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Prologue: Franz Josef -- The Originals -- Le Ray's Run -- The Bad Boys' Camp -- Goon-Baiting -- Ballet Nonsense -- Le Métro -- Clutty of MI9 -- Seeking for a Path -- Dogsbody -- The Prominente Club -- Shabash -- The Dentist Spies -- Madness -- The Sparrows -- The Red Fox -- The Rhine Maiden -- Besieged -- Endgame.

"In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with a slight foreign accent. By all accounts, she seemed to be living a simple, unassuming life. Her neighbors in the village knew little about her. They didn't know that she was a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer. They didn't know that her husband was also a spy, or that she was running powerful agents across Europe. Behind the facade of her picturesque life, Burton was a dedicated Communist, a Soviet colonel, and a veteran agent, gathering the scientific secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the bomb. This true-life spy story is a masterpiece about the woman code-named "Sonya." Over the course of her career, she was hunted by the Chinese, the Japanese, the Nazis, MI5, MI6, and the FBI--and she evaded them all. Her story reflects the great ideological clash of the twentieth century--between Communism, Fascism, and Western democracy--and casts new light on the spy battles and shifting allegiances of our own times. With unparalleled access to Sonya's diaries and correspondence and never-before-seen information on her clandestine activities, Ben Macintyre has conjured a page-turning history of a legendary secret agent, a woman who influenced the course of the Cold War and helped plunge the world into a decades-long standoff between nuclear superpowers." - Amazon.com

Conventional wisdom holds that "institutions matter." Here, Andrew MacIntyre reveals exactly how they matter in the developing world. Combining an eye for current concerns in international politics with a deep knowledge of Southeast Asia, MacIntyre explores the impact of institutions on effective governance. He examines the "national political architecture"—the complex of rules that determine how leadership of a state is constituted and how state authority is exercised. The Power of Institutions sets out an intriguing conundrum: one well-established body of literature decries the evils of highly centralized political systems, while an equally vigorous school of thought outlines the dangers of political fragmentation. MacIntyre presents the problems associated with institutional extremes, common in developing countries, as the "power concentration paradox." Either extreme is likely to be associated with distinctive governance problems. MacIntyre illustrates his wider arguments by focusing on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. He shows how their diverse political architectures influenced their responses to the Asian economic crisis and played into pressures for political reform. The Power of Institutions makes clear why the configuration of political institutions is one of the most pressing challenges in many parts of the developing world today

From the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS 'Impeccably researched, superbly told - by far the best book on the SAS in World War II' - Antony Beevor In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, came up with a plan that was radical and entirely against the rules: a small undercover unit that would inflict mayhem behind enemy lines. Despite intense opposition, Winston Churchill personally gave Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he could find. So began the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. Now, 75 years later, the SAS has finally decided to tell its astonishing story. It has opened its secret archives for the first time, granting historian Ben Macintyre full access to a treasure trove of unseen reports, memos, diaries, letters, maps and photographs, as well as free rein to interview surviving Originals and those who knew them. The result is an exhilarating tale of fearlessness and heroism, recklessness and tragedy; of extraordinary men who were willing to take monumental risks. It is a story about the meaning of courage

Review of the first edition:'This book provides a very accessible approach to building a better understanding of young children and their development and will be an interesting and useful read for both experienced early years practitioners and for students who are just beginning to build their practical experience.' - Early Years Update This highly practical and fully updated new edition is full of case studies and helpful advice on how to enhance our understanding of very young children. Through working with many practitioners in different settings, Christine Macintyre offers down-to-earth s

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue to the Third Edition After Virtue After a Quarter of a Century -- Preface -- Chapter 1 A Disquieting Suggestion -- Chapter 2 The Nature of Moral Disagreement Today and the Claims of Emotivism -- Chapter 3 Emotivism: Social Content and Social Context -- Chapter 4 The Predecessor Culture and the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality -- Chapter 5 Why the Enlightenment Project of Justifying Morality had to Fail -- Chapter 6 Some Consequences of the Failure of the Enlightenment Project -- Chapter 7 'Fact', Explanation and Expertise -- Chapter 8 The Character of Generalizations in Social Science and their Lack of Predictive Power -- Chapter 9 Nietzsche or Aristotle? -- Chapter 10 The Virtues in Heroic Societies -- Chapter 11 The Virtues at Athens -- Chapter 12 Aristotle's Account of the Virtues -- Chapter 13 Medieval Aspects and Occasions -- Chapter 14 The Nature of the Virtues -- Chapter 15 The Virtues, the Unity of a Human Life and the Concept of a Tradition -- Chapter 16 From the Virtues to Virtue and After Virtue -- Chapter 17 Justice as a Virtue: Changing Conceptions -- Chapter 18 After Virtue: Nietzsche or Aristotle, Trotsky and St Benedict -- Chapter 19 Postscript to the Second Edition -- The relationship of philosophy to history -- The virtues and the issue of relativism -- The relationship of moral philosophy to theology -- Bibliography -- Index.