Craig: 3265 books
Britannia's Shield
Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late-Victorian Imperial Defence
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and the Late-Victorian Imperial Defence presents an in-depth, international study of imperial land defence prior to 1914. The book makes sense of the failures, false starts and successes that eventually led to more than 850,000 men being despatched...
by Dr. Craig Martin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The shipping container is all around: whizzing by on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading behind a big box store even as you shop there, clanking on the docks just out of sight…....
Day Hiking: The San Juans & Gulf Islands
National Parks * Anacortes * Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Packable size filled with maps, elevation profiles, 130 photos, at-a-glance trail selection table, and more from a beloved trails author
1% of sales support trail maintenance in Washington
As a hiking destination, the San Juan Islands of Washington and their sister islands to the north offer scores...
Last Rites
The Final Days of the Boston Mob Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Last Rites chronicles one man's dramatic descent into the seedy world of New England mobster Raymond Patriarca and his underboss, Gennaro "Jerry" Angiulo. In the early 1980s, Gigi Portalla, a well-liked student, athlete and Revere prom king, transformed into a mafia hit man after discovering that his...
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?
More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"Informative and engagingly idiosyncratic . . . brings the subject down to earth with offbeat, everyday examples and easy-to-follow experiments. . . . Both professionals and laymen can learn from this book."—The New York Times Book Review
"A brilliant collection of intriguing examples...
True Tales of Old-Time Kentucky Politics
Bombast, Bourbon & Burgoo
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Did you know that William Goebel of Kentucky remains the only state governor to be assassinated while in office? Or that Abraham Lincoln, now a favorite son of the Bluegrass State, garnered less than 1 percent of the state's vote in 1860? How about Matthew Lyon, the congressman who won reelection from...
by Craig Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Feeding your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel the right food will directly effect on your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel’s health giving you both a longer more rewarding relationship.This e-book is packed with fantastic information about what to... and what not to feed your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.Health...
Morality and the Market (Routledge Revivals)
Consumer Pressure for Corporate Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Can businesses abandon the axiom that the customer is always right when consumers start questioning the ethics of business practices? Professor Craig Smith examines the theory and practice of ethical purchase behaviour, a crucial mechanism for ensuring social responsibility in business. He explains...
Engineering Rules
Global Standard Setting since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the Internet. In Engineering...
War on War
Lenin, the Zimmerwald Left, and the Origins of Communist Internationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 1989
The outbreak of World War I precipitated a schism in the international socialist movement that endures today. Heeding calls for "rational defense," the leading European socialist democratic parties abandoned their vision of peace and internationalism as an integral part of the struggle for...
In Search of the Tundra Daisy
True Tales and Misadventures of an Alaska Field Geologist
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Disillusioned with life in the city, and spurred on by childhood dreams of adventure and discovery, a young geologist take a chance and moves his family to Alaska during the 1970s' pipeline boom. Awed and humbled by the Great Land and its unpredictable inhabitants--animal and human--he begins a 20-year...
The Way of the Cockroach
How not to be there when the lights come on and nine other lessons on how to survive in business
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In the bestselling tradition of Who Moved My Cheese?, The Way of the Cockroach by Craig Hovey is a sharp business parable perfectly suited for today's corporate struggles. A frustrated middle manager who is being dumped on at work and in love comes across a cockroach on his desk early one morning....
by Roy R. Craig, Andrew J. Kurdila
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
From theory and fundamentals to the latest advances in computational and experimental modal analysis, this is the definitive, updated reference on structural dynamics.
This edition updates Professor Craig's classic introduction to structural dynamics, which has been an invaluable resource for...
A New U
Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Every year, the cost of a four-year degree goes up, and the value goes down. But for many students, there’s a better answer.
So many things are getting faster and cheaper. Movies stream into your living room, without ticket or concession-stand costs. The world’s libraries are at your...