Kay Thorne talks about developing real partnerships between parents, teachers, businesses and the community. This work is about shaking off the malaise generated by bureaucracy that can submerge good teaching and recognising the power of interpersonal relationships and of effective communication.

This work examines the most important techniques for analyzing the profitability of capital investments. It discusses time value mechanics and financial concepts, including discounted cash flow, return on investment, incremental analysis, cash flow tables, income taxes, depreciation, cost of capital and risk analysis. It provides a broad introduction to project evaluation and data needs.;This book is intended for: cost, project, design, mechanical, chemical, industrial,electronic,electrical and construction engineers; project and budget managers; cost estimators and controllers; planners and...

This second volume of Brian Thorne's collected works contains both published and unpublished material from the years 1981-1997. These papers illustrate even more strikingly than those in the first volume the richness of the author's experience, which owes much of its power and fascination to his dual membership of the person-centred community of therapists and of the liberal catholic wing of the Anglican Church.

It was shortly after midnight in the great Hotel des Tuileries at Paris. Beyond the facade of the hotel the gardens of the Tuileries were sleeping in the warm night. To the left the Louvre etched itself in solid black against the sky, and all up and down the Rue de Rivoli carriages and automobiles were still moving."