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Ministers and their ministries are the means by which we hold
government accountable for providing vital public services such as
adequate health, education, and social security benefits. In this
provocative book the author systematically examines the persisting
and changing features of Whitehall ministries since 1945. Three
case studies - the Scottish Office, the Welsh Office, and the
Northern Ireland Office - provide detailed illustrations of the
complexity of the issues involved. Professor Rose's analysis raises
fresh questions about the priorities of politicians as individuals,
and about public priorities involving tens of billions of pounds
and millions of public servants. His concluding chapter argues that
Mrs Thatcher's attempt to introduce techniques of business
management into government is based upon a fundamental
misunderstanding of the priorities of ministers and ministries.
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Humanity's Fate (Paperback)
Book Writing Founders; Peter Bell
bundle available
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R239
Discovery Miles 2 390
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November Night Tales (Paperback)
Henry C. Mercer; Illustrated by Alisdair Wood; Introduction by Peter Bell
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R502
Discovery Miles 5 020
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This one-volume translation, with commentary and introduction
brings together three important works. All three texts cast great,
if generally neglected light on politics and ideology in early
Byzantium. Agapetus wrote, c. 527-30CE, from a position sympathetic
to Justinian, when he had still to consolidate his authority. He
sets out what an emperor must do to acquire legitimacy, in terms of
government's being the imitation of God. Read in context, his work
is much more than a list of pious commonplaces. The Dialogue,
written anonymously towards the end the same reign, comprises
fragments from Books 4-5 of a philosophically sophisticated (lost)
longer work, setting out requirements for the ideal polity, based
on a similar concept of imperial rule, with extensive comment on
matters of current political salience but from an implicitly
hostile standpoint. Not only does the text reflect the nature of
Neoplatonic political philosophy but it also penetrates with its
ideas deep into the inner realities of the time, into the political
problems of Constantinople during the first half of the sixth
century. The third text was written by Paul the Silentiary to mark
the rededication of the basilica Hagia Sophia, built thirty years
earlier under the orders of Emperor Justinian I. Together the
translations provide an important insight into the early Byzantine
period.
David Bell was born circ. 1780 near Glasgow, Scotland and wore
kilts when he was young. By 1800 he was sent to England to find a
wife and met a married Sarah Jane Marshall in Derrycrew in 1800.
They had 8 children, and this is their story compiled from census
reports, court records and interviews and photos. This book
contains detailed reference materials for future genealogists to
carry on further additions to the Bell line.
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Bob (Paperback)
Peter Bell
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R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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