Ian Robinson: 15 books
Home is the Halifax
An Extraordinary Account of Re-building a Classic WWII Bomber and Creating the Yorkshire Air Museum to House It
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Between 1935 and 1945, Yorkshire became home to 41 military airfields, the majority located in the Vale of York. The area was often referred to as a land-based aircraft carrier. The author, aged 16, became involved in this vast aviation activity when he started work with the Handley Page aircraft...
by Ian Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Multiple Sclerosis affects hopes and expectations, restructures relationships, modifies careers and changes lives. It is a disease of variable onset, problematic diagnosis, unpredicatable prognosis and no effective treatment. Using unique autobiographical accounts of people with the disease, Ian Robinson...
by Ian Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
“Big sky.” Athena, my wife, would say sometimes looking up at the vastness above.
“Wow, where did you get that from?” I’d asked the first time she said it.
“I felt it the first time I came to Africa. There’s just so much space and when you look out at the landscape it just seems to go...
This Thirsty Heart
A journey in the deserts of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Visually stunning read of a 4WD journey though the Australian desert. Campfires under immense star field backdrop. The desert is the great heart of Australia. Some people think of deserts with affection and awe and others with dread. Yet most people have never been to the desert. Waiting...
by Margaret Hunter, Ian Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Motor Neurone Disease is one of the most difficult conditions to manage medically and socially. A disease which leads to the loss of control of most muscle systems of the body, it has no known cause and no cure. For this reason, clinicians have traditionally been reluctant to reveal the diagnosis...
Motion Graphics with Adobe Creative Suite 5 Studio Techniques
MOT GRA ADO CS5 STU TEC_p1
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Almost all motion graphics artists today use After Effects, Photoshop, or Illustrator to some degree in their projects. But how do they decide which tool is best for the job and how can they utilize the various components in the Creative Suite together for the most efficient and effective workflow?...
Graph Databases
New Opportunities for Connected Data
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Discover how graph databases can help you manage and query highly connected data. With this practical book, you’ll learn how to design and implement a graph database that brings the power of graphs to bear on a broad range of problem domains. Whether you want to speed up your response to user queries...
REST in Practice
Hypermedia and Systems Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Why don't typical enterprise projects go as smoothly as projects you develop for the Web? Does the REST architectural style really present a viable alternative for building distributed systems and enterprise-class applications?
In this insightful book, three SOA experts provide a down-to-earth...
Tea with the Taliban
Travels in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Winner of the 2011 Whitcoulls Travcom Travel Book of the Year Award.Fascinating, highly readable tales of travels in the troubled land of Afghanistan by award-winning New Zealand travel writer Ian Robinson.Tourists in Afghanistan are rare: very few have the courage to travel there in today’s uncertain...
Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...
Collaborative School Leadership
Managing a Group of Schools
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Collaborative School Leadership investigates how and why more collaboration is taking place in a wide range of settings in the UK, South Africa, New Zealand, China, the USA, the Seychelles, Tanzania and Greece, and considers the implications for leadership and the overall effectiveness of schools....
Telling Tales About Dementia
Experiences of Caring
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure that you and your family will receive the support you need?
In Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances...
Divorcing Children
Children's Experience of their Parents' Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2003
Drawing on a three-year multidisciplinary study of children of divorced parents, the authors, leading academics in their fields, present a much-needed guide to understanding the experience of children who are experiencing parental separation. This book provides an in-depth account of how children...
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