Colin: 2238 books
Unwanted Hero
The Flying Career of Squadron Leader Donald Barnard DFC, 1937-1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Donald Barnard came to England from St Lucia to join the RAF as a bomber pilot. On his second tour of operations, he was shot down over northern France in September 1942. He was rewarded with the Distinguished Flying Cross whilst missing in action. Donald evaded capture; assisted to Spain by an escape...
Strategy and History
Essays on Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Strategy and History comprises a selection of Professor Gray's key contributions to strategic debate over the past thirty years.
These essays have been selected both because they had significant messages for contemporary controversies, and because they have some continuing relevance for today...
by Colin S. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the theory of strategy, examines the general theory of strategy in accordance with 23 key Principles and explains its nature, functions, and intended consequences. Theory of Strategy makes the radical argument that the familiar structure of...
by Colin S. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book examines the subject of strategy and its relationship with politics.
Despite the fact that strategy is always the product of political process, the relationship between the two concepts and their ancillary activities has scarcely been touched by scholars. This book corrects that serious...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
"A work of massive energy, compulsively readable, splendidly informative...it establishes Wilson in a European tradition of thought that includes H.G. Wells, Sartre and Shaw." —Time Out "A tremendous resource for crime buffs as well as a challenging exposition for some of the more subtle criminological...
To Make Another World
Studies in Protest and Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book is a significant contribution to the expanding study of social movements. The essays consider some of the manifold ways in which people join together in popular movements to pursue visions of a different and more just society. They examine the impact of such movements, both on ordinary citizens...
by Colin Boxall-Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Another anthology of short stories - Six episodes with a military flavour, six African safari adventure stories. All fresh, new, gripping, entertaining reads, well presented with strongly drawn characters. Superbly crafted tales with wide-ranging, authentic detail drawn from the authors personal worldwide...
by Colin Wells
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The 3rd edition of this leading text examines, from a practitioner's point of view, the concept of abuse of process and how it operates within criminal and extradition proceedings. This title deals with the different procedural and factual situations that give rise to an abuse of process, covering...
America's Information Wars
The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines of the 1940s created...
An End to Murder
A Criminologist's View of Violence Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The acclaimed author of such seminal works as The Occult and The Outsider and his son investigate the history and causes of unnecessary human violence.
Human history can be seen as a catalog of coldhearted murders, mindless blood feuds, appalling massacres, and devastating wars. We are the only...
by Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides, Julie Steele
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
In the early days of the 20th century, department store magnate JohnWanamaker famously said, "I know that half of my advertising doesn'twork. The problem is that I don't know which half." That remainedbasically true until Google transformed advertising with AdSense basedon new uses of data...
Bereavement
Studies of Grief in Adult Life, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their...
by Colin J. Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
An essential reference guide for the modern day rail enthusiast of the UK rail scene. Includes full numeric listings of all UK locomotive, multiple-unit and coaching stock fleets; information on all the passenger TOCs with maps, as well as information on engineering operators and private train operator...
by Colin Hann
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
This illustrated story has been designed for bilingual children and others wishing to read a parallel text in English and Polish. For ease of understanding, the languages are displayed together just one or two sentences at a time.
The aim was to make translation as direct as possible but always using...