Bøker av Alasdair Roberts

Library of Aethers gathers a generous selection of lyrics from one of the finest songwriters of the last thirty years, Alasdair Roberts, with his own notes shedding light on the rich blend of biographical, historical and literary sources behind the songs.

Nothing saves you from the savage bloodthirst of the Highland midge, scourge of Scotland and the tourist industry's guilty secret. Such a small creature can do little harm in isolation, but with an unusual life cycle that produces two generations every season, the millions of resulting midges bring devastation to the skin of man and beast.

With the fields of public administration and public management suffering a crisis of relevance, Alasdair Roberts offers a provocative assessment of their shortfalls. The two fields, he finds, no longer address urgent questions of governance in a turbulent and dangerous world. Strategies for Governing offers a new path forward for research...

When the Bush presidency began to collapse, pundits were quick to tell a tale of the "imperial presidency" gone awry, a story of secretive, power-hungry ideologues who guided an arrogant president down the road to ruin. Here, the author reveals that the inside story of the failures of the Bush administration is both much more complex and alarming.