Bøger af Peter Taylor

Welcome to Weird War Two, a catalogue of the weird, the wonderful and the downright eccentric, from deep within the Imperial War Museum's Second World War archives. From wacky inventions to elusive secret agents, from bizarre propaganda posters to the dummy acting as a decoy for a daring escape, from inflatable tanks to painted cows, this is proof that, as ever, the truth is stranger than fiction.

A property valuer is found murdered in a back lane in a seaside resort in the north of England.It's the spring of 2008 and Walter Walker had made a lot of enemies through his ruthless valuations of homes in the savage credit crunch which followed the financial crisis and the collapse of the Northern Rock banking empire.DI Vic Pollard, back on the force after being falsely framed during an investigation in to the murder of a Tyneside businessman, sets out to find the killer, interviewing a trail of disgruntled property buyers and developers.But something doesn't add up and Pollard finds himself increasingly suspicious of his partner, an attractive travel blogger with seemingly unlimited wealth.He is drawn in to a web of duplicity and a conspiracy to stage many more murders.The only weapon he has to fight with - local knowledge.

VETERAN CID boss Vic Pollard drinks too much, thinks too much (about the childhood he lost because of his war-damaged father), and hits rock bottom when he is overlooked for the top job he thought had his name on it - in favour of a rank outsider.He quits the Northumbria police force but there is no escape when a dismembered body is found in a giant petrol storage tank being drained of leaded petrol as part of the quiet, green forecourt revolution which ended the four-star era at the advent of the new millennium.It has been hidden away in time and perfectly preserved for decades and is to plunge Vic back in to the past which haunts him, dragging all manner of skeletons out of the cupboard.With the man who pinched his job gunning for him, he must fight for the living and the dead...and his own sanity. The only way is to fight dirty.

Meet Gordon the Grape, Nigel the Nasty Carrot as well as Oliver the Unhappy Onion in these 'made at home' children's stories

Matching the speed of change in modern business, this book takes readers on a 2-year journey in building a project management office (PMO) for today and tomorrow, and redefines the PMO as what it should focus on: projects, methods and outcomes.Many organisations invest heavily in PMOs, but these are built on an outdated and static model that does not fit a hybrid, agile, AI-empowered and rapidly changing business environment. Building on his renowned 'balanced PMO' model, project management leader Peter Taylor tackles today's challenges with this diary-style guide to inspire all PMO leaders, project managers and business leaders, and provide a roadmap to follow to build (or rebuild) their own PMOs. He presents a completely new definition of 'PMO', eliminating the traditional back-office concept of a centralized PMO, with his 'Projects: Methods: Outcomes' construct that provides a truly business-focused team to oversee the delivery of value to their organization.Enriched with case studies and practical models, this book will benefit all PMO leaders, project management professionals, change and transformation leaders and anyone interested in how to deliver business value through projects.

Does it feel like the sharks are circling when you present? We aren't born to be professional level presenters but through this entertaining book the 'rights' and 'wrongs' of good presentations are explored along with a 'how to prepare' for that all important event. With a few simple lessons taught through the very format of 'presentation' the readers will take away some great ideas for improving their own technique and 'death by PowerPoint' is definitely not the outcome.

Cities Within Us offers poems that are dense and deep with language that resonates at multiple levels and often startles with its juxtapositions and verbal explosions. From the intimately personal to the dramatically confessional, Peter Taylor's poems capture a purse seine of discordant voices, including a piece of type, a bee, an orang-outang, Franklin, the delusional and the abused in a universe that seems both unlimited and inevitable. Images and emotions move the reader from the disappearance of arctic explorers to the razing and rebirth of the Dresden Frauenkirche to the comic innocence of a child's visit to Mars in poems that explore the inner landscapes of imagination and reality, and the intimate capacity for joy and loss.

On its own, the invitation to taste poison is phenomenally bad advice, but as encouragement to engage with your more difficult emotions and to address your discontent at its source, in your mind, it can change your world. A big part of practicing mindfulness is remembering to do it. Our physical senses of touch, sound, smell, sight, and taste are constant reminders for us to become aware of where and when we are. Every moment is an opportunity to awaken awareness and if suffering is part of that awareness, to consciously generate compassion in response. The essays in this book use ideas from Zen Buddhism, mindfulness, and meditation practices to encourage engagement with suffering, to look for its sources in thinking and self, and to find liberation in the process. When we learn to recognize the flavors of the poisons in our lives, we can practice working with them to help us feel better and to benefit all beings.

Described by Anne Tyler as "the undisputed master of the short story form," Peter Taylor imbued his stories with a powerful sense of the conflicts between the old rural society and the increasingly urbanized South. Ranging in subject from the story of the exposure of a respected doctor's infidelity by the family's longtime cook to the tale of elderly siblings whose party for young people exposes the town's class divisions, the stories often explore family dynamics within the larger society of the South.

In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life-as Nathan's mother's first true love, a charmer of European society, a Don Juan, a worldly success-and sees it in stinging contrast to his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming an artist. Much later in life, the two men-now old-will meet again.

For the first time, the complete stories of the master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South.Born and raised in Tennessee, Peter Taylor was the great chronicler of the American Upper South, capturing its gossip and secrets, its divided loyalties and morally complicated legacies in tales of pure-distilled brilliance. Now, for his centennial year, the Library of America and acclaimed short story writer Ann Beattie present an unprecedented two-volume edition of Taylor's complete short fiction, all fifty-nine of the stories published in his lifetime in the order in which they were composed. This first volume offers twenty-nine early masterpieces, including such classics as "A Spinster's Tale," "What You Hear from 'Em?," "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" and "Miss Leonora When Last Seen." As a special feature, an appendix in the first volume gathers three stories Taylor published as an undergraduate that show the early emergence of his singular style and sensibility.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

This book is a guide to eating healthily for yourself as well as for the planet; it features over 60 recipes which are designed to offer information and inspiration for finding a balance that benefits your body and its environment.

Unless we make drastic changes, the climate damage that we are causing by living in cities will result in terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption towards making cities spaces for activism.

This book should carry a health warning - once started, it's very hard to put down, even when sleep is calling! The giant Withers takes us through an imaginative series of encounters with dwarves, a dragon princess, goblins and the evil sorcerer Maugrin - all variously embroiled in a series of exciting adventures, sometimes frightening, sometimes humorous and sometimes both. Maugrin is getting old and needs to find a new body to house his wicked soul. He selects Withers and sets about tricking him into making the change. The source of Maugrin's power is an ancient book, from the pages of which he can conjure diabolical and terrifying things. Can his will be resisted? Brilliant to have a book that both adults and children can enjoy together! Read on . . .

Interviews that penetrate the Northern Ireland motivations by the author of Brits

This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu's development into a global city.

Ensure your project or programme delivers long term benefits with this in-depth look at the most pressing challenges of modern global project managers.

Its re-publication makes this classic piece of spatial (political) science available to contemporary audiences, for whom it is as relevant as when the book first appeared in 1979.

A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter TaylorIn 'Talking to Terrorists' Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come face-to-face with IRA terrorists and Islamic jihadis.What are terrorists really like? How do states counter them? And should governments talk to them? Drawing on more than 35 years of reporting terrorism, Taylor asks these difficult questions as he tries to understand the motives of the men and women behind some of the world's most notorious terror attacks.The reality behind terrorism is complex. As the saying goes, 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter'. Many former 'terrorists' have gone on to become statesmen: Menachem Begin of Israel's Irgun, Yasser Arafat of Palestine's Fatah, Nelson Mandela of South Africa's ANC, and Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness of Ireland's Irish Republican Army. Stripped of their masks, bombs and guns, terrorists are normal people - but they are prepared to kill in the name of a cause in which they believe.Taylor asks what lessons can be learned from the resolution of conflict in Northern Ireland in confronting the threat of Islamic extremism, and tackles head-on the highly topical issue of extracting actionable intelligence that could save lives. When does interrogation become torture? Often, he argues, there is little choice but to talk to the enemy.

Training courses do not always produce the outcomes desired. Peter Taylor shows how to improve the quality of the entire training process by showing trainers, trainees and other stakeholders how to adapt training courses to their local conditions to create sustainable improvement.

Reveals a disturbing collusion of interests responsible for creating a distorted understanding of changes in global climate. This book concludes that the main driver of global warming has been an unprecedented combination of natural events.