Leonard M Thomas

Made A Gypsy Smile

Find Horshoe Clump in Surrey and climb to the hill’s top. Look down and see how the Valley of the Mole merges into the Thames Valley. Ignore all distant buildings, let your eyes see only green.Blink, and you can imagine Henry the Eighth riding through birch and oak, hunting deer and boar.Blink again...

The Portable Coach: 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business And Personal Success

For many years a certified financial advisor with a thriving practice, Thomas Leonard came to realise that he was much more than that to his clients; he was their personal coach, a combination of a career counselor, financial advisor, therapist, and big brother, a person who helps people figure out ...

Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era

In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory welfare state, which, they believed, would humanize and rationalize industrial capitalism. But not ...

Bayesian Methods: An Analysis for Statisticians and Interdisciplinary Researchers (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)

This exposition of the Bayesian approach to statistics at a level suitable for final year undergraduate and Masters students is unique in presenting its subject with a practical flavor and an emphasis on mainstream statistics. It shows how to infer scientific, medical, and social conclusions from nu...

Thomas Leonard's How to Coach Anyone

In an intervention like coaching, where there is as much art as science involved, sometimes it can feel like we're Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, hoping and praying the 'Force' will be with us as we navigate life with our clients. The majority of us have natural talent and intuition which we use pro...

Cooking With the Chicken Man