John McGrath is one of Australia's youngest and most successful businessmen. With a forecast turnover of almost a billion dollars, his residential real estate company, McGrath Partners, hasn't put a foot wrong. Why do some people make it to the top while others don't? Does being at the top matter? Does money equal success? John McGrath would argue no to both those points - success is more than that, and it needn't be either. John's philosophy takes in the whole picture of success, from goa...

Why is it that a handful of the population achieve phenomenal results and the majority struggle to keep their heads above water? They might have the same circumstances and same sorts of opportunities, yet the results can be radically different.Real success is something that eludes most of us, but it doesn't have to. In a world so full of opportunities it is within everyone's power to turn their life around. Whether in our career, relationships, health or finances, ...

In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect it has on our lives. This book looks at a wide range of performance and visual artists, at popular TV shows and movies, and at our day-to-day encounters with surveillance, rooting its arguments in an accessible reading of cultural t...

Response is a fast paced police action story. With several years of service under her belt, Lauren Reilly is career focused and professional the perfect Police tutor for ambitious rookie cop James Sowman. Within an hour on his first day James attends a horrific fatal accident. This will be the first of many tragic and funny incidents he will attend. You follow James's career from joining as a rookie cop to becoming a fully-fledged armed response officer.Response interweaves some cr...

Covering Western history from the ancient world to the current era of globalization, The Modernization of the Western World describes the forces of social change and what they have meant to the lives of the people caught up in them.The volume presents the history of Western civilization from a historical sociology perspective, introducing readers to the analyses of thinkers like Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Adam Smith, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Max Weber, in order to provide to...

Music abounds in twentieth- century Irish literature. Whether it be the "thought-tormented" music of Joyce’s "The Dead", the folk tunes and opera that resound throughout Ulysses, or the four- part threnody in Beckett’s Watt, it is clear that the influence of music on the written word in Ireland is deeply significant. Samuel Beckett arguably went further than any other writer in the incorporation of musical ideas into his work. Musical quotations inhabit his texts, and str...

Written during the 1970s, John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the nineteenth century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning their houses in order to make way for the Cheviot sheep. The play follows the thread of capitalist and repress...

A sunny September day. Heather Smithson, a senior MI5 controller, has a dilemma. Her job is on the line. She pauses in the sunshine to brood on recent events and what they mean in her life. Seattle, Genoa, New York: What is the battleground? Who is the enemy?Hyperlynx was performed as a one act rehearsed reading at the Edinburgh Festival in August 2001. Its grim premonition of the terrorist activity of September 11th, necessitated that John McGrath wrote a second act. He co...

Strathoykel, Sutherland. "When the Sheriff and his men arrived, the women were on the road and the men behind the walls. The women shouted 'Better to die here than America or the Cape of Good Hope'. The first blow was struck by a woman with a stick. The gentry leant out of their saddles and beat at the women's heads with their crops." (John McGrath)

MORE, Below Deck and Above The Fall LineIn Part Two of his 'Chef for Sail' trilogy, John B McGrath continues his adventures in cooking for the rich and famous while traveling the world on luxury yachts, soaking in the stunning cuisine and vistas of some of the world's most beautiful locations.After a season in the Mediterranean, he crosses the Atlantic to fulfill Caribbean dreams and compete in prestigious sailing regattas, before attending cooking school in India and skiin...

For the last 13 years, John B. McGrath has been conquering the culinary cosmos, cooking in over 50 countries for business tycoons, royalty, and some of the globe's biggest celebrities. Sailing close to 90,000 nautical miles and working in the world's most famous ski resorts, he has evolved into a world-class chef at the top of the high-pressure gastronomic game.And yet, it was all a total accident. Before his first job as a chef, John thought he was interviewing to be a ski instruc...

Includes nine maps and one photo illustrationFollowing World War II, the War Department Historical Division in 1946 published Small Unit Actions, the study of some discrete battles drawn from three different theaters of war...Nearly 20 years later, toward the end of American combat in Vietnam, the Office of the Chief of Military History again essayed to address small-unit actions with the publication of Seven Firefights in Vietnam.The present volume lies directly within the t...