The Worse For Were

"Gordon Mtakati was born on the 19th of January 1965 in Cape Town, South Africa, and grew up in Nyanga and Langa Townships, which are also in Cape Town. At present he lives in Midrand, Johannesburg, in the Gauteng Province. His professional background is in human resources management and development, sales and marketing, and writes books as a hobby. He has a Master's degree in Business Administration, and enjoys political debates about global issues. He enjoys assisting others by volunteering in programs such as the American Field Services (AFS) exchange program, and other community services. He is a huge soccer supporter for his national team, Bafana Bafana, and the Kaizer Chiefs football club. Gordon appreciates seeing people live a good quality of life in a peaceful and crime free environment. He seriously dislikes racism. He believes in Ubuntu (humanity) and strives to do good for others as part of his values.

Captivity narratives have been a standard genre of writings about Indians of the East for several centuries.a Until now, the West has been almost entirely neglected.a Now Gregory and Susan Michno have rectified that with this painstakenly researched collection of vivid and often brutal accounts of what happened to those men and women and children that were captured by marauding Indians during the settlement of the West."

Bad leadership in both business and politics is all too common. Yet even when it is clear that leadership is poor, organizations struggle to change it. In Leadership from Bad to Worse, one of the nation's leading leadership scholars looks at bad leadership across a range of organizations and details how and why it inexorably gets worse--and offers pathways for arresting these downward spirals.

This timely study focuses on how the government-constructed narratives surrounding the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the 2008 financial crisis shaped the policymaking that led to the Dodd-Frank Act.

The vow I took was going to make me feel as if I was losing my mind I would have thought twice about saying those vows. The "Better" became a blurry site and the "Worse" was a present daily misery. This book shows how I was daily battling with keeping my vows or how to find ways to get a way with a justifiable murder. I think God for guiding through this battle. Readers I ask that you think twice before saying "I Do."

The laugh-out-loud follow up to the hugely popular Ups and Downs of a Lockkeeper.

THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED COMIC WRITERS There are many aspects of modern life that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as: Why is every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping them? Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times - from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not entirely glorious modern world. 'Mitchell is an exceptionally clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator . . . We should be grateful for him.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year

Explores the diverse ways ordinary men and women have organized their conjugal relationships since the sixteenth century. ... a massive compilation of fascinating information.' The Times Educational Supplement.