Whether you're an aspiring manager, in middle management or a global executive, gain the skills, insights and confidence you need to become a world-class manager.

Over 77% of organizations believe that effective leadership is lacking in the modern workforce. That leaves a huge opportunity for success for anyone who develops their skills to become a world-class manager. This ground-breaking book uncovers the secrets of success through key insights across all sectors and all disciplines of business, from time management and meetings to developing strategies and building a team.

As a globally renowned leadership expert, Wayne Clarke brings his wealth of expertise to this book, distilling the key insights and skills from his globally bestselling course. Supported by a range of diverse case studies, How to Become a World-Class Manager will equip you with the skills and insights you need to take your career to new heights and reach the higher echelons of management.

The story of a man's struggle to provide education, interrupted by service in the Confederate Army, in an impoverished region as told through his diaries and correspondence.

Whether you're an aspiring manager, in middle management or a global executive, gain the skills, insights and confidence you need to become a world-class manager. Over 77% of organizations believe that effective leadership is lacking in the modern workforce. That leaves a huge opportunity for success for anyone who develops their skills to become a world-class manager. This ground-breaking book uncovers the secrets of success through key insights across all sectors and all disciplines of business, from time management and meetings to developing strategies and building a team. As a globally renowned leadership expert, Wayne Clarke brings his wealth of insights to this book, distilling the key insights and skills from his globally bestselling course. Supported by a range of diverse case studies, How to Become a World-Class Manager will equip you with the skills and insights you need to take your career to new heights and reach the higher echelons of management.

This title was first published in 2000. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted with Amnesty International, the Labour Party, Tenants' Associations and the Exodus collective, this work examines the nature of political activism. The author combines Habermasian theory and empirical fieldwork to critically analyze the nature of the political public sphere. While adopting a Habermasian approach, Clark recognizes the problems and limitations associated with notions of civil society and communicative action. An empirically formed critical stance is maintained throughout the work. Three main themes are drawn from this research: an analysis of structures of political participation; presentation of a typology of political activism ; analysis of the public process of participation. Essential reading for those studying public participation and its relationship to activism, as well as for students of politics, public policy and sociology.

This title was first published in 2000. Drawing upon fieldwork conducted with Amnesty International, the Labour Party, Tenants' Associations and the Exodus collective, this work examines the nature of political activism. The author combines Habermasian theory and empirical fieldwork to critically analyze the nature of the political public sphere. While adopting a Habermasian approach, Clark recognizes the problems and limitations associated with notions of civil society and communicative action. An empirically formed critical stance is maintained throughout the work. Three main themes are drawn from this research: an analysis of structures of political participation; presentation of a typology of political activism ; analysis of the public process of participation. Essential reading for those studying public participation and its relationship to activism, as well as for students of politics, public policy and sociology.

This title covers all aspects of the law of mortgages, including what mortgages and charges are, parties to mortgages, void or imperfect securities, transfer and devolution of mortgages, mortgagee's remedies, priorities of mortgages, incidence of the mortgage debt, discharge of the mortgage, accounts and costs. The fifteenth edition has been fully updated to reflect new legislation, cases, regulatory material and other developments.

This book reflects the author’s fifty years’ experience in international construction projects and the management and resolution of disputes. During those fifty years, Wayne Clark’s aim has always been to guide parties towards sensible and clear communication, nurturing relationships and seeking early solutions to their differences. His primary goal is to help parties avoid unnecessary conflict – a theme that is clearly evident throughout this book. While two chapters are devoted to preparing construction claims to persuade a tribunal – and in so doing persuade the other side to reach an amicable settlement – the book covers a much wider scope: from the building owner’s dream through to the contractor handing over the completed project, wise contract administration, settlement negotiations, the third-party resolution process and, finally, arbitration. During each of these stages, the theme is for the parties to continually seek ways to resolve their differences. The book also introduces the idea of the ‘shadow arbitrator’, who, if commissioned early in the dispute process, can guide parties and legal counsel to prepare claims and arbitral pleadings that will persuade a tribunal – and encourage the parties to find sensible solutions.

Life now without access to electronic telecommunications would be regarded as highly unsatisfactory by most of the UK population. Such ready access would not have been achieved without methodical and ultimately enforceable means of access to the land on which to install the infrastructure necessary to support the development of an electronic communications network. Successive governments have made such access a priority, regarding it as a principle that no person should unreasonably be denied access to an electronic communications network or electronic communications services. The enactment of the Telecommunications Act 1984 and its revision by the Communications Act in 2003 have played their role in the provision of an extensive electronic infrastructure in the UK, while their reshaping by means of the Digital Economy Act 2017 will continue that process. Throughout that process, a little publicised series of struggles has taken place between telecommunications operators and landowners, as they seek to interpret the Electronic Communications Code by which their rights and obligations have been regulated. This book describes the problems that accompanied the Old Code (which will continue to regulate existing installations and agreements); and the intended solutions under the New Code. The eminent team of authors explain the background, provisions and operation of the old code and the new one, providing practical and jargon-free guidance throughout. It is sure to become the reference on this topic and is intended as a guide for telecommunications operators, land owners, and of course for their advisers in the legal and surveying professions. All members of Falcon Chambers, comprising nine Queen's Counsel and 30 junior barristers, specialise in property law and allied topics, including the various incarnations of the Electronic Communications Code. Members of Falcon Chambers, including all the authors of this new work, have for many years lectured and written widely on the code, and have appeared (acting for both operators and landowners) in many of the few reported cases on the subject of the interface between property law and the code, including for example: Geo Networks Ltd v The Bridgewater Canal Co. Ltd (2010); Geo Networks Ltd v The Bridgewater Canal Co. Ltd (2011); Crest Nicholson (Operations) Ltd v Arqiva Services Ltd (2015); Brophy v Vodafone Ltd (2017).

The fourteenth edition of this leading text on the law of mortgages gives the practitioner a detailed insight into this area. Covering all aspects of the subject, it has been fully updated to take account of the changes in the law since the last edition was published, including the new company charges regime introduced by the Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Part 25) Regulations 2013, as well as numerous case law developments.

Additional Contributors Include Jack Pearl, John Stephen Doherty, Stan Bair And Others.

A Web photo of a dominatrix sends a man on a last-ditch attempt to feel truly alive one more time, even if it kills him. ..". a stylish piece of literary fiction... intellectually engaging throughout. A finely drawn portrait of desire in its fall and winter seasons." - BlueInk Review ..".All in all, this is a delectable novel about a man exploring his unknown sexual fantasies at the price of possibly losing his true self along the way."- Red City Review Growing numb to life, to his on-and-off girlfriend of many years, his career, even Scotch, a man turns fifty. He is a translator who can no longer dream of translating beautiful works of fiction. He is an amateur musician who can no longer dream of expressing his life on a higher plane, without words. As he glares inside himself he sees little but his declining sexuality, his crumbling hold on life, a growing list of failed relationships, and a darkening well of loneliness. Stumbling upon an image on the Internet one night, he suddenly hears cell doors sliding open. He stares at a young woman, in profile, beautiful, unblinking, regal. Instinctively he knows that by lingering on that image he will shatter a relationship that has kept him on the sane side of loneliness as surely as if he stepped in front of a speeding eighteen-wheeler. But desperate to feel alive again before time runs out, he knows he must see the stranger behind the pixels on his laptop screen. Although it is her image that first transfixes him, his eye afterwards chances on a handful of words on the Internet page. She is a dominatrix. The word triggers something inside him, blows the dust off fantasies trickling back to adolescence, and slowly begins to re-choreograph his decades of sexual memories. Was he ever really the dominant male he thought he was? Did he have a sexual alter-ego? Was this the last card he had to play in life? The face on the screen held the answer. He would find out even if it killed him."

Additional Contributors Include Jack Pearl, John Stephen Doherty, Stan Bair And Others.

What if there was a world where man no longer reigned and evolution ran backwards? There is such a world, and it's closer than you think. Marooned on planet Niburu, a disgraced fighter pilot turned Bounty Hunter, Commander Zacary Ryker, must choose between revenge and protecting a band of human castaways as he reluctantly leads them and their genetically engineered Chimera mercenaries against his nemesis and a brutal race of aliens. Sometimes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. He's just not human...

A Bounty Hunter tracking his nemesis weighs revenge against survival when he stumbles into a world where evolution runs backwards. Marooned on planet Niburu, a disgraced fighter pilot turned Bounty Hunter, Commander Zacary Ryker makes a startling discovery: the assassin that murdered his family on Earth has stowed away on his doomed vessel and thrown in with an alien race of Reptoids to exterminate all humans in his new world. Torn between his thirst for revenge and survival, Ryker's destiny becomes intertwined with the dangerous liaison of a Shakespeare quoting Chimera, a teenage femme fatale and her telepathic wolf-dog shaman as they are plunged into an alternate reality where the law of evolution has run astray. Little do they know that they are about to be drawn into a larger struggle, a struggle beyond their universe; an epic battle for the Multiverse.