Sam knows how the life he's currently living ends. It isn't the life, or the ending, he wants. He makes a choice to try his hand as a lighthouse keeper's apprentice. The life of a lighthouse keeper promises responsibility. Adventure. He will find adventure, the likes of which he could never have imagined. The journey that unfolds before him promises to change his life...if he can only survive.

As remote work becomes the new norm, leaders face the unique challenge of guiding their teams from a distance. But how can you foster productivity, maintain morale, and build a cohesive team when you’re not in the same room? How to Manage a Remote Team: Leadership Strategies for Virtual Success is your comprehensive guide to mastering remote team management and building a thriving virtual workplace.This book provides essential strategies for leaders to effectively manage, motivate,...

Britain is sleepwalking to disaster, because London has abandoned all forms of proper strategy. That is the sobering message of this powerful analysis exposing the great failings of British security and defence policy.Britain long ago abandoned the art and science of grand strategy, even though this is crucial for establishing the country's direction of travel. Without grand strategy, national strategy has been reduced to little more than a political game of how much threat Britain...

Early in the Second World War, Peter Wand-Tetley volunteered for special service. He saw action first with the newly formed Commandos raiding the North African coast and then in the fierce fighting on Crete. Operations with the LRDG in the Western Desert were followed by SAS actions as Rommel retreated to Tunis. Remarkably he then transferred to the Special Operations Executive and was parachuted blind into enemy occupied Greece in 1943. His role was to train and equip Andarte guerillas an...

A prominent lawyer colorfully recounts a lost and lamented era in Texas politics: "Fascinating . . . Vivid, insightful commentary." — Houston ChronicleOnce upon a time in Texas, there were liberal activists of various stripes who sought to make the state more tolerant (and more tolerable). David Richards was one of them.In this fast-paced, often humorous memoir, he remembers the players, the strategy sessions, the legal and politi...

In an era of fiscal constraint, rising public demand, and fragmented governance, the UK's approach to public spending is under unprecedented strain. At the centre of this system sits HM Treasury, long regarded as the most powerful department in British government yet questioned for its ability to deliver effective financial control in an increasingly complex and fragmented policy landscape. This book offers a bold and timely reassessment of the Treasury's role in shaping the UK's public fi...

Switch on the parliament during a sitting evening and watch for an hour. What you are watching is a combat — choreographed, rehearsed, performed for the cameras — and somewhere inside it, almost invisible, the actual business of running a country. We have worn one word, politics, over two different activities for so long that we no longer notice they have come apart: the contest for power, and the work of governing. And we have mistaken the decay of the first for the failure of th...

Jules Winters becomes famous by accident after one brutally honest bar performance turns her into the internet’s favorite voice on heartbreak. The attention brings followers, interviews, brand offers, and one very bad idea: a fake boyfriend named Liam Blake, hired to help sell her comeback love story. At first, everything is a performance, the photos, the soft smiles, the charming answers, the public romance everyone wants to believe in. But Liam is not just a prop, and Jules is not as imm...

T his is a fun and thrilling story about Owen's first trip to the zoo. This story can also help children to manage expectations, communicate emotions and avoid violent exchanges.

Dancing with the Future is the origin story of Strategic Navigation — a methodology for strategic management and future-proofing in real-time that has been deployed on every inhabited continent over three decades. It begins in 1993, when Richard Hames and Marvin Oka declined a conventional consulting brief from the Australian Taxation Office and proposed something else entirely: a sustained, open-ended engagement that would challenge the organisation's most fundamental assumptions...

Cargo claims are the most frequent form of third-party liability incurred by carriers by sea and their P&I insurers. They are the bread-and-butter work of ship operators and P&I clubs, with each club handling thousands of cargo claims every year. This new book examines every aspect of cargo claims from a legal and practical perspective and complements other legal textbooks which specialise in bills of lading or charterparties.Following the life of a typical cargo claim, the book an...

Aristocracies have always existed at the pleasure of the king and loyally served his interests. Western popular support for our monstrous wars arises from the fact that our material prosperity is inextricably tied to the super profits of colonial and neo-colonial exploitation of the nations of what is now called the Global South. Imperialist super profits accrued by US multi national corporations are the material base of western prosperity. They are the new kings of the capitalist world.