Owls have been immortalized throughout the ages through art, literature, religion and culture.A Picture Book of Snowy Owls captures their majestic beauty in its most natural form. The winter life and habits of the Snowy Owl are displayed through a series of beautiful portait and action images. The images capture some of the most important behaviours of the Snowy including hunting, soaring over the wintery fields, dealing with intruders and basking in the spring sun.Each ima...

This eBook celebrates a journey to some of the most beautiful and inspiring landscapes in the world. My wife and I left our home in Ottawa, Canada in the fall of 2012 in our small motorhome to see and to try to capture photographically some of the grandeur of the American southwest. Quest to the West is a visual and poetic record of our first expedition to this area.We drove from Ottawa to Sault Saint Marie in northern Ontario to capture the pristine images of the rivers, lakes and...

In our first eBook Quest to the West (ISBN 9781456623357), my wife Patricia and I used photographic images and poetry to capture the stunning landscapes from the National Parks of the American Midwest.This second eBook, Arizona Rising is a photographic exploration of our trips to the canyon lands of Arizona in the fall of 2013 and spring 2014.You will see beautiful images of Saguaro National Park including a variety of very prickly cacti and birds of prey that frequent this...

The vast and diverse corpus of Old Norse literature preserves the language spoken not only by the Vikings, kings, and heroes of medieval Scandinavia but also by outlaws, missionaries, and farmers. Scholars have long recognized that the wealth of verbal exchanges in Old Norse sagas presents the modern reader with the opportunity to speak face-to-face, as it were, with these great voices of the past. However, despite the importance of verbal exchanges in the sagas, there has been no book-len...

In so many cases, senior public servants are forced to make decisions with incomplete, inaccurate and untimely information. Without effective information, ships of state are sailing blind.MORE THAN JUST THEORY, The Leadership Driven Method (LDM) to Performance Measurement is a must-read, how-to book for senior and mid-level managers who are charged with making informed decisions that are needed to ensure that their public sector or not-for-profit organization meets its strategic go...

Wise Decisions by DesignThe 3P Approach to Governance provides:A model to understand the five components of governance: principles, structure, process, evaluation criteria and inclusion/exclusion criteria. Using these components you will come to understand the dynamics of organizational decision making as it applies to any public or not-for-profit organization.Diagnostic tools: We call these ‘windows.’ Each window is used to diagnose the issues within each of these f...

This book provides the first systematic study of prison governors, a hidden and powerful, but much neglected, group of criminal justice practitioners. Its focus is on how they carry out their task, how that has changed over time and how their role has evolved. The author, himself a former prison governor, explains how prison governors have changed under external pressures, and examines a number of the factors that have been influential in changing their working environment in particular th...

This results-oriented resource is a must-have strategic partner for project managers of every industry.Shifting priorities, budget cuts, unexpected interruptions….the obstacles that project managers face daily are sometimes relentless and always burdensome. Now, the average project is only growing more complicated.The Project Management Tool Kit is filled with step-by-step guidance that will enable managers to complete even the most complex project...

One of the most pivotal events in the electoral cycle is the transition of a newly elected political party from opposition to government. The incoming prime minister or premier must assemble a team of ministers, advisors, and staff that is competent and ready to govern, without disrupting the day-to-day functioning of their country or province.Off and Running sets the stage for successful transitions by describing the best practices from Canadian federal government transit...

The global political environment in the twenty-first century is proving dynamic and challenging for Australian policymakers and political institutions. Australian Politics in the Twenty-first Century contextualises the Australian political landscape through an institutional lens. It examines the legislative and judicial bodies, minor parties, lobby groups, the media and the citizenry, providing historical and contemporary facts, explaining political issues and examining new challenges. The...

In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrate the structures of power. Corruption rewards loyalty through appointments to office and by preferencing those within the favoured network ahead of others of equal or greater talent. It conc...

Program management (PgM) is fast developing as the essential link between strategy and projects and as a vehicle for organizational change. It offers the means to manage groups of projects with a common business purpose in an integrated and effective way. The Second Edition of Michel Thiry’s Program Management builds on the bestselling title first published in 2010. The heavily revised text reflects the latest program management guides and international standards and includes: a new sectio...