A lively inside account of Putin's years of rule & the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia & the former Soviet republics conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends foes & colleagues government officials business tycoons mobsters & ordinary Russian citizens Fragile Empire is the fruit of Judah's thorough research a probing assessment of Putin's rise to power & what it has meant for Russia & her people Despite a propaganda program intent on maintaining the cliche of stability Putin's regime was suddenly confronted in December 2011 by a highly public protest movement that told a different side of the story Judah argues that Putinism has brought economic growth to Russia but also weaker institutions & this contradiction leads to instability The author explores both Putin's successes & his failed promises taking into account the impact of a new middle class & a new generation the Internet social activism & globalization on the president's impending leadership crisis Can Russia avoid the crisis of Putinism? Judah offers original & up-to-the-minute answers ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT’S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons recalling some of the most remarkable & poignant cases he’s worked on Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon’s shoulder A slip of the hand & life ebbs away The balance between life & death is so delicate & the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two In the operating room there is no time for doubt It is flesh blood rib-retractors & pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it An off-day can have dire consequences – this job has a steep learning curve & the cost is measured in human life Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart Professor Stephen Westaby took chances & pushed the boundaries of heart surgery He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career & now in his astounding memoir Westaby details some of his most remarkable & poignant cases – such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome & a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years A powerful important & incredibly moving book Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating & sometimes tragic world of heart surgery & how it feels to hold someone’s life in your hands ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES NO2 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT’S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons recalling some of the most remarkable & poignant cases he’s worked on Grim Reaper sits on the heart surgeon’s shoulder A slip of the hand & life ebbs away The balance between life & death is so delicate & the heart surgeon walks that rope between the two In the operating room there is no time for doubt It is flesh blood rib-retractors & pumping the vital organ with your bare hand to squeeze the life back into it An off-day can have dire consequences – this job has a steep learning curve & the cost is measured in human life Cardiac surgery is not for the faint of heart Professor Stephen Westaby took chances & pushed the boundaries of heart surgery He saved hundreds of lives over the course of a thirty-five year career & now in his astounding memoir Westaby details some of his most remarkable & poignant cases – such as the baby who had suffered multiple heart attacks by six months old a woman who lived the nightmare of locked-in syndrome & a man whose life was powered by a battery for eight years A powerful important & incredibly moving book Fragile Lives offers an exceptional insight into the exhilarating & sometimes tragic world of heart surgery & how it feels to hold someone’s life in your hands ...

Neil Gaiman's extraordinary Fragile Things from the bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane & American Gods reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his powers & harnesses the Gothic power of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber to the storytelling genius of Stephen King ' The collections also boasts lush prose & a winning faith in the enchantment of stories' Kirkus Reviews The distinctive genius of Neil Gaiman has been championed by writers as diverse as Norman Mailer & Stephen King With THE SANDMAN Neil Gaiman created one of the most sophisticated intelligent & influential graphic novel series of our time Now Gaiman has produced FRAGILE THINGS his second collection of short fiction These stories will dazzle your senses haunt your imagination & move you to the very depths of your soul ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Shots ring out & the early morning tranquility of a diner shatters AS survivors pick up the pieces they find themselves transforming in the most unexpected ways as they cope with the aftermath One brief moment & their lives are changed forever Actors Forest Whitaker Kate Beckinsale Guy Pearce James Babson Jacquie Barnbrook Ankur Bhatt Kevin Cooney Embeth Davidtz & Michael Drummond Director Rowan Woods Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An FBI agent is approached by a young man who claims his brother is a serial killer The agent follows the man to his home only to find that neither evil nor innocence are what they seem ...

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Resilience engineering has consistently argued that safety is more than the absence of failures Since the first book was published in 2006 several book chapters & papers have demonstrated the advantage in going behind 'human error' & beyond the failure concept just as a number of serious accidents have accentuated the need for it But there has not yet been a comprehensive method for doing so; the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) fulfils that need Whereas commonly used methods explain events by interpreting them in terms of an already existing model the FRAM is used to model the functions that are needed for everyday performance to succeed This model can then be used to explain specific events by showing how functions can be coupled & how the variability of everyday performance sometimes may lead to unexpected & out-of-scale outcomes
- either good or bad The FRAM is based on four principles equivalence of failures & successes approximate adjustments emergence & functional resonance As the FRAM is a method rather than a model it makes no assumptions about how the system under investigation is structured or organised nor about possible causes & cause-effect relations Instead of looking for failures & malfunctions the FRAM explains outcomes in terms of how functions become coupled & how everyday performance variability may resonate This book presents a detailed & tested method that can be used to model how complex & dynamic socio-technical systems work to understand why things sometimes go wrong but also why they normally succeed
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