance. Driven by grief and fury, she plots to turn the fierce mountain tribesmen against the shadowy assassins known as the Black Seers of Mount Yimsha. Her target to lead the charge? Conan the Cimmerian, a rugged, bloodthirsty warrior...

Step into the jade-lit corridors of a lost city where survival is measured in blood and dark magic rules the shadows.Fleeing across the brutal frontiers of the Darfar border, Valeria of the Red Brotherhood plunges into an uncharted, primeval wilderness, only to be pursued by the legendary Cimmerian, Conan. But the deadly jungle hides an even greater peril: an ancient, windowless city known as Xuchotl. Trapped behind towering bronze gates and hunted by monstrous rep...

"A grand and wonderful adventure filled with exotic magic and colorful places—like a cross between Sinbad and Indiana Jones." —Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times– bestselling authorIn 8th century Baghdad, a stranger pleads with the vizier to safeguard the bejeweled tablet he carries, but he is murdered before he can explain. Charged with solving the puzzle, the scholar Dabir soon realizes that the tablet may unlock secrets...