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...

‘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...

"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 ...

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...

It had all the ingredients of a best-selling thriller the clandestine activities of mercenaries, an impossibly dare-devil plot to topple the regime of one of the worlds most corrupt countries; the boys own approach by arrogant old public school pupils and the controversy and intrigue from within governmental departments. Add in high-profile figures embroiled in the plot and the far-reaching repercussions and you have what was to become one of the most talked-about exploits of the twenty-fi...

"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...

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...

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...

Laughton Rees is back in the latest gripping suspense novel from the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy—this time, with a case that hits uncomfortably close to home and threatens the thing Laughton values most: her daughter.When a body with no head or hands turns up in the river Thames, forensic specialist Laughton Rees is called in to consult. But what at first seems to be a typical, if gruesome, London crime case quickly turns personal when it becomes apparent the body has...

There are many advantages that come with using an outdoor gas grill.One of the most lost of these is the flavor your meat will bring to the table.When cooking with gas, one of the most important parts of your grill is ensuring that the grates are clean. Cooking on the grates allows the food to pick up the grill's natural flavor. If your grates are dirty, no one will really enjoy the dish. Thankfully, your Blackstone Outdoor Gas Griddle has a very easy way