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Steve Leach identifies the key challenges facing chief executives
in British local government in operating in an environment where
party politics is a dominant force. It discusses the basis on which
chief executives apply for posts and manage the interview process,
and the importance of the 'honeymoon period' - the first 6-9
months.
Steve Leach identifies the key challenges facing chief executives
in British local government in operating in an environment where
party politics is a dominant force. It discusses the basis on which
chief executives apply for posts and manage the interview process,
and the importance of the 'honeymoon period' - the first 6-9
months.
Also Includes The Mississippi River: What It Needs And Why It Needs
It.
The autobiography of the Nobel laureate
Before he emigrated to the United States, Czeslaw Milosz lived through many of the social upheavals that defined the first half of the twentieth century. Here, in this compelling account of his early life, the author sketches his moral and intellectual history from childhood to the early fifties, providing the reader with a glimpse into a way of life that was radically different from anything an American or even a Western European could know.
Using the events of his life as a starting point, Native Realm sets out to explore the consciousness of a writer and a man, examining the possibility of finding glimmers of meaning in the midst of chaos while remaining true to oneself.
In this beautifully written and elegantly translated work, Milosz is at his very best.
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many
years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes
that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and
how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation. Exploring
such diverse memories as a Soviet officer drinking tea with his
little finger sticking out, or two Chinese girls passing, laughing,
by a New York subway station, Milosz uses these to both 'bring
Europe closer to the Europeans' and to capture the formative
moments in his life, from his Catholic education to his time in
Paris, all with his distinctive honesty, elegance and
self-awareness. It is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
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