An Unobtrusive Vice

An Unobtrusive Vice
Author: Ullyatt, Tony
Publisher: Dryad Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0639914101

“Crouched among the last surviving pieces of my life’s wreck, I seek a chemistry, some wizard’s formula which releases the wayward life from its grim history.” – Tony Ullyatt, ‘Like Icarus’

Landscapes of Light and Loss

Landscapes of Light and Loss
Author: Symons, Stephen
Publisher: Dryad Press
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2018-11-09
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0639914144

"The poems in this collection bear witness with the crisp attention of a Robert Capa photograph. These ecosystems, each with their own by-laws ... hold together such a curious, nearly impossible balance in his new book." - David Keplinger, author of Another City (Milkweed Editions, 2018)

Father Allan

Father Allan
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0857909584

Early on a Sunday morning in October 1905, in Eriskay, one of the smallest and most isolated of Hebridean islands, a forty-five year old Catholic parish priest died of pleurisy. It was a disease which had claimed many of his parishioners, and Father Allan McDonald undoubtedly contracted it while ministering to his flock. He was mourned all over Scotland. Now, over a century later, his name is still remembered with reverence throughout Catholic Scotland and beyond. Father Allan – Maighstir Ailein to his Gaelic-speaking people – was a witty, accomplished, intellectual and dedicated man; one of the most renowned of Hebridean personalities and probably the most celebrated Hebridean priest since St Columba. An exceptionally effective and articulate local politician in the southern Outer Hebrides, which at the turn of the twentieth century was amongst the poorest and most neglected in Europe, he was also an accomplished Gaelic poet and writer and one of Scotland's greatest collectors of folklore. His achievements attracted attention and visitors came to his lonely parish from the United States, England and elsewhere. The compelling tale of his remarkable life is also implicitly the story of the north-west Highlands in the late nineteenth century and the Catholic Hebrides in their transcendent prime, where culture overflows with myth and adventure, colour, character and extraordinary unspoilt beauty.

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations
Author: Robert J. House
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2004-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1452208123

Culture, Leadership, and Organizations reports the results of a ten-year research program, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) research program. GLOBE is a long-term program designed to conceptualize, operationalize, test, and validate a cross-level integrated theory of the relationship between culture and societal, organizational, and leadership effectiveness. A team of 160 scholars worked together since 1994 to study societal culture, organizational culture, and attributes of effective leadership in 62 cultures. Culture, Leadership, and Organizations: The GLOBE Study of 62 Societies reports the findings of the first two phases of GLOBE. The book is primarily based on the results of the survey of over 17,000 middle managers in three industries: banking, food processing, and telecommunications, as well as archival measures of country economic prosperity and the physical and psychological well-being of the cultures studied. GLOBE has several distinguishing features. First, it is truly a cross-cultural research program. The constructs were defined, conceptualized, and operationalized by the multicultural team of researchers. Second, the industries were selected through a polling of the country investigators, and the instruments were designed with the full participation of the researchers representing the different cultures. Finally, the data in each country were collected by investigators who were either natives of the cultures studied or had extensive knowledge and experience in that culture. A unique feature of this book is that while it is an edited book and many experts have written the different chapters, unlike other edited books, it is a fully integrated, seamless, and cohesive book covering the many aspects of the theory underpinning the GLOBE.

Library Lighting

Library Lighting
Author: Keyes DeWitt Metcalf
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1970
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

AF Press Clips

AF Press Clips
Author: United States Department of State. Bureau of African Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 824
Release: 1983
Genre:
ISBN:

Allegories of the Everyday

Allegories of the Everyday
Author: Walter, Brian
Publisher: Dryad Press
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2019-10-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 063980912X

"Allegories of the Everyday illuminates new ground: even as death looms, Brian Walter is more lucid, richly rhythmical, wide-ranging, compassionate and (in his own phrase) “relentlessly aware” than ever." – Dan Wylie