New Releases by Peter Scott

Discusses polar bears in mythology and as encountered by early arctic explorers, modern attempts to preserve the species, and the polar bear''s characteristics and hunting, feeding, and mating habits.

Data aggregated from IMF and OECD studies is used to examine the way in which income support for the elderly and the labour supply of older workers in developed countries is likely to be affected by demographic developments into the next century.

This explosive book lays bare the personalities and institutional relations behind the headlines. It goes beyond the recent events to discern the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity within the past two decades. The Iran-Contra Connection delves in to the details of CIA and extra-CIA operations, including drug-trafficking, gun-running, government-toppling, and assassination. The Iran-Contra scandal is not merely a plan gone awry, the authors argue, but a consistent outgrowth of a long tradition of U.S. covert activity- from the Bay of Pigs invasion teams to the NSC organizational team; from the CIA and the World Anti-Communist League to the Israeli connection and the State Department.