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A fast-paced story of an ordinary man who becomes accidentally involved with villains in business and government in Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore. With a background of intrigue, corruption and tax avoidance, this intricate novel is set against events in the early 1980s in Britain's Hong Kong, the Manila of Marcos and Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore.

Annotation Written by experts, 'The Shorter MBA' offers a comprehensive course designed to give the ambitious manager who doesn't have time to go back to college, all the essential skills for business success.

A set of simple, fast-playing rules for wargaming the conflicts that re-shaped Europe in the period 1815-78. This important, yet often-neglected period includes the Crimean War, the Italian Risorgimento, the wars of Bismarck's Prussia against Denmark, Austro-Hungary and France and the Russo-Turkish war. Tactically it saw armies struggle to adapt Napoleonic doctrines to incorporate important technological advances such as breech-loading rifles, steel breech-loading cannon and the first machine guns. The book includes brief analysis of the essential strategic and tactical military developments of the period, a set of elegantly simple rules which are fast-playing and easy to learn, yet deliver realistic outcomes. A selection of generic scenarios, covering diverse situations such as flank attacks, pitched battles and meeting engagements, is supported by army lists for 28 different armies. There are also 12 historical scenarios, ranging from the Battle of the Alma in the Crimean War to Sedan in 1870, the decisive battle of the Franco-Prussian War, each with historical background, deployment map, orders of battle and any special rules for that engagement. Useful appendices include a guide to further reading, an overview and price guide to the many scales and ranges of figures available, and a selection of useful addresses for the gamer.

Contains 8 (completely new) sets of very simple war-gaming rules covering all periods from Ancient to WWII. The rules only require a small number of figures and a 3' x 3' playing area, ideal for beginners. Includes 30 tactical scenarios that can be used with any period.

St Rémy de Provence, Southern France, 2006. An expat Englishman is missing.After a false start by the local police, Avignon’s answer to Maigret, Commandant Ruppert, is brought in to pick up the investigation. The family back in England are pushing for answers. Is this a missing person or a murder case? With no hard evidence or clues, Ruppert uses some unconventional police methods to uncover the truth. He encounters shady business dealings and interviews suspect local characters. This is a difficult case to crack. Can Ruppert solve the mystery? What dark secrets are the local characters hiding? Is any part of the locale a clue to solving this testing case?

This book is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world’s leading thinkers on management and leadership. Reformatted and with a new foreword by John Adair, it distills in one book the best of all of his thinking and writing on effective leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation and communication.Clearly written and presented, the book is packed with practical guidance and shrewd insights, with a large number of valuable charts, diagrams and forms. It is a repackaged and updated edition of the best-selling John Adair Handbook .

The Shorter MBA is a practical and succinct book which presents all the essential theory, practice and techniques taught to MBA students and is ideal for the busy practising executive. The book is divided into three main parts: personal development, management skills and business development.

This thriller is set mainly on the beguiling Atlantic Ocean island of Bermuda, where financial scams, deceit and murder are revealed to lie beneath the surface of respectability. Owen Ash - Ash to his friends - runs a conference company, and is putting on a big event in partnership with a Bermudian firm. Not everyone is who they seem, and Ash can't avoid being drawn into a world of crooked professionals and their web of corruption. It takes a local investigative journalist, corporate intelligence agents from London, the FBI and the local police to uncover and unravel the web of deceit and lies. But will everyone survive and emerge unscathed?

Pożegnanie z Darwinem. Zagorzały agnostyk odkrywa teorię inteligentnego projektu Neil Thomas Seria Perspektywy Nauki Wyd. Fundacja En Arche Profesor Neil Thomas był oddanym darwinistą, przekonanym, że jedynie biblijni fundamentaliści i kreacjoniści kwestionują teorię ewolucji. Jego postawa uległa zachwianiu, kiedy odkrył, że przeciw twierdzeniom Darwina występowali już dziewiętnastowieczni uczeni, a dzisiaj czyni to także wielu naukowców z uznanym dorobkiem akademickim. Thomas przeprowadził analizę argumentów przemawiających za teorią ewolucji i przeciw niej. Zaskakujące wnioski tej analizy przedstawił w Pożegnaniu z Darwinem. Thomas demaskuje dogmatyczny i niemal sekciarski charakter wielu debat poświęconych teorii ewolucji, jednocześnie przedstawiając wpływowych przeciwników teorii Darwina, których nazwiska są niemal nieznane opinii publicznej. Wyjaśnia kluczowe zarzuty stawiane darwinistom i podkreśla, że nadal nie zostały one odparte. Jak brzmi wniosek autora? Teoria inteligentnego projektu jest obecnie najrozsądniejszym wyjaśnieniem pochodzenia różnorodności form życia.