Robert Burns

This guide offers ten simple and effective strategies for controlling and managing your stress levels at home and at work. Each is easy to learn and is provided with activities to assist you. The book aims to ensure that you are functioning at your optimum stress levels.

A complete volume of the writer's poetry and songs includes previously unpublished pieces, draws on extensive scholarship and Burn's own letters, and offers supplemental information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts. Reprint.

Knowledge is one of today's few meaningful resources. Equip yourself to ride the rollercoaster of racing change, globalism and technological super-innovation that is life and work in our age. Completely revised and updated for the 2000s, The Adult Learner at Work, 2nd edition is for educators, trainers and managers who want to stay in touch with the latest thinking in their fields. Dr Robert Burns explains the important changes that have swept through the field of post-compulsory education and the worldwide swing to the lifelong learning as the gateway to a learning society. When work, education and life satisfaction can truly intermesh, sustainable prosperity becomes achievable. Robert Burns explores such questions as:* What conditions have created lifelong learning, learning societies and learning organisations?* How have government and business responded?* What methods and processes enhance the learning potential of adults?* How can we motivate adults to learn?* What are the effects of advancing age on our ability to learn?* Is competency training an effective tool for encouraging learning? This new edition examines how and why we must facilitate the learning potential of all members of society. The Adult Learner at Work, 2nd edition provides an attractive vision of the development of learning environments in the workplace and the community setting-integrating skill learning and personal development using well founded principles of adult learning.

Discover the personal and professional benefits of assertiveness in this practical and concise guidebook. Assertiveness is a positive communication skill - essential for success in today's competitive workplace. Not to be confused with aggressiveness, assertiveness means standing your ground while also taking into account the interests of others: your work team and your organisation. By using effective communication skills in an assertive manner, a work team has its very best chance to function effectively. In accessible language, the author Robert Burns explains:* what assertiveness is* how it works to benefit you, your team and your organisation * how individuals can develop their assertiveness skills. The activities and exercises contained in this book will help you and your team put into practice proven strategies to encourage assertive behaviour at work. Assertive behaviour leads to constructive working relationships, a reduction in stress levels, and greater workplace effectiveness and satisfaction. Making assertiveness happen will help you to achieve positive results. Making it happen books provide you with the inspiration, ideas and tools to generate positive change. The books in this series are written with a practical focus so that you can learn about the theory, and the advantages and pitfalls of the subject matter in order to create and implement a strategy that is right for your workplace.

This title includes all of Burns' poems and songs, with a helpful glossary explaining difficult words, a chronology of Burns's life and a bibliography.

With an Introduction by Donald McFarlan. Robert Burns, the most celebrated of all Scottish poets, is remembered with great devotion - his birthday on 25th January provokes fervour and festivity among Scots and many others the world over. Born in 1759 into miserable rustic poverty, by the age of eighteen Burns had acquired a good knowledge of both classical and English literature. In June 1786 his first collection of verse, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, which included 'To a Mouse' and 'The Cotter's Saturday Night', was greeted with huge acclaim by all classes of society. His later poems and ballads include 'Auld Lang Syne', the beautiful song 'My Love is like a Red Red Rose', 'Highland Mary', 'Scots Wha Hae' and his masterpiece, 'Tam o'Shanter'.

This selection gives equal weight to the two aspects of Robert Burns's reputation, as a lyricist and as a much-loved Scottish poet. Placing works in probable order of composition, it includes lyrics to his most well known songs, such as the nostalgic Auld Lang Syne, the romantic A Red, Red Rose, and the patriotic Scots What Hae. As a poet, Burns wrote with deceptive simplicity and imaginative sympathy, and demonstrated enormous range - from comic dramatic monologues such as Holy Willie's Prayer, which mocks hypocrisy, to narratives including the celebrated Tam O' Shanter, about the ghostly visions of a drunk.

A scholarly edition of letters by Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of letters by Robert Burns. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.