The prevalence of hidden disabilities and conditions cannot be underestimated: in the UK, one in five people have a disability, and eighty per cent of these disabilities are not obvious to others. Through conversations with volunteer interviewees, this book highlights the wide range of hidden disabilities and conditions that exist in the workplace, and suggests appropriate accommodations that organisations can make to help their employees play a full part in society.Ted Smith is th...

How to envision theological education in this time between the times  The dominant model of theological education is coming to an end—but Ted A. Smith looks to its ultimate ends as sources of hope and renewal.  Smith locates the crisis facing theological education today in a sweeping history of religion in the United States, from the standing orders of the colonial period to the voluntary associations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. H...

Talbot House Poperinghe was opened in November 1915 as a 'Soldiers Club' - a haven from hell - by two Chaplains of the 6th Division, Philip 'Tubby' Clayton and Neville Talbot. The house was dedicated to the memory of Gilbert Talbot, Neville's brother, who had been killed in in the afternoon counter-attack (set up to re-take the positions lost in the early morning Liquid Fire attack of the same day) at Hooge on 30 July 1915. For the following three years, except for a short period in 1918, ...

The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its contradictions, victories, and failures.Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contempor...

This original anthology of noir fiction set across the Big Easy includes new stories by Ace Atkins, Laura Lippman, Maureen Tan, and more.New Orleans has always the home of the lovable rogue, the poison magnolia, the bent politico, and the heartless con artist. And in post-Katrina times, it's the same old story—only with a new breed of carpetbagger thrown in. In other words, it's fertile ground for noir fiction. This sparkling col...

'O mother, mother! What have you done?' Failing harvests, fragile supply chains, food shortages, a spike in the cost of living; military insurgency and counter-insurgency locked in bloody stalemate; a political system on the brink of collapse, unable to respond to democratic demands, and unwilling to secure its citizens' basic material needs. This is Coriolanus: the last of Shakespeare's tragedies, and perhaps his timeliest. The action takes place in the early day...

The third in the series of a collection of stories about the men the actions and the places of interest for the battlefield visitor to the old Western Front. This book features:- A Soldier for a Year (Private David Ross); - A Very British Grenadier (Captain Pixley); - An Artist at War (Ernest Carlos); - Into Battle - Julian of the Ard Ead Julian Grenfell); - Adolf Hitler at Ypres; - Michael OLeary V.C. The Wild Colonial Boy; - No Prisoners for The Dorsets (The Dorsetshire Regiment at Hill ...

The West African diamond mining industry makes a good setting for this adventure mystery.Nigel Ballantyne works for the diamond mining company, WADMINCO. His job is to stop the rampant illegal digging of diamonds which goes on in the WADMINCO lease area. But he finds this is difficult in the pervading political climate.Some of the illegal miners are financed by a shadowy figure known as Mama Sia. Nigel swears he will close her operations down.But as the story unfold...

Another group of stories in the Salient Points series. A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914–1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: The Black Watch; Lord Worsley at Zandvoorde; The 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers at Zandvoorde; The Worc...

Aimed at ambitious, mid-level Human Resources and OD people, this book is full of practical tips and tricks to move from being a good HR person, to being great. Ted gives insights into the various ways that you can influence others, get change accepted, and make things happen in your organisation. Everything is tried and tested, and better still, Ted offers extra support, beyond the book, to anyone who contacts him through LinkedIn, where he runs a regular Dear Ted blog, based on questions...

Since 2016, World Impact has equipped and coached hundreds of church plant teams to create a strategy for their unique ministry contexts internationally and in the United States. The Church PLANT Manual is the equipping resource of the Evangel School of Urban Church Planting.This principle-based resource is designed to assist church plant teams to develop a strategic plan for their specific context and needs, whether they are planting a new church, preparing to re-plant (restart, r...

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and dig...