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Rogue (Paperback)
Robert Cameron
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R421
Discovery Miles 4 210
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There are people who don't exist, people who live outside the
realms of normal society. They keep us safe. We should never hear
about their activities. If we do, something has gone terribly
wrong. The Assets are one such covert organisation, a highly
trained counter terrorist unit. An international force, tasked with
hunting down and exterminating the enemies of the free world.
However, they are still only human. No man is exempt from the
pressures of combat. Anyone can break. Anyone can go Rogue.Now they
must hunt one of their own.
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Assets (Paperback)
Robert Cameron
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R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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Two years after the Torness job Cam is sent on his next deadly
assignment. A rogue Iranian General has disappeared with an arsenal
of deadly chemical weapons and is threatening to unleash them on
his country's enemies. Joined by old friends and new, Cam must hunt
down and find this dangerous man before he holds to ransom the
counties of the Gulf of Oman and the surrounding states.
Meet Robert Cameron. 'Cam' trained as a covert military operator
for the British Army. A hardened ex-Special Forces veteran of
Sierra Leone and other major actions including UK counter-terrorism
operations. Now, with the military behind him, it seems Cam is
living a quiet life in the English Lake District but between
suffering flash-backs to his secret past that he would rather
forget, he is planning. But planning for what? He may no longer be
part of the covert world, but Cam still has his specialist skills
and training - he is also armed with an archive of undealt with
terrorist activists in the UK and their personal details and
whereabouts - He is ready to start his crusade. However, as he
discovers - a plan never survives first contact. Sterling is a real
page-turner of Cam's personal vendetta against terror and terrorist
recruitment - loosely based on real events, Sterling is a detailed
and fascinating insight into covert operations, and how the elite
forces train and work.
Slugs and snails are part of the great Phylum Mollusca, a group
that contains creatures as varied as the fast-moving squid or the
sedentary clams, cockles and mussels. The largest group, however,
are the gastropods, animals originally with a single foot and a
single coiled shell. They are the only group of molluscs to have
representatives living on land as well as in the sea and
freshwaters. This book is about the slugs and snails that live on
land. For creatures living on land they are bizarre: snails carry a
huge weight of shell; both snails and slugs move slowly relative to
their potential enemies; and most are not well camouflaged. Their
wet bodies are at the mercy of dry weather and their movement is
very wasteful of energy and water. Despite all this, they are found
from the tundra through to deserts, and on all continents apart
from Antarctica. They have reached the most remote oceanic islands
and undergone amazing evolutionary developments. In terms of
species, they outnumber all land vertebrates. As pests, slugs and
snails are all too familiar. The damage that they can cause in our
gardens and to agricultural crops can be considerable and they are
remarkably tenacious and thus difficult to control. In this
long-anticipated New Naturalist volume, Robert Cameron introduces
us to this remarkable group of gastropods. While dealing with the
natural history of slugs and snails of the British Isles it also
ventures across the world to explore the wide range of structures
and ways of life of slugs and snails, particularly their sometimes
bizarre mating habits, which in turn help to illuminate the ways in
which evolution has shaped the living world. Snails can be and have
been used to explore important ideas in evolutionary biology, in
biogeography and in ecology, and Cameron draws out these
explorations, looking specifically at the role of evolution in
determining how our understanding of snails has developed over the
years.
Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition explores the
impacts that the end of the Cold War and increased globalization
have had on government around the world. The decentralization of
national governments has led to a greater role for local
governments; public administration and democrative representation
are the new arena of local governments the world over. Focusing not
only on countries from the former Soviet Union, but also on Israel,
China, South Africa, and Egypt, the contributors to this volume
present a truly global investigation of countries experiencing
governmental transformation.
Local Government Reforms in Countries in Transition explores the
impacts that the end of the Cold War and increased globalization
have had on government around the world. The decentralization of
national governments has led to a greater role for local
governments; public administration and democrative representation
are the new arena of local governments the world over. Focusing not
only on countries from the former Soviet Union, but also on Israel,
China, South Africa, and Egypt, the contributors to this volume
present a truly global investigation of countries experiencing
governmental transformation.
Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of
specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration
areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative
relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and
performance management. Comprehensively spanning a critical period
from 1994 to the current day, this collection constitutes the first
systematic study of public sector reform in the gamut of the
democratic era in the country. The author traces developments of
policy following a rapid political shift, shedding light on
previously unexplored evolving structures and systems. The Public
Policy and Governance series brings together the best in
international research on policy and governance issues. Books
within the series are authored and edited by experts in the field
and present new and insightful research on a range of policy and
governance issues across the globe.
Economists and others have long believed that by balancing the
costs of such public goods as air quality and wilderness areas
against their benefits, informed policy choices can be made. But
the problem of putting a dollar value on cleaner air or water and
other goods not sold in the marketplace has been a major stumbling
block. Mitchell and Carson, for reasons presented in this book,
argue that at this time the contingent valuation (CV) method offers
the most promising approach for determining public willingness to
pay for many public goods---an approach likely to succeed, if used
carefully, where other methods may fail. The result of ten years of
research by the authors aimed at assessing how surveys might best
be used to value public goods validly and reliably, this book makes
a major contribution to what constitutes best practice in CV
surveys. Mitchell and Carson begin by introducing the contingent
valuation method, describing how it works and the nature of the
benefits it can be used to measure, comparing it to other methods
for measuring benefits, and examining the data-gathering technique
on which it is based---survey research. Placing contingent
valuation in the larger context of welfare theory, the authors
examine how the CV method impels a deeper understanding of
willingness-to-pay versus willingness-to-accept compensation
measures, the possibility of existence values for public goods, the
role of uncertainty in benefit valuation, and the question of
whether a consumer goods market or a political goods market
(referenda) should be emulated. In developing a CV methodology, the
authors deal with issues of broader significance to survey
research. Their model of respondent error is relevant to current
efforts to frame a theory of response behavior and bias typology
will interest those considering the cognitive aspects of answering
survey questions. Mitchell and Carson conclude that the contingent
valuation method can obtain valid valuation information on public
goods, but only if the method is applied in a way that addresses
the potential sources of error and bias. They end their book by
providing guidelines for CV practitioners, a list of questions that
should be asked by any decision maker who wishes to use the
findings of a CV study, and suggestions for new applications of
contingent valuation. Additional features include a comprehensive
bibliography of the CV literature and an appendix summarizing more
than 100 CV studies.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. All over the world, economic
inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A
well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive
development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes
has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has
increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance
comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and
Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between
hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the
public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of
South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of
its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the
interaction of politics and institutions affects educational
outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed
to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative
alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps
to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards
learning.
Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2008 was the most dangerous
place on earth. George McCafferty of Delta Company led 12 Platoon
Delta Company, 5 SCOTS through the fighting season. He kept a
diary. For some of that period Ross Kemp went out with the platoon
to film and report for Sky News. ‘“Ross, What’s wrong with
this picture?” I asked him. He knotted his eyebrows and looked
around. “No civvies!” he exclaimed. He was absolutely right,
not only were there no visible signs of life but there was also no
noise, no call to prayer.’ The Little Men tells the real story of
Operation Herrick 8, unvarnished, from the point of view not of
generals or politicians, but the poor bloody infantry. It is full
of details that only such a source can provide: ‘I looked at
Scotty McGregor, my little Gimpy gunner. He was five foot nothing
and if he rested the butt of the 7.62mm machine gun on the floor,
the gun was nearly as tall as he was. In his patrol pack he carried
eight hundred rounds of 7.62mm ammo and a spare barrel. I had
chosen him as a Gimpy gunner as he was the best man for the job. He
didn’t go crazy with his bursts and was always aware of his fall
of shot, so he never came close to running out of ammo.’ Courage,
loyalty to one another, sacrifice. Was it all worth it? That’s
still to be determined ‒ but whatever the answer, the effort
should never be forgotten.
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Jewel of the Sea (Paperback)
Tiffany Roberts; Illustrated by Cameron Kamenicky; Edited by Amy Cissell
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R506
Discovery Miles 5 060
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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