This unique, cross-disciplinary volume encourages a new synthesis in the vibrant field of leadership studies. Comprising reflective conversations among scholars from different disciplines, the contributors explore common ground for new research and ideas. Beginning with chapters by noted experts in fields such as psychology, education and philosophy, the contributors present the key contributions from their disciplines. A final section provides an integration of the different disciplinary approaches. Through sustained critical interrogation and discussion, the goal is to discover to what...

This text offers a practical one-to-one learning approach designed to help clients make the choices that are right for them. By drawing on existential thinking, psychotherapy and business theory, it employs a wide range of techniques to focus on the unique situation of the client, their goals and how these can be achieved.

How to use the power of invitation to double the size of your church

This book teaches the power of invitation. It may sound simple, but we are so caught up in our busy church lives that we have missed it.

In 2004 Michael Harvey gave up a high-flying job in London to teach church leaders to see new possibilities, using an approach that has quickly become established as Back to Church Sunday. Michael likes to challenge churches of all sizes to double their congregation in a day. The basics are simple: Invite your friends and become an inviting church. Develop a mind-set open...

After witnessing a shooting - and receiving a phone call from the killer himself - private investigator Michael Kelly is drawn toward a murderer with an unnerving link to his own past, to a crime he witnessed as a child and to the consequences it had on his relationship with his father; a subject Kelly would prefer to leave unexamined.

Michael Kelly, a tough-talking Irish cop turned private investigator, is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband. The trail leads him to an old house on Chicago's North Side. Here he finds a body and what looks like the answer to one of Chicago's most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and why.

How to redirect the culture of your church outwards and get over the barriers that hold so many churches back
We like to think of our churches as welcoming. Michael Harvey, an expert on unlocking the growth God wants to give to the church, asks, "How welcoming can we be if we don't take our welcome outside with the gift of an invitation?" God sent His Son to invite us all into a relationship, and so to be like God is to be a person who invites.
During the decade that he has been developing Back to Church Sunday, Michael Harvey has conducted an extensive study on the seemingly simple...

Written from the perspective of the Average Adjuster, and updated to include a detailed analysis of the new rules adopted in 2016, this book is an essential read for practitioners in maritime law and marine insurance.

The book contains: 　

• Historical references regarding the establishment of General Average from Roman Law onwards
• Details of the establishment of International rules to achieve uniformity in the adjustment of General Average and their development:

• The Glasgow Resolutions of 1860　
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Cursed with love by his step-mother, Culhwch (Pig Boy) is condemned to love and marry Olwen, the daughter of the Hawthorn Giant-pitiless, violent and huge. So begins the quest-first to the court of King Arthur to wins support for the quest. In this earliest and earthiest of Arthurian tales, we are in the grip of the Otherworld, where landscape, nature and doing what we can to make a better future, no matter how impossible that might seem, are everything. Making a future despite the odds and despite the terrible and debilitating pain that afflicts Pig Boy as part of his love of Olwen will...