Packed with ideas for banishing boredom, this book is designed to make work fun, and build stronger teams and increase productivity in the process. It is aimed at anyone who would like to foster a team-spirited positive working environment, get work into perspective, or simply enjoy it more.

How to Make Work Fun: An Alphabet of Possibilities

Firth, David

Business & Money

Gower Pub.Co.

How to Make Work Fun!: An Alphabet of Possibilities...

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A full colour book to accompany the Exhibition of Yorkshire Clocks at the Red House Antique Centre in the City of York. This is the first book to be published on the subject of Yorkshire longcase clocks. It contains a selection of clocks from the private collection of Dr Firth, who has one of the largest private collections of grandfather clocks in Europe. Within the 132 pages are over 150 colour photographs, showing the fine craftmanship, wonderful details and provenance of these beautiful antiques. More details on the exhibition on the the website YorkshireClocks.co.uk.

An Exhibition Of Yorkshire Grandfather Clocks - Yorkshire Longcase Clocks And Their Makers from 1720 to 1860

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

MX Publishing

"A beautiful, poetic, forceful and, above all, useful book on the impact of words in shaping our futures. It argues for care in choosing the words (and the thoughts that precede them) so that we create what we would choose to create. I strongly recommend this book as a short but forceful course in living." Paul Birch, Vision JuiceDavid Firth, having shown how adept he is in challenging thinking around work and leadership in books such as How to Make Work Fun and From Making a Living to Creating a Life, now turns his attention in this book to the subject of 'everybody's panacea for everything' - communication.What is different about his approach to communication is that, rather than looking at impact and influence alone - the results we try our best to engineer - David shows how communication, stories, language and words are the in fact the formative building blocks of a full and creative life. Our words may impact others in the way we intend or not, but they certainly impact us first. Indeed, we literally construct our life one word at a time.This then is an innovative and thrilling approach to communication as working 'inside out.'At once thought-provoking and action-oriented, and written with great style and wit, David Firth shows how we can use language to: create purposedeclare inspiring futuresdefeat negative self-talkbuild solid and lasting relationshipseliminate - as in erase - overwhelm, overload and stressIn Change Your World One Word at a Time, David demonstrates clear us how to shift how we see ourselves, how others see us and how futures that before seemed complicated and doubtful now show up as clear and inspiring.FROM THE AUTHORMany of you know the story of Helen Keller, perhaps through movie The Miracle Worker. She was the child who was eventually coaxed and prodded out of the silent darkness of being deaf, dumb and blind by her guide and teacher. What happened? Did she suddenly hear? No. Did she stop being blind? No. No - but in one beautiful, astonishing moment she 'got' language. As she wrote later in her autobiography: ...suddenly, I knew not how or where or when, my brain felt the impact of another mind, and I awoke to language, to knowledge, to love, to the usual concepts of nature, good and evil. I was actually lifted from nothingness to human life.in other words, language is first. Then all the other great stuff - knowledge, love etc - can come rushing in.That's what this book is about. How to have all the other great things rush into your life by setting up a powerful foundation of language: starting with what, why and how you choose to speak to yourself and other

Change Your World One Word At A Time: How the way we speak creates our life

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

David Firth Consulting LLC

Unconditional Communication: Shaping Better Relationships and Bigger Futures - Together

Lagado Library Publications, Colorado, USA

UNCONDITIONAL COMMUNICATION: Shaping Better Relationships & Bigger Futures - Together

Skills

Bowker

Work As Love Made Visible: A Letter

Scholarly study of Samuel continues to wrestle with how we interpret this pivotal text. Even such basic matters as the question of what kind of literature it is remain unresolved while older questions such as the nature of its text and sources are debated anew in the light of material from Qumran and of current approaches to Hebrew narrative. Recognizing the importance of questions such as these, David Firth explores and introduces fresh ways of reading Samuel as a unified and yet complex text, which displays high levels both of literary artistry and of theological commitment.
Although some stories in the books of Samuel are well known, and in the case of David and Goliath even proverbial, much of the content of these books is strange to modern readers. It is a story about a woman wanting a child, for example, that relates the beginnings of monarchy within Israel. Even the question of the monarchy is problematic, for we are introduced to not one royal family but two-those of Saul and David. David is ultimately shown to be the king chosen by God, yet by the end of the book he is only just managing to hold on to the kingdom as it is nearly torn from him by rivalries within his family. These arresting stories are perplexing, for Samuel's writers seldom tell us how to read and interpret them. 
Firth presents these complex and fascinating stories as part of a bigger picture, enabling students to chart their way through the literary and historical issues of the Samuel narrative. Firth addresses issues of historicity, sources, date and authorship, as well as -- crucially -- appreciating the text as a literary whole.

1 & 2 Samuel: An Introduction and Study Guide: A Kingdom Comes (T&T Clark’s Study Guides to the Old Testament)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

T&T Clark

In 'Last Post For The Winds of Freedom', the story tells how former members of the Navy, Chip Woodingdean and Fred Newman, become involved in a civil war at home that escalates into a war of independence against the European Republic. Their company 'Golden Arrow Marine' and its single asset, the Privateer, which they jointly own carries cargoes at high speed between Britain and the Channel ports. They witness an unprovoked attack upon two naval vessels in the Thames estuary and pick up the survivors knowing full well that there is not a national agency within a hundred miles capable making a rescue. Later, Chip and Fred survive the transition from being a North Sea trading enterprise into a well armed naval transport fitted with the latest warfare technology, and become embroiled in the wider implications of a rebellion at home. Narrowly escaping arrest and the impounding of their vessel at Portsmouth they receive orders to undertake a mission of the utmost secrecy. While at the same time, the Chiefs of Staff face the unenviable burden of re-building the nation's defences from scratch, with the onset of a conflict that bears all the hallmarks of becoming a bitter war of independence.

Last Post for the Winds of Freedom

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

AuthorHouse

How to have work be as good for your soul as it is for the mortgage payments. This book is for those of us how have had enough of the status quo and want to empower ourselves to live life - and work - fully. David Firth's book has an ambitious subtitle: ‘How to be Happy and Successful by Utterly Transforming Your Work.’ In it he advocates for a major shift in what we have been taught. He shows how to become more aware of the dominant story about work in our society and be willing to choose our own narrative. The deeply engrained and mostly unchallenged story about work is that it is the thing you have to do to pay the bills - and that the most important first thing you need to do in life is ‘get a good job’ or ‘make a good living’ before you can attend later to the nice to haves - like creating a satisfying life. That wouldn’t be so bad a foundation were it not that so many people have difficult, stressful and unrewarding experiences of their life in work. In this book, David Firth offers us a fundamental challenge by showing how the craft of ‘making a living’ is profoundly intertwined with the art of ‘creating a life.’ We simply need to accept that we are at the source, the cause of it all. This is a courageous act - because the old disempowering story of work is so strong in the world - and David shows how to make it happen. From ‘Making a Living’ to ‘Creating a Life' explores personal transformation in dealing constructively with difficult bosses, making sense of office politics, working well with challenging colleagues, eliminating overwhelm and busy-ness, discovering freedom when surrounded by constraints and ultimately finding meaning and purpose in work. Written in compact chapters that are designed to be thought-provoking, funny and helpful, David Firth shows how to rise above our cultural conditioning and create a life driven by true passion, purpose - and great work! FROM THE AUTHOR Hello everyone! Look, I’m going to blow my own trumpet here: I love this book! I believe it shows people how they can truly enjoy and derive deep satisfaction from their work, whatever it is they happen to do for a living. But the book goes further than that: it challenges head-on the default conversation that work is, at best, the thing that earns the money to pay for what we’d rather be doing, or, at worst, that it’s a curse for not having been born rich. What if we had a new vision for work, not as a necessary evil, but as a source of all the great things we want our lives to be; an expression of who we are; a way of serving rather than getting; a legacy we want to leave to the world? That’s the book’s promise. I love this book also because I think it exposes a major lie. It’s a well-intentioned, noble lie, but it’s simply untrue nonetheless. Best leadership education continues to tell us that The Boss is the source of inspiration, motivation, reassurance about the future and so on. And that’s why we continue to complain about our bosses so much: they simply cannot live up to our ideals. We place way too much expectation on those above us to fulfill the things - eg inspiration, motivation, reassurance about the future - that deep down we know can only come from inside us. So with this book, I want to challenge people to be at work in a more empowered, confident, ‘inside-out’ way than they might be currently. I think that puts readers back in control - and establishes them as the cause of things rather than the effect or circumstances.

From Making a Living to Creating a Life: How to be happy, successful, free and powerful by utterly transforming your work

Job Hunting & Careers

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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