In April 2009 alumni and friends of Catholic High School for Boys will gather to toast and roast a favorite of the school s legendary faculty, Michael Moran, the author of Proudly We Speak Your Name. Only a stoic could complete a reading without a teary-eyed moment or two and many belly laughs. Faculty idiosyncrasies are recalled in this memoir, as are student antics. If it can happen within the walls of an all-boys high school, the author has probably seen it in his forty-one years of teaching. And he has probably reported on it in this book, which was written during his first year of...
In April 2009 alumni and friends of Catholic High School for Boys will gather to toast and roast a favorite of the school s legendary faculty, Michael...
This book explores the influence of private United States (US) philanthropic foundations in the governance of global problems. Through a close scrutiny of four high profile case studies of public-private collaboration, the work addresses the vacuum present in global governance scholarship regarding the influence of foundations, arguing the influence of these actors extends beyond the basic material, and into the more subtle and complex ideational sphere of policy and governance. This book:
charts the growth of private forms of governance and foundations role in deepening and...
This book explores the influence of private United States (US) philanthropic foundations in the governance of global problems. Through a close scru...
This book explores the crisis of the British state. Though it has been particularly apparent since the outcome of both the 2014 Scottish independence and 2016 'Brexit' referendums, it stems from deep historical roots. The book traces the origins of the state to the original Act of Union of 1707 and demonstrates how different notions of British destiny - Protestant, imperial, social democratic - have held the state together at different times. The present crisis, it is argued, is due to the exhaustion of these senses of destiny. Moran shows how the United Kingdom is now held together as a...
This book explores the crisis of the British state. Though it has been particularly apparent since the outcome of both the 2014 Scottish independen...
