This book is an important guide for individuals seeking to develop and grow their leadership skills in the wildlife conservation sector, across varied disciplines such as environmental management, conservation biology, and ecotourism.Conservation Leadership addresses what leadership is, why it is important, and how to be an effective leader. It identifies the common pitfalls or mistakes in a leader’s thinking or behaviour, and the unexpected consequences or responses which...

The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York’s unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services “on the cheap,” relying on non-union home child care providers, ...

In The Black Veil, Jack the Ripper terrorizes Victorian London with ritualistic killings that are linked to ancient magical artifacts. Blind occultist Miranda Griffin is plunged into a chilling mystery that blends history, literature, and the horror found in the arcane myths of Britain. Made invisible by a cursed ancient relic, Miranda steps into the darkness to uncover the truth behind the legendary Thirteen Treasures: objects that wield terrible power. Those who seek them leave bloody tr...

"You’ll see the papers tomorrow, so you’ll know that Lord Serbridge has been killed—murdered..."First, Colin Sleet, a hack journalist, commits suicide. Then, Timothy Serbridge, the baby son of Sleet's employer, is kidnapped. Penny Pengold, the Serbridges' governess, is ordered to invite the brilliant amateur detective Simon Brade to Olachan House, the family's remote Scottish estate, in order to help discover the missing child's whereabouts. Thankfully, the kidnapping turns out to ...

"It’s the first time we’ve been together since it happened, so naturally we think about it all the time..."Simon Brade is lying low on the secluded Isle of Arach while the fallout from a previous case dies down. On the windswept moors, he meets a woman who upsets him with a tale of a murder in her past - and intrigues him with a story of ghostly music at Glenarach House, which she is renting with friends. All of the people in the house were present years earlier when Helen Stefanou...

Simon Brade, connoisseur of Chinese porcelain and talented amateur detective, is surprised to receive a visit from Stephen Lucat, a senator of the the recently ceded European nation of Tzembia. Lucat wishes Brade to investigate the murder of a scientist - an event he believes to be connected with a series of art thefts. Each of the robberies appears to have been committed by a left-shouldered man who was spotted at the scene, and who left a number of deliberately planted signatures to clai...

Recommended by a friend of her husband's, Terry Duquesnes travels to Fairfields House to nurse Lydia Carew. Lydia is a physically disabled young woman who also suffers from a troubling mental affliction - occasionally, she appears to adopt a completely difficult personality, believing herself to be 'Lyddy', a much younger, much gayer woman who doesn't suffer from 'Lydia's' fear of heights. Shortly before Terry's arrival, Lydia's aunt Bess, the owner of Fairfields, was killed in an accident...

Your house is on fire. What do you save?You have seconds to decide.If everything is about to burn, what do you rescue first?'Gripping' Daily Express'Full of twists and turns' That's Life'Another winner... Plenty of twists, the odd conspiracy theory to ramp up the pace. Insider glimpses into the media and art world add fascination' Press Association

‘Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland’ Cameron McNeish, The HeraldRising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin.Plagued by ferocious weather and built from rock that tears skin and confounds compasses, a crossing of the Cuillin is the toughest mountaineering exp...

The enthralling first ebook novella in the brand new Roman pirate series by Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews.It is AD 25. The Roman Empire stretches from Hispania in the west to Armenia in the east, Merchantmen roam the seas, transporting people, livestock and all manner of goods. And where there are merchant ships, there will be pirates ...On a blustery night in the rough port of Piraeus, Captain Cl...

Simon Brade, connoisseur of antique china, is invited to Medbury Grange, the country home of noted socialist campaigner Selford Prentice. Ostensibly, Brade has been called in to examine a valuable porcelain fish, which Prentice wishes to sell. But no sooner has the specialist arrived at the Grange, than its owner's real motives are revealed. For Prentice suspects that someone has designs on more than his porcelain - suspicions which seem justified in the most violent fashion when he is fou...

Tayler Simon is an activist and organizer who has been working in different social movements since she was 18. After obtaining her Master's in Social Work and working within the violence prevention and outreach world for five years, she decided to take those skills outside of institutions and back to organic community.Reflecting on the roles of power, joy, despair, anger, and hope within the liberation movement, Black Madonna invites readers into an experience that sparks ...