Title first published in 2003. This invaluable book provides the first definitive critical introduction to the concept of stakeholding and its implications for policy and practice of key players in the new global order. Braddon and Maile take an interdisciplinary approach with particular emphasis upon the political economy of stakeholding which has become the major managerial and political motif of the 1990s.

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'Faultless storytelling . . . Wise, generous, atmospheric' ObserverGrowing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty has been sheltered by her parents, but meeting Danny changes all of that. She decides to leave everyone and everything she knows to follow Danny to London, in pursuit of glamour and opportunity, and this sets in motion a series of events that will echo down the generations. Over fifty years later, when Kitty's body is foun...

'FAULTLESS STORYTELLING' Observer'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL, WISE, CELEBRATORY' Daily MailA compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing fortunes of an English seaside town, from award-winning writer Stella Duffy.When Lucy discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzling note and empty pill bottles by her bed, she can't believe that...

Dieser E-Mail-Roman ist eine ganz andere Darstellungsweise als in den gewöhnlichen Romanen. Leonore, eine Berliner Krankenschwester, schreibt ihrer Zwillingsschwester in Australien per E-Mail, was alles in ihrem Krankenhaus passierte, nachdem der Stationsarzt mehrere mit AIDS angesteckt hatte. Die Ereignisse werden immer dramatischer, so dass der Chefarzt dann durch seine Sekretärin selbst infiziert wird und mit ihr sich auf den Philippinen von einem Wunderheiler heilen lässt. Leonore lern...