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Download or read book Dirty Diamonds written by Rhys Ryan Evans and published by Rhys Ryan Evans. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mick and Colleen, couriers for the IRA lose someone special, Double crossed and left for dead, The two of them do their last run and keep the package for themselves, Their commanders are not amused and send other IRA members after them, They want the diamonds back, Mick and Colleen fall deeper into a treacherous world of terrorism and espionage. The two of them want answers and want them badly, a trail of terror and destruction follow them on their conquest to find the truth, why and who was behind it all!
Book Synopsis More Dirty Diamonds by : Rhys Ryan Evans
Download or read book More Dirty Diamonds written by Rhys Ryan Evans and published by Rhys Ryan Evans. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mick and Colleen turn up after being left for dead, One last job they said after their outstanding services to the cause and the IRA. They want answers and answers they will get, The top chiefs in the brigades are corrupt, the cause is falling apart, London is too powerful to let Northern Ireland Provo terrorist groups cause havoc! Diamonds are smuggled back to Ireland for wealth and nothing else, Mick and Colleen have the last packages and want to keep them, other people have other ideas, A trail of blood and disaster follow the pair on their mission, To find and get rid of whoever was involved with their set up, A dangerous and perilous road is ahead of them.
Book Synopsis Rhys Ryan Evans by : Rhys Ryan Evans
Download or read book Rhys Ryan Evans written by Rhys Ryan Evans and published by Rhys Ryan Evans. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mick was hurt beyond being hurt, too much pain to try and control, all the ones he had feelings for had been taken away from him in bad ways, let down, double crossed, shot, stabbed and a lot more, he was lucky to be alive, there was a reason he was alive he assured himself, the reason was revenge on those who had brought on all the badness in his life, there was to be no more, it was time for the final revenge.
Book Synopsis The United Nations & Regional Security by : Michael Charles Pugh
Download or read book The United Nations & Regional Security written by Michael Charles Pugh and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Events in Europe over the past decade or so have created a dynamic requiring conceptual and practical adjustments on the part of the UN and a range of regional actors. This volume explores the resulting collaborative relationships in the context of peace operations in the Balkans.
Book Synopsis Dirty Diamonds by : Betty Sullivan La Pierre
Download or read book Dirty Diamonds written by Betty Sullivan La Pierre and published by SynergEbooks. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jamey Gray-Schyler, a shrewd, conniving, sexy young woman who can take you down a path of robbery and murder.
Book Synopsis From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process by : Franziska Bieri
Download or read book From Blood Diamonds to the Kimberley Process written by Franziska Bieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) focused world attention on the issue of conflict diamonds which funded wars, massive death, and refugee crises across Central and West Africa. Several governments, NGOs, and key industry players engaged in negotiations under the so-called Kimberley Process (KP). A voluntary global agreement came into effect leading to a substantial decline in illicit diamond trade. Despite its importance in international affairs, the KP remains understudied in academia. Franziska Bieri's book provides the first comprehensive account of the KP and is the first to reveal how NGOs have become critical actors in their own right, possessing the ability to directly influence policies and to participate in the decision making and the implementation of global agreements. In developing this argument, Bieri explains: why the NGO campaign to raise awareness was successful; why a rapid and comprehensive resolution on such a complex global problem was possible; how the tripartite negotiations between states, NGOs, and industry developed during the implementation of the agreement, which is an on-going process. Based on extensive personal interviews with prominent campaigners, leading bureaucrats, and industry officials, hundreds of KP publications, official UN documents, industry news, and NGO reports, this timely book allows for a much needed engagement in contemporary debates about the campaign against conflict diamonds, the Kimberley Process, and the themes defining today's global governance arena.
Download or read book Alice Cooper at 75 written by Gary Graff and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The extraordinary illustrated biography of the original ""shock rocker,"" published to coincide with his 75th birthday."
Download or read book Reunion written by Abby Mendelson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, End of the Road, and The Oakland Quartet comes Reunion, a striking new collection of 16 stories. Subtitled Americans in Exile, Reunion chronicles the lives of Americans torn from their places and their pasts. Set in a wide variety of locales – England to Hawaii, Venice to Vietnam, Park Slope to Prague, Block Island to Hoonah, Alaska – the stories go where Americans find themselves searching for connection, coping with aging and loss. Military men and missing persons, foreign service officers and fashion models, friends and lovers, grief groups and high-school reunions, Reunion presents a stunning series of portraits of characters and concerns, living and dying, present and past. People wrestling with the concerns of age and of our age. People living on edges, seeking to return, yearning for reunion.
Book Synopsis A Dirty War in West Africa by : Lansana Gberie
Download or read book A Dirty War in West Africa written by Lansana Gberie and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1991, this West African nation has been brought to its knees by a series of coups, violent conflicts, and finally, outright war. The war has ended today, but it is clear that things are hardly settled. Focusing on the group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), journalist Lansana Gberie exposes the corruption and appalling use of rape and mutilation as tactics to overthrow the former government. Gberie looks closely at the rise of the RUF and its ruthless leader, Foday Sankoh, as he seeks to understand the personalities and parties involved in the war.
Book Synopsis Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir by : Beth Ditto
Download or read book Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir written by Beth Ditto and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.
Book Synopsis The Global Diamond Industry by : Roman Grynberg
Download or read book The Global Diamond Industry written by Roman Grynberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Diamond Industry: Economics and Development brings together a collection of papers covering various aspects of the diamond industry including economics, law, history, sociology and development across two volumes.
Book Synopsis Experiencing Alice Cooper by : Ian Chapman
Download or read book Experiencing Alice Cooper written by Ian Chapman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener’s Companion takes a long overdue look at the music and stage act of rock music’s self-styled arch-villain. A provocateur from the very start of his career in the mid-1960s, Alice Cooper, aka Vince Furnier, son of a lay preacher in the Church of Jesus Christ, carved a unique path through five decades of rock’n’roll. Despite a longevity that only a handful of other artists and acts can match, Alice Cooper remains a difficult act and artist to pin down and categorize. During the last years of the 1960s and the heydays of commercial success in the 1970s, Cooper's groundbreaking theatricality, calculated offensiveness, and evident disregard for the conventions of rock protocols sowed confusion among his critics and evoked outrage from the public. Society’s watchdogs demanded his head, and Cooper willingly obliged at the end of each performance with his on-stage self-guillotining. But as youth anthem after youth anthem - “I’m Eighteen,” “School’s Out,” “Elected,” “Department of Youth”—rang out in his arena concerts the world over and across airwaves, fans flocked to experience Cooper’s unique brand of rock. Critics searched for proper descriptions: “pantomime,” “vaudeville,” “retch-rock,” “Grand Guignol.” In 1973 Cooper headlined in Time magazine as “Schlock Rock’s Godzilla.” In Experiencing Alice Cooper: A Listener’s Companion, Ian Chapman surveys Cooper’s career through his twenty-seven studio albums (1969-2017). While those who have written about Cooper have traditionally kept their focus on the stage spectacle, too little attention has been paid to Cooper’s recordings. Throughout, Chapman argues that while Cooper may have been rock’s most accomplished showman, he is first and foremost a musician, with his share of gold and platinum albums to vouch for his qualifications as a musical artist.
Book Synopsis High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding by : Päivi Lujala
Download or read book High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding written by Päivi Lujala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most post-conflict countries, the transition to peace is daunting. In countries with high-value natural resources – including oil, gas, diamonds, other minerals, and timber –the stakes are unusually high and peacebuilding is especially challenging. Resource-rich post-conflict countries face both unique problems and opportunities. They enter peacebuilding with an advantage that distinguishes them from other war-torn societies: access to natural resources that can yield substantial revenues for alleviating poverty, compensating victims, creating jobs, and rebuilding the country and the economy. Evidence shows, however, that this opportunity is often wasted. Resource-rich countries do not have a better record in sustaining peace. In fact, resource-related conflicts are more likely to relapse. Focusing on the relationship between high-value natural resources and peacebuilding in post-conflict settings, this book identifies opportunities and strategies for converting resource revenues to a peaceful future. Its thirty chapters draw on the experiences of forty-one researchers and practitioners – as well as the broader literature – and cover a range of key issues, including resource extraction, revenue sharing and allocation, and institution building. The book provides a concise theoretical and practical framework that policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students can use to understand and address the complex interplay between the management of high-value resources and peace. High-Value Natural Resources and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative led by the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the University of Tokyo, and McGill University to identify and analyze lessons in natural resource management and post-conflict peacebuilding. The project has generated six edited books of case studies and analyses, with contributions from practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books in the series address land; water; livelihoods; assessing and restoring natural resources; and governance.
Book Synopsis Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century American Musicians by : Wikipedia contributors
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century American Musicians written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Rock Songwriters by : Wikipedia contributors
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Rock Songwriters written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 2531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Winning the War by : John B. Alexander, Ph.D.
Download or read book Winning the War written by John B. Alexander, Ph.D. and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-second century historians will note that a new World War began on 9/11/2001. In reality, it began much earlier. Competing value systems and the lust for natural resources will precipitate an inevitable clash of civilizations. Currently, we face elusive foes-foes who play by other rules-and in fact, we are already engaged in brutal, truly asymmetric conflict with varied forms of fighting; terrorism is but an isolated part. The increasing number of polymorphic hostilities requires revolutionary and unconventional responses. Special operations are the norm. Nanoscale, biological, and digital technologies have transformed how we fight future wars. Tactical lasers that zap pinpoint targets at twenty kilometers are being developed, as is the millimeter-wave Active Denial System that causes intense pain to those exposed. The "Mother of all Bombs" has been dropped, as have thermobaric weapons that destroy caves and bunkers. Robots roam the battlefield while exotic sensors catalogue nearly every facet of our lives. Paralyzing electrical shock weapons are in the hands of police. Even phasers on stun are closer than you think. Winning the War details the technologies and concepts necessary to ultimately determine the outcome of this global conflict. Via realistic scenarios from recovering tourists kidnapped by terrorists, to bringing down drug cartels in the Amazon, and even preventing Armageddon in the Middle East, Winning the War provides an insider's view into how these futuristic weapons will be used and into the complexities of modern warfare. Bold and controversial measures are prescribed, including the essential nature of absolute domination of space. Winning the War makes clear that drastic and innovative actions will be necessary to ensure our national survival.
Book Synopsis Global Knowledge Networks and International Development by : Simon Maxwell
Download or read book Global Knowledge Networks and International Development written by Simon Maxwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together leading experts from academia, think-tanks and donor agencies, to examine the impact of transnational knowledge networks in the formulation of local, national and global policy in the field of international development and transition studies. These leading contributors pay particular attention to the global reach of research and the manner in which knowledge is incorporated into, and shapes, transnational policy domains. They show how the 'knowledge agenda' has become a central part of the discourse of both developing societies and advanced economies. Governments and international organizations devote considerable financial resources to both in-house and contracted research. This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers and policy makers concerned with global policy, global governance and development.
