CHANGE OF COMMAND: The Speaker of the Grand Council has been assassinated & battle lines are quickly drawn. Factions include Families keen to control the new political order & neighbouring states preparing to defend themselves. Even Fleet can no longer be depended on to keep the peace. Young Fleet officers Esmay & Barin want simply to marry. But Barin is a Serrano the most influential of Fleet families & Esmay is Landbride of the planet Altiplano. Their elders see only disaster in the match. & as Esmay & Barin struggle to reconcile their families their very way of life is threatened. AGAINST THE ODDS: The worst has happened & Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of rejuvenation drugs offering virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power or for blood. & when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet the apparent victim of Family politics she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict that awaits.. . ...

She is the downstairs maid; he is the Master's son... Forced to become a kitchen maid at Fortune Hall Hetty Pearson strikes up an unlikely friendship with the younger son of the house Richard. But Hetty is just a poor servant girl: what hope does she have of either winning Richard's heart or escaping his older brother's more base attentions? Note: previously published as The Jewel Streets by Una Horne. ...

Explores servanthood as the model for ministry especially for those working in leadership roles. This title provides practical encouragement & insight for those in Christian service whether in professional roles or as lay people. It combines insights from the life of Jesus & exposition of other relevant Bible passages. ...

Second in Feist & Wurts wonderful epic trilogy
- one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time THE EMPIRE TRILOGY:
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Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-century Britain is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler the footman the maid & the cook of 1900 to the au pairs cleaners & childminders who took their place seventy years later a previously unheard class offers a fresh perspective on a dramatic century. Here the voices of servants & domestic staff largely ignored by history are at last brought to life: their daily household routines attitudes towards their employers & to each other throw into sharp & intimate relief the period of feverish social change through which they lived. Sweeping in its scope extensively researched & brilliantly observed Servants is an original & fascinating portrait of twentieth-century Britain; an authoritative history that will change & challenge the way we look at society. ...

This is a sexually charged satire of the Cultural Revolution & a huge underground hit in China where it is banned. Slanders Mao Zedong the army & is overflowing with sex & Do not distribute pass around comment on excerpt from it or report on it. Chinese Central Propaganda Bureau. This political satire by one of Chinas most distinguished authors has been banned in its native land for its depiction of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) during the Cultural Revolution. Set in 1967 at the peak of the Mao cult when Serve the People was one of the great mans most famous slogans it tells the story of the bored wife of a military commander who artfully seduces a peasant soldier. When the lovers discover that the sacrilegious act of breaking a statue of Mao deliciously increases their desire they compete to see who can destroy the most sacred icons of their Great Leader
- smashing the commanders beloved Mao icons ripping up the Little Red Book" or defacing the Great Helmsmans epigrams. Defacing an image of Mao was punishable by death during the Cultural Revolution. Yan Lianke tramples on the most sacred taboos of the army the revolution sexuality & political etiquette. As a subversive critique of official corruption leadership hypocrisy & the insanity of the Cultural Revolution his book has a huge cult following in China."
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Service Charges: Law & Practice is a best-selling guide to the legal framework in which service charges operate. It is designed to be used by all those who deal with service charges either as landlord tenant agent or professional adviser. This new edition has been substantially revised to take account of over 30 new LVT cases the new RICS Code of Practice for Service Charges in Commercial Property as well as new material on Energy Efficiency Certificates Display Energy Certificates & green leases. The concise & easily understood commentary is supported by specimen service charge clauses model accounts notices & certificates making this book an invaluable & immensely practical guide to this difficult subject. ...

A plain-English guide to managing IT from the customers perspective * Practical guidance on delivering & managing IT so that it meets the multiple needs & demands of a company & its customers & end-users--both inside & outside the organization--is hard to come by; this accessible book takes a common-sense approach that explains exactly what IT services are & how to fit them most effectively into a business * Topics include setting a framework keeping costs down improving efficiency & maintaining standards & best practices * This concept of how IT should be wired specifically into the goals & need of the company & its customers is part of a broader picture that

Includes:: ITIL BPM SOA & Six Sigma Marcia Kaufman (Waltham MA) is a founding partner of Hurwitz & Associates with 20 years of experience in analytics business strategy & industry research in business technology. Fern Halper (Waltham MA) is a founding partner of Hurwitz & Associates & has more than 20 years of experience in data analysis business analysis & strategy development.

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This is the first text to examine the principal elements of service user involvement & participation across both adult & children's services. A valuable learning resource it draws together information from research service users carers & practitioners across both groups. In addition it gives an overview of the specific knowledge attitude & skills that social workers need for training at qualifying level & integrates theory with evidence to inform everyday social work practice. Furthermore case studies & activities encourage reflection & the application of this knowledge to practice situations. ...

This is a Blandings novel. As a peer of the realm Clarence Ninth Earl of Emsworth has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings surely the most considerable pig in the whole world & travel to London for the opening of parliament. It comes hard to him for he has a proper sense of the priorities in life which rate pigs & flowerbeds higher than politicians. But no sooner has he returned to Blandings than his real problems begin: the dastardly Duke of Dunstable is out to steal the Empress. His sister Lady Constance has inflicted on him a particularly nasty new secretary. & the Church Lads Brigade are camped all over his lawns. Thank God for the Earl of Ickenham better known as Uncle Fred whose own particularly devious brand of sweetness & light aims to banish blackmailers & pig-stealers & restore true love all over the castle grounds. ...