New Releases by Peter Evans

Otto Jespersen''s landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical texts and comparative examples, primarily from Germanic and Romance languages, Jespersen examines the forms, functions, and historical development of negative expressions. The work traces the evolution of negative markers, analyzes how negative prefixes modify word meanings, and reveals coherent patterns in how languages structure negative expressions. Through meticulous analysis of authentic examples, Jespersen documents both common patterns and language-specific variations in negative expressions. His treatment of topics such as double negation, the distinction between special and nexal negation, and the various forms of negative particles provides a methodical account of negation''s complexity. The work''s enduring importance stems not only from its analysis of the cyclical renewal of negative markers (later termed “Jespersen''s Cycle”) but from its comprehensive scope and detailed examination of negative expressions across multiple languages and historical periods. This new critical edition makes this classic work accessible to modern readers while preserving its scholarly depth. The text has been completely re-typeset, with examples presented in contemporary numbered format and non-English examples given Leipzig-style glosses. A new introduction contextualizes Jespersen''s achievement and demonstrates its continued significance for current linguistic research.

In Dog Will Go to the Farm, Dog, Cat, and Bird go to the farm to find Pig and Cow. This book continues to introduce new pronouns and quotation marks to indicate speech. Dog Books Early Readers have been written by a teacher with 27 years experience helping children in elementary and middle school learn to read. Dog Books are grouped into sets based on selected words that are essential for young readers to gain the skills and confidence to read. Each book uses a core group of words that are repeated throughout the book in simple mostly one sentence per page layouts. Any new nouns that are used in each book are given icon picture clues below the word in the sentence. The words from each book are revisited in a new story concept in follow-up books so that children gradually gain the confidence in word recognition that is required for fluency and meaning. In this way, young readers will begin to discover phonic patterns between words, which will enhance their already growing sight word vocabulary. Each 30-page story is simple enough to encourage successful completion of the whole book either in one or several sittings, which will boost reading confidence and encourage the young reader to try the next story to show their newly gained reading skills. The illustrations are basic so as to provide visual clues for the text without being so busy as to distract the young reader from decoding the text. As they are reading, young readers may notice that more complex words could be used. For example, if there is a picture of a bird flying up to a tree, the text may say, ''The bird can go up to the tree'' where ''fly'' would be more accurate than ''go''. Acknowledge this discovery, but point out that the word in the text is ''go'' and possibly encourage them to write their own version of the sentence with the more complex word. Once a book is completed, the young reader should be encouraged to share their success by reading it to friends and family. Each 10 book set covers a reading level: Pre-K, Kindergarden, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3. The core words are drawn from traditional, leveled sight word lists, with some notable noun and verb additions that are relevant for 21st-century early readers. Mostly one simple sentence per page with limited punctuation Basic sight words start with mainly two, three, and four letter words that can be sounded out. New words are added gradually, book by book, set by set. Words are repeated within each book and revisited in later books. New nouns are supplemented with an icon picture clue below the word. Non-distracting illustrations to aid with text meaning New story characters are gradually added throughout each story to maintain interest and widen the opportunity for exposing readers to new words in a narrative context. Available as a Kindle ebook or paperback.

In Dog Can Eat Cake, Dog, Cat, and Pig are woken up by strange arrivals from above. This book continues to introduce pronouns and quotation marks to indicate speech. Dog Books Early Readers have been written by a teacher with 27 years experience helping children in elementary and middle school learn to read. Dog Books are grouped into sets based on selected words that are essential for young readers to gain the skills and confidence to read. Each book uses a core group of words that are repeated throughout the book in simple mostly one sentence per page layouts. Any new nouns that are used in each book are given icon picture clues below the word in the sentence. The words from each book are revisited in a new story concept in follow-up books so that children gradually gain the confidence in word recognition that is required for fluency and meaning. In this way, young readers will begin to discover phonic patterns between words, which will enhance their already growing sight word vocabulary. Each 30-page story is simple enough to encourage successful completion of the whole book either in one or several sittings, which will boost reading confidence and encourage the young reader to try the next story to show their newly gained reading skills. The illustrations are basic so as to provide visual clues for the text without being so busy as to distract the young reader from decoding the text. As they are reading, young readers may notice that more complex words could be used. For example, if there is a picture of a bird flying up to a tree, the text may say, ''The bird can go up to the tree'' where ''fly'' would be more accurate than ''go''. Acknowledge this discovery, but point out that the word in the text is ''go'' and possibly encourage them to write their own version of the sentence with the more complex word. Once a book is completed, the young reader should be encouraged to share their success by reading it to friends and family. Each 10 book set covers a reading level: Pre-K, Kindergarden, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3. The core words are drawn from traditional, leveled sight word lists, with some notable noun and verb additions that are relevant for 21st-century early readers. Mostly one simple sentence per page with limited punctuation Basic sight words start with mainly two and three letter words that can be sounded out. New words are added gradually, book by book, set by set. Words are repeated within each book and revisited in later books. New nouns are supplemented with an icon picture clue below the word. Non-distracting illustrations to aid with text meaning New story characters are gradually added throughout each story to maintain interest and widen the opportunity for exposing readers to new words in a narrative context. Available as a Kindle ebook or paperback.

In Dog and Pig Can Go on the Bus, Dog and Pig travel on a bus. Along the way they meet Cat to have some fun. Or do they? Dog Books Early Readers have been written by a teacher with 27 years experience helping children in elementary and middle school learn to read. Dog Books are grouped into sets based on selected words that are essential for young readers to gain the skills and confidence to read. Each book uses a core group of words that are repeated throughout the book in simple mostly one sentence per page layouts. Any new nouns that are used in each book are given icon picture clues below the word in the sentence. The words from each book are revisited in a new story concept in follow-up books so that children gradually gain the confidence in word recognition that is required for fluency and meaning. In this way, young readers will begin to discover phonic patterns between words, which will enhance their already growing sight word vocabulary. Each 30-page story is simple enough to encourage successful completion of the whole book either in one or several sittings, which will boost reading confidence and encourage the young reader to try the next story to show their newly gained reading skills. The illustrations are basic so as to provide visual clues for the text without being so busy as to distract the young reader from decoding the text. As they are reading, young readers may notice that more complex words could be used. For example, if there is a picture of a bird flying up to a tree, the text may say, ''The bird can go up to the tree'' where ''fly'' would be more accurate than ''go''. Acknowledge this discovery, but point out that the word in the text is ''go'' and possibly encourage them to write their own version of the sentence with the more complex word. Once a book is completed, the young reader should be encouraged to share their success by reading it to friends and family. Each 10 book set covers a reading level: Pre-K, Kindergarden, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3. The core words are drawn from traditional, leveled sight word lists, with some notable noun and verb additions that are relevant for 21st-century early readers. Mostly one simple sentence per page with limited punctuation Basic sight words start with mainly two and three letter words that can be sounded out. New words are added gradually, book by book, set by set. Words are repeated within each book and revisited in later books. New nouns are supplemented with an icon picture clue below the word. Non-distracting illustrations to aid with text meaning New story characters are gradually added throughout each story to maintain interest and widen the opportunity for exposing readers to new words in a narrative context. Available as a Kindle ebook or paperback. Dog Book Early Readers are designed to be read in portrait mode.

‘So far we have successfully avoided loss of life during serious disturbances but if the present trend continues there will be a serious loss of control... In such circumstances there is a probability of both staff and prisoners being killed.’ This dramatic warning, given by the prison governors to the Labour Home Secretary, Mr Merlyn Rees, stimulated the setting up of the May Committee in 1978. That Committee then reported and revealed how dangerously explosive the prison system had become. The time was exactly right therefore for a book like Prison Crisis, originally published in 1980, to draw together all of the issues to provide an agenda for public and politicians to use this best chance in one hundred years for a major reform of the prison system. One issue above all symbolises those which affect the prison system and the prison service, and of course the prisoners themselves; for it exposes why the system is dangerously close to breakdown:- ‘The extent of prison overcrowding is a national disgrace. In 1978, for the first time, as many as 16,000 inmates in some of the most primitive of Britain’s prisons were forced to live two or three to a cell which the Victorians had built to hold one. They have not even washbasins in their cells, let alone lavatories... Sometime prisoners are locked in together for twenty-three hours out of twenty-four, sleeping, smoking eating, urinating and defecating without privacy in sickening sight, smell and sound of each other.’ The author, who had been Home Affairs Correspondent of The Times for ten years, raises, as Sir Robert Marks puts it in his Foreword, ‘all sorts of issues which could and should be of great interest to a caring public’ and which now demand decision and action: how best to hold the top-security prisoners, including terrorists, how prisons are often forced, with psychiatric cases, to do the job of hospitals; ‘the academies of crime’, detention centres and borstals; the rise in female, and particularly juvenile crime; violence in prisons and riot control; the prisoners’ rights movement; discontent among prison officers not just over pay but over the status of their job and the importance of their role in re-educating prisoners; the governors’ position of responsibility without power; the low political priority given by Government. Finally, in a chapter aptly called ‘Rescuing the Prisons’, Peter Evans conducts a wide-ranging, well informed and radical debate on what, at different levels, needed to be done to make a system rooted in the nineteenth century fit for the twenty-first century and still retain the sense that prisons are above all a moral issue.

Where are the police going? Originally published in 1974, Peter Evans argues that their traditional relationship with the public was being dangerously threatened, a situation neither the police themselves nor the public wanted to see worsen. In his analysis of the pressures and influences that were leading many policemen to question their role in society, Mr Evans looks first at the immense problems created for the police by increasingly violent and sophisticated crime, protest and terrorism. The attitudes of the police, he says, are in keeping with their nature. They are a minority, a semi-closed community, with astonishing records of long-serving families, giving police forces something of a tribal flavour. They have their own slang. Like miners, dockers or railwaymen, their jobs were established in Victorian times and are now faced with a rapid technological change – for the police, a ‘revolution’. Yet there is one important difference: the police must remain manpower intensive, otherwise precious contact with the public is lost. They must also remain craftsmen, not become merely technicians. Mr Evans concludes that successive governments are to blame for not giving the police the sort of backing they deserve – finance, for example, and not merely pious expressions of support. This failure has widened the gap between police and public because of shortage of men, has left London in particular dangerously under-patrolled, and has contributed towards those pressures that tempt some officers to err. There is nothing wrong with the traditions of the police, although some policemen sometimes do not live up to them. The police need more resources and more opportunity to apply these traditions, so that the unique character of British policing is not lost. The author felt there was both time and need for reform in the decade before 1984. Today it can be read in its historical context.

In Bronson T. Bear''s second book, Bronson is a teddy bear who is facing some conflict about trying to be very helpful while at the same time being overwhelmed. During the story, he begins to appreciate the meaning of the saying, ''Don''t bite off more than you can chew.'' In the end, Bronson decides that making people happy is okay provided it is within your own limits. Bronson T. Bear books contain simple storylines with basic language. They help children to understand the message behind commonly used expressions or idioms that have been used for generations to summarize a concept. Occasionally some of Bronson''s friends join in to help him on his adventures.

Ce chapitre retrace les principaux changements intervenus au Royaume-Uni ayant conduit à l’inclusion de « tous » les enfants dans le système éducatif administré par le ministère de l’Éducation, même si cela ne signifie pas pour autant que tous les enfants soient inclus dans les écoles traditionnelles. Il identifie ensuite les domaines clés des systèmes éducatifs ayant besoin d’être réformés pour parvenir à une complète intégration. DOI : 10.51926/ISTE.9011.ch2

An update to a provocative manifesto intended to serve as a platform for debate and as a resource and inspiration for those teaching in online environments. In 2011, a group of scholars associated with the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh released “The Manifesto for Teaching Online,” a series of provocative statements intended to articulate their pedagogical philosophy. In the original manifesto and a 2016 update, the authors counter both the “impoverished” vision of education being advanced by corporate and governmental edtech and higher education’s traditional view of online students and teachers as second-class citizens. The two versions of the manifesto were much discussed, shared, and debated. In this book, Siân Bayne, Peter Evans, Rory Ewins, Jeremy Knox, James Lamb, Hamish Macleod, Clara O''Shea, Jen Ross, Philippa Sheail and Christine Sinclair have expanded the text of the 2016 manifesto, revealing the sources and larger arguments behind the abbreviated provocations. The book groups the twenty-one statements (“Openness is neither neutral nor natural: it creates and depends on closures”; “Don’t succumb to campus envy: we are the campus”) into five thematic sections examining place and identity, politics and instrumentality, the primacy of text and the ethics of remixing, the way algorithms and analytics “recode” educational intent, and how surveillance culture can be resisted. Much like the original manifestos, this book is intended as a platform for debate, as a resource and inspiration for those teaching in online environments, and as a challenge to the techno-instrumentalism of current edtech approaches. In a teaching environment shaped by COVID-19, individuals and institutions will need to do some bold thinking in relation to resilience, access, teaching quality, and inclusion.

This is the prequel and sequel to my first book The Prisoner in Hell first written in 2007 I decided this book is a must after the death of my friend in 2016 whose death was partly due to my past and what the system did, It may not be as thought provoking and as hard to fathom as The Prisoner however it is just as true and just as sad.

This is the true story about events that took place during nine years of incarceration in the state of Texas. However it is not as you would expect, which makes it hard to fathom for some people, and is thought provoking in content. I show proof of an out of control consortium of prison officials and government leaders who have deceived society and conspired to break my spirit.Vital evidence remains in Texas to this day.

Magic and adventure awaits in this story. Three young children suffer the torment of finding their parents killed .Suddenly they are thrown into a world of uncertain times .They all get taken to a strange house.A house that hold many strange attributes?.Here they are thrown into the task of competing in games of wit , skill and magic.Can they win individual Siscal Stones to win others freedom , as well as their own?Or will their fate perish them .Jump inside to find out.

Magic and adventure awaits in this story. Three young children suffer the torment of finding their parents killed .Suddenly they are thrown into a world of uncertain times .They all get taken to a strange house.A house that hold many strange attributes?. Here they are thrown into the task of competing in games of wit, skill and magic.Can they win individual Siscal Stones to win others freedom, as well as their own? Or will their fate perish them?Jump inside to find out.

Innocuous reasons for a crime scene... exploding statues in an art gallery and ornate buttons being slyly removed from people''s garments whilst they are wearing them... Peter Evans draws these events together in a hilarious whodunnit that contains colourful and charming characters. Each of the suspects and ''supportive cast'' is created in cameo form, thus giving the reader a wide variety of quirks and reasons to be the prime suspect. Peter Evans bucks the trend with crime related thrillers and perhaps begins a genre of his own making. The reasoning and investigative nuances by the main characters create twists and turns which leave the reader suspended until the final act when an unexpected and most unlikely answer is revealed... just at the point when you are likely to explode with anticipation and your buttons fly off...

Set within the depths of fantasy realms!!. A lone Female Spirit quarter Ghost, Vampire, Werewolf and Angel has been granted to act as Detective in this thrilling story with the help from all living and dead creatures. The existence of heaven and hell hinges on the coming together of the two worlds. If they succeed... Balance will be placed back upon The Medal Of Scalon. This Ancient Medal now lost, was scattered amidst Angels and demons over one thousand centuries to safe guard an ancient poem that was inscribed on each piece. In this story Six clans four Demonic and two Angelic band together as they gather each piece, nothing will stand in there way from Destroying everything and everybody leaving them with the ultimate power!!! As they seek each piece both Heaven and Hell know that the poem has the one power if used unwillingly, will cause havoc, and destroy every dead and living thing that lives above or below. Battles take place as both sides join together twenty thousand pit there wits. Against the evil army of the bloodthirsty Fangtailers eight hundred thousand of them more evil than anything known takes place in four fierce battles. Time is of importance!! Goblins, Elves, Demons, Werewolves ,Angels, Vampires, Spirits, all living Creatures, and Humans all join together to try and make the impossible, possible!!. Is it possible will it be achieved only you will tell!! Filled with Romance, Humour, Poetry, Horror, Magic, Thriller, Intrigue, and Fantasy this will certainly get the avid reader intrigued from start to end!!! A Timeless Masterpiece..

Master the orthopaedic techniques preferred by today’s expert surgeons! The 3rd Edition of this highly regarded title remains your go-to resource for the most advanced and effective surgical techniques for treating traumatic, congenital, inflammatory, neoplastic, and degenerative conditions of the hand. More than 1,000 high-quality photographs and drawings guide you step by step through each procedure, and personal pearls from master surgeons provide operative tips that foster optimal outcomes. 13 new chapters bring you completely up to date with what’s new in the field.

When Father Todd embarks on a journey to get a potion to cure his headache, he meets tree-goblin Canting, and is thrown into a conflict that will join Heaven and Hell together.His adventure unearths a host of questions;Who is Inertia, captain of the pirate ship, The Vile Jewel? Can Father Todd trust him?Who are Casimpra, Lily and Kentro? Are they really vampires, werewolves and angelic detectives, and what is so important about the Medal of Scalon? Follow Father Todd to Heaven''s Gate to find out...

An exploration of the meaning of faith and the place of religion in the world of the 21st Century by Peter H. Evans Is the rise of fundamentalisms, both religious and secular, an indicator of the future for faith and religion in the 21st century, or is it the last gasp of a dying culture leaving no future place for religious belief and the faith and practice it engenders? Writing out of thirty five years serving as a professional minister of religion and a lifetime as an active participant in the life of the Christian church, Peter Evans would say no to both propositions. "No Longer Children" is an exploration of the reality that many of the terms and concepts of traditional religion no longer resonate with men and women in our modern scientific and materialist culture. Terms like "Heaven" and "Hell" have long since lost their immediate power and the more recent expansion of psychology and neuroscience are forcing a similar revision of terms like "Soul" and "Spirit". Thus rendering notions of a purely private and personal salvation overly self interested and even unnecessary. These terms and concepts no longer make contact with either the hopes or the fears we share. While religion has brought, and continues to bring, many social and community benefits, it has also given rise to many gross abuses of power. Any return to fundamentalism and orthodoxy only increases the latter. Peter Evans argues that the true role for religion is that of reminding us of what may be of value: as a signpost rather than a destination. It can never be the repository of ultimate truth. It is an exploratory path rather than a predetermined road. It is a journey to be undertaken, not because of our fears, but in spite of them. "All our theologies", he argues, "are the garments we fashion to clothe that to which we give the name ''God''. Like any garment they are formed from the materials available at the time and according to the fashions of the day, and the quality of the end product is ultimately dependant on the skill of the tailor." This does not mean that all such formulations are without value or that one may summarily dismiss one''s own or another''s religious or spiritual experience. It is a call for true religious liberty and spiritual responsibility. "No Longer Children" is intended for the general reader. While he predominantly approaches these issues from the tradition he knows best, he believes that what is true for Christian belief applies equally to other faiths and religious traditions.

As décadas de 1950 e 1960 renderam ao mundo grandes divas que figuram no imaginário popular: Jacqueline Kennedy, Maria Callas, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly. Também foram a época da ascensão de homens que dariam origem a uma verdadeira mitologia envolvendo suas famílias: John e Robert Kennedy e Aristóteles Onassis.O aclamado escritor e jornalista investigativo Peter Evans empreendeu a missão de ir além de todo esse véu de afetação, luxo e poder para investigar a fundo detalhes surpreendentes sobre um dos triângulos amorosos mais polêmicos da história: Jackie O, Aristóteles Onassis e Bobby Kennedy. Após vários anos de pesquisas e entrevistas com espiões e terroristas, parentes, amigos e amantes dos Kennedy e de Onassis (além de muitos encontros com o próprio Ari), Evans descortinou a rede de subornos, encontros sexuais, mentiras e traições que teriam culminado na encomenda da morte de Robert Kennedy por Onassis.Nas páginas de Nêmesis estão os pormenores dos maiores escândalos envolvendo os três e o grande segredo que levou um dos homens mais ricos da época a querer se livrar de um dos americanos mais poderosos de seu tempo, o que mudou radicalmente os rumos da política mundial e formou um dos casais mais inusitados e conturbados já vistos.“A vida e os amores de Aristóteles Onassis deram origem a uma das maiores sagas do século XX. Recheado de sexo e escândalos, Nêmesis concentra-se no envolvimento de Onassis com os Kennedy, uma relação muito mais complexa e cáustica do que se poderia imaginar.”The Telegraph

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has evolved to become a prominent presence in today’s information systems and technology landscape. The EA discipline is rich in frameworks, methodologies, and the like. However, the question of ‘value’ for business ;professionals remains largely unanswered – that is, how best can Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architects deliver value to the enterprise? Enterprise Architecture for Business Success answers this question. Enterprise Architecture for Business Success is primarily intended for IT professionals working in the area of Enterprise Architecture. The eBook gives practical insights into what constitutes EA and how it might be practiced in a typical resource constrained business environment. The contents of the eBook include a brief guideline about EA systems and terminology, followed by notes on how to design enterprise systems in line with business strategies. The eBook also presents case studies which help to demonstrate the distance between theory and reality when it comes to optimizing IT infrastructure for successfully achieving business goals. Lengthy theoretical discussions are avoided in favor of focusing more on the practice and tools of EA. Readers will find value in this eBook, whether they are an IT consultant or a manager, an EA team lead or member, or just someone keen to learn about real-world EA.

A self-portrait of the late film legend''s golden-era Hollywood life traces her impoverished childhood in North Carolina through the heights of her career, sharing details of her relationships with such figures as Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and George C. Scott.

This book provides an understanding of the fundamental theories and practice behind the creation of architectural structures. It aids the development of an intuitive understanding of structural engineering, bringing together technical and design issues. The book is divided into four sections: ''Structures in nature'' looks at structural principles found in natural objects. ''Theory'' covers general structural theory as well as explaining the main forces in engineering. ''Structural prototypes'' includes examples of modelmaking and load testing that can be carried out by students. The fourth section, ''Case studies'', presents a diverse range of examples from around the world – actual buildings that apply the theories and testing described in the previous sections. This accessible, informative text is illustrated with specially drawn diagrams, models, CAD visualizations, construction details and photographs of completed buildings. This book will give students and newly qualified architects a firm grasp of this essential topic.

Spanning eight European countries, the Youth Empowerment Partnership Programme (YEPP) aims to enable young people in disadvantaged communities by involving them in new decision-making processes that span the public, private, and independent sectors. Youth Community and Empowerment in Europe explains the theory behind this unique collaborative program funded by a consortium of European and American foundations. Tracing the program''s development and outcomes across its ten years of existence, the authors extract lessons that can improve future policy and evaluation strategies.

Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a rapidly evolving field of medical science. Tremendous progress has been made over the past five decades in revealing the basic molecular biology involved in the disease process, developing and adopting more effective organ-preserving treatment protocols and refining surgical ablative and reconstructive approaches to facilitate functional restoration of patients without compromising survival. We now have a much clearer understanding of the disease, its management and the rehabilitation of patients. But there is still much to be done. This book aims to cover a range of exciting new findings in clinical sciences, basic sciences and allied specialties with an emphasis on their relevance to HNC. This work promises to improve preventive and therapeutic strategies and will hopefully culminate in improved outcomes of HNC. The contributions have been made by established leaders in the field and every effort has been made to address the issue in a comprehensive, yet concise, manner for the benefit of readers. We believe that this book will be of value to established/in-training clinicians, scientists, allied professionals, as well as medical students who have inquisitive minds and wish to further enhance their knowledge of HNC.

In recent years, debate on the state''s economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans''s years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

Values-Driven Leadership looks at where our values come from, and their role and impact in an organizational context. It offers a detailed conversation about values driven leadership – what it is and what it looks like. The values of a leader set the culture of an organization, determine the effectiveness of an organization, and determine the success of an organization. Understanding our values and being able to live our values adds significant emphasis to the leadership roles we perform in life. * Designed to be a quick, easy but thought-provoking read. * Helps us to identify our own values. * Explains that a sense of Belonging, Identity and Purpose are real benefits to an organizational bottom line. * An easy ‘How to’ section for contemplation. All royalties from this book will be donated to Awaken Mozambique. Awaken Mozambique is a micro-funding program to create employment for people in Beira, Mozambique – one of the ten poorest countries in the world. The Awaken Mozambique project is about sustainable development over the long term. In Beira, there is virtually no employment. Beira has one of the biggest slums in Africa. The population is the same as Australia’s, and yet over half (i.e. 11 million people) live on less than a dollar a day and fewer than 10% of children complete high school. Visit www.awakenmozambique.org to find out more.

Little is known of how leadership actually happens in the Australian context. Most of the theory and case study material in leadership is drawn from the US. And, even within the US literature, leadership examples are most frequently drawn from the business arena and focus largely on anglo-celtic men. This is not a true reflection of the diversity of Australian society nor of leaders in Australia. Leadership in the Australian Context: Case Studies in Leadership provides both a summary of leadership theory and a theoretical framework for understanding the practice of leadership. It then offers in-depth case studies of 11 Australian leaders drawn from across business, politics, the public and not-for-profit sectors as well as across age groups and gender. From these case studies is drawn a synopsis of what these leaders have in common and what the key factors are to successful leadership in the Australian context.