Product Description: Love and Mr Lewisham is a novel featuring Mr. Lewisham is an 18-year-old teacher at a boys' school in Sussex. He meets and falls in love with Ethel Henderson, who is paying a visit to relatives in Sussex. His involvement with her causes him to lose his position and after moving to London in pursuit is unable to find her...read more

Product Description: This book provides a detailed survey of the law relating to public interest disclosure. It examines how the new system has developed since the coming into force of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (PIDA), and provides up-to-date practical guidance on the key issues that arise in practice...read more

Product Description: A remarkable group portrait of one English family -- the famed, intriguing and pioneering Greenes.In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London...read more

Product Description: Addresses the top 100 consultancy & education forum questions for success with & in the SDLC Software Development Life Cycle framework, for software design, testing & implementation roles & environments.

Product Description: Jeremy Lewis's first memoir, Playing for Time, was hailed by James Lees-Milne as "the funniest and best written book I've read for years." His second, Kindred Spirits, was described by John Carey as "sheer pleasure from start to finish...read more

Talks about the era in which the masses were given access to what had previously been the preserve of a wealthy few - books. This title recounts how Allen Lane came to launch his Penguins for the price of a packet of cigarettes; how they became enormously influential in alerting the public to the threat of Nazi Germany; and more.

Product Description: The humour of self-deprecation is peculiarly English. Few people do it better than Jeremy Lewis. His first two autobiographical volumes - Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits - are being reissued in Faber Finds to coincide happily with his third volume - Grub Street Irregular - being published by HarperCollins...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks...read more

Product Description: Astonishingly precocious in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by an acute sense of failure and romantic yearning. His two greatest books, The Unquiet Grave and Enemies of Promise, are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism, and merciless self-knowledge...read more

In The Work-Family Challenge contributors from the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States explore the possibilities of challenging traditional employment structures to take account of contemporary work and family realities. They take a critical look at the notion of `family-friendly′ employment, and explore ways in which the rapidly changing needs of both organizations and the workforce can be met. The volume argues that real progress requires moving the focus from specific policies and practices towards more systemic organizational change. It examines the contexts and opportunities - global, international, national, sociopolitical, legal and economic - for this change. The book concludes that positive solution (view table of contents)