There is need for a more detailed understanding of employers' motivations for offering flexible working and the outcomes of different policies and practices for both employers and employees. This report draws on data from a large-scale national survey of workplace employee relations (WERS) to fill these gaps in our knowledge and understanding. It is the first time these issues have been explored through analysis of such a large and representative sample of companies and employees.

The Poema de mio Cid is in all respects a major text of early Spanish literature and an epic of great power. Its origins and authorship have long been a subject of dispute among scholars and this book, firmly based on rigorous research, proposes the view that the Poema was a wholly new work of the early thirteenth century written by a single author, Per Abad. The author argues that it was the first epic to be composed in Castilian and he examines the sources that the poet used for the structure of his work, for his rhetoric and for his metrical system. Throughout the work Professor Smith...

Heaven and Hell? Damnation and Salvation? In the end, it doesn't matter how you live: It only matters where you die... A dark, theological fantasy, The Fifth Horseman follows a deeply flawed young man, Emil LaFey, from the wreckage of his personal life into the realms of the Diabolical, the Divine, the Don't-Give-A-Damn, and back again. Humanity believes in God and the Devil, whilst they and their minions, in turn, believe in what Emil LaFey seems to represent. For some, however, he is merely a stepping-stone to something else.

Heaven and Hell? Damnation and Salvation? In the end, it doesn't matter how you live: It only matters where you die... A dark, theological fantasy, The Fifth Horseman follows a deeply flawed young man, Emil LaFey, from the wreckage of his personal life into the realms of the Diabolical, the Divine, the Don't-Give-A-Damn, and back again. Having demanded - and received - an invitation to Heaven, Emil and his entourage find that salvation's rewards come at a cost, not least of which is loyalty. Caught between deja vu, Nightmares (and Terrors), and memories that aren't actually his own, it's time...

Heaven and Hell? Damnation and Salvation? In the end, it doesn't matter how you live: It only matters where you die... A dark, theological fantasy, The Fifth Horseman follows a deeply flawed young man, Emil LaFey, from the wreckage of his personal life into the realms of the Diabolical, the Divine, the Don't-Give-A-Damn, and back again. Unconditional love and acceptance are, apparently, concepts only paid lip service by those who oversee salvation, prompting Emil and his slowly expanding family to venture elsewhere within the Realms in search of the questions needed to unlock the answers they...

Heaven and Hell? Damnation and Salvation? In the end, it doesn't matter how you live: it only matters where you die... A dark, theological fantasy, The Fifth Horseman follows a deeply flawed young man, Emil LaFey, from the wreckage of his personal life into the realms of the Diabolical, the Divine, the Don't-Give-A-Damn, and back again. For Emil it's been six months since the untimely demise of all aboard flight BA0359, but in the Land of the Living it's been less than four weeks. Having bid farewell to the Realms and returned to world he calls home he knows he's being watched - even if he's...

In a time of mass urban migration, the great irony of our age is that the closer we have come together the further we have moved apart. Within this globalizing world the gap between rich and poor grows ever wider, creating seemingly unbridgeable chasms between people who inhabit the same city. It is against this backdrop that Colin Smith explores what it might mean to create a different kind of narrative where these gaps become redemptive spaces, open to new possibilities. Mind the Gap weaves a rich tapestry of stories from Nairobi along with London and Cape Town. These imaginatively combine...