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In a country house in England a precocious teenage exile from
revolutionary Russia sets down his adventures on paper, beginning
with his first ball in St Petersburg and how he frees a huge
African elephant from a cruel circus. But a hundred years later an
American academic feels the boy may have invented the elephant as
the only kind and uplifting being in dark times.
Now in paperback from London Times columnist Paul Pickering--the
breathtaking story of a young pianist who travels through the Congo
to meet a former mentor with whom he shares a dark past, falling in
love with a Congolese army officer's wife along the way.
- A renowned writer: A seasoned journalist and novelist, Paul
Pickering has traversed the globe for his stories. For "The
Leopard's Wife," he undertook an expedition down the Congo River,
from Kisangani to Kinshasa, to craft a novel brimming with
authenticity of a majestically beautiful country torn apart by
civil war.
- A captivating story of love and war: The Democratic Republic of
Congo has been embroiled in a civil war since 1998, during which
more than 5 million people have been killed. "The Leopard's Wife"
provides a searing look at both the atrocities committed,
particularly against women, and the resiliency of its people to
soldier on in the face of constant uncertainty. It is a beguiling
story of greed, power, and ever-changing alliances, of the
consequences of misplaced idealism and betrayal, and of the lengths
people will go to for love.
It seems common wisdom that in order for a business to succeed
internationally it should first have reached a certain size,
resource base, and a high level of domestic market intensity.
However, this book provides in-depth acounts of seven innovative
micro-enterprises that chose to bypass these steps, attaining
remarkable overseas success despite severe knowledge and resource
constraints. It demonstrates to managers how the most diminutive of
enterprise forms can penetrate the foreign market through nurturing
and leveraging key relationships in their value chain. More
importantly, the detailed longitudinal retrospections of each
micro-enterprise reveal that those adopting a social exchange
(trust based) instead of a transaction cost (contracts based)
approach to relationship development attain better international
outcomes overall. It should also serve to remind policy makers and
public funding agencies alike of how worthy of support some
micro-enterprises are. In fact, given that they make up around 90%
of businesses in most industrialised economies, their importance to
economic development should not be overlooked.
Formed in 1839, the Anti-Corn Law League was one of the most
important campaigns to introduce the ideas of economic liberalism
into mainstream political discourse in Britain. Seeking the
abolition of a tariff barrier that buttressed the economic and
political power of the land-owning aristocracy, the League
presented itself as the vanguard of the emerging industrial middle
class in Victorian Britain. Its aspiration for free trade played a
crucial role in defining the agenda of 19th-century liberalism and
shaping the modern British state. The League's faith in the free
market has had resonances in the debates debates over public policy
in Britain during recent years, and it also set the pattern for
individuals and groups which have stood outside the Establishment
articulating alternative visions of society. This study of the
Anti-Corn Law League makes use of recent methodological
developments in social history.
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