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Martin Price has been cooking for HRH Princess Haya and her family
for many years, and she describes him as 'the soul of our home'.
His recipes have been enjoyed by the family and their visitors but,
until now, have not been available for the general public to enjoy.
A harmonious mix of international cookery, The Private Chef
includes everything; from soup, snacks, and starters to biscuits,
cake, and dessert. Traditional British dishes such as Shepherd's
Pie and Cawl sit alongside Arabic staples such as Lamb Saluma and
Ouzi. The recipes are delicious, and easy to follow. With stunning
food photography and behind-the-scenes shots in the kitchen and
gardens of Dalham Hall, Newmarket this is a perfect gift for anyone
who enjoys food.
Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context,
bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of
modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects
have been seen as the touchstone for human achievement.
The behaviour of people and their organisation are the primary
drivers of a project's pace of progress. Methodology, tools and
techniques are vital but subordinate to human endeavour; if only
because their selection, deployment and application entirely depend
on the abilities of the project players and their organisation.
Performance ultimately rests on human and organisational behaviour:
expressed by the players' experience, professional ability,
resolve, dialogue and collaboration. Fresh approaches and methods
help practitioners to address this reality productively. This book
is written under nine headings: collaboration; able people;
strength; connections; rigour; pace; persistence; adaptation; and
maturity. The Single-Minded Project offers a new and convincing
appreciation of project management that will harness players and
their organisation. It recognises that at its heart, the management
and leadership of a project regime relies on the choices,
behaviours and decisions of its players and the organisation's
freedom of action. It addresses the urgency of the project (the
need for swiftness), coupled with the kind and degree of diligence
(the need for rigour in the choice and management of method):
referring to its Pace of Progress. The success of a project very
much depends on the pace at which it is conducted to then deliver
value. Projects find themselves in territory where methodology,
tools and techniques are of little help. The Single-Minded Project
fills that gap and more.
This book discusses the importance of mountain regions, and the
precariousness of mountain tourism in the context of ecosystem and
cultural conservation. It includes case studies of mountain tourism
existing alongside environmental sustainability and community well
being. The text presents an integrated approach to mountain-based
tourism, balancing the needs of local communities, tourists and
environmental conservation.
Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects have been seen as the touchstone for human achievement.
This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership.
Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management.
Large estates cover vast areas of mountain environment in Scotland,
with a deeply historical and unique tradition of land ownership and
land use. Over the modern period, the use of these lands by
stakeholders has developed into a forcing ground for large scale
upland management issues. This collection of cutting edge studies
is a first-to-press synthesis of studies carried out by the Centre
for Mountain Studies at Perth College, which will be both
enlightening and relevant to upland managers across Britain and
Europe. It will compare findings from privately-owned estates as
well as those owned by communities, charities and conservation
groups. With the Scottish Government promoting a vision of
environmental sustainability of land use and rural communities, and
all eyes on the reform of land use and ownership in Scotland, this
book will be extremely topical. It presents major new thinking on
upland estate management. It is the first dedicated textbook on
upland estate management. It features a respected and experienced
academic editorial team. It is an academic synthesis of theory and
practical case-studies.
This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership.
Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management.
Large estates cover vast areas of mountain environment in Scotland,
with a deeply historical and unique tradition of land ownership and
land use. Over the modern period, the use of these lands by
stakeholders has developed into a forcing ground for large scale
upland management issues. This collection of cutting edge studies
is a first-to-press synthesis of studies carried out by the Centre
for Mountain Studies at Perth College, which will be both
enlightening and relevant to upland managers across Britain and
Europe. It will compare findings from privately-owned estates as
well as those owned by communities, charities and conservation
groups. With the Scottish Government promoting a vision of
environmental sustainability of land use and rural communities, and
all eyes on the reform of land use and ownership in Scotland, this
book will be extremely topical. It presents major new thinking on
upland estate management. It is the first dedicated textbook on
upland estate management. It features a respected and experienced
academic editorial team. It is an academic synthesis of theory and
practical case-studies.
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Martin Price
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In October, 2000, the author and his wife moved from California to
Costa Rica to begin a new life in a new country. Martin had a
theory that retiring to a foreign country would present so many
challenges as to make it impossible to fall into a rut, to become
bored, and eventually depressed as happens to so many retirees. It
appears as though his theory was a correct one. At Home in Costa
Rica: An Adventure in Living the Good Life is the story of how
Martin and Robin gradually adapted to their new country, and tells
a fascinating tale of the trials and tribulations of learning a new
way of life and a new language, of making unusual friends, of
building homes, of rehabilitating animals, of surviving the
machinations of alien institutions bureaucracies, of adjusting
their first-world pace and needs to those of an emerging country,
and much more. Told in an anecdotal style, based on letters they've
been sending home for three and a half years, At Home in Costa Rica
is filled with funny and touching stories about re-learning how to
live in one of the most beautiful, peaceful, and stable Democracies
in the world. The book is ideal for anyone who has either gone
through this wonderful and at times trying process, for anyone who
is contemplating living the expatriate's life, or for anyone who
enjoys reading about life in other countries.
The novel contains imagined lives that achieve a kind of meaning
and intensity our own lives do not. Out of the novelist's moral
imagination-the breadth and depth of his awareness of human
motivations, tensions, and complexities-emerge fictional persons
through whom we learn to read ourselves. This eloquent book,
exploring fictional lives in crucial moments of choice and change,
stresses both their difference from and their deep connections with
life. Martin Price writes here about ways in which character has
been conceived and presented in the novels of the nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. Beginning with chapters that cogently
argue the artistic value of character, Price then deals with the
different forms character has taken in individual novels. His first
discussions center on authors-Jane Austen, Stendhal, Charles
Dickens, George Eliot, and Leo Tolstoy-who define individuals by
their adherence or opposition to social norms. The next chapters
deal with novelists for whom the moral world is largely
internalized. The characters of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D.H.
Lawrence, and E.M. Forster live in society and act upon it, but the
authors are particularly concerned with the confusions, terrors,
and heroism that lie within consciousness. The last chapter uses
novels about the artist by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Thomas
Mann in order to apprehend the process by which experience is
transformed into art. Avoiding both formalistic and moralistic
extremes, this new book by a distinguished critic helps us recover
a fuller sense of literary form and the forms of life from which it
emerges.
The authors represented in this volume include Congreve (The Way of
the World), Gay (The Beggar's Opera), Dryden (Absalom and
Achitophel and MacFlecknoe), Swift, Pope, Boswell, and Samuel
Johnson.
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