Colin: 2238 books
What a Waste
Outsourcing and How it Goes Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Outsourcing - contracting out public services to private business interests - is an unacknowledged revolution in the British economy. The outsourcing revolution has happened quietly but is creating powerful new corporate interests, transforming the organisation of government at all levels, and simultaneously...
by Colin Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
The fascinating tale of how one company spawned a huge international business success story, created legions of new gamblers and revolutionised the worlds of gambling and sport for ever. In 2000 a company called Betfair, founded by Andrew Black and Ed Wray, began trading. Since then, the brainchild...
Four Lions
The Lives and Times of Four Captains of England
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
FOUR LIONS explores the changing landscape of postwar England through the careers of four iconic England football captains: Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker and David Beckham. Between Wright, who fought in World War II, and Beckham, whose battles against Germany were played out on the football...
Localization
A Global Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally...
French Cinema—A Critical Filmography
Volume 2, 1940–1958
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This invaluable resource by one of the world’s leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958)...
by Colin Higgs
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Red Arrows are the world’s greatest aerobatic display team. For decades they have thrilled crowds with their exciting mix of precision formation flying and breathtaking aerobatic manoeuvres.
They promote British industry; they represent the Royal Air Force with huge distinction; and...
View from the Wings
60 Years in Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A memoir of a life in aviation, from a wartime boyhood to a career in the U.S., UK, and South African industriesRecalling a wartime boyhood in which aircraft flying constantly overhead played a large part, this memoir explains how that experience led to a lifetime career in the aviation industry, in...
Fighting Talk
Flimsy Facts, Sweeping Statements and Inspired Sporting Hunches
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
The Sports Fact: the bedrock of any self-respecting fan, the trump card of the pub conversation. We cant quote Shakespeare or remember our loved ones birthdays - superfluous! - but we can list, in alphabetical order, the last three strikers for our teams to have a 20-goal season, together with the...
International Marketing (RLE International Business)
Strategy and Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book is a basic text for international marketing courses. It introduces the different elements of the international marketing mix and sets these in context. It discusses the firm’s strategic position: how it is orientated at present to take advantage of international marketing opportunities...
by Colin Bratkovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the...
Good Rockin' Tonight
Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'N' Roll
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're pickin' hillbilly boogie.
At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's something different going on....
In a Manner of Speaking
Phrases, Expressions, and Proverbs and How We Use and Misuse Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
What do the whole kit and caboodle,” the whole shebang,” the whole megillah,” the whole enchilada,” the whole nine yards,” the whole box and dice,” and the full Monty” have in common? They’re all expressions that mean the entire quantity,” and they’re all examples...
Don't Be That Guy
A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Have you ever heard a guy say, “We’re pregnant,” and wanted to hurt him?
Do you have a friend who insists a stripper was into him every time you leave a strip club?
Do you know a guy who emails you the kind of porn that makes you want to cry then vomit?
These are just a few of the many guys you’ll find in Don’t Be That Guy.
The Grand Ole Opry
The Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2009
This official guide chronicles the story of the birthplace of country music as told by the people who were there. Escott presents the official inside history of the home of country music, offering fans an exclusive look into the heart and soul of country music. Full color, and packed with photos from the Opry Archives covering 80 years of history.