This book describes current best practice in managing construction. It is based on case studies of leading practice responding to demands from customers that construction match the value and quality that international competition is forcing on their own businesses. The case studies show that major customers now partner with construction firms to find more efficient ways of working. The resulting best practice adds to these cooperative approaches a drive for efficiency and innovation based ...

The story follows a young boy named Nick Attwood, known as "Master Skylark," who is an orphan with a beautiful singing voice. Nick's talent leads him to become a chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. However, an unexpected turn of events finds Nick entangled in a quest to recover a precious violin owned by the famous musician Thomas Arne.Set against the backdrop of London during Shakespeare's time, the novel incorporates elements of adventure, music, drama, and historical fiction. I...

The colorful life and creative career of the writer behind six of Hitchcock's thrillers: "An intriguing and revealing story." — Times Literary SupplementWith a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and television writer, and novelist in both England and Hollywood left him with many amusing anecdotes, op...

Current research indicates that approximately 70% of all organizational change initiatives fail. This includes mergers and acquisitions, introductions of new technologies, and changes in business processes. Leadership is critical in initiating, driving and sustaining change to produce business results, and executive coaching is the best way to support leaders at all levels. Coaching for Change introduces a model for executive coaching that provides the tools and resources to suppo...

In "Letters from John C. Bennett to Sangamo Journal", Bennett presents a fascinating epistolary account that weaves together personal narrative, political discourse, and social commentary within the context of early 19th-century America. Eschewing a strictly formal style, the letters are imbued with an emotional resonance that both reflects and shapes the turbulent times in which he lived. Through his correspondence, Bennett provides insights into the socio-political landscape of the Mormo...

The most comprehensive and contemporary source available on socialist economic systems, this book employs economic data from eight East European countries and Russia to provide readers with a thorough, accurate picture of formerly Communist economies. J. Wilczynski carefully analyzes the major focal points of socialistic economics: planning and market, profit, production and growth, accumulation, consumption, labor, land, pricing, money and banking, fiscal policy and control, domestic and ...

“John Burley is a fearless talent.” — Glen Erik Hamilton, award-winning author of the Van Shaw seriesFrom the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy comes a chilling psychological thriller about a family and community divided by tragedy, and the dark secrets that will set their town aflame.When Erin Reece left Wolf Point fifteen years ago after graduating high school, she’d planned to never set foot in her childhood hometown ...

Abraham Lincoln comes alive like never before.Old Abe: A Novel recounts the final five years of Abraham Lincoln's life, the most cataclysmic years of America's history. Bound to Lincoln's side, every page of this vivid novel details the President's struggles. We follow him as national tragedy deepens, as he struggles and presses ahead, and as he comes to life once again fighting to save the country.This story spans from the spring of 1860 ...

Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England's south coast - and then in walked his old flame Lucy and her new husband and ex-Judge, Gregory Bath. Entreated by Lucy to join her party for an evening back at the Bath residence, Hugh is powerless to resist, but when the night ends with the judge's inexplicable murder he is pitched back into a world of chaos and crime - a world he had tried to escape for good. First publi...

"A genuine one-stop reference point for the many, many differing strands of cultural analysis. This isn′t just one contender among many for the title of ′best multidisciplinary overview′; this is a true heavyweight."- Matt Hills, Cardiff University"An achievement and a delight - both compelling and useful."- Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of LondonWith the ′cultural turn′, the concept of culture has ...

Flamingos For Kids Amazing Animal Books For Young ReadersBestselling author John Davidson presents "Flamingos For Kids – Amazing Animal Books For Young Readers". Beautiful Pictures and easy reading format will help children fall in love with Flamingos. This is one of over 30 books in the Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers Series.The series is known as one of the most beautiful on the kindle. The pictures look great even in black and white and are excellent on the full c...

The rise of Islamic radicalism has led to heated discussions about how best to address the threat of religious terror. Disputes covering the right and wrong of war with Iraq, and the even bigger war on terrorism, continue to rage across America. But this is not the first argument of this nature-America was faced with a similar moral dilemma on the eve of World War II. Fascism was conquering Europe, and religious leaders across the nation vehemently debated how to confront Nazi Germany....