The 1998 Employment Rights (Dispute Resolution) and the 2002 Employment Act, seek to change the existing face of UK employment law dispute resolution. Conciliation via in-house disciplinary and appeal procedures must now be followed before resorting to a tribunal hearing. Alternatively, in dismissal cases, employers and employees can both agree to go to arbitration. As a consequence, ADR takes centre stage in employment law dispute resolution.

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

THE LIBERATORS Winter 1943. WWII is full blown. USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress pilot, Capt. Andrew Walters who has an unstoppable drive and undeterred command of leadership, flies his crew through horrific missions over Germany and Austria to slow the surge of the Luftwaffe and liberate people from the devastation of Hitler's Third Reich. In this fast-paced debut novel, German Luftwaffe burst through clouds at 12 o'clock with blinding sun preceding them, unleashing their weapons on an out gunned-out maneuvered-overloaded B-17 on one of three treacherous missions to destroy ball bearing plants over Germany. Capt. Walters leads his crew through torturous flak, 8mm guns peppering the Flying Fortress, and 20mm cannons barreling through the plane while holding a steady course toward their initial point to release bombs on German targets. A web of bloody human debris splayed across the B-17's windshield-an eyeball stares back at them. During his thirty-month journey, Capt. Walters is determined to become the man his perfectionist father can be proud of-a man alone in his secret plight, his leadership would turn frightened, petrified, ashen boys into men. Along the way, the Captain falls in love with a spirited Red Cross nurse from his hometown. She rescues an orphaned toddler and becomes extremely attached creating multiple problems as a result. The pilot's family in Fayetteville, North Carolina, suffers tremendously when their son becomes Missing in Action. Rarely does a WWII novel deal with the fears of its airmen or take you back home where the families cope by serving their country in other ways while their men fight for freedom for all. The Liberators covers it all.

This book is very specifically targeted to problems in communications and compression by providing the fundamental principles and results in information theory and rate distortion theory for these applications and presenting methods that have proved and will prove useful in analyzing and designing real systems. The chapters contain treatments of entropy, mutual information, lossless source coding, channel capacity, and rate distortion theory; however, it is the selection, ordering, and presentation of the topics within these broad categories that is unique to this concise book. While the coverage of some standard topics is shortened or eliminated, the standard, but important, topics of the chain rules for entropy and mutual information, relative entropy, the data processing inequality, and the Markov chain condition receive a full treatment. Similarly, lossless source coding techniques presented include the Lempel-Ziv-Welch coding method. The material on rate Distortion theory and exploring fundamental limits on lossy source coding covers the often-neglected Shannon lower bound and the Shannon backward channel condition, rate distortion theory for sources with memory, and the extremely practical topic of rate distortion functions for composite sources.

"Love is a funny thing shaped like a lizard.It climbs down your throat and grabs at your gizzard " - Dr. Jerry Gibson, Author This powerful little book moves from tragedy to comedy while passionately teaching and mentoring Christian love. Dr. Gibson is simply awesome in his ability to explain Bible passages. "Why are we all brothers and sisters? - God's - 'Our Father.'" Having studied and taught Greek, and Hebrew, he is truly a Biblical Scholar. He's humble and unique; he's baptized and mentored a long impressive list of contemporary Christians. With gleeful spirit and humorous intellect, Dr. Gibson's writing emanates Jesus' love. And Love is like a Lizard will touch zillions of hearts. - Victor W. Pearn, Publisher Galatians 6: 8 ." . . But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit." This verse is intended to encourage each reader to prepare your heart as you read this book. Jerry Gibson lives to please the Holy Spirit. He is genuine. He is whole-hearted. He is all in. He is headed for everlasting life. This book will tenderly, gently, escort you into a deeper faith walk. Do you have a hunger for the Word of God? Get ready to witness how one man thrived by trusting in the power of the Holy Spirit to live obediently to the Word. Your heart will be touched, your life will be enhanced and your courage will be reignited. Blessings - Bill McCartney