Best Selling Books by Jonathan Morris

Reunited with the Doctor and Nyssa, Tegan joins them on a trip to Amsterdam''s Rijkmuseum to see a new exhibition of the work of Rembrandt van Rijn, featuring his drawings of "Vessels of the Stars". The Doctor is astonished to discover that they are designs for spaceships that would actually work, and decides to pop back to the Dutch Golden Age for a quiet word with Rembrandt, but the world-weary artist is no mood to help. Meanwhile, strange forces are swirling in the canals, creatures from ancient myth, the watery, goblin-like Nix. What is their connection to the mysterious Countess Mach-Teldak and to the events of Tegan''s life during her year away from the Doctor?

"It''s been a year since Philippa ''Flip'' Jackson found herself transported by Tube train to battle robot mosquitoes on a bizarre alien planet in the company of a Time Lord known only as ''the Doctor''. Lightning never strikes twice, they say. Only now there''s a flying saucer whooshing over the top of the night bus taking her home. Inside: the Doctor, with another extraterrestrial menace on his tail, the Daleks, and their twisted creator Davros! But while Flip and the fugitive Doctor struggle to beat back the Daleks'' incursion into 21st century London, Davros''s real plan is taking shape nearly 200 years in the past, on the other side of the English Channel. At the battle of Waterloo."--Container.

" ... when the TARDIS lands on Valderon, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Nyssa to its fortress prison, the scene is set for a painful reunion ..."--Container.

Somewhere in the south of England stands the Hothouse. Five vast, state-of-the-art biodomes, all steel and glass. Inside, rock star turned environmental activist Alex Marlow has a plan to save the world from climate change. By any means necessary.

Join the Doctor and Clara on their amazing adventures in space and time. The Doctor and Clara are trapped in Highgate Cemetery in 1972, and become prey to a force that feeds on death itself. A strange visitor to Coal Hill School on Halloween sends Clara on a terrifying journey to the time of the witch trials. A team of mercenaries enters a lethal alien jungle, and the Doctor and Clara discover a familiar face. Also includes an in-depth commentary section where the comics creators reveal the secrets behind the stories.

The year is 1987, and Britain is divided. In Bradford, strikers are picketing and clashing with the police. In the City of London, stockbrokers are drinking champagne and politicians are courting the super-rich. The mysterious media mogul Alek Zenos, head of the Zenos Corporation, is offering Britain an economic miracle. His partners wish to invest, and their terms are too good to refuse. While the Doctor investigates Warfleet, a new computer game craze that is sweeping the nation, Mel goes undercover to find out the truth about Zenos''s partners. The Daleks have a new paradigm. They intend to conquer the universe using economic power. The power of the free market!

This article documents and analyses the organization of work and human resources management in ten manufacturing plants in Malaysia and three plants in Japan. Each of the plants carries out specific tasks within an emergent international division of labour surrounding two Japanese multinational producers of consumer electronics goods. Plant roles reflect their positions in commodity chains driven by the multinationals, varying in relation to product-to-product and component-to-component divisions of labour, and in relation to the location of product and process innovations. How work is organized and how workers are managed are explained by the location of each plant within this division of labour, and by the characteristics and situation of labour, the one commodity which talks back, within the local environment.

Join the Doctor and Amy Pond on their amazing adventures in space and time.

Based on qualitative interviews (n=64) within five UK organizations that have embarked on large-scale restructuring (including delayering, downsizing, culture change, role redesign, lean production) we argue that middle managers are currently experiencing significant and progressive work and personal pressures. Performance is monitored more closely, hours and intensity of work are increasing, roles and tasks are changing frequently, and prospects for promotion are downscaled within flattened hierarchies. Whereas middle managers report increased levels of autonomy and skill, are often well remunerated, and frequently appear motivated (at least in the private sector), we suggest their burgeoning grievances over working hours, role pressures and promotion prospects have worrying implications for the future performance of UK industry. We argue further that the motivation for corporations to embark on such large-scale restructuring is best understood with reference to the incessant demands of international capitalism. We conclude that such restructuring, and the personal managerial experiences that result from it, is in keeping with many, but crucially not all, of the trends predicted by Bravermanian labour process theory.

My Manic Brain: Sex, Politics and Everlasting Life, is an unfiltered truth about the delusion of love and the true meaning of life. While the stories are based in fact, there is a healthy dose of philosophy, insight, analysis of cultural phenomena, humor, and commentary. Some chapters are lude and raw enough to warrant caution for young children. Designed to provoke, My Manic Brain spares nothing: vivid vulgarity, extreme emotion, tainted, tortured romance, Love, and the consequences of social media and rapidly advancing technology on our interpersonal communication and ability to trust. Are we swiping and ghosting ourselves into extinction or oblivion? Are we destined to enter an unimaginably mind-blowing virtual fantasy world? Are we losing our human touch? And, if so, is it a tragedy, comedy or simply an inevitable next step in our evolution? With philosophy and insight, self-help notions, and a healthy dose of humor and commentary, My Manic Brain focuses the mind on what matters most, finding meaning in an increasing narcistic, self-centered world. Do we create our happiness, or does it create us? How much pain is too much too bear? Are we ever satisfied and grateful? Are we ever ready to leave this pit of tears? And if we could upload ourselves into an immortal, infinite technological state, would we? Perhaps it all boils down to personal pleasure and satisfaction. Or maybe this is our dress rehearsal for eternity. Either way, here''s to us; here''s to life!

This article provides a cross-national, qualitative investigation into the experiences of middle managers in large organizations in the USA, the UK and Japan, following organizational restructuring. Despite well-documented national differences in administrative heritage, institutional regimes or ''varieties of capitalism'', our data point towards considerable similitude across the three countries in terms of a general expression of the need for change, and the concrete impacts of organizational reforms on managerial work. Specifically we analyse the changing nature of work roles, career paths, working hours and spans of control of mid-level managers in five large firms in each of the three countries. The data demonstrate that middle managers in all three countries face fundamental changes to key areas of their work experience. In Japan, although changes do not amount to a genuine shift towards ''Anglo-Saxon'' institutions or business practices, the robust use of organizational reforms with very similar aims and underpinning assumptions to those used in the USA and the UK entails similar impacts in terms of work processes of middle managers across the three nations. This shared experience involved the augmentation of middle management skill levels, responsibilities and span of control, but alongside the downgrading of career expectations, and increased workload and work intensity. We argue that these changes are in keeping with some, but not all, of the features explained and predicted in Bravermanian labour process theory.

Enough with this, "I am beautiful. I am smart. I can do anything if I just believe in myself." Most of us are satisfactory in appearance, of average intelligence, will always have self-doubt, and will never achieve superstardom or tremendous wealth. And those that do, either lose it, spend it, or die before they can enjoy it. All things are relative; one man''s tent is another man''s castle.

This paper outlines the economic reform process being undertaken in China and the subsequent partial closure and radical down-sizing of the state-owned enterprise sector. Redundancies arising out the restructuring process have eroded the state-worker contract of the iron rice-bowl. This has resulted in growing and sometimes violent labour unrest. The planned workforce projections until the end of the year 2000 suggest that the numbers of redundancies has increased, adding to China''s ''surplus labour'' problem. A critical issue is thus whether the Chinese government, together with state-enterprise management, can contain potential future labour and civil unrest using its present methods.

Stonehenge Solved?"Handing us the ''Why'' on a silver platter, Solving the Neolithic Universe is presented in an easily digestible form, with step-by-step explanations of every facet of the theme. Illustrated with hand-renderings, in addition to CGI, Mr Morris guides the reader to their own epiphany in an extraordinarily cohesive explanation for the ultimate Purpose of this enigmatic wonder." ND Wiseman, Author, Cape Cod, USA''''Overall I found this publication highly readable, being both informative and slightly controversial.''''''''The one thing that makes this book a winner is the fact that it''s central theory is not a house of cards.'''' ''''Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Stonehenge.''''Simon Charlesworth, Reviewer for The Megalithic Portal. DescriptionCurrent opinion of Neolithic times imposes medieval roles on men and women: Women as chattels, men as warriors and monuments as places of worship and human sacrifice.But what if a patriarchal society did not exist before history was recorded? What if the knowledge of the time before was destroyed and it is us who are just beginning to recover what they had?This fully illustrated e-book, by a Fellow of two engineering institutions, puts forward a detailed and fully developed alternative interpretation for Stonehenge based on recent research into renewable energy: It shows how its plan layout is the same as an idealized geocentric (fixed world) description of the Universe; its inner stone monument is shown to be capable of creating a spectacular visual description of a the sun''s movement around a fixed world.Part 2 shows examples of where that early knowledge of the Universe could have been obtained. It also shows that, in all the locations needed, the monuments of that period appear to fit that which would be required. Part 3 is about how the monuments would be perceived: It shows how mythological and Arthurian references all appear to fit this explanation of Stonehenge and other monuments. This offers an alternative explanation for the Grail and the Four Treasures of.the Tuatha Dé Danann.Part 4 looks at the most recent evidence published in 2012.Part 5 summarizes the possibilities with references in part 6.