The Commonwealth

The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 56 independent and equal countries. It is home to 2.5 billion people, and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. 33 of our members are small states, including many island nations. Our member governments have agreed to shared goals like development, democracy and peace. Our values and principles are expressed in the Commonwealth Charter.

The Commonwealth Secretariat is the intergovernmental organisation that supports member countries to achieve the Commonwealth’s aims of development, democracy and peace. It publishes authoritative, evidence-based research and knowledge products for policymakers, academics, professionals and wider publics across the world. Our areas of focus and expertise include small and developing states; environment and climate change; democracy, law and government; and social issues concerning young people, gender, health and education.

Somarasa

Uma Prasad Thapliyal

Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9788119139309
Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Nirguna Bhakti in Eastern India

Dambarudhar Nath

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ISBN: 9789394262256
Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Creating Authenticity in STEAM Education

Michelle Bradley

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ISBN: 9781923116450
Publication Date: Apr 2024
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Hetty Green

Wyn Derbyshire

Hetty Howland Green (1834-1916), born Hetty Howland Robinson, and known in her later years as "The Witch of Wall Street", was born in the whaling town of New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents. This biography charts Hetty Green's extraordinary ascent up the pyramid of wealth to a point where, in the earliest years of the twentieth century, she was being identified as the richest woman in America. The first in a series of brief biographies of significant tycoons, this is an insight into the life and methods of one of the earliest and most influential business women in the US. It examines the source of her wealth, and her method of building upon that. It also profiles those who helped or thwarted her along the way. 130 pages. Includes a family tree, further reading, timeline and index.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781910151747
Publication Date: Oct 2019
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Grounded

Michael C. Nag

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781923116290
Publication Date: Mar 2024
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Edible Waste

Imprint: Dialogy
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9789675492969
Publication Date: Mar 2024
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Leading Positive Classrooms

Christopher Hudson

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ISBN: 9781923116375
Publication Date: Mar 2024
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Gender Equality and the Judiciary

Kirstine Adams

This volume fills the gap in existing literature on the promotion of the human rights of women through the judiciary. It presents useful actual experiences of judges and experts, and highlights case laws which demonstrate successful applications of international standards to advance women's interests in national courts.

Imprint: Commonwealth Secretariat
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780850925777
Publication Date: Jan 2000
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Lessons Not Learned

Susanne Trimbath

Much has been written and spoken about the lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2009. In this book, we list the lessons not learned before the financial crisis. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that the theoretical and intellectual frameworks for regulating financial systems that had been available since at least 2001 could have prevented the systemic failure in the United States that led to the collapse of global credit markets in 2008.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781910151235
Publication Date: Oct 2015
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Naked, Short and Greedy

Susanne Trimbath

Rigged financial markets and hopeless under-regulation on Wall Street are not new problems. In this book, Susanne Trimbath gives a sobering account of naked short selling, the failure to settle, and her efforts over decades, trying to get this fixed. Twenty-five years ago, Trimbath was working "backstage at Wall Street" when a group of corporate trust specialists told her about a problem in shareholder voting rights. When she went to senior management at Depository Trust Company (DTC), then and still the largest securities depository in the world, they brushed it off saying, "You can't balance the world." Ten years later, a lawyer from Texas would tell her that the same problem was about to blow up the financial markets: Wall Street brokers are using short sales and fails to deliver to grab the assets of American entrepreneurs. This is a cautionary tale. What started as a regulatory failure turned into a regulatory crisis. Shareholder democracy is in shambles. The institutions that were established to correct a problem of trade settlement failures have instead exacerbated the problem. Global financial markets may not survive what comes next.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781910151341
Publication Date: Dec 2019
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