Irish rugby as you've never seen it before -- from the man who got the job every rugby lover would love to have.'Rala has a gift for making people feel at ease and special at the same time' Paul O'ConnellPatrick 'Rala' O'Reilly has been bagman for the Irish rugby team for over twenty years. In that time he's witnessed many highs and lows. But for him rugby has always been about the people, the places and the experiences.Here, with hi...

A collection of poetry written on the theme of personal loss and recovery.

INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST‘A triumph … the funniest novel I've read in years’ SALLY ROONEY‘A brilliant and bittersweet ode to young love’ IRISH TIMES'One of my favourite books of the year’ JULIA ARMFIELD‘A funny and frank coming-o...

Since technology has made it easy to access, share, and distribute company data, many managers avoid live interaction, instead relying on emails, text messages, web-based seminars to manage their employees. But although technology has changed, people have not. There is still a need for managers who can communicate effectively face-to-face, and in order to do so, a managers need to have the ability to ask the right questions and use the answers to find solutions. Questions That Get Results ...

In the last issue Electrolyte and The Justice Purveyors locked horns with Electrolyte's nemesis, the powerful and sexy Cottonmouth.Cottonmouth worked with Jack Wales to capture Electrolyte but when that situation looked like it might not pan out Wales hire Super 8 as a contingency plan. Jack Wales won't stop until he steals Electrolyte's powers like he did in Issue #1.

Electrolyte meets his biggest nemesis in Megalopolis-- Cottomouth!

Bills of Mortality: Disease and Destiny in Plague Literature from Early Modern to Postmodern Times explores the dynamic between the fact of plague and the constructs of destiny deadly disease generates in literary texts ranging from Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. The volume is of interest to readers in both literary and scientific, especially medical, fields. In addition, it serves as an accessible introduction to...

Talk about a cliffhanger!!!Issue #5 left off with Electrolyte trapped on a sinking ship in water nostrils-high and rising while Conniption kidnapped Sparkler and Finneus and made off into the night on Honey Badger's sailboat.The string of events which lead up to that nail-biter began with Electrolyte's discovery that Conniption and Sparkler once dated. Conniption remains determined to rekindle even if it means bumping off Electrolyte.This issue picks up where the ac...

It takes time and effort to cultivate any high quality relationship, and the relationship with your boss is no exception. What is unique about the boss-employee relationship is that it can be a beacon for productivity, job satisfaction, and exceeding business objectives, or it can be a burden, which leads to stress, a drop in morale, and a loss of engagement and progress in ones career. Successful companies are built on effective relationships both up and down the reporting chain. Conversely,...

It has often surprised me that in order to study the subject of obstructive uropathy, it is necessary to search through various sections of several urological, surgical and radiological textbooks rather than turn to one work on the subject. It is also true that, even now, many descriptions tend to concentrate on the causative conditions rather than their relationship to the proximal outflow tract, in a way which is predominantly structural and anatomical rather than functional and urodynam...

It's been a whirlwind for Electrolyte!Still pursuing his goal of stealing Electrolyte's powers in Issue #4, Jack Wales enlisted the supervillans Cottonmouth and Super 8 in an effort to clone our hero.With the aid of The Justice Purveyors, as well as some help from Purple Claw and The Perfect Four, Electrolyte emerged Triumphant!!!Meanwhile...the city of Megalopolis remains vast and complicated. Everyone's past eventually resurfaces in the superhero community. In thi...

This volume features a set of distinct, compelling, and intentionally disparate case studies that shed much needed attention on the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable roadmap toward palpable and meaningful progress with respect to enabling the goals of environmental sustainability. The volume includes contributions from notable academics – including some based in Southeast Asia - with ‘on the ground experience,’ and thus th...