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In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed
many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale
consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in
Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to
determine if a set of shared underlying pathologies exist to create
this collective crisis.
In 21st century Britain, a 'perfect storm' seems to have engulfed
many of its institutions. This book is the first wholesale
consideration of the crisis of legitimacy that has taken root in
Britain's key institutions and explores the crisis across them to
determine if a set of shared underlying pathologies exist to create
this collective crisis.
With the transition into the Knowledge Economy, a formidable series
of new challenges arise within the corporate governance space. This
book tackles the issue of corporate governance along two axes.
Firstly, it confronts the developments in corporate governance
within the context of the Knowledge Economy and all its
implications in relation to the pre-eminence of intangible assets,
the advent of technologies such as smartphones and advanced forms
of artificial intelligence, and cultural changes associated with
the incorporation of Gen Y into the workforce and the proliferation
of social networks and effects such as Big Data and cyber-threats.
Secondly, it highlights the challenges for multinational
organizations and the tension that exists between headquarters and
subsidiary offices due to the need to combine the corporation's
ethical culture and corporate governance values with the
institutional forces of the subsidiaries' context. The combination
of these two axes addressed viz a viz the relationship between
senior management and the rank and file of the organization to
create an ethical corporate culture leads to a completely different
positioning of corporate governance and make the book truly unique
and of interest to researchers, students of corporate finance and
corporate governance alongside practitioners within financial
organizations and more broadly.
David Richards directs this fact-based drama exploring the case of
'The Yorkshire Ripper'. Throughout the 1970s and early '80s, the
serial killer preyed on young women and committed a total of 13
murders in the West Yorkshire area. This film shows a dramatisation
of the investigation led by Detective George Oldfield (Alun
Armstrong) which took its toll on both his career and personal life
but which also led to the conviction of Peter Sutcliffe (Craig
Cheetham) in 1981.
With the transition into the Knowledge Economy, a formidable series
of new challenges arise within the corporate governance space. This
book tackles the issue of corporate governance along two axes.
Firstly, it confronts the developments in corporate governance
within the context of the Knowledge Economy and all its
implications in relation to the pre-eminence of intangible assets,
the advent of technologies such as smartphones and advanced forms
of artificial intelligence, and cultural changes associated with
the incorporation of Gen Y into the workforce and the proliferation
of social networks and effects such as Big Data and cyber-threats.
Secondly, it highlights the challenges for multinational
organizations and the tension that exists between headquarters and
subsidiary offices due to the need to combine the corporation's
ethical culture and corporate governance values with the
institutional forces of the subsidiaries' context. The combination
of these two axes addressed viz a viz the relationship between
senior management and the rank and file of the organization to
create an ethical corporate culture leads to a completely different
positioning of corporate governance and make the book truly unique
and of interest to researchers, students of corporate finance and
corporate governance alongside practitioners within financial
organizations and more broadly.
Spitfire Pilot is the exhilarating and moving memoir of D. M.
Crook, an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron - one of the most
successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain. Beginning with his
fond recollections of his halcyon days in training - acrobatics,
night flying and languorous days spent playing sport and nights off
visiting Piccadilly Circus - Crook goes on to recount in thrilling
detail the dogfights, remarkable victories and tragic losses which
formed the daily routine of Britain's heroic aerial defenders in
that long summer of 1940. Often hopelessly outnumbered, the men of
609 Squadron in their state-of-the-art Spitfires committed acts of
unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmitts and Junkers of
Germany's formidable Luftwaffe. Many of Crook's fellow airmen did
not make it back alive, and the absence they leave in the
close-knit community of the squadron is described with great
poignancy. Spitfire Pilot offers a unique and personal insight into
one of the most critical moments of British history, when a handful
of men stood up against the might of the German Air Force in
defence of their country. This definitive edition, the first for
more than sixty years, includes a new foreword by David Crook's
daughter and Air Vice Marshal Sandy Hunter, Honorary Air Commodore
of the 609 Squadron. The book also has an introduction by Professor
Richard Overy.
Flemish townspeople defeat the cream of French nobility, and
explode the myth of knightly invincibility for ever. Discussion of
bias in sources and difficulties of interpretation preface careful
account of what actually happened during the three-hour battle. On
11 July 1302, below the town walls of Courtrai, the most splendid
army of knights in Christendom, the flower of the French nobility,
was utterly defeated by Flemish rebels, common workers and
peasants. The French knights, products of a lifetime's training,
were ably led; but so too were the Courtrai townspeople, in
addition to being well-armed, and their victory, despite their lack
of military skills (and golden spurs), put an end to the enduring
myth of the invincibility of the knight. A French explanation of
the terrible defeat was immediately given, intended to save the
honour and pride of the French nobility; in Flanders the victory
was glorified as a just reward for the bravery of the townsmen and
the competence of their commanders. Unfortunately there were no
impartial witnesses. Any account of the battle must therefore pay
careful attention to the personalities of the chroniclers, their
nationality, and their political and social leanings, as well as
their personal sympathies. Verbruggen's study is prefaced by
discussion of the problems of reconstruction and extensive
consideration of the sources, showing the difficultiesfaced by
medieval military historians in attempts to interpret them. He then
offers his own account of the events of that dramatic day, a case
study in the reconstruction of events in one of the greatest
battles of the middle ages.J.F. VERBRUGGEN lectured at the Royal
Military School in Brussels, and then taught in Africa, retiring as
Professor of History, University of Congo, and University of
Bujumbura (Burundi). He is also the author of The Art ofWarfare in
Western Europe. Originally published in Dutch in 1954, translated
and updated.
The book offers both a philosophical and psychological theory of an
aspect of human love, first noted by Plato and used by Freud in
developing psychoanalysis, namely, lovers as mirrors for one
another, enabling them thus better to see and understand themselves
and others. Shakespeare’s art makes the same appeal - theater as
communal mirror - expressing the artist holding a loving mirror for
his culture at a point of transitional crisis between a shame and
guilt culture. The book shows how Shakespeare’s plays offer
insights into the behavior of violent men; develops a theory of
violence based on the moral emotions of shame and guilt; and a
cultural psychology of the transition from shame to guilt cultures
(reflected in Shakespeare’s tragedies). The work argues that
violence arises from patriarchally inflicted cultural injuries to
love, and that only a therapy based on love can address such
injuries, replacing retributive with restorative justice. Inspired
by and developing this insight, the book argues that love, thus
understood, underlies a range of apparently disparate phenomena:
not only the appeal of theater as a communal art, but also the role
of law in democratic cultures (both developing and developed) as
both a mirror and critique of such cultures and, finally, the basis
of an egalitarian ethics of human rights (inspired by Kant and
developed, more recently, by John Rawls).
There have been many amazing heroes down through the ages. The
achievements of American heroes like George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln certainly resonate, but how many
heroes of Jewish heritage come to mind? Each of the eleven Jewish
heroes presented in this volume, some famous and others less so,
overcame tremendous challenges to achieve greatness, persevering
through their faith in God and belief in freedom and human dignity.
Queen Esther maintained her traditions in the house of Ahasuerus
for nine years while also hiding her true origins, and then
orchestrated the salvation of the Jewish Persians at great personal
risk. When urgent funding was needed for the Continental Army in
1781, General George Washington turned to none other than a
financial genius named Haym Salomon. Felix Zandman survived World
War II as a teenager by living with three others in a pit for
seventeen months, and then went on to graduate from the Sorbonne
and found a company that was innovational in the world of
electronics and communication. Our heroes many feats and great
accomplishments, and their dedication to freedom and its ideals,
are truly amazing, and their stories stand the test of time.
In 1915, at the height of World War I, the Central Powers sent a
secret mission, led by Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Werner Otto
von Hentig, to the court of the emir of Afghanistan, Habibullah
Khan. Jointly operated by the governments of Germany and Turkey,
the aim of the mission was to persuade the emir to declare full
independence from the British Empire, enter the war on the side of
the Central Powers and attack British India. Britain saw this
mission as a serious and credible threat - so much so that they
tried to intercept the travellers in Persia en route to Kabul and
subsequently implemented their own intelligence mission to ensure
that Afghanistan would retain its neutral position. Jules Stewart
provides a gripping account of the expedition, highlighting a
previously little-known aspect of World War I.
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