Best Selling Books by Paul Ryan

This book examines a largely overlooked social movement in West Germany, notable for its significant influence on the national apprenticeship system. The movement, which led to substantial increases in apprentice pay and contributed to long-term improvements in training quality, is analysed through a wide array of sources, including contemporary German-language literature, official statistics, and archival documents from trade unions and employers'' associations. Consideration of comparable changes in the UK, Switzerland, Sweden and the US contributes to a broader understanding of developments in Germany at the time. Addressing an important gap in scholarship, the book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers in economic history, labour economics, social sciences and history, interested in a better understanding of the apprentice movement in Germany and its impact on educational reform, employment relations and apprenticeship.

Fall Of The Bar is about the physical changes to, and decline of particular blue-collar and rural pubs in New South Wales. The book uses photographs to emphasise architectual changes made to the studied hotels. The author inlcudes his own observations made during visits to the selected hotels, some that are on the verge of demolition.