More Magic of Metaphor explores the notion of leadership in its widest sense. Whether you lead in business, education, coaching, sports, health, parenting, or any other context this book offers insights into the many aspects of this complex, fascinating, and demanding role that we are all, from time to time, called upon to fulfil.
The Magic of Metaphor presents a collection of stories designed to engage, inspire, and transform the listener and the reader. Some of the stories motivate, some are spiritual, and some provide strategies for excellence. All promote positive feelings, encouraging confi dence, direction, and vision.
Two of the most influential people in the way the Anglican Church has developed were Mary Magdalene and Anne Boleyn; more so than any pope or theologian. Forget the theories about Jesus’ descendants. Mary Magdalene was written out of the Bible for a purpose, and Anne Boleyn was far more determined to break from Rome than Henry... Even religious history is written by the victors. In the patriarchal society of the last 7000 years, the writers of official versions of this have rarely been challenged. Suffragans from Suffragettes is a sometimes-irreverent look at the women who had an influence on the evolution of the Christian Churches and may just have helped to advance the eventual creation of women bishops in the Church of England. Suffragans from Suffragettes addresses some big unanswered questions, such as: Why is Bathsheba known only for her rooftop bathing? Was it the divine right of a pope to father a successor? What happened to Pope Joan and her child? Was Anne Boleyn more interested in securing the Protestant reformation than Henry’s bed? These are a few of the vignettes that the reader can dip into in a book which does not ignore theology, but looks critically to some of its excessive dogmas. Bringing a light-hearted twist to a subject that has recently been debated in the theological world, Suffragans from Suffragettes will appeal to those interested in women’s and religious history.
73 – nil! Those were the days: moments of glory on the school playing field on a foggy Wednesday afternoon when the final whistle went and your school mates would gather around you, beaming their small faces at you from every conceivable direction as they congratulated you fulsomely on the 23 hat tricks you have just completed in your team’s undeniable slaughter of the opposition... Confessions of an Ageing Football Player relieves those glorious early footballing moments and takes you on a dizzying trip through the 2014 Brazil World Cup when everything was possible for whatever standard of player you thought you were. Illustrated by Paul Warren, has been drawing on an iPad since 2013. His drawing style is continually evolving and developing. He draws people, the human figure and adds a sprinkling of artistic license. He doesn’t strictly create pictures; he’s interested in facial expression, stance, form, interaction between members of society, a moment in the workaday activities. But when it comes to the journey of our story’s hero... is it Brazil’s Neymar? Or Argentina’s Messi? Or England’s Oxlade Chamberlain? Ah, dear reader, you will have to read and see to find out!
A collection of stories, analogies and metaphors that invite us to pause and consider what is really important in our lives, our work, and ourselves. Challenging us to re-connect different parts of our lives and recognise how easy it is to get distracted by contemporary culture and the pace of modern life.
Journalist and broadcaster Nick Owne was born in Hertfordshire went to school in Shropshire, attended university in Yorkshire, has strong family roots in Derbyshire, passionately supports a football team from Bedfordshire and lives in Birmingham. Not surprisingly, he is somewhat confused! In more than 35 years of his working life, he has written for newspapers, broadcast on radio and presented thousands of television programmes. He anchored the Olympic Games for ITV Sport in 1988 and followed this with the football World Cup two years later, Italia '90. Together with Anne Diamond, he helped to put TVam amongst the most successful television stations in the world. Nick broadcast on the very first day of ITV's breakfast television in this country. At that stage, he was presenting sport. Within eight weeks he had been catapulted onto the newspaper front pages after being promoted to main anchorman. The popular couple joined forces again in the nineties - this time for the BBC - to host Good Morning with Anne and Nick, which ran for four years and six hundred programmes.In his witty, intriguing and sometimes poignant autobiography, Nick describes the highs and lows of a television presenter's life, the tantrums behind the scenes, the jealousies, his favourite interviews and his passion for football and cricket. Nick is married to Jill, a nurse, and they have three sons and a daughter.
This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time. With global warming now becoming physically noticeable and the Kyoto treaty stalling in its efforts to get the developed world on board, a look at the economic factors of global warming is very much welcome. With contributions from distinguished authors and covering everything you need
This fascinating compilation of facts and feats brings together the most surprizing stories from the world of sport. If you didn't know that Fred Perry was world table tennis champion in 1929, seven years before becoming the Wimbledon champion, or that one American quarterback earned $700,000 without throwing a single pass, then this is the book for you. Famous and not-so-famous sporting firsts, great winners and great losers assemble here in a book to brighen up the dreariest locker room, cheer up the dullest game and keep readers on their toes from start to finish.
This book is the story of a grieving process in prose, poetry and pictures. Nick Owen met Gillian Darwent in 2003. They fell passionately in love and started to live together in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, within a few months of their first meeting. In 2004 they were hand-fasted in a Druid ceremony among the prehistoric megaliths of Avebury at the winter solstice. They were legally married a few days later in Oxford. They rented a stone cottage in the hamlet of Over Norton, in the north Cotswolds, where they lived and worked until Gill's sudden death, aged 47, in 2009. Nick was very much aware of Gill's physical and mental frailty. He also knew that her level of alcohol consumption was sufficient to threaten her life. Nick worked part time, supervising counsellors of people with serious and life threatening illnesses. He also worked for Mind, helping people create poetry and pictures as part of their way of dealing with mental distress.
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