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The Selected Letters of Charles Whibley
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

The Selected Letters of Charles Whibley

The scholar Charles Whibley was born in 1859 and died in 1930, straddling the end of the Victorian age, the new century, and the Great War and its aftermath. After completing his studies at Cambridge, his early journalistic experiences were with the critic, poet and editor William Ernest Henley, known for his mentoring of young writers on the Scots, later National Observer, and Whibley was to a great extent the mainstay of the journal. After his grounding with Henley, he moved to Paris for a few years as the correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette. Here, he became friends with Paul Valéry, Stéphane Mallarmé and Marcel Schwob, and married Whistler’s sister-in-law Ethel Birnie Philip in Ju...

Ere The Ghan and After
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Ere The Ghan and After

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-05
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  • Publisher: Byron Lehman

Rich Larsen continues his quest to sail around the world. He sails from port to port on the southern coast of Australia. It is there he finds himself involved with a host of international spies on a train through the heat of Australia's outback. Near the end of his trek, he meets an old friend. It is then he comes to grips with a profound truth; what he is really in search of.

The Secrets Of Galapagos Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

The Secrets Of Galapagos Man

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-02-18
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  • Publisher: Byron Lehman

Alex Thurston, a World War Two veteran, falls upon unbelievable wealth. He keeps it secret for years. Finally when near death he and his son, AJ, journey by sailboat to claim it. What happens on the way far surpasses any treasure they find. The adventure they experience brings them in contact with a cast of old and new friends, but more than any adventures experienced it draws them closer than ever imagined.

London's News Press and the Thirty Years War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

London's News Press and the Thirty Years War

A topical subject offering interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age. An important contribution to the history of print and books. London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religiousgroups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and publishers engaged in the earliest, illicit publications, their sources and connections in Germany as well as the Netherlands, and traces the way legitimacy was achieved. These were the earliest printed per...

Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Scholarly Book Collecting in Restoration Scotland

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-07-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through an in-depth study of the library of the Reverend James Nairn (1629–1678), the biggest collection formed in this period for which we have detailed records.

The Dental Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 91

The Dental Practice "Jugglers"

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-13
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

The picture of a juggler on the front cover is there for a reason, as a practice manager’s life is all about keeping all the many different balls in the air. In one moment, you are facilitating a meeting. In the next moment, you have to deal with a staffing issue. Then you are creating a new marketing strategy. In truth, you have a seemingly endless list of challenges and only a finite number of hours in the day to complete them. If that sounds like a typical day, then this book is for you. Discover how to do the following: —Hold more productive meetings—learn how to engage your employees, encouraging them to come up with original ideas. —Implement innovative time-management strategies and save at least an extra hour a day. —Motivate your team to a higher level of performance. —Manage upward and get your owners to buy into your vision. —Deal effectively with underperforming team members. —Delegate effectively—learn how to let go and actually enjoy the process. —Implement change and convince employees to buy into the transition and much more.

Don’T Wait for the Tooth Fairy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Don’T Wait for the Tooth Fairy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-03
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  • Publisher: AuthorHouse

It makes no difference whether you are a National Health Dental Practice, or a top end Cosmetic Dental Practice, if you have a passion for providing excellent communication to your Patients, then you will love this book. You will discover; How to turn patient enquires to your practice into an appointment How to create the perfect consultation and patient journey How to talk money with confidence and achieve the prices your services deserve The secrets to becoming a true master of the art of persuasion How to present solutions to patients, so they want to buy from you How to work together as a team, so that you never drop the baton again Help more of your patients say YES more often And more I have known Ashley for a number of years and have attended many of his courses. I have always been impressed by his unique approach to a skill at which many dentists are poor- Sales & Communication. What makes this book different from the rest, is that it concentrates on the patient journey from initial enquiry to completion. With a mix of anecdotes and skills it highlights ways in which practices can move forward. A must for the whole practice team. John Lewis Ghyllmount Dental

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 720

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-26
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  • Publisher: OUP Oxford

Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Such major themes as the Reformation, the Union of 1707, the Scottish Enlightenment, clearances, industrialisation, empire, emigration, and the Great War are approached from novel and fascinating perspectives, but so to...

The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-05-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.

Punishing the Dead?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Punishing the Dead?

A strikingly original work that shows how treatments of and attitudes towards suicide can illuminate our understanding of the social, political, and cultural history of early modern Britain.