Product Description: There is a fire burning in the darkness of me. These thirty-one poems were written by the light of that fire.

Product Description: This is thirty eight poems I wrote while trying to swim out of my stream of consciousness. They include: "The Monster", "Anatomy", Blood Moon" and others.

Product Description: On 2 June 2006, a team of three gliders, one chase plane, support crew and all-terrain vehicles gathered at a fiercely hot and dusty airfield 50 kilometres outside Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. The pilots, two Saudi Princes and the British ex-Special Forces officer who had trained them on the Stemme gliders to be flown, were about to make gliding history by flying in a great circular route round the western half of Saudi Arabia, over some of the harshest and most unforgiving desert terrain in the world...read more

Product Description: “Solitary (Poems From A Lonely Heart)” is my newest original poetry book. These are poems born out of love I have lost and from unrequited love. From love I wished I had and love that could never be because of circumstance. They tell the story of my heart and my soul...read more

Product Description: Working with Young People provides a selection of writing from a complex, ambiguous and dynamic field of work. The editors take a multidisciplinary approach to draw together key readings reflecting the variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on working with young people...read more

Product Description: Based on an incredible true story of underground fortune and lost love, The Wanted and the Unwanted is the best of adventure and romance made even more gripping by the fact that it is written by the man who lived it.When Roland accepts a mysterious but lucrative job offer from a friend in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the only thing he knows about it is that his new employers want him to keep it a secret...read more

Product Description: This Reader examines the ways in which learning is organized in a diverse range of lifelong learning environments. If we are to harness the full potential of this learning, the structures of organizations and providers will have to change...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and learning from experience and theories of situated learning. The implications of these theories ar examined in relation to themes which run across the reader, namely, workplace learning, literacies, and the possibilities offered by information and communication technologies.The particular focus of this Reader is on the psychological or cognitive phenomena that happen in the minds of individual learners. The readings have been selected to represent a range of experience in different sectors of education from around the globe.

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Product Description: This is the autobiography of a consultant, detailing the development of his consultancy work and his research into organizational issues. The author is well known for his development of material on culture, team work, cross cultural issues, learning, role negotiation and empowerment...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of all the essential papers written by Roger Harrison over the last 25 years. The papers cover ideas on role negotiation, empowerment, cross-cultural training through to all levels of culture, to learning and even love in the organization.

Product Description: Foreword by Peter BlockThis autobiography of one of the founders of the organization development (OD) profession offers a candid and personal view of both Roger Harrison's own development as a consultant and of the growing OD profession--from its origins in the 1950s through to the present...read more

Product Description: Evaluate significant cultural patterns within the organization! Different organizations need different cultures. For a culture requiring change, this powerful diagnostic tool suggests how to effect that change. Developed by renowned training and OD experts, the Instrument will identify the shared values and beliefs that constitute your organization's culture...read more

Product Description: At the time of writing, the topic of lead pollution is the subject of an intense and sometimes heated debate. The argument centres upon possible adverse health effects arising from exposure of children to current environmental levels of lead...read more

Product Description: to the Second Edition RESEARCH INTO MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA HAS EXPANDED VERY greatly in the five years that have elapsed since the first edition of Biological Membranes was published. It is to take account of rapid advances in the field that we have written the present edition...read more