Andrew Collins: 41 books
Journey
An Illustrated History of Travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2019
An illustrated account of human movement, travel, exploration, and scientific discovery-from the first trade networks in ancient Sumer to the epic Voyager missions.
Human journeys arise from all manner of impulses, from migration and the search for food, to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity,...
Society, History, and the Global Human Condition
Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
11+ Verbal Reasoning Study and Revision Guide
For 11+, pre-test and independent school exams including CEM, GL and ISEB
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Exam Board: ISEB
Level: 11 Plus
Subject: Verbal Reasoning
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: Spring 2017
An essential study and revision guide to help children secure top marks in pre-tests and 11 plus independent school entrance examinations. The stretching content ensure that verbal...
by Andrew E. Collins
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
by Charles Dickens, Andrew Halliday, Charles Collins
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Though he ranked as the most popular Victorian-era novelist by far, Charles Dickens craved creative innovation and often collaborated with other writers of the era. This clever collection of collaborative stories written by Dickens and a who's-who of Victorian literary luminaries is a series of linked tales that all relate to railway travel in some way.
Theatre and Performance Design
A Reader in Scenography
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices.
Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are brought together...
Breaking the Cycle
Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Anyone who has struggled with sex addiction knows that living with constant sexual compulsions can be extremely difficult. But summoning the courage to find help for this condition can be even more of a challenge. If addictions to pornography, strip clubs, massage parlors, prostitutes, phone sex,...
Valuing Health Systems
A Framework for Low and Middle Income Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The underlying themes of this book are twofold: it emphasises the importance of understanding and strengthening health systems to improve a population’s health in low and middle income countries; it promotes the values of equity and the right to health, efficiency, participative and accountable...
by Wolfgang Palaver, Nancy Popp, Robert Doran
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
For half a century René Girard’s theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating have captivated the imagination of thinkers and doers in many fields as an incisive look into the human condition, particularly the roots of violence. In a 1993 interview with Rebecca Adams, he highlighted the positive...
The Ecological Footprint
New Developments in Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
The ecological footprint is one of the most prominent tools used to measure environmental sustainability, and its rise in academic and policy debates since the early 1990s has been remarkable. Drawing upon research and examples from around the world, the authors critically examine the claims made of...
Ans Messer geliefert
...und zwölf andere Krimis für Bücherliebhaber von Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Laura Lippman, Reed Farrel Coleman, Peter Blauner, David Bell, Thomas H. Cook, William Link
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Nicht nur für Buchliebhaber: 13 spannende Bücher-Krimis von amerikanischen Top-Autoren! "Ans Messer geliefert" von Jeffery Deaver! Alonso María Carillo, genannt Cuchillo, das Messer, ist der Chef eines mexikanischen Drogenkartells. Und obwohl er sonst nicht gerade zimperlich ist, hat...