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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Peter Walsh
Emotional Intelligence: How to understand and consciously manage one's own and others' emotions
Peter Walsh
Independently Published
2019
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The completely revised and updated edition of the book that lifted the lid on the most bloody and prolonged gang war in British history.
William of Newburgh: The History of English Affairs, Book 1
Peter Walsh; M. J. Kennedy
Aris Phillips Ltd
1998
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The History of English Affairs, covering the years 10661198, was written at the close of the twelfth century and has been described as being "both in substance and in form ... the finest historical work left to us by an Englishman of the twelfth century" (The Dictionary of National Biography). The author's critical ability, gifts of acute observation, clear judgment and tolerant impartiality justify his high reputation as an original authority.Book One contains a summary treatment of the period 10661135 (the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry I), followed by an extensive exposition of the political, military and religious events of the reign of Stephen (113554), including the Second Crusade and events in Scotland. William's Latin is spare and elegant. At University level, this is the ideal text for students of medieval history seeking original source material and for students in Classical departments looking for a combination of interesting content and manageable Latin. Schools will find it a helpful aid to increase fluency in reading Latin and develop a knowledge of English history. Latin text with facing-page translation.
William of Newburgh: The History of English Affairs Book 2
Peter Walsh; M. J. Kennedy
Aris Phillips Ltd
2007
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The History of English Affairs , covering the years 1066-1197, was written at the close of the twelfth century and has been described as being "both in substance and in form ... the finest historical work left to us by an Englishman of the twelfth century" ( The Dictionary of National Biography ). The author's critical ability, gifts of acute observation, clear judgment and tolerant impartiality justify his high reputation as an original authority. Book Two covers the years 1154-75, and incorporates the murder of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, the capture of the King of Scots at Alnwick, and the first subjugation of Ireland by the English. It also documents the career of Nicholas Breakspear, the only Englishman to become Pope.
The long-awaited autobiography by Derek Forbes, the Simple Minds legend known for those iconic spine-rattling bass riffs which we recognise in many Simple Minds' songs. This is his story. Derek Forbes started his musical career as a lead guitarist but soon changed to bass guitarist. He is known for those iconic spine-rattling bass riffs which we recognise in most Simple Minds' songs and he wrote and co-wrote many of the band's earliest classics. Derek is also well-known on the international stage as songwriter and bassist for Big Country and Propaganda and has recorded with Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd and Kirsty MacColl. He won an Ivor Novello Award for 'Outstanding Song Collection' in 2016 for his song writing for Simple Minds, voted best bass player in the World 1982 and best- bass player from Scotland in 2010. He still lives in Glasgow and is planning his next tour.
For fifteen years, Michael Francis and his brothers headed the Guvnors - one of the toughest and most notorious gangs of football hoodlums to soil the streets and football terraces of Britain. Now out of prison and willing to break his silence, Francis comes clean and reveals the inside story of his life as the leader of one of the most violent English football gangs. Major features and reviews in Loaded, GQ and Arena.
Tips from a Professional Organizer on How to Have an Organized Home"Real Life Organizing is a real solution to the clutter challenges we all face.” -Peter Walsh, New York Times best-selling author and organization expert#1 Best Seller in Do-It-Yourself Improvements, Small Spaces, and Decorating & FurnishingsAn organizing book with clutter-free solutions for keeping an organized home in just 15 minutes a day from a professional organizer and host of HGTV’s HOT MESS HOUSECreate a Pinterest worthy home on a small budget. Learn how to organize your home, simplify life and have more time for things you love. Professional organizer Cassandra ‘Cas’ Aarssen, the guru from YouTube’s ClutterBug channel and HGTV’s Hot Mess House, reveals her tips, tricks and secrets to a clean and clutter free home in just 15 minutes a day.Simplify your life. In Real Life Organizing, Cas walks you through the steps to create a beautiful, organized, clutter free, and almost self-cleaning home. You don’t have to get rid of all of your things, be a yoga loving minimalist, or radically change your lifestyle or personality. The truth is you do not need to actually be an organized person to live like an organized person.Organized home. Through years of experience as an industry expert, Cas has uncovered easy and inexpensive tips, tricks and solutions that enable her to maintain a clean, organized and functional home with minimal effort. After you’ve read Real Life Organizing, you too will be able to live a more organized life without having to give up your sanity.Learn how to:Create a Household Management BinderMake a “Kids Cupboard” in your kitchenCreate an IN/OUT systemOrganize paperwork based on your unique styleCreate a Kitchen Command CenterOrganize your holidays with a gift closetBuild a toy organizing systemAlso read Cas Aarssen's other bestselling home organizing books, Cluttered Mess to Organized Success, The Clutter Connection, and The Declutter Challenge.
The Undefeated Bareknuckle Champion of Great Britain and Ireland. An uncompromising but touching story of Bartley Gorman, a man compelled by the weight of his own family history to fight and suffer pain.
Peter examines the 6 key areas of your life (family, relationships, work, finance, health and spirituality) and shows how, although each area is a unique part of your life, each is also interrelated and if one is cluttered that clutter will creep into the other areas of your life and throw off the balance of every other area. Using a step-by-step plan to tackle each area of your life, Peter helps you examine not just the physical clutter, but the emotional and mental clutter that gets in your way and holds you back. He first asks what your ideal life is and how each area is adding to that vision of your life or how it is taking away from your vision. Then, like he did so successfully in It's All Too Much, he tests your level of clutter in that area and gives you the tools and tricks to focus on how to prioritize what matters in your life so that you can let go of the clutter and regain your balance, focus, energy and purpose.
A New Edition of William Thomas Walsh's "Saint Peter the Apostle" with supplementary material. This includes a Timeline of St. Peter, information on the Tomb of St. Peter in Rome, and an author's biography and obituary of Dr. Walsh. St. Peter is the Apostle of whom Christ said: "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it." Most people know of St. Peter, but they do not know anything about his life; this book admirably fills the gap. William Thomas Walsh is an engaging writer who is an excellent and engrossing story teller. The book is imminently suitable for young people and adults who want to know more about this great Saint and Apostle.
The Attenbury Emeralds: A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Jill Paton Walsh; Dorothy L. Sayers
MINOTAUR BOOKS
2012
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In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the pairing of Dorothy L. Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations. Now, following A Presumption of Death, set during World War II, comes a new Sayers-inspired mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, revisiting his very first case. . . . It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom collection made headlines--and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury--grandson of Lord Peter's first client--seeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds. As Harriet and Peter contemplate the changes that the war has wrought on English society--and Peter, who always cherished the liberties of a younger son, faces the unwanted prospect of ending up the Duke of Denver after all--Jill Paton Walsh brings us a masterful new chapter in the annals of one of the greatest detectives of all time.
A Presumption of Death: A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Jill Paton Walsh; Dorothy L. Sayers
MINOTAUR BOOKS
2012
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Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations, Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript--with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the San Francisco Chronicle; "you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins." "Will Paton Walsh do it again?" wondered Ruth Rendell in London's Sunday Times. "We must hope so." Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave clues. Drawing on "The Wimsey Papers," in which Sayers showed various members of the family coping with wartime conditions, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in 1940, at the start of the Blitz in London. Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children to safety in the country. But war has followed them there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes the nighttime lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds them of the war so constantly that, when the village's first air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it's almost a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder. Or was it? At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of original Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
A personalised storybook for boys called PETER. The story is based on the letters of the child's own name. All books are different from one another. The boy wakes up but can't remember his name. Magic Mouse knows how to solve the problem. Magic Mouse takes him on a wonderful adventure in his Magic Bus Translated and adapted by the author from the Top-Selling Finnish language personalised children's namebook series "Tytt /Poika, joka unohti nimens ". Looking for a namebook "What's my name?" but couldn't find the right name for your child? Please don't hesitate to contact me with your name request -Tiina Walsh Author fb.me/whatsmynamestorybooks for more details about the storybooks
The Bones of St. Peter: The First Full Account of the Search for the Apostle's Body
John Evangelist Walsh
Sophia Institute Press
2011
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In the year A.D. 68, St. Peter was put to death in Rome as an enemy of the state. Roman law forbade him a proper burial and denied his friends even the right to recover his body, so few souls were able to learn his final resting place.For centuries, tradition held that to honor and preserve the mortal remains of this true Prince of the Apostles, St. Peter's Basilica had been built right over St. Peter's grave.Not, however, until 1939, did researchers, scholars, and scientists begin sustained, systematic efforts to discover the truth, an archaeological task that spanned 30 years. Carefully studying every known clue while literally unearthing others as they tunneled their way through a tangle of ancient structures beneath the magnificent high altar of St. Peter's, they slowly unraveled the secrets surrounding the burial of St. Peter.The Bones of Saint Peter is the engrossing true story of how these determined researchers finally solved the puzzle of St. Peter's burial and rescued his bodily remains from centuries of oblivion.
Collaborative working is an increasingly vital part of Higher Education academic life. Traditionally, university culture supported individual research and scholarship. Today, the focus has shifted from the individual to the group or team. Collaborative Working in Higher Education takes the reader on a journey of examination, discussion, and reflection of emerging collaborative practices. The book offers suggestions for developing practice via a broad overview of the key aspects of collaboration and collaborative working, informed by focused case studies and the international perspectives of the contributing authors.The book has three main parts:Part I: Examines the social nature of collaborative working from a practical and critical perspective, focusing on four dimensions of collaborative working: academic practice, professional dialogues, personal and organizational engagement and social structures. It considers organizational models, varied approaches, potential challenges posed by collaborative working, and reflection on the management of collaboration at different stages.Part II: Focuses on the different aspects of collaborative working, building on the dimensions introduced in Part I, and addressing the crossing of boundaries. It looks at different contexts for collaboration (e.g. discipline-based, departmental, institutional and international) using case studies as examples of collaborative strategies in action, providing learning points and recommendations for practical applications.Part III: In addition to considering forms of collaboration for the future, this part of the book engages the reader with a though-provoking round-table discussion that itself embodies an act of collaboration.Collaborative Working in Higher Education is a comprehensive analysis of how collaboration is reforming academic life. It examines the shifts in working practices and reflects on how that shift can be supported and developed to improve practice. Higher Education faculty, administrators, researchers, managers and anyone involved in collaborative working across their institution will find this book a highly useful guide as they embark on their own collaborations.