Books by Steve King

Standing with my ninety-year-old uncle going through the list of names from WW2 on the Abingdon War Memorial was a truly humbling experience, not least because he knew many of the "boys" listed. With tear-filled eyes and a trembling voice he recalled: "I sat next to him at school" - "He was my best mate" - "He lived just up the road" - "That one they shot before he even landed". Two months later uncle died, but the conversation we had that day inspired me to research each of the fifty-six names listed on our war memorial. Stories of immense bravery, selflessness, good luck and bad luck, and for sure, some stories still to be completed. But it didn't end with the fifty-six. Stories need to be told of the many men who also died in WW2 and are buried in Commonwealth War Graves in our Abingdon cemeteries, but who are not remembered on the town's war memorial, as well as heroes of ours who survived WW2. Some stories are remarkable, but all are worth remembering.

Have you ever wondered why a group of remarkable individual performers can get together and fail as a team? You can have all the talent in the world, but if individuals do not share common goals, coordinate their efforts, and trust one another to carry their share of the load, then you don't have a team.So how does a team manager bridge this divide between individual performance and team performance? It turns out they construct that bridge on three simple building blocks: team alignment, team process, and team relationships.

Using case studies, including the experiences of individuals as well as extracts from contemporary documents, this book aims to capture the reality of industrialization while introducing the many facts and figures which make up the real backbone of the history of the period.

An overview of the literature on poverty, and of the welfare policies of the state, as well as the alternative welfare strategies of the poor for the period 1700 to 1850. It examines how we should conceptualize poverty and how ordinary families and communities responded to that poverty.