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Governors are a valuable but under-used asset to independent
schools. Under the day-to-day pressures of running schools, they
are too often sidelined, yet are frequently called to account by
parents and the media when things go wrong. Both new and
experienced governors of independent schools will welcome this
lively and informative handbook, originally published in 1998,
which describes the positive and constructive role which governing
bodies can play in the life of their schools. It provides
up-to-date management techniques which can be effectively applied
to enhance the quality of education and thereby the attractiveness
of schools to parents and students.
Governors are a valuable but under-used asset to independent
schools. Under the day-to-day pressures of running schools, they
are too often sidelined, yet are frequently called to account by
parents and the media when things go wrong. Both new and
experienced governors of independent schools will welcome this
lively and informative handbook, originally published in 1998,
which describes the positive and constructive role which governing
bodies can play in the life of their schools. It provides
up-to-date management techniques which can be effectively applied
to enhance the quality of education and thereby the attractiveness
of schools to parents and students.
When Dr Philip Raven, an intellectual working for the League of
Nations, dies in 1930 he leaves behind a powerful legacy - an
unpublished 'dream book'. Inspired by visions he has experienced
for many years, it appears to be a book written far into the
future: a history of humanity from the date of his death up to
2105. The Shape of Things to Come provides this 'history of the
future', an account that was in some ways remarkably prescient -
predicting climatic disaster and sweeping cultural changes,
including a Second World War, the rise of chemical warfare, and
political instabilities in the Middle East.
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The Mob and Me (Paperback)
John Partington, Arlene Violet
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R543
R481
Discovery Miles 4 810
Save R62 (11%)
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This revealing first-person narrative, by one of the founders of
the Witness Protection Program and a personal protector to more
than five hundred informants, offers an eye-opening, dead-on
authentic perspective on the safeguard institution. How did law
enforcement's frustration with the criminal underworld and a
serpentine series of hit-or-miss rules and mistakes give rise to
one of the most significant and endlessly fascinating
government-run programs of the 20th century?
In 1967, U.S. Marshal John Partington was given the task of
overseeing the protection of the wife and young daughter of
renowned mobster Joe "The Animal" Barboza, now an informant with a
bounty on his head. It wasn't Partington's first time guarding
underworld witnesses. But this time was different. It was at the
behest of Senator Bobby Kennedy that Partington became the
architect of a new high- threat program to get the bad guys to
testify against the worse guys. Lifelong protection in exchange for
the conviction of the upper echelon of organized crime would
require a permanent identity change for every member of the
witness's family, a battery of psychological tests for
re-assimilation, and a total, devastating obliteration of all ties
with the past. With no blueprint for success, it created a
logistical nightmare for Partington. He would have to make up the
rules as he went along, and he did so without the luxury of knowing
whom he could really trust at any given time. And so, the Witness
Protection Program was born.
The account John Partington tells of the next thirty years of his
life is a never-before-seen portrait of members of the underworld
and law enforcement--from Joe Valachi, the first mobster to violate
the "omerta," the sacrosanct code of silence, to high-profile
informant and NYPD narcotics detective Bob Leuci, immortalized in
"Prince of the City." He reveals the details of the protection
provided such significant figures as Watergate players to Howard
Hunt and John and Maureen Dean. Ultimately, Partington delivers the
unvarnished truth of the Program, from the heavily-shielded
delivery of witnesses to trial, to countless death threats, to
managing an ever- rotating crew of U.S. Marshals, to the
step-by-step procedure of reinventing his sometimes dangerous,
sometimes terrified charges and their families as uncomplicated
suburbanites. These would be the guarded new neighbors just across
the street bearing secret histories--uncomfortable actors in a play
that would run for the rest of their lives.
Lifting a cloak of confidentiality and controversy, "The Mob and
Me" immerses readers in the rarified, misunderstood world of
Witness Protection--at once human, dangerous, intimate, surprising,
and stone-cold violent.
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