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An illustrated biography of a 1920s matinee idol
This book has been written to enable you to become an Energy Expert. Whether you're responsible for building management, look after utilities, are in control of finances, operate a business, or just want to get up to speed on energy management and efficiency, the book can help you to do just that. Prepared by Paul Webb, a MEI Chartered Energy Manager with a wealth of experience and expertise, it is packed full of information and insight to help you save energy, thus both looking after the environment and saving money. Covering everything from the history of energy purchasing through to profiling, how to do an assessment through to legislation, and more, it is a comprehensive tool to enable you to get the most out of your energy.Topics include what energy management is, building energy profiles, energy purchasing, assessments, data, best practice, codes, standards and legislation, technologies, and maintenance. Each chapter includes questions to help you check your understanding. After you have read the book you will have a good understanding of energy consumption and maintenance, with tangible and specific actions to undertake
This book has the potential to change the way you sell and make you more successful than you ever imagined. It combines research with practical strategies that really work.The techniques given in this book, apply to anyone who sells. You'll learn how to open a relationship and turn a first-time customer into a customer for life.As a sales professional, if my goal is to make you a customer for life, my actions will reflect that. Instead of using slick gimmicks or sales formulas, you'll learn to treat the customer with integrity. The book combines research with practical strategies that really work.
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Robert Webb tried to follow the rules for being a man: Don’t cry Drink beer Play rough Don’t talk about feelings Looking back over his life he asks whether these rules are actually any use. To anyone.
Providing a complete up-to-date overview of the changing nature of contemporary party politics in Britain, this book draws on models of comparative politics and the latest empirical analysis to explain the capacity of British parties to adapt to a changing political environment. A number of broad themes include: the nature and extent of party competition; the internal life and organizational development of parties; the variety of evolving party systems in the United Kingdom; and the links between parties and the wider political system. The current weaknesses of party performance are addressed, and the scope of reform explained and examined. Contrary to claims of 'decline', however, the book demonstrates that party politic
This guide to vocabulary acquisition is essential reading for teachers of English as a second or foreign language. It presents the major ideas and principles that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary and evaluates a wide range of practical activities designed to help boost students’ vocabulary acquisition. Key questions which are answered include: • How many words should students learn at a time, and how often? • How much classroom time should be spent teaching vocabulary? • What is the best way to group vocabulary for learning? • Is it useful to provide students with the L1 translations of unknown words? • Why do some students make greater progress than others? stua...
Paul Corcoran looks like a real discovery.--Daily Telegraph
This accessible, rigorously researched and highly revealing book lifts the lid on political party membership. It represents the first in-depth study of six of the UK's biggest parties – Labour, the Conservatives, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, UK Independence Party and the Greens – carried out simultaneously, thereby providing invaluable new insights into members' social characteristics, attitudes, activities and campaigning, reasons for joining and leaving, and views on how their parties should be run and who should represent them. In short, at a time of great pressure on, and change across parties, this book helps us discover not only what members want out of their parties but what parties want out of their members. This text is essential reading for those interested in political parties, party membership, elections and campaigning, representation, and political participation, be they scholars and students of British and comparative politics, or politicians, journalists and party members – in short, anyone who cares about the future of representative democracy.
How relevant and vital are political parties in contemporary democracies? Do they fulfill the functions that any stable and effective democracy might expect of them, or are they little more than moribund anachronisms, relics of a past age of political life, now superseded by other mechanisms of linkage between state and society? These are the central questions which this book aims to address through a rigorous comparative analysis of political parties operating in the world'sadvanced industrial democracies. Drawing on the expertise of an impressive team of internationally known specialists, the book engages systematically with the evidence to show that, while a degree of popular cynicism tow...
Comparative Politics is a series for students and teachers of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. The General Editors are Professor Alfio Mastropaolo, University of Turin and Kenneth Newton, University of Southampton and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin . The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. The sister volume to Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, this book offers a systematic and rigorous analysis of parties in some of the world's major new democracies. Drawing on a wealth of expertise and data, the book assesses the popular legitimacy, organizational development and functional performanc...