Corruption is a complex phenomenon that challenges ethics and integrity in public administration. Over the past decade, increased societal monitoring – particularly through the media and civil society organizations – has brought corruption back to the forefront of public concern and political debate. Since most state bureaucracies are formally grounded in a Weberian ethos of meritocracy, competition, and discipline, this raises fundamental questions: What causes corruption in the public se...

A true story set in Europe.A man arrives in Switzerland looking for a better future. By chance, determination, and a different way of thinking, he creates one of the most discreet and successful luxury escort networks in Europe.From Lausanne to London, Paris, Geneva, Monaco, Milan and beyond, this book takes the reader behind the scenes of a world rarely seen by the public.Luxury hotels, international models, millionaires, princes, businessmen, strange requests, unf...

“The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him – are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company’s secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation.”The affairs of Babylon are dictated by a lottery. Discreetly administered by a mysterious and seemingly omnipotent Company, the lottery can elevate citizens to positions of wealth a...

In Yellow Creek, love was lost… but maybe it was never truly gone.Cortney Harrison never planned to return to Yellow Creek, Colorado—especially not with a wedding on the horizon. But when fate pulls her back to the small town she once called home, old memories surface, and so does the one person she's been trying to forget.Ryan Williams has spent years burying the past, focusing on the ranch and the life he built. But Cortney's unexpected return stirs something in ...

Construction is the means used by the designing architect and engineer to transform a design idea into built reality. From this perspective, the subject of 'building-construction design' is dealt with by architect José Luis Moro in four comprehensive volumes. They are respectively dedicated to the methodological, physical, and functional principles, the conception of a constructional basic solution, and finally its implementation in the constructional detail. Not only is a wide range of co...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERINSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERINSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—reveals long-hidden secrets with profound implications for not only national security but our understanding of the universe.Luis “Lue” ...

¿Sientes que tienes un gran potencial, pero aún no logras ordenar tu mente, tus hábitos y tus decisiones?El Poder del Autoconocimiento es una guía práctica para transformar tu vida desde el interior. Este libro te ayudará a conectar contigo mismo, reconocer tus fortalezas, trabajar tus debilidades y alinear tu mente y tu cuerpo hacia una vida con más claridad, disciplina y propósito.A través de reflexiones, ejercicios y técnicas sencillas, aprenderás a mira...

My name is Manko Quispe. I was an Auca Runa (savage warrior, man of war) of the Tawantinsuyo (Empire of the Four Parts). My life was not measured in years, but in battles. So many that their number was lost, like a raindrop lost in the great Vilcanota river (sacred river of Cusco). My body became a parchment of skin, a topographic map of pain where each scar is a valley carved by the edge of foreign iron, a mountain raised by the blow of the macana (war club), a furrow where death sowe...

This book is a pioneering work that examines cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru over the past 15 years. The book offers a critical analysis of the rationalities and concepts underpinning these policies, exposing their inherent contradictions and the social forces that have both supported and resisted their implementation. By highlighting the struggles of marginalized groups in their pursuit of social, economic, and political equality, it reveals the deep intersectio...

This book describes how the teaching of English can be organised by educational systems, institutions (e.g., schools, language centres, universities), and teachers. Accessibly written, the book combines theory and practice of curriculum development by explaining key concepts through real-life examples from a range of international contexts, including Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, Spain, the UK and the USA. It includes activities that encourage stude...

Compare New & Used (53) from$8.34Book detailsBook overviewDescriptionEditorial reviewsFor the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume“An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York TimesA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paperFor some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious...

Bogotá, 1998. Luis is a systems engineer at a state-owned telecommunications company. His daily life revolves around code, office meetings, and lunches with a tight group of coworkers who have become his midday family. Among them is Valentina: beautiful, unpredictable, volatile. For weeks she provokes him with a persistence that leaves no room for doubt — lingering touches, loaded glances, double-edged remarks. Luis resists. Until he doesn't. One day, photographs of the Amazonian rapids aw...