Foundations of Strategy is a new concise text aimed at both undergraduate students & Masters students. With the needs of these students in mind Robert Grant & Judith Jordan write in an accessible style with a clear comprehensive approach & sound theoretical depth. Extensive teaching materials such as Case Teaching notes an Instructors Manual Test Bank & PPT slidesare available on an accompanying website
- www.foundationsofstrategy.com The website also features extra longer cases written by Robert Grant & access to a simulation for use in teaching. Students have access to the entire text as an e-book with embedded video clips for each case study & self test questions to check understanding.
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I warn society against the child who has been hurt
- Peter Tyrrell A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with
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The twenty-three volumes of the Morland Dynasty series has been completely repackaged in the most elegant style using contemporaneous artwork for each period. This wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland & a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty & in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life we follow their fortunes through war & peace political upheaval & social revolution times of pestilence & periods of plenty & through the vicissitudes which afflict every family
- love & passion envy & betrayal birth & death great fortune & miserable penury. The Morland Dynasty is entertainment of the most addictive kind.
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The shy young Duke of Sale has never known his parents Instead his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware (Gilly for short) has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling form his uncle & valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. So when Gilly hears of Belinda the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cousin he absconds with glee. No sooner has he entered this new & dangerous world than he is plunged into a frenzy of intrigue kidnap & adventure.. . For over fifty years Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romantic fiction. The Foundling shows all of her wonderful talents at their best & how she won a huge audience that continues to this day. ...

The authoritative & comprehensive text features countries not previously covered in other books a new chapter on limited editions & a chapter on materials from 1833 to the present day which defines processes such as lacquering guilloche engraving & plastic identification. The development of design & logos is illustrated by specially produced line drawings. The text is complimented by many period advertisements. Fountain Pens of the World "provides more information on pens & illustrates more pens than any other book on the subject." ...

In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time & one which will revolutionize the future of humankind of space: a Space Elevator 36 000 kilometres high anchored to an equatorial island in the Indian Ocean. ...

Unapologetic unassuming & forthright the combat exploits of Executive Outcomes in Angola & Sierra Leone are recounted for the first time by a battlefield commander who was physically on the ground during all their major combat operations From fighting the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola for critical oil installations & diamond fields to the offensive against the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone to capture the Kono diamond fields & the palace coup which ousted Captain Valentine Strasser van Heerden was at the forefront. He tells of the tragedy of child soldiers illegal diamond mining & the curse of government soldiers who turn on their own people; he tells of RUF atrocities the harrowing attempt to rescue a downed pilot & the efforts to recover the remains of soldiers killed in action. Coupled with van Heerdens gripping expose hitherto unpublished photographs order of battle charts & battle maps offer unprecedented access to the major actions as they took place on the ground during the heydays of Executive Outcomes. ...

The eighth novel in the Alex Cross series Alex Cross is preparing to resign from the Washington Police Force. He's enjoying the feeling; not least because the Mastermind is now in prison. & Alex has met a woman Jamilla Hughes & he is talking about the future. Then John Sampson shows up at the house desperate for Alex's help. Three young military wives have been brutally killed during a 'girls' night out' & Sampson's friend a master sergeant at the army base stands accused. Uncovering evidence of a series of suspicious murder convictions Alex & Sampson are determined to infiltrate the closed world of the military. But what is the army trying to hide? & do the mysterious symbols daubed on the house of the accused mean that there are more sinister forces at work? ...

FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues liaisons betrayals & victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers she can get a man but cant get what she wants; a high-powered magazine columnists floundering marriage to a literary journalist is thrown into crisis when her husbands career fails to live up to her expectations; a Cinderella records her descent into paranoia in her journal as she realises she wants anybodys life except her own; an artist & aging It girl
- who fears that her time for finding a man has run out
- travels to London in search of the kind of love & devotion she cant find in Manhattan... Studded with her trademark wit & stiletto-heel-sharp insight FOUR BLONDES is dark true & compulsively readable.

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The new bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson creator of Tracy Beaker" " Hetty Feather" & " The Illustrated Mum" is a funny moving & heartwarming story of four children who discover a way to make wishes come true. Echoing the classic E Nesbit novel " Five Children & It" this new story from this mega-selling author winner of the " Guardian" Children's Fiction Prize is a brilliant read not just for those familiar with the original book but for any of Wilson's millions of fans." ...