Sarah Wood

'Without Mastery' engages the pleasure, rigour and strangeness of reading, invoking the forcefulness of the Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity and assorted literary animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore the inner workings of our desire for mastery, and especially the omnipotence of thoughts.

Reading and Other Forces

Without Mastery

What would you do if you discovered you were the royal heir to an entire season? For Ian, the discovery that he is Prince of Winter is less than thrilling, especially because it comes with a price. Specifically, a price on his head. Lillie, the Witch Princess has taken over Winter and she will do anything to keep Ian from claiming his throne. The journey to save his kingdom doesn't seem to be going well for Ian either. Not only is there a murderous witch trying to track him down, he also has to deal with the three heirs to the other seasons. Sweet and slightly mothering Chloe is from Spring, bouncy but irritating Tristan from Summer, and impulsive and fiery Alexa from Autumn. As the four of them try to get to Winter Castle, Ian finds it's strangely easy to trust people once you've faced a rather unusual assassin, talking wolves, and freaky ice puppet creatures together. Unfortunately, looming on the horizons is their biggest challenge. Ian needs to regain Winter's throne and magic, before Lilith destroys the fragile balance between the four Seasons permanently. But Lilith isn't going anywhere without a fight, and she has all of the stolen magic of Winter at her disposal. Ian only has a small group of mostly inexperienced teenagers with underdeveloped magic along with his own newly found ice powers. He just hopes it will be enough.

Falling Into Winter

Niamh O'Keeffe

Ever felt like you need an inspired action plan on how to step up? Stepping up could be about taking on your first leadership or management role. It could be about changing your career, or leaving employment to start up on your own. It could be about changing the way you run a team already under your management. Whatever your circumstances, you will face the same issues we all do: changing attitudes, changing technology and our fast-moving rollercoaster of a world. Stepping Up will inspire and equip you to understand and respond to that change and develop your ability to lead yourself and others through it. Follow the practical five point framework on how to step up and fulfil your ambitions: 1. Vision – How to reset your rules in a complex and changing landscape 2. Values – Develop your leadership mission by understanding why you want to lead 3. Velocity – Invest in yourself and build the skills and capabilities of a great leader 4. Votes – Invest in your team and bring together a fantastic team of people to take you on your journey 5. Victories – Deliver brilliant results and ensure you can deliver on your promises Accelerate your skills and potential, and take charge of your leadership career. “This book is so needed. A manual for the leadership generation that want to create their own future.” Kathryn Parsons. Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Decoded. ““Leadership can be practised at all levels. Step up or step out of the way.” Thales Teixeira, Professor at Harvard University "Sarah is one of the most inspiring leaders I know, anyone wanting to become one too should read this book." Baroness Martha Lane Fox, founder of lastminute.com, Chancellor of The Open University, Board Member of Twitter.

Accelerate your leadership potential

Stepping Up

Stepping up could be about taking on your first leadership or management role. It could be about changing your career, or leaving employment to start up on your own. It could be about changing the way you run a team already under your management. Whatever your circumstances, you will face the same issues we all do: changing attitudes, changing technology and our fast-moving rollercoaster of a world. Stepping Up will inspire and equip you to understand and respond to that change and develop your ability to lead yourself and others through it.

How to Accelerate Your Leadership Potential

Catriona MacLeod

Overseas department of France in Amazonia and 'ultraperipheral region' of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean and South Ameri-ca. This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict between the lo-cal, the national and the global. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere: to France and its colonial history, for example, or to African and other diasporas, or as a 'margin' of Europe? This edited collection is the first volume to study Guyane from multiple perspectives. It subjects the enduring clichés and negative stereotypes regarding Guyane to critical examination, exploring how discourse on this DOM is, and has been, formed and how it may evolve. Chapters discuss geographical, literary and cultural 'locations' of Guyane, past and present, challenging its relegation to the 'periphery', whilst also historicizing the production of its marginal status. Finally, the collection aims to outline possible future challenges to the conceptual location of Guyane and possible directions for continued research.

Locating Guyane

Ali Smith

In four short stories, fusions of fiction, biography, autobiography and poetry, Ali Smith pays tribute to the sources, the people and the places which produce and nurture life and art.

Shire

Writing and Difference is widely perceived to be an excellent starting place for those new to Derrida and this Reader's Guide is the perfect accompaniment to the study of one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th Century.

Sarah Wood

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