Praise for prior editions "an excellent treatise of thin film coatings, explaining how to produce all sorts of different filters selected according to the function they are required to play... an indispensable text for every filter manufacturer and user and an excellent guide for students." Contemporary Physics "essential reading for all those involved in the design, manufacture, and application of optical coatings" Materials World "a must-have addition to the library of any optical thin-film theorist or practitioner" SVC News This book is quite simply the Bible for the field of optical thin films. It gives the most complete introduction to thin film optical coatings addressed to manufacturers and users alike. This fifth edition offers a complete update on current design, manufacture, performance, and applications. New topics include absorbers and coherent perfect absorbers, photonic crystals, and metamaterials for optical coating. The author has also made substantial additions on scattering, composite materials, wire grid polarizers, laser damage, and applications. H. Angus Macleod is President of Thin Film Center Inc., in Tucson, Arizona, and Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona. His professional honors include a Gold Medal from SPIE, the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal from the Optical Society of America, and the Nathaniel H. Sugerman Memorial Award from the Society of Vacuum Coaters.

Praise for prior editions "an excellent treatise of thin film coatings, explaining how to produce all sorts of different filters selected according to the function they are required to play... an indispensable text for every filter manufacturer and user and an excellent guide for students." Contemporary Physics "essential reading for all those involved in the design, manufacture, and application of optical coatings" Materials World "a must-have addition to the library of any optical thin-film theorist or practitioner" SVC News This book is quite simply the Bible for the field of optical thin films. It gives the most complete introduction to thin film optical coatings addressed to manufacturers and users alike. This fifth edition offers a complete update on current design, manufacture, performance, and applications. New topics include absorbers and coherent perfect absorbers, photonic crystals, and metamaterials for optical coating. The author has also made substantial additions on scattering, composite materials, wire grid polarizers, laser damage, and applications. H. Angus Macleod is President of Thin Film Center Inc., in Tucson, Arizona, and Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona. His professional honors include a Gold Medal from SPIE, the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal from the Optical Society of America, and the Nathaniel H. Sugerman Memorial Award from the Society of Vacuum Coaters.

""Much more than an outstanding toolkit, this hand book is an essential and rich resource for professional coaches (new and experienced) and for leaders, managers and parents facilitating informal coaching conversations. Angus McLeod and Will Thomas have artfully distilled key frameworks and tools for facilitating sustainable performance, wellbeing and humanity in both coach and coachee. Jargon free and filled with immediately useable and highly impactful models, check-lists and downloadable resources, this guide will quickly become a well used and trusted companion."
Michelle Duval - Managing Director Equilibrio International

"For anyone new to the subject everything is well and simply explained, as such I'd recommend it as a must buy. Those more knowledgeable will find it refreshing in its content, presentation and practical approach...Overall, this is a great book and definitely recommended."
Caroline Nowell, Book Review Panel, Rapport Magazine

It offers a wealth of wise suggestions from two highly experienced coaches and readers may choose to read it right through or dip into it using the List of Tools, Glossary and Index. The keys to effective coaching, in the view of McLeod and Thomas, are questioning, listening and silence; they offer a very nice and easy exercise enabling coaches to balance all three. Among the many other offerings I like are the tools for checking and working with coachees' emotions and the 17 'starter questions' for coaching conversations." Dr Susie Linder-Pelz, author of 'NLP Coaching'' (Kogan Page)

The Performance Coaching Toolkit" is a practical handbook for anyone wishing to improve their coaching skills. It is enriched by methods taken from the authors' understanding and development of practical learning techniques as well as from their work in education, personal development and within various commercial organizations.

The approach of the book is concise and informative: all the tools sit within a practical framework for developing and enhancing your own coaching style. This framework is based on the STEPPPA Model which is built around: Subject focus Target focus Emotional focus Perception focus Plan focus Pace and Act focus The toolkit also provides a coherent and practical tool for keeping in touch with the coaching process as a structured journey.

The layout has been designed to enable fast access to key information and the book has links to other related models and tools, so that the complexity of coaching processes, with time, becomes even more comprehensible.

This toolkit is key reading for coaches and prospective coaches in all sectors, particularly those who want a rapid and accessible route to understanding coaching practice and who want a reliable source book for coaching methods.

"The Wee Folk" is a book about the Pixies, Elves and Drooly Dwarves who live in the Great North Woods which lies just below the magical kingdom of "TooDoggone."
This book will also answer a few questions like: How come we have an Easter Bunny and not an Easter Chicken delivering eggs at Easter? Or can Santa's reindeer really fly? And what about purple peanut butter, have you ever had any or do you know how to make purple peanut butter? All these secrets are revealed in the pages of the stories about "The Wee Folk."

About the Author:
Angus MacLeod loves telling stories. He created his first Wee Folk story when his kids were very young. Over the years, Angus wrote several more tales about "The Wee Folk." He would bind photocopies of his stories with leather laces and beads and then give them to family and friends to read and enjoy.

Mars Hill College, the oldest college of continuing existence in Western North Carolina and the first school established by Baptists in the state west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, has grown up with the region in which it has stood for one hundred and twelve years.