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Gathers interviews with the Tennessee short story writer in which he discusses his career, writing, character development themes, settings, and growing older
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David M. Robinson
A leading figure in modern southern literature, described by Newsweek as one of the best American storytellers, Peter Taylor secured a national following through his long relationship with the New…
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Leading Successful PMOs is a guide to maximising project success through a Project Management Office (PMO). Building and leading an effective PMO is a complex process. Peter Taylor outlines the…
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On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace…
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Cities Within Us offers poems that are dense and deep with language that resonates at multiple levels and often startles with its juxtapositions and verbal explosions. From the intimately personal…
Peter Taylor, Ray Mead
Delivering Successful PMOs provides a clear framework to conceive, design, build, prove and embody an enterprise PMO inside an organisation, dealing with the strategic intentions, the politics, the people and…
Mr Peter Taylor (Sheffield Hallam University UK)
Described by Anne Tyler as the undisputed master of the short story form, Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society…
Hubert Horton McAlexander
McAlexander’s portrait of Peter Taylor knits together the facts of Taylor’s life: his family roots in Tennessee; his close bonds with writers from three generations; his establishment of the dysfunctional…
Geoff Brandwood
This is the first monograph of George Edmund Street, a prolific High Victorian architect of churches and other buildings, the best known of which is the Royal Courts of Justice…
Peter S Beagle
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Unicorn comes a new novel with equal amounts of power and whimsy in which a loveable cast of characters trapped…
Republished now for the first time in forty years, With Clough, By Taylor is the quintessential record of the most successful football partnership in the history of the game.
For the first time, the complete stories of an American Chekhov, a master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the modern South
In a career spanning over half a century…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Peter Taylor’s A Spinster’s Tale, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
The God of Christian faith is, according to Peter Taylor Forsyth, a God of holy, righteous love. As a result, God’s intervention in human life is morally robust, being in…
Christopher Hull
The bittersweet story of Brian Clough & Peter Taylor’s first steps towards football immortality at struggling Hartlepools United
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This book was developed as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the journal Education 3-13, which has always had primary education as its main…
VETERAN CID boss Vic Pollard drinks too much, thinks too much (about the childhood he lost because of his war-damaged father), and hits rock bottom when he is overlooked for…
Matching the speed of change in modern business, this book takes readers on a 2-year journey in building a project management office (PMO) for today and tomorrow.
Training courses do not always produce the outcomes desired. Peter Taylor shows how to improve the quality of the entire training process by showing trainers, trainees and other stakeholders how…
Reveals a disturbing collusion of interests responsible for creating a distorted understanding of changes in global climate. This book concludes that the main driver of global warming has been an…
This book should carry a health warning - once started, it’s very hard to put down, even when sleep is calling!
We are in a period of extreme disruption and change, and only the ‘Business Agile’ will survive, learn why and how to make sure your business succeed in this ‘new…
After years of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate…
The Social Project Manager describes a non-traditional way of organising projects, managing project performance and progress. The aim being to deliver, at the enterprise level, a common goal for the…
Smell the Coffee and Wake Up is a collection of short prose writings, which use the ideas and practices of Zen and Mindfulness to enhance personal and global wellness. The…
A compliation of over 60 articles from 20 authors on the issues of ‘rewilding’ in nature conservation.
As a boy’s attachment to his high class stepmother and her means grows, her marriage to his father begins to crumble in small, subtle ways, which ultimately lead to larger…
A study of popular politics in pre-industrial Britain.
Ensure your project or programme delivers long term benefits with this in-depth look at the most pressing challenges of modern global project managers.
Ten stories by modern authors, specially selected for advanced students of English.
The strategic management of human resources which enhances the performance of employees and increases their productivity is known as human resource management. There are various approaches in this field such…
Enabling project managers to adapt to the new technology of artificial intelligence, this first comprehensive book on the topic discusses how AI will reinvent the project world and allow project…
This work follows the journey Peter A. Taylor undertook during the summer of 2007, when he set out to achieve a long held ambition and see a baseball game in…
A controversial and important book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor. Newly updated to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and to include the death of Osama Bin…
Philip has a new life in New York but is returned to the petty meddling of his family when his two spinster sisters call upon him to help them ruin…
Based on the television documentary series of the same name, the author charts the history of the Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein.
Third part of trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists
* An eccentric encyclopaedia of the Second World War: the bizarre, baffling and amusing. * Contains over 250 colour and black & white images showcasing some of the weird and…
