Nine years after Business as Usual, author and illustrator Ann Stafford is at war. She’s driving an ambulance in London during the Blitz, terrified but determined to do what she can to help other people when the bombs rain down. She’s living at her friend Daphne’s house, sleeping in the living room alongside other women volunteers on mattresses, being cooked for by the redoubtable Mrs Dove, and working her shifts at the ambulance station. She sees the nightly destruction of London’s buildings and streets close-up and death at first hand. Ann Stafford’s memoir about her experiences in the Blitz brings the past back to life, making her writing a fascinating report from the front lines of the Home Front in the darkest days of the war. Volunteers are her focus, the work of the women (and some men) who picked up the pieces and the bodies after the bombs stopped falling. Until the next raid .... With an Introduction by Jessica Hammett, University of Bristol.

Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in bridging Africa's basic infrastructure gap to the detriment of institutions building, warnings of a debt trap have followed. Building upon an extensive body of evidence, the editors argue that developing institutions and infrastructure are two equally desirable but organisationally incompatible objectives. In conceptualising this duality by design, a new theoretical framework proposes better understanding of the differing approaches to development espoused by traditional agencies, such as the World Bank, and emergent Chinese agencies. This new framing moves the debate away from the fruitless search for a 'superior' form of organising, and instead suggests looking for complementarities in competing forms of organising for development. For students and researchers in international business, strategic and public management, and complex systems, as well as practitioners in international development and business in emergent markets.

Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in bridging Africa's basic infrastructure gap to the detriment of institutions building, warnings of a debt trap have followed. Building upon an extensive body of evidence, the editors argue that developing institutions and infrastructure are two equally desirable but organisationally incompatible objectives. In conceptualising this duality by design, a new theoretical framework proposes better understanding of the differing approaches to development espoused by traditional agencies, such as the World Bank, and emergent Chinese agencies. This new framing moves the debate away from the fruitless search for a 'superior' form of organising, and instead suggests looking for complementarities in competing forms of organising for development. For students and researchers in international business, strategic and public management, and complex systems, as well as practitioners in international development and business in emergent markets.

In order to determine whether Reserve Component (RC) forces are essential to the task of exploiting imagery intelligence (IMINT) and geospatial information in support of combatant commanders'; operational and strategic intelligence requirements, it is important to examine IMINT within today's geopolitical and technological context. Currently, an identified shortage of imagery analysts (IA) relative to the amount of raw imagery needing exploitation has drawn national-level attention to IMINT. One of six primary intelligence disciplines, IMINT traditionally has accounted for the lion's share of intelligence-derived information since World War II. Largely due to its powerful role as an intelligence discipline, resources directed toward making technological advances in imagery collection capabilities have yielded increases in both volume and quality of imagery data. Because raw imagery has limited value until it has been exploited, the increased volume of raw imagery demands an enhanced ability for combatant commanders and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the combat support agency responsible for IMINT, to effectively manage imagery exploitation assets in support of combatant commanders'; strategic and operational intelligence requirements. This monograph offers a tool, or model, that the intelligence community may use to determine and implement the most effective operational employment of RC intelligence elements in support of combatant commanders'; strategic and operational intelligence requirements. The model employs concepts from linear programming, which is an asset-optimization tool developed during World War II to satisfy Air Force logistical planning requirements. The model helps categorize imagery exploitation assets and their relative capabilities and most effectively assigns these assets to the task of exploiting vast amounts of available imagery to produce the IMINT, geospatial information and imagery-derived measurement and signatures intell

Although Then and Now is her first book of poems and prayers, she has published essays and poems in journals, co-authored a book with her husband, and has received at least one award from a writer's conference in her home town. Included in this volume are her poems written from the 1970's to the present. The writings represent an outpouring of her memories, her anxieties, her joys, and her hopes for the future. Her closeness to family, to nature, to the Divine, and to her fellow man are elegized in this little book.

Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice. This authoritative book compares UK child protection systems with other systems world-wide as well as scrutinising and comparing the systems in different parts of the UK. Reflecting on the impact of devolution, the authors consider and critically analyse the way child protection systems are being developed, thought about and put into practice in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. An intra-country comparative approach is applied to the main features making up child protection including: policy frameworks, inter-agency guidance, the role of Local Safeguarding Children Boards and Area Child Protection Committees, child deaths and Serious Case Review processes, and vetting and barring legislation and systems. The authors also consider the unique position occupied by England and explore future directions for child protection across the UK. This important book will be of considerable interest to child welfare policy makers, academics, researchers, practitioners and students.