The decline in the coal and steel industries in Wales has reduced the amount of freight traffic over the last 30 years. However, this has been offset by a boom in passenger numbers and over 40 new stations have opened, many reviving branch lines closed during the Beeching era. This book illustrates the changing railway scene in Wales from the 1980s to the present day, focusing on unusual or rarely seen aspects of the network.
This book will empower experienced project managers and their business counterparts to understand and manage the risks of challenging business change projects. Providing principles and guidance, it shows project managers and owners how to guide projects home when mere excellence of technique or blind adherence to procedures would leave them at sea.
From Startup to Success, a Step-by-Step Guide
The narrative explores the journey of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the common fear of not feeling ready to take the leap into business ownership. It reflects on the challenges faced in establishing and running a business, while encouraging readers to overcome their hesitations. The author shares personal insights, suggesting that the struggle is part of the process and that waiting for the perfect moment can hinder success. The message is clear: seize the opportunity and embrace the challenges of being your own boss.
"On India's south-western or Malabar coast is situated an ancient Hindu temple devoted to the famous god Shiva and his consort the fearsome Kali. But an earlier dedication was to the Buddhist/Jaina goddess Pattini, whose mortal husband was tried and killed in a series of brutal events still commemorated in the temple's ritual year. And before this the story gets even stranger, as there are said to be the remains of a secret, underground shrine, the home to a mystery cult dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Greek, Roman & Near Eastern merchants travelled to India after a regular, if epic, sea journey of two thousand miles across the Arabian Ocean, making their first landfall at a port known in the ancient world as Musiris. The story begins on the banks of the Nile when Isis and Osiris were the beating heart of Egypt's most popular religion. I will trace their origins to the Egypt's pyramid age in the middle of the second millennia BCE and even earlier. A great deal of this book is devoted to describing what is known about their cult from Egyptian records. This, I shall argue, is the basis for what comes later in the time-line, when Greek and Roman Empires dominated the Mediterranean world. Now Isis and Osiris become the focus of a global religion and the basis of the most popular of all classical mystery cults."-- Back cover