David Collins: 96 books
Management Fads and Buzzwords
Critical-Practical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Around 5,000 business and management titles are published every year, and increasingly, their preferred mode of presentation is centred on the creation and marketing of buzzwords and fads. This book argues that these management fads and buzzwords deflect critical inquiry and limit useful action because...
Dressage Masters
Techniques and Philosophies of Four Legendary Trainers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Dressage Masters takes the reader into four of the greatest training stables in Europe. The master instructors express their philosophies and practices with regard to training horses and riders, and the state of dressage in the United States and elsewhere in the world. They also share fascinating and...
by David Collins
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Little Book of Cardiff is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people, and events in the city, from its earliest origins to the present day. Here you can read about the important contributions Cardiff has made to the history of the nation, and meet some of the great men...
by David Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
This book examines the international legal regime covering trade in legal services. While legal services are a vital component of the economies of many developed and emerging countries, they remain poorly liberalized with numerous restrictions undermining market access for foreign suppliers. Although...
Never Mind the Bluebirds 2
Another Ultimate Cardiff City Quiz Book
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
We are guessing that you enjoyed the first book and that you liked the trivial and the terrible. We are also guessing that you have time on your hands, so rest assured, Never Mind the Bluebirds is back! You can believe the hype—this is a sequel! Treat yourself to round after round of irresistible...
by David Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"With remarks on the dispositions, customers, manners, etc. of the native Inhabitants of that country, to which are added some particulars of New Zealand. Compiled from the manuscript of Lieutenant-governor King.
Never Mind the Bluebirds
The Ultimate Cardiff City Quizbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Which local South Wales side—still in existence—provided Cardiff’s first ever opponents? Which renowned international "superstar" appeared at Ninian Park as part of his 1982 British Tour? Here is the ultimate quiz book on Cardiff City. Informative and fun, this is the perfect companion...
Stories for Management Success
The Power of Talk in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
We tend to assume that we may divide our activities into talk and action. In so doing we tend to suggest that talk is subordinate to action.
Taking issue with these presumptions, Stories for Management Success: The Power of Talk in Organizations argues that talk is central to what managers...
by David Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"With remarks on the dispositions, customers, manners, etc. of the native Inhabitants of that country, to which are added some particulars of New Zealand. Compiled from the manuscript of Lieutenant-governor King.
Motherload
A Stardrifter Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
A remote corner of a bleak system...A broken-down gunboat, stuck in space...An incompetent captain and a misfit crew...A pirate ship, a silent target, and a whole bunch of secrets...So how's your day going?
There have to be easier ways to make a living -- easier than dying slowly in an obsolete...
A Small Town for Its Size
(A Novel, or Two)
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2000
Stifled by their upbringing in small-town Texas, Chaz and Kat yearn for escape, for a chance to explore other ways of thinking, being, dreaming. Sadly, their trajectories carry them to separate states and entirely different career paths. When they reunite ten years later in the tidepools of Houston's...
Reforming Saints
Saints' Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470-1530
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
In Reforming Saints, David J. Collins explains how and why Renaissance humanists composed Latin hagiography in Germany in the decades leading up to the Reformation. Contrary to the traditional wisdom, Collins's research uncovers a resurgence in the composition of saints' lives in the half century...
Mania
The Story of the Outraged and Outrageous Lives That Launched a Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory...
Fiction River Special Edition: Editor Saves
An Original Anthology Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In this second Fiction River Special Edition, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch performs editing magic in assembling this anthology of stories saved by not one but six different Fiction River editors. Culled from stories that did not fit in the magazine’s regular run, these gems piece...