Flashbacks: Icons of Impermanence - Couverture souple

Karmiloff, Igor

 
9781425999032: Flashbacks: Icons of Impermanence
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1425999034 ISBN 13 : 9781425999032
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2008

Synopsis

These memoirs cover the author's first fourty eventful years in China, the USA, Latin America, and Europe. Boyhood and adolescence in Shanghai--within a mixed White Russian and British colonial environment-- has the Sino-Japanese hostilities as the background. Good fortune led to work, first with UNRRA in China, then with the United Nations Secretariat in New York as a conference interpreter with evening courses in Columbia, the New School and New York Universities. Mission assignments were filled with cultural discoveries and amorous adventures, as well as acquaintance with many news-making personalities. These events are supported by some fifty illustrations.

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Biographie de l'auteur

The author is a retired UN staff member. Having worked as a simultaneous interpreter while attending university courses in journalism and development economics in New York and Paris, he spent over twenty years as first, research economist, then development programmer/planner and finally commercial policy adviser to the least developed group of countries. In the course of fieldwork, he contributed to writing two national 5-year plans, analysed the performance and shortcomings of over 15 countries, wrote several articles in "KYKLOS" on Soviet planning techniques and lectured widely at international seminars and university conferences on developmental policy problems. In particular, he wrote chapters on Zambia and Cameroon in "Manufacturing Africa" (Ed; R.Riddell) and several Working Papers for the Overseas Development Institute (London).

Présentation de l'éditeur

These memoirs cover the author's first fourty eventful years in China, the USA, Latin America, and Europe. Boyhood and adolescence in Shanghai--within a mixed White Russian and British colonial environment-- has the Sino-Japanese hostilities as the background. Good fortune led to work, first with UNRRA in China, then with the United Nations Secretariat in New York as a conference interpreter with evening courses in Columbia, the New School and New York Universities. Mission assignments were filled with cultural discoveries and amorous adventures, as well as acquaintance with many news-making personalities. These events are supported by some fifty illustrations.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1425999034
ISBN 13 
9781425999032
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
156
Coordonnées du fabricant
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