Peter Collins: 26 books
by Peter Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
The Rebellion of 1798 was one of the most crucial events in modern Irish history, and the bicentenary commemorations throughout Ireland in 1998 provided much new understanding of an issue that has, down the years, been as divisive as it has been formative. Peter Collins provides here an absorbing...
by Dr Peter Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The Royal Society is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious scientific bodies, but what has it done in recent decades? Increasingly marginalised by postwar developments and the reforms of civil science in the 1960s, the Society was at risk of resting on its laurels. Instead, it found ways...
Alfa Romeo Tipo 33
The development and racing history
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
At the time, little was recorded about the activities of Alfa Romeo _x0019_s World Championship-winning Sports Racing car, the Tipo 33. The model had a long career, as a factory car as well as in private hands from 1967 until 1977. The great Italian motor sport engineer Carlo Chiti designed and ran a...
by Ed McDonough, Peter Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The late 1960s and early 1970s formed a significant epoch in the world of international sports car racing. As the motor racing rule-making body moved back and forth between cars that less and less resembled road-going vehicles, prototype sports car racing captured the imagination of manufacturers,...
Lancia 037
The development and rally history of a world champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In the late 1970s, the problem facing any manufacturer that wanted to continue taking part in the World Rally Championship during the next decade was that the rules were being changed. Not only that, but nobody knew until it was almost too late what form those new rules would take. This book takes...
British Touring Car Racing
The crowd’s favourite - late 1960s to 1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
This book is a brief but affectionate, mainly pictorial panorama of twenty-odd years of the British Touring Car Championship, from the anarchical 1960s and early 1970s of flared wheelarches, lifting wheels and smoking tyres, through the Group 1 years when the rule-makers tried to make the cars look standard...
Reading Religion in Text and Context
Reflections of Faith and Practice in Religious Materials
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
To what extent is religion inherently textual? What might the term 'textual' mean in relation to religious faith and practice? These are the two key questions addressed by the eleven thought-provoking essays collected in this volume. Accounts of the content and structure of sacred texts are commonplace....
by Peter Collins
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
A beautifully illustrated guide that takes the reader through each Lamborghini production model and some of the most significant concept cars. It presents a thorough base for anyone who wishes to understand more about the history and depth of the company, and how the model line developed and evolved....
by Peter Collins
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
A young boy, Andy, is on his way to meet a friend when he is unexpectedly drawn into an adventure that will test his skill, luck and determination to help save a Wizard's kingdom from ruin by an evil Witch. The journey presents Andy with challenges and danger as he attempts to travel to the Witch's...
Criminal Justice Management, 2nd ed.
Theory and Practice in Justice-Centered Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Criminal justice students and practitioners in criminal justice agencies know first-hand the value of effective management; they understand the vital need to develop organizations that meet the expectations of their community members, as well as those of their workers. Employing an innovative, student-friendly...
Ans Messer geliefert
...und zwölf andere Krimis für Bücherliebhaber von Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Laura Lippman, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, David Bell, Thomas H. Cook, William Link
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Nicht nur für Buchliebhaber: 13 spannende Bücher-Krimis von amerikanischen Top-Autoren! "Ans Messer geliefert" von Jeffery Deaver! Alonso María Carillo, genannt Cuchillo, das Messer, ist der Chef eines mexikanischen Drogenkartells. Und obwohl er sonst nicht gerade zimperlich ist, hat...
Fiction River: Pulse Pounders
Kobo Special Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Starts with a bang.
Ends with a bang.
And a lot of bang in between.
Pulse Pounders. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction, fantasy to pulp adventure, these stories make your heart race. Share the excitement as a woman held hostage in a chair has only a few minutes...
by Paul Adams, Natasha Affolder, Andrea C. Akelaitis
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Canadian environmental law is a dynamic and exciting area that is playing an increasingly important role in furthering sustainable development policy. Environmental law has distinctive relevant principles, operating procedures, implications, and importance in comparison with other areas of law, and...
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
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