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  • Where Are You This Time?

    Making a Difference in Places from Kabul to Kiev, Kosovo to Kazakhstan and Kismayo to Qatar

    by Mary Venner ...
    Mary Venner gave up a secure job to travel to the other side of the world to work in foreign aid. She soon discovered that it isn’t always about feeding the hungry and tending the sick. It’s also about red tape and regulation, spreadsheets, computers and accounting.Mary arrived in Kosovo in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars and found a new career providing advice to politicians and government ... Read more

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  • Where Are You This Time?

    by Mary Venner ...
    Mary Venner gave up a secure job and travelled to the other side of the world to work in foreign aid. Her work took her to places that are now daily headline news, including Ukraine, Afghanistan and Somalia. Where Are You This Time? provides a first-hand account of what life is like in these countries. With a wry sense of humour it describes the strange working conditions, the challenges of ... Read more

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  • Donors, technical assistance and public administration in Kosovo

    by Mary Venner ...
    Series series Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches
    The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country. The United Nations, other major multinational organisations and many large bilateral aid donors all played a role in restoring stability and establishing governance in the territory. This book looks beyond the apparently united and generally self-congratulatory ... Read more

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  • Discovering Roman Spain

    A guide to side trips and excursions to the best Roman sites in Spain. Spain was an important part of the Roman Empire for almost 700 years. Evidence of Roman occupation can be found almost everywhere. This guide describes some of the most interesting archaeological sites from Roman and pre-Roman history, why they are important, and how you can visit them today. Learn about the Iberians, ... Read more

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    The highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth.Award-winning foreign correspondent Eric Campbell has been stoned by fundamentalists, captured by US Special Forces, arrested in Serbia and threatened with expulsion from China. He's negotiated dating rituals in Moscow, shared a house with a charismatic mercenary in Kabul and taken up smoking at ... Read more

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    North Korea remains one of the last bastions of old-style communism: a military dictatorship, ruled with an iron grip for the last sixty years by the Kim dynasty. Every aspect of society is rigidly controlled; a country of paranoia, propaganda, and juche.Irish Engineer, Dualta Roughneen, experienced the trials and tribulations of North Korea from 2004 to 2007 as an aid agency worker - keeping ... Read more

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    by Shile Khumalo ...
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  • Azerbaijan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

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    For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, only made its way on to the contemporary world map after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the world shrinks and competition for precious resources intensifies, the direction this strategically and economically ... Read more

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  • Rebel Without Borders

    This is a true story. Marc Vachon was born in Montreal in 1963. He went from one foster home to another. He knows the injustices that the weak must suffer in any society. He knows the violence, the abuse, and the emptiness that life can offer in so-called developed countries. He dealt with it the only way possible: through drugs and crime. He turned into "a bad egg" as he puts it. Until the day ... Read more

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