Bøger af Ray Holland

It's a tale of good and evil, of trust and suspicion, of the power of love and loyalty. Little Goliath and his friends face adversity from within themselves, from one another, and from the forces of evil as they work to foil the Neuralgia Sisters' nefarious plot to achieve world domination.

What do you think would happen if a dedicated career hermit were suddenly to find himself the object of a lovely young lady's affections? To make the story more fun, let's say this young lady is - ahem - a bit more active in her love life than some people would consider proper. Her father just happens to be the mayor of their village, and he views her behavior as a "political embarrassment" that could cost him the next election. All this adds up to a playfully-written story, sort-of-but-not-quite-a-parable, full of politicians plotting devious and underhanded schemes, a PR firm working feverishly to spin the heck out of the various scandals that result, a hermit whose spiritual journey goes terribly awry, and a girl who wishes people would just let her enjoy life in her own way.

Hang out with Gilbert Ragwater as he runs his independent music store, romances his girlfriend Lisa, plays Fear and Loathing in Hell with his best friend John Plow, rescues his ne'er-do-well brother Gustav from unseemly situations, engages in a war of stupid pranks with Russ at Olive's Coffee Shop, and more, much more. Oh, and I almost forgot: He gets involved in a strange little deal with a strange little man and learns a few things about himself. Yeah, you might call it a coming-of-age story for those of us with arrested development.

Ray Holland, M.S. has been a therapist for over 3 decades and is licensed in both Florida and North Carolina. For several years he presented at retreats for couples and developed relationship groups. Most recently, he has been focusing on trauma and addiction and exploring how partners can help each other heal. He finds creative-expression through writing and experimenting with multimedia in the visual arts. He lives with the love of his life, Catherine, a very talented trauma-therapist, in Horse Shoe, N.C.

This core textbook emphasizes the power of design management to drive corporate strategic goals, showing how design strategies can be thoughtfully formulated and managed to improve the performance of organizations. Taking an engaging and accessible approach, this book will help design students and graduates to apply new concepts of design management in their works and to use design strategically to achieve organizational visions and targets. Throughout the book's tripartite structure - comprising an introduction to the topic, followed by sections on how strategic design can be used to support key businesses functions and how it can be used to push organisations forward - a strong link is made between design and marketing and the delivery of design-led branding.This textbook is essential for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students studying design management on art and design degrees. It also caters for practitioners and specialist elective modules offered on business and management, and marketing and entrepreneurship courses in Business Schools.

A summary of the state of the art in micro-hydro with a section on the economics of micro-hydro installation and operation. Invaluable to engineers, consultants and field workers in the developing world.