Successful Project Management 4th edition" is an essential guide for anyone who wants to improve the success rate of their projects. It will help managers to maintain a balance between the demands of the customer the project the team & the organisation. Covering the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion it contains practised & tested techniques covering project conception & start-up how to manage stake holders effective risk management project planning & launch & execution. Also including a brand new glossary of key terms it provides help with evaluating your project as well as practical checklists & templates to ensure success for any ambitious project manager." ...

Whether you are a new or experienced landlord this bestselling & fully up-to-date book by private rented sector expert & consultant David Lawrenson will show you how to buy the right property in the right location (including abroad) for high rents & capital growth whatever the state of the market. Get great property deals from developers & private sellers. Decide whether to use a letting agent or find & manage tenants yourself. Comply with all the laws & avoid the tenants from hell. Minimise your property tax bill. This new 2011 edition

Includes:: in particular: updated information on Local Housing Allowance; modified sample tenancy agreement with additional Data Protection clause; eight more tax tips; & revised text following the demise of HIPs (Home Information Packs).

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School placements can be anxious & uncertain experiences for trainee teachers & even for those with previous classroom experience a new school environment can be intimidating. This book is full of invaluable advice & practical suggestions that will help trainees prepare for enjoy & make the most of this experience. It deals with the full range of issues from finding out about the placement school to managing difficult behaviour on placement. This second edition is linked to the 2007 Standards for QTS & reflects recent documents & initiatives. ...

In a comprehensive study of early Islamic history Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after Muhammad's death for the leadership of the Muslim community. He pursues the history of this conflict through the reign of the four ' Rightly Guided' caliphs to its climax in the first inter-Muslim war. The outcome of the war which marked the demise of the reign of the Early Companions resulted in the lasting schism between Sunnite & Shi'ite Islam. Contrary to recent scholarly trends the author brings out Ali's early claim to legitimate succession which gained support from the Shi'a & offers a convincing reinterpretation of early Islamic history. This book will make a major contribution to the debate over succession. Wilferd Madelung's book The Succession to Muhammad has been awarded the Best Book of the Year prize by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the year 1997. ...

When it comes to jobs in hell being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants the wardrobe is killer & mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted they can often pay with their souls but why get technical? But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid's life is far less exotic. Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies. Her immortal best friends haven't stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess getup complete with whip & wings. & she can't have a decent date without the sucking away part of the guy's life. At least there's her day job at a local bookstore
- free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; & easy access to bestselling sexy writer Seth Mortensen aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can't. But dreaming about Seth will have to wait. Something wicked is at work in Seattle's demon underground. & for once all of her hot charms & drop-dead one-liners won't help because Georgina's about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven & hell want to deny...
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Succulent Flora of Southern Africa" first published in 1981 has long served as an authoritative guide for academics & lay enthusiasts alike. This long-awaited third edition takes into account intervening taxonomic advances & the discovery & naming of ever more species. All information has been fully revised updated & supplemented in line with the latest thinking & the book has been newly designed for clarity & ease of reference. Given the phenomenal extent & variety of our regions succulent flora this revised version is a timely addition to the botanical literature of southern Africa." ...

A family divided by war but united by love. Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer Neil Sheridan commander of a corvette. They have a daughter Libby & a beautiful home near Prince's Park in Liverpool. When war comes Marianne takes war work & moves into Crocus Street with her mother Mrs Wainwright & younger sister. Neil disapproves because the Wainwrights live so near the docks which are bound to be a bombing target but Marianne is firm. Meanwhile Libby is evacuated to the country to stay with Miss Williams who lives in an ancient house Tregarth at the head of a valley in North Wales & Libby the wheelchair-bound Matthew & Miss Williams assume they can settle down to see out the war in comparative safety. But Libby is forced to return to the city when her mother suffers an accident & her gran finds herself unable to cope.. . ...

What do you do when youre fat fourteen obsessed with the Catholic Church with Doing the Right Thing with scones & sweets with other boys & their private parts? Well if youre Benson you panic & flee hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas St Finbars monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school hed left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again & throw him back into the world from which hed tried to escape. Returned to school Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms & desires. Can he be both gay & Catholic? Gay & Happy? Sucking Sherbet Lemons recounts the coming out experience of a gay man at a time when homosexual acts were illegal. Written in the late Eighties in response to those who condemned gay men in the light of the AIDS epidemic
- & instated Clause 28 to end discussion of the subject
- this is a powerful & hilarious broadside aimed at the forces of intolerance ignorance & fear. The times have changed with legalization & now even Civil Partnerships in Britain
- but the difficulties silence bewilderment & embarrassment of coming out have not. Sucking Sherbet Lemons is a coming out novel for the ages. We are proud to re-release this gay classic to help entertain
- & console
- a new generation gay straight & all points in-between.




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Languedoc-Roussillion (not forgetting the Midi-Pyrenees & Aquitaine) are the regions of France most settled by English expatriate colonists. Caroline Conran has spent much time there since the early 1970s & her collection of recipes reflect years of travel conversation cooking eating & drinking. She has shared her knowledge with English readers in a previous book Under the Sun: Caroline Conrans French Country Cooking but here she concentrates upon this single region of Languedoc which curls up from the Spanish border along the Mediterranean coast as far as the Rhone valley. This is not polite France this is in your face France; its history buried amidst the Crusades & Cathars its towns & cities
- Nimes Toulouse Carcassonne Narbonne Perpignan Montpellier Beziers
- making up a fiecely independent region. Its people are passionate about rugby about hunting & foraging with a cuisine of their own more Southern simpler more earthy & less influence by the Michelin style of cooking than the rest of France. There will be information on the particular specialities such as chestnuts sweet onions Bouzigues mussels & oysters salt cod poufres (baby octopus) charcuterie salades sauvages (salads of wild plants) the rose-coloured garlic of Lautrec wild asparagus & local mushrooms. There are descriptions of places where oysters truffles chestnuts or calcots
- a giant spring onion eaten roasted on a fire of vine-prunings
- are the obsession of everyone in the community.



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The only guide dedicated solely to the new Republic of the Sudan. Explore entire pyramids & other ancient sites entirely free of tourist crowds. Drink in views over the Sudanese plains from the granite Taka Mountains. Dive the reef where Jacques Cousteau conducted his experiment in underwater living. Experience Sudan's cultural diversity among the 50 tribes of the Nuba Mountains. Read advice on where to stay/eat travelling safely & cultural etiquette As a staple of bleak news headlines Sudan has been slow to make its abundant attractions known to the outside world. Few foreigners have heard of the Kingdom of Kush walked among the isolated pyramids of Meroe or witnessed the whirling dervishes of Omdurman. Yet those who do make it here are invariably enchanted by its easy-going nature fascinating history & the warm welcome they receive from the Sudanese people. This the only st&-alone guide to post-partition Sudan leads you expertly from the labyrinthine souks of Khartoum to coral-bedecked wrecks off the Red Sea coast. Whether you're rushing through on the trans-Africa trail or whiling away weeks among rich archaeological sites this fully revised third edition is your indispensible companion. ...