Most Popular Books by Ian Clark

We all do the most amazing and remarkable things when we are in the grip of desire, and at the time, it all seems so real and earnest. In order to convert drama into comedy, we shall take a small trip through time and see how our noble ancestors behaved when driven by love - or lust, for that matter. Although inspired by the bedroom farces of the nineteenth century, I have corrected the gender inequities of that time to bring us closer to plausibility. I show women as they should be shown, not only possessing freedom of choice but taking the lead as often as not. Although the names of real historical persons are used, the situations described are fictional - or legendary, if you prefer. I am a story-teller, not an historian.

This book provides goaltenders, coaches and parents with a practical resource to develop superb rebound control. Rebound control is a lost art of goaltending. Ian Clark has established ten essential improvements that can be made to your game without excessive intervention or teaching required. These are simple self-help ideas that will generate more saves and prevent more rebounds. This book is easy to understand and, most importantly, puts the reader in control of enhancing performance and stopping more pucks. Rebounds are the greatest source of high-level scoring chances. This book uncovers the complete array of rebound-control techniques and strategies and is designed to provide rapid improvement to your game. Ian Clark, along with contributing writer Leo Luongo, uses his 25 years of goaltender-coaching experience, from all levels of play and including many of today''s leading netminders, to assemble this practical resource. Roberto Luongo writes the Preface to this book and provides a testament to these game-improving approaches.

The United Kingdom has over 10,000 hand car washes (HCWs). This article examines two research questions: what do HCWs reveal about the informalization of employment? and what is the prospect of regulation of them? Setting HCWs in a theoretical framework shows that they are part of a growing industry which is becoming an increasingly familiar and visible part of the economy, where control of labour costs is a key factor. Employers make a strategic choice to engage precarious and vulnerable, usually migrant, labour securing further competitive advantage at the cost of pronounced labour exploitation and long hours -- the tendency towards informalization. Therein a low-cost business model disciplines competition to usurp higher productivity mechanized car washing.