Social work and social care managers often find themselves in management positions without having had any formal management training, yet skills and knowledge specific to social care settings are essential for effective practice.This book offers a researched and practical guide to the fundamental skills and knowledge that a manager needs, underpinned by the values and ethics that are inherent to social work and social care. Core skills covered include time management, recruitment, ...

Rick Gallop's groundbreaking G.I. Diet has been revised and updated once more to provide the best new basics for people looking to lose weight permanently, and to show you how to eat right for your personality type.The G.I. Diet has helped hundreds of thousands of people around the world to lose weight and keep it off. Now Canada's diet guru Rick Gallop, along with his wife Dr. Ruth Gallop, have updated the book once again, including a guide to how...

We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special kind of philosophical significance?In Deep Refrains, Michael Gallope draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of musi...

Do you keep a journal? Not necessarily a diary, but a few short words that you keep to remember your accomplishments and achievements over a given period of time.When you recall those accomplishments do you imagine them in color or three-dimensional? Have you ever considered yourself a creative person? We're talking about artistic creativity here not necessarily the abstract.Perhaps you have never kept any type of record of your daily thoughts and activities. Regardless of ...

The phenomenal success of Rick Gallop's The Gi Diet - based on a simple traffic-light system for choosing the right foods to eat according to their rating on the Glycemic Index - has proved to be the easy and healthy way to permanent weight loss for hundreds of thousands of people. It's so simple to use that you will never have to count another calorie, gram or point ever again!Not only will the Gi Diet help you lose weight without going hungry: changing your eating...

In 1834 six farm laborers from the Dorset hamlet of Tolpuddle fell foul of draconian Victorian laws prohibiting assembly. Today the names of George Loveless and his brother James, Thomas Standfield and his son John, James Brine and James Hammett, who made up the Tolpuddle Martyrs, stand high on the roll of British men who have been victimized for their beliefs but stood steadfast in the face of persecution. They refused to be persuaded to betray their principles either by the promise of re...

Built to Trust is a strategic, practical guide for founders,CEOs, board members, and business leaders navigating today' s volatile landscape of cybersecurity risks, evolving data privacy laws, and disruptive AI technologies. Drawing from firsthand experience in building, scaling, and advising technology companies, Darren Gallop delivers a clear-eyed,actionable roadmap for turning digital trust into a strategic asset— before a crisis forces your hand. Rather than focusing on technical how-t...

I'm doing 'terribly' fantastically well. I'm starting to think "terribly" is the only bloody thing I can do well."This is the world of Colin Hollings. His main preoccupation is sidestepping the banana skins littering his path as he tries to reassure his wife he's not having an affair, attempting to sort out the mess he's made by mistakenly picking up someone else's love letters!

Glamour,sex,power,clandestine relationships,high flying careers and crime! This story has all of that and more. But poor old Colin, the central character and 'anti hero', plays only a peripheral role in all that stuff.At Upper Crust Singles,('the place where people like you go to meet people like you!') Colin borrows his best friend's identity and his troubles are just about to begin!

Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most quoted words of greeting of all time - 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' - Henry Morton Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped the nineteenth century. Yet his life and achievements are too little known and even his nationality has been mistaken.Alan Gal...

This book describes the nature of God; creation and purpose of angels; creation of our physical world (including the original supercontinent); the creation and purpose of mankind; the origin of good and evil, and the fall of mankind; the effects of evil on humanity; the continuing problem of evil throughout history and in our world today; and God's solution in defeating evil.The primary focus of the book is the nature and necessity of "free will" (freedom of choice); the conflict w...

"A very nicely presented history of one of the greatest airports in the world, its challenges and its prospects . . . Highly Recommended." — FiretrenchLove it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom's largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every year, making it the UK's primary port by value.This fascinating bo...