White Maclean Publishing: 11 books

Cover of Managing for Performance
by Alasdair White
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011

Performance management is crucial to a manager's success. To be an effective manager you need to concentrate on three main areas of responsibility: determining the objective of your team and how it will be reached; ensuring your team members are selected, developed and trained appropriately; and motivating...
Cover of The Road to Waterloo: a concise history of the 1815 campaign
by Alasdair White
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015

'Napoleon's plan ... was to stop the allied armies combining, defeat them separately, and force them to sue for peace.' This is the story of the towering ambition of a man willing to impoverish his people in pursuit of personal glory. From the disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812 to his defeat on...
Cover of Dancing in the Time of War
by Alasdair White
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015

In 'Dancing in the time of war', Alasdair White looks at the social side of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and tells us why there were so many expatriates, notably British, in Brussels at the time, attending the numerous balls, dinners and picnics on offer to the social elite. The Duchess...
Cover of From Comfort Zone to Performance Management
by Alasdair White
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011

This paper seeks to take the established behavioural models relating to comfort zones, group and individual development, and managing change, and use them to create a methodology for understanding and managing performance. It seeks to provide a reliable approach to getting the best out of people that...
Cover of Managing Academic Performance
by Alasdair White
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011

During their academic careers, students go through a series of major changes and entering university is one of the most significant. From primary school through to the end of secondary school, they have been in a ‘protected environment’ under the control of teachers; at home, they will have had...
Cover of Chaya and the Spider Gem
by H.L. Rankin
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011

“OOWww!” came the pained cry, and the white cloak reared up. It shook itself and the top of it resolved into a pair of pointed ears and a muzzle full of indignantly bristled whiskers. “What in Lady’s name are you playing at?” growled the catman, rubbing at the tugged spot which Chaya had...
Cover of Digital Footprints
by Alex Mather
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012

Remember those photographs you took doing something you’d rather forget with someone you can’t remember in a location you can’t recall? You discarded the originals, of course. And what about that exchange of e-mails that got out of hand and which you now deeply regret. You deleted them of course,...
Cover of Sympathy for the Devil
by Terin Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013

When journalist Charles Lawton finds a cartridge case from an M16-A1 assault rifle near a desiccated body in the Texas Panhandle, he knows he is on to a front-page story – but as he investigates, he finds himself drawn into the murky politics and casual indifference to the death of a rural community...
Cover of From proposal to thesis: Revised edition
by Denis Feather
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015

About to write your dissertation? Did you start the work and then get stuck? Don't worry, help is at hand - and now there's a revised edition!This highly practical book is full of useful advice and tips on how to write your thesis, taking you through the whole process from getting started...
Cover of Retribution
by Alex Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

'No one saw who threw the fire-bomb. It arched over the crowd, hit the lights on the top of the police car, broke and sent burning fuel over the vehicle. A deep collective sigh went up from those at the front of the crowd, but no one moved as the police driver and his partner scrambled to safety.'In...
Cover of Shadows
by Alex Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Following the murder of a young investigative journalist in France, Luc Hansen, an agent of the elite but shadowy DER, the European Union’s security and intelligence directorate, uncovers a massive fraud and arms running operation orchestrated from within the heart of the European Commission in...
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