Timing Is Everything

This book identifies the critical factors that shaped and influenced New Zealand's defence acquisition decision-making processes from the election of the Fourth Labour Government in 1984 and the subsequent ANZUS crisis, through to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States and the following 'war on terror'. It explores and analyses decision-making processes in relation to the ANZAC frigates, the military sealift ship HMNZS Charles Upham, the F-16 strike aircraft, the P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft upgrade, and the LAV IIIs.

Knowing when to join a company can be the difference between making a nice steady income or having a once in a lifetime chance to create wealth and an incredible lifestyle too. The question is; "Do you know the right time to join a company in order for you to have a chance to create your incredible income & lifestyle?"

Siobhan Harper is a Private Investigator hired to find out if a wealthy father or son died first. Millions are riding on the outcome. Follow Siobhan as she and her team uncover the truth.

This book describes market situations, market analysis, trading and investment techniques, and interesting events that took place in several countries. It provides a number of methods for gathering perspectives of markets and for handling situations as they evolve. Its purpose is to add to the reader's knowledge, and to add to techniques that might be used for observing, entering, and exiting potential opportunities. And to make the technical perspective more interesting, it is followed by 'Legends of the Markets ... and More'.

Have you ever planned that once-in-a-lifetime event, only to have it canceled due to inclement weather, illness, or an accident? Wouldnt you love to have a roadmap of your life, one that pointed the way to love, success, good health, and money? Although astrology is not destiny, nor is it fate, with a thorough knowledge of the subject and correct delineation, you will be able to time events in your life successfully.

Moffatt Oxenbould has lived and breathed opera for more than forty years. And from the first, his career has been linked with what would eventually become Australia's national opera company. From stage manager to artistic director, Oxenbould's career has been an outstanding one, growing in tandem with the Opera as it developed into the prestigious and renowned company it is today. Genial, deeply knowledgeable and thoroughly entertaining, Moffat Oxenbould's memoirs are filled with riveting backstage stories of divas and disasters, outback tours and stunning triumphs, of all the international and local stars and productions for which the Opera is justly renowned, as well as the significant struggles for survival that the company has faced in the last five decades. Having worked with everyone from Pavarotti to Sutherland, Luhrmann to Kosky, David Hobson to Simone Young, Oxenbould's story is fascinating both in its retelling of a life spent backstage and as the story of the life of an opera company. Timing Is Everything is essential reading for anyone with a drop of greasepaint in their blood and a song in their heart.

A fiercely independent Missouri woman believes she has life all wrapped up - until the unpredictable winds of change sweep into her world. Esther Young's comfortable life as a forty-year-old single is turned upside-down when the charming Tom Pearson enters her office. But when their ideas about the future land in opposite spheres, Esther wonders why God has brought a situation into her life that seems to promise only heartache.