1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480878903321

Autore

Ngwane Mwalimu George <1960->

Titolo

Diary of a Dismissed Delegate : Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon / / Mwalimu George Ngwane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9956-764-12-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 pages) : illustrations (some color), map, portraits

Soggetti

Political corruption - Cameroon

Electronic books.

Cameroon Officials and employees Biography

Cameroon Politics and government 1982-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Diary of a Dismissed Delegate is the personal story of the trials and travails of George Ngwane as a civil servant in Cameroon. With documented evidence in support, the book delves into the destructive machinations of the bureaucracy and sycophancy at the heart of the Cameroonian public service, and its detrimental effects on meritocracy and the public good. It is a system where the personalisation of power devalues virtue, devotion and dedication to truth and the call of justice. For a country that has the ambition to recapture her lost middle income status, one that boasts of a huge critical mass of human capital, and that has all the potentials of a double digit economic development, political patronage and intolerance to creative freedom must be anathema.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392241403316

Titolo

By the Protector [[electronic resource]] : A proclamation for putting the lavvs in execution for setting prices on wines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to his Highness, MDCLV. [1655]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Soggetti

Wine - Prices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Dated at end: Given at White-Hall this 20. day of July 1655.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815276503321

Autore

Klein Wolfgang

Titolo

Looking at language / / Wolfgang Klein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

3-11-054730-9

3-11-054911-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 pages)

Collana

Trends in linguistics studies and monographs ; ; Volume 317

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Concepts of time -- A time-relational analysis of Russian aspect -- An analysis of the German Perfekt -- Aspect and assertion in mandarin Chinese -- On times and arguments -- On the "Imperfective paradox" and related problems -- Local deixis in route directions -- Some notorious pitfalls in the analysis of spatial expressions -- Time and again -- On the scope of negation1 -- About the German particles schon and noch -- The information structure of French -- Quaestio and L-perspectivation -- Finiteness, universal grammar and the language faculty -- The basic variety (or: couldn't natural languages be much simpler?) -- Why case marking? -- The grammar of varieties -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The volume presents an essential selection collected from the essays of Wolfgang Klein. In addition to journal and book articles, many of them published by Mouton, this book features new and unpublished texts by the author. It focuses, among other topics, on information structure, the expression of grammatical categories and the structure of learner varieties.