The commonwealth jul 2021 (3 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Fresh off his success revealing the pernicious Syndicate operations in Newport, Kentucky, detailed in his book Syndicate Wife and later Razzle Dazzle, Hank Messick came to the Miami Herald in 1963 to write about organized crime in south Florida. Syndicate in the Sun is the inside story of vice and corruption on the Gold Coast, of Miami gone wild, told by a no-holds-barred journalist. It is a story of corrupt politicians in the 1960s, perhaps rivaled only by the law enforcement leadership they put in place. This is the Dade County you've never seen and never want to see. While headlines and front page photos showed gambling houses being taken down, Dade County's finest were allegedly raking in the profits from those houses under their protection. Exposing both the Mob and its partnerships with law enforcement put Messick in grave danger. That he managed to survive is a story in itself.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An eleven-year-old boy's struggle to survive the shocking death of his father. After three long years of misery and torment, the grieving boy senses happiness within his grasp and passionately reaches for it. But his mentally-deranged mother has other plans. She wants her son to wallow in misery with her and unleashes her worst mental and verbal attacks she can conjure up to keep him down. But the boy is too smart for her. He knows his mother is a genuine nutcase and easily overcomes her devious plot. After his mother realizes she has failed to subdue her son, she begins to devise ways to get rid of him. She laces chocolate truffles with potassium cyanide for the boy's dessert at school. Luckily for the boy, he tastes one but they are too sweet, so he decides to give them to his begging classmates for lunch. To his horror death falls upon his classmates. His life is on the line when staff and students both turn on him. He scarcely escapes death as the police come just in time to save him. He is released in his mother's custody. She attempts to convince both the police and the boy he committed the crime to take the blame off herself. The boy's bad dreams turn into his worst nightmare. Then the implacable struggle for survival begins.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Deepening intra-Commonwealth trade and investment can help drive economic growth, create jobs and increase the prosperity of Commonwealth citizens. Commonwealth countries' trade and investment have been affected significantly by COVID-19.The theme of Commonwealth Trade Review 2021 is Energising Commonwealth Trade in a Digital World: Paths to Recovery Post-COVID. This edition presents new empirical findings about the impact of the pandemic and practical recommendations to boost trade recovery and build resilience, especially by harnessing digital trade and digital technologies, utilising post-Brexit trading opportunities and promoting more sustainable green and blue economies.…