At a time of increasing government austerity, it is vital that managers and leaders within health and social care organisations have a critical understanding of good planning and budgeting skills. This handbook will guide managers through the complex area of the planning process and includes sections on organisational aspects of planning, completing evaluation forms and analysis and strategic goal-setting. The Author then looks at effective budgeting skills including year-end forecasting, ...

Abatement and prevention of storm-generated flow is one of the most challenging areas in the environmental engineering field today. Integrated Stormwater Management covers important aspects of the topic including pollution assessment, solution methods, transport and control, runoff and flood control, modeling, reclamation, and monitoring. The book also discusses the subject of detection of non-stormwater entries into separate storm drainage systems. All chapters included in this volume wer...

"Using Herbs to Fight Viruses. An insightful and thorough investigation into herbal therapy as a powerful defense against viral infections can be found in "Harnessing the Power of Botanicals in Viral Infections." Written by Richard Fieldstone, this book is a goldmine of information for anyone looking for different ways to fight viruses.The book explores the long history and solid scientific data demonstrating the effectiveness of herbs in fighting viral infections, emphasizing maxi...

An insightful and thorough investigation into herbal therapy as a powerful defense against viral infections can be found in "Harnessing the Power of Botanicals in Viral Infections."The book explores the long history and solid scientific data demonstrating the effectiveness of herbs in fighting viral infections, emphasizing maximizing the therapeutic potential of botanical treatments. Through careful investigation and case studies, the writers make a strong case for incorporating he...

It is essential that in today′s public sector, social care and health managers have a thorough and critical understanding of best practice in commissioning services. This guide has been developed to underpin core aspects of commissioning services in health and social care with tools and strategies that really work. The authors go through the commissioning process step-by-step in order to help the reader better understand the following:· The distinguishing characteristics of commiss...

It is essential that in today′s public sector, social care and health managers have a thorough and critical understanding of best practice in commissioning services. This guide has been developed to underpin core aspects of commissioning services in health and social care with tools and strategies that really work. The authors go through the commissioning process step-by-step in order to help the reader better understand the following:· The distinguishing characteristics of commiss...

The 20th century's automobile-inspired land use changes brought about tremendous transformations in how stormwater moves across the modern urban land-scape. Streets and parking areas in the average urban family's neighborhood now exceed the amount of land devoted to living space. Add parking, office and commercial space, and it's easy to understand

The go-to field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent—now in a comprehensively updated third editionThe best field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent is now even better. Thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, this third edition of Birds of India features revised color plates, text, and distribution maps, and sixty-four more pages than the previous edition. Comprehensive and definitive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone bi...

"Pretty much indispensable to a birder travelling in the subcontinent" - British BirdsWith a wide range of habitats and a dazzling and diverse avifauna, the Indian Subcontinent is one of the world's greatest birding hotspots. This second edition of Richard Grimmett, Carol Inskipp and Tim Inskipp's ground-breaking work is a comprehensive field guide to the region, covering all species known to occur in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka a...

In "The Life of the Fields," Richard Jefferies offers a poignant exploration of rural England's natural landscapes, emphasizing his intricate observations of flora and fauna. His lyrical prose, a hallmark of Victorian nature writing, blends poetic introspection with scientific observation, inviting readers to contemplate the beauty and complexity of the countryside. This collection of essays captures the essence of rural life, reflecting both the ceaseless rhythms of nature and the profoun...

The ultimate field guide to the birds of the Middle East, an indispensable companion for any traveller to the regionThe Middle East – the region stretching from Cyprus and the Levant to Iran, including Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula, plus Socotra – has a wonderfully broad and diverse avifauna, featuring a host of wintering and passage migrants, enigmatic breeders, and even a few endemics that occur nowhere else.This authoritative book covers more than 895...

A comprehensive field guide to the birds of OmanOman is a truly amazing birding destination. In terms of avifauna it lies at the crossroads between Asian and African species – Arabian desert species to the north, and a host of Afrotropical species occurring in the monsoon-swept south that don't occur anywhere else in the Western Palaearctic, while also being a destination for Palearctic migrants.With much of the Middle East now effectively off-limits to bir...