This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, & political structures, Professor Sen provides a useful overview of the development process. ...

Suitable for policy-makers, who increasingly find themselves dealing with complex issues of growth, inequality, poverty, & social welfare, this book presents a synthesis of recent & older literature in the development economics & raises important questions that will help to set the agenda for future research. ...

Local government is at the forefront of development. In South Africa the ambitious policy objectives of post-apartheid reconstruction & development hinge on the successful creation of a democratic tier of government close to the people. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to developmental local government. ...

Offers a theory-driven approach to understanding human development from two perspectives
- the psychoanalytic & the cognitive.
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A master killer calling himself the Sandman is out for revenge in the USA. He's slaughtering not just one person but whole families & complete neighbourhoods, unleashing devastating explosions nationwide, & watching the horror unfold on a sophisticated network of surveillance cameras. No one know why he is committing his crimes. But Jack Casey
- ex-FBI profiler & now cop in a posh Boston suburb
- knows this: the Sandman wants him in the middle of the case, & wants him to suffer...even more than when a psychopath's unspeakable crime shattered his own life. Jack's lover knows nothing of his shocking past, but the Sandman has found him & his cutting-edge electronic devices are silently monitoring Jack's every move. Possible motivations for the Sandman's crimes come gradually to light, & Jack begins to wonder if the evil he is fighting emanated from his own side of the law... This book has 498 pages & is 19.7cm x 13cm x 3.2cm

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Gangster Stephen French invented the perfect crime: robbing drug barons of their huge fortunes. In SAS-style swoops, French raided their fortified mansions & tortured them with horrifying violence until they paid up. This work also reveals French's complex relationship with Curtis Warren, the wealthiest criminal in British history. ...

An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house. In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed: a human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens & bizarre figurines. Called to the scene is forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. She determines that the skull is that of a young, black female. ...

Details: An underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house. In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display
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Many will have heard of the ghostly white lady haunting Tavistock
- the notorious Mary Howard, accused of murdering her four husbands.
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As the First World War reaches its final year, an illicit love affair is beginning between a sixteen-year-old boy & a young woman married to a soldier at the front. They meet secretly in her flat on the outskirts of Paris, in cornfields & on river banks. When she receives letters from her husb&, they burn them together. ...