Anthony Trollope was a Post Office surveyor, writer, editor and world traveller. This chronology combines factual details with comment and anecdote from his wide contacts and includes brief accounts of his published works and reactions to them.
The comprehensive biography of one of the 20th century's most influential cartoonists, the legendary creator of Steve Canyon and Terry and the Pirates. This book analyzes his storytelling techniques, examines his artistic innovations and work routines, and serves as a history of the medium. Milton Caniff was one of the most influential American cartoonists of the 20th century. He rose to prominence during World War II when he took the characters in his Terry and the Pirates strip into the war. The trenchant pragmatic patriotism of the strip warmed hearts and steeled nerves on the home front as well as the battlefront (one of his strips was read into the Congressional Record). He went on to create Steve Canyon, which was syndicated from 1947 to Caniff's death in 1988. Meanwhile... traces Caniff's life from the cradle to the grave, examining the artistic innovations and work routines of a nationally distributed cartoonist whose career was central to the development of the art form, and marking the milestones in the development of the comic strip that Caniff established. Caniff reshaped the medium and set standards by which all storytelling strips were subsequently judged. He created many colorful characters, including the stalwart Pat Ryan from Terry and the Pirates, Burma the shady lady, and, most memorable of all, the Dragon Lady, a beautiful but mysteriously menacing pirate queen who turned Chinese patriot during the War. WhileMeanwhile... provides a biography of Caniff and analyzes his storytelling techniques, it also serves as a history of the medium and reveals the inner workings of the syndicate business (at which Caniff was as expert as he was at cartooning). The book charts Caniff's rise to fame and fortune, then recounts the decline of his stripSteve Canyon's popularity (whose protagonist served as an unofficial spokesman for the U.S. Air Force from the Korean War until the end of the strip in 1988) when the same brand of patriotism that had inspired admiration during World War II provoked protest during Vietnam, a bittersweet conclusion to a career spent producing a daily feature for 55 years, a record that would stand for a generation. A 2008 Eisner Award Nominee: Best Comics-Related Book; a 2008 Harvey Award Nominee: Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation.
This book offers new insights on how senior business women in Middle Eastern and Western companies use language for effective leadership in their respective management meetings. The book explores six case studies of women leaders, three in UK companies and three in a Bahraini company. The authors analyse meeting and transcript data to show that, in both cultural contexts, the women negotiate a range of gendered discourses such as ‘hierarchy and status’ and ‘masculinisation’ in order to manage their teams with authority and skill. The book challenges received wisdom about the opportunities and constraints each cultural context offers women in public life. While the UK women are constrained by chronic change and uncertainty in performing their roles effectively, the Bahraini women are far better supported by their bosses, yet are constrained by patriarchal assumptions of what constitutes effective leadership. The book demonstrates the use of Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA), which is applied by scholars worldwide yet has relatively few published models of practice.
An old house. A fire. Two corpses... DI Charley Mann returns in this gripping crime thriller. West Yorkshire DI Charley Mann is called for what seems a routine job. Prior to demolition a deserted manor house appears to have been the target of an arson attack. But something isn’t right. The house has a dark history – and a dark present. When the remains of two bodies are discovered hidden inside, it soon emerges they were murdered decades apart. Who are they? What are their connections to the house? Why were they killed? And what is the connection to the fire? Amongst the ashes, Charley is soon drawn into a web of deceit and violent plots. The ghosts of the past can be all too real. Face them at your peril, because what goes around, comes around... Written by smash TV hit Happy Valley’s story advisors, and with the benefit of decades of real police experience, Condemned is perfect for fans of LJ Ross, Joy Ellis and Faith Martin.
An excellent book for commerce students appearing in competitive, professional and other examinations. 1. Management Concept : Meaning, Definitions and Need, 2. Managerial Functions, 3. Co-ordination : Meaning and Nature, 4. Evolution of Management Thought, 5. Management by Objectives (M.B.O.) , 6. Planning, 7. Types of Plans and Corporate Planning, 8. Environmental Analysis and Business Environment, 9. Decisions-Making, 10. Nature and Process of Organisation, 11. Span of Control and Centralisation and Decentralisation of Authority, 12. Authority and Delegation of Authority, 13. Organizations Structure and Forms of Organisation, 14. Staffing , 15. Motivation, 16. Leadership, 17. Communication, 18. Managerial Control, 19. Techniques of Control and Emerging Issues inManagement.
An excellent book for commerce students appearing in competitive, professional and other examinations.1. Management Concept : Meaning, Definitions and Need, 2. Managerial Functions, 3. Co-ordination : Meaning and Nature, 4. Evolution of Management Thought, 5. Management by Objectives (M.B.O.), 6. Planning, 7. Types of Plans and Corporate Planning, 8. Environmental Analysis and Business Environment, 9. Decisions-Making, 10. Nature and Process of Organisation, 11. Span of Control and Centralization and Decentralization of Authority, 12. Authority and Delegation of Authority, 13. Organizations Structure and Forms of Organisation, 14. Staffing, 15. Motivation, 16. Leadership, 17. Communication, 18. Managerial Control, 19. Techniques of Control and Emerging Issues in Management, 20. Direction—Concept and Techniques.
Shane O'Neill left the Los Angeles Police Department five years ago to pursue his dream of a career on the PGAr Tour. When a murder happens at the start of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am Tournament, the local police draft Shane to help secretly bodyguard the Number One Japanese golfer as they play together in the tournament. Paired in the golf tournament with Julie McCoy, the tall leggy brunette heiress to the McCoy Golf fortune, Shane and Julie, with his caddie, Topflight, play their way around the three courses of the Pebble Beach Pro-Am, protecting Tommy Toshiro while trying to solve the murder mystery. Yakusa Japanese gangsters, industrial espionage between golf equipment manufacturers; the tension of playing in a PGA Tournament, and the business aspects of golf tournaments and their sponsors add dramatic levels of intrigue to the story. Golf, business, wine, women and fast cars, all set in the natural beauty of Pebble Beach, perched on cliffs overlooking the Pacific. What a great setting for a murder. A murder on the fairways. A five-star, butt-kicking, bull's-eye of a golf-murder mystery Fast-paced, craftily plotted and crammed with likeable characters...Russ Coile has done it this time, putting you right on the course, in the middle of the PGAr Tour action! Buckle up for a great ride! -Drew Elioc Russ was one of the great thinkers of our time His only flaw was his bad slice when he golfed. I will always remember the Saguaro cactus with his golf ball embedded in it. -William P. Peters any conversation Russ and I had was strictly limited to serious stuff-golf. I will never golf another round without thinking of him. -Anthony Cirillo
Do you worry unnecessarily? Are you living o you worry unnecessarily? Are you living an authentic life or starring in someone elses an authentic life or starring in someone elses mini drama? If you spend too much time dealing mini drama? If you spend too much time dealing with other peoples problems and issues which with other peoples problems and issues which precluded addressing your needs, then a change precluded addressing your needs, then a change is called for. By sharing her own insights and the is called for. By sharing her own insights and the journey of others, author R.C. Scates helps you journey of others, author R.C. Scates helps you find true happiness by find true happiness by Bringing Peace Into Your Bringing Peace Into Your Inner Sanctuary Inner Sanctuary. This book offers examples of. This book offers examples of situations and solutions that may resemble your situations and solutions that may resemble your experiences. Break free from the emotional and experiences. Break free from the emotional and mental traps plaguing you; begin your quest in mental traps plaguing you; begin your quest in finding genuine joy within your life! Finding genuine joy within your life!
The Latest Early American Literature, according to readers for the University of Delaware Press, is “a collection of polemics and manifestoes.” In it R. C. De Prospo bids to follow in the footsteps of the two, rare, early Americanist dissenters whom Philip F. Gura once distinguished as “prophets without honor in the field”: William Spengemann and Michael Colacurcio. The book contends that a supposedly retired nationalist/modernist “telos” continues to reign in most of the latest scholarship, and even more influentially in all of the current literary histories and anthologies, no matter how expansive in gender, ethnic, racial, and “hemispheric” inclusiveness they profess to be. Old teloi, in particular that old American exceptionalist one, can be cunning. Updating and expanding upon essays written over the past thirty years, De Prospo proposes not only negatively to critique how the latest scholarly receptions of early American literature differ insignificantly from the earlier ones, but positively to propose how a transnationalist concession—that as a neocolonial culture America’s lags behind that of Europe—might advance post-modern historiography by radically repositioning the past as no longer the present’s diachronic predecessor but, to quote Lyotard’s semiotics, its synchronic “differend.” Closer to earth, De Prospo tries at the same time to remain mindful of the pedagogical imperative that ultimately to save the texts of early American literature will require making them legible to average non-specialist, never-to-become specialist undergraduate general education students. To facilitate this he introduces in the concluding section of The Latest Early American Literature what will probably be taken as its most radical intervention: the redefinition of Edgar Allan Poe as an early American writer.
LONELY JUNCTIONS is the story of Wesley Stevens, a man who gets ahead in the business world the only way he knows how...by using people. He is cunning, underhanded, ruthless, diabolical, and will do anything for the power he craves. No one is safe from him in his climb to get to the top. Not his co-workers. Not his friends. Not even his wife! Loyalty doesnt exist in his world. The feeling of triumph over another is his addiction. Fear his laughter. Beware his smile. Know his game. The rules are his. He wants you to play. His way. He needs the knowledge you have. And he will get it. At any cost!
Betty Sue Tucker Shaw is a woman haunted by her traumatic past. She lives alone, all but abandoned by her family, for reasons both deserved and unjust. When she has a stroke, her ability to communicate is all but obliterated, and she finds herself in a terrifying struggle to deal with the demons of the past while figuring out how to navigate her way through a world she can no longer talk to. Remlee Shaw Shephard is Betty Sue’s estranged daughter. After running away from her less-than-idyllic childhood, she has managed to create a life for herself. She’s a successful restaurant owner and devoted wife who has her life all figured out. Her serenity is shattered when she gets the call informing her of her mother’s fate, and she finds herself set on a course of reconciliation with her past. With her dutiful husband in tow, Remlee embarks on a journey back to her hometown to deal with the fallout of her mother’s medical misfortune. Along the way, she reconnects with the family she tried so hard to escape from, and uncomfortable truths boil to the surface, forcing her to reexamine her feelings toward the people who share her blood. Betty Sue’s journey back to communion with the world is full of struggle and strife. Old ghosts dog her every thought, and the past isn’t gone, not in the damaged corridors of her mind. She lives her trauma over and over as she struggles to free herself from this blood-clot-induced limbo. It is only when she begins to let go of the past that she is able to escape it and move on into a brighter future with what family she has left.
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