Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financial -which should be taken into account in the planning and running of large-scale, centralised distance education systems at the higher education level. The book uses evidence drawn from Open University type institutions in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and the UK.

Originally published in 1981 this volume provides a detailed analysis of the factors - strategic, pedagogic, operational, organisational and financial -which should be taken into account in the planning and running of large-scale, centralised distance education systems at the higher education level. The book uses evidence drawn from Open University type institutions in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Venezuela and the UK.

Dame Petunia Bladderwort and her remarkable friends, Cyril the modelling gnome, Trent Ranchandler, her trusty chauffeur handyman, are all summoned by the Keeper to help him find the Great Book of Han-Fei.A book that contains all the knowledge and realities of both the seen and unseen universes. The Great Book has been stolen and in the wrong hands could unleash horrors that you only experience in your worst nightmares. With the help of One Beer a wizard 2nd class who hates magic, and the General of the unseen army. The group of adventures set off on their latest adventure and are drawn into the Pyramid of Power, the home of a supernatural apparition, Death. They battle monsters and experience the shock and awe of One Beers attempts at Magic.

England is experiencing its wettest and coldest summer since records began.The sun appears to be dimming and losing its power. A society lady Dame Petunia Bladderwort, who is living in reduced circumstances,finds herself unexpectedly transported to the Mud world of Terra Aqua. A planet with no set orbit that just wanders around space like a giant pinball. Due to the result of a failed American time travel experiment she is finds herself stranded upon Terra Aqua. Where she encounters Cyril, An international modelling gnome,who also had crashed into the planet, due to a temporal anomaly. Dame Petunia also chances upon an American service man from her past.Their ensuing adventures lead them to the mud men,A group of entrepreneurs who are mining the mud.In their travels, they encounter The Keeper, who is overseeing both the seen and the unseen universes, while keeping safe the secrets that hold the dark forces at bay.This little band of ecliptic individuals also assist the celestial dragon Chimaira,to get home,

G-Strings and Curls is the fascinating story of the son of a Jewish entrepreneur and bookmaker brought up in 30s and 40s East End London. His fledgling hairdressing company survived being wrongly blamed for an horrendous tragedy at sea to become a multi-million pound empire centred on the cruise industry. But before that he'd been a bookseller, jazz musician (alongside a young Sir George Shearing among others) and band leader in Britain, Germany and South Africa. He was also a photographer, wrestling promoter and hypnotist. To describe Tony Kaye's life as interesting is an understatement. About the Co-Author Richard Seamon was born in London in 1960 and grew up in Ashford, Kent. He has by turns been employed as an archivist, a test cricketer, a civil servant and a toll collector at the Dartford Tunnel.* The internet re-vitalised his interest in writing in 2000 and he turned professional after Sharon, his partner, suffered a serious illness in 2002. G-Strings and Curls is his first published book. He has a website at www.richard-seamon.co.uk

This is the story of A dragon who is out of his time and space, mud men from a wandering planet.in part two a missing book that contains all the knowledge and power of the two universesis stolen by Death in an attempt to lure the keeper away from his mystical mountain. The lead characters Are tasked by the Keeper to cross from the seen to the unseen universe to recover the book, with the help of the general and a few of his men from the sprit army who guard the unseen universe. With the aid of The Keeper of Time they manage to defeat the agents of darkness and the leviathans of the underworld.