This study of official corruption and the politics of anti-corruption campaigns offers a comprehensive empirical, comparative and theoretical analysis of this phenomenon as both system and symptom. It highlights the structure, impact and function of political elite corruption from 1965-1990.

You need to get to safety. Now.When the abuse starts, that’s when you know enough is enough. It’s time to find a haven somewhere else. There will be a chance down the road to assess where your marriage is headed in the long term. No one is saying divorce is the inevitable outcome. God can transform anyone.But He doesn’t promise to do that. People choose to persist in sin. And that’s why it’s imperative for you to leave . . . so you can think clearl...

You need to get to safety. Now.I have over fifteen books in my personal library that address abuse, and this is the one that I will recommend. —GARY J. OLIVER, THM, PHD Executive Director of The Center for Healthy RelationshipWhen the abuse starts, that’s when you know enough is enough. It’s time to find a haven somewhere else. There will be a chance down the road to assess where your marriage is headed in the long term. N...

These essays explore team-based parish leadership theologically, sociologically, and pastorally in a variety of cultures and circumstances. The result is an extended conversation, both practical and deeply reflective, emerging from the collaboration of theologians, social researchers, organizational development specialists, and pastoral ministers.Collaborative Parish Leadership draws on the experience, strengths, challenges, and insights of the long-term pastoral-academic partnershi...

This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY LATHAM) The Natural Bridge and Tunnel of Virginia (EDWARD A. POLLARD) Plantation Life in War Times (WILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELL) Among Florida Alligators (S. C. CLARKE) In the Mammoth Cave (THÉRÈSE...

Set sail on a thrilling literary expedition with *The Pirate Bay Collection: History, True Stories & Most Famous Pirate Novels*, an anthology that captures the essence of nautical adventure through the ages. This collection offers an immersive foray into the tempestuous world of piracy, threading together tales of swashbuckling exploits, moral quandaries, and the eternal quest for freedom across vast, unpredictable seas. With a seamless blend of historical context and fictional imagination...

Deadly Sails - Complete Collection surveys the perilous maritime imagination, assembling sea adventures in which shipwreck, piracy, mutiny, exploration, and supernatural menace test both seamanship and moral resolve. Its range extends from historical romance and juvenile adventure to Gothic terror, detective intrigue, speculative voyage, and psychologically charged tale. Storm-bound passages, lost islands, naval confrontations, and uncanny waters make the sea not merely a setting but an ac...

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments of national power, and that grand strategy led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In doing so, it refutes three orthodoxies: that Reagan and his administration deserve little cre...

The Explorer's Library: 60 Adventure Classics surveys the enduring literature of peril, discovery, travel, and imaginative escape. Its selections range from maritime narratives, imperial romances, frontier tales, and survival stories to speculative voyages, detective-inflected adventures, and children's fantasy. Sea crossings, lost worlds, treasure quests, wilderness encounters, and voyages beyond ordinary geography reveal adventure fiction as a flexible form through which writers tested c...

60 Adventure Classics surveys the extraordinary vitality of adventure writing from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, gathering sea tales, imperial romances, frontier narratives, detective exploits, voyages of discovery, and imaginative journeys. Its range extends from satire and historical romance to juvenile fiction, survival narrative, and proto-science fiction, revealing adventure as a capacious form in which danger, mobility, technology, and moral testing converge. Ta...

A large-format, beautifully illustrated look at the natural history of birdsThere are some 10,000 bird species in existence today, occupying every continent and virtually every habitat on Earth. The variety of bird species is truly astounding, from the tiny bee hummingbird to the large flightless ostrich, making birds one of the most diverse and successful animal groups on the planet. Taking you inside the extraordinary world of birds, What Is a Bird? expl...

A hunter stalked across the surface of Mars, a criminal with an impossible plan, a tiny mouse determined to reach the stars, and distant worlds where the rules of Earth no longer apply await in Lost Sci-Fi Books 141 thru 160, featuring twenty vintage science fiction stories from legendary authors and forgotten favorites.Philip K. Dick begins the collection with Souvenir and returns with Upon the Dull Earth, two very different stories filled with t...