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Why would a man, married to an attractive young woman, want to sexually assault and murder innocent little girls? In the late 1960s, Cannock Chase in Staffordshire became the centre of the biggest murder hunt in Britain. The bodies of five year old Diane Tift, six year old Margaret Reynolds, and seven year old Christine Darby were found dumped there. The killer thought he was cleverer than the police and slipped through the net four times. He would have continued with the killings but he made a big mistake. Find out what happened and how the police eventually caught up with him.
This text challenges management to adopt an approach that is conducive to improved employer/employee relations, and that will enhance the organizations ability to learn and compete within a knowledge-based economy. Practical measures and behaviour viewed as appropriate in an industrial, commercial, and public sector setting are discussed, analysed, and offered as good practice. Leadership for Follower Commitment provides: *research based case studies *a linking of theory, research, and practical managerial experience *an emphasis on psychological forces, employee motivation and perceptions of management action This text is invaluable to students studying Organizational Behaviour, Business (Occupational) Psychology, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Development at both undergraduate and MSc/MBA level. It is central to Professional / executive development courses.
A story to touch the hearts and give hope to those of you living with AIDS.Having become disillusioned with his mundane life in England, and having suffered the break-up of a six year relationship, David decides to give all of this up and risk taking the opportunity of looking for a life of adventure in Mexico.Although he has the security of being in a good job and living in an apartment overlooking the ocean on The English Riviera, this isn't enough.Something is missing in his life and Mexico seems to be the answer......but, does this adventure turn out to be what he had expected?
Accounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society. Indeed, some argue that its practices are fundamental to the development and functioning of modern capitalist societies. We can see accounting everywhere: in organizations where budgeting, investing, costing, and performance appraisal rely on accounting practices; in financial and other audits; in corporate scandals and financial reporting and regulation; in corporate governance, risk management, and accountability, and in the corresponding growth and influence of the accounting profession. Accounting, too, is an important part of the curriculum and research of business and management schools, the fastest growing sector ...
A collection of essays which are a product of the First Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, held at the University of Manchester 1985. Accounting theory, policy, control of labour, alternative accounting calculations, power and the profession itself are discussed.
Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. Not only is this a fascinating subject in its own right, it also provides a reminder that the subject-matter of aesthetics is broader than the fine arts; that ethics is not just about moral issues but about 'the good life'; and that environmental philosophy should not focus only on 'wilderness' to the exclusion of the humanly shap...
‘Heroic and absurd, scurrilous and profound, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? charts the descent of four intelligent young men with faces like ruby-eyed dime-store skull rings into a glittering and very modern maelstrom. Fast, compelling, and disarmingly honest, this is an invaluable account of a strange and spectral cultural twilight era that we shall almost certainly never see again. Highly recommended.’ - Alan Moore Beginning with the creation of Bauhaus’s seminal debut hit Bela Lugosi’s Dead, David J. Haskins offers a no-holds-barred account of his band’s rapid rise to fame and glory in the late '70s, their sudden dissolution in the '80s, and their subsequent - and often strained -...
Gene Therapy describes the delivery systems now available to target a given tissue with specific gene or oligonucleotide sequences, and explores the utility of animal modules as test systems. In the context of selected disease states, it summarises in vitro and in vivo studies and clinical trials performed to date.