Simon Martin: 37 books
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...
Notes from the Underground: Spring 2018
Notes from the Underground, #4
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Maclay School's Journal of Creative Writing
On our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature....
Alan Turing and his Contemporaries
Building the world's first computers
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2012
Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. Alan Turing took an early lead on the theory side, along with fellow mathematicians on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the story of...
Modern Portfolio Management
Active Long/Short 130/30 Equity Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
Active 130/30 Extensions is the newest wave of disciplined investment strategies that involves asymmetric decision-making on long/short portfolio decisions, concentrated investment risk-taking in contrast to diversification, systematic portfolio risk management, and flexibility in portfolio design....
The History of Live Music in Britain, Volume I: 1950-1967
From Dance Hall to the 100 Club
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The social history of music in Britain since 1950 has long been the subject of nostalgic articles in newspapers and magazines, nostalgic programmes on radio and television and collective memories on music websites, but to date there has been no proper scholarly study. The three volumes of The History...
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
by Simon A.C. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In Tale of the Unnamed Engine, a young boy finds himself in a museum filled with talking trains, and with the help of an old steam engine, travels back to the late nineteen forties, to experience Britain's steam railways like never before!
The first companion eBook to The British Railway...
by Margery Collin, Jacki Thomas, Martin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Hospice chaplains have traditionally played a unique part in palliative care, providing human compassion and support to help ease life's final chapter. This book thoughtfully tackles the question at the heart of modern hospice chaplaincy: do chaplains have a distinctive role in an increasingly secular...
1 Kings, Volume 12
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
Sternenfeuer
Science-Fiction-Kurzgeschichten
Language: German
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Völlig neue Welten und das lockende Unbekannte. Eine unstillbare Neugier treibt zahlreiche Schriftsteller seit Jules Verne dazu, technische Innovationen aufzugreifen, die fesselnde Frage nach Leben auf fremden Planeten zu stellen und über interstellare Transportmöglichkeiten zu spekulieren. Dabei...
by Martin Toseland, Simon Toseland
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Remember Blind Man's Bluff, Pin the Tail and Murder in the Dark? Making daisy chains and collecting conkers? And when rainy afternoons meant card games and battleships?
Jam-packed with games and activities for all ages, 365 Family Games and Pastimes remembers all the classics we used to love,...
Crap Crimes
Tales of Criminal Stupidity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
As long as there has been crime there has been crap crime. From the Garden of Eden onwards, most criminals must have been at least a bit crap - or else they wouldn't have been caught, right? OK, some real-life rogues like Bonnie and Clyde, or fictional villains like Moriarty, make breaking the law...
Innovations in Social Work Research
Using Methods Creatively
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
A valuable reference to help practising researchers not only to understand but also to apply innovative approaches to social work research.
Featuring extended case studies of actual research projects, the book provides an overview of a number of central features and qualities of social work...
Critical Rhythm
The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Will be of interest to those following the recent turn to a politically, socially, and historically inflected approach to literary form, as well as to those in a range of fields thinking about affect, sound studies, and aesthetics.