Paul Fletcher

Football manager Charlie Gordon is struggling with one defeat after another at the club he loves. Only a decent Cup run is keeping him in work, but tensions are running close to the surface ahead of the next round: Chelsea away. Footballers fall into two categories: artists or assassins. Soon Charlie is going to find out which players can deliver - and just how much pressure they can all stand. Meanwhile, as the country prepares for a general election, one of the most dangerous political assassinations in the IRA's history is being planned in London. An active service unit await the critical signal to proceed... Both sides will converge on the capital for a result that will shake everyone's lives, with consequences far beyond football.

Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which the foundations for language development are laidUses a problem-based approach, designed to motivate students to find the information they need to identify and explore learning issues that a particular speech or language issue raisesExamines the development of a child’s phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competenceIntegrates information on typical and atypical language development

Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which the foundations for language development are laidUses a problem-based approach, designed to motivate students to find the information they need to identify and explore learning issues that a particular speech or language issue raisesExamines the development of a child’s phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competenceIntegrates information on typical and atypical language development

Disciplining the Divine offers the first comprehensive treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its central place within much theological discourse of the past half century, including its relation to wider cultural and political concerns. The book highlights the manner in which theologians have attempted to make the doctrine of God relevant to modern issues and outlooks and it charts the conditions that have necessitated such a reconfiguration of theological analysis. While interrogatory in tone and intent, Disciplining the Divine nevertheless provides a critical reconstruction of a Christian theology and practice which might be undertaken within the political and cultural contexts of the new millennium.

As Australia struggles with the question of whether to build a new national broadband network and with the Rudd Government promising to spend $4.7 billion of taxpayers' money, it is an extremely timely contribution to a crucial public debate. Written by an industry insider who knows and has dealt with all the key players in the broadband battles and interviewed many of them on and off the record for this book. This title is filled with strong, charismatic characters like Telstra's Sol Trujillo and Phil Burgess, Telecommunications Ministers past and present Helen Coonan and Stephen Conroy and Graeme Samuel, Chair of the ACCC. It presents a gripping narrative of the twists and turns in a struggle for control of a multi-billion dollar industry. The author will be prominent in the media and will increasingly become a commentator as this issue hots up even more. This title describes the commercial and political battle between Telstra and everyone else to control Australia's broadband infrastructure, a struggle that escalates as the Government prepares to spend $4.7 billion on a new broadband network.

A significant addition to the literature on gas turbine technology, the second edition of Gas Turbine Performance is a lengthy text covering product advances and technological developments. Including extensive figures, charts, tables and formulae, this book will interest everyone concerned with gas turbine technology, whether they are designers, marketing staff or users.

This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many aspects of applied linguistics. The authors give a wide variety of linguistic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way, and then making helpful inferences from the processed information. The range of techniques introduced by the book will help the reader both to evaluate and make use of literature which employs statistical analysis, and to apply statistics in their own research. Each chapter gives step-by-step explanations of particular techniques using examples from a number of fields, and is followed by extensive exercises. The early part of the book provides a thorough grounding in probability and statistical inference, and then progresses through methods such as chi-squared and analysis of variance, to multivariate methods such as cluster analysis, principal components analysis and factor analysis. None of these techniques requires the reader to have a grasp of mathematics more complex than simple algebra. Students and researchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an invaluable introduction to the use of statistics, and a practical text for the development of skills in the application of statistics.