Transitioning to your first people leadership role?Are the strategies and tools that got you here no longer cutting it?Curious about what it takes to become the kind of people leader who develops an amazing team and delivers extraordinary results?The first move into people leadership is the hardest you'll make in your career. You're about to discover that as an emerging leader you're in themiddle of an identity crisis. What? Really? Me? Yes, YOU! To become a...

The first move into people leadership is the hardest you’ll make in your career. You're about to discover that as an emerging leader you're in the middle of an identity crisis. What? Really? Me? Yes, you! To become an inspiring and enabling leader you must let go of who and what you were to craft a new identity in this fascinating (and at times challenging!) world of people leadership.On Your Marks, Get Set… LEAD! distils Anna Marshall's 20 years of experience educating and coaching...

With a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith'That which is uncooked is destined to be cooked, if has been prepared with cooking in mind' – The Enigma of GarlicAlexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street novels are loved and enjoyed by readers throughout the world. In each book there are countless scenes involving conversations around the table, in the kitchen, or in a cafe – friendship and food go well together.With this deli...

Examining the relationship between law and social change in the context of employees' everyday problems with sexual harassment, this volume elaborates a framework for studying the role of law in everyday acts of resistance - what the author calls the legal consciousness of injustice. The framework situates the analysis in the context of a specific social problem and its related legal domain. It de-centres the law by accounting for the way that social movements, counter-movements, policy ma...

The final two series of A L Kennedy's wry comic drama about love in later lifeIn their youth, John and Maggie had a tempestuous on/off affair that ended badly. Now in their sixties, they've decided to give their romance another chance - and discovered that love doesn't get any easier when you're older but no wiser.Having survived dating and moving in together, the duo face the next big test for their relationship: tying the knot. They soon find that married...

To succeed in business today, you must be strong, smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. If you want to be heard at work, you must speak up. If you want to drive change, you need an action plan. If you want to keep your job in an increasingly competitive world, you must show on a daily basis how you add value to your company. In short, if you want to succeed, you need good, old-fashioned backbone. Using straight talk laced with wry humor, top business consultant Susan Mars...

Construction Insurance and UK Construction Contracts has long been the premier text for legal professionals looking for a combined analysis of construction contracts and their relation to insurance law. In a new and updated third edition, this book continues to provide in-depth commentary and pragmatic advice on all the most important regulations and policies surrounding contracts and insurance in the construction industry.Including brand new chapters on reinsurance and en...

Read between the front lines: The stories of three Canadian female journalists stationed in England and France during the First World War.Europe: 1914–18. Mary MacLeod Moore, a writer for Saturday Night Magazine, covered the war’s impact on women, from the munitions factories to the kitchens of London’s tenements. Beatrice Nasmyth, a writer for the Vancouver Province, managed the successful wartime political campaign of Canadian Roberta MacAdams a...

What questions lead to our biggest breakthroughs and successes? In this new and revised third edition, Marilee Adams describes how questions shape our thinking and how personal and organizational problems can often be traced to the kinds of questions we ask.Change Your Questions, Change Your Life is a worldwide, word-of-mouth bestseller. Readers have said they personally experienced life-changing benefits by learning to ask the right questions-ones that empowered them rather than g...

Discover the fascinating true story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her sister Bronia, two trailblazing women who worked together and made a legendary impact on chemistry and health care as we know it.Marie Curie has long been a well-known name around the world. Though Marie made extraordinary scientific advances discovering new elements with her husband, Pierre, many students do not know about the powerful bond that propelled her into science: her sisterhood...

Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (aged sixtwelve) which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria. Antonia Fraser and many other current historians declare that it was this book that opened the delights of history for them. It fell from fashion in the 1960s, but its recent re-release in hardback has seen it become a publishing surprise in the UK, with sales of some 75,000 copies in a few months. Now, Naxos A...

Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (aged sixtwelve) which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria. Antonia Fraser and many other current historians declare that it was this book that opened the delights of history for them. It fell from fashion in the 1960s, but its recent re-release in hardback has seen it become a publishing surprise in the UK, with sales of some 75,000 copies in a few months. Now, Naxos A...