Examining the successes, failures, possibilities & limitations of efforts across rural Kenya, this book analyses the socioeconomic & institutional prerequisites for decentralization, & the role of community groups & producer organizations in reducing poverty & promoting empowerment. ...

Decentralization has become a fashionable policy prescription among reformers in Latin America. But how does it work in practice? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the experience of seven medium-sized provincial towns in Colombia & Chile. ...

Encourages scholars & practitioners to rethink the relationships between leisure, social policy, & human development. This work questions how & why we have come to value paid employment as the marker of social success & individual self-worth, & investigates the role that leisure might play in its stead. ...

A famous writer & his mistress meet in a room without a bed. They talk, they play games with each other, they have sex, they tell lies. This work since " Complaint", explores adultery & the unmasking of illicit lovers in a novel that exposes the tenderness & uncertainty underlying all affairs of the heart. ...

Thriller starring Hugh Jackman & Ewan Mc Gregor. Jonathan Mc Quarry (Mc Gregor) is an accountant who is growing tired of his mundane life. When his new lawyer friend, Wyatt Bose (Jackman), introduces him to an underground sex club known as The List, he becomes besotted by a mysterious woman known as 'S' (Michelle Williams). However, Jonathan's life is turned upside down when the woman vanishes & he is named as the prime suspect in her disappearance. ...