Helen Lawrence

No one questions the pills. Pregnant mothers must take them to ensure the health of the baby. It almost certainly prevents disaster. The people genuinely believe it's for their own good. They are wrong. Chemical brain rewiring links them to a computer, located in the government sector, a place not everyone knows exists. With a push of a button, a worker can control what hormones your brain releases or withholds. As long as you don't try to rise above your station, you are left well enough alone. But Jun's mother is pregnant, and their family is going hungry. Per the orders of somebody with a clipboard in an office building miles away from him, he has never been able to get a job. Never been able to fight against the barriers in his brain. This time, somehow, he does it He didn't know what it would cost. That he would have to deal with the consequences falling on those he was trying to protect. That it would trigger a war within his brain that threatens to kill him. Kyra has no computer connected to her brain; she monitors computers. Jun is one of her individuals and she breaks the rules for him. But she was under orders, and the consequences of disobedience is her life. So she runs.

The UK's energy problems are now centre stage. Growing up with Gas puts them in perspective with a history of the gas industry from its revolutionary origins at the beginning of the 19th century, manufacturing coal gas, to the present, as a now handful of international companies gear up to move it from carbon-emitting natural gas to the clean gas hydrogen. En route, the fragmented industry was rationalised by nationalisation then returned to the vagaries of (now global) market forces by privatisation. Because the industry consisted of small companies for most of its 200 years, this national history is combined with a detailed case study. Focused on North Tyneside, it illustrates how local companies evolved and how their directors, shareholders, employees, and customers responded to national changes and local circumstances, including often fraught relationships with local Councils, competition from the electricity industry, and the huge impact of two world wars.

Layla Zakkar is an average 19-year-old trying to gain her independence in a city under the sway of the Suits-the Clubs, Spades, and Diamonds-North America's most feared criminal gangs. When the Clubs kidnap her, she is quickly rescued by the Spades, leading to a discovery that is both shocking and dangerous. This discovery places Layla in a unique position: she can elevate and empower the Suits, or she can destroy them. She must decide where her loyalties lie. With her brother, who abandoned their family years ago? With her cousin, who works for the government, but has a personal vendetta to take down the Suits? With the city of Toronto, which has been plagued by the Suits for years? Or with herself, out of her depth in the criminal world, and just wanting things to get back to normal. If they even can.

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience. And more specifically, for an increasing number of international research students: The British doctoral experience. This experience is often largely defined and shaped by their relationship with, and support from, their supervisor. Enhancing the Doctoral Experience brings together the authors' experience and research, frameworks and models as well as pragmatic feedback and understanding. This synthesis of scholarly theory and pragmatic sampling has produced a book that provides a scaffold for students and supervisors to have conversations about their expectations; to discuss what supervision is; to articulate clearly what both parties need in order for a successful relationship to occur, and to build a mutually beneficial endeavour. In many cases, these conversations can be complicated by cultural and linguistic differences so the text explicitly addresses these and other sources of misunderstanding. Against a challenging background of growing numbers of students but also increasing pressures on time and costs, Enhancing the Doctoral Experience offers an approach to improve the effectiveness of the doctoral student and increase the professionalization of research supervision. It does so by providing both with an awareness of, and a toolkit to approach, student diversity.

One of the major intangible benefits associated with the postgraduate research experience is precisely that: the experience. And more specifically, for an increasing number of international research students: the British doctoral experience. This experience is often largely defined and shaped by their relationship with, and support from, their supervisor. Enhancing the Doctoral Experience brings together the authors’ experience and research, frameworks and models as well as pragmatic feedback and understanding. This synthesis of scholarly theory and pragmatic sampling has produced a book that provides a scaffold for students and supervisors to have conversations about their expectations; to discuss what supervision is; to articulate clearly what both parties need in order for a successful relationship to occur, and to build a mutually beneficial endeavour. In many cases, these conversations can be complicated by cultural and linguistic differences so the text explicitly addresses these and other sources of misunderstanding. Against a challenging background of growing numbers of students but also increasing pressures on time and costs, Enhancing the Doctoral Experience offers an approach to improve the effectiveness of the doctoral student and increase the professionalization of research supervision. It does so by providing both with an awareness of, and a toolkit to approach, student diversity.

Playing with Purpose shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so much more than a game. The authors look at a range of dilemmas, challenges and problems faced by anyone wanting to run memorable training sessions, classes and project meetings and then demonstrate how to get powerful lessons from the simplest of household and office objects and situations. The exercises and ideas outlined provide a focused examination of a range of training aims and outcomes including leadership, teamwork, communications, equality and diversity, feedback and personal effectiveness; as well as general energisers, closers and problems to be solved. Steve Hutchinson and Helen Lawrence believe that seeing their sustainable, creative approach to experiential learning explicitly laid out, will give you the confidence to develop your own solutions.