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Never Learn to Type
A fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Dame Margaret Anstee was born in the 1920s to a poor family in rural Essex. With the support of her parents and through her own determination, she graduated from Cambridge with first class honours, and entered the Foreign Office where she worked with the spy Donald Maclean shortly before his defection with Guy Burgess. Her career here ended as was customary at the time, when she married a diplomat and was posted to Singapore. As the marriage began to fail Margaret accepted a job at the United Nations in order to earn her fare back...
Never Learn to Type
This is the biography of the woman who rose from poverty to become the first and, to 2003, only woman to reach the rank of Under Secretary General at the United Nations. For four decades, Dame Margaret Anstee served the United Nations both at the New York.
Orphan of the Cold War
This is the personal story of Dame Margaret Anstee's experiences as Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Angola and Head of the UN peacekeeping mission there from February 1992 to June 1993.
JB, an Unlikely Spanish Don
John Brande Trend - the first professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933 - arrived at his Chair by a circuitous route through a variety of disciplines, encountering a host of prominent people in pre-war political, cultural, and intellectual life. It was this wider experience that made his teaching so unique and makes his story central to the period through which he lived. At Cambridge, with the doomed generation who were to perish in the World War I, John Brande Trend studied Natural Sciences but fell under the spell of the musicologist Edward Dent, who became his lifelong friend. A brilliant linguist and musician, it was music that took Trend to Spain in 1919 to unearth ancient manuscripts a...
The House on the Sacred Lake and Other Bolivian Dreams -- and Nightmares
The House on the Sacred Lake describes how Margaret Anstee made her home in Bolivia after taking the job of UN resident representative in the country and began a love affair with Bolivia and its people that remains undimmed half a century later.
The United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme is the central network co-ordinating the work of the United Nations in over 160 developing countries. This 2006 book provides the first authoritative and accessible history of the Programme and its predecessors. Based on the findings of hundreds of interviews and archives in more than two dozen countries, Craig Murphy traces the history of the UNDP's organizational structure and mission, its relationship to the multilateral financial institutions, and the development of its doctrines. He argues that the principles on which the UNDP was founded remain as relevant in a world divided by terrorism as they were in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, as are the fundamental problems that have plagued the Programme from its origin, including the opposition of traditionally isolationist forces in the industrialized world.
Wiki Government
Collaborative democracy—government with the people—is a new vision of governance in the digital age. Wiki Government explains how to translate the vision into reality. Beth Simone Noveck draws on her experience in creating Peer-to-Patent, the federal government's first social networking initiative, to show how technology can connect the expertise of the many to the power of the few. In the process, she reveals what it takes to innovate in government. Launched in 2007, Peer-to-Patent connects patent examiners to volunteer scientists and technologists via the web. These dedicated but overtaxed officials decide which of the million-plus patent applications currently in the pipeline to appro...
Women at Work
Of interest to all women, especially those who want more from their lives and careers, this book features profiles of high-profile women who have achieved recognition in both their working and personal lives. It also contains tips on careers, salary reviews, stress in the workplace, and childcare.
