«Scrittore gradevolissimo, Peter Fleming combina l'eleganza della sua prosa con una documentazione di prim'ordine, alla quale attinse anche grazie alla rete di conoscenze realizzatasi negli anni di Eton e Oxford» - la Stampa L'invasione del Tibet nel 1904 è uno degli avvenimenti più incredibili della storia imperiale britannica. Concepita da Lord Curzon come una mossa strategica all'interno del Grande Gioco - il colossale scontro in atto fra Londra e la Russia zarista per il dominio dell'Asia centrale - fu condotta maldestramente e sulla base di debolissime motivazioni. Guidata da Francis Younghusband, soldato, esploratore e mistico, la missione politico-militare incappò nel fuoco diplomatico incrociato della Cina e della stessa diplomazia inglese e terminò nella vergogna e nel risentimento misto a disgusto dello stesso Younghusband. Nel ricostruire questa avventura e i suoi protagonisti, a volte carismatici, spesso grotteschi, Peter Fleming illumina quello che oggi è visto come un momento chiave in quel Grande Gioco i cui echi continuano ancora a risuonare all'interno del suo spazio geopolitico. Lo fa, come egli stesso racconta, 'dall'interno', e non semplicemente da storico.

L'epica lotta fra le armate dei Bianchi zaristi e i Rossi bolscevichi nella Russia dilaniata dalla Rivoluzione d'Ottobre. Con la maestria dello storico e gli occhi del viaggiatore che aveva conosciuto i luoghi estremi della Russia orientale, Fleming guida il lettore attraverso gli alterni destini dell'esercito contro-rivoluzionario, fino alla sua definitiva sconfitta. L'ammiraglio Kolcak, figura severa ed enigmatica, viene tratteggiato con maestria da Fleming, che ne narra la catabasi da Comandante Supremo della Russia fino alla sua cattura e alla fucilazione da parte dei Bolscevichi. L'affresco umano e tragico della più devastante fra le guerre civili del Novecento.

Never has the need to rethink the formal corporate form been more pressing than at the current juncture. In light of the major financial crisis that is on the cusp of precipitating a radical re-socialization of employment, this book will press the notion of the commons to provide a fresh perspective on what the corporation is, how it is constituted through social struggle and the shape the corporation might take in the near future. By introducing the idea of the commons, the aim of this book is to develop a more politically social understanding of organized work that will transcend the rather staid and obsolete model of the corporation currently dominating critical thinking.

This book aims to reinvigorate critical appraisals of corporatized work institutions and the exploitation (both inside and outside the formal firm) they are based upon. Author Peter Fleming brings fresh insights to the study of work and provides a robust schema for understanding employment as a conflictual site of exploited social labour in which workers shape the contours of the corporation.

Plane is at the airport preparing for a flight. Captain Koala and his co-pilot are expecting a very special passenger, the king and his family! Will Koala be able to help when the king leaves something very important behind? It's time to get busy with machines that race, vroom and zoom! This vibrant series is designed to excite playful pre-schoolers. Each story features a popular vehicle as the central character, and involves a group of animal characters in a supporting role. A detailed spread on different parts of the vehicle will help children tom understand what makes up the machines and help familiarise them with vehicle vocabulary and noises.

Train is speeding through the countryside when Dog sees a red signal. There's a fallen tree and the mail train is stuck! How can Train help to keep the mail moving? It's time to get busy with machines that race, vroom and zoom! This vibrant series is designed to excite playful pre-schoolers. Each story features a popular vehicle as the central character, and involves a group of animal characters in a supporting role. A detailed spread on different parts of the vehicle will help children tom understand what makes up the machines and help familiarise them with vehicle vocabulary and noises.

With lighthearted rhyme and repetition, Read to Me! will captivate children and remind their grownups that the magic of reading can happen here, there, and everywhere!
So wherever you’re heading with your child, don’t forget to pack a book—or two—because this charming book will soon have your child reciting right along:

I like to bring a book with me everywhere I go
I like to read about new things and see what I don’t know
I like to read the words and see the pictures too
And you know what I really like? I like to read with you!
So let’s stop for a moment, wherever we may be.
Any place is a good place for you to read to me!

Join the happy children here as they go up mountains, down to the sea or snuggle up by the soft firelight, all the while saying "Please read to me!"

Just one more book!

Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge.

Camera Trapping provides a benchmark of the international developments and uses of camera traps for monitoring wildlife for research and management. Four major themes are presented: case studies demonstrating camera trapping for monitoring; the constraints and pitfalls of camera technologies; design standards and protocols for camera trapping surveys; and the identification, management and analyses of the myriad images that derive from camera trapping studies. The final chapter provides future directions for research using camera traps.

In addition, remarkable photographs are included, showing interesting, enlightening and entertaining images of animals "doing their thing".

News from Tartary describes a phenomenally successful attempt that legendary adventurer Peter Fleming made to travel overland from Peking to Kashmir. The journey took seven months and covered about 3,500 miles. and Motivated largely by curiosity, he set out with his companion Ella Maillart across a China torn by civil war to journey through Xinjiang to British India. It had been eight years since anyone had crossed Xinjiang; in between those who had entered this inhospitable and politically volatile area—under the control of a warlord supported by Stalin's Red Army—seldom left alive. Entering the province by a little known route and following the path of the Silk Road, they ended up in Kashgar before crossing the Pamirs to India. Beautifully written and superbly observed, this is not simply an account of a part of the world few of us will ever see, but also a marvellous insight into the last days of the Great Game, when Britain and Russia still faced each other across a Central Asia in a state of anarchy.

With so much now expected of middle leaders in schools, this book aims to help those in middle leadership positions to become more confident and effective in their roles. It systematically considers every aspect of the role including team building, raising standards, holding others to account and managing change.

With a wealth of practical guidance, the book covers the essential skills needed by middle leaders such as managing meetings, conducting difficult conversations and development planning while also offering insights into why some middle leaders are so much more effective than others. Covering all aspects of middle leadership, features include:

• an analysis of different leadership styles
• case studies written by current middle leaders in schools
• reflection and action points throughout

This book is essential reading for secondary school teachers who are about to become middle leaders and need guidance on how to get to grips with the role. It will also be of value to existing middle leaders who want to improve their performance and effectiveness.

Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective.

A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and colonizing agenda of the corporation. By examining CSR in the context of the political economy of late capitalism, the book puts the emphasis back on the fact that most large corporations are fundamentally driven by profit maximization, making CSR initiatives merely another means to this end. Rather than undermining or challenging unsustainable corporate practices CSR is exposed as an ideological practice that actually upholds the prominence of such practices.

As CSR gathers momentum in management practice and scholarship, students in the fields of CSR, business ethics, and strategy, will find this text a useful companion to counter received wisdom in this area.

Aimed at supporting those undertaking initial teacher training and the statutory Induction period that follows, Becoming a Secondary School Teacher explores the skills, roles and knowledge needed to become a successful teacher in today’s secondary schools. Providing detailed guidance on key areas of professional practice, the book helps the reader to link key theories and principles to the reality they will find in the classroom.

This edition has been fully updated to reflect the latest legislation and Teachers’ Standards as well as changes in practice and expectations regarding learning, assessment and inclusion. Highly accessible and full of practical advice it includes:

• guidance on key skills for classroom success including lesson planning, classroom management and assessment;

• practical tips on handling areas of real concern such as discipline, workload, job interviews and relationships with colleagues;

• advice on teaching beyond your specialist subject and teaching in challenging circumstances;

• reference throughout to the Core Standards that have to be met during training, what these mean in practice and how they might be evidenced.

With a strong reflective focus through case studies, action points and reflection points, this book is core reading for all students wanting to get the most out of their initial teacher training programme.

Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence – a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term – where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what does the worker tell us today? 'I feel drained, empty… dead.' This book tells the story of the dead man working. It follows this figure through the daily tedium of the office, to the humiliating mandatory team building exercise, to awkward encounters with the funky boss who pretends to hate capitalism and tells you to be authentic. In this society, the experience of work is not of dying...but neither of living. It is one of a living death. And yet, the dead man working is nevertheless compelled to wear the exterior signs of life, to throw a pretty smile, feign enthusiasm and make a half-baked joke. When the corporation has colonized life itself, even our dreams, the question of escape becomes ever more pressing, ever more desperate…