While digging a hole in the garden of his house in Torrox in southern Spain, Ken Burton uncovers a small chest containing a dried flo0wer and a red taffeta flag with 3 green moons - the flag appears in the tiled murals in Frigiliana, commemorating the last stand of the Moors in 1568 ... but what is the significance of the flower?Investigation leads to past life regression and Ken relives a life in that time ... but he also uncovers a romantic connection running through many lifetimes. In the present day it looks as if there may e a happy ending. In other lives that was not the case.
Only the DarknessGill has a safe way of exploring past lives ... but when Concha tries it she experiences an excerpt from the life of the woman who will be her daughter, living in a world of worsening environmental conditions, she tries to change the future by getting her friend Eugene to undertake some genetic engineering for his doctorate. When Concha experiences a glimpse of her great granddaughter Ana's life nothing has changed - why not? What has happened to Eugene's project?The question is whether Concha saw 'the' future or just 'a' future or whether she caused the future she saw. Duplicity and double dealing, greed and lust for wealth and riches at the expense of the world at large may make an exciting story and certainly demand all Gill and Steve's resourcefulness - breaking into the university genetics department and passing information to an environmental organisation.
In ancient times there really did stand a 200 foot (70 metres) high statue at the entrance to Cádiz harbour. It was pulled down about 850 CE by an Emir of Córdoba, it was described by a Greek travellor in 300 BCE and the Phoenicians always said it was there when they arrived about 1100 BCE ... so who built it and why? Tracy Nicholson recalls a lifetime as a Carthaginian princess who becaome first a slave and then a Roman citizen who married Centurion Marcus Cornelus. Drean, hypnosis and further past lives reveal that the statue commemorates the defeat of a great evil, imprisoned in the far past and released when the statue fell. Gill, Steve, Tracy and Ken begin the process of balancing the evil, though it has had a considerable headstart.
The Heat Death of the planet from an overdose of global warming isn't funny, nor is the occult, but the story has frequent elements of bizarre black humour as Gill and Steve investigate the interesting invention of Isaac Brainridge, designed to explore the future telepathically.This is the occult with a vengeance as Gill, Steve and Brainridge clash with his powerful but unscrupulous magician niece Athena. Gill's sense of fun and quick wits save her (and Steve) but Brainridge and planet Earth may not be so lucky!
16 Short stories involving the psychic, mixed race detective Millicent Hampshire from Witchmoor Edge in the north of England ... the woman who turns up alive when her husband is doing time for her murder ... the man found dead in a wood with no sign of how he got there ... a suicide that turned out to be murder and a 'murder' that turned out to be suicide.
There is a professional killer in Witchmoor Edge! He's efficient, careful and very elusive: police from several forces are hunting him in vaib, but withou any evidence apart from the bodies.However, this killer seems to have a conscience. He gets to a rapist DS Lucy Turner is hunting and steps in for free! He doesn't like the Russian gang smuggling women into Britain for the sex trade either, and reeks a little mayhem for free. It sets Lucy looking in the right records.DI Millicent Hampshire is psychic and she does track him down on his canal boat. Faced with a killer, she is surprise to find he knows her from years ago. She has no proof she can use to arrest him - and doesn't know that she wants to, though she does stop the killing.
12 short stories about beings less than, more than or other than human: weird situations in which the impossible happens. Some reflect Mike's bizarre humour, while others leave a tingle of uncertainty ... could the impossible be true? Suspend your disbelief and read on!
Where there's a will there's a motive! And an apparently wealthy man offers to leave everything to his live-in lover - but only if she agrees to marry him. No sooner are they married and the will signed than BOTH are killed in a suspicious car crash.Chief Inspector Cooke is off and DS Lucy Turner is acting up a rank, so she's concerned to solve the puzzle of who killed them and why. Ulla was fiddling her husband/boss and he was a crook anyway ... but who wanted both of them dead? Those with access had no motive and the suspects all had alibis.A complicated and fast moving story starts in Witchmoor Edge, involves DI Millicent Hamsphire and her psychic friend Tobias N'Dibe and ends with more murder and a wild chase across the Swedish Winter.
The Rings of Poseidon A team of archaeologists, led by Afro-Caribbean Alyicia Graham is excavating a Stone Age site in the Orkney Islands north of Scotland when they uncover a remarkably preserved copper ring ...a ring which seems to have the power to give the wearer a glimpse of the past ...but is it their own past or that of the ring? Why are all the team somehow connected with the ring? What is a metal ring doing so far back in the Stone Age, and who is seeking the ring over millenia? A story with a strong occult element and a sinister thread running through it, accurately crafted by one who has been a student of the occult for decades. A 'cult novel' of the Western Mystery tradition.
As China is increasingly integrated into the processes of economic, political, social, and cultural globalization, important questions arise about how Chinese people perceive and evaluate such processes. At the same time, international communication scholars have long been interested in how local, national, and transnational media communications shape people’s attitudes and values. Combining these two concerns, this book examines a range of questions pertinent to public opinion toward globalization in urban China: To what degree are the urban residents in China exposed to the influences from the outside world? How many transnational social connections does a typical urban Chinese citizen have? How often do they consume foreign media? To what extent are they aware of the notion of globalization, and what do they think about it? Do they believe that globalization is beneficial to China, to the city where they live, and to them personally? How do people’s social connections and communication activities shape their views toward globalization and the outside world? This book tackles these and other questions systematically by analyzing a four-city comparative survey of urban Chinese residents, demonstrating the complexities of public opinion in China. Media consumption does relate, though by no means straightforwardly, to people’s attitudes and beliefs, and this book provides much needed information and insights about Chinese public opinion on globalization. It also develops fresh conceptual and empirical insights on issues such as public opinion toward US-China relations, Chinese people’s nationalistic sentiments, and approaches to analyze attitudes toward globalization.
Biological evolution, the theory of natural selection and of common descent, is a triumph both of human reasoning and scientific undertaking. The biological discipline of evolution contains both a chronicle of human endeavour and the story of life on Earth. This book is concerned with living forms and how they developed from 'simple and unpromising beginnings'. It considers evolution as both process and product. The author, an experienced teacher and educator, employs a historical narrative, used to convey the idea of 'change with modification' and to emphasise the relevance of evolution to contemporary bioscience. Biological evolution has now become part of the scientific orthodoxy and this accessible text will assist undergraduate students in the biological sciences within any ongoing debate.
Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness presents research that challenges the prevailing view that recovery from ‘mental illness’ must take place within the boundaries of traditional mental health services. While Watts and Higgins accept that medical treatment may be a vital start to some people’s recovery, they argue that mental health problems can also be resolved through everyday social interactions, and through peer and community support. Using a narrative approach, this book presents detailed recovery stories of 26 people who received various diagnoses of ‘mental illness’ and were involved in a mutual help group known as ‘GROW’. Drawing on an in-depth analysis of each story, chapters offer new understandings of the journey into mental distress and a progressive entrapment through a combination of events, feelings, thoughts and relationships. The book also discusses the process of ongoing personal liberation and healing which assists recovery, and suggests that friendship, social involvement, compassion, and nurturing processes of change all play key factors in improved mental well-being. This book provides an alternative way of looking at ‘mental illness’ and demonstrates many unexplored avenues and paths to recovery that need to be considered. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work and occupational therapy, as well as to service providers, policymakers and peer support organisations. The narratives of recovery within the book should also be a source of hope to people struggling with ‘mental illness’ and emotional distress
For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been in the front-line against foreign invasion, from the Romans to the Spanish Armada to the two World Wars. It has also been involved in civil disorder, from the Anarchy and the Peasants' Revolt to the English Civil War. Many reminders of these scenes of conflict may be seen in the landscape - Iron Age forts, a Roman walled town, medieval castles, strong-houses and homestead moats, coastal fortifications from Napoleonic times and earlier, and Victorian barracks and the drill halls of the Volunteers. From the twentieth century there are still more sites: military airfields from the First World War and Battle of Britain fighter airfields, radar sites and later bomber bases from the Second. Anti-invasion defenses line the coast, linear defenses criss-cross the landscape, and AA sites are everywhere to be found. Taking the story all the way up to the nuclear threat of the Cold War, this guide will interest residents and visitors alike.
A worldwide classification system of comic art, including comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, political & editorial cartoons, and gag cartoons based on John A. Lent's pioneering bibliographic work. Created in honor of Lent's 80th birthday.
School leadership is synonymous with challenge. However, some school leaders face true crises - situations threatening the continuing existence of their school. Leading Schools During Crisis analyzes leadership and behaviors of principals in these extraordinary circumstances. A simultaneously scholarly and practice-oriented book, Leading Schools During Crisis proposes the first school-specific model of defining and analyzing crises. Through authentic case studies, Leading Schools During Crisis offers a detailed theoretical and practical analysis of each crisis and the lessons from it for all school leaders. Highlights of the twelve case studies include: P.S. 234, Manhattan. At nine a.m. on September 11, 2001, the thirty-seven teachers and 650 elementary students of P.S. 234 were twelve hundred feet from Ground Zero. Principal Anna Switzer states, '[r]ight when the second plane crashed_that's when we knew that it wasn't an accident.' George Washington Carver H.S., New Orleans, Louisiana. Principal Vanessa Eugene believed Katrina would be another chapter in New Orleans' long history of near-miss hurricanes. Carver's campus was soon under ten feet of water. Sobrante Park E.S., Oakland, California. Like many schools, Sobrante Park only slowly realized the paradigm shift associated with the No Child Left Behind Act_until the fifth year of failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress. 'What do you do when all the data is bad?' asked Principal Marco Franco. Platte Canyon H.S, Bailey, Colorado. Principal Brian Krause was approached by a frantic student who reported: ''[T]here's a guy in the English classroom with a gun' . . . . I remember thinking, okay, he said guy. He didn't say student or kid or Johnny.' Other case studies include the challenges inherent in starting charter schools, discovery of systemic and deliberate grade fraud, rezoning of 95 percent of a elementary school's student population, and leading a school populated by changing_and often contentious_refugee groups.
Government and Information: The Law Relating to Access, Disclosure and their Regulation is the leading text offering comprehensive and practical advice on the access, disclosure and retention of government records under UK, EU and ECHR requirements. It is essential reading for all those dealing with public authority information. The fifth edition is extensively revised following numerous developments in both UK and EU law as well as the ever expanding case law on information rights under statutory, Convention and common law provisions. Legislation: Justice and Security Act 2013; Crime and Courts Act 2013 (s 34 in relation to press standards following Leveson); Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 Investigatory Powers Bill 2016; Environmental Information Regulations 2004; General Data Protection Regulation 2016; Key cases since the last edition include: Evans v Attorney General [2015] UKSC 21 - the SC ruled that the Attorney General had acted unlawfully in issuing a veto preventing disclosure Kennedy v Charities Commission [2014] UKSC 20 - Supreme Court extended the ambit of the common law in relation to access to information and transparency Case 362/14 Schrems [2015]) - involving data transfer to the USA PJS v Newsgroup Newspapers ltd [2016] UKSC 26 – developing the law of personal privacy
Explores the evolution of jazz singing with profiles of great performers, discussing how they learned their craft and the experiences that shaped their careers
Hoyle and Wallace illustrate with penetrating insight the perverse outcome of tightening management and leadership so much that it leads to three different forms, each with the same five characteristics, of what they call "managerialism": excessive micromanagement of schools in a sometimes futile and self-defeating quest for success′ - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement `This book is an excellent read about management and leadership in schools. Overall, I felt that this book makes a positive contribution to the debate about the impact of managerialism within public services. I liked the elements that made up the ironic orientation (scepticism, pragmatism and contingency), recognising them in my own experiences in Higher Education, and I liked the way in which the concept of irony was linked to some key concerns as well as positive practices. This is a book that I would thoroughly recommend to anyone interested in leadership and management in schools, but given its broader application, I would also recommend the book to anyone interested in leadership and management in the public sector′ - ESCalate Read the full review as posted on the ESCalate website, the Education Subject Centre for the Higher Education Academy ′Eric Hoyle and Mike Wallace are two of the best known writers on educational leadership and management. They have made very significant contributions to organisational theory and its application to education for four decades. This book′s focus on ambiguity and irony provides a welcome and timely contrast to the rational assumptions and managerialism which underpin government policy and much academic writing in this field′ - Professor Tony Bush, International Educational Leadership Centre, University of Lincoln ′They have brought to centre-stage ideas and concepts which have largely been peripheral in the field, and in doing so have made us look with new lenses at what we need to say about professional work and identity. It has therefore performed a valuable and much needed service, and will provide a major reference point in debates about the future of the education profession′ - Mike Bottery, Educational Management, Administration & Leadership ′This in an important book. I wish I had written it, indeed I wish I had the skill, the knowledge and the wit to write it′ - Mark Brundrett, Educational Management, Administration & Leadership Why do efforts to improve the quality of education via organizational leadership and management make matters worse in some respects as well as better? In what ways are education professionals responding to such efforts? The authors of this highly original book develop an ironic perspective for analysing the ambiguities and unintended consequences of well-intentioned actions in organizational life, and how these are exacerbated by change. Focusing on school leadership and management, Hoyle and Wallace suggest that major reforms have had limited success because the changes introduced have diverted school staff from their core task of promoting student learning, resulting in dissatisfaction, frustration and stress. They argue that a more temperate approach to leadership and management supported by wise policy-making can create structures that take the strain and reduce stress, encourage autonomy while accepting associated risks, and sponsor moderate experimentation and innovation emerging from communities of professional practice. Educational Leadership and Organizational Irony is essential reading for all concerned with improving education: advanced course students, leaders and managers, trainers, administrators, policy-makers and academics. It also offers insights for the study of public service and business organizations.
This is the 1st book in a trilogy about Lestor Stewartson; a Trainee Doctor and a Spirit Singer capable of temporarily removing a person's living essence to enable him and others to carry out medical procedures. His ambition was, simply, to become a successful doctor; until fate stepped in! Two thousand years ago the known world was devastated by a catastrophic earthquake - known as The Sundering - which changed the geography of the world forever. The cause of the upheaval, if it was ever known, was lost to modern society, but when a relic from the distant past is unearthed events are set in motion which changes people's lives forever!
Mike Oatman will forever be remembered as a man who lived the Great American Dream. His witty columns for the Wichita Eagle drew from his extensive business experience and personal views. His eager newspaper audience learned about life, love and loss through his heartfelt words. A compilation of Mike's columns, this book captures the heart of a man who fought cancer with levelheaded courage, and unfaltering faith through the toughest of times. This deeply moving book is a memoir of a loving, intelligent and spirited man.
D.I. Millicent Hampshire is a formidable, part Afro-Caribbean and very pyschic detective from Witchmoor Edge CID, haunted by a nightmare of the ETA car bomb that killed her Spanish policeman husband years ago. This time it's triggered by her assignment to discover who planted the bomb in a tunnel a women's peace camp was building beneath Menwith Hill US anti-missile base in northern England. Millicent's own psi skills and those of her even more psychic friend Tobias N'Dibe, help her to close in on the bombers - but they turn on her. In a frantic last minute race against, Millicent is fortunate to have friends like Tobias N'Dibe, FBI Agent Wes Donnelly and her sidekick, D.S. Lucy Turner.
The Rings of Poseidon A team of archaeologists, led by Afro-Caribbean Alyicia Graham is excavating a Stone Age site in the Orkney Islands north of Scotland when they uncover a remarkably preserved copper ring ...a ring which seems to have the power to give the wearer a glimpse of the past ...but is it their own past or that of the ring? Why are all the team somehow connected with the ring? What is a metal ring doing so far back in the Stone Age, and who is seeking the ring over millenia? A story with a strong occult element and a sinister thread running through it, accurately crafted by one who has been a student of the occult for decades. A 'cult novel' of the Western Mystery tradition.
Where there's a will there's a motive! And an apparently wealthy man offers to leave everything to his live-in lover - but only if she agrees to marry him. No sooner are they married and the will signed than BOTH are killed in a suspicious car crash.Chief Inspector Cooke is off and DS Lucy Turner is acting up a rank, so she's concerned to solve the puzzle of who killed them and why. Ulla was fiddling her husband/boss and he was a crook anyway ... but who wanted both of them dead? Those with access had no motive and the suspects all had alibis.A complicated and fast moving story starts in Witchmoor Edge, involves DI Millicent Hamsphire and her psychic friend Tobias N'Dibe and ends with more murder and a wild chase across the Swedish Winter.
The Body of Simon Hunter is dragged from the canal after a warehouse fire - but he didn't drown. Someone had smashed his skull with a blunt object - but he was already dead from a morphine overdose!Hunter was a charmng but unpleasant crook who beat up his wife ... who was a nurse. He cheaterd a colleague out of £1000s ... and the colleague's wife was a doctor. He exploited an IT specialist in a merchant bank to get inside information, had an affair with her and got her hooked on drugs ... and her brother is a hospital pharmacist.Formidavle mixed-race D.I. Millicent Hampshire has a lot of motive, a lot of opportunity and some dodgy alibis, so who did kill Simon Hunter and why? It's a good thing she's psychic and has the help of her even more psychic friend, Tobias N'Dibe,
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