Alan Paisey Livres

It's 1931 and Mark Coltishall is young and ready to embrace the world of work. When he takes up a clerical position at a local north London factory, he meets Eve, a colleague who is as attracted to him as he is to her. However, despite their relationship, the pull of the sea is strong for Mark and he goes on a ship, eventually training as an engineer. Later, when war breaks out, Eve uses her recently acquired nursing skills and takes off on her own adventure. Both fully immersed in their jobs and duty, they still hope that the times they meet will not be too few and far between. This wartime novel takes us through the important action of the Second World War, and brings to life the locations of some of the biggest moments, seen through the eyes of a nurse and a ship's officer.

The story revolves around two young women from different small countries, each shaped by their family backgrounds and ideological beliefs. Despite their opposing views, the depth of their personal connection transcends their political differences, highlighting the complexity of relationships amidst ideological divides. Their bond serves as a poignant exploration of friendship and understanding in a world often divided by beliefs.

Focusing on transfer pricing, this book provides a clear and accessible overview tailored for readers interested in China. It utilizes diagrammatic images to enhance understanding, making it suitable for both Chinese and foreign professionals involved in international business activities. The content is particularly relevant for those working in Chinese-owned companies expanding abroad, as well as foreign companies operating in China, offering essential insights into navigating the complexities of transfer pricing in a global context.

Exploring the complexities of transfer pricing, this book delves into its significant role in China's economic landscape. It examines how this often hidden practice affects foreign companies operating in China and Chinese firms seeking global expansion. Additionally, the text reviews key industries within China, highlighting potential future uncertainties and challenges they may face. The insights provided offer a comprehensive understanding of the intricate relationships between pricing strategies and international trade in the context of China's evolving economy.

A sweeping story of love and passion intertwined with rich detail of nautical life in the immediate post-war years. Tim and Vanessa meet for two short days, a year before the Second World War ends. They wonder what an engineer in the Royal Navy and a musical star might have in common - but before they know it, they are caught up in a romance that must stand the test of many separations before they can be together. Tim's demob is not the end of his daring adventures. He is caught up in a deadly hurricane in the Atlantic as well as a terrifying battle on the Yangtze River. Meanwhile, Vanessa's career hits the heady heights of the West End. Travelling across the globe so that they can have brief snatches of time together, they make us watch and wait to see if their story can have a happy ending.

Lyndsey Pickford emulated the many stalwarts of old as well as those of contemporary times who set out for London to make their fortune. She was well educated and from a respectable family in the West Country. Breaking the ties of her schooling days, she first took a lowly job on banana ships plying their commercial trade from Bristol to the West Indies.However, her heart had been pledged to London. As a member of the fair sex, she fancied her chances in taking up the recent opportunity of employment offered by the Metropolitan police during the1920s. She had been undoubtedly influenced by the Bluestocking Movement and the extension of the vote for women.The time was ripe for her to do what she really wanted to do – exercise her love for logic in her job and defy the penalty placed on women who married in the newly introduced service in London.But who could have predicted the perils, adventure, excitement and love that she would find on the way to that private fulfilment?

A minor road accident led to a chance meeting of two new undergraduates, whose origins, study paths, and potential employment proved to be so contrasting. War was out of the question at the time, but when it arrived it enabled both women to devote their interests to a common objective. One found her metier in the air. Though discouraged by the exclusion of women from flying in the air force, nevertheless she seized a golden opportunity to fly in the service of her country. Her wartime record was distinguished and record breaking. Meanwhile, the other was recruited into an anti-espionage service designed to curb the activities of those citizens who were bent on crippling the national effort, if and when war actually came. The ensuing wartime enabled both women to excel in their respective duties, one in the physical sense, the other surreptitiously. On leaving university their ways had taken them apart, through unexpected adventures, trials, tribulations and various love matches, but a second sheer chance in their lives brought them together again, after losing each other and forgetting their former friendship.

Some people evidently found the humdrum pace of peacetime lacking in stimulation to satisfy their restless natures. Wartime had stretched their energies to such an exciting degree that anything that came with the peace was proving an anticlimax. They solved the deficiencies in their lives by turning against the way of life in their own country, while advocating an alternative they imagined could exist and consorting with others to promote their interests. Such was the making of a cocktail of intrigue, betrayal, double-dealing, unusual relationships, murder, recidivism, and sexual adventurism mixed with loyalty, resolution of purpose, risk-taking, recantation, resourcefulness, and love that this novel explores. The unbelievable lengths adopted by people for the promotion of their evil, or at least unbecoming purposes, had to be met by ingenious measures to frustrate or to take advantage of them in an ongoing dialogue of counteraction. Through it all, one valiant woman who struggled to hold her own amid the chaotic events concerned, succeeded in reaching something to her satisfaction, but it could have seemed a pyrrhic victory to those dispossessed.