You can't coach your way past a shallow system.Mark Wilkinson has spent his career inside organizations that looked fine on the surface, capable people, functioning operations, nothing obviously broken, yet still underperforming. The pattern was always the same: leaders were exhausted from fixing people, when the real problem was never the fish. It was the water.You Can't Catch a Whale in a Catfish Pond is for leaders who are already doing everything right, coachin...

Venture into Alaska's gold country to find a killer. Fairbanks police detective Randy McCloughlin enters a secretive mining community while investigating a murder, and discovers the limits of local justice. "Downed in Chena" is the second book in the Randy McCloughlin series of mysteries, which includes “Iced in Alaska,” “Slain in Skilak” ("Séquelles à Skilak") and “Hunted in Susitna” ("Chassée dans le Susitna").

Stories share experience, and through experience we live and learn through other’s lives.Two cloistered innocents choose between a risky leap-of-faith and a reality that might be a lie; a simple child talks with extraterrestrials no other can see; a backwoods woman from the 1890s records an eerily accurate futuristic tale; a farm animal meddles with future technology; nearly immortal humans strive to save a museum-quality Earth as the sun dies; what if Beauty were a hag and the Bea...

In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term ‘intelligence failure’ became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the thirty years preceding its very public failings. From the Soviet Union to South Africa and Libya, Mark Wilkinson provides a detailed analysis and vivid account of the development and functioning of Britain’s intelligence agencies in the struggle against the prolifer...

Mr Marmalade is a very cross cat! Somebody has left a poo! Was it you?Mr Marmalade goes on poo patrol to find the villain. Will he find the culprit?It had better not be you!

It got out of hand pretty quickly. Every lunchtime kids lined up for a turn to get their cubes solved. Emily probably could have charged a quarter a cube and had her own little racket going, but I think she solved them just for the challenge. I guess there were an unusual number of Rubik's Cubes getting solved at our junior high, and it drew attention. Patty Jo was the first one to notice the men in dark suits hanging around our school.Explore three short stories and beautiful artw...

New author Frank Olson shatters the bridge between reality and dreams in his debut story. College student Adelaide Wilkinson shares her first published story. SFI's cadre writers share their imaginative worlds including the continuing Wind and the Water.The adventures of spunky Jei and her matter-of-fact robot continue in Michael Sorenson's Jei Pardy comic.

Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process, from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research. It offers:Demonstration of creative methods using both primary or secondary data.Practical guidance on overcoming common hurdles, such as getting ethical clea...

Develop the skillset essential to successful securitisation swaps managementSecuritisation Swaps is a complete practitioner’s guide to this unique and complex class of derivatives. This detailed examination follows the entire life cycle of securitisation swaps to give quants, structurers, traders, originators, issuers and lawyers a common reference for understanding their shared objective. Broad in scope to provide a common-ground perspective — yet detaile...

Five gripping novelisations of TV adventures set in perilous periods of Earth history.In The Reign of Terror, by Ian Marter, the First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara find themselves in 18th Century Paris, in the midst of the terrifying French Revolution.In The Smugglers, by Terrance Dicks, villainous pirates roam the 17th Century Cornish coast, and the First Doctor, Polly and Ben become entangled in the dubious activities of the locals.

Summer returns to Alaska, and police detective Randy McCloughlin takes a break from homicides in Fairbanks to go salmon fishing on the Kenai Peninsula. His annual vacation goes astray, however, when a ranger enlists his help in a murder case. Betrayal leads to crime in this police thriller from the Last Frontier. "Slain in Skilak" ("Séquelles à Skilak") is the third book in the Randy McCloughlin series of mysteries, which includes "Iced in Alaska," “Downed in Chena,” and “Hunted in Susitna...

A brutalcrime, a remote frontier, a relentless hunt.Torn from the frozen soil, the remains of a South Korean detectivetrigger a race against time to save his kidnapped sister in Alaska. Investigators, committed to her salvation, scour the remote regions of the Kenai Peninsula and the seedy underworld of Anchorage in search of the woman. Unbeknownst to them,a serial killer also has her in his sights. Whoever reaches her first willdecide her fate.This English edition preserve...