Douglas Clark

S. Thomas Parker

Bethany Walker

Moawiyah Ibrahim

Andrea Polcaro

Suzanne Richard

Larry Herr

Marta D'Andrea

Jehad Haron

Gloria London

Stephan Bourke

Adeeb Abushmais

Khairieh Amr

Debra Foran

Alan Walmsley

Micaela Sinibaldi

Basem Mahamid

The volume incorporates the latest information available from current scholars in the field of ceramic analysis of the pottery forms of Jordan. It features introductory chapters on the history of Jordan, ceramic technology and typology, social and economic connections of pottery, and the sourcing of clay. These are followed by thirteen chapters on the pottery of the archaeological periods of Jordan (Pottery Neolithic through the Late Islamic Period). Concluding the manual are extensive bibliographies for each period and an extensive glossary. Accompanying each period chapter are maps of Jordan identifying all the sites mentioned in the chapter. Spiral bound.158 pp.; illus.

A Manual

The Pottery of Jordan

Frank Bird, Jr.

George Germain

Effectiveness. Efficiency. Excellence. These words and concepts permeate current literature, courses, and discussions. They are defined in nearly as many different ways as the number of people who write and talk about them. For practical purposes, the definitions seem to boil down to these:- Effectiveness - doing the right things.- Efficiency - doing things right.- Excellence - efficiently meeting effective goals, both short term and long range.We believe that this book can help you improve the effectiveness, efficiency and excellence of your system for managing loss control ... and for quality, production and cost control. In essence, it can help improve your management system. Improved quality, production and cost control go hand-in-hand with improved loss control, and they all depend on how the system is managed. The idea that excellence in safety and production go hand in hand is not new. As early as 1928 the American Engineering Council, based on an engineering and statistical study, demonstrated that an organization with decreasing injury rates is eleven times more likely to show increased production than an "unsafe" one.We believe that the book's concepts, practices, techniques and tools reflect what leading organizations around the free world have done, and are doing, to get their results. Spanning more than three decades, we have had the good fortune to work with tens of thousands of leaders in hundreds of organizations to distill the contents of this book. The ideas and applications are tried, tested, and proven. Put them to work and they will work for you.

Practical Loss Control Leadership

Vicious Circle

The body was found in the village school. The vicar of Rooksby-le-Soken in East Anglia was found on Monday morning on a classroom floor with a hole through his heart--but no trace of the bullet. Indubitably he had been killed on the spot, the blood on the wall behind him was proof of that. Detective Chief Inspector George Masters was sent by the Yard to sort things out and decided the method was less important than the motive. From his headquarters in the local pub Masters began his delving into the private lives of the villagers and soon discovered that the vicar was a much unloved incumbent. No one had a good word for him and quite a number had considerably less than that. The publican and his Italian wife, with an attractive, still unwed daughter of twenty-eight, the local G.P. and his obstreperous son who ran a joint practice, the village carpenter, and the schoolmaster with a grudge, were only a few of the suspects Masters unearthed in twenty-four hours. In a few days he had raked up enough dirt to put a lot of them on the spot. But in the end it was his capacity for remembering significant details and fitting them into the jigsaw that sorted out the man and the method. Praise for Douglas Clark "The many who miss the properly clued inductive detective story will fall on this one with relief" - Times Literary Supplement "A good, satisfying, competent whodunit, intelligently thought out and believable without unnecessary fireworks of sex or violence. And the answer, when it comes, is much more convincing than the majority of those in thriller dénouements" - ANTHONY PRICE, Oxford Mail Douglas Clark was born in Lincolnshire, 1919. He wrote over 20 crime novels and under other names, including James Ditton and Peter Hosier.

Death After Evensong

Superintendent Masters and Inspector Green of Scotland Yard investigate the suspicious death of Daphne Bymeres, who expired while a houseguest of her husband's lover, Wanda Mace

Table D'hôte

Literary agent Allison Kryszka travels to the south of France to see her longtime author-client Elliot Gaston. He first tells her of his terminal illness, but shocks her with his assertion that he is over 100 years old, born in the United States as Dillan Murphy. Gaston-Murphy presents her with a manuscript and begins to recount his strange life narrative to her. Spanning the entire twentieth century as a journalist and writer, he attempts to convince her of the truth of his longevity. By reliving events of his life with such detail, he hopes that she will accept what seems impossible in order to publish his manuscript. His story is a tale of wars, adventures, loves, and tragedies spanning two normal lifetimes. It is a story of surviving dangers while navigating a life that no one would understand.

Evermore

The Republic of Ireland came into being in 1921, at the end of a bloody insurrection against the British. However, the treaty left the northern six counties under British sovereignty. Since that time, the Protestant majority has dominated the poorer Catholic populace with support from the British Army. In 1972, British troops fired on demonstrators, launching more than twenty-five years of sectarian violence and terror from both sides. Mason Devereux, an American freelance photojournalist, is drawn into doing a project on the violence while visiting Northern Ireland. Devereux makes contact with the Irish Republican Army. The I.R.A. is interested in publicity showing Protestant paramilitaries' violence against Catholics. A deal is struck and Devereux is given access to extraordinary photo opportunities. Devereux accepts the I.R.A.'s assistance, but finds his own way to get incriminating photographs of the I.R.A's own violence. On the verge of a negotiated end of the violence with the British government, a renegade faction of the Irish Republican Army, lead by seventies legendary gunman Michael Flynn, derails that movement toward peace. Flynn and Devereux cross paths in a sequence of violent events that continues the tragedy of Northern Ireland's Troubles.

Belfast, A Novel of the Troubles

Douglas Clark

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