Bøger af Douglas Lindsay

Join Dr. Douglas Lindsay and Dr. Joseph Balskus as they strategically and methodically unfold the very temporal framework of a single moment and the consequences of that one moment. This compelling book hits and penetrates the heart, specifically asking how you choose to live your time and the moments that make up your time, how you show up to your moments, and how you prepare for your moments. Lindsay and Balskus introduce their own Tempus Model, which is a breakthrough, practical model for human behavior that occurs within a moment. As they unfold and dissect their Tempus Model, you will be compelled to evaluate the notion of time, within your moments. To supplement your appetite for understanding you and your moments, they present examples of those who made tremendous decisions that had favorable consequences and those who failed to maximize the moments they had, by choices they made (or didn't make). They will wind through the entire decision process within the moment and also evaluate why some people successfully navigate moments, while others seem to have moments and consequences they regret. Each component of the model will offer a glimpse into yourself as a person, a spouse, a father, a mother, an employee, a leader. These questions, along with others found in each chapter offer time for reflection on your moments, and the pre and post-moment checklists will provide a tremendous resource for leadership growth. You will read and feel how precious and special our moments are by reading of the author's personal stories of moments they have had to face in their own lives, including the story of one who experienced an unexpected moment. A moment no one ever wants to face but may encounter. Someone who had a promising life cut short yet, while they lived, capitalized on purposefully and effectively living each moment they had remaining. Don't miss this reading and learning experience. Time is the single common commodity that transcends culture, occupation, societies, career choice, and so many other things. It is one incident that everyone on earth possesses. Thankfully, we get to choose what we do with it. Since we don't directly control the amount of time we have, we are left to have significance in the moments that we do have. Start now by examining your moments, learn how to better prepare for those moments, and grow from empowering techniques to enact behaviors that are consistent with how you want to be as a person and as a leader.Lindsay and Balskus are already making an impact with their breakthrough Tempus Model by successfully presenting workshops and seminars that captivate and challenge their audiences. They believe that no one is ever off the developmental journey as a leader. Their research is compelling and this book was written to pause, document, capture, and share a unique and special perspective to help you on your journey as leaders and individuals. Join them as they joyfully and brilliantly share a perspective that their odyssey through leader development has revealed to them, IN THIS MOMENT.

BLACK HUMOUR. BLOODY MURDER. AND NO KISSING. "Gleefully macabre, hugely enjoyable black burlesque." The Scotsman THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON was first published, to great critical acclaim, in 1999. It has spawned a successful series, has been translated into several European languages and was filmed as THE LEGEND OF BARNEY THOMSON, (USA - BARNEY THOMSON) directed by and starring Robert Carlyle, and featuring Emma Thompson and Ray Winstone. Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity; shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next. However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat. Barney Thomson's uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer... "This is pitch-black comedy spun from the finest writing. Fantastic plot, unforgettable scenes and plenty of twisted belly laughs." NEW WOMAN"This chilling black comedy unfolds at dizzying speed, managing to blend the surreal with the dullness of routine in an impressive debut novel." THE SUNDAY MIRROR"Lindsay's celebration of loserdom is surefire top-ten material." THE FACE"When Lindsay is in his stride he's up there with the best." THE MIRROR"Ridiculous and enjoyable plot." THE GUARDIAN"Striking, this is a novel which manages to thrill and amuse, funny and darkly comic, but maintaining that edge of suspense which the very best thrillers have." BLACK TEARS"A delicious black comedy." HUDDERSFIELD EXAMINER"This hilariously gruesome tale of mass murder in Glasgow is a highly original gem." THE BATH CHRONICLE"Hilarious, fast and exceptionally original comic crime tale with a wonderful twist." READING CHRONICLE"With some wonderfully written scenes and a host of batty ideas, this is a little gem of a book." SHOTS

WHERE EVERY MURDER IS A MASTERPIECE A double murder, a public spectacle, a killer toying with the police. And then, from nowhere, a mysterious woman with a story to tell, a suspect handed to DI Buchan on a plate. ______ It's been a bad few months for Buchan and his team, little going right. They need a win. What they don't need is a murder victim, the naked corpse of the young woman posed on a park bench, erotically summoning viewers to the scene of her death. Then a week later, a second victim. Out of nowhere, a woman finds Buchan in the Winter Moon, claiming the posing of the corpses was based on two paintings by a little known Spanish artist. And she brings ill news; there's a third painting in the series, and she herself will be the victim. It is so unexpected, and so alien to everything they've investigated so far, suddenly it seems Buchan is carrying out an entirely new line of inquiry. However, as he gets closer to the heart of darkness, it becomes evident the two strands of the investigation are linked, the threat is imminent, and that the re-enactment of the third painting is close to being realised...

BRUTALLY GRIPPING. GLEEFULLY MACABRE. DS Hutton is back, and there's blood flowing. Faces bitten off, slashed throats, frenzied stabbing and severed heads. There's a killer abroad in Glasgow, and all Hell is let loose. A low-level gangland villain gets out of prison, and goes seeking revenge on the man whose testimony put him away. The villain's body is found two days later; the intended victim, turned aggressor, goes missing, then embarks on an insane killing spree. One victim a night, a reign of terror, the police helpless in the face of uncommon brutality. In the midst of it all, Hutton cannot help but be himself. Drinking too much, sleeping with the wrong women, interviewing the wrong people at the wrong time. And as the killer closes in on the police, the wasted, side-lined Hutton is all that stands between them and the harsh, vengeful carnage of madness.

As Barney Thomson is closing up the barbershop for the night, an old man enters looking for a Cary Grant cut and a bit of a chat. The following day, Barney discovers that his late night customer was the captain of a fishing trawler which had been found abandoned on the Clyde over one hundred years ago.

A dark and twisting police procedural, for fans of James Oswald, LJ Ross, Stuart Macbride, Helen Fields, Ian Rankin, Joy Ellis, Christopher Brookmyre and Malcolm Mackay.

A dark and twisting police procedural, for fans of James Oswald, LJ Ross, Stuart Macbride, Helen Fields, Ian Rankin, Joy Ellis, Christopher Brookmyre and Malcolm Mackay.

A brand-new crime series set in the Scottish Highlands. For fans of Stephen King, James Oswald and John Connolly.

Searching for answers to his tortured, murder-filled existence, Barney Thomsn is drawn to take a job in London. Such is Barney's fate, that just as he arrives, a serial killer by the name of Harlequin Sweetlips begins to run amok among executives of Bethlehem's company. Suddenly, Barney is again in the middle of a multiple murder investigation.

When his latest book is shelved due to government interference, Lake Weston a Bob Dylan-addicted children's author decides that it is time to stand up for personal rights. The book within a month is banned under an obscure paragraph of anti-terror legislation. The media is curious about the author of the book; the government, however, knows.

Barney Thomson is a restless soul in search of a quiet town in which to settle. He thinks he might just have found it in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae and life can at last bring him some peace. It might have done, but for things like the dead body at the bottom of the stairs, and the ghost tormented for all time to go to the bathroom.

Following his previous involvement with a branch of Murderer's Anonymous, which ended with him dead at the foot of a cliff and his brain stored in a jar, Barney Thomson's future seemed bleak. However, for no reason, suddenly he is back, plucked from the grave to be the personal barber to the First Minister of the Scottish Executive.

In trying to come to terms with his murder-ridden past, Barney foolishly joins the nearest branch of Murderer's Anonymous, bringing him once more into contact with the criminally insane. In minutes, there is a killer reducing the population of Glasgow on a daily basis, and Barney is soon caught up in this tangled web of death, butchery and Elvis.