Michael Heath: 14 books

The management secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Management.Includes how to:• Build a goal-oriented team• Successfully manage individuals, teams and projects• Set clear goals and give quality feedback• Get things done on time and on budget• Deal with difficult situations

The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership.Includes how to:• Understand and develop your leadership style• Identify strategic goals for your department• Motivate and manage teams of all sizes• Build a culture of results and responsibility• Lead the way out of a crisis

WILLOW MOON is a historical adventure story set in China in 1872 that tells the moving story of British trader, Richard Covington, and Lihua, the Chinese girl he loved. In Christie’s London auction rooms in 2012, a painting by Chinese Master Bingwen, called The Willow Moon, sells for a record...

Powerfully evoking the atmosphere and mood of 1930s London, DEVEREUX …and a question of class is an engaging crime novel that introduces a brand new private detective – Clayton Devereux. Former military intelligence officer, Clayton Devereux, resigned his commission in 1930 and set-up...

In a carefully researched and detailed narrative, CONQUERED HEARTS tells a moving and engaging love story set in Jersey during the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War Two. The discovery of a skeleton on a Jersey farm in the summer of 2010 leads a local reporter to elderly...

LEGACY is a crime thriller with a plot that continually twists and turns and wrong-foots the reader right up to the final shocking denouement. James Mackintosh, a high profile journalist, receives a bizarre telephone call announcing a series of three murders. The first of the caller’s predictions...

THE PRESIDIUM is an intense, exciting thriller with a fast-paced narrative weaving between London and Vienna as journalist Josh Brody seeks the truth behind the covering-up of a murder. When an African diplomat dies in his hotel room from a heart attack after buying the services of a call...

Strategic Issues Management explores the strategic planning options that organizations can employ to address crucial public policy issues, engage in collaborative decision making, get the organization's "house" in order, engage in tough defense and smart offense, and monitor opinion changes...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts &...

The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience...

Moist-soil wetlands are seasonally flooded areas that produce early-succession plant communities of grasses, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. Moist-soil wetland plants provide food and cover for a diversity of wildlife species, including waterfowl and other waterbirds. Thus, conservation and management...

The novels of the South African writer J. M. Coetzee won him global recognition and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. His work offers substantial pedagogical richness and challenges. Coetzee treats such themes as race, aging, gender, animal rights, power, violence, colonial history and accountability,...

“In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:16 __________________________ If your church suddenly disappeared, would anyone notice? We can’t answer that question without taking a closer look at the type of...

If you only take the roads you know, you'll never discover the places you don't. We've been trained on what success looks like, what it feels like, how it is defined and how we attain it... but what if there's more to success and failure than we are comfortable with? What if living the life God has...