John Burton: 64 books
Fortnight of Infamy
The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia. From Wake Island to Burma, the Empire of Japan opened the largest front in the history of warfare: an aircraft-driven invasion of colonial possessions throughout the Far East...
Leading Good Care
The Task, Heart and Art of Managing Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
To lead good care, social care managers must have professional and personal authority: a clear understanding of the core task and the emotional challenges of care, and the imagination to create an organisation or team dedicated to meeting people's needs.
This guide gives managers the understanding...
Campaign Mode
Strategic Vision in Congressional Elections
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
The pressures of contemporary electioneering force political professionals into 'campaign mode'—a state of mind that merges a visceral drive to win elections with a deep-seated habit of strategic thinking. Wise political professionals know the basic rules of electoral strategy and how to read the...
Dirty Talk
How to Talk Dirty Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Discover the Secrets about How to Talk Dirty
Gamification in Learning and Education
Enjoy Learning Like Gaming
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book explores the theoretical foundations of gamification in learning and education. It has become increasingly difficult to engage and motivate students. Gamification not only makes learning interesting, but also allows game players to solve problems and learn lessons through repeated attempts...
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Bedworth's long history, from its Saxon origins to its Domesday entry as a small farming settlement, and later to near extinction in the Black Death, has always been marked by hardship and poverty. Seventeenth-century hearth tax returns show it as the poorest village in Warwickshire. Hardship has...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Designed as a practical guide, The Handbook of Residential Care presents a unique combination of real examples and case studies, analysis, guidance and reflective discussion. It brings together all areas of residential work and all levels of involvement in it, with an emphasis of direct personal work...
by John Burton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Managing Residential Care puts forward suggestions for improving the development of residential care through better management.
Extended examples and realistic case studies throughout demonstrate how managers can succeed and how sometimes the powerful forces of mismanagement can obstruct them.
by John Bloundelle-Burton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Nothing is more notable in recent literature than the sudden renewal of interest in the historical novel. Mr. Stanley Weyman is the most successful of this group of younger writers, but there is now treading on his heels another young novelist, whose work shows such splendid promise as well as such...
In Shadows Written
An Anthology of Modern Horror
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
The twelve stories comprising In Shadows Written: An Anthology of Modern Horror takes us into the hearts and minds of thirteen award-winning authors. Explore the wide reach of horror fiction of the early 21st century.
“Familiar” by Ken Pelham. Is it research or witchcraft? Science or magic?...
Chasing Shadows
A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
On a warm Saturday night in July 1973 in Bethesda Maryland, a gunman stepped out from behind a tree and fired five point-blank shots into Joe Alon, an unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot and family man. Alon's sixteen-year-old neighbor, Fred Burton, was deeply shocked by this crime that rocked his...
Denounced
A Romance
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
John Edward Bloundelle-Burton was an English novelist. Having worked as a journalist for The London Standard, he began writing novels in 1885, publishing 60 works in total.
by John Bloundelle Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
With all the pomp and ceremony that should accompany the dying hours of a great lady of France, the Princesse de Rochebazon--Marquise du Gast d'Ançilly, Comtesse de Montrachet, Baronne de Beauvilliers, and possessor of many other titles, as well as the right to the tabouret--drew near her end.
A...