M. Elliott

Every Queen's Counsel who is elevated to the rank has no doubt the appointment is justified and questions only why it did not take place much sooner. But William Starke has no grounds to make this complaint. Starke is just twenty-seven when he is called to the Inner Bar, and to universal acclaim. A strikingly handsome man, his mere presence as c...

In April 2009, President Obama's administration declassified four memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency relating to the ""interrogation of high-value Al Qaeda detainees.""The memoranda listed a number of methods of interrogation. The lawyers who wrote the memoranda expressed the opinion that these methods ...

This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies that RAND produced on these topics to provide a ...

Helps you to: find your ideal pub; plan and set-up your business; target your customers; make more money; control your sales; and maximise your profits. This work also contains practical advice on marketing, managing staff, bookkeeping, licensing law, drinks, food, fruit machines, raising finance and the necessary regulations.

Internet-based surveys, although still in their infancy, are becomingincreasingly popular because they are believed to be faster, better,cheaper, and easier to conduct than surveys using more-traditional telephoneor mail methods. Based on evidence in the literature and real-life casestudies, this book examines the validity of those claims. The a...