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Kevin Woods was sentenced to death in Zimbabwe and jailed for twenty years by Robert Mugabe. For more than five years of his detention he was held in the shadow of Mugabe's gallows, cut off from the world, naked and in solitary confinement. He had been a senior member of Mugabe's dreaded Central Intelligence Organization, the CIO, and was jailed for committing politically motivated offences, on behalf of the white South African government, against the ANC in Zimbabwe. From Mugabe's confidant to condemned prisoner he recounts his life on the edge, as a double agent. He explains the desolation o

Foreword -- Preface -- A note on sources -- Introduction -- An overview of the Gulf War from the U.S. perspective -- The diplomatic background -- The air war -- The ground war -- The 'victory' at al-Khafji -- The beginning : Saddam's narrative -- A long view -- The Iran-Iraq war as precursor -- The coming war of the elephant -- Saddam's strategic calculations -- Kuwait -- The view of senior Ba'thists -- Restoring the branch to the tree -- Planning an invasion -- Preparing the republican guard -- Iraqi airpower 'confidence abounds' -- The Iraqi navy's mission : a daunting task -- Yum al-nida (day of the great call) -- The invasion -- The Iraqi Navy -- Iraqi airpower : weaknesses exposed -- The republican guard's Blitzkrieg -- Occupation and consolidation -- A new historical juncture -- Extending Ba'ath control -- Reaction and Iraqi counteraction -- The Arab world -- The Iranians -- The international community -- The Americans -- The Iraqi plan for the defense of Kuwait -- Assessing the coalition threat -- First priority : prepare for a long air campaign -- Preparing a naval defense -- The ground defense concept -- Air force and air defense -- Surface-to-surface missile forces -- Unconventional preparations -- Iraq's net assessment of the coming war -- Um al-ma'arik (the mother of all battles) -- The air campaign -- Their defeated gathering -- The ground campaign -- The end-of-the-epic duel -- The unilateral cease fire -- The uprisings -- Iraqi lessons learned -- Saddam's strategic lessons of the war -- Epilogue : insights from the Iraqi perspective -- Appendix a : timeline -- Appendix b : key personalities -- Acronyms and abbreviations

Integrated health care is a key policy aim of Scotland's newly devolved government. 'Partnership working' is the mechanism that has been selected to achieve this goal. Three illustrative examples of health care integration models developed in Scotland are considered; system organisation and structure; Local Health Care Co-operatives (LHCCs); and Managed Clinical Networks. Using these examples the paper explores the nature of 'partnership' and asks if it can deliver integrated care.

Integrated health care is a key policy aim of Scotland's newly devolved government. 'Partnership working' is the mechanism that has been selected to achieve this goal. Three illustrative examples of health care integration models developed in Scotland are considered; system organisation and structure; Local Health Care Co-operatives (LHCCs); and Managed Clinical Networks. Using these examples the paper explores the nature of 'partnership' and asks if it can deliver integrated care.

This book, originally published in 1983, drawing material from Europe, the USA, the Soviet Union and the Developing World, provides a comprehensive review of the key issues in medical geography. It sets the central problems of medical geography in a broad social context as well as in a spatial one and analyses changing conceptions of health and illness in detail. It also explores the pathological relationship between people and their environment and illustrates that social phenomena form spatial patterns which provide a good starting point for the examination of the relationship between medici

Many adopted children face challenges at school and college which adversely affect their experience and attainment. Without effective post-adoption support, they are at an increased risk of being excluded from or opting out of education. While this has been confirmed by research, there has been less discussion of the problems children face and the services they find helpful. This is especially the case for those over the age of 16 (the statutory school leaving age in the UK). To explore this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five adopted young people aged between 16 and 19. A thematic analysis of their responses identified four factors that help them continue in post-16 education: (1) a positive self-identity; (2) supportive people; (3) supportive approaches; and (4) supportive systems. Participants identified the benefits of staff appreciating the needs of adopted children and the features that promote an 'adoption-friendly' ethos in schools and colleges. The implications of these observations for understanding the educational needs of adopted young people, practice development and future research are discussed. Attention is drawn to the importance of multi-agency work and the role of adopted young people in steering and co-producing effective support in educational settings.