Ian Harrison

A practical, modern book for managers and leaders who need to know how to get the best from their teams in a 21st century business world. The world of work and the needs of people in the workplace have changed to the extent that the old models no longer work. Today's manager cannot rely on 'command-and-control' and a culture of compliance to get their job done. What is the answer? Much of what Millennials are asking for - development and growth; transparency and connection; work that has meaning and purpose; empowerment - a change in leadership style, that is fitting to today's business environment; that seeks to align rather than control, to enable rather than constrain, to coach rather than command. Leading business coach Myles Downey applies the concept of coaching to modern- day management, showing managers how to motivate and enable teams and team members to achieve their goals.

This series has been endorsed by Cambridge International to support the syllabus for examination from 2023. Provide the knowledge, understanding and skills required to succeed in the revised Cambridge International AS & A Level Accounting syllabus (9706), with a clear and accessible resource, featuring questions throughout to challenge learners at every level. - Strengthen subject knowledge with a range of question types designed to test understanding of key topics within the syllabus, including past paper and exam-style questions. - Unpack challenging concepts with a course that's written for international students and includes suitable content and language levels, key terminology and a Glossary will provide useful reference points to help ESL learners to access the material fully, remember and process information. - Provide a clear pathway for progression with clearly distinguished syllabus statements to be covered within each chapter. - Develop analytical skills with worked examples providing full and clear explanations of each concept.

It is 1956 and Tom joins MI6 and is sent on his first mission abroad to Hong Kong where he is joined by Laura, a package of dynamite so powerful that Tom has a hard job to keep up. In Hong Kong they tangle with the Red Dragon Triad which is not very pleased when the duo set their casino on fire. Tom and Laura are causing the triad much heartache by eliminating all the triad's contacts in the Hong Kong government and are finally captured by them when the fun really begins. Tom comes out of this episode wondering if he is tough enough for the job. He discovers that James Bond lives truly in a world of fiction and he is brought down to earth with a bump. This is an exciting conclusion to the Jiggery Trilogy.

Boarding school bullies finally meet their match when scholarship rat Tom inherits a mystical family heirloom. What would you do with magic at your fingertips? The Jiggery Stick can make you invisible, paralyse your opponents, erase their memories and even send cricket balls far from their projected path. The Jiggery Stick is the perfect antidote for life's nastier characters. And it is the perfect inheritance for a schoolboy as he comes of age in war-torn Britain of the 1940s. Preventing bank robberies and landing the bullies in hot water is all in a day's work for our Tom. It's capers galore as the victim turns the tables at Beastleigh Hall. While we may not all have Jiggery Sticks to fight back against the bullies, we can all take a crumb of comfort from Ian Harrison's hilarious and, at times, though-provoking new novel.

Edinburgh Then and Now charts the city from the nineteenth century, with its smoky Victorian reputation as 'Auld Reekie', to the present day. Using atmospheric archive photography dating back to 1860, it shows the evolution of the city through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, two World Wars and touches on the social changes of the 1960s.