Celebrating 46 years on the road! So many kilometres and so many memories.Join me, Stephen Bass an Aussie Truckie as I share with you my many stories of riding the white lines of Australia. What an adventure!This is an Australian bush yarn, suitable to all ages.

'A valuable contribution to our collective knowledge about governance, poverty and the environment' Frances Seymour, World Resources Institute'Detailed and realistic documentation of contemporary development and governance relationships and trends' Melissa Leach, Institute of Development StudiesThere are growing signs that development work by governments, aid agencies and non-government organisations ignores the fact that environmental quality matters to the poor. There are...

This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national or local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development. Whilst the focus is on integrated strategies for sustainable development, the approaches and methods covered are equally relevant to poverty reduction, environmental and sectoral strategies, programme development and review.Agenda 21 called for ...

Leadership Agility is the master competency needed for sustained success in today’s complex, fast-paced business environment. Richly illustrated with stories based on original research and decades of work with clients, this groundbreaking book identifies five levels that leaders move through in developing their agility. Significantly, only 10% have mastered the level of agility needed for consistent effectiveness in our turbulent era of global competition. Written...

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Biography of the YearStephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with The Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when a Loyalist gang ambushed the band, murdering three of his friends in an attack that would become one of the darkest moments of The Troubles. In the quiet aftermath, in a ...

Jam is sweet but it can also burn.Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory.Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with...

How leaders can use the right story at the right time to inspire change and actionThis revised and updated edition of the best-selling book A Leader's Guide to Storytelling shows how storytelling is one of the few ways to handle the most important and difficult challenges of leadership: sparking action, getting people to work together, and leading people into the future. Using myriad illustrative examples and filled with how-to techniques, this book clearl...

A best–selling direct from British enterprise start–up expert Stephen Clarke. In the past, jobs supplied most every person with a dependable pay envelope and long variety security - but not anymore. An alternate is to go into business, yet most people don't have the self-assurance to start a full-time business. This meeting will reconsider the dos and don'ts of functioning a home-based enterprise, how to choose the right enterprise, and the widespread pitfalls. You will realize that these ...

A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers.Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield shows how you can uncover and assess your assumptions about practice by viewing them through the lens of your students' eyes, your colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and resear...

It is the dawn of the twentieth century.Following the Martians' failed invasion of Earth, the British Empire has seized their technology and unlocked its secrets for themselves. It is a Golden Age of discovery, adventure, culture, invention—and of domination, and rebellion.Scarlet Traces reveals a world of ant-headed nightmares; vacuum salesmen; war machines; deadly secrets; clockwork marvels; and Sherlock Holmes, T. S. Eliot and Thomas Edison as y...

Detective Bass earned his pay with this case. This was a crime committed at night in a vacant lot and not discovered until morning. She was an aspiring actress, who worked as a waitress in a nearby restaurant. Detective Bass determined her ex-boyfriend, an artist, rich and spoiled, knew more than what he said, and her restaurant co-workers had their own sad stories to tell. Only when the murderer’s own life was threatened did he call out for help. And it was Detective Bass who came to his ...

Exploring all 185 miles of Britain's longest river, this gorgeous and inspiration-packed guidebook shares the best adventures and places to eat and sleep from source to sea.From Hammersmith and Fulham, all the way to Wiltshire and Swindon. The Thames Path offers access to England's longest river, and an opportunity to experience some of England's most accessible, unique and fun outdoors activities. It's no wonder the Thames Path is one of the most popular of our Na...