Andrew Willis: 13 books
by Sandra Lee, William Trench, Andrew Willis
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The measurement of building elements is a core subject for quantity surveying students. Responding to the recently published second volume of the New Rules of Measurement (NRM2) by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the 12th edition of Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying explains, from...
by Sandra Lee, William Trench, Andrew Willis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Willis's Elements of Quantity Surveying has become a standard text in the teaching of building measurement – a core part of the curriculum for quantity surveyors. Particularly in the latter editions it has eclipsed the other books on building measurement, partly because of the heritage, but mostly...
by Andrew Willis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Children. Arent they adorable? But parents know the real truth, and its nothing like the ads. Using hilariously honest rhymes and illustrations that will have you laughing at their subversive familiarity, author Andrew Willis and illustrator Robin Swift tell it like it really is: the vomit, the tantrums,...
Practice Matters
The Early Years of Modern General Practice within the NHS
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
What has gone wrong with the NHS, and in particular with general practice? Why can't we get an appointment to see our GP? And who is our GP, anyway?
The UK National Health Service is always in crisis, yet it has been shown, time and time again, that the public value it more highly than anything...
by Rhonda Parrish (editor), Pete Aldin, Steve Bornstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
“Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie.” –Suzanne J. Willis, “A Silver Thread Between Worlds”
Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages...
Active Romanticism
The Radical Impulse in Nineteenth-Century and Contemporary Poetic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Literary history generally locates the primary movement toward poetic innovation in twentieth-century modernism, an impulse carried out against a supposedly enervated “late-Romantic” poetry of the nineteenth century. The original essays in Active Romanticism challenge this interpretation by tracing...
Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)
The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
by Matthew Gartner, Lauren Gatti, Andrew C. Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s...
Measuring Illegal Border Crossing Between Ports of Entry
An Assessment of Four Promising Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is responsible for controlling the flow of goods and people across the U.S. border, but compelling methods for producing estimates of the total flow of illicit goods or border crossings do not yet exist. This paper describes four innovative approaches to estimating...
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature
Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a...
by Judie Newman, Ben Siegel, Michael W. Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century's most influential, respected, and honored writers. His novels The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet won the National Book Award, and Humboldt's Gift was awarded the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In addition, his plays garnered...
Viewpoints on Media Effects
Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Viewpoints on Media Effects: Pseudo-reality and Its Influence on Media Consumers continues the ongoing research of media effects by illuminating not only the negative effects of media consumption, but also some of the pro-social aspects, with a special focus on social media. Recommended for scholars...
by Francis Duffy, Denice Jaunzens, Andrew Laing
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The workplace is changing radically, yet the building designs and environmental systems for conventional offices fail to support the more fluid use of space and time practised by these new kinds of office work. Prepared by the team who wrote The Responsible Workplace in 1992, this book is based on...