Christopher Colin: 19 books
What to Talk About: With Friends, With Strangers, With Your Aunt's Boyfriend, Greg
75 cards. Over 200 conversation openers. Take talking to the next level.
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The authors of the popular What to Talk About have returned to help banish awkward silences and inspire better conversations. This handy deck is packed with funny and fresh ideas for both small talk
by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability....
by Colin Teevan, Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus is regarded by many as ‘a great play marred’ by dated satire and suspect third and fourth acts. A play with a long history of ‘additions’, Colin Teevan’s contemporary scenes link the thrilling danger of Marlowe’s opening acts with the profound terror...
by Stuart A. Newman, James Allen Evans, Jeffrey C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Empirical and philosophical perspectives on scaffolding that highlight the role of temporal and temporary resources in development across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
"Scaffolding" is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common...
Flaws and Ceilings
Price Controls and the Damage They Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Price controls across many sectors are currently being hotly debated. New controls in the housing market, more onerous minimum wages, minimum prices for alcohol, and freezes on energy prices are very high up the agenda of most politicians at the moment. Even without any further controls, wages, university...
Alert and Ready
An Organizational Design Assessment of Marine Corps Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizations. A broad review of the organizational design of...
A World-Systems Reader
New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...
Mexico Is Not Colombia
Alternative Historical Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations, Supporting Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Despite the scope of the threat they pose to Mexico’s security, violent drug-trafficking organizations are not well understood, and optimal strategies to combat them have not been identified. While there is no perfectly analogous case to Mexico’s current security situation, historical case studies...
Telecommunications Regulation
Culture, Chaos and Interdependence Inside the Regulatory Process
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2005
Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside.
The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations
An Assessment of Mexican Security Based on Existing RAND Research on Urban Unrest, Insurgency, and Defense-Sector Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise, the results of which offer an assessment of the contemporary security situation in Mexico through the lens of existing RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform. Assessment scorecards from...
Violence and Justice in Bologna
1250–1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
This collection of essays offers a unique contribution to the study of violence and justice in a late medieval and early modern Italy by combining a multivocal perspective with a case-study focus on the city-state of Bologna. Drawing on the city’s singularly rich archival resources, the authors...
Necessary Travel
New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new...
Victory Has a Thousand Fathers
Detailed Counterinsurgency Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
A collection of the 30 most recent resolved insurgencies, covering the period 1978 to 2008, along with a bank of 76 factors that helped or hindered the COIN force in each case and in each phase of each case, supplements an analysis of historical and contemporary insurgencies, providing valuable lessons for U.S. engagement in and support for COIN operations.
From Stalemate to Settlement
Lessons for Afghanistan from Historical Insurgencies That Have Been Resolved Through Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
A comprehensive review of historical insurgencies that ended in settlement after a military stalemate shows that these negotiations followed a similar path that can be generalized into a “master narrative” of seven steps executed in a common sequence. Such a narrative could help guide and assess...
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