The five volumes of the Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition are an important collection of tales, stories and legends from Argyll that were first published between 1889 and 1895.The first volume was edited by Lord Archibald Campbell, the son of the 8th Duke of Argyll, who was also the first president of the Comunn Gaidhealach. In addition to the Craignish Tales and several other stories in both Gaelic and English it also includes Campbell's Notes on the War D...

As the demand and necessity for greater international and transnational cooperation increase, the bureaucratic bodies of international organizations are receiving ever more scholarly attention. However, the relevance of International Public Administrations (IPAs) for global policy-making remains neither empirically nor theoretically well understood, and yet little systematic knowledge is available about the influence international bureaucracies may have on policy-making. What makes interna...

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