Most Popular Books by Andy Smith

Sports Development is an important emerging field of academic study with a distinctive contribution to make to wider social, cultural, economic and educational policies and practices. Sports Development: Policy, Process and Practice offers a detailed, authoritative and dependable guide to all aspects of the subject. Now in its second edition, this popular course text examines the roles of those working in and around sports development and explores how professionals can devise better and more effective ways of promoting interest, participation or performance in sport. The book has been fully updated to include coverage of contemporary debates about mass participation, community sports development, social inclusion, coaching and talent development, PE and school sport, working and volunteering in sports development, elite performance and the Olympic Games, research and policy evaluation. Sports Development represents an invaluable resource for university and further education students, researchers and those working in sports development and is essential reading for all those wanting to prove themselves effective in this area.

Do you want to improve your people skills, handle difficult people better, and make your business more effective? These tools from NLP can help you!Business is mostly about dealing with people - so the skills and tools of NLP can help you lead, sell and motivate more effectively. This book brings together advanced models and patterns that will help you at work or in building your business. These include: The ''Levels of Change'' model for team building and successful organisational change The most useful meta programs for understanding and influencing people in a business context How to use Perceptual Positions to deal with and even learn from difficult people How to give feedback effectively, and handle critical feedback resourcefully Why you have to change people''s emotional states before you can change their minds How to run better meetings The 123-XL model for successful negotiations The CRAFT model for selling and influencing with NLP NLP for leadership ... and much more!Get this book today and take your business and leadership skills to the next level!

Learn the language that shows interviewers you''ve got the right stuff for the Fire Service. Discover the key techniques that make the best candidates stand out. Unique method identifies your most relevant experience. Step-by-step guide turns your experience into perfect interview answers. Based on current Fire Service interview methods and questions (EXAMPLES INCLUDED). Find out the most common mistakes and priceless hints and tips. Written by a serving middle-manager currently interviewing within the UK Fire and Rescue Service. The most up-to-date and relevant guide available in the UK. No-nonsense, just everything you need to pass the Fire Service interview. There are currently several books, e-books and DVDs available on Amazon and other outlets all claiming to offer help and advice on how to pass the Firefighter Selection Process. A few of them offer some useful ideas and tips but all of them are inadequate in that they are either outdated or written for an American audience. Some of them are just plain wrong and unhelpful. This is the only book available which is focused entirely on how to pass the interview process, written by a serving middle manager, currently working in the recruitment process within a UK Fire and Rescue Service. All other guide books are either written by former employees of Fire and Rescue Services, or by people who have never even worked in one. Even the best of those are now several years out of date and several of them are stuffed with filler about the medical and physical stages, which is information that you can get for free online. This is the most up-to-date guidebook available and is entirely focused on the interview stage of the recruitment process in the UK. Where the interview is concerned, this is the only book you will need. The author has been involved in the interview process for over ten years, as an employee of two separate Fire and Rescue Services and working collaboratively with several others. He is still heavily involved today, writing interview questions, conducting the interviews themselves, assessing performance and providing feedback, both for interviewers and interviewees. He has interviewed countless hopefuls trying to get into the Fire and Rescue Service, hoping to become both Retained (On-Call) and Wholetime Firefighters as well as existing personnel trying to gain promotion to Crew, Watch and Station Manager. The author sits on working groups with Fire and Rescue Services from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to keep abreast of current trends and themes and has successfully mentored several individuals from other regions through the recruitment process. There can be few people currently writing in the UK with a better insight into what it takes to succeed in a Fire and Rescue Service interview. Here he shares his invaluable experience of common mistakes to avoid as well as the real nuggets of knowledge - the simple key methods that will really blow your interviewer away, take your performance up to the next level, and make you stand out from the rest.

In ''Twelve Months and Counting'' writer and musician Andy Smith travels unsteadily through the first year of life without his wife.When Helen died of cancer in August 2019 the loss was enormous. She was fifty six years old. Initially he found comfort in documenting his progress through Facebook posts and composing music. But after a year had passed, he felt the need to write something more substantial and share his experiences of what it''s really like to lose the most important person in your life.This book is an honest, heartbreaking, occasionally funny account of how he''s coped with his new life. A life without Helen. He tells the story of how they met, about their love. He talks about her illness and her premature death. He tells how he''s tried to cope with his loss and acknowledges the help of family and friends and the benefit of counselling.Through personal anecdotes, Andy weaves the tsunami of grief with ''real life'' events. He intersperses the chapters with candid excerpts from some of his Facebook posts, which adds a poignant truth to the narrative.This is his story, warts and all. A first hand account of how it feels to be ''the one that''s left behind''. The confusion, the desperation, the total disbelief, but ultimately the hope

We describe the development of an antenna-coupled bolometer array for use in a Cosmic Microwave Background polarization experiment. Prototype single pixels using double-slot dipole antennas and integrated microstrip band defining filters have been built and tested. Preliminary results of optical testing and simulations are presented. A bolometer array design based on this pixel will also be shown and future plans for application of the technology will be discussed.

Fun activity book for kids! With a bunch of different activities including tracing, coloring, maze, puzzle, connect the dot and so on, kids will have sense of relaxation and have stress relief while learning. Moreover, this book not only does help kids have fun, but also cultivate their creation, inspire imagination and develop fine-motor skills. This book is perfectly suitable for kids aged 6-8 for both boys and girls who love coloring, solve puzzles, trace and be creative. It is also an ideal gift for all occasions High quality of pages with vivid glossy cover Perfect size 8.5x11 inches Printed on one sided paged to avoid bleed-through Many lovely images of Winnie The Pooh

A step by step process to ensure you profit from your children''s books. Cutting expenses, increasing sales and putting more money in your pocket as your business as an author grows.This book will show you the path to becoming a profitable full-time author.

Driven apart by immortal intrigue and titanic treachery, the rival houses of the godlike First must reunite to avert doomsday. Heirs to world-shaking power, Persha and Seahn each seek to lead the pantheon toward a glorious destiny. But will it be Persha''s Golden Age... or Seahn''s Epoch of Evil? Ambition and revenge fuel Seahn''s takeover of House Sinister. What made this charismatic monster? The answer lies centuries before, when Trenin the Hunter was on the trail of Seahn''s mother.

LA THESE ETUDIE UN ASPECT DE L''INTEGRATION COMMUNAUTAIRE : L''APPRONFONDISSEMENT DES ACTIONS DE L''UNION EUROPEENNE EN FAVEUR DU DEVELOPPEMENT DES ZONES RURALES DITES DEFAVORISEES. INFORMEE PAR DES ENQUETES DANS TROIS PAYS (FRANCE, ESPAGNE , ROYAUME UNI), CETTE THESE EST FONDEE SUR L''HYPOTHESE QUE LES ACTIONS DE L''UNION EUROPEENNE N''IMPLIQUENT PAS SEULEMENT DES TRANSFERTS D''ARGENT, MAIS AUSSI UN ECHANGE D''IDEES ET DE RESSOURCES POLITQIUES. DANS CHAQUE TERRITOIRE LES ACTIONS COMMUNAUTAIRES ONT UN IMPACT VARIABLE GRACE A LEUR MODE D''ORGANISATION, LE SENS ACCORDE AU DEVELOPPEMENT ET LE RAPPORT ENTRE SES ACTEURS ET CEUX DE LA COMMISSION EUROPEENNE. EN EFFET, LA CENTRALITE DE CETTE DERNIERE CONSTITUE UNE DES CLES POUR INTERPRETER L''INTEGRATION COMMUNAUTAIRE. EN ADOPTANT UNE ANALYSE EN TERMES DE RSEAUX D''ACTEURS, L''ANALYSE M''AMENE A CARACTERISER L''INTEGRATION COMMUNAUTAIRE COMME UNE DYNAMIQUE PRODUCTRICE DES TERRITOIRES, ET DONC D''AUTANT DE DIVERGENCES QUE DE CONVERGENCES.

Vous voulez changer votre façon de vivre et de travailler, découvrir ce que vous voulez vraiment, définir des objectifs et les atteindre ? Techniques pratiques, conseils efficaces, rappels concis et études de cas vous aideront à réussir dans votre vie professionnelle et personnelle. Définissez vos objectifs puis suivez vos progrès grâce à des exercices d''auto-évaluation.

Você gostaria que sua vida fosse diferente? Quer mudar o modo como vive e trabalha? Descubra o que quer, estabeleça seus objetivos e faça-os acontecer. Esse livro mostra as melhores maneiras de tornar seus objetivos atraentes e manter sua mente motivada por meio de técnicas práticas, dicas eficazes, exercícios de cinco minutos e estudos de caso. Aprenda a estabelecer metas e verifique seu progresso com exercícios de autoavaliação. Série Dia a Dia no Trabalho.