Author: James David Robenalt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: war, espionage, love, affair, harding
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0230609643
ISBN-13: 9780230609648

Warren Harding fell in love with his beautiful neighbor, Carrie Phillips, in the summer of 1905, almost a decade before he was elected a United States Senator and fifteen years before he became the 29th President of the United States. When the two lovers started their long-term and torrid affair, neither of them could have foreseen that their relationship would play out against one of the greatest wars in world history--the First World War. Harding would become a Senator with the power to vote for war; Mrs. Phillips and her daughter would become German agents, spying on a U. S. training camp o

Authors:Sage Jesse, Liora Kasten, Gloria Steinem,
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: day, slavery, modern, stories, true, enslaved
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1403974934
ISBN-13: 9781403974938

Twenty-seven million people are estimated to be held in slavery around the world today. This collection of first-hand accounts will raise awareness and show how slavery is thriving in the twenty first century. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, domestic servants, and chattel slaves. This groundbreaking collection includes accounts written by ten former slaves and slaveholders in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. From Micheline, a Haitian girl who wound up as a domestic worker

Authors:Manfred Kets De Vries, Konstantin Korotov, Elizabe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: insead, business, press, leaders, making, couch, psychology, coach
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0230506380
ISBN-13: 9780230506381

This book is a volume of essays on topics relevant to leadership development. Drawing upon substantial research this book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders.

Author: Simon Duke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: cfsp, antony, edc, security, quest, european, elusive
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0312224028
ISBN-13: 9780312224028

"The Elusive Quest for European Security provides a detailed overview of the various attempts to incorporate a security and defence role in the European integration process. Consideration is given to why these aspects of the integration process have proven so elusive and what progress has been made towards this goal. The assessment includes topics such as the enlargement of NATO, the EU’s Amsterdam Treaty, and the role of the revived Western European Union, as well as the role of the main actorsincluding Britain’s bid for European leadership in defence, and the changing attitudes o

Authors:Peter Boxall, John Purcell,  Gibson Burrell, P
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: management, work, organisations, resource, human, strategy
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 140399210X
ISBN-13: 9781403992109

This new edition provides a critical yet accessible account of the strategic role of human resource management within organizations. Building upon the success of the first edition, this edition contains new chapters on culture and values in HRM in addition to expanding coverage of individual performance and development. Updated to include the latest research and development, it continues to challenge students to critically assess the role and contribution of human resource to organizations.Book DescriptionThis new edition provides a critical yet accessible account of the strategic role of huma

Author: Jonathan Manthorpe
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: taiwan, history, nation, forbidden
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-12-23
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0230614248
ISBN-13: 9780230614246

For over 400 years, Taiwan has suffered at the hands of multiple colonial powers, but it has now entered the decade when its independence will be won or lost. At the heart of Taiwan’s story is the curse of geography that placed the island on the strategic cusp between the Far East and Southeast Asia and made it the guardian of some of the world’s most lucrative trade routes. It is the story of the dogged determination of a courageous people to overcome every obstacle thrown in their path. Forbidden Nation tells the dramatic story of the island, its people, and what brought them to

Author: Philippe Sand
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: american, values, betrayal, memo, team, rumsfeld, torture
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0230603904
ISBN-13: 9780230603905

On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation--techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of extraordinary rendition. From a behind-the-scenes vantage point, Phillipe Sands investigates how the Rumsfeld Memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention and hol