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The Procurement Compendium is a collection of short articles relating to procurement and supply chain management, first published online via Spend Matters and Public Spend Forum websites. They aim to inform, provoke, occasionally educate and sometimes even amuse. Although procurement is the broad theme, topics range from Machiavelli's thinking on change management to 'licensing the procurement profession' the James Bond way; from the reasons for David Cameron's EU negotiation failure to wh...

Procurement with Purpose describes a growing and powerful movement how organisations can use the money they spend with suppliers to help address wider environmental, social and economic issues. That is not just about emissions and climate change, but includes how to address issues such as biodiversity and habitat loss, plastics and waste, modern slavery, inequality and discrimination, and more. That organisational ‘buying power’ is now being used to drive change across the business and pol...

With the emergence of the digital revolution, traditional educational assumptions and programs are being significantly disrupted. Historically, educational practices that attempted to bridge the gap between adults' lives, college, and work were marginalized because our society was information-poor and they defied the dominant academic traditions. Now, the tables are turned. In our information-rich, digitized society, new technologies and data analytics are defining learning opportunities t...

Increase Your Conscious Awareness and Discover Alternate Realities Using Quantum PhysicsDeepen your understanding of quantum physics and expanded states of awareness with Quantum Consciousness, an enlightening guide that helps you pull science and spirituality closer together. This fascinating book invites you to tour alternate realities, parallel lives, interdimensional consciousness, the eternal state, and even the very fabric of the universe.Spe...

In 1987, the original Oxford Publishing Company produced an amalgam of two paperback books written by former Branksome fireman Peter Smith. Mendips Engineman and Footplate over the Mendips told the story of a young railway fireman and his driver Donald Beale. Enthralling the reader with stories of working trains over the old Somerset & Dorset line, the two books encompassed not just ordinary workings, but also early footplate experiences of Peter's own railway career, dri...

"A fascinating litany of the mistakes that can happen when buyers get it wrong" - Luke Johnson, The Sunday Times"Packed full with amazing examples' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2"Colossal, costly disasters could be averted if those holding the purse strings read this book. - The TimesIn this hilarious, fascinating and insightful expose, industry insider Peter Smith reveals the massive bl...

Increase Your Conscious Awareness and Discover Alternate Realities Using Quantum PhysicsDeepen your understanding of quantum physics and expanded states of awareness with Quantum Consciousness, an enlightening guide that helps you pull science and spirituality closer together. This fascinating book invites you to tour alternate realities, parallel lives, interdimensional consciousness, the eternal state, and even the very fabric of the universe.Spe...

This authoritative account traces the BahNB'! Faith from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century Iran to the spiritual and social concerns of the present.

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The V 1, or Doodlebug or Flying-bomb came into use in June 1944 and, together with the V 2 Rocket, was Hitlers final hope in face of the advancing Allied forces sweeping across Europe towards Germany. Of the 8,000 that were launched within the first 80 days, some 2,300 reached the London area where they caused more death and destruction to its population and buildings. As the front line moved eastwards, many of the ground-based launch ramps became denied to the German forces and the modest...

"This book is a substantial and timely contribution to Brahms studies. Its strategy is to focus on a single critical work, the C-Minor Piano Quartet, analyzing and interpreting it in great detail, but also using it as a stepping-stone to connect it to other central Brahms works in order to reach a new understanding of the composer's technical language and expressive intent. It is an original and worthy contribution on the music of a major composer." —Patrick McCrelessExpressive For...

Essentially Human: On Sales and Salespeople reframes the often-misunderstood profession of sales and salespeople by revealing the core traits and behaviors that distinguish truly exceptional practitioners.Drawing on four decades of executive-level leadership, firsthand stories from top performers across multiple disciplines, and tapping into the rigorous academic research on the psychology of sales and human behavior, Smith delivers a clear, practical, and highly readable guide.