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The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people

Gain a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of recruitment, retention, talent management and engagement with this essential textbook.

Danny's already killed him twice...But Snipe Won't Stay Dead and is out for revenge...Nicholas Snipe is brought back to life in the back of the ambulance, when his memory returns so does his lust for revenge...

Your best friend's been kidnapped...How far are you prepared to go to get them back...When Danny's best friend Scott Miller vanishes from his hotel in Brazil, Danny uses his own unique skill set to track him down.

When anyone could be the enemy...You watch your back...Danny, Scott and Nicki are drawn into a deadly world where anyone can be the enemy...

Enemies on all sides...Will Danny reach his breaking point...A Journalist is killed by an arms dealer known as the Wolf. The Wolf disappears forever when Danny's SAS unit get close, or so they thought...

The hunt is on...But whose hunting who...When Danny's ex-SAS friend goes missing, the old unit reunite to find him. The search leads them deep into a world of international drug smugglers run by the lord of the manor...

The hunt is on...But whose hunting who...When Danny ex-SAS friend goes missing, the old unit reunite to find him. The search leads them deep into a world of international drug smugglers run by the lord of the manor...

A face from the past...A nightmare for the future...Threatened with closure, a government agency takes extreme measures.

They tried to assassinate him...Big mistake...As a Secret organisation manipulates events around the globe. Danny Pearson, the one man who can stop them is being relentlessly pursued by a deadly assassin...

Money is power...Money is everything...Terrorists and mercenary killers plot to change the balance of world power. Can Danny Pearson stop them, or will this be his downfall...

Human Resource Management: People and Organisations provides thorough coverage of key HR topics and their context to enable students to excel in their academic studies and begin a successful career as a people professional. Now fully updated for a third edition, Human Resource Management: People and Organisations covers everything from essential UK employment law and managing the employment relationship through to resourcing and workforce planning, employee engagement and reward management. There is also expert discussion on organisation design and development as well as advice on how to improve organisational performance. This edition now includes brand new chapters on people management in an international context, wellbeing at work and equity, diversity and inclusion This book is fully supported by a range of pedagogical features including learning outcomes to summarise the content that will be covered in each chapter and track progress, reflective activities to consolidate learning and further reading suggestions to aid wider engagement with areas of particular interest. Case studies throughout also help students understand how the theory applies in practice. It is ideal reading for anyone studying the CIPD Associate Diploma in People Management as well as those in the early stages of their career in HR.. Online resources include PowerPoint slides, a lecturer guide and annotated web links.

What would you do for family...Would you die for them...The London mob clash with the Russian Mafia and the death and violence escalate. Danny Pearson has no choice but to end the war before more family die...

Excel at human resource management studies and prepare for a role as a people professional with this bestselling textbook.

Gain a thorough understanding of the key HR topics which affect employees and the overall business with this comprehensive textbook.

Excel at human resource management studies and prepare for a role as a people professional with this bestselling textbook.

The Humoral Herbal explores the traditional art of restoring health by balancing the four humours of the body and explains how this healing wisdom can be used for our benefit today. This is a beautifully illustrated book with full colour charts and photographs.The Humoral Herbal describes with clarity the key concepts of western humoral medicine, and how to diagnose imbalances in the humours. It details how to correct these imbalances through the use of herbs and changes in diet and lifestyle. The book also explores Medieval astrological symbolism, and through the use of clear charts and diagrams, explains how the different humours function and influence health. A comprehensive and practical herbal guide details the humoral and planetary characteristics of each herb and how to choose the correct remedy.

Use this brand new CIPD textbook to understand the theory and practice of the developments that have changed the world of work including technology, sustainability and globalization.

For undergraduate business and management courses, as well as CIPD-accredited courses. Develop skills to put theory into practice, using academic research and current issuesHuman Resource Management, 11th Edition, by Torrington, Hall, Taylor and Atkinson is praised for its comprehensive scope of topics, coverage of important HRM issues and succinctness. It is a great introduction to human resources for students pursuing undergraduate business and management courses, as well as those on CIPD accredited courses. Human resource management helps those aspiring to or working in HR or management roles. The eleventh edition has been thoroughly updated with the economic, social and legal employment practice changes and is specifically designed to cover the issues and debates facing HRM today, backed up by academic research. Pearson, the worlds learning company.

A brilliant telling of the history of the common seaman in the age of sail, and his role in Britain's trade, exploration, and warfare

Her curious ways attracted gossip right into her final years when she raised a mysterious dark-skinned child at her home in Berkeley Square. Anne Barnard's verse was celebrated by Walter Scott but she was also a brilliant and indefatigable diarist.

Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.

The Indian Ocean, 1809. At stake: Britain's commercial lifeline to India and naval supremacy. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. Storm and Conquest brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to drive the French from the Eastern seas. All shared a need to prove themselves - to make a career, or a fortune, or a marriage - in places which could be at once magnificent and terrifying.

The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east Africa, an astonishing number of her crew and passengers, including women and children, reached the shore safely. But the castaways were hundreds of miles from the nearest European outpost - and utterly ignorant of their surroundings and the people among whom they found themselves.Stephen Taylor pieces together this extraordinary saga with tremendous narrative flair. Drawing upon much new research, he sifts the myths that became attached to the 'Grosvenor' from a reality that is no less gripping. Taking the reader to the heart of what is now the Wild Coast of Pondoland, The Caliban Shore reveals the misunderstandings that led to tragedy, tells the story of those who escaped and unravels the mystery of those who stayed.

Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a man overboard. He is the likely model for the heroic but all-too-human Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's novels.Pellew was orphaned at eight, but fought his way from the very bottom of the Navy to fleet command and a viscountcy. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet as an outsider with a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Contemporary opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, in leading from the front in the style of his direct contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive.Pellew's humanity as much as his gallantry, fondness for subordinates and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging and sympathetic figure. In Stephen Taylor's magnificent new life he at last has the biography he deserves.

The second of four volumes containing the edited texts, commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine hundred occasions of special worship and for each of the annual commemorations in England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.