Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? & where could it be had the UN s member states & staff performed better? These fundamental questions are explored by the leading analyst of UN history & politics Thomas G Weiss in this hard-hitting authoritative book While counterfactuals are often dismissed as academic contrivances they can serve to focus the mind; & here Weiss uses them to ably demonstrate the pluses & minuses of multilateral cooperation He is not shy about UN achievements & failures drawn from its ideas & operations in its three substantive pillars of activities international peace & security; human rights & humanitarian action; & sustainable development But he argues the inward-looking & populist movements in electoral politics worldwide make robust multilateralism more not less compelling The selection of Antonio Guterres as the ninth UN secretary-general should rekindle critical thinking about the potential for international cooperation There is a desperate need to reinvigorate & update rather than jettison the United Nations in responding to threats from climate change to pandemics from proliferation to terrorism Weiss tells you why & how ...

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This volume in the new Core Curriculum series from the WOCN (R) Society covers Ostomy Management & is the crucial text for nurses practicing or studying ostomy patient care It offers pathology & physiology basics in easy-to-grasp terms while providing expert guidance on patient management The perfect study guide for the wound ostomy & continence (WOC) certification exams it also provides step-by-step direction on essential nursing procedures The evidence-based easy-to-follow format of Wound Ostomy & Continence Nurses Society (TM) Core Curriculum Wound Management facilitates your comprehension of o Anatomy & physiology of the GI & urinary tracts o The disease states that lead to a fecalurinary stoma o Fecal or urinary stoma construction o Fecal or urinary diversion Step-by-step instruction leads you through care planning & delivery including management of stoma & peristomal complications & end-of-chapter Q&A helps you remember all vital points Practical directions cover o Preoperative care for patients undergoing fecal or urinary diversion o Postoperative nursing assessment & management o New surgical procedures & pouching techniques o Patient education o Rehabilitation issues o Ostomy patient needs including assessment & management of pediatric patients Wound Ostomy & Continence Nurses Society (TM) Core Curriculum Ostomy Management is essential for nursing students in ostomy care programs; nurses caring for patients with an ostomy; nurses in gastroenterology urology & surgical nursing; graduate nursing students; those seeking WOC certification or recertification; & nursing faculty Also available as an e-book at other major retailers ...

A family story of blood & memory & the haunting power of the past A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war It is a family story of war & love & how the ghosts of the past return to shape the present Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising & in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922 It is the story of Keane's grandmother Hannah Purtill her brother Mick & his friend Con Brosnan & how they & their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire & create an independent Ireland & it is the story of another Irishman Tobias O' Sullivan who fought against them as a policeman because he believed it was his duty to uphold the law of his country Many thousands of people took part in the War of Independence & the Civil War that followed Whatever side they chose all were changed in some way by the costs of violence Keane uses the experiences of his ancestral homeland in north Kerry to examine why people will kill for a cause & how the act of killing reverberates through the generations ...

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