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The orphan Cole wanders the world, seeking the fabled Underground
City which he has promised his love Sigrid he will find. Somewhere
else entirely, Niven sits in a palace garden taking lessons in
astronomy and architecture, dreaming up ways to escape being
married off to one of her father’s friends. Cole’s story is
pieced together from folk songs and fragments as he travels ever
onwards towards his destiny: a new life even stranger than the one
before. Niven too will learn what it means to leave the garden of
childhood. Their world is one of witchcraft and wishing, wisdom and
regret, as they slowly learn how much it is possible to love, and
suffer for the sake of love. Comic, grotesque, lyrical, and
immensely readable, Tony Williams’s fantasy picaresque is a
reader’s delight. A sweeping yarn through the darkest of ages,
filled with rogues, lovers, murderers, swindlers, and saints.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building,
Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative
impact on society. So he wrote about it - to a remarkable extent.
He wrote a classic ghost story, 'The Signalman'; in Dombey and Son
about what is now the West Coast Main Line being carved through
north London in great ravines. He wrote satirical pieces about
railway catering - even back then; about the wonder of express
train travel to the Channel ports; travel pieces about exploring
America by train - and about being personally involved in the
notorious Staplehurst train crash in Kent. Now, in the year of
Dickens' 150th anniversary, Tony Williams, a distinguished Dickens
scholar, collects all these railway writings into a handsome little
volume ideal for a long train journey...
An efficient and cost-effective HR function is essential to the
successful running of any organization. And yet for many businesses
it is impossible or costly to have HR staff in every office. This
is particularly true for companies who have many branches, such as
banks and building societies. So what are they to do? Increasingly
they are turning to shared services by creating a unit within the
organization that typically undertakes personnel administration and
basic operational support. This may be delivered to managers and
employees through some combination of call centre, personal contact
or intranet. Creating a shared services centre enables the HR
function to redefine its relationship with its stakeholders. It can
become more of a strategic player and make a more business-focused
contribution. This book explains what shared services are and what
they look like for the HR function. It describes why organizations
opt for shared services and what activities are included. It sets
out the relationship between shared services and the other HR
activities, and between HR and line management. How To Get Best
Value From HR outlines the process of introducing shared services,
from identifying customer needs through designing the structure to
implementation and monitoring. It also outlines the likely pitfalls
and, importantly, offers possible solutions. In particular the book
highlights the big design issues, including whether to outsource
services, where a shared services centre should be located, how
services should be delivered and organized, including through the
option of e-HR. Crucially it features an extended case study of the
Royal Bank of Scotland's experience of introducing HR shared
services, providing a unique insight into the reality of this new
way of working.
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Nutcase (Paperback)
Tony Williams
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Read Regional 2019 - 'Discover brilliant Northern writers' Aidan
Wilson's misfortune is to be hard as nails In this darkly hilarious
and seriously horrifying book Williams tells the story of Aidan, a
vigilante and young offender from one of Sheffield's roughest
estates. At breakneck speed, we see Aidan's world unravel as he
goes from hero to outlaw, fighting against all-comers and the
circumstances he can't escape. But is he a victim or architect of
his own demise? A brutal and breathtaking account of living with
violence in the English city. There are lots of crime novels, but
Nutcase is something different: a novel about crime which isn't
interested in the conventions of crime fiction. The novel is based
on a specific Icelandic saga: the Saga of Grettir the Strong.
Nutcase explores the lives of people who live with violence on a
day-to-day basis - how it shapes and distorts their lives, and
ultimately becomes part of the normality that they live with.
Gardens, grotesqueries, historical landscapes, destruction and
darkness, all collide in Tony Williams' explosive new collection
Tony Williams is roaming the earth. The poems in Hawthorn City
record the tales we tell ourselves to make a home in the lives we
find ourselves living. They are songs to family, to stone and
outlawry and refusal, and to the fevered memory which reaches back
beyond birth, past early modern witches and shepherds' songs, past
medieval chronicles and Icelandic sagas, to the ancient
city-states, homely and hellish, which part of the modern
imagination still inhabits. Travelling darker and deeper towards
the state which is both origin and grave, this grotesque comedy of
a book intensifies into a bizarre, baroque vision of the world and
our place in it.
The HR function is having to adjust itself to the implications of
the globalisation of business activity. This has meant adjusting
its philosophy, policies and practices to fit new organisational
imperatives, as well as creating its own refashioned service
delivery model. Peter Reilly and Tony Williams's Global HR explores
the key issues of building an international brand, culture and
talent pool, whilst contributing to business and functional
transformation, drawing on examples from multinationals in
telecoms, fast-moving consumer goods, manufacturing, software,
services and commodities. In doing so, they offer insights into
managing people and businesses that no organization can ignore.
Now in its fifth edition, Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules has
earned a reputation as the best book for learning the fundamental
skills of rugby union. It provides an attractive, easy-to-read and
straightforward discussion of the key components of the game, from
player positions and tactics to different kinds of set plays,
passes and moves. This great-looking book cuts through the jargon
and tells coaches and players what they really need to know. Key
features include: - Colour photos of top players from around the
world - Sections on the tactics and strategies needed to win the
game, including the basic skills of running, passing and tackling -
Specially created diagrams to explain critical aspects of moves and
tactics - Drill variations - A user-friendly glossary This is
essential reading for anyone looking to get the most from their
game.
HR has sought to reposition itself as a strategic contributor to
organizations. To facilitate this, it has restructured, bringing in
shared services, business partners and centres of expertise,
simplifying, automating and rationalising processes, and devolving
some activities to managers, whilst outsourcing others. HR has yet
to give sufficient attention to the capability of the function to
deliver against the added value promise. This book looks at the
developments that have brought HR to its present position. It sets
out a vision of where HR might be headed, including a definition of
its role and activities. It identifies a number of challenges that
HR will have to face if it is to be effective. These include not
just skills, but problems with structures and relationships with
stakeholders, be they line managers or employees. The authors also
highlight ways of monitoring HR performance and of demonstrating
its value. It all adds up to an authoritative reference guide for
all HR directors seeking to define their role and future aims, for
those new to the function on the challenges they will face, and for
senior executives on what they should expect the added value to be
from their HR function.
An efficient and cost-effective HR function is essential to the
successful running of any organization. And yet for many businesses
it is impossible or costly to have HR staff in every office. This
is particularly true for companies who have many branches, such as
banks and building societies. So what are they to do? Increasingly
they are turning to shared services by creating a unit within the
organization that typically undertakes personnel administration and
basic operational support. This may be delivered to managers and
employees through some combination of call centre, personal contact
or intranet. Creating a shared services centre enables the HR
function to redefine its relationship with its stakeholders. It can
become more of a strategic player and make a more business-focused
contribution. This book explains what shared services are and what
they look like for the HR function. It describes why organizations
opt for shared services and what activities are included. It sets
out the relationship between shared services and the other HR
activities, and between HR and line management. How To Get Best
Value From HR outlines the process of introducing shared services,
from identifying customer needs through designing the structure to
implementation and monitoring. It also outlines the likely pitfalls
and, importantly, offers possible solutions. In particular the book
highlights the big design issues, including whether to outsource
services, where a shared services centre should be located, how
services should be delivered and organized, including through the
option of e-HR. Crucially it features an extended case study of the
Royal Bank of Scotland's experience of introducing HR shared
services, providing a unique insight into the reality of this new
way of working.
This is a hard-edged fusion quartet with guitarist Allan
Holdsworth. ~ Michael G. Nastos
Williams's delight in word play and tomfoolery belies a darker,
stranger undertow between rhyme and reasoning. Strange forces are
at work in the heartlands, where we find ourselves travellers in
perpetual motion, stopping only to gather our disappointment at the
OK Cafe on the A1.
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