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While the careers of secret agents have inspired many genres of
popular culture, relatively little research has been carried out
until now on spying as a profession. Through the lens of personnel
management, the authors offer a unique and compelling analysis of
secret service employee biographies and autobiographies, giving the
reader an improved understanding of people management in all
organisations. Personnel Management in Secret Service Organizations
pinpoints key events in an agent’s career, focusing on how they
enter their profession, how they perform espionage work; how they
are trained and managed and what the circumstances of promotion and
demotion might be, up to the point of exit from the profession
(through retirement, capture, or death). Within this framework, it
illustrates the ways that secret service organizations play a
crucial role in contemporary societies. Drawing comparisons with
personnel management in standard organizations, Personnel
Management in Secret Service Organizations will be a valuable
resource for researchers and students of management and
organization. The use of narratology-inspired methods will appeal
to younger scholars with an interest in organizational studies too.
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Death Race 2 (DVD)
Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Danny Trejo, Ving Rhames, Lauren Cohan, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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Ships in 8 - 13 working days
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Futuristic action thriller prequel starring Luke Goss as a convict
determined to gain his freedom no matter what it takes. In the near
future, as the US economy begins to falter and crime increases, new
prisons run for profit begin to appear. Terminal Island is one such
penitentiary where a regime of brutal oppression reigns. Beginning
his life sentence after killing a policeman, Carl Lucas (Goss) soon
realises his only chance for freedom lies in entering and winning
the latest TV show devised by unscrupulous producer September Jones
(Lauren Cohan). In the last-man-standing 'death race', Lucas must
battle it out against his fellow inmates in heavily modified
vehicles designed to destroy anything that gets in their way.
This edition is releasing to celebrate the release of the award
winning film adaptation, starring Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher
and Mark Gatiss and directed by Richie Adams. Cinematic release set
for May 2022, screening around 900 UK cinemas. Winner of the
Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award 2021. Kirsty
MacLeod is a beautiful young woman, coveted by all the young men of
her island village. She dreams of America, of following the setting
sun west to a better life. She meets the man who dreams her dreams
and promises to make them come true. But then the Great War breaks
out and the men must leave for battle. In their honour, the
islanders organise a grand Road Dance. That night she is raped. She
is left with a secret that will bring shame upon her and her family
and ultimately on the child she is carrying. On a night of storms
and sorrow, she has to make her choice and it is no choice at all.
A man tries to build for his future by reconnecting with his past,
leaving behind the ruins of the life he has lived. Iain Martin
hopes that by returning to his Hebridean roots and embarking on a
quest to reconstruct the ancient family home, he might find new
purpose. But then he uncovers a secret from the past.
When Cal MacCarl gets a phone call to his bachelor flat in Glasgow
asking him to come to the bedside of his Aunt Mary, dying miles
away on the Isle of Lewis, he embarks on a journey of discovery.
With both his parents dead, his Aunt Mary is his only remaining
blood link. When she goes he will be the last of the family line
and he couldn't care less. In the days between his aunt's death and
funeral he is drawn into the role of genealogy detective. In a
place where everyone knows everything about everybody, Cal finds
that secrets are buried deep and begins to understand that Aunt
Mary was not the woman he knew and he might not be the person he
thought he was.
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Home (Book)
John Mackay
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R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Built for the new age, the house stood boldly upright on the edge
of the ocean withstanding the harsh blasts of a cruel century,
nurturing and protecting the family within, watchful of hearts
swollen or broken, dreams delivered and dashed. It had absorbed the
tears and echoed the laughter. A sweeping saga of one family
through a momentous century. Different people, divergent lives and
distinctive stories. Bound together by the place they called home.
But one of them is missing, lost to the world. An unknown
grandchild, born to a son who went to war and never came back. As
the years pass, through wars and emigration, social transformation
and generational change, the search continues. And the questions
remain the same: Who is he? Where is he? Will he ever come home?
The topic of Monstrous Moonshine has been a major development in
mathematics since 1979. Beginning with remarkable conjectures
relating finite group theory and number theory that stimulated an
outpouring of new ideas, Monstrous Moonshine deeply involves many
different areas of mathematics, as well as string theory and
conformal field theory in physics. It has changed the landscape of
many fields.
This volume consists of 17 papers by research leaders, based on
talks presented at a workshop held to mark the anniversary of the
Monstrous Moonshine conjectures. The papers, which include surveys
of many important developments, will give the reader a view of a
wide range of current activity and promising directions for future
research.
As a young reporter John MacKay took the first calls on the
Lockerbie Bombing. As a news anchor he conducted the final TV
interviews of the Yes and No campaigns in Scotland’s Referendum.
His journey in journalism has taken him to the key events through
the most dramatic decades of Scotland’s peacetime history. Using
contemporary scripts, transcripts of significant interviews,
diaries and recollections, he charts Scotland’s transformation as
a society and as a nation.
Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet
filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and
often controversial position over the past sixty years as a
founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and
political-propaganda film practice. Creator of Man with a Movie
Camera (1929), perhaps the most celebrated non-fiction film ever
made, Vertov is equally renowned as the most militant opponent of
the canons of mainstream filmmaking in the history of cinema. This
book, the first in a three-volume study, addresses Vertov's youth
in the largely Jewish city of Bialystok, his education in
Petrograd, his formative years of involvement in filmmaking, his
experiences during the Russian Civil War, and his interests in
music, poetry and technology.
Largely forgotten during the last 20 years of his life, the Soviet
filmmaker Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) has occupied a singular and
often controversial position over the past sixty years as a
founding figure of documentary, avant-garde, and
political-propaganda film practice. Creator of Man with a Movie
Camera" (1929), perhaps the most celebrated non-fiction film ever
made, Vertov is equally renowned as the most militant opponent of
the canons of mainstream filmmaking in the history of cinema. This
book, the first in a three-volume study, addresses Vertov's youth
in the largely Jewish city of Bialystok, his education in
Petrograd, his formative years of involvement in filmmaking, his
experiences during the Russian Civil War, and his interests in
music, poetry and technology.
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