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Paul Kenny : Offensive incognito
Un seul pépin, dit Coplan, un petit pépin de rien du tout. Ces individus ignorent que les microfiches ultra-secrètes sont dispersées parmi les vingt-cinq mille fiches du classement général. C'est tout. À vous de tirer la conclusion. Un sourire sardonique étira la bouche volontaire du Vieux. - Comme canular, c'est excellent !
The Man Who Supercharged Bond
A close relation of Winston Churchill, Amherst Villiers is perhaps best known as the man who supercharged the Blower Bentley (which his close friend Ian Fleming had James Bond drive in Casino Royale and Moonraker). However, he also developed racing cars, designed Malcolm Campbell's first land speed record breaking Bluebird and made a return to front-line motor racing in the 1960s with BRM and in the 1970s with Graham Hill's eponymous Grand Prix team. He spent the best part of 30 years in North America working for the likes of Grumman, Douglas and Boeing on a variety of space projects. In his spare time, he was a society portrait painter, and his paintings of Fleming and Hill hang in the London's National Portrait Gallery.
Mexico's Security Failure
Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explain the failure there, but also reaches out to assess the impact of Mexico’s security failure beyond its borders. The key innovative idea of the book—security failure—brings these perspectives together on an intermestic level of analysis. It is a view that runs counter to the standard emphasis on the external, trans-national nature of criminal threats to a largely inert state. Mexico’s Security Failure is both timely, with Mexico much in the news, but also of lasting value. It explains Mexican insecurity in a full-dimensional manner that hasn’t been attempted before. Mexico received much scholarly attention a decade ago with the onset of democratization. Since then, the leading topic has become immigration. However, the security environment compelling many Mexicans to leave has been dramatically understudied. This tightly organized volume begins to correct that gap.
Populism and Patronage
Populist rule is bad for democracy, yet in country after country, populists are being voted into office. Populism and Patronage shows that the populists such as Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi win elections when the institutionalized ties between non-populist parties and voters decay. Yet, the explanations for this decay differ across different types of party system. Populism and Patronage focuses on the particular vulnerability of patronage-based party systems to populism. Patronage-based systems are ones in which parties depend on the distribution of patronage through a network of brokers to mobilize voters. Drawing on principal agent theory and social network theory, this book argues that...
Seaworks 1998-2013
Paul has for many years made studio works using material gathered from the landscape, stones, shells, and driftwood. In common with many people, always taking home treasures from the sea. For him, they act as an aide - memoir, bringing the landscape into the studio, a mere glimpse or touch recalling the feelings of being alone, being remote.
Reid and the Ripper
What type of person was Jack the Ripper? Why did he kill and mutilate six prostitutes in 1888? What was the motive for the crimes? Why was he never caught? This book does not name Jack the Ripper, but instead offers a unique insight into the mind of the Ripper and illustrates the harshness of life for many people in the East End of London at that time. It explains how a young criminal from Spitalfields, became the most infamous serial killer of all time. It reveals how his early life may have developed and the circumstances that led him to commit six murders over three months. The Ripper was born into poverty, neglect and abuse, resulting in a life of crime. But something else made him into ...
Populism in Southeast Asia
Conceiving of populism as the charismatic mobilization of a mass movement in pursuit of political power, this Element theorizes that populists thrive where ties between voters and either bureaucratic or clientelistic parties do not exist or have decayed. This is because populists' ability to mobilize electoral support directly is made much more likely by voters not being deeply embedded in existing party networks. This model is used to explain the prevalence of populism across the major states in post-authoritarian Southeast Asia: the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. It extracts lessons from these Southeast Asian cases for the study of populism.
Kenny Sansom: To Cap It All
Kenny Sansom enjoyed a glittering football career with Crystal Palace, Arsenal and England. However, away from the pitch, Kenny struggled with addictions to alcohol and gambling. In this book, he tells the story of both these sides of his life.
Man of the Sword
In 1918 a young American Army captain accepts an old man's invitation to sit with him on the train and soon discovers that his traveling companion is Thomas Francis Meagher who served with the Irish Brigade during the American Civil War. Through the recitations of this mysterious old man, we bear witness to times of sorrow and adventure across time and continents.
Baring My Soul
Kenny Thomas shot to fame in 1991 with the multi-platinum-selling album Voices, storming the music charts and the UK soul scene in the process. But what happened next? Read how he went on to do a Bachelor of Science Degree in Oriental Medicine whilst some in the music industry believed he had given everything up to live in a monastery. Then discover how his whole world fell apart when his daughter was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and was given just six months to live. Baring My Soul was released in 2021 and is now updated to bring Kenny and Christina's story right up to date as Kenny returns to the live music scene after COVID and there is an unexpected breakthrough for Christina. This is more than just a pop memoir. For the first time and in his own words, this is Kenny's story.
