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The body library : a Nyquist mystery
\"In a city where words come to life and reality is infected by stories, private eye John Nyquist wakes up in a room with a dead body... The dead man's impossible whispers plunge him into a murder investigation like no other. Clues point him deeper into an unfolding story infesting its participants as reality blurs between place and genre. Only one man can hope to put it all together, enough that lives can be saved... That man is Nyquist, and he is lost.\"--Publisher's website.
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Twilight policing
South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers—a specific type of private security officer—and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something \"twilight.\" Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and they work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately, Twilight Policing helps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process.
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The role and impact of public-private partnerships in education
Enhancing the role of private sector partners in education can lead to significant improvements in education service delivery. However, the realization of such benefits depends in great part on the design of the partnership between the public and private sectors, on the overall regulatory framework of the country, and on the governmental capacity to oversee and enforce its contracts with the private sector. Under the right terms, private sector participation in education can increase efficiency, choice, and access to education services, particularly for students who tend to fail in traditional education settings. Private-for-profit schools across the world are already serving a vast range of usersâ€\"from elite families to children in poor communities. Through balanced public-private partnerships (PPPs) in education, governments can leverage the specialized skills offered by private organizations as well as overcome operating restrictions such as salary scales and work rules that limit public sector responses. 'The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education' presents a conceptualization of the issues related to PPPs in education, a detailed review of rigorous evaluations, and guidleines on how to create successful PPPs. The book shows how this approach can facilitate service delivery, lead to additional financing, expand equitable access, and improve learning outcomes. The book also discusses the best way to set up these arrangements in practice. This information will be of particular interest to policymakers, teachers, researchers, and development practitioners.
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Classic light aircraft : an illustrated look, 1920s to the present
\"A visual celebration of the wise and colorful variety of the world's light aircraft, old and new, organized from A to Z by manufacturer, this book illustrates more than 800 light aircraft types that are likely to be seen when visiting smaller airports and airfields across the globe.\" -- from jacket.
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States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security
Recent years have seen a growing role for private military contractors in national and international security. To understand the reasons for this, Elke Krahmann examines changing models of the state, the citizen and the soldier in the UK, the US and Germany. She focuses on both the national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for the democratic control over the legitimate use of armed force. Tracing developments and debates from the late eighteenth century to the present, she explains the transition from the centralized warfare state of the Cold War era to the privatized and fragmented security governance, and the different national attitudes to the privatization of force.
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No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal
Against the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls back the curtain on the selective college experience and takes a rigorous and comprehensive look at how race and social class impact each stage--from application and admission, to enrollment and student life on campus. Arguing that elite higher education contributes to both social mobility and inequality, the authors investigate such areas as admission advantages for minorities, academic achievement gaps tied to race and class, unequal burdens in paying for tuition, and satisfaction with college experiences. The book's analysis is based on data provided by the National Survey of College Experience, collected from more than nine thousand students who applied to one of ten selective colleges between the early 1980s and late 1990s. The authors explore the composition of applicant pools, factoring in background and \"selective admission enhancement strategies\"--including AP classes, test-prep courses, and extracurriculars--to assess how these strengthen applications. On campus, the authors examine roommate choices, friendship circles, and degrees of social interaction, and discover that while students from different racial and class circumstances are not separate in college, they do not mix as much as one might expect. The book encourages greater interaction among student groups and calls on educational institutions to improve access for students of lower socioeconomic status.
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Revealed to him
Handsome and tough Jake Tanner, a veteran and the owner of a successful security firm, never lets his past hold him back. Despite his prosthetic hand and foot, women swoon over him--and with him between the sheets. Yet Jake feels bored and restless... until he's hired to protect a beautiful writer whose life is in terrible danger. Self-imprisoned by the fear of the anonymous stalkers who threaten her life, video-game writer Natalie Beck now only dreams of the world outside her pink-bedecked apartment. Trusting people again is off-limits. But the more time Jake spends with her, the more his professional commitment evolves from simple duty to scorching desire. While deeply sensual sparks ignite between the two, the danger outside circles closer. Will Jake's intense devotion be enough to save Natalie? Or will she turn away from the one man willing to do anything to save her?
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Outsourcing War
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private
military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services,
training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing
War , Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved
in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether
they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical
prosecution of warfare. Her concern is with the ius in bello (right
conduct in war) strand of just war theory.
Just war theorizing is generally built on the assumption that
states, and states alone, wield a monopoly on the legitimate use of
force. Who holds responsibility for the actions of PMCs? What
ethical standards might they be required to observe? How might
deviations from such standards be punished? The privatization of
warfare poses significant challenges because of its reliance on a
statist view of the world. Eckert argues that the tradition of just
war theory-which predates the international system of states-can
evolve to apply to this changing world order. With an eye toward
the practical problems of military command, Eckert delves into
particular cases where PMCs have played an active role in armed
conflict and derives from those cases the modifications necessary
to apply just principles to new agents in the landscape of war.
Recent decades have seen an increasing reliance on private
military contractors (PMCs) to provide logistical services,
training, maintenance, and combat troops. In Outsourcing
War , Amy E. Eckert examines the ethical implications involved
in the widespread use of PMCs, and in particular questions whether
they can fit within customary ways of understanding the ethical
prosecution of warfare. Her concern is with the ius in
bello (right conduct in war) strand of just war theory.Just
war theorizing is generally built on the assumption that states,
and states alone, wield a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
Who holds responsibility for the actions of PMCs? What ethical
standards might they be required to observe? How might deviations
from such standards be punished? The privatization of warfare poses
significant challenges because of its reliance on a statist view of
the world. Eckert argues that the tradition of just war
theory-which predates the international system of states-can evolve
to apply to this changing world order. With an eye toward the
practical problems of military command, Eckert delves into
particular cases where PMCs have played an active role in armed
conflict and derives from those cases the modifications necessary
to apply just principles to new agents in the landscape of war.
eBook