Workshop Machining is a comprehensive textbook that explains the fundamental principles of manually operating machinery to form shapes in a variety of materials. It bridges the gap between people who have traditional toolmaking skills and those who have been trained in programming and operation of CNC machines in a focused production environment, rather than general machine shop.Using a subject-based approach, David Harrison intuitively guides readers and supplies practica...

The Journey introduces these key building blocks and principles to allow you to move forward on your individual Journey. It brings together theory and experience from elite sport, business, education and the military to give you an insight into usable strategies you need to get further than you can ever comprehend. The Journey gives you everything you need to keep moving forward and overcome the things that get in the way and is presented in an informative, personable and relaxed way using...

This book explores the role of expectations within the modern capitalist system. Through looking at how they are formed and develop, the impact of events that lead to a collapse in expectations, such as a major financial crisis, is examined to highlight the precarious and unstable nature of the economic system. With a particular focus on the UK and USA, it is also considered how public policy and institutions can shift the balance away from speculation and back towards enterprise.T...

Why are financial prices so much more crisis-prone and unstable than real economy prices? Because they are doing different things. Unlike real economy prices, rooted in the real goods and services produced and exchanged, financial prices attempt to value future income flows from financial and capital assets. These valuations fluctuate erratically because expectations of the future fluctuate – and large liquid financial markets can amplify, rather than correct, these effects. The book build...

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The Mental ToolboxYour mind isn't broken—it's just overloaded. Stress, anxiety, brain fog, and overthinking? They're signs your brain has been pushed too hard for too long. The Mental Toolbox is your practical stress management guide for getting back in control and building real mental resilience—without having to overhaul your entire life.Look, we're all dealing with too much these days. This book gives you actual solutions that work in the real world. It's written by some...

David Harrison has contributed to the academic study of tourism over the last 30 years. This book brings together a collection of his published material that reflects the role played by tourism in 'development', both in societies emerging from Western colonialism and in societies previously part of the Soviet system. The overarching theme looks at how, promoted as a tool for development, tourism can lead to conflict between competing elites, but can also empower groups previously subject t...

Warning! May Contain Nuts!For Maude Appleby, award-winning cupcake maker and bakery owner, the tragic deaths of a sugar-crazed juvenile delinquent and his victim spells the end of her livelihood. The British government steps in to restrict the sale of sugar, closing the oven door on her baking business. In retaliation, Maude forms the Granny Cartel, an underground criminal enterprise that smuggles illegal confectionery to the masses. With the notorious Baker’s Dozen as her muscle, ...

Set in the rich landscapes of southern France and New York, AFTERMATH is a story of love and loss and the redemption of a man who suddenly finds himself untethered in the midst of a perilous and unpredictable world.Middle-aged newspaper man, John Parrish, is heading down a strange road into a life no longer his own. After surviving a particularly messy and malicious divorce, John is forced from his position as Senior Editor of World News at the New York Sentinel. Suddenly,...

Finally! A book for the corporate newbie that sheds light on the strange and mysterious world of Corporate America…Often the difference between the hot-shot “brand builders” who rise to corporate success and the “brand burners” who crash and burn early in their careers is seldom about intelligence or even hard work. That would be too straightforward.Corporate survival and ultimate success are more often about who understands the Unwritten Rules of Corporate...

An eclectic collection of poems written over the last fifteen years, representing a journey from an early childhood in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, to emerging adulthood in London suburbia, through life in Kent to a voluntary ‘exile’ in New South Wales. A journey that took me from accepting Sunday school Christianity, through scepticism and atheism to faith. A journey in which I was accompanied and encouraged for the last fifty-one years by the remarkably lovely June.

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...