Bill Dunn

Kathy Leonard

Devotions for Your Journey from Mourning to Joy

Through a Season of Grief

This book challenges both sides of the debate around international trade. Most mainstream economists advocate free trade as a mainstay of national and global prosperity. Meanwhile, many critics see trade causing inequality and poverty. Unfortunately, supporters and opponents share many assumptions about trade and the character of the international economy and produce similarly abstract and asocialized theories. Their propositions need to be investigated critically, and in doing so, this book begins the task of assessing when and how trade matters.

A Critical Political Economy of Trade Theory and Practice

Neither Free Trade Nor Protection

Bill Dunn considers and contests accounts of globalization and post-Fordism that see structural economic change in the late Twentieth-century as having fundamentally worsened the conditions and weakened the potential of labour. Including a comparative survey of restructuring in four major industries; automobiles, construction, microelectronics and finance, the book suggests the timing of change and its complex and contradictory nature undermine structural explanations of labour's situation. It redirects attention towards labour's political defeats and own institutional shortcomings.

Global Restructuring and the Power of Labour

James Patrick Donleavy

Gainor Crist

A. K. Donoghue

Showcasing for the first time 250 of renowned author J.P. Donleavy's most intimate letters, this scrupulously edited collection throws an extraordinary light on the composition, publication and afterlife of The Ginger Man -- the genesis of a masterpiece that went on to sell 60 million copies around the world. Spanning the late 1940s to the early 1980s, the letters chronicle the author's scandalous exchanges between Gainor Crist and Arthur Kenneth Donoghue, his Trinity College friends who inspired the infamous characters Sebastian Dangerfield and Kenneth O'Keefe. As well as providing a comprehensive picture of Donleavy and those closest to him, the book provides a glimpse of the lives of Donleavy, Crist and Donoghue as they venture into the wider world and encounter some of the twentieth century's most influential people along the way. The book features letters to writers Brendan Behan and William Nicholson; actors Richard Harris and Julie Andrews, and Donleavy's publishers Seymour Lawrence and Maurice Giordias amongst others. This unique collection, enriched by images and letter facsimiles, is sure to appeal to a new generation of Donleavy fans and scholars.

The Ginger Man Letters

Mark Bastable

A fiendishly clever compendium of questions to which you really ought to know the answers. So are the following true or false? *F. Scott Fitzgerald weighed the same as Edgar Allen Poe (140lb). *Catherine the Great died after falling off her comode. *The word 'catapult' derives from the Greek word for 'brassiere'. *The man who invented Bailey's, the cream and whiskey liqueur, was put on a lifetime retainer by a large drinks company in case he ever came up with any other bright ideas. He never did. *More chimps have orbited the earth than people. *In 1903 there was not a single person on the planet called 'Wendy'. Carefully compiled after long hours of research in the British Library, SURELY NOT guarantees hours of amusement, education and frustration. And for those who really don't know, the answers are at the back.

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