When 16 year old Calvin Singer sees a police chase ending on an Auckland motorway and picks up a bag full of cash he has no idea what he has started. Running away with a lot of money is one thing; deciding what to do with it is something else altogether. Calvin’s life becomes increasingly complicated as he finds that he cannot be an ordinary teenager as well as a fugitive. When he tries to use the money to repair his mother’s relationship with her latest man he is drawn deeper into a tangl...

From the Canadian in charge of the joint military command in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan, this is the real on-the-ground story of one of NATO's bloodiest, most decisive and misunderstood operations: The battle of Panjwayi, the defining moment of "Operation Medusa."In the summer of 2006, David Fraser was the Canadian general in charge of NATO's Regional Command South, a territory spanning six Afghan provinces surrounding the Arghandab Valley. Birthplace of the ...

In Good Company is a graphic account by the Hon. William Fraser, Gordon Highlanders, of his service in the First World War. Several times wounded, he went to Flanders in 1914 with the 2nd Battalion and commanded successively a platoon, a company, a Territorial battalion and a Regular battalion, ending the war as a lieutenant-colonel of twenty-eight, having survived the battles of First, Second and Third Ypres, Arras, Cambrai and the final triumphs of 1918. Frasers letters and diaries from ...

Having left the dull life of workers comp insurance behind to strike it out as a private detective, things arent going well for Josie P. Cates. Her new career isn't as exciting — or lucrative — as she thought it would be. As her bank account dwindles, her first major client finally walks in the door. Chef Marco, a successful local restaurateur, hires Josie to find out who's skimming money from his business. It doesn't take long for Josie to discover that things at Bistro Italiano arent wha...

The essential text on understanding and improving animal welfareUnderstanding Animal Welfare, 2nd Edition is revised and expanded to incorporate new research and developments in animal welfare. Updated with greater accessibility in mind, the reader is guided through animal welfare in its cultural and historical context, methods of study, and applications in practice and policy. Drawing examples from farm, companion, laboratory and zoo animals, the text pro...

Well guided!Do you want to understand physiological relationships more easily?Distinguish between physiological and pathophysiological processes?Go into exams well prepared? No problem!This textbook provides a comprehensive yet concise guide to all fields of physiology in Veterinary Medicine. The editors aimed to organise information to help preparation for lectures, seminars, and exams. The book is struct...

Caught between these covers is the authentic, forthright voice of Christian Watt, servant girl, lady's maid and fishwife. Born in 1833, her working life began in domestic service before the age of nine and ended with her selling her husband's catch from door to door. The tragic death of most of her close male family – her husband, four brothers and her favourite child – drowned by a sudden squall that sunk their boat, robbed her of her sanity. But she was cared for in the remarkable Cornhi...

Well guided!Do you want to understand physiological relationships more easily? Distinguish between physiological and pathophysiological processes? Go into exams well prepared? No problem!This textbook provides a comprehensive yet concise guide to all fields of physiology in Veterinary Medicine. The editors aimed to organise information to help preparation for lectures, seminars, and exams. The book is structured according...

Grantcraft: The Practitioner's Guide to Strategic Funding for Public Service, Healthcare, and the Nonprofit Sector is a concise, accessible, and field-tested guidebook for professionals and students navigating the high-stakes world of competitive grant funding. Designed to serve as both a graduate-level course text and a real-world reference, this book equips readers to transform bold ideas into fundable, results-driven proposals.Author David E. Fraser, Ed....

Promoted into Incompetence examines a leadership crisis hiding in plain sight: how technically skilled employees often rise to management positions without the training, perspective, or preparation to lead effectively. Drawing on more than three decades of executive and academic experience, Dr. David E. Fraser reveals why competence in one role does not automatically translate into success in another-and what organizations can do to change that.From government and ...

One of the first to provide a socio-legal comparative history of under-studied or ignored Jewish attempts in the 1930s "Anglosphere" to counter the rise in fascist and Nazi antisemitism, this book examines the ways in which Jewish individuals and organized communal bodies in the mid-to-late 1930s sought to counter this increasing antisemitic violence, physical and verbal, by using the law against their fascist and Nazi attackers.This is the first study to explore how Jews in these ...

Cricket, law and the meaning of life ...In a readable, informed and absorbing discussion of cricket’s defining controversies – bodyline, chucking, ball-tampering, sledging, walking and the use of technology, among many others – David Fraser explores the ambiguities of law and social order in cricket.Cricket and the Law charts the interrelationship between cricket and legal theory – between the law of the game and the law of our lives – and demonstr...