New Releases by Jonathan Morris

"November 1963, and the Soviet space programme reigns supreme. Having sent the first animals, then the first men beyond Earth''s atmosphere, now they''re sending a manned capsule into orbit around the Moon. Just as Vostok Seven passes over into the dark side, however, its life support system fails. Only the intervention of the Sixth Doctor and Peri, adopting the identities of scientists from Moscow University, means that contact with the capsule is regained. But something has happened to the cosmonaut on board. She appears to have lost her memory, and developed extreme claustrophobia. Maybe she''s not quite as human as she used to be."--Container.

On their mission to explore the Mariana Trench at the very bottom of the ocean, the deepest and most inhospitable place on Earth, the crew of the deep sea vehicle Erebus make an unusual and startling discovery. A battered blue police box. As the Doctor, Romana and K9 join them on their journey, the submariners soon discover that the TARDIS is not the only unusual find lurking on the sea floor. Super-intelligent squid, long-lost submarines and their miraculous occupants are only the start of their troubles. The Goblins are coming. And they won''t let anyone out alive.

"The TARDIS is empty. The Doctor has gone. Jo Grant steps outside into the darkness and finds the frozen body of her friend, and the ship''s log recorder. On it is attached a simple message-- ''Use Me''. As she explores this place, recording her every move, Jo discovers the horror that lies in the shadows. But by then it is too late."--Container.

" ... when the TARDIS lands on Valderon, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to its fortress prison, the scene is set for a painful reunion ..."--Container.

What if you could go back in time and stop one of history''s worst atrocities from happening? What if you didn''t have to go back in time to do it? What if that opportunity came straight to you? Chris and Karen Ransom first meet at an anti-Iraq War rally in college. She''s a committed pacifist with a deeply personal attachment to her viewpoint; he''s just a dude trying to pick up chicks. Still together and married nine years later, they unexpectedly receive news that''s about to change their lives - a development Karen had actively hoped against, and something Chris secretly thought was impossible. That''s when it happens. Explosions rock their household. Smoke fills the hallway. Chris thinks he dies. Our heroes wake up in the presence of two unexpected visitors... and learn of the choice they have to make. War is coming. Worse than Iraq. Worse than any war that''s ever been fought. It''s a war that threatens our existence as a species - indeed, that threatens existence itself. Chris and Karen may possess the ability to stop it. But when the values that have ruled their lives for years come in conflict with who they truly are as people, Chris and Karen are about to learn that the decision to Stop The War is really not so simple. "Versus Nurture" is the ultimate "What would you do in this situation?" story. A deeply psychological work of soft science fiction - written, conceived, and unleashed upon the world by the brilliant mind of Jonathan David Morris. Praise for "Versus Nurture" "In ''Versus Nurture, '' Jonathan David Morris takes the delicate idea of nature versus nurture to a whole new level. Suspenseful, mind-bending, shocking - in the end, which one of us holds the seed for world destruction, and which one of us has what it takes to stop it?" - Robert Swartwood, best-selling author of "Man of Wax" and "Dishonored Dead" "Fiction can - and has - changed the world. But fiction can also improve the human condition. ''Versus Nature'' lies in that elite class. This is no idle story, told simply to entertain - though you will laugh and occasionally blink back a tear as you skim its pages, racing ahead to answer those essential questions all good stories provoke, ''What happens next, '' and ''Why?'' If you prefer a moral to your riveting reads, you''ll love "VN.''" - Becky Akers, author of "Halestorm" "Versus Nurture had an astounding effect on me in several ways and left me thinking about it for days after finishing the last sentence." - HodgePodge Galore Book Reviews "The plot is rich with wildly imaginative and intelligent parallels and I was thoroughly engrossed before I quite knew what happened." - RJ Palmer Jonathan David Morris is "confident enough to write smart, thought-provoking fiction, and brave enough to believe his readers are intelligent enough to understand it." - Montgomery Newspapers

"If an attack with nuclear weapons is expected, you will hear the air attack warning. If you are not at home, but can get there within two minutes, do so. If you are in the open, take cover in the nearest building. If you cannot reach a building, lie flat on the ground and cover your head and your hands. Arriving in the North of England in the late 1980s, Ace and Hex seek refuge at the home of Albert and Peggy Marsden, in the last few hours before the outbreak of World War III. Meanwhile, the Doctor is missing. Will there be anyone left for him to rescue, when the bombs begin to fall?"--Container.

"England in the 1920s. Whilst K9 is off in the TARDIS leading the Black Guardian on a wild goose chase, the Doctor and Romana are enjoying a leisurely lifestyle as the Lord and Lady of a London townhouse. But trouble never stays away from them for long, and before they know it a chance discovery of alien technology leads them deep into the heart of the English countryside where a malign presence lurks. As the Doctor dodges deadly butlers and ferocious gamekeepers, Romana is faced with a malevolent Aunt and an even deadlier peril - marriage."--Container

"One empire has fallen and another has taken its place. The race known as The Wrath are expanding into new territory. Only the Earth Empire stands in their way. It''s been fifty years since the Doctor last visited this sector of space. And one man in particular has been awaiting his return. As the mistakes of his past come back to haunt him, and with a price on his head and bounty hunters on his tail, the Doctor is heading for a last reckoning. The pieces are finally coming together. Somewhere deep within The Shadow Heart."--Container.

"Inviting, accessible and personal. . . . A reminder of an overlooked truth: faith leads to joy." —James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything Fox News analyst Father Jonathan Morris challenges the wisdom espoused by New Age self-help experts with the time-tested counsel found in the Bible. Readers who may have sought solace in popular self-help books like Eckart Tolle’s A New Earth, Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret, or Deepak Chopra’s The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success will be enthralled by Morris’s moving argument about the enduring spiritual succor awaiting in Scripture.

Sent down south to assist the Metropolitan Police in their efforts to investigate the gangland kingpin known only as "the Doctor", Detective-Inspector Patricia Menzies finds herself up to her neck in laser-armed robot mosquitoes, gun-running criminal overlords, vanishing Tube trains and not one, but two Doctors. Meanwhile the real Doctor, and his academic assistant Professor Evelyn Smythe, have become ensnared in the machinations of an old acquaintance--time-travelling Victorian guttersnipe Thomas Brewster. But what''s Brewster''s connection to the rapacious robot Terravores? And can anyone contain the gathering swarm?

"It''s been a year since Philippa ''Flip'' Jackson found herself transported by Tube train to battle robot mosquitoes on a bizarre alien planet in the company of a Time Lord known only as ''the Doctor''. Lightning never strikes twice, they say. Only now there''s a flying saucer whooshing over the top of the night bus taking her home. Inside: the Doctor, with another extraterrestrial menace on his tail, the Daleks, and their twisted creator Davros! But while Flip and the fugitive Doctor struggle to beat back the Daleks'' incursion into 21st century London, Davros''s real plan is taking shape nearly 200 years in the past, on the other side of the English Channel. At the battle of Waterloo."--Container.

Welcome to The Vault, jokingly known as ''The Museum of Terrors'', a high security establishment where UNIT keeps all of its alien artifacts. New recruit Warrant Officer Charlie Sato is given a guided tour by Captain Ruth Matheson, and the archive reveals some dark secrets. An army jacket, a painting, crystal and a wax cylinder all hold a grave significance, and their stories are told by the Doctor''s companions: Steven Taylor, Zoe Heriot, Jo Grant and Romana.

Deimos, moon of Mars, where Lord Slaade''s plans to revive the ancient Ice Warrior civilisation, hangs by a thread. Only the Doctor can stop him, but an old enemy, hiding in the catacombs, has an alternative plan, a plan that will test the Doctor''s heroism to its limits. Just how far will the Doctor go to prevent the destruction and resurrection of Mars--on a day when his friends become enemies, and his enemies have right on their side?

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Manchester, language: English, abstract: Ferguson''s initial definition of diglossia describes the use of ''two language varieties [that] exist side by side throughout the community, each having a definite role to play'' (1959, repr. 1972: 232). The relationship between the Swiss dialects (which will be referred to from hereon as SG) and Swiss Standard German (HG) has been characterized as ''medial diglossia'', based on the HG for writing and SG for speaking dichotomy (see EDI 1989b: 101). As Rash comments, ''the term "functional diglossia" is perhaps preferable, as it fits the situation whereby SG and HG are each allocated certain functions (1998: 50). Traditionally, the functions (or domains) of HG have been that of a Schriftsprache, acquired through the education system but also produced orally on formal occasions, in communication with non-SG speakers and in the media. SG has no ''soziolektale Wertung'' (Linke, Nussbaumer & Portmann 2004: 347) and is therefore employed as an informal spoken variety by all members of the speech community. However, as Ammon states, ''freilich bleibt Fergusons Diglossie-Begriff [...] zu abstrakt, um alle Besonderheiten des Verhältnisses von Dialekten und Standardvarietät in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz [...] zu erfassen'' (Ammon 285) and the increased use of SG has led to claims that ''die Mundarten dringen heute in immer mehr Bereiche vor, die früher in erster Linie der Hochsprache vorbehalten waren, und zwar sowohl in schriftlichen wie im mündlichen Ausdruck'' (EDI 1989a: VII). In light of this, Ris suggests that ''das gesprochene Hochdeutsch in der Schweiz im internen Gebrauch [fungiert] nicht mehr als komplementäre Sprachform im Sinne des Diglossiemodells [...], sondern als Zweitsprache im Sinne des Bilingualismus-Modells, die man in gewissen Kommunikationssituationen mehr noch verwenden darf als verwenden muss'' (1990: 43). The following

Millions of years ago, the noble Ice Warriors fled to Deimos, moon of Mars, hoping to sit out the radioactive death throes of their home planet. When the TARDIS lands on Deimos, the Doctor discovers that the Warriors'' ancient catacombs are now a popular stop for space tourists. But the Martian dynasties are more than history, and the Warriors are far from extinct. It''s not for nothing that Deimos is the ancient word for dread.

The bloodless soldier: A group of soldiers return from overseas servie, but they have brought back a terrible evil with them. The Bellova devil: Jago and Litefoot investigate the apparent killing of a man who is already dead. The spirit trap: Jago and Litefoot investigate a psychic medium. The similarity engine: The plans of sinister Doctor Tulp come to terrifying fruition.

This article provides a cross-national, qualitative investigation into the experiences of middle managers in large organizations in the USA, the UK and Japan, following organizational restructuring. Despite well-documented national differences in administrative heritage, institutional regimes or ''varieties of capitalism'', our data point towards considerable similitude across the three countries in terms of a general expression of the need for change, and the concrete impacts of organizational reforms on managerial work. Specifically we analyse the changing nature of work roles, career paths, working hours and spans of control of mid-level managers in five large firms in each of the three countries. The data demonstrate that middle managers in all three countries face fundamental changes to key areas of their work experience. In Japan, although changes do not amount to a genuine shift towards ''Anglo-Saxon'' institutions or business practices, the robust use of organizational reforms with very similar aims and underpinning assumptions to those used in the USA and the UK entails similar impacts in terms of work processes of middle managers across the three nations. This shared experience involved the augmentation of middle management skill levels, responsibilities and span of control, but alongside the downgrading of career expectations, and increased workload and work intensity. We argue that these changes are in keeping with some, but not all, of the features explained and predicted in Bravermanian labour process theory.

In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the Modern Corporation explains how and why large companies have changed their organisational structures and philosophies, focusing in particular on how these changes affect the careers of middle managers. Based on in-depth interviews with over two hundred middle and senior managers working in large corporations in the USA, UK and Japan, it shows how the working lives of managers have been subjected to major disruption, involving work intensification and reduced opportunities for career progression. Furthermore, it argues that such widespread overwork and poor treatment of highly skilled and highly motivated staff has created a major international problem that must be addressed. The book presents a range of solutions to this important problem, suggesting that there are possibilities for saner, less brutal organisational environments.

Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Five vast, state-of-the-art biodomes, all steel and glass. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlow has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary.

In his work as a priest and commentator for FOX News, Father Jonathan Morris has traveled to the troubled spots of the world, meeting with Muslim youth during the rioting in Paris, sitting down with populists at odds with the Church in Venezuela, and investigating human trafficking in Germany. Now Father Jonathan peels back the layers of questions that arise when someone asks, "Why me?" in response to human suffering. With an accessible voice and calming pastoral guidance, Father Jonathan leads readers through each step of suffering—from doubt and anger to healing and acceptance. The Promise comprises three parts, each addressing a step in the process of healing. Part 1, "God on Trial," speaks to doubts and anger that arise when we suffer and poses tough questions such as "Does God even care?" and "Why should we trust a God who allows innocent suffering?" Part 2 takes the reader on a journey of finding emotional and spiritual healing from suffering. In part 3 Father Jonathan introduces the five "Principles for Freedom-Living." From living your personal vocation to a step-by-step guide for sketching a plan for your spiritual life, the freedom principles are practical and easily applied to everyday life. Together these five principles have the power to transform what would otherwise be useless suffering into a means of great sanctification and personal fulfillment. While pulling back the layers of philosophy and theology that surround human suffering, Father Jonathan offers not only a deeply spiritual answer but also a practical one to this most fundamental of human questions: Why do we suffer? The Promise not only addresses how to understand and live with suffering, but also poses the toughest question regarding our relationship to God: Why do we suffer under a benevolent God? Father Jonathan delves into how we can heal from the spiritual, emotional, and even physical scars left behind by suffering. The Promise offers five principles for living a free life, or a life free of the fear that God is not there for us, and offers comfort and hope to those experiencing hard times.

After years as a companion to the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon was returned to his own world and his own time, and his memories of his travels were erased. Until now. A visitor from beyond the stars needs to explore Jamie''s past, and discover what went wrong. What happened in the year 1688, when the TARDIS landed in London, and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe were welcomed into the court of King James II.

The Haven hangs in space. A vast star city, devoid of life. Organic life, that is. From their high spire, looking out over silent streets and empty plazas, the Assemblers are waiting for the day when the humans arrive. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. When the TARDIS brings the Doctor and Lucie to the Haven, it seems like Assemblers'' long wait might be over. Living beings! Without batteries! Protocol be praised!

When a test flight of the new Kith Sunstorm ends in disaster, the Sirius Exhibition Station is plunged into a web of murder and intrigue. Someone or something is trying to re-ignite a war between the Varlon Empire and the Kith Oligarchy.

Diverse public opinions, competing management goals and polarized interest groups combine with problems of scale to create a complex management arena for public land managers in the southern Illinois region. Laws, codes and mandates dictate the minimal levels at which the public must be involved in natural resource decision making, especially with regard to federal lands. However, history has demonstrated on the Shawnee National Forest (SNF) that simply meeting standards can result in time consuming and costly litigation. An expanding body of literature exists that demonstrates that stakeholders'' acceptance of a management plan or decision is not based solely on scientific reasoning. Rather, acceptability is directly related to the perceived fairness of the planning/decision-making process and the level of inclusion in the process. This study seeks to develop a photo-evaluation survey technique that will allow managers to effectively elicit stakeholder attitudes about forest management practices. To this end, stakeholder groups that use the Shawnee National Forest (SNF) rated color photographs of forest management treatments. Three management themes, harvesting, prescribed fire, and trails were selected because they represent significant management goals of the 1992 Amended Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP) that was mired in litigation and the 2006 LRMP that was finalized early in 2006. Responses to the three targeted management themes were elicited by photographs paired with a semantic differential attitude measurement scale. Each theme was represented by three photographs depicting a stage of a management treatment on an implied temporal scale. Study findings address the usefulness of an attitude measurement tool for avoiding future conflict or litigation as were characteristic of the SNF management plan process in recent decades.

Based on qualitative interviews (n=64) within five UK organizations that have embarked on large-scale restructuring (including delayering, downsizing, culture change, role redesign, lean production) we argue that middle managers are currently experiencing significant and progressive work and personal pressures. Performance is monitored more closely, hours and intensity of work are increasing, roles and tasks are changing frequently, and prospects for promotion are downscaled within flattened hierarchies. Whereas middle managers report increased levels of autonomy and skill, are often well remunerated, and frequently appear motivated (at least in the private sector), we suggest their burgeoning grievances over working hours, role pressures and promotion prospects have worrying implications for the future performance of UK industry. We argue further that the motivation for corporations to embark on such large-scale restructuring is best understood with reference to the incessant demands of international capitalism. We conclude that such restructuring, and the personal managerial experiences that result from it, is in keeping with many, but crucially not all, of the trends predicted by Bravermanian labour process theory.

Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China. Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China''s economic reform programme since 1978, including assessments of the Contrast Responsiblity System, which operated from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, and the Group Company Experiments, which began in the 1990s. It discusses the relations between workers, managers, and the state in post-Dengist China, the implications of the reform programme for human resources management in state enterprises, the nature of labour representation, and organization under tate capitalism and the problems of surplus labour and reemployment.

A new adventure for the Fourth Doctor, as read by his companion Romana. The Vita Novus Health Spa offers a sanctuary from the stresses and strains of 32nd century life. In fact, you will leave Vita Novus feeling like an entirely new person. And that''s guaranteed.