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Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader

anthony-burgess

Literature & Fiction

Arena Books

Buenos Aires . 22 cm. 438 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada.. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 950-15-0738-6

Franco Zeffirelli: The Autobiography

Franco Zeffirelli

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Markham, Beryl

Contemporary

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Rosenfeld, Albert

On the side of the apes

HAHN, Emily

This is not only a travel book but a documentary on inter-cultural relationships between the different races and nationalities comprising the huge expatriate population and native Arab residents of the oil-rich peninsula. The many characters portrayed, presented in a variety of authentic stories encountered by the author on his travels, are centred around the horrific event of a public stoning in Saudi Arabia. Some of the stories have a humorous flavour, but all are concerned with the human problems - many of them poignant - of expatriates and Arabs alike, living cheek by jowl in a society of gaping contrasts. The book is not merely a critique of the harsher aspects of Arab life from a Western perspective, for in the cause of future concord, the author calls for a dialogue between the cultures of the Middle East and the West in the name of social justice and modernization. The present strains, in what has become a multi-cultural society following the influx of millions, mostly from the Third World, anticipates the possibility of trouble in the future. The status of women is highlighted and discussed in several dramatic episodes, and a compassionate view is taken of Asian guest workers in the light of their widespread mistreatment in the Gulf. The rigidity of tradition would seem not merely to prevent the development of a modern mind-set, but in the perceived threat of Westernization, to trigger an even more regressive attitude as is shown clearly in this book. But note is also taken of the Arab outlook on the Western world, together with their horror of Western liberal values, and their passionate arguments for resisting change are recorded in detail. An element of mystery is maintained throughout the book as the execution of the condemned victim progresses through the narrative, only interrupted by recollections of other personalities and the stories surrounding them

Death in Riyadh: Dark Secrets in Hidden Arabia

Travel

Carter, Geoff

Asia

Ron Evans was probably the most notoroius Soviet spy of British nationality working out of Scandinavia in the post-war period. This is the full story of the Ron Evans spy case, told in all its drama and excitement as it occurred in the 1960s. Whilst on one hand Ron Evans was a leading radio engineer with a brilliant intellect, working on sensitive defence contracts; on the other, he was a determined and deft conspirator, manipulating a wide circle of oddly assorted people to achieve his illicit ends. KGB and MI6 agents play a prominent part in this story of seething conflict, an assassination attempt and death. Only now, in deference to the Thirty Year rule, is it possible to reveal the true facts behind this Cold War drama. Many nationalities and colourful individuals, including diplomats and an eccentric Finnish aristocrat, were involved in the complex intrigue surrounding Ron Evans' underhand activities. The author, who unwittingly found himself in conflict with the Soviet agent, was by a curious set of circumstances led into the role of spy-hunter, which eventually led to the arrest and conviction of Ron Evans. But that was not the end of the story. Worse was to follow. Due to an unfortunate turn of events, an MI6 agent who was implicated in a counter-plot found that his cover was blown and, following his capture and arrest by the authorities of a neutral power, Britain's entire Scandinavian intelligence network was brought crashing down.

My Conflict with a Soviet Spy: The Story of the Ron Evans Spy Case

Biographies & Memoirs

Miller, Eddie

True Crime

This is Robert Corfe's third book on the socio-economic philosophy of New Socialism. Whilst in the earlier books he laid down the theoretical foundations for New Socialist economic thinking and formulated a terminology in advancing ideas for a better world, in this book he concentrates on practical proposals for ensuring an efficient financial-industrial infrastructure which correlates also with a fair society.

New Socialist Business Values for Industrial Resurgence

Business & Money

Corfe, Robert

Economics

This is a step-by-step account of someone who was drawn into the financial services industry - despite initial scepticism - describing the sleight of hand and fraudulent promises used by a major company against its own prospective and actual sales staff. There are horrific stories of those inveigled into huge loans and second mortgages with no chances of repayment, and all cleverly pursued as part of the company's strategic policy. Ingenious psychological techniques are employed by this household name in the financial services field to ensure the entrapment of their sales associates, often leading to a ruinous debt situation and despair. The book reveals how basically decent and honest people, trusting in the overall integrity of the business process, are drawn into the industry, corrupted, and then made to act in a dishonest way - even if only unintentionally. The editor's introduction interprets the company's rationale as due to the fraudulent aspect of the financial services themselves, arising from the introduction of unit-linked policies fluctuating in line with the value of the unit trusts in which premiums are invested, as contrasted with the safe conventional policies of an earlier era. Consequently, the selling of new-style policies became dependent on computer models of past performance having little relevance with the real world in demonstrating the future. This is a criticism which goes far beyond the well-publicised "mis-selling" of personal pension plans, PEPs and other policies. In view of the high-risk nature of the policies themselves, the personality of prospective sales people needed to be broken down and made malleable in "living with", let alone promoting, questionable practices, whoch came to be perceived as the common norm of truth. Hype and inflated promises were used as a mask to cover deceitful aspects of the industry. The final chapter draws up proposals for safeguarding the unemployed - the main recruitment target of the industry and the most vulnerable sector of our population - and for reforming the financial services industry. The industry should be made into a profession with proper academic training, and the corrupting profit motive has to be removed if the public are to benefit from best advice.

Our Swindling Finance Houses: Their Exploitation of the Vulnerable

Tallice, Guy

Industries

Changes in society over the past 50 years call for a new type of Socialism, and this book presents a striking new dynamic to attract the 90 per cent majority in the industrialised economies of today.

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Politics & Social Sciences

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Politics & Government

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