In 1999 D J Brown left his job as a doctor in the NHS, frustrated by a system that seemed intent on breaking him. He developed a career as a business consultant, helping companies to improve the way they worked. But his vocation eventually drew him back to healthcare and he returned to the NHS, only to find that it was still hampered by inadequate leadership, inefficient processes, unbalanced targets and a lack of collaboration. He found institutions full of caring and committed healthcare...

If you are a leader or manager who works in healthcare — and that includes most doctors and nurses, as well as those with ‘manager’ in their job title — this book is written for you.Healthcare accounts for more than 10 per cent of all spending in developed countries. Millions of people work health services across the world.Of this vast number of healthcare workers, a majority are leaders – yet few are offered simple, practical advice on how to lead and manage their colleagu...

Have you ever had everything you set out to do doubted and questioned by others? Have you ever felt pressed down by the weight of others’ doubts so much that they tried to move in and overshadow your abilities? Life is not complete if you feel you have reached the end of your road and still feel an emptiness in your heart and a burning desire to go beyond the perception of others.I invite you to take this journey through the experiences that make our faith...

BUTTERFLY SEASON takes Lila Dean to the edge of madness and back as she learns to deal with tremendous loss and overwhelming fear in order to protect her daughter Olivia, whose extraordinary gift not only seals her destiny, but changes the lives of the people of Freedom, Texas forever.

Richard Sorge is one of history's most famous spies. This hard-drinking, womanizing, motorcycle-crashing Soviet officer penetrated the German embassy in Tokyo during the 1930s and gathered intelligence credited with changing the course of the Second World War. It is an intriguing tale; but Sorge's spy ring was just one chapter in a much longer history of Russian and Soviet espionage in and against Japan. Cracking the Crab tells the extraordinary full story of Russian intrigue targ...

Peter has made a terrible mistake.Set up to take a fall for a crime he didn't commit, Peter is facing ten years behind bars at Lockland Omega Penitentiary. Unable to handle the intense heat-blockers they use to keep the prison free from heat, he decides to sign up for the delinquent omega matching program.An alpha has to be better than prison… right?Peter commits to the program, signing away his rights and his future, agreeing to be claimed and owne...

Can one human handle three alpha werewolves? Dylan Landry is about to find out...Dylan Landry feels like he's walked straight into an alternate universe. Werewolves—big, muscular, alpha werewolves—are throwing themselves at him left and right, and he has no idea why.There's nothing special about him. He's just your average grad student working on his thesis and trying to get by in the big city. There's no reason for werewolf alphas to be striking up convers...

Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into “monsters” and “monster-talk,” and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving frontiers of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and cri...

Do you work in healthcare as a doctor, nurse or allied healthprofessional? Or perhaps your job-title includes the wordsupervisor or manager?If so, then this book is written for you.Despite the recognised importance of leadership, and especially theimpact of first-level leaders — who sit traditionally at the bottom ofan organisation chart — few healthcare organisations systematicallyprovide leadership training to those who are new to the job....

The first thing I hear is music. The first thing I've always heard is music.Meet Marley, an unassuming high school junior who breathes in music like oxygen. In between caring for his heroin-addicted mother, and keeping his scholarship at a fancy prep school, he dreams of becoming a professional DJ.When chance lands Marley his first real DJ job, his career as "DJ Ice" suddenly skyrockets. But when heart-rending disaster at home brings Marley crashing back down to ea...

'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The TimesInspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob.Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at anybody's do...

The Meaning of Careful addresses the pressing need to improve patient safety and cost efficiencies while at the same time nurturing staff morale & improving the patient experience. It offers a unique perspective on the possibilities for change within the healthcare system informed both by Dr Brownʼs hands-on experience as an ER doctor and his involvement in managing change in large corporations.