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. ...

With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury mischievous Church Lads camping in his park his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully & Lavender Briggs his secretary making life miserable Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by yet another impostor. But Bill Bailey a.k.a. Cuthbert Meriwether has inveigled himself into the castle to be with his beloved Myra Schoonmaker who is staying there under the eagle eye of Lady Constance & Lady Constance is determined to thwart him. In the end virtue conquers vice: the lovers are united Dunstable defeated & Tilbury trounced but only through the brilliant plotting of Frederick Earl of Ickenham whose greatest triumph is to marry off Lady Constance to an old admirer Myra's father. In the end everyone is happy who deserves to be none more so than Lord Emsworth who at one fell swoop frees himself from the tyranny of a duke a secretary & a sister. ...

Your first duty is to God; your second to your Sovereign; your third to yourself. During the sixty-odd years of her reign Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. For some royal service was the defining experience of their lives for others it came as an unwelcome duty or a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria" follows the lives of six members of her household from the governess to the royal children to her maid-of-honour chaplain & personal physician. Drawing on their letters & diaries
- many hitherto unpublished
- " Serving Victoria" offers a unique insight into the Victorian court with all its frustrations & absurdities as well as the Queen herself sitting squarely at its centre. Seen through the eyes of her household as she traveled between Windsor Osborne & Balmoral & to the French & Belgian courts Victoria emerges as more vulnerable more emotional more selfish more comical than is generally supposed. We see a woman who was prone to fits of giggles who wept easily & often who gobbled her food & shrank from confrontation but insisted on controlling the lives of those around her. We witness her extraordinary & debilitating grief at the death of Albert & her sympathy towards the tragedies that afflicted her household. Witty astute & moving " Serving Victoria" is a perfect foil to the pomp & circumstance
- & prudery & conservatism
- associated with Victorias reign & gives an unforgettable glimpse of what it meant to serve the Queen."



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In addition to introducing & perfecting a unique vocal style Sinatra was also his own in-studio producer -- personally supervising every aspect of his recordings from choosing the songs & arrangers to making minute adjustments in mike placement. One of the thrills of listening to Sinatra is wondering how he did it -- & this book explains it all bringing the dedicated fan & the casual music lover alike into the recording studio to glimpse the fascinating working methods he introduced & mastered in his quest for recorded perfection. Sessions with Sinatra tells the whole story of how he created the Sinatra sound & translated the most intense personal emotions into richly worked-out songs of unrivalled expression. ...

Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high DI John Rebus is charged with liaison thanks to the new parliament being resident in Queensbury House bang in the middle of his patch. But Queensbury House has its own dark past. Legend has it that a young man was roasted there on a spit by a madman. When the fireplace where the youth died is uncovered another more recent murder victim is found. Days later in the gardens outside there is another body & Rebus is under pressure to find instant answers. As the case proceeds the Inspector finds himself face to face with one of Edinburghs most notorious criminals... ...

Recovering from the tragic death of his wife Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law Lucy & her husb&. Their home is a bizarre moated house deep in the Rutland countryside known as Otherways. Disturbed by memories of his wife & a growing attraction to Lucy Sheridan is also troubled by weird & vivid dreams. Soon he learns that Otherways is a house steeped in a history of murder & wartime treason. & it seems that these crimes hold an eerie influence over the present inhabitants. ...

Shay Phillips knows her way around Dark Canyon. Shes handy with a gun & can track a wild animal with the best of them. Its humans who usually give her the most trouble. & with a hormonally charged teenage brother to raise
- & her own admitted weakness for the wrong kind of man
- theyre giving her plenty of trouble these days. Then theres the matter of murder. As an expert on mountain lions Shay is skeptical when a local prostitute turns up mauled without a drop of blood near the body. Now together with the towns newly arrived sheriff Luke Meza
- a Las Vegas city boy with his own dark secrets
- Shay must navigate a dangerous valley filled with angry ex-lovers unfaithful spouses & poisonous snakes in a desperate search for the killer.



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