Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction writer and storyteller, he was also a provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and Eton College, and a legendary and influential scholar whose pioneering work in the study of biblical texts and medieval ma...

Violent mutiny was common in seafaring enterprises during the Age of Discovery—so common, in fact, that dealing with mutineers was an essential skill for captains and other leaders of the time. Mutinies in today's organizations are much quieter, more social and intellectual, and far less violent, yet the coordinated defiance of authority springs from dissatisfactions very similar to those of long-ago shipboard crews. This highly original book mines seafaring logs and other archives of fift...

Examines the causes of football hooliganism as a world phenomenon, considering the links between player violence and crowd violence, and the role of the media. It looks ahead to the 1994 World Cup in Los Angeles and asks why soccer hooliganism has not been a problem in the USA.

This book contains an Open Access chapterThe continued rise of the digital age and its radical innovation activities compel us to reconceptualize how entrepreneurial ventures and other organizations use various technologies to grow, evolve, and perform. How do the boldest entrepreneurship theories assist in this reconceptualization? Entrepreneurship has been heralded for decades as a revolutionary movement within the domain of business theory and practice. If so, t...

This book traces international developments in the hooligan phenomenon since the Heysel tragedy of 1985. The authors make special reference to the troubled European championships in West Germany in 1988 and look critically at political responses to the problem. The authors used ‘participant observation’ in their research on British fans at the World Cup in Spain, and at matches in Rotterdam and Copenhagen, and capture the authentic voice of football hooliganism in their interviews....

In his book, The How of Wow!, award-winning author John J. Murphy challenges you to differentiate your s service.When was the last time you were “wowed” by the service you received?Maybe you were “wowed” while buying groceries, resolving a problem with your bank, checking into a hotel or flying across the country. Or maybe you were not. It seems that the secrets behind world class service are often just that—secrets! But in The How of Wow!, award-winning author John J. Murp...

Cultivating high-performance teamwork is like growing a garden. We get out of it what we put into it. The i in Team challenges common misperceptions about teamwork and exposes the critical ingredients missing from many of today's teams, businesses, and organizations. In it, authors Michael McMillan and John Murphy show you how to experience a paradigm shift, transcending independent thinking and unleashing interdependent power. This audiobook will show you how to tap the unique potential, ...

Want to Start a REVOLUTION?Revolution is an anthology that unites fourteen Rockford Area writers. This collection spans poetry, essays, and short stories, each echoing the call for change and introspection. This anthology is more than words on a page; it's a reflection of a transforming community. Each piece is a catalyst, igniting conversations and inspiring personal revolutions.Be part of the Revolution.Grab your copy and join th...

The launch of the All for Ireland League in 1910 sent shock waves through Irish nationalism and led to widespread rioting and violence in Cork City and County. It represented the first breakaway from John Redmond’s Irish parliamentary party but, more importantly, challenged one of the central weaknesses of nationalism itself: the failure to build an inclusive vision of an independent nation and the belief that it could ignore the wishes of unionists.Drawing on a wide range of prima...

Why buy this book? Much is written about divorce for women, little for men. This book is for you, or your brother, father, uncle, friend or even your partner who may be divorcing or separated. Read what this man’s journey entailed in the hopes that it helps you and others to understand how one might deal with the trauma of breaking up and what to expect. To keep living. To know that he is not the first or last to go through the trauma of a breakup and that he is not alone. To be inspired...

This book reflects the personal prejudices I have developed in twenty years of reading the scientific literature. I like monographs; good ones assemble a great deal of information in a logical sequence and in enough detail to enable one to see why current beliefs are held. For this purpose, it is entirely useless to write "as Smith has shown21 ,81,117 •••• " That only means that one must go to the library and turn up Smith's original papers, and one's object in reading a monograph is preci...

In the heart of Boston in the 1980's—a city engulfed in turmoil and racial tensions, an unlikely friendship develops between two students at Cathedral High School. Patrick is an Irish-Catholic born leader. His friends follow him with blind allegiance. Nate is a young, disciplined, black athlete—focused on finding his way out of the neighborhood alive. The two young men find themselves on hectic school grounds, in a culture that shuns friendships like theirs. Through a tragic turn of events...