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An interview is presented with author Pat Barker. Topics include her childhood in Durham, northern England, and how she began writing, her various published works, including "Silence of the Girls," "Blow Your House Down," and "Union Street," and her views on writing feminist literature and writing about gay characters.

The effect of using drama to teach management classes is discussed.

About 20 years ago, a story surfaced about a substance called 'dihydrogen monoxide.' This compound was a major component of acid rain, deadly if inhaled, and often found in industrial [...]

THE GHOST ROADPat Barker, read by Peter FirthAudible, Inc. UnabridgedTrade Ed.: DDLIFE CLASSPat Barker, read by Russell BoulterBlackstone Audio UnabridgedTrade Ed.: CD, DDLibrary Ed.: CD, MP3, DDNOONDAY: Life Class Trilogy, [...]

In the first of our Soapbox features, Pat Barker, from Cheltenham, tells us about the varied life behind her counter... I've worked in our local independent pharmacy for six years. [...]

BORDER CROSSING. THE story is straightforward and timely. Tom is a psychiatrist who works with disturbed children. He is in the middle of separating from his wife. Years ago he [...]

By Pat Barker Pat Barker, a British novelist, is best known for her World War I trilogy: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road, that last novel [...]

In Toby's Room, award-winning British historical novelist Pat Barker continues to explore the terrible human cost of World War L The novel's protagonist, Elinor Brooke, a painter, is trying to [...]

LEAD: TRIPHAMMER By Dan McCall. 237 pp. New York: A Morgan Entrekin Book/The Atlantic Monthly Press. $18.95. TRIPHAMMER By Dan McCall. 237 pp. New York: A Morgan Entrekin Book/The Atlantic [...]

Chartered Accountants, if asked, would probably be very clear that they belong to a Profession and would classify themselves as professionals. However, many of them will have come through their [...]

The suggestion that better Audit Committees are the solution to the current crisis of trust in the profession and in corporate governance in general is defective, says Professor Patricia Barker [...]

The impact of women-only management development programs on the careers of women academics and university administrators has been assessed. Results indicated that participants were very much satisfied with the course content. They gained valuable insight from meeting other women from other universities and from realizing that their problems were not peculiar to them. They also learned the value of networking both within their universities and with women from other universities.

The recent draft Abstract on 'Employee Share Schemes' published by the UK Accounting Standards Board's Urgent Issues Task Force (UITF) requires corporate reports to disclose the commercial cost of the shares that a firm has agreed to give to employees over the period to which performance is to be linked to stock-based incentive plans. The proposed regulations are meant to deal with annual bonuses and long-term incentive plans usually given to reward executives, but the UITF holds that the principles underlying these regulations also apply to SAYE schemes. However, if the rules are extended to SAYE schemes and employers are compelled to expense the discount, the latter may simply choose to stop offering what are widely considered to be socially and economically advantageous plans. While the UITF strives to develop rulings that are technically correct and supported by sound accounting principles, it must also try to consider their economic and social consequences.