Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at the centre of much political discussion, both nationally and internationally, and there have been notable successes, yet there is doubt and criticism about the appropriateness of food aid and confusion about the deep-rooted problems which perpetuate these calamities. Is food aid doing more harm than good? Can food aid help, not hinder, long-term development and self-reliance? Would a cheque not be better than food? This book is designed to give a clear insight into the key issues, presenting a balanced assessment of the uses and misuses of food aid and relating these to the complex realities of the international economy. It is aimed at first-degree courses in development economics, scholars and policy-makers in the field and the general reader concerned with these issues.

Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Politics & Social Sciences

Singer, Hans Wolfgang

Jennings, Anthony

Wood, John B.

Philosophy

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Boards have little wear. Content clean and sharp. DJ has light toning and bit of soiling.

Justice Under Fire: Abuse of Civil Liberties in Northern Ireland

Reference

Pluto Press

In Northern Ireland the freedoms enshrined in Western law have been overturned by the police and the army. This book examines the emergency measures that have been introduced to "improve" the administration of justice in Northern Ireland. The book looks at specific measures, including increased powers of arrest and interrogation, the preventation of terrorism act, the operation of the no-jury Diplock courts, the use of plastic bullets, the recourse to supergrasses and the shoot to kill directives. In each case the social and political implications of emergency laws are assessed. The contributors, all of whom are professionally involved in the theory or practice of law, ask how much these measures have involved a systematic disregard of basic human rights and consider ways in which the situation might be redeemed.

Pevsner described the pairing of church and parsonage as a feature of the English village unparalleled on the Continent. John Betjeman saw the design of rectories and vicarages as highly influential on our architecture. Forsaken by the Church but coveted by the private buyer, this is the story of these quintessentially English houses, with their combination of fine architecture, charm and character, large gardens and often splendidly rural locations.
The Old Rectory examines their history, their evolution through the centuries, their many and varied styles of architecture, and their place in our heritage. It also explores the contribution made to our culture by the clerical families who once occupied these houses, and the famous people and eccentrics who have been associated with them. Finally, it considers their current role, and what the future might hold.

The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Bloomsbury Academic

"Can equally be enjoyed by those about to retire needing a push to get into a new hobby and those who hate running but love Italy - particularly the food." (London Evening Standard)Approaching 60, Anthony Jennings was ready for a rest. He had emigrated to Italy 35 years ago, married an Italian and raised a family, worked as a consultant for the Italian government and the UN in sectors ranging from art theft to nutrition, from child abduction to high speed rail and the protection of Mafia witnesses.Then, aged 58, he ran the Rome marathon, and was hooked. The Last Carbonara chronicles his development from desk-bound invalid with a dodgy back to assured and stylish athlete doing one hundred miles a week, winning cups and prizes, beating Olympic gold medallists, outsprinting people half his age.This is a book about running in Italy, but it also a picture of a country, and a fast-paced account of the author's love-hate relationship with his adopted land. Stories of training and races on small Tuscan islands, in the heart of Rome, on the Amalfi coast or in Puglia are seamlessly interwoven with insights into Italy: how to buy the best fish, how Spartacus' defeated rebels were crucified, and how priceless antiquities are looted from old Etruscan tombs. We learn how on a calm evening the Captain of the Costa Concordia sailed a billion-dollar cruise liner into an island, and how Silvio Berlusconi kept himself out of jail through decades of bizarre sexual and financial misdoings.This is a book for anyone who has wished they could run among classical ruins, olive trees and turquoise seas, but it will appeal equally to non runners: anyone who has dreamed of a life in Italy or longed to understand the country. It is an insider's view of what Italians themselves call the bel paese - the beautiful country - by turns exuberantly comic, darkly misanthropic, and self-mocking, and above all a lyrical and poignant evocation of the beauty and the transience of human life.

The Last Carbonara: Running in Italy

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Independently published

Rome, 66 AD, the end of the murderous reign of the vicious Emperor Nero. As plots and informers proliferate, and the emperor embarks on a ruthless purge of his enemies, Titus - charming, talented and utterly unscrupulous - is determined to climb to the top. He spins his web for Mita, the beautiful young daughter of the famous general Corbulo, but with schemer and victim helplessly attracted to each other, events soon spiral out of his control.When Nero dies the great empire descends into chaos and civil war, while a savage rebellion breaks out in Judea. Both Titus and Mita will be tested to their limits: he in a bloody campaign of siege warfare, culminating in the apocalyptic destruction of Jerusalem and the burning of its famous temple, she in a desperate struggle against another, more insidious predator: the repulsive, avaricious Lamia. Corbulo's Daughter is the sensational first volume of the Flavian Trilogy, which charts the rise and fall of a dynasty, from the death of Nero through the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii to the mysterious assassination that ends it all. <h4>Praise for Corbulo's Daughter</h4> "Fantastic: a work of fiction that seamlessly combines period detail and wonderful characterisation." Tom Holland, author of Rubicon and Dominion "I love this book in so many ways. The writing is sublime, the characters superbly drawn, the narrative utterly propulsive. The story has such a strong air of authenticity about it." Mark Mills, author of award-winning The Whaleboat House and n° 1 bestseller The Savage Garden.

Corbulo's Daughter (The Flavian Trilogy)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Port and Terminal Regulations 2015

Seamanship International Ltd

"A humdinging page-turner of a book" The Spectator "This book will give great pleasure" Country Life Traditional English rectories and vicarages have been neglected by the Church in the post-war years, but have become highly desirable to property buyers, and are now cherished by their new private owners. They combine many coveted qualities: their fine architecture, their air of civilisation, their charm and character, the traditional values and the essential "Englishness" they evoke, their large gardens and often splendidly rural locations. This book is about these fine houses, their place in English history and the history of the Church, their architecture, their architects, their contribution to our culture, and their sometimes eccentric occupants-both clerical and secular. This new edition has includes additional material and 68 plates (most of which are in full colour).

Sacristy Press

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Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Justice Under Fire: Abuse of Civil Liberties in Northern Ireland

Justice Under Fire: Abuse of Civil Liberties in Northern Ireland

The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage

The Last Carbonara: Running in Italy

Corbulo's Daughter (The Flavian Trilogy)

Port and Terminal Regulations 2015

The Old Rectory: The Story of the English Parsonage