Books by Peter Hughes

Travelling through time from Ancient Egypt to today, A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues unpicks the past, illuminates the present and offers a new perspective on the future through these controversial symbols of our identity.

After a decade concentrating on his distinctive versions of Italian classics, Peter Hughes moves on to this collection of poetry crystallising out of extended stays in Cambridge and Berlin.

If you're stuck in an old leadership paradigm, get ready for marginal performance and disappointing results. With change quickening every day, it's more important than ever to create a positive and enabling culture to thrive. In this business guidebook to leadership excellence, Peter Hughes explores how to: · motivate and engage employees; · fix problems that will have an immediate impact on your bottom line; · discern the differences between management and leadership; and · help employees overcome their greatest challenges. The author also examines whether leaders are born or whether anyone can become a successful leader, ways lean concepts are being applied differently in organizational settings, and why smart people so often fail after being promoted to the managerial ranks. Take a journey that leads to substantial improvements in performance and create a positive culture where everyone is poised to succeed with this leadership guidebook.

"As good as the movies." - John Hall

Peter Hughes, born in 1956, has been writing for 30 years, and this volume sums up his career to date. Already the author of two-and-a-half Shearsman collections, and editor of a Shearsman anthology devoted to poets from his own chapbook press, Oystercatcher, this volume will cement his reputation as one of the UK's most interesting, and unclassifi

The issue of 'sustainability' in the developed world is nowhere more critical than in the field of personal travel, which in many countries has become the fastest-growing contributor to global warming. This book sets out the steps that could be taken to lessen the conflict between personal mobility and long-term environmental security.