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[Lt Col Edward D (Moke) Murray]... an outstanding officer in the Indian Army and became a Gurkha commander in Malaya. In 1939 he fired the crucial shot that dispersed a strike that threatened the Raj. He became an outstanding leader in the fight against the Japanese in Assam and Burma. He suppressed the Viet Minh in Saigon in 1945, in what can be seen as the start of the Vietnam War. He was Allied Land Commander in Cambodia and supervised the ...

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Christendom is dead. And that's a good thing. The Christian culture that has underpinned Western society for centuries has been eroded. We're now at the point where to disagree with people on issues such as marriage and sexuality, is seen as hateful. Christians are no longer seen as honorable, but as bigots. But history testifies that the more people try to destroy Christianity, the more it grows. So we are entering an exciting period of time ...

A shy mermaid travels to the bottom of the deep sea in this colorful and creature-filled children's book. As she steps out of her comfort zone and tackles her fears, she discovers the joy of making friends as she journeys to the bottom of the ocean.

Christendom is dead. And that's a good thing. The Christian culture that has underpinned Western society for centuries has been eroded. We're now at the point where to disagree with people on issues such as marriage and sexuality, is seen as hateful. Christians are no longer seen as honorable, but as bigots. But history testifies that the more people try to destroy Christianity, the more it grows. So we are entering an exciting period of time ...

Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation (Sixth Edition) redefines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm. Based on a theory of empowered stakeholders, this bestselling text argues that the responsibility of a corporation is to create value, broadly defined.

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For this absorbing portrait of his mother, David Chandler drew on hundreds of letters that she sent and received, on his own warm memories, and the many and copious medical records from her hospitalizations in 1937 and 1963, afflicted with what were then called nervous breakdowns.Gabrielle Chanler, nicknamed Bebo as a small child, was born into the upper reaches of New York society, deftly described in the novels of Edith Wharton, a life-long ...

This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR. The book contains 23 chapters, authored by senior academics as well as early career scholars, and is divided into four parts, detailing, respectively, why the Anthropocene is of importance to IR, challenges to tr...

Ten years after Illuminance initially published in 2011, Aperture is delighted to bring this beloved book back into print, retaining Rinko Kawauchi's original sequence and signature melding of keenly observed gestures, quotidian detail, and a finely honed palette. On the book's original release, Alec Soth declared Illuminance "an exquisitely produced monograph [that] should make Rinko a household name." An expanded edition with additional text...

Usually observed as a flash of blue and orange from a riverbank, most people are aware of Kingfishers, but few of us are familiar with the intricacies of their day-to-day lives. With their long, dagger-like bills, bright blue plumage and characteristic fast, low flight over water, Common Kingfishers are instantly recognisable. The 90 or so species that belong to this colourful family have a cosmopolitan distribution and, in Spotlight Kingfish...

In this "engrossing, " (The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories—and to his ultimate downfall.Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex—an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into t...

This book is designed as an easy-to-digest, critical introductory text to sustainable value and CSR. To internalize the ten principles of Sustainable Value Creation is to understand how the firm can respond to stakeholder needs to optimize value creation over the medium to long term.

This book is designed as an easy-to-digest, critical introductory text to sustainable value and CSR. To internalize the ten principles of Sustainable Value Creation is to understand how the firm can respond to stakeholder needs to optimize value creation over the medium to long term.

Edited by leading academic authorities from the fields of human geography and international relations, this is the first handbook to deal with resilience as a new conceptual approach to understanding and addressing problems. The collection highlights that resilience-thinking is increasingly transforming international policy-making and government and institutional practices.

Taking inspiration from iconic paintings in the Tate collection, discover the techniques of the masters and improve your own painting skills with 30 guided projects. As you work through the exercises, you'll learn how to work 'wet into wet' with Maggi Hambling, master colour temperature with John Singer Sargent and create rhythm and unity in your paintings with John Nash.Whether you are looking to reinvigorate your watercolour practice with ne...

This 5th edition redefines Corporate Social Responsibility as being central to the value-creating purpose of the firm. This comprehensive text has a strong emphasis on strategy while balancing theory with practical applications.

David P. Chandler throws light on the shadowy figure of Pol Pot, illuminating the ideas and behavior of him and his entourage against the background of post-World War II events, providing a key to understanding the horrific, pivotal period of Cambodian history.

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