Best Selling Books by Ian Clark

Zoki lives at home with Dulcie, who was his mother, his brother, Harry, and The Man. Zoki finds out that something very important in his life has gone missing. Can he cope? Is he very good at coping with life anyway? In an emergency, can the puppy save the situation? Or will stress overtake him?

What if vampires did exist? What if they were real? They go out in the daytime. They shop, they eat regular food. They have wants and desires. They also have Cravings What if they looked and acted just like the rest of us... for most of the time. Walker - A man tormented by a past he cannot forget, a plague he vowed to wipe out and a woman that is determined to stop him. Bethany - A woman with life to live, for opportunity to be grasped and a man bent on her destruction. A match made in Heaven or Hell?

The full inside story The full and fascinating inside story of Anglo-American nuclear relations from 1957 to 1962 is told for the first time in this book. This period saw the creation of a close and exclusive relationship of nuclear collaboration between Britain and the United States, with an agreement on atomicco-operation, the establishment of the facilities for US nuclear submarines in the UK, and the sale of US missiles, including Thor and Polaris for the British strategic submarine force. Revelations from formerly top secret documents Ian Clark''s detailed analysis of newly declassified official documents reveals that, while special, the Anglo-American nuclear partnership was not without tension and rivalry. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan sought to combine interdependence--which reduced costs--with national policies on nuclearstrategy, NATO, nuclear co-operation with France, and nuclear testing; the result was conflict with US administrations. Dr Clark examines such critical issues as British nuclear targeting of the Soviet Union and co-ordination with US nuclear war plans, cancellation of the Blue Streak missile, the bargain over Skybolt and the Holy Loch base, the diplomacy of the Skybolt crisis in 1962, and British ambitions forPolaris. The frank revelations contained in the formerly top secret British and American documents from the period enable him to offer fundamentally new and sometimes controversial interpretations of events in this dramatic period.

This book provides goaltenders, coaches and parents with a practical resource to improve performance quickly.Goaltending is a complex position in a complex sport. In the end, however, it can be over complicated to the detriment of performance. Ian Clark has established ten essential improvements that can be made to your game without excessive intervention or teaching required.These are simple self-help ideas that will generate more saves. This book is easy to understand and, most importantly, puts the reader in control of enhancing performance and stopping more pucks.Goaltending success involves many inputs and this book uncovers many stones whether physical, mental, technical or equipment related to offer you these rapid improvements.Ian Clark, along with contributing writer Leo Luongo, uses his 25 years of goaltender-coaching experience, from all levels of play and including many of today''s leading netminders, to assemble this practical resource.Roberto Luongo writes the Preface to this book and provides a testament to these game-improving approaches.

We all do the most amazing and remarkable things when we are in the grip of desire, and at the time, it all seems so real and earnest. In order to convert drama into comedy, we shall take a small trip through time and see how our noble ancestors behaved when driven by love - or lust, for that matter. Although inspired by the bedroom farces of the nineteenth century, I have corrected the gender inequities of that time to bring us closer to plausibility. I show women as they should be shown, not only possessing freedom of choice but taking the lead as often as not. Although the names of real historical persons are used, the situations described are fictional - or legendary, if you prefer. I am a story-teller, not an historian.

This is a study of the theory and history of international norms. How does international society come to adopt certain norms in particular? This book shows how ideas of international legitimacy have evolved, and makes us rethink the nature of international society.

"Free Space" is a short photo and poetry book which explores things that bring happiness to people and the journey towards happiness.

What exactly is it we wage when we wage war? This is the crucial question addressed in this largely rewritten edition of the author''s classic text. The range of possible answers to it has already framed much of the ethical discourse that can be conducted about war, as well as about other uses of force. Only when some of those fundamental issues have been clarified can we then safely foray into the dense ethical thicket that surrounds this topic. The book shows how recent developments in warfare, particularly related to new technologies and asymmetries, have disturbed traditional paradigms.

SecretsWe all keep them but we don''t keep them because they are secrets, we keep them because of fear. The fear of persecution or prosecution, loss of acceptance or employment, or the threat of unwarranted shame or violence - these are the reasons for secrets. Norman Baxter is a regular man with a regular job and a regular friend and he has secrets that are about to catch up with him and will change his life... forever.

It was a secret mission to bring a VIP passenger to safety that fails after a malfunction and forces the Crew of the Capisto to crash on a remote planet. The emergency equipment is damaged and the crew have no option but to wait for a rescue. They must survive on a primitive planet and keep their precious cargo safe. The planet they have crashed on is Earth and their actions will have serious repercussions and cause the birth of a Legend.Part 2 of ''The Circle'' - Origins

An eccentric Grandfather and Granddaughter find themselves on a road trip into the unknown. The Old Man seeks to restore memories that are obscuring his own past, while his Granddaughter is obsessed with the need to understand and heal a family broken in her own infancy. The search will take them from the Old Man''s refuge on the outer coast of Vancouver Island down the Pacific coast through Olympic National Park, Mount Hood, the Columbia Bar, Old Sacramento, San Francisco, Yosemite, Nevada and New Mexico to Dallas where they will find part of the answer - and unexpected help and comfort just when they are most needed.The journey north through Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks will complete the healing process and give them the inner strength they need to face the end of the road for the Old Man, and the start of her own road for the wonderful young woman his Granddaughter has become.

This thesis seeks to uncover the motivations, objectives, and outcomes of Iran''s foreign relations with Tajikistan between 1991 and 2013. In doing so, the thesis maps out the course of relations between Iran and Tajikistan throughout the post-Soviet period, and in the process seeks to better understand the domestic, regional, and international obstacles that have faced Iran in its efforts to build ties with its so-called "close cultural cousin", Tajikistan. Furthermore, this dissertation seeks to better understand how the presence of strong ethno-linguistic bonds and a set of shared mutual threats and strategic interests have acted as key drivers in building ties between these two countries. In attempting to outline the basis of Iranian-Tajik ties, this thesis argues that relations between these two states have been consistently hampered by not only mutual mistrust and misunderstanding, but also significant regional and international instability, which has often cruelled the ability for Iranian and Tajik elites to sustain close bilateral political, economic, cultural, and strategic relations over the past two decades.

This article examines the effects of changes in the dynamics of the American national business system on industrial relations settlements in the UK subsidiaries of American multinational corporations (MNCs). While institutionalist analyses of country-of-origin and host-country effects must take account of changes in national business systems, such as the rise of the shareholder value ideology in the USA, empirical analysis reveals a pattern of pathway adjustment rather than radical change in employment relations at the UK subsidiary level. This suggests that although US MNCs are embedded within the American business system, their subsidiaries are not passive ciphers but autonomous sites through which influences must pass.

The Collective Action Clauses published by the International Capital Markets Association in 2014/2015 aim to facilitate orderly and consensual sovereign debt restructurings. The clauses were designed to give sovereigns flexibility in structuring and consummating a transaction that would be capable of attracting broad creditor support, while safeguarding the integrity of the process and the rights of creditor minorities. The recent restructurings of Argentina and Ecuador presented the first opportunities for the ICMA CACs to be tested in practice, but the “re-designation” and “PAC-man” strategies first seen in the Argentine restructuring revealed shortcomings in the ICMA contractual architecture. Argentina''s and Ecuador''s creditors responded by negotiating tailored refinements to the standard CACs that would mitigate the risk that a sovereign could compel a restructuring that is not supported by the requisite creditor supermajorities. The qualified restrictions on “re-designation” and “PAC-man” adopted by Ecuador and Argentina enhance the ICMA architecture and provide strong incentives for a sovereign to engage constructively with its private creditors in a consensus-building process that results in a restructuring proposal capable of achieving supermajority support.

This paper addresses the question: Should the International Monetary Fund be making an even greater effort to adapt its objectives, priorities, rules, instruments, procedures, and resources to take account of changes in the global economic environment and in the needs of its members? It reviews the changes in the economic and geopolitical environment most relevant to the Fund and the ways the institution has adapted to date. It identifies the general factors that tend to inhibit adaptation in international institutions, and some of the specific factors that can facilitate adaptation in the case of the Fund. It concludes that the Fund should, indeed, be making even greater efforts to adapt, but that efforts in this regard should take account of the identified factors.

The continuing crisis at Volkswagen has attracted widespread attention and concern in its seeming epitomisation of the sclerosis of the German business system and Germanys system of industrial relations in large firms. These wider, systemic questions are reviewed here as well as the key, related issue as to how far, under globalisation, German corporate success can be achieved while retaining its long-established approach towards social cohesion.

The articles which constitute the core of this dissertation orbit, either explicitly or implicitly, around the "theory of formative assessment". This conception is, at the theoretical level, a blend of socio-cultural and socio-cognitive perspectives. Accordingly, the theory of formative assessment holds that (1) thinking and learning processes are supported when students are given information and feedback regarding the learning criteria and standards by which they are assessed; and (2) when there is subsequent use of that feedback by students and teachers as they plan the next steps of the learning process together. Each article is intended for practitioners, policymakers, and researchers, and together they represent a methodological progression which begins with a discussion on theories that underpin formative assessment, and their implications for teaching methods and learning strategies. The second article presents a detailed case-study of the implementation of formative assessment in the Scottish region of the UK. The third and final article in the set employs a grounded theory (GT) method to build a theoretical framework to explain how the theory of formative assessment promotes self-regulated learning (SRL) in public school (K-12) classrooms.