Owls have been immortalized throughout the ages through art, literature, religion and culture.A Picture Book of Snowy Owls captures their majestic beauty in its most natural form. The winter life and habits of the Snowy Owl are displayed through a series of beautiful portait and action images. The images capture some of the most important behaviours of the Snowy including hunting, soaring over the wintery fields, dealing with intruders and basking in the spring sun.Each ima...

In our first eBook Quest to the West (ISBN 9781456623357), my wife Patricia and I used photographic images and poetry to capture the stunning landscapes from the National Parks of the American Midwest.This second eBook, Arizona Rising is a photographic exploration of our trips to the canyon lands of Arizona in the fall of 2013 and spring 2014.You will see beautiful images of Saguaro National Park including a variety of very prickly cacti and birds of prey that frequent this...

Wise Decisions by DesignThe 3P Approach to Governance provides:A model to understand the five components of governance: principles, structure, process, evaluation criteria and inclusion/exclusion criteria. Using these components you will come to understand the dynamics of organizational decision making as it applies to any public or not-for-profit organization.Diagnostic tools: We call these ‘windows.’ Each window is used to diagnose the issues within each of these f...

In so many cases, senior public servants are forced to make decisions with incomplete, inaccurate and untimely information. Without effective information, ships of state are sailing blind.MORE THAN JUST THEORY, The Leadership Driven Method (LDM) to Performance Measurement is a must-read, how-to book for senior and mid-level managers who are charged with making informed decisions that are needed to ensure that their public sector or not-for-profit organization meets its strategic go...

Before medals, flags, and television ceremonies, the Olympics belonged to Zeus.At ancient Olympia, men competed naked in the heat and dust before tens of thousands of spectators. They ran, wrestled, boxed, raced chariots, swore sacred oaths, endured brutal training, and fought for a prize that had no monetary value: a wreath of wild olive leaves.Yet that crown could change a life forever.The Ancient Olympics uncovers the re...

This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved. The author, himself a former prison governor, explains how prison governors have changed under external pressures, and examines a number of the factors that have been influential in changing their working environment in particular th...

Welcome to The Garden!This is a place for flowers and light, bud and bloom. Just beware of what's beneath the dirt, or scurrying in the dark. Here, 15 writers unpick the tapestry of life, death and regrowth in fantastical tales. This is a place where fruit may carry the rot of broken bonds, where flowers carry the burden of life and loss, hands reach out from the roots and teeth gnash their own way out… And ancient visitors might borrow the familiar shape of wolf & rabbit,...

Welcome to The Garden!This is a place for flowers and light, bud and bloom. Just beware of what’s beneath the dirt, or scurrying in the dark. Here, 15 writers unpick the tapestry of life, death and regrowth in fantastical tales. This is a place where fruit may carry the rot of broken bonds, where flowers carry the burden of life and loss, hands reach out from the roots and teeth gnash their own way out… And ancient visitors might borrow the familiar shape of wolf & rabbit,...

Seven dark and craftily written short stories by Carole Kelly.Enter Carole’s world of Dark Fantasy, where dysfunctional relationships, dystopian worlds, and psychological horror reign.Carole Kelly’s bites of fiction dive mercilessly into the gristle of dysfunctional relationships and flawed thinking, while relentlessly pulling you deeper through the dimensions of reality… before her twists of plot spit you out on the other side.Featuring Premier Australian Talent:

The field of hip preservation surgery has evolved over the past decade as our understanding of hip pathomechanics and pathomorphology has expanded. The published literature on non-arthritic hip pathology, for example, has grown exponentially. The topics of controversy in the past decade have been answered in some cases, but new questions have also arisen.In addition to the 99 chapters in the original edition – most of which will be retained and updated as applicable – there will be...

The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, missionaries, and farmers. Scholars have long recognized that the wealth of verbal exchanges in Old Norse sagas presents the modern reader with the opportunity to speak face-to-face, as it were, with these great voices of the past. However, despite the importance of verbal exchanges in the sagas, there has been no book-len...

This eBook celebrates a journey to some of the most beautiful and inspiring landscapes in the world. My wife and I left our home in Ottawa, Canada in the fall of 2012 in our small motorhome to see and to try to capture photographically some of the grandeur of the American southwest. Quest to the West is a visual and poetic record of our first expedition to this area.We drove from Ottawa to Sault Saint Marie in northern Ontario to capture the pristine images of the rivers, lakes and...