Bøger af John Tilston

For a while after he was reappointed as First Lord of the Admiralty in September 1939, Winston Churchill was outwitted by a disgruntled Russian émigré who made dresses for the Duchess of Windsor and sold the best caviar in London in her South Kensington tea room. She smuggled secret letters between Churchill and President Roosevelt to Berlin. Was she also the link with a German spy in the Admiralty and the German Navy? Churchill's Mole Hunt is a historical novel that trawls through the bitterly cold London of the winter of 1939 and 1940 to catch the Nazi spy, meeting along the way Churchill, Ian Flemming, members of the Right Club, MI5's notorious Maxwell Knight and sultry spy Joan Miller.

Times have changed for regional economic development. Back in the not-too-far-off good old days, announcements of a new factory setting up in town or the approval granted for a new large apartment block would have been widely accepted and even applauded by communities. Now mostly they are not. NIMBY has become the standard cry. Not in my backyard now extends to so many areas beyond nuclear power plants, mines and waste dumps, including to some that at first sight seem just plain puzzling. But this is the 21st Century reality and regional economic development policy and practice must respond with more sophisticated analysis and tools. Setting up a rival camp to outwit the NIMBYs and waging war to win the media battle is a short sighted, unsustainable approach. This book analyses what makes NIMBYism tick, surveys current best practice regional economic development and posits a coherent, sustainable approach to the creation of wealth and well-being in communities.

This book describes seminal moments in the history of the capital city of Queensland, which in just one generation has grown from country town to vibrant modern metropolis. It had a tough start. It became a separate state with less financial support from London than any other colony in the mighty British Empire. Almost a century later is was briefly the Allied Forces headquarters for the Pacific War, delighting and depressing its citizens in equal measure. Then it had to shake off corruption in high places before it could realise its great potential. There was some intrigue along the way. Early Brisbane society was enlivened by its own aristocratic Lady Di; a gruesome murder started a dynasty; the Battle of Brisbane was hushed-up to maintain morale; and the local 'Rat Pack' played a rather different Joke. Prior to European settlement - as Meanjin - it was a busy meeting place for the many indigenous clans in the Moreton Bay region.