John Higgins

Mark Cole

Silence always has something to say - it's never neutral and speaks volumes if people are willing to hear. This book explores the importance of understanding silence and voice in leadership and organisational life, and shows how we can move from merely listening to truly hearing those around us.

Understanding Voice and Silence in Organisations

The Great Unheard at Work

Fate has been led astray. Terra would have traded all of her abilities as the Nexus to stop her husband from dying in her arms. But the Guardian is dead, and now Terra must defeat the armies of Hell, free the two besieged Inner Realms, and protect her unborn daughter from Fate itself without Alex by her side. From the final page of the Libram of Fate: On the day of Magic's triumph, the Nexus shall fall, and a wrathful Guardian rise in her place to lead the Nine to balance.

The Libram of Fate

Earth on Fire

Alex burst into the room and saw Terra hanging limp over the shoulder of a tall man draped in a black cloak. Terra's red hair covered her face, and from her lack of movement, she appeared to be unconscious. Golden light issued from a yellowish portal that wavered behind them. "What are you doing with her!" When Terra Duval is kidnapped by the Demon Lord Azreal, Alex Zane must venture from Earth to the Realm of Magic to rescue his love. Together, Alex and Terra must nite the forces of a fractured world to free the Nine Realms. But will his love for Terra prevent him from saving those he has been charged to protect, or will it be the catalyst Alex needs to save the Nine Realms?

A Child of Two Worlds

Twenty-five years on from its famous début victory in the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours, the wonderful McLaren F1 GTR is the subject of this major two-volume history. Derived from the BMW V12-powered three-seat McLaren F1 road car, the F1 GTR only came into existence because of customer pressure on designer Gordon Murray to produce a racing version. With 28 examples built over three seasons, the F1 GTR was fabulously successful, winning 41 of its 131 races and taking two international championship titles. This sumptuous book outlines the life of the McLaren F1 GTR in exhaustive depth, with Volume 1 devoted to race-by-race narrative and Volume 2 to individual car histories and the stories of the people who raced them, all supported by over 775 colour photographs.

The Definitive History

McLaren F1 GTR

This book tells the story of Ford GT40 Mark II, chassis no. P/1016, one of the trio of cars that crossed the finishing line together at Le Mans in 1966 to score Ford’s first victory in the 24 Hour race. The Mark II was a development of the original Ford GT with a monstrous 7 litre V8 engine. 1016 made its racing debut at Daytona in January 1966 and was entered at Le Mans by Holman & Moody with a distinctive gold and pink color scheme. Driven by Ronnie Bucknum and Dick Hutcherson, it finished in third place behind the similar cars of Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon and Ken Miles and Denny Hulme.

The remarkable history of 1016

FORD GT40 Mk II

Contemporary organisation development (OD) in practice draws on sophisticated theory and tools to advance organisational change, using a range of concepts and techniques including positive psychology, appreciation, and active engagement with the workforce. OD is considered to be humanistic and, as a result, progressive. Mark Cole's original and thought-provoking treatise points at a hole at the heart of OD practice: it fails to consider the role of power in the workplace – and the result is disempowering. Drawing from critical theory as a radical means to redefine practice, Mark Cole exposes this paradox and reveals the significant limitations and negative impacts of current OD practice. We need to replace the idea of the organisation with a focus on active human organising to enable individuals within systems to effect change from the grassroots up: this concept is Radical OD. Essential reading for students, practitioners, and academics of OD; the wider HR community, and all with an interest in developing their understanding of organisational life, this ground-breaking manifesto offers unique and challenging insight into the corporate presence of OD – and challenges the willing reader to reimagine the focus and intent of this work.

Radical Organisation Development

From 1983 to 1986, Fitzpatrick's operation made 66 Group C entries in 44 races in the World Endurance Championship, the German Deutsche Rennsport-Meisterschaft and the American Can-Am, winning three times and taking another 11 podium positions. This book tells the story of this exciting team, its five Group C Porsches and what became of them, its crews, its drivers, its races and - above all - its charismatic owner, John Fitzpatrick, arguably the best British driver never to have raced in Formula 1.

Ultimate John Fitzpatrick Group C Porsches

Night had fallen, and the screams of the dying beyond the wall of the Arcane City sent shivers down Darren Wright's spine. We are all going to die here, he thought. Smoke billowed from the watch fire at his back, causing the sixteen-year-old guardsman to cough. Sweat trickled down his forehead. His helmet was stifling in the oppressive summer heat; the sun being down did nothing to lower the temperature. Another scream of anguish and he gripped his white ash spear tighter. --- When Azreal oversteps his bounds as Overlord of Hell and invades the peaceful Inner Realms, the Nine Realms are thrown into a tumultuous war that claims countless lives. Alex Zane, a retired Marine from Earth, and Terra Duval, a powerful woman with a mysterious past, must work together to unite a war-torn world to fight back against the forces of Hell. But will their burgeoning love prevent them from fulfilling their goals, or will it help push Alex and Terra down the correct path? A Child of Two Worlds is the first of nine novels in the Nine Realms Series, an Epic Fantasy series that encompasses several dimensions and plumbs the depths of humanity's history, faults, and triumphs.

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