Peter Ward

Pervoe pravilo khoroshego romana na odnu noch: ni v koem sluchae ne vljubljatsja drug v druga. No Ouen ponimaet, chto ne mozhet vykinut Devin iz golovy. Posle skolkikh let odinochestva, kazhetsja, nakonets emu povstrechalas ta, chto smogla probudit ego interes. Vot tolko s nastupleniem utra ona ischezla bez sleda, i kak teper ee iskat? No esli eto sudba, to ona sama stuchit v dver - ili, skoree, Ouen stuchit v odnu iz sdajuschikhsja v ego dome kvartir, chtoby opovestit zhiltsov o skorom vyselenii za neuplatu. Predstavte sebe ego udivlenie, kogda na poroge okazyvaetsja Devin. Prekrasnaja, voskhititelnaja, slozhnaja Devin s vorokhom sobstvennykh problem i strakhov. Devin, kotoraja otnjud ne toropitsja sblizhatsja. No prezhde ni odna zhenschina esche ne kazalos Ouenu naskolko interesnoj, i on gotov pojti na vse, chtoby dobitsja ee ljubvi.

Pervoe, o chem stoit vspomnit Kholdenu, kogda on vpervye zadumyvaetsja soblaznit mladshuju sestru svoego prijatelja: etogo delat ne nado. Serezno. Vo-pervykh, takovy uzh pravila. A vo-vtorykh, Kholden daval obeschanie prismatrivat za nej, a sam on uzh javno nepodkhodjaschaja dlja nee partija - malo togo, chto babnik, tak esche i muzykant s nejasnymi perspektivami. A Lala samaja nastojaschaja umnitsa: dobraja, ponimajuschaja, talantlivyj uchenyj - neudivitelno, chto u nee uzhe est zhenikh. Tak chto ruki proch.No vot Lale predlagajut grant na issledovanie v Nju-Jorke, i na blizhajshie neskolko mesjatsev oni stanut sosedjami v mnogokvartirnom dome, okazavshis v opasnoj blizosti drug ot druga. Kholden prilagaet vse usilija k tomu, chtoby igrat po pravilam, no kazhdyj den chuvstvuet v ee slovakh, vzgljade chto-to takoe, ot chego vskipaet krov. No chto eto? Vsego lish zhelanie? Ili zhe vse sereznee? I chto budet, esli oni pojdut protiv pravil?

Billi ne nastroena na serjoznye otnoshenija: tolko chto ona rasstalas s ocherednym kozlom i khochet prosto vzjat peredyshku. Kolbi zhe - olitsetvorenie sereznosti. Vzroslyj, uspeshnyj, vsegda odetyj s igolochki... Bolee togo, u nego est rebenok. Net, takoe Billi opredeleno ne podkhodit. No kak ustojat, kogda vnezapnoe zhelanie nakryvaet s golovoj? Pozhaluj, nado vsego lish ustanovit neskolko pravil. Esli vstrechi - to ne svidanija. Esli razgovory - to bez namekov. Esli prikosnovenija - to bez chuvstv. No razve pravila sozdajutsja ne dlja togo, chtoby ikh narushat?

Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the successor govern once he comes to power. Then, once in office, successors consolidate power by initially relying on this power base to govern while marginalizing elites from their predecessor's inner circle before later targeting members of their own power base to further consolidate power. The Element presents evidence for these arguments from North Korea's two leadership transitions, leveraging original qualitative and quantitative evidence from inside North Korea. Comparative vignettes of succession in party-based China, Egypt's military regime, and monarchical Saudi Arabia demonstrate the theory's broader applicability. The Element contributes to research on comparative authoritarianism by highlighting how dictators use the non-institutional tool of elite management to facilitate succession.

Authoritarian Survival and Leadership Succession in North Korea and Beyond examines how dictators manage elites to facilitate succession. Theoretically, it argues that personalistic incumbents facilitate the construction of a power base of elites from outside of their inner circle to help the successor govern once he comes to power. Then, once in office, successors consolidate power by initially relying on this power base to govern while marginalizing elites from their predecessor's inner circle before later targeting members of their own power base to further consolidate power. The Element presents evidence for these arguments from North Korea's two leadership transitions, leveraging original qualitative and quantitative evidence from inside North Korea. Comparative vignettes of succession in party-based China, Egypt's military regime, and monarchical Saudi Arabia demonstrate the theory's broader applicability. The Element contributes to research on comparative authoritarianism by highlighting how dictators use the non-institutional tool of elite management to facilitate succession.

'There is no other book in the English language entirely devoted to describing this complex sport. I thought it was high time we had one.' In 1967 Peter Ward crashed in a training ride. While recovering, he wrote the iconic King of Sports: Cycling Road Racing, which hasn't been republished since - until now. Sixty years ago, King of Sports provided up-and-comers, trainers and veterans with a tried and tested methodology towards not just training and racing, but the lifestyle to go with it. Ward was ahead of his time - he preached the benefits of clean living, while breaking down exactly what that means; he urged his readers to seek out yoga, for 'you will discover much that will benefit you as a cyclist, and it will lead you to a fuller life.' Ward's detailed graphs, diagrams and meticulous listings of equipment and nutrition offer today's tech-fiend cyclist a snapshot into the work ethic of a 1960s amateur cyclist. It demonstrates how far the sport has come, yet how much it has remained unchanged. This new edition, reimagined for a twenty-first century audience, features a Foreword by former UCI and British Cycling president Brian Cookson, an extended biography of the author, and restored original hand-drawn artwork and photography.

Manage and lead a team remotely by intertwining leadership principles with the many robust tools of Microsoft Teams. This book shows you how to utilize Microsoft Teams in an effective way to achieve your global team goals.Leading a team is a challenge, but leading a team in the zoom economy can make you stressed out and overworked. Peter Ward gives the reader a communication and organization centered approach for the dynamic, hardworking, successful employee who wants to step into a leadership role and vastly improve their organization with the aid of Microsoft Teams. Ward shares his own "rules" for successful leadership of teams and small companies, to scale at a steady pace, creating a culture of accountability and responsibility, with a remote workforce, not using venture capital, and applying minimal bureaucracy. Ward says teamwork, right hires, diversity, and work balance are equally important as profitability. Leadership in a Zoom Economy with Microsoft Teams is a portrait of a productive, sane, balanced life that is organized and filled with rich results. After reading this book, you will be able to extend your Microsoft Team capabilities to day-to-day leadership principles.What Will You LearnUse MS Teams to build trust in your remote or virtual workplace with teamsWork with Planner, Outlook, and Tasks within MS TeamsCoach, mentor, and develop your team when you are not in the exact locationLead a remote workforce effectivelyApply an entrepreneur mentality to remote teamsCreate a culture that is innovative and creative when you are a dispersed organizationWho This Book Is ForManagers who want to step into leadership, and leaders who want to raise their leadership game using Microsoft Teams as a technical tool.

Romanticheskie, zabavnye rozhdestvenskie istorii ot Vi Kiland i Penelopy Uord. Sbornik, kotoryj tochno podnimet nastroenie! Pozhaluj, eto samaja milaja i gorjachaja kniga, kotoruju tolko mozhno predstavit:)

Bridzhit rabotaet medsestroj v bolnitse i odna vospityvaet malenkogo syna Brendana. Chtoby vyruchit pobolshe deneg, ona reshaet sdat odnu iz svoikh komnat novomu kollege - Sajmonu, vrachu-ordinatoru iz Anglii. Sajmon - nastojaschij krasavets, i Bridzhit nevolno uvlekaetsja im. No u nikh raznye tsennosti i vzgljady na zhizn. Bolee togo, posle ordinatury Sajmon otpravitsja na rodinu. Bridzhit ne stoit obraschat vnimanija na ego provokatsii. No bozhe moj, takogo muzhchinu prosto nevozmozhno ignorirovat.

AD 450: A young king and his followers step down from their longship onto a foreign shore to celebrate Yule at the court of his brother-in-law. But their hopes of warm fires and ale, feasting and good cheer, are dashed as they realise that they have walked in to the middle of the mother of all family feuds.From the wreckage of the disaster, a reluctant leader emerges, one who must choose between survival and breaking the heroic code, picking his way through a maze of betrayals and tangled loyalties to lead his people towards a destiny that is fundamental to the foundation of England.From the time that England forgot, but brilliantly evoking the warrior-heroic culture of Beowulf, Peter Ward has brought back to life the heroes and the kings, their longhalls and longships, showing us the women with the wit and the warriors with the grit: the wave­ farers whose deeds and daring brought Saxon ships to Britain's shores.

Imagine you've just been told you're the most insignificant person who's ever lived. A nobody. Somebody less important to the world than certain types of mushroom. Not very nice, is it?That's exactly what happens to Geoffrey Stamp after a man from the year 3050 asks him to become a "Time Rep"-a tour guide for the 21st century, meeting people from the future who travel back through time for their vacations. You see, Time Reps need to be insignificant. Otherwise, when you go back in time and interfere with their destiny, the space-time continuum has a bit of a fit. And we wouldn't want that.But when Geoffrey uncovers a conspiracy to change the course of history, he is sent on a mind-bending adventure through time and space involving an imaginary lake, a talking seagull, dinosaurs, aliens, the Great Fire of London, and the discovery that he might not be as insignificant as people thought...

Imagine you've just done something that might have broken time. Quite significantly. Cause and effect are no longer on speaking terms, sequences of events aren't flowing the way they should, and reality has become a warped and fragmented mess.sound Doesn't ideal, it does?That's exactly what happens when Geoffrey Stamp reveals to his friend Zo that he's a Time Rep-a tour guide for people from the future who travel to the past for their vacation. Everything he does was supposed to be kept a secret from the people in his own time (for reasons quite extensively explored in the previous two books), until Geoff decides he's fed up with doing what he's told. It's just a shame that time has now decided to misbehave too.Faced with navigating a corrupted reality of splintering timelines, Geoff and Zo must work together to make sense of what has happened, without losing their minds. But as the past descends into a blur of conflicting recollections and a disturbing future seems unavoidable, it appears other forces might be at play, exploiting the fractures in time for their own sinister purposes.Why has time broken? And if cause no longer produces the right effect, how can Zo and Geoff possibly fix it?

Imagine you've just discovered you're the most significant person who's ever lived. A hero. You saved the world from an alien invasion. If it wasn't for you, everyone would be dead. Sounds pretty good, doesn't it?That's exactly what happens to Geoffrey Stamp, but there's just one problem-he can't tell anyone. You see, Geoffrey is a Time Rep-a tour guide for the 21st century, meeting people from the future who travel back in time for their vacation. Everything he does needs to be kept a secret from the people in his own time, otherwise he risks changing the course of history. And that caused enough trouble in the last book.But now a new company called Continuum is offering holidays to the past, and they allow people to go back and change whatever they like. For Geoffrey, this sounds like a dream come true, until a future version of himself appears out of nowhere with no memory, a bullet in his back, and a Continuum business card in his pocket. Geoffrey soon finds himself in a race to solve his own attempted murder, but begins to wonder if his investigation is the very thing that nearly got him killed.What is the truth behind Continuum, and after he saved the planet, why would anyone want him dead?

Richard Henley's day began with a visit from a stranger and an invitation to dinner. It ended with him receiving a note in his own handwriting warning that someone was trying to kill him--a note he had no memory of writing.What followed would push Richard's grip on reality to the limit, forcing him to confront the inexplicable, question his past, and trust his fate to an unknown ally.Note to Self takes Richard on a journey to places he never knew existed, explores the role of technology in the modern world, and asks whether the choices we are making are really our own.

This in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what's at stake in privatizing outer space Earth is in trouble--so dramatically that we're now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources and a home for permanent colonization. With the era of NASA's dominance now behind us, the private sector is winning this new space race. But if humans and their private wealth have made such a mess of Earth, who can say we won't do the same in space? In The Consequential Frontier, business and technology journalist Peter Ward is raising this vital question before it's too late. Interviewing tech CEOs, inventors, scientists, lobbyists, politicians, and future civilian astronauts, Ward sheds light on a whole industry beyond headline-grabbing rocket billionaires like Bezos and Musk, and introduces the new generation of activists trying to keep it from rushing recklessly into the cosmos. With optimism for what humans might accomplish in space if we could leave our tendency toward deregulation, inequality, and environmental destruction behind, Ward shows just how much cooperation it will take to protect our universal resource and how beneficial it could be for all of us.

In Youth Ministry and Theology Shorthand, David Bailey explores the dialogue between practice and theological education through the lens of youth ministry. This qualitative study illuminates how youth ministers talk about their work amongst young people. Through the slowing down of the youth ministry process it is discovered that youth ministers speak in theological shorthand. Theological shorthand is a paradox: it is both meaningful--it fuels long-term sacrificial service amongst young people--and it is problematic, as it risks untethering youth ministry from the wider narrative of the Christian story. The book will appeal to youth ministers, clergy, academics, graduate and post-graduate students, but also informed volunteers involved in youth ministry. Through the discipline of practical theology, it correlates the voices of the youth ministers, a set of materials used to deepen faith, and contemporary expressions of sung worship. These are then brought into conversation and explored via different aspects of Trinitarian theology to deepen the theological grammar within contemporary youth ministry and to help develop theological literacy.