As a middle-aged American academic who desperately needs to publish a book in order to gain tenure, Jack Exley leaps at the chance to go to Rwanda to write about his old college classmate Dr. Joseph Gasana, who has in the intervening years has specialized in treating children stricken by AIDS. But when Jack, along with his African-American second wife, Linda, and his disaffected teenage son, Geoffrey, arrive in Kigali in the fall of 1994, they are not only unable to find Joseph, they are unable to find anyone who will even admit to having known the Tutsi doctor. Befriended by both a...
As a middle-aged American academic who desperately needs to publish a book in order to gain tenure, Jack Exley leaps at the chance to go to Rwanda ...
In the wake of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979 and the Chernobyl reactor accident in the USSR in 1986, nuclear power experts worldwide recognized the need to further co-operate and exchange results in an effective manner. The International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer organized a seminar focusing of Fission Product Transport Processes in Reactor Accidents, conducted at Yugoslavia in 1989. This book contains the proceedings of the seminar, which provided a forum for examining fisson-product behaviour in nuclear reactor accidents, re-evaluating criteria for assessing...
In the wake of the Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania in 1979 and the Chernobyl reactor accident in the USSR in 1986, nuclear power experts wo...
"My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful."
It's 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try to halt its bloody progress, beginning a secret spy war behind the official hostilities. Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and the British and Pakistani secret services wrestle with ever-shifting personal and political loyalties. With the outcome of the entire Cold War at stake, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord decide to place their trust in each other.
Spanning a...
"My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful."
A darkly funny political thriller, which sets a deeply personal story against an epic historical landscape. The true story of two maverick Norwegian diplomats who coordinated top secret talks and inspired seemingly impossible friendships. Their quiet heroics led to the groundbreaking Oslo Peace Accords.
A darkly funny political thriller, which sets a deeply personal story against an epic historical landscape. The true story of two maverick Norwegian d...
