Angus: 416 books
Equipment in Anaesthesia and Critical Care
A complete guide for the FRCA
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Highly commended in the Anaesthesia category of the 2014 BMA Medical Books awards!
From reviews:
"Altogether, this textbook offers an excellent detailed overview of basic principles, mechanics, and physics of technical equipment used in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine."...
by Angus Maddison
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Angus Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Born on a ranch in the Central Valley of California, the author considers this fact a cosmic error, feeling he should have been born at Versailles rather than at Sutters Fort. Subsequent to university, he has lived in France, Holland, the Congo Republic, Austria, Boston, New York, Washington, DC,...
The Naturalness of Belief
New Essays on Theism’s Rationality
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty,...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
Les Costello
Canada's Flying Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Les Costello's story is the stuff of Canadian myth: a child of immigrant parents who finds fame and some fortune on the ice as a star on the Toronto Maple Leafs, with whom he wins the coveted Stanley Cup. At the height of his meteoric sports career, he gives it all up to pursue another dream: to become...
by Angus Wrenn
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Three years spent in France, during the 'Second Empire' of Napoleon III, gave Henry James an early mastery of the French language and its literature. When he settled in Europe, as an adult, it was not in Britain but, briefly yet crucially, in Paris. This study identifies the 'missing link' in...
Wild Magic
The Godwars Book 3
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Wild Magic is the dazzling conclusion to The Godwars, an epic quest of daring heroism and startling magic by one of the rising stars in the fantasy firmament.
When the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two lesser gods, Tharn and Balatur, to walk upon the new world. But greed...
The Evaluator's Cookbook
Exercises for participatory evaluation with children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2008
Participation is a vital element of working with children and young people – ensuring that services are meeting their needs as well as promoting citizenship, resilience and general well-being.
The Evaluator’s Cookbook contains 21 participatory evaluation exercises for use with children,...
European Ironclads 1860–75
The Gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare.
When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the world's first oceangoing ironclad, France had a warship...
American Civil War Fortifications (1)
Coastal brick and stone forts
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The 50 years before the American Civil War saw a boom in the construction of coastal forts in the United States of America. These stone and brick forts stretched from New England to the Florida Keys, and as far as the Mississippi River. At the start of the war some were located in the secessionist...
River Plate 1939
The sinking of the Graf Spee
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Days before the outbreak of World War II a handful of German commerce raiders put out to sea to prey on Allied merchantmen. Amongst them was the Panzerschiff ('armoured ship') Graf Spee, a formidable warship that boasted the firepower of a battleship but the size, speed and range of a cruiser. When...
Byzantine Warship vs Arab Warship
7th–11th centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
For four hundred years the Byzantine Empire's naval forces vied with the warships of the Islamic world for mastery of the Mediterranean. At the heart of this confrontation were the fighting vessels of the two powers, the Byzantine dromon and the Arabic shalandi, both oared warships. In those four...
British Ironclads 1860–75
HMS Warrior and the Royal Navy's 'Black Battlefleet'
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she...