Are you tired of hearing the same old clichés and wondering if they actually have the power to transform your life?In Cliché, entrepreneur, business growth consultant, and breakthrough coach Ian Watts uncovers the surprising truth: those familiar sayings you’ve heard all your life carry the keys to mindset transformation, drive for personal growth, and lasting joy.Backed by psychological insights and neuroscientific research, Cliché shows you how to reframe overused phrases...

Introduction to disaster planning, response and recovery is the first book in the How To Disaster Management Series by Ian Watts. It is written for new emergency and disaster managers who need an overview of the skills and disciplines involved in disaster and emergency management in any industry, organisation or location. This is not a reference book but provides easy to follow checklists and guidance, in logically laid out sections which will give emergency and disaster managers an overvi...

This is the story of a most ingenious invention: the novel. Desribed for the first time in The Rise of The Novel, Ian Watt's landmark classic reveals the origins and explains the success of the most popular literary form of all time.In the space of a single generation, three eighteenth-century writers -- Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding -- invented an entirely new genre of writing: the novel. With penetrating and original readings of thei...

Estudo clássico sobre as origens do mais popular dos gêneros literários. Watt encontra as razões dessa popularidade na ascensão da classe média, no individualismo econômico, na secularização da sociedade e nas mudanças ocorridas no público leitor.Este é, com razão, considerado um livro clássico sobre o romance - sobre as origens e sedimentação do mais popular dos gêneros literários na Inglaterra da primeira metade do século XVIII.As razões dessa popularidade,...

Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an intellectual history of the mid-century, this book reconstructs Watt's wartime world: these were harrowing years of mass death, deprivation, and terror, but also ones in which communities and institutions wer...

Stockade Books and The Institute of Public Affairs are proud to publish Climate Change: The Facts, featuring 22 essays on the science, politics and economics of the climate change debate. Climate Change: The Facts features the world’s leading experts and commentators on climate change.Highlights of Climate Change: The Facts include:Ian Plimer draws on the geological record to dismiss the possibili...

Comprehensive overview of key advances in measuring soil biological, physical and chemical propertiesParticularly strong coverage of developments in measuring soil biological activity, including molecular techniques such as next-generation sequencing as well as improvements in measuring fauna such as earthworms, microbial and fungal communitiesFocus on ways of using analytical techniques in practice through the use of soil health indicators and decision support sy...

WINNER OF THE 2019 CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZECHOSEN AS A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'A dark trail of murder, political corruption and lies' iA journalist must follow the clues, no matter how far that takes her.Casey Benedict, star reporter at the

HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen An...

Este livro se originou de duas conferências fundamentadas na herança reformada. Em março de 2011, o Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary realizou uma conferência sobre "A pessoa e a obra do Espírito Santo". Em agosto desse mesmo ano, o Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary realizou sua conferência sobre "A beleza e a glória do Espírito Santo". Este livro é o resultado das duas escolas, já unidas pela confissão de fé em comum e pelos fortes laços de amizade, que decidiram publicar a...

This rich collection offers new perspectives on the future of coaching and coaching psychology, with insight from a broad range of contributors reflecting a wide variety of viewpoints. It captures the ongoing evolution of coaching practice, inviting contribution to conversations as they unfold.Mary Watts and Ian Florance skillfully bring together authors from backgrounds in law, finance, education, psychology and HR to examine the nature of change and assess current and future deve...

Comprehensive review of key topics in root science, including root architecture, root growth regulators, root anatomy and nutrient acquisitionCoverage of root response to both biotic and abiotic variablesDiscusses the range of techniques to optimize root function, from phenotyping to identify desirable root traits and exploiting the genetics of root traits to the use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM)