This book reveals a unique formula for successful leadership. It is based on a ten-week leadership training programme which reached the finals of the UK National Training Awards. Condensed into ten easy-to-read modules, it will help you build the strong interpersonal skills you need to become a successful leader. The program has delivered measurable, lasting results since 1997. Written by an experienced man manager, coach and trainer it is peppered with practical examples to illustrate the...

If you’ve driven on a Smart motorway and enjoyed steady, hassle-free progress rather than the stop-start of old, you are experiencing lean in action. Instead of the traditional battle for space, the techniques employed change our collective mindsets allowing us to ‘go with the flow.’ The principles, first brought into play in the car industry in Japan in the 1950’s, are now an integral part of our everyday lives. Despite this, there is still a mystery perpetuated about Lean Thinking. This ...

Thought-provoking, well-written, and offering a range of fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives, Planning and Support should be essential reading for people working in the field of learning disabilities. Highly recommended.'- Involve MagazineThe authors outline the skills needed and common issues in case management practice across a range of people with different disabilities at different stages of their life. Emphasising the importance of taking a rights-based approa...

In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Simon Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist.David Hockney is one of the most influential and best-loved artists of the twentieth century. His career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of the past five decades. Picking up Hockney's story in 1975, this book finds him flitting between Notting Hill and California, where he took inspiration for the swimming pool ...

Drawing on exclusive and unprecedented access to David Hockney’s extensive archives, notebooks, and paintings, interviews with family, friends, and on Hockney himself, Christopher Simon Sykes provides a colorful and intimate portrait of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.Born in 1937, David Hockney grew up in a northern English town during the days of postwar austerity. By the time he was ten years old he knew he wanted to be an artist, an...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes, A Novella, chronicles the true story of an enslaved man's journey to freedom during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. In 1864, in Southampton County, Virginia, Parson Sykes, enslaved on Jacob Williams' farm, secretly educates himself by salvaging newspapers from Boykins Depot. This forbidden knowledge fuels his desire for liberation, a resolve hardened by the oppressive conditions of the plantation and the distant sounds of war. After a tense c...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enlistment in the Union Army by David J. Mason is a riveting historical fiction novel that places its protagonist at the heart of the Civil War's most challenging and transformative moments. At only seventeen, Parson Sykes is an African-American youth navigating from the oppressive "contraband of war" status to becoming a soldier in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) as a member of the XXV Army Corps. It's important to note that although The Self-Li...

The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes is a trilogy that profiles Private Parson Sykes' evolution from enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, followed by his enlistment into the Union Army, and culminating with his emancipation and return to the county. The first novel in the trilogy, subtitled Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, takes place in 1864 near the end of the American Civil War on the slave-holding Jacob Williams' middle class family farm in Southampton County Virgini...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolving field of international planning studies. It is an essential resource that situates planning as an international discipline and practice with an important role to play in delivering sustainable development across different scales in diverse global contexts. A series of chapters covers past episodes of international influence and exchange in planning, key concepts, research strategies, methods in contemporary international plann...

Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia, the first installment of the trilogy, takes place in 1864, near the end of the American Civil War, on the slave-holding Jacob Williams' middle-class family farm. During the Southampton Insurrection, the farm came under attack by Nat Turner and his insurgents, an event that haunts Jacob. Before the Civil War began, Parson started discussing human rights and the political implications of abolishing slavery with his two brothers. In December 1864, ...

Basic Science in Obstetrics and Gynaecology is an essential one-stop, portable revision tool for candidates preparing for Part 1 of the MRCOG specialist examination. Fully updated by experts who are internationally recognised in their fields, the chapters match the syllabus of the exam, combining detailed coverage of the science with related self-assessment questions that you will encounter in the MRCOG. This book is suitable for doctors specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology who want ...

Introduce your teachers, librarians, and administrators to the roles and responsibilities of educators in advocating a whole school library learning commons using this step-by-step guide for creating shared learning space in your school.It is no surprise that technology has shifted the way we educate—bearing on how, what, and where we learn. This guide lays the framework for helping turn your school library into a whole school library learning commons (WSLLC)—a spa...