Business & Dining with Civility is truly a gift of wisdom, practical information and guidance on business, education and dining etiquette. Author, educator and mentor, Nonnie Cameron Owens has dedicated her life to young people, guiding them as they take their next steps in life with confidence. Since 1987 she has been a valuable source of personal and professional tools that encourage the sensitive awareness grounded in respect—of yourself and others. It is called civility.

Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation processes are supported by the reduction of CO2 emissions and energy consumption in ski resorts. Curre...

A thrilling, compulsive crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen MullenA complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow’s deadly underworld.Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son’s suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue, Cameron is sure it’s another case closed.But the body laid out on the slab isn’t the man he’s looking for. And it isn’t a strange...

A dark, gripping crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen MullenWhen Private Investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on a cold case, he is drawn back into Glasgow’s dark underworld…Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knows Kim Rafferty is bad news the moment they meet. Desperate people always spell trouble in his experience, and Mrs Rafferty is as desperate as they come. What she is asking for is insane and if he agrees to help the wife of the notorious East-En...

I've worked at Sweet Perfection since I was in high school. I'm one business loan application away from being the sole owner of the bakery.Buying Sweet Perfection is the most important thing in my life, so when the too-handsome, too-charming, too-good-to-be-true Owen starts coming in and asking me out every morning, I have no choice but to turn him down.When I run into an unexpected problem with the bank, I'm forced to go confront my mother. I planned on spending Thanksgivi...

A completely engrossing crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen MullenWhen a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case.While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. ...

A dark, gripping crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen MullenWhen a medical whistleblower goes missing, private investigator Charlie Cameron agrees to take on the case.Gavin Law exposed a tragic case of medical malpractice but now he’s missing. It’s just another case for Glasgow PI, Charlie Cameron, until he comes to believe Law was murdered.Did the disgraced surgeon abandon his sacred oath to become a killer? Or did the hospital itself have Law...

A completely engrossing crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen MullenWhen a baby is stolen from a Scottish beach, private investigator Charlie Cameron reluctantly agrees to take the case.While her parents are just yards away, thirteen-month-old Lily Hamilton is abducted from Ayr beach in Scotland. Three days later, her distraught father turns up at private investigator Charlie Cameron's office. Mark Hamilton believes he knows who has taken his daughter. ...

A thrilling, compulsive crime drama from TOP 20 BESTSELLER Owen MullenA complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow’s deadly underworld.Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son’s suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue, Cameron is sure it’s another case closed.But the body laid out on the slab isn’t the man he’s looking for. And it isn’t a strange...

'The Japanese attacked us, they mortared us, they shelled us...they did everything.'On 21 July 1942, a large Japanese reconnaissance mission landed along the north-eastern coastline of Papua, it would soon turn into an all-out attempt to capture Port Morseby. This is the powerful story of the three weeks of battle by a small Australian militia force, the 39th Battalion, supported by the 1st Papua Infantry Battalion and the Royal Papuan Constabulary, to keep the Japanese at bay. Out...

The second volume in the Studying Lacan’s Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan’s Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation. A natural companion to Bruce Fink’s recent translation of the seminar into English (2019), this book offers a genuine opportunity to delve deeply into the seminar, and a hospitable introduction to Lacan’s teachings of the 1950s.This important book brings together various aspects of Cox Cameron’s teachings and s...

Within 24 hours of the Japanese invasion of northern New Guinea at Gona in July 1942, the Australian militiamen of ‘B’ Company, 39th Battalion, spent four weeks fighting a delaying action against a crack Japanese force outnumbered by three to one. By mid-August, the rest of the battalion had arrived, and these men took up a position at Isurava, in the heart of the cloud covered mountains and jungles of the Owen Stanley Range.At Isurava, this small militia force of the 39th Battalio...