Robert Mackay: 12 books
The Test of War
Inside Britain 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2003
While it lasted, the Second World War dominated the life of the nations that were involved and most of those that were not. Since Britain was in at both the start and the finish her people experienced the impact of total ar in full measure. The experience was a test of the most comprehensive kind:...
Al-Si Alloys
Automotive, Aeronautical, and Aerospace Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2017
This book details aluminum alloys with special focus on the aluminum silicon (Al‐Si) systems – that are the most abundant alloys second only to steel. The authors include a description of the manufacturing principles, thermodynamics, and other main characteristics of Al‐Si alloys. Principles...
by Robert W. Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Winnipeg, 1914. Tom Macrae is working on his law degree and enjoying the company of his sweetheart, Ellen. When the call to arms comes, both Tom and Ellen are torn from their secure, settled lives in the prairie city. Tom finds himself hunched in the trenches, amid the mud and horror of the Great...
by Murray Pittock, Robert Crawford, Leith Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life,...
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...
by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Twenty-one Days in India is Aberigh-Mackay's most famous work, and is a satire of Anglo-Indian society in the 19th century.
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...
by Robert W. Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Winner of a 2015 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Award Silver Medal
The year is 1962 and the Cuban Missile Crisis is brewing. Naval lieutenant Ted Hawkins is sent to sea aboard the HMCS Alert, a submarine with the express mission to shadow an aggressive Soviet submarine. Hampered by trauma-induced...
by Robert RH Anholt, Trudy F. C. Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2009
Principles of Behavioral Genetics provides an introduction to the fascinating science that aims to understand how our genes determine what makes us tick. It presents a comprehensive overview of the relationship between genes, brain, and behavior.
Introductory chapters give clear explanations...
Scotland and the First World War
Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented numbers? What were the martial myths shaping Scottish identity from the aftermath of Bannockburn to the close of the nineteenth century, and what did the Scottish soldiers of the First...
by Robert B. MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
At the turn of the 20th century, Long Island�s North Shore, the so-called Gold Coast, was becoming the most desirable residential area in the United States. Estates belonging to American captains of finance and industry lined the bluffs and bays from the city line to Eaton�s Neck. Some of the nation�s...
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...