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Don your deerstalker and immerse yourself in Sherlock Holmes' London in this art jigsaw puzzle complete with bodies, boat chases, and, of course, 221B Baker Street.
The game is afoot! Spot a huge cast of famous characters, crime-solving clues and historical figures as you assemble the puzzle. Hunt for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable characters, from the hound at Baskerville Hall to Moriarty, Dr. Watson, Mycroft and more, as well as real historical figures from the era.
Includes fun Sherlock facts on a fold-out poster.
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to
protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in
global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and
limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in
global manufacturing industries. It does so by tracing the historic
origins of social labelling both in trade union and consumer
constituencies, considering industry and consumer perspectives on
the benefits and drawbacks of social labelling, comparing efforts
to develop and implement labelling initiatives in various
countries, and locating social labelling within contemporary
debates and controversies about the implications of globalization
for workers worldwide. Scholars and students of globalisation,
development, corporate social responsibility, human geography,
labour and industrial relations, business ethics, consumer
behaviour and fashion will find its contents of relevance. CSR
practitioners in the clothing and other industries will also find
this useful in developing policy with respect to supply chain
assurance.
When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do
we look for a sense of where things are heading? Can the World Be
Wrong? lays out a compelling case for looking to long-term trends
in global public opinion to help predict the future. Written by a
pioneer of global polling, the book is provocatively illustrated by
decade-long public opinion trends across 20 countries, on subjects
ranging from geopolitics, globalization, the economy, the role of
companies and the UN, to changing consumer trends and the future of
democracy in the 21st century. Doug Miller, the founder and
Chairman of the global research consultancy GlobeScan Inc., offers
30 never-before-released global opinion polls that inform this
expose of where the world may be headed. This essentially
optimistic book delivers a fascinating briefing on below-the-radar
trends that business leaders and policy-makers follow closely and
thoughtful citizens need to understand. Miller brings his topics
alive with behind-the-scenes looks at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil), the
International Business Leaders Forum in London, the United Nations
Headquarters in New York, the White House, and boardrooms around
the world. Can the World be Wrong? reveals what we really think of
our leaders, businesses and policy-makers, and what this might all
say about where we're headed in the 21st century. The book is
essential reading for leaders, managers, policy-makers and
researchers seeking to understand the power of global opinion and
the implications it may have.
When the global economy and world order become uncertain, where do
we look for a sense of where things are heading? Can the World Be
Wrong? lays out a compelling case for looking to long-term trends
in global public opinion to help predict the future. Written by a
pioneer of global polling, the book is provocatively illustrated by
decade-long public opinion trends across 20 countries, on subjects
ranging from geopolitics, globalization, the economy, the role of
companies and the UN, to changing consumer trends and the future of
democracy in the 21st century. Doug Miller, the founder and
Chairman of the global research consultancy GlobeScan Inc., offers
30 never-before-released global opinion polls that inform this
expose of where the world may be headed. This essentially
optimistic book delivers a fascinating briefing on below-the-radar
trends that business leaders and policy-makers follow closely and
thoughtful citizens need to understand. Miller brings his topics
alive with behind-the-scenes looks at the World Economic Forum in
Davos, the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil), the
International Business Leaders Forum in London, the United Nations
Headquarters in New York, the White House, and boardrooms around
the world. Can the World be Wrong? reveals what we really think of
our leaders, businesses and policy-makers, and what this might all
say about where we're headed in the 21st century. The book is
essential reading for leaders, managers, policy-makers and
researchers seeking to understand the power of global opinion and
the implications it may have.
This book provides insight into the potential for the market to
protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in
global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and
limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in
global manufacturing industries. It does so by tracing the historic
origins of social labelling both in trade union and consumer
constituencies, considering industry and consumer perspectives on
the benefits and drawbacks of social labelling, comparing efforts
to develop and implement labelling initiatives in various
countries, and locating social labelling within contemporary
debates and controversies about the implications of globalization
for workers worldwide. Scholars and students of globalisation,
development, corporate social responsibility, human geography,
labour and industrial relations, business ethics, consumer
behaviour and fashion will find its contents of relevance. CSR
practitioners in the clothing and other industries will also find
this useful in developing policy with respect to supply chain
assurance.
Among Rudolf Steiner's many initiatives that evoked visible,
sustained impulses, there was one that did not develop as planned -
his so-called 'endowment' of 1911. This was his attempt to create a
'Society for a Theosophical Art and Way of Life', that would work
'under the protectorate of Christian Rosenkreutz'. Rudolf Steiner
envisaged a grouping of individuals who were '...deeply moved by a
spiritual power like the one that lived earlier in Christianity'.
Through the forming of such a Society, he sought to enable a true
spiritual culture to arise on earth - a culture that would
'engender artists in every domain of life'. Virginia Sease's
reflections - a century after Rudolf Steiner's attempt - place a
special emphasis on three considerations. Firstly, that the
Endowment impulse allows us to experience the art of 'interpreting'
in the Rosicrucian way. Secondly, that the best initiative, even
one undertaken by a great individuality, is doomed to failure if
the participants are unable to overcome their personal ambitions.
And finally, that we may live with the fact that, despite the
passing of time, the seeds dormant in Rudolf Steiner's attempt
still have the possibility to come to fruition in the future.
The Swabian League was established as a defensive alliance of
princes, prelates, and Imperial cities to maintain the peace within
the territory of Southern Germany. In 1525 the League faced an
existential threat in the form of an attempt by the exiled Duke
Ulrich of Wurttemberg to retake his territory and a series of
localised peasant uprisings which united into a movement for
political reform. The League was forced to mobilise a mercenary
armyat a time of financial crisis and a shortage of Landsknechts,
many of whom were fighting in the Italian Wars. This book presents
a detailed inside account of the different components and internal
organisation of the League army. It focuses on two campaigns led by
its supreme commander, Georg Truchsess von Waldburg, to maintain
discipline during an intensive six-month campaign to thwart the
Duke of Wurttemberg and smash the peasant rebellion whilst
attempting to appease his political overlords within the League.
Legacies is a genealogical history of the Miller and Holmes
lineage. Along with these two major families are other related
families that combine to make up the family. These include the
Nichols, Tunnell, Privett, Garrett, Owsley, Estes, Ussery, Monnet,
and Pilot families.
Set against a backdrop of hot rods, motorcycles and football
fields, rocked with the music of Presley and Buddy Holly, this
moving spiritual odyssey is a true story of teenagers encountering
Jesus Christ. Five missionaries die in Ecuador, Billy Graham mounts
the platform on warm summer nights, and lives get rearranged. This
is American Graffiti and born-again Christianity.
In April 2005 a factory making sweaters for the European market
collapsed like a pack of cards during the nightshift in Savar near
Dhaka, Bangladesh. The circumstances of this disaster, which caused
the deaths of 64 clothing workers and injured a further 84, proved
to be a final straw for trade unionists and NGO activists who had
long been concerned about the state of factory safety and the
inadequacies of social protection in the Ready Made Garment
industry in the South East Asian country. Last Nightshift in Savar
presents a detailed account of the national and international
campaign efforts to bring the owner and his multinational buyers to
book. It is also an account of the emergence of two quite different
but replicable buyer approaches to the provision of relief for
workers in such calamitous circumstances, which hopefully sheds
light on some of the contradictions of corporate social
responsibility in the globalised economy in which we live today.
Finally, it is the story of the efforts of the international trade
union, and NGO movement and of two men, in particular, to drive
home change in compensation for industrial injury and fatality in
the less developed world.
Key West is the end of the world for some. A variety of people come
to the island for an assortment of reasons. Our reason, aside from
celebrating Reno's bachelor party, was to experience
'Margaritaville', not the bar - but that place in your mind or
dreams where everything is perfect. The sun always shines, the
people are always happy, there is no business talk and your worries
simply drift away. Every day is a holiday and every meal is a
feast. This is a place where you can escape. The sun energizes the
soul, nighttime elevates the heartbeat, laughter fills the air, and
you end up talking for hours with your friends you brought along or
just met. You fall asleep to the sound of the sea quietly rushing
in and out and awake to the sound of seagulls and the smell of sea
salt. That's why we found ourselves walking down Duval Street that
night. It was all present here, at least that is how we envisioned
our journey to the Southern Zone. We were wrong.
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