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Handbook Of Research Methods And Applications In Empirical Finance
C L Miller
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• Author(s): C L Miller • Publisher: Edward Elgar • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elg • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis impressive Handbook presents the quantitative techniques that are commonly employed in empirical finance research together with ...
View full detailsThe African American Voice In U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War Ii
Michael L. Krenn
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• Author(s): Michael L. Krenn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social ScienceFollowing World War II, America was witness to two great struggles. The first was onthe international front and involved the fight for free...
View full detailsSuperior Project Manager: Global Competency Standards and Best Practices
Frank Toney
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• Author(s): Frank Toney • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: MedicalDescribes global best practices, competencies, and standards of superior project organizations based on research conducte...
View full detailsHandbook Of Public Management Practice And Reform
Kuo-Tsai Liou
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• Author(s): Kuo-Tsai Liou • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceOutlining the origins, motivations, strategies, implementations, and effectiveness of reform policies and programs, Handbook of Public Mana...
View full detailsRoutledge Handbook of Historical International Relations
Benjamin de Carvalho
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• Author(s): Benjamin de Carvalho • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceThis handbook presents a comprehensive, concise and accessible overview of the field of Historical International Relations (HIR). It...
View full detailsRace And U.S. Foreign Policy During The Cold War
E. Nathaniel Gates
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• Author(s): E. Nathaniel Gates • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political Science
Into The Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force
David Klinger
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• Author(s): David Klinger • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: JosseyBass • BISAC: Political ScienceWhat's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions a...
View full detailsPricing and Performance of Initial Public Offerings in the United States
Arvin Ghosh
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• Author(s): Arvin Ghosh • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Business And EconomicsIn this timely volume on newly emerging financial mar- kets and investment strategies, Arvin Ghosh explores the intriguing topic of init...
View full detailsManagement Fashions: Turning Bestselling Ideas Into Objects and Institutions
Krzysztof Klincewicz
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• Author(s): Krzysztof Klincewicz • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Business And EconomicsUsing the theory of management fashions proposed in the 1990s by Eric Abrahamson, Krzysztof Klinc...
View full detailsPolitical Victory: The Elusive Prize of Military Wars
Brian Crozier
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• Author(s): Brian Crozier • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: HistorySuccess in war has always been difficult to measure. What is judged successful by military leaders may not be judged so...
View full detailsThe Shahids: Islam and Suicide Attacks
Shaul Shay
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• Author(s): Shaul Shay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Political ScienceSuicide terror has become a fundamental strategic weapon in the confrontation between Fundamentalist Islam and i...
View full detailsThe Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
Stephen Cox
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• Author(s): Stephen Cox • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Social ScienceNovelist, columnist, cultural critic, political theorist-- Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary perso...
View full detailsBetween Work and Leisure: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds
Robert A. Stebbins
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• Author(s): Robert A. Stebbins • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: Business And EconomicsOccupational devotion, as defined by Robert A. Stebbins, is a strong and positive attachment to a f...
View full detailsMaximizing Intelligence
David Armor
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• Author(s): David Armor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: PsychologyThe "nature versus nurture" controversy dates back to at least the nineteenth century. How much of a role does genetics or environment play in accou...
View full detailsThe Twilight of Britain: Cultural Nationalism Multi-Culturalism and the Politics of Toleration
G. Gordon Betts
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• Author(s): G. Gordon Betts • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Inc • BISAC: History"Betts is to be commended on his careful and insightful elucidation of the complex and novel sets of dilemnas now fac...
View full detailsCombating AIDS: Communication Strategies in Action
Arvind M. Singhal
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• Author(s): Arvind M. Singhal • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: MedicalHIV/AIDS is a matter of global concern. The world is now more than 20 years into the crisis with no vaccine in sight, and relatively few...
View full detailsNew Directions in Indian Psychology: Volume 1
Ajit K. Dalal
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• Author(s): Ajit K. Dalal • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: PsychologyThis is the first in a series of readers designed to address the trends and developments in psychology, especially in the post-independen...
View full detailsDemocracy and the Limits of Minority Rights
Nalini Rajan
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• Author(s): Nalini Rajan • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Social ScienceAt the start of the 21st century, we are still debating various fundamental issues pertaining to core human values, popularly known as...
View full detailsChallenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism Criminology and Human Rights in India
Kalpana Kannabiran
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• Author(s): Kalpana Kannabiran • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Social ScienceThis rare comprehensive critique of criminology in India brings together widely respected activists, advocates, bureaucrats, sch...
View full detailsGrass-Roots Democracy in India and China: The Right To Participate
Manoranjan Mohanty
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• Author(s): Manoranjan Mohanty • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Political ScienceBoth India and China have experienced economic changes that have generated new challenges for local institutions. This volume...
View full detailsManaging Executive Success: Coping with the Real Corporate World
Walter Vieira, Vieira
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• Author(s): Walter Vieira | Vieira • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGERespon • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis is a sequel to the author's earlier book, Planning for Executive Success, which covered an executive's career f...
View full detailsEthics Incorporated: Top Priority and Bottom Line
Dipankar Gupta
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• Author(s): Dipankar Gupta • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGERespon • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis pioneering book discusses the role of ethics in today's fiercely competitive business environment. The author examines ...
View full detailsLocal Democracy in South Asia: Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours
David Gellner
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• Author(s): David Gellner • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Political ScienceThis volume, the first in a new series on governance, conflict, and civic action in South Asia, focuses on the larger countries of...
View full detailsRegion Nation "Heartland" : Uttar Pradesh in India's Body Politic
Gyanesh Kudaisya
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• Author(s): Gyanesh Kudaisya • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: HistoryThis book traces the importance of Uttar Pradesh (UP) as a political "heartland" of India over the last century and highlights its influe...
View full detailsIndependence and Partition: The Erosion of Colonial Power in India
Sucheta Mahajan, Mahajan
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• Author(s): Sucheta Mahajan | Mahajan • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: HistoryThis book examines the interplay of imperial, national and communal conflicts during the most crucial phase of India's national ...
View full detailsThe New Asian Power Dynamic
Maharajakrishna Rasgotra
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• Author(s): Maharajakrishna Rasgotra • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Political ScienceThis volume examines the unfolding relationships among the five great powers in Asia--the United States, China, India, ...
View full detailsUnderstanding Research in Personal Relationships
William Dragon
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• Author(s): William Dragon • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • BISAC: PsychologyUnderstanding Research in Personal Relationships is a comprehensive introduction to the key readings on human and close relations...
View full detailsGrowth and Development in Emerging Market Economies: International Private Capital Flow Financial Markets and Globalization
Harinder S. Kohli
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• Author(s): Harinder S. Kohli • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis compilation helps understand the basic forces that are now determining the performance and prospects of emerging mar...
View full detailsGlobalizing Rural Development: Competing Paradigms and Emerging Realities
M. C. Behera
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• Author(s): M. C. Behera • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis collection of 17 papers examines the impact of the changing paradigm of rural development on poverty alleviation, equity,...
View full detailsBrain Quest Gr1 Rev: 750 Questions And Answers To Challenge The Mind
Chris Welles Feder
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• Author(s): Chris Welles Feder • Publisher: Workman Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Workman Publishing • BISAC: Juvenile NonfictionIt's fun to be smart with Brain Quest card decks, packed with curriculum-based questions. Loved by kids and teac...
View full detailsColonializing Agriculture: The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism
Mridula Mukherjee
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• Author(s): Mridula Mukherjee • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of colonialism on the agriculture of this very important region ...
View full detailsThe Garrison State: Military Government and Society in Colonial Punjab 1849-1947
Tan Tai Yong
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• Author(s): Tan Tai Yong • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • BISAC: HistoryFollowing the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal ...
View full detailsNarrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society
Colette Daiute
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• Author(s): Colette Daiute • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc • BISAC: PsychologyNarrative Analysis: Studying the Development of Individuals in Society aims to help researchers and students identify and...
View full detailsBeyond Airline Disruptions
Jasenka Rapajic
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• Author(s): Jasenka Rapajic • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Ashgate • BISAC: Business And EconomicsDespite airlines' tremendous efforts to streamline their operations to minimise controllable costs and improve flight punct...
View full detailsThe Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism
Ann Ward
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• Author(s): Ann Ward • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceThis comprehensive research companion examines the theory, practice and historical development of the principle of federalism from the ancient p...
View full detailsThe Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations
Patrick Hayden
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• Author(s): Patrick Hayden • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceWhile skepticism about the role of moral considerations in international politics has been influential within the discipline of internatio...
View full detailsPower And Justice In International Relations: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Challenges
Andreas Oberprantacher
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• Author(s): Andreas Oberprantacher • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceOutstanding and thought-provoking, this book provides up-to-date and in-depth analyses of current de...
View full detailsParents And Children
Andrew Bainham
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• Author(s): Andrew Bainham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LawThis volume brings together some of the best journal articles of the last twenty years which deal with various aspects of the relationship between paren...
View full detailsInternational Human Resource Management
Helen De Cieri
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• Author(s): Helen De Cieri • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Business And EconomicsSince the late 1970s scholars and practitioners of international management have paid increasing attent...
View full detailsThe Ashgate Research Companion to US Foreign Policy
Robert J. Pauly
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• Author(s): Robert J. Pauly • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceExamining the past, present and future formulation and implementation of US foreign policy, this research companion provides a range of i...
View full detailsDeleuze's Differences And Repetition
Henry Somers-Hall
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• Author(s): Henry Somers-Hall • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyWhen students read Difference and Repetition for the first time, they face two main hurdles: the wide range ...
View full detailsValue Creation from e-business Models
Wendy Currie
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• Author(s): Wendy Currie • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: But-Hein • BISAC: ComputersValue Creation from E-Business Models provides a thorough analysis of what constitutes an e-business model. Unlike many e-business books available, th...
View full detailsThe Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership
Mikhail A. Molchanov
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• Author(s): Mikhail A. Molchanov • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceDiscussing the major theories of political leadership with a focus on contemporary challenges that political leaders face worldwide,...
View full detailsHugo Chavez
Mike Gonzalez
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• Author(s): Mike Gonzalez • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Biography And AutobiographyWhen Hugo Chavez, then President of Venezuela, died in 2013, millions across the globe mourned. In an age where most politici...
View full detailsThe 'Militant Democracy' Principle in Modern Democracies
Markus Thiel
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• Author(s): Markus Thiel • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Political ScienceProviding an up-to-date analysis of key country approaches to Militant Democracy, featuring contributions from some of the key people workin...
View full detailsJean Bodin
Julian H. Franklin
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• Author(s): Julian H. Franklin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • BISAC: HistoryIn the course of a lifetime, Jean Bodin aimed at nothing less than to encompass all the disciplines of his age in a huge e...
View full detailsAgainst Austerity
Richard Seymour
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• Author(s): Richard Seymour • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceFive years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a ...
View full detailsZionism and its Discontents
Ran Greenstein
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• Author(s): Ran Greenstein • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceMainstream nationalist narratives and political movements have dominated the Israeli-Palestinian situation for too long. In this much-...
View full detailsSoveregnity After Empire
Sally N. Cummings
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• Author(s): Sally N. Cummings • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceHow does empire affect the route to successor sovereign state systems and the features of the soverei...
View full detailsInto the Long War
Paul Rogers
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• Author(s): Paul Rogers • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryIraq stands on the edge of civil war. As sectarian killings escalate, and troops become more deeply entrenched, is there any prospect of an exit st...
View full detailsThe Gloss of Harmony
Birgit Muller
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• Author(s): Birgit Muller • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThe Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunde...
View full detailsRevolutionary Social Change in Colombia
James J. Brittain
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• Author(s): James J. Brittain • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book presents an insider's account of Columbia's internal conflict. At the forefront are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Col...
View full detailsAge Of Empires: Mesopotamia in the First Millennium BC
Francis Joannès
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• Author(s): Francis Joannès • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, ...
View full detailsPolitical Discourse And National In Scotland
Murray Stewart Leith
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• Author(s): Murray Stewart Leith • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceAddresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic ...
View full detailsThe Poverty of Capitalism
John Hilary
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• Author(s): John Hilary • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceCapitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globali...
View full detailsCompensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace
Rex Brynen
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• Author(s): Rex Brynen • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: Political ScienceOne of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forc...
View full detailsThe Threat of Liberation
Amrit Wilson
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• Author(s): Amrit Wilson • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Threat of Liberation returns to the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when, in a striking parallel with today, imperialist powers were seeking...
View full detailsPeacebuilding and Reconcilation
Marwan Darweish
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• Author(s): Marwan Darweish • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political SciencePeacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reco...
View full detailsCorporate Europe
David Cronin
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• Author(s): David Cronin • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryDuring the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose ...
View full detailsDeception in High Places
Nicholas Gilby
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• Author(s): Nicholas Gilby • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryDeception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research...
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