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Michael Rolls

It’s happened over and over again. You’ve gone to a swanky party or a lovely dinner date or your pleasant friends Ian and Joan have had you over for wine and biscuits or you went with colleagues to an after-work barbecue. You had, like everyone else, a couple glasses of wine or a beer or two and everyone was chatting away nicely. It was all going fine, as it always does, until the subject of the [recent news event] came up and you, like everybody else, voiced an opinion on the [recent news...

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Michael Rolls

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Goof Gilbert Adventures

Incompetent Private Security Officer Goof Gilbert has had enough of bullets flying at him every few seconds! What he needs is a cunning plan to get out of work on full pay for, say, a year and a half.The cunning plans of the simple-minded however have a habit of turning into ridiculous, irreverent adventures involving magic moths, multiple prison breaks and tasty Lobster thermidor...."Pointless and stupid!" - a made-up critic"Problematic!" - another made-up critic

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Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

It is widely believed that the state in developing countries is weak. The public sector, in particular, is often regarded as corrupt and dysfunctional. This book provides an urgently needed corrective to such overgeneralized notions of bad governance in the developing world. It examines the variation in state capacity by looking at a particularly paradoxical and frequently overlooked phenomenon: effective public organizations or ‘pockets of effectiveness’ in developing countries.Wh...

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Michael Frahm, Carola Roll

Designing Intelligent Construction ProjectsExplore the potential impact of management cybernetics, lean methodologies, and digitalization on the construction sectorAs a heavily asset-driven industry, construction is at the crossroads of a transformation. Digitalization has already begun and is acting as a beacon. Intelligently designed project organizations and systems must follow to make construction projects fit for the future.In ...

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Rebecca Solnit

The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect "antidote to mansplaining" ( The Stranger).In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing...

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Pablo Yanguas

Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend enough.The reality, as Yanguas argues in this highly provocative book, is that aid isn't – or at least ...

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Mike Hoogveld

The excellent customer journey experience HANDBOOK FOR INTEGRATED MULTICHANNEL MANAGEMENT It continues to get tougher for executives in marketing, sales and service. Their departments refuse to cooperate with one another while the market is changing rapidly. The number of channels for communication and distribution continues to increase due to the on-going advances in digitalisation. Customers and prospects use increasing numbers of these channels in all imaginable combinations during thei...

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Elif Shafak

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Penguin Specials

The Happiness of Blond People by bestselling, multi-award-winning novelist Elif Shafak, author of The Bastard of Istanbul, is a powerful essay on immigration, multiculturalism and the experience of Muslims in Europe - available only as a Penguin Short."You know, I never understand. How come their children are so quiet and well disciplined?""Yeah," said the distressed father, his voice suddenly softer. "Blond children never cry, do they?"

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Annemiek van Boeijen, Jaap Daalhuizen, Yvo Zijlstra

Delft Design Guide provides an overview of the perspectives, models, approaches, and methods used in the bachelor's and master's curriculum of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Some of these are unique to the university, others are well known and are used by designers worldwide. Designing products and services at this faculty is considered a systematic and structured activity, deliberately and purposefully, and with moments of increased creativity....

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George Saunders

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’s debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to disco...

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Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade

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About Canada

Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always fundamentally racist, favouring whites, unless hard labourers were needed. Although current policies are ...

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Konstantin Kisin

For all the West's failings - terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few - it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he experienced first-hand the horrors of a socialist paradise gone wrong, having lived in extreme poverty with little access to even the most basic of necessities. It wasn't until he moved to the UK that Kisin found himself thriving in an open and tolerant society, receiving countless opportunities...