Colin: 2238 books
Blood On The Table
The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final...
The Man Who Walked Through Time
The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
by Colin Brake
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2008
Laylora, the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying...
Trains, Culture, and Mobility
Riding the Rails
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to...
by Colin Hogg
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
A road trip about memory, mateship and mortality.
It was late afternoon and a few of us were sitting about in the sun having a drink on my birthday when the friend I've known the longest sat down opposite and looked at me like he was going to say something serious.
He was, and he got...
Peggy to her Playwrights
The Letters of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Peggy Ramsay (1908-1991) was the foremost play agent of her time. Her list of clients shows her to have been at the centre of British playwriting for several generations from the late 1950s on.
To her remarkable array of clients, her letter writing was notorious, marked by searing candour,...
Redwood to Deadwood: Hitchhiking America Today.
A 53-Year Old Hitchhikes Around America for three months. Again.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
"Before I tucked my thumb in for the final time, I’d almost get murdered, run with wild horses, visit a pot plantation, get into crazy family feuds with my own and other families, restart my business, ride in cop cars, hunt big game, poach big game, get chased by a helicopter, reconnect with old friends,...
by Colin McPhee, Jules Reed, Izaskun Zubizarreta
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Core Analysis: A Best Practice Guide is a practical guide to the design of core analysis programs. Written to address the need for an updated set of recommended practices covering special core analysis and geomechanics tests, the book also provides unique insights into data quality control diagnosis...
by Paul Tiffany, Steven D. Peterson, Colin Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
A full updated and extended second edition of an established UK bestseller Business Plans For Dummies 2nd Edition features new and updated information on formulating a solid business plan to build a secure business – even in an economic downturn. Complete with a brand new business plan template...
by Colin Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
How the Stock Markets Work has long been an established favourite for anyone who needs a straightforward, accessible introduction to the stock markets. This guide concisely explains how the stock markets have developed as well as how they operate today and is a must-buy for anyone looking to learn...
by Colin Manton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The Victorian era saw great changes to the nation’s capital. This book illustrates the nineteenth-century aspects of London that the Victorians were so proud of: the pioneering public health engineering of Bazalgette’s system of intercepting sewers; the magnificent public buildings such as the...
What to Talk About
On a Plane, at a Cocktail Party, in a Tiny Elevator with Your Boss's Boss
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Homo sapiens have been speaking for hundreds of years—and yet basic communication still stymies us. We freeze up in elevators, on dates, at parties, under Dumpsters. We stagger through our exchanges merely hoping not to crash, never considering that we might soar. We go home sweaty and eat a birthday...
Freedom 7
The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the confines...
The 30 Day MBA in International Business
Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
As business becomes increasingly reliant on succeeding in export markets, the need for specialist knowledge in international trade is at its highest. With thorough explanations to describe the current international business environment as well as international case studies which include IKEA, Shell,...