When a murder suspect commits suicide after his arrest for killing a soybean farmer, Virgil Flowers uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.

When a Washington psychiatrist is found dead in his office, Mackenzie Smith is called in to defend one of his patients who has become a suspect. Then information emerges that links the slain shrink to a highly secret CIA mind control project. A programmed assassin strikes and kills the wildly popular frontrunner in the presidential race. As a result of the assassination, the other government agencies have become aware of the rogue CIA program. They...

L'État moderne est un acteur économique omniprésent. Tantt pourvoyeur de fonds, tantt emprunteur ou investisseur et, de plus en plus fréquemment, commerçant, il est aussi l'employeur majeur. Bien peu de secteurs de la vie économique d'une société échappent ainsi à cet État-providence dont l'envergure couvre tous les aspects d'une société ainsi que tous les moments de la vie d'une personne. Le paradoxe des finances publiques, c'est la...

After retiring from professional football, John positioned himself to become a thriving entrepreneur, especially in the petroleum business. In less than three years, he rose to become a Congressionally Acclaimed Top Rated Minority Businessman. Nonetheless, he began noticing indifferent actions from the US Small Business Administration's certified investor who funded John's company. After denials from government officials in John's home state of Tennessee,...

Author "paints a complex and compelling portrait of a generous-hearted but troubled young woman whose dreams of romance had unimaginable consequences." - book jacket.

Since 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched numerous programs aimed at improving health conditions around the globe, ranging from efforts to eradicate smallpox to education programs about the health risks of smoking. In setting global health priorities and carrying out initiatives, the WHO bureaucracy has faced the challenge of reconciling the preferences of a small minority of wealthy nations, who fund the organization, with the...

In Borders among Activists, Sarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. Instead, at the most globally active, purportedly cosmopolitan groups in the world-international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs)-organizational practices are deeply tied to national environments, creating great diversity in the way these groups organize themselves, engage in advocacy,...

La coopération internationale solidaire est plus pertinente que jamais dans la conjoncture mondiale. C'est ce que démontre Paul Cliche en traitant des conséquences du modèle de développement néolibéral, puis en présentant la situation fragile d'organismes de coopération internationale au Québec en regard de la crise de la coopération solidaire au Nord, mais aussi la vitalité d'organisations de la société civile du Sud qui arrivent à...

"Not since the inimitable Aaliya of An Unnecessary Woman has Rabih Alameddine conjured such a winsome heroine to lead us to one of the most wrenching conflicts of our time. Cunningly weaving in stories of other refugees into Mina's singular own, The Wrong End of the Telescope is a bedazzling tapestry of both tragic and amusing portraits of indomitable spirits facing a humanitarian crisis"-- "Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous...

The book sheds light on how Sberbank of Russia was transformed from the old-school institution with outlived Soviet practices into a decent member of the world's financial elite and one of the richest brands on the planet. Sberbank reform was an unprecedented event in the history of Russian business. Never before such a large post-Soviet has establishment undergone such a radical and total reorganization according to western patterns. Initiator of...