New Releases by Richard Byrne

In this next picture book from the author-illustrator of This book just ate my dog!, Bella, Ben, and that adorable dog have to rescue Ben''s cat from the clutches of the naughty book. When Ben''s cat disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella joins in the search-and-rescue mission. But when the helpers disappear one after another, Ben realizes it''s up to him to set things right. Cleverly using the physicality of the book, This book just stole my cat! is kid-friendly fun!

Finlay (a little dinosaur) is counting out jelly beans to share with his friend. He is sitting on a grassy mound. A big dinosaur comes along and demands the jelly beans. He is rather rude, a bit of a show-off, and he thinks that Finlay's friend is a figment of his imagination. What follows isa lot of posturing from the big dinosaur as he attempts to prove his worth with various antics on and around the grassy mound. As the book progresses it will gradually become clear to the reader that the "grassy mound" is in fact, Finlay's friend, the really, really, really big dinosaur! The bigdinosaur certainly doesn't realize until his bravado propels him into a dark cave that turns out to be the mouth of the really, really, really big dinosaur. It's only then that the big dinosaur learns that in order to make friends it's a good idea not to show off and it's a good idea to be preparedto share.Perfect for fans of Rachel Bright and Jim Field's The Squirrels Who Squabbled.

The chalks are drawing flowers on the chalkboard, but someone keeps stealing their artwork! Who could the thief be? Fortunately, Sergeant Blue is on the case and determined to solve the crime. It's a fun and funny read-aloud mystery with a colorful cast of characters, from This book just ate my dog! author-illustrator Richard Byrne. Godwin Books

The young chalks are busy at the chalkboard but someone keeps stealing their drawings . . .Mrs Red calls Sergeant Blue to investigate but when the culprit is caught, he absconds in a cloud of chalk dust. The chalks find another way to lure the suspect into their hands and it is only then thatthey discover they've misjudged the poor chalk rubber all along . . .

In this playful and engaging new story from innovative picture book maker Richard Byrne, Elphie is lining up with the other elephants to start the long march to the watering hole at the back of the book. As the littlest elephant, he has to go last. But Elphie reallly wants to go first and heenlists the help of the reader to help him move up the queue. He almost manages it until the biggest elephant shuffles everyone back to their proper positions just as they arrive at the watering hole. But the watering hole is already occupied by a very, very big and very, very selfish elephant.Elphie's resourcefulness saves the day and on the long march home, the other elephants decide that Elphie should go . . . *SPOILER ALERT* . . . you'll just have to read the book to find out!

In this follow-up to This book just ate my dog! and We’re in the wrong book!, Bella and Ben and that adorable dog are back for another (mis)adventure. Ben has a new remote-controlled toy; it has all kinds of buttons—Up, Down, Siren, Spin. He and Bella try pressing each one, but the remote doesn''t seem to be working . . . at least, not on the toy. As things go haywire on the page, Bella and Ben realize their book is out of control! With a remote on the fritz, it''ll take the help of the reader to put things right in this interactive story.

Getting your qualification is just the start of the safety professional’s journey towards effective workplace practice. World Class Health and Safety doesn’t repeat the whys and whats of health and safety management, instead it is a helpful how-to guide for newly qualified and experienced health and safety professionals to get the best out of their knowledge, experience and the people they work with. This book is filled with practical examples that bring the subject to life, covering the skills and techniques you need to be a leader of safety, overcome inaction and make lasting positive changes to safety performance and culture – enabling more people to go home safe every day. World Class Health and Safety teaches the reader to: work efficiently and effectively with senior managers and budget holders to implement the wider corporate social responsibility agenda emphasize the ‘value-added’ benefits of good health and safety management clearly and simply create effective and engaging training use monitoring and audits to get the best out of the resources available World Class Health and Safety is essential reading for those wishing to invest in their own professional development, to communicate effectively and to understand and deliver safety in the wider business context, wherever in the world they might be working.

This isn''t a typical health and safety book. It won''t tell you why you should manage health and safety, or even what you should be managing - there are plenty of other books that do that. Instead, this book recognises that getting a qualification is only the start of the journey towards being an effective health and safety professional. From overcoming the traditional ''clipboard and cagoule'' image of health and safety to convincing people that good health and safety means good business, this practical no-nonsense guide will help you get the best out of your knowledge and experience and the people you work with. Read this book and you’ll learn how to: get the support of senior managers and budget holders for your ideas stress the ''value-added'' benefits of good health and safety management clearly and simply develop inspiring ways of overcoming inaction and lack of interest among managers and staff create effective and engaging training use monitoring and audits to get the best out of the resources available

DIG THE ZONE OF FREEDOM by Richard Byrne BSc(Hons) Get ready to take a musical journey with a cast of characters you will never forget. Explore what it means to be a Christian through the eyes of a group of recovering addicts as they battle their demons, both figuratively and literally, and seek out the truth of faith and the word with the help of a handful of colorful rehab leaders, many of them former addicts who know exactly what their charges are going through as they journey towards recovery. DIG THE ZONE OF FREEDOM is based around over forty traditional hymns. This novelization features the full text of all songs within the context of the story. You’ll follow the zany cast of characters as they zoom from the pyramids of Egypt to the Rock of Gibraltar on a fantastical journey of faith and fun. This is not a trip you will want to miss; nor is it one that you will soon forget.

On s'est trompés de livre ! On cherche un lecteur sympa pour que cette histoire finisse bien !

Ben and Bella love the pages of their book. So, when jumping from page to page, they suddenly find themselves in the wrong book altogether, they are most perplexed. For Ben, Bella, and readers, what follows is a rollercoaster journey through a counting book, a comic book, a history book, a puzzle book, an ebook, a craft book, a sticker book, a spot-the-difference book, and finally a scary book - which ultimately propels them back into their own book! Phew! From award-winning Richard Byrne, author and illustrator of This Book Just Ate My Dog, shortlisted for the Children's Book Award, this is the second picture book to feature Ben and Bella.

Joey has chicken pox and has to stay at home. But being ill is boring. His mother tells him he can play with a friend, but only a spotty friend as he is infectious, so he sets off to search for one. Will Joey find anyone to play with who isn’t scared of his spots?

For a group of recovering addicts, the only thing more powerful than the compelling drink of alcohol is the support they find in music, in each other, and in God. As the former addicts embark on a twelve-week recovery period at a European rehabilitation center, they begin to seek help through hymns. As the group battles their addictions, they’re faced with love and divorce, life and death, and the overall struggle to believe. Their journey of recovery has no bounds, showing addiction — and self-limitations —can be overcome with just a little amount of faith.

When her dog disappears into the gutter of the book, Bella calls for help. But when the helpers disappear too, Bella realizes it will take more than a tug on the leash to put things right. Cleverly using the physicality of the book, This book just ate my dog! is inventive, ingenious, and just pure kid-friendly fun!

ATENCIÓN, ATENCIÓN: Se busca amigo lector para darle una lección a este álbum tan glotón. ¡Ayuda, por favor!,

The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs and practices which constitute the bedrock of most people's engagement with the material past. Written by an archaeologist who has long had one foot in the field of heritage practice and another in the academic camp of archaeology and heritage studies, Counterheritage is at once a forthright critique of current heritage practice in the Asian arena and a contribution to this project of self-education. Popular religion in Asia - including popular Buddhism and Islam, folk Catholicism, and Chinese deity cults - has a constituency that accounts for a majority of Asia's population, making its exclusion from heritage processes an issue of social justice, but more pragmatically it explains why many heritage conservation programs fail to gain local traction. This book describes how the tenets of popular religion affect building and renovation practices and describes how modernist attempts to suppress popular religion in Asia in the early and mid-twentieth century impacted religious 'heritage.' Author Denis Byrne argues that the campaign by archaeologists and heritage professionals against the private collecting and 'looting' of antiquities in Asia largely ignores the regimes of value which heritage discourse has helped erect and into which collectors and local diggers play. Focussing on the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan but also referencing China and other parts of Southeast Asia, richly detailed portraits are provided of the way people live with 'old things' and are affected by them. Narratives of the author's fieldwork are woven into arguments built upon an extensive and penetrating reading of the historical and anthropological literature. The critical stance embodied in the title 'counterheritage' is balanced by the optimism of the book's vision of a different practice of heritage, advocating a view of heritage objects as vibrant, agentic things enfolded in social practice rather than as inert and passive surfaces subject to conservation. Denis Byrne is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Publisher's note.

In the pine forest, there's a perplexing puzzle. The Moon is getting smaller every day and Rabbit wants to know why. She asks her friend Aldrin, the raccoon. Although he doesn't have the answer to her question, Aldrin decides the issue needs a 'proper investigation'. And, because he's a bit of a know-it-all, over the course of the next few days, Aldrin dreams up a far-fetched explanation for the shrinking moon that points the finger of blame at two bumbling bears called Hubble and Lovell. In fact the bears turn out to be rather smart and it's thanks to them that the other animals learn their first fun lesson in astronomy. Join Aldrin and friends for a whodunit of astronomical proportions!

Christmas Eve. The Millennium Blizzard has paralyzed the Eastern Seaboard. The death toll rises. Chaos reigns. Jaded Boston Post reporter Raymond Mann and friend Prawn Pik Nguyen - a former South Vietnamese spy turned scrap metal dealer - are desperately trying to get home from Boston to Newburyport. But when the duo find a mysterious, dying North Korean on a deserted stretch of snow-covered road, they are plunged into a bewildering warren of espionage, murder, and potential knowledge of a planned invasion by the North.

One day, Millicent is busy making sandcastles in her garden when, THUMP, a big wooden box lands beside her. Inside, Millicent finds the most unexpected new friend. Who can he be and where has he come from? Find out in this fabulously funny book about the friendship between a feisty little girl and a sparky, adorable little meerkat.

"How do you live in a landscape that no longer belongs to you? Denis Byrne and Maria Nugent show how Aboriginal people in NSW 'possess' their local landscapes by imprinting them with their life stories, histories, memories and emotions. In their minds and in their daily conversations they construct maps that are different from, but just as real as , the official maps produced by government and by tourism bodies"--back cover.

Interactive selling is a journey -- not an event -- that leads to greater revenue and profitability, enhanced performance and productivity, and improved customer relations. Today's competitive environment dictates that electronic selling tools are mandatory for success in the 1990s. This book proposes a vision for the successful implementation of interactive selling systems.

From pickpockets to public killings, highwaymen to hangmen, Judge Jeffreys to Jack the Ripper, this is a history of London's twilight world of crime and punishment through the centuries.

Simple prayers, thought-provoking meditations and beautiful photographs are combined in this gem of a book which leads you through every season of the year, and all the seasons of life. Blank pages have been scattered throughout to allow you to include your own favorite reflections or photos, making this a very personal book which will be treasured by all. A great gift idea for any occasion. Makes a wonderful bereavement memento.