From the post room to the board room everyone thinks they can be the manager But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? What's the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure? The issues are the same whether you're managing a Premier League football team or a FTSE 100 company Here for the first time some 30 of the biggest names in football management reveal just what it takes With their every act remark & success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media & the fans these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders In The Manager they explain their methods offer lessons they've learned along the way & describe the decisions they make & the leadership they provide Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for managers in any walk of life & in their own words shows how the experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally high-pressure environment Offering valuable lessons for business leaders & fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for football fans The Manager is an honest accessible & unprecedented look at the day-to-day work of these high-profile characters & the world of top-level football management Featuring Roy Hodgson Carlo Ancelotti Arsene Wenger Sam Allardyce Roberto Mancini Jose Mourinho Brendan Rodgers Harry Redknapp Sir Alex Ferguson Walter Smith Mick Mc Carthy Gerard Houllier Tony Pulis Martin O' Neill Neil Warnock Howard Wilkinson Kevin Keegan Dario Gradi Andre Villas-Boas David Moyes Alex Mc Leish Hope Powell Martin Jol Glenn Hoddle Chris Hughton David Platt Paul Ince & George Graham ...

Featuring recipes from TV chefs Aiden Byrne Simon Rogan & Masterchef winner Simon Wood The Manchester Cook Book celebrates the culinary diversity in the capital of the north with more than 45 recipes from some of the city's finest food establishments local restaurants cafes delis pubs & producers 224 pages Eddison Kate ...

Perfect for fans of HOMELAND this is the classic novel of espionage & intrigue Sgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor the stepson of an influential senatorand the perfect assassin Brainwashed during his time as a POW he is a 'sleeper' a living weapon to be triggered by a secret signal He will act without question no matter what order he is made to carry out To stop Shaw his former commanding officer must uncover the truth behind a twisted conspiracy of torture betrayal & power that will lead to the highest levels of the government ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play WHY DON T YOU PASS THE TIME BY PLAYING A LITTLE SOLITAIRE? After saving the lives of his platoon during the Korean War Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) is hailed as a bona fide American hero This couldn t have come at a better time for his mother (Angela Lansbury) who is hell-bent on boosting the career of his stepfather a senator straight from the Mc Carthyite wing of the US political spectrum with designs on the Presidency So far so familiar but why does Shaw s former captain (Frank Sinatra) have recurring nightmares that suggest that his distinguished comrade-in-arms might not be all that he seems? Based on the memorably paranoid bestseller by Richard Condon (Prizzi s Honor) this is one of the greatest of all Cold War suspense thrillers not least for its alarmingly original take on the notion of the enemy within Angela Lansbury won multiple awards & an Oscar nomination for her performance as one of the most monstrous mothers in screen history but perhaps the most unnerving thing about the film is the way that its political satire remains so perfectly on target more than half a century later SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) & Standard Definition DVD presentation of the main feature transferred from original elements by MGM Uncompressed 10 mono PCM soundtrack Optional English SDH subtitles Audio commentary by director John Frankenheimer The Directors John Frankenheimer an hour-long portrait from 2003 including interviews with Frankenheimer Kirk Douglas Samuel L Jackson Roy Scheider Rod Steiger & many others Interview with John Frankenheimer Frank Sinatra & screenwriter George Axelrod from the film s 1988 revival Queen of Diamonds an interview with Angela Lansbury A Little Solitaire an appreciation of the film by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring original & newly commissioned artwork by Jay Shaw Collector s booklet containing new writing by Peter Knight (Conspiracy Culture) & Neil Sanders (Your Thoughts Are Not Your Own) illustrated with original production stills ...

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A Gentle Giant Ltd release! People can't stop talking about The Mandalorian on Disney & now the highly requested mini-bust is here! Measuring Approx. 6 inches tall this 16 scale bust depicts the bounty hunter with blaster & flamethrower at the ready & features detailed sculpting & paint applications Bust comes packaged in a full-color box with a numbered certificate of authenticity Designed by Joe Allard sculpted by Gentle Giant Studios ...

Shriver's intelligence mordant humour & vicious leaps of imagination all combine to make this a novel that is as unsettling as it is entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES The brilliant new novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin It is 2029 The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies Yet America's soaring national debt has grown so enormous that it can never be repaid Under siege from an upstart international currency the dollar is in meltdown A bloodless world war will wipe out the savings of millions of American families Their inheritance turned to ash each family member must contend with disappointment but also
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- the challenge of sheer survival Recently affluent Avery is petulant that she can't buy olive oil while her sister Florence is forced to absorb strays into her increasingly cramped household As their father Carter fumes at having to care for his demented stepmother now that a nursing home is too expensive his sister Nollie an expat author returns from abroad at 73 to a country that's unrecognizable Perhaps only Florence's oddball teenage son Willing an economics autodidact can save this formerly august American family from the streets This is not science fiction This is a frightening fascinating scabrously funny glimpse into the decline that may await the United States all too soon from the pen of perhaps the most consistently perceptive & topical author of our times

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Global Power Struggle Begins Which nation will take the lead & become world&s dominant superpower? The Manhattan Project makes you the leader of a great nation&s atomic weapons program in a deadly race to build bigger & better bombs You must assign your workers to multiple projects building your bomb-making infrastructure expending your military to protect it or sending your spies to steal your rival&s hard work! You alone control your nation&s destiny You choose when to send out your workers–and when to call them back Careful management & superior strategy will determine the winner of this struggle So take charge & secure your nation&s future! The Manhattan Project is a low-luck mostly open information efficiency game in which players compete to build & operate the most effective atomic bomb program Players do not "nuke" each other but conventional air strikes are allowed against facilities The game features worker placement with a twist; There are no rounds & no end-of-round administration Players retrieve their workers when they choose to or are forced to (by running out) An espionage action allows a player to activate & block an opponent&s building representing technology theft & sabotage ...

"SCIENCE BAD" What if the research & development department created to produce the first atomic bomb was a front for a series of other more unusual programs? What if the union of a generation&s brightest minds was not a signal for optimism ...