Barkblood & Grindle
Barkblood & Grindle

Author: N. D. Scott

Publisher: Nathan Scott

Published: 2020-07-25

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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“Are you prepared to serve me? To serve Death?” Grindle pursed his lips. “Depends on the job.” Grindle Taff, goblin and private investigator finds himself at the feet of Death herself after meeting his untimely demise. When he is offered a second chance in return for finding a philosopher's stone, Grindle takes the opportunity without hesitation. Returned to the world of the living, where magic and technology exist in harmony; Grindle must work with the Orcish druid Barkblood to win back the life he lost.

Going Local
Going Local

Author: Merilee S. Grindle

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1400830354

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Many developing countries have a history of highly centralized governments. Since the late 1980s, a large number of these governments have introduced decentralization to increase democracy and improve services, especially in small communities far from capital cities. In Going Local, an unprecedented study of the effects of decentralization on thirty Mexican municipalities, Merilee Grindle describes how local governments respond when they are assigned new responsibilities and resources under decentralization policies. She explains why decentralization leads to better local governments in some cases--and why it fails to in others. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, Grindle examines data based on a random sample of Mexican municipalities--and ventures into town halls to follow public officials as they seek to manage a variety of tasks amid conflicting pressures and new expectations. Decentralization, she discovers, is a double-edged sword. While it allows public leaders to make significant reforms quickly, institutional weaknesses undermine the durability of change, and legacies of the past continue to affect how public problems are addressed. Citizens participate, but they are more successful at extracting resources from government than in holding local officials and agencies accountable for their actions. The benefits of decentralization regularly predicted by economists, political scientists, and management specialists are not inevitable, she argues. Rather, they are strongly influenced by the quality of local leadership and politics.

The Grindle Nightmare
The Grindle Nightmare

Author: Q. Patrick

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2018-07-10

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1497653193

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Murder strikes a New England village in this mystery by the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth Mysteries as Patrick Quentin. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.” It begins with the residents of a rustic New England village finding animals brutally slaughtered over a period of weeks, casting a sinister pall over the town of Grindle Oak. Then, a young girl goes missing, and her father—not trusting the police—asks local doctor Douglas Swanson to help him find her. But when Swanson turns up to begin the search, he finds the man dead with his hands bound in animal traps and his body mutilated. It appears the madman behind the abominable acts has moved on to more evolved prey. As more depraved crimes are discovered, a wave of suspicion and distrust sweeps through the town, with outright vigilantism threatening to break out. The good doctor finds himself cast as an unlikely sleuth who must discover what demented desires are driving a killer whose bloodlust is growing greater every day . . . This haunting mystery “maintains the suspense and atmosphere of terror to the very end” (The New York Times).

Grindle
Grindle

Author: Sal Souza

Publisher: Ofamfa Publishing

Published: 2022-03-09

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13:

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“Go to school, learn hard, get your degree, and life will treat you well”. This is the golden advice that every person is hearing daily, to do, to adequately secure a great job, participate in society and gain an upper hand in the job market, and meet all financial obligations; including the vain and lofty ones. Billions of people, no matter their background, follow this simple counsel with religious commitment. So does our four young, idealistic and hopeful friends who do everything they can, including getting loans, to attend the university. The friends bond over their shared aims to be successful and end up becoming fantastic friends. Reality hits when they get their degrees and leave their university bubble, and experience the harsh reality of life. Broke, in debt and living on the poverty line, they each put their heads and skills together to create the most ingenious and money-making business venture - Grindle. But the boys have a big handicap; none of them has any experience handling the business. Before they can agree on a solution to their problem, they get their first business. The friends failed their first contract. “What happened yesterday?” “We are not killers! That is what happened.” But fate had other plans, and allowed a freak accident to lead them further and deeper into the world seemingly unknown to them. It will expose their inner workings and bring the friendship to a catastrophic crash. -- Note: The story tells a subtly dark humour. It is a violent, fun, sexy, and even-paced urban crime story.

Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World
Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World

Author: Merilee S. Grindle

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1400886082

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This book addresses the broader questions of how both the content and the context of public policy affect its implementation. Through a series of case studies from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Zambia, Kenya, and India, ten scholars here demonstrate that numerous factors intervene between the statement of policy goals and their actual achievement in society. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Despite the Odds
Despite the Odds

Author: Merilee S. Grindle

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2004-07-26

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780691118000

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'Despite the Odds' examines five examples of education reform in South America, focusing on the political battle to secure reform in the face of powerfully entrenched opposition. It shows how strategic choices by reformers can reshape power equations & undermine institutional biases.

Villa Triste
Villa Triste

Author: Lucretia Grindle

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 1455517259

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In World War II Florence, Italy, two sisters trapped by the Nazi Occupation have to make life-altering decisions that will reverberate for decades... and collide with a present day murder investigation. Florence, Italy, 1943 Two sisters, Isabella and Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror and death; and with Italy trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation, a Partisan resistance movement rises up. Soon Isabella and Caterina will test their wits and deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on, they will be forced to make the most difficult choices of their lives. Florence, Italy, 2011 In the present day, senior policeman Alessandro Pallioti agrees to oversee a murder investigation after it emerges the victim was once a Partisan hero. When the case begins to unravel, Pallioti finds himself working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of war, the consequences of which are as deadly today as they were over sixty years ago.